Discovering the Social

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kai Erikson
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
John Locke ◽  
Thomas Hobbes ◽  
Social World ◽  
Age Of Reason ◽  
The Social ◽  
Intellectual Climate

This chapter investigates the ways in which European thinkers came to recognize the importance of “the social.” It first considers the cultural temper of the medieval mind in more or less the same way that an anthropologist might study the ethos of a distant people in our own time. It then examines the onset of the Age of Reason, characterized by a revolution in both science and thought, that formed the foundation of a new way to comprehend not only the physical but the human social world. It shows that the Age of Reason spawned a vision of social life that came to dominate European thinking for most of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and is still a prominent part of the intellectual climate in which we live now. Among the key figures in the development of that vision were Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Jean Jacques Rousseau.

Kajian Aspek Moral Pada Buku Kumpulan Dongeng Si Kancil Karya Mb Rahimsyah Ar (Buku Pegangan para Bunda untuk Mendongeng Kepada Si buah hati)

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 44-47
Author(s):  
Siti Karomah ◽  
Agus Hermawan
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Fairy Tales ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
Life Forms ◽  
Social World ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
The Social

Abstract— Literary work, directly or indirectly, is the realization and imagination of the author as a reflection and the reality that the author gets from society. Literary works can be found through the life forms of society. Thus, literary works cannot be separated from the elements around them. Literary work along its journey always implicate man, humanity, life, and life. In essence, literary works are born for the surrounding community. Literary works are the products of authors who live in the social world. That way, short story literary works in the form of fairy tales are the author's imaginative world that is always related to social life. There are interesting things that are given to our children to change attitudes and daily ethics. Keywords—: Literary works; short stories; fairy tales.

Voorbij navelstaren en narcisme

KWALON ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Thaddeus Müller
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Social World ◽  
Qualitative Studies ◽  
Added Value ◽  
Social Worlds ◽  
Cultural Understanding ◽  
The Social ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
Auto Ethnography

Beyond navel-gazing and narcissism.Ferrell’s auto-ethnography as part of ethnography Beyond navel-gazing and narcissism.Ferrell’s auto-ethnography as part of ethnography The labeling of auto-ethnography as navel-gazing does not do justice to the variety with which auto-ethnography is applied. A distinction should be made between emotional and analytical auto-ethnography. In the first form the central person of the researcher plays the central role, in the second auto-ethnography is applied to get a better understanding of the social world which is being studied. In this article the author discusses the second approach by using the work of Jeff Ferrell. Ferrell is a well-known cultural criminologist, who focuses critically on the cultural understanding of social life. By looking at how Ferrell applies auto-ethnography, insight is gained into the added value of this method for qualitative studies: (1) the integration of the personal experiences of researchers in texts in order to achieve a richer description of the social worlds they explore, (2) making explicit the role of the researcher in publications, and (3) developing new (more appealing) forms of representation.

Making Moving Happen

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Naomi Haynes
Keyword(s):  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Social Ties ◽  
Social World ◽  
Social Resources ◽  
Economic Downturn ◽  
Economic Factors ◽  
A Value ◽  
Credit Associations ◽  
The Social

This chapter explores moving as a value, an animating idea that gives social life on the Copperbelt its shape. It shows how people in Nsofu structure their relationships around the possibility of moving through two types of social ties. Most important here are relationships of patronage, or “dependence,” which connect poorer people to those with greater economic and social resources. People also move through relationships that produce alternating indebtedness, including rotating credit associations and the “committees” that finance expensive events like weddings. In both cases moving requires asymmetry, which makes these ties particularly vulnerable to the leveling forces of economic downturn, and the chapter concludes by describing how events like the 2008–2009 financial crisis have impacted the social world of Nsofu. It is these economic factors, coupled with a cultural emphasis on novelty, that make Pentecostalism especially compelling.

Habitus and Field

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Leander
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Social World ◽  
The Body ◽  
International Studies ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Implicit And Explicit ◽  
Heuristic Devices

The terms habitus and field are useful heuristic devices for thinking about power relations in international studies. Habitus refers to a person’s taken-for-granted, unreflected—hence largely habitual—way of thinking and acting. The habitus is a “structuring structure” shaping understandings, attitudes, behavior, and the body. It is formed through the accumulated experience of people in different fields. Using fields to study the social world is to acknowledge that social life is highly differentiated. A field can be exceedingly varied in scope and scale. A family, a village, a market, an organization, or a profession may be conceptualized as a field provided it develops its own organizing logic around a stake at stake. Each field is marked by its own taken-for-granted understanding of the world, implicit and explicit rules of behavior, and valuation of what confers power onto someone: that is, what counts as “capital.” The analysis of power through the habitus/field makes it possible to transcend the distinctions between the material and the “ideational” as well as between the individual and the structural. Moreover, working with habitus/field in international studies problematizes the role played by central organizing divides, such as the inside/outside and the public/private; and can uncover politics not primarily structured by these divides. Developing research drawing on habitus/field in international studies will be worthwhile for international studies scholars wishing to raise and answer questions about symbolic power/violence.

The Social Life of Rumors

2019 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 462-474
Author(s):  
Ammara Maqsood
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Social World ◽  
Military Operations ◽  
Conspiracy Theories ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Us ◽  
Tribal Areas

Abstract In the aftermath of 9/11, with respect to the US-led invasion of Afghanistan, the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) in Pakistan have been the site of immense violence and destruction, including from US drone attacks, ground military operations by the Pakistan Army, and retaliatory attacks by different factions of Taliban fighters. Using uncertainty as an analytic and ethnographic concept, this article traces the social life of the rumors, conspiracy theories, and stories that float around this violence. It draws attention to their multiple and often contradictory effects: rumors simultaneously breed fear and confusion, help forge intimacy, and provide certainty and coherence. Rather than subvert power relations or simply critique the powerful, I suggest that rumors and conspiracy theories provide the means through which tribal Pashtuns live and make their way in a social world in which they remain unequal, but coeval, participants.

Pain, Subjectivity, and the Social

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel Ablow
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Social World ◽  
The Other ◽  
Medical Professionals ◽  
Epistemological Problem ◽  
Social Nature ◽  
The Social

This introductory chapter first describes two different recent approaches to the relation between pain and social life. The first position casts the pain of the other primarily as an epistemological problem—the thing we cannot, but most need to, know. The second approach emphasizes how pain is always already part of a social world. The chapter then considers some of the terms in which Victorian medical professionals, caregivers, and sufferers understood the social nature of pain. Finally, this chapter discusses what is meant by the book's title, “Victorian Pain.” The goal here is to explain why this book seeks to describe not how pain was represented or constructed, but instead how pain was used by a range of writers at a particular time.

scholarly journals On the reflexivity of crises

2016 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 511-530 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rodrigo Cordero ◽  
Aldo Mascareño ◽  
Daniel Chernilo
Keyword(s):  
Critical Theory ◽  
Structural Feature ◽  
Systems Theory ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Social World ◽  
Rich Source ◽  
Internal Dynamics ◽  
The Social ◽  
Life Itself

The main aim of this article is to offer a sociological concept of crisis that, defined as the expected yet non-lineal outcome of the internal dynamics of modern societies, builds on the synergies between critical theory and systems theory. It contends that, notwithstanding important differences, both traditions concur in addressing crises as a form of self-reproduction of social systems as much as a form of engagement with the complexities and effects of such processes of reproduction. In order to make our comparison exhaustive, this article explores critical and systems theories’ notions of crisis at three levels: (1) their conceptual delimitation of crises; (2) their methodological proposals to empirically observe crises; and (3) their normative attempts to contribute to their resolution. As crises remain a distinctive structural feature of the social world and a rich source of knowledge about it, reflexivity must be seen as a crucial form of engagement with the negative expressions of social life itself.

scholarly journals What’s at Stake in Digital Social Research?

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-40
Author(s):  
Nick Couldry
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Social World ◽  
Social Researcher ◽  
The Social ◽  
Multiple Actors

I am a social researcher who uses both theoretical and empirical enquiry not so much to describe the social as to understand the conflicts involved in constructing an order that appears to us as ‘social’. I seek to address the paradox of doing social research: for the social is not something concrete at which we can point, but a dimension of how whatever in our life is concrete holds together as a world. Media are crucial to what hangs together as a world – and in ways that much social research to this day still ignores. Media are in the contemporary era irrevocably ‘digital’: they take forms that automatically bring possibilities for recombination, retransmission, and reworking by multiple actors. As such, and unavoidably, digital media can be woven tight into the fabric of social life much more than previous media. But what does this mean for the social world, that is, for our possibilities to enhance or undermine how we live together today?

scholarly journals Social Participation, Social Support, and Social Policy Among Older Adults

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 621-621
Author(s):  
Linda Waite
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Social Participation ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Baby Boom ◽  
Later Life ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Social World ◽  
Silent Generation ◽  
The Social

Abstract The social world is closely linked to other dimensions of health, including physical health and illness, physical functioning, cognition and emotional well-being, and these links may change across generations and may depend on social and policy context. The papers in this symposium focus on these links. Carr examines the associations between productive engagement in later life and perceptions of social support and interactions with friends and family. She finds that volunteer engagement is associated with greater perceived social support and interaction with friends and family but not with support from spouse. Waite, Duvoisin and Kotwal measure changes in social participation between the Silent Generation cohort, born between1938 and1947, and the Baby Boom cohort, born from1948-1958. They find find that the gender differences shown in the Silent Generation cohort are reduced among those born during the Baby Boom. Azar examines the moderating role of social policy, particularly defamilization, on the link between loneliness and health, using data from30 European countries and the U.S. Choi compares marital and partnership status, social support and strain in Silent Generation vs. Baby Boom cohorts. Her results suggest that those born during the Baby Boom are embedded in looser social relationships compared to their older counterparts. Together, these papers point to the importance of considering various dimensions of social life, gender, and context, including historical time and the life cycle, in understanding how the social world acts to affect well-being.

Folk Psychology and the Biological Basis of Intersubjectivity

2005 ◽  
Vol 56 ◽  
pp. 18-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Ratcliffe
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Theory Of Mind ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Folk Psychology ◽  
Social World ◽  
Biological Basis ◽  
Intentional States ◽  
The Social ◽  
Interpersonal Understanding

Recent philosophical discussions of intersubjectivity generally start by stating or assuming that our ability to understand and interact with others is enabled by a ‘folk psychology’ or ‘theory of mind’. Folk psychology is characterized as the ability to attribute intentional states, such as beliefs and desires, to others, in order to predict and explain their behaviour. Many authors claim that this ability is not merely one amongst many constituents of interpersonal understanding but an underlying core that enables social life. For example, Churchland states that folk psychology ‘embodies our baseline understanding’ of others (1996, p. 3). Currie and Sterelny similarly assert that ‘our basic grip on the social world depends on our being able to see our fellows as motivated by beliefs and desires we sometimes share and sometimes do not’ (2000, p. 143). And, as Frith and Happé put it, ‘this ability appears to be a prerequisite for normal social interaction: in everyday life we make sense of each other’s behaviour by appeal to a belief-desire psychology’ (1999, p. 2).

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