scholarly journals Changing Social Values in Contemporary Tamil Society, India: a Qualitative Inquiry

2021 ◽  
pp. 95-120
Author(s):  
Karunanithi Gopalakrishnan
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Social Values ◽  
Traditional Culture ◽  
Qualitative Inquiry ◽  
Indian Society ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Life Styles ◽  
Unethical Practices ◽  
New Meanings

Social values in Indian society in general and Tamil society in particular are subject to fluctuation, in accordance with on-going social changes ushered in by various modern forces. Consequently, these values metamorphose and degenerate into counter-cultural practices that pose a threat to traditional culture. Modern people attribute new meanings to the unethical practices that they engage in by emphasizing their immediate relevance and necessity for their changing life styles. They believe that their willingness to follow them instead of social values will help them make a profit that sustains their livelihood in this time of change.

Vietnamese Weddings

2011 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 109-120 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thuc-Doan T. Nguyen ◽  
Russell Belk
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Gender Roles ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Values ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Policy Changes ◽  
Historical Role ◽  
And Gender

This article examines the historical role of marriage and wedding rituals in Vietnam, and how they have changed during Vietnam’s transition to the market. The authors focus on how changes reflect the society’s increasing dependence on the market, how this dependence impacts consumer well-being, and the resulting implications for public policy. Changes in the meanings, function, and structure of wedding ritual consumption are examined. These changes echo shifts in the national economy, social values, social relations, and gender roles in Vietnamese society during the transition. The major findings show that Vietnamese weddings are reflections of (1) the roles of wedding rituals as both antecedents and outcomes of social changes, (2) the nation’s perception and imagination of its condition relative to “modernity,” and (3) the role of China as a threatening “other” seen as impeding Vietnam’s progress toward “modernization.”

scholarly journals The Psychological Deterioration of Characters and Elements of Myth in Girish Karnad’s Play Yayati

2021 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. 4479-4484
Author(s):  
Mousoomi Aslam. A , Dr. V.S. Bindhu
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Indian Society ◽  
Common People ◽  
Realistic Approach ◽  
The Social ◽  
Modern Context ◽  
Human Psyche

This paper attempts to study the psychological degeneration of characters and the presence of mythical elements in the play Yayati. Karnad traverses through unfathomable depths of old Indian mythology to make the social and cultural problems that reflects the traditional Indian society. He portrays a modern context of characters by the amalgamation of symbols. His plays are usually found very close to common people with a very realistic approach towards the issues of humans. He used not only myths to frame the plot but also to pinpoint the human psyche and cultural practices in the society. He took mythical elements from the Mahabharatha with an intention to examine the ludicrousness of life with all its fundamental passions and crisis. The play focuses on man’s eternal struggle to achieve perfection, dreams and desires.

A Study on the Change of Functions of Kinari Village’s Rumah Gadang

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 18-24
Author(s):  
Zhang Jingling
Keyword(s):  
Family Structure ◽  
Education System ◽  
Field Data ◽  
Traditional Culture ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Real Condition ◽  
National Education ◽  
Personal Awareness ◽  
National Education System

This paper will present the real condition of traditional house in Nagari Kinari and try to analyze the change of the traditional house function as well as its factors. The study uses a qualitative approach to identifying and collecting field data through the fieldwork in Nagari Kinari, Solok. The result shows traditional houses in Kinari have changed its functions dramatically. These changes occur due to social changes, including changes in family structure, economic income, the national education system and personal awareness, and also differences in understanding of traditional culture.

Fission and Fusion: From improvisation to formalism in law and music

2010 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Desmond Manderson
Keyword(s):  
Classical Music ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Social Consequences ◽  
The Other ◽  
Social Forces ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Textual Interpretation ◽  
The Relationship

Law and classical music are both performative disciplines. Both became concerned with practices of textual interpretation, and with questions of the authority of those texts and the legitimacy of those interpretations. But exactly how did that happen, and with what social consequences? The relationship between law and music across the centuries shows striking parallels and echoes. If we study them carefully each can illuminate the other, binding them together so that we can see them as two aspects of the same process and the same histories. The insights we gain from the novelty of their conjunction help us to understand these social changes better and differently. This conjunction will also help us see how much our disciplinary blinkers prevent us from observing the far-reaching social forces which these cultural practices at each moment both echo and animate.

The Bhāgavata Speaks of Woman

2020 ◽  
pp. 123-136
Author(s):  
Gopal K. Gupta
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
Social Norms ◽  
Gender Studies ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Indian Society ◽  
Subaltern Studies ◽  
Gender Discourse ◽  
Positive Light

Indic texts have played a crucial role in constructing, and greatly influencing, gender roles and social norms in Indian society. Scholarship on these texts has identified problems of identity and hegemony that are thoroughly discussed in such fields as subaltern studies, gender studies, cultural studies, and the like. Because of cultural practices such as satῑ‎ and religious laws for widows, Hinduism and some of its associated texts tend to have a reputation for patriarchal misogyny. In her Encyclopedia of Feminism, Lisa Tuttle advises scholars to ask “new questions of old texts;” following her lead, this chapter intends to examine the gender discourse contained in the Bhāgavata Purāṇa, focusing on the text’s characterization of women as māyā, which we have here defined as God’s deluding or covering potency. The analysis should make it plain that while the Bhāgavata does support patriarchal institutions and practices, on a deeper level it portrays women in a far more positive light, holding them in a more esteemed position than one may assume.

Future trends in animal products marketing

1989 ◽  
Vol 1989 ◽  
pp. 38-38
Author(s):  
Geoff Harrington
Keyword(s):  
Eating Habits ◽  
Great Majority ◽  
Processing Plant ◽  
Retail Sector ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Animal Products ◽  
Life Styles ◽  
The Social ◽  
Eating Out ◽  
Political Decisions

A conventional forecasting paper would begin with an account of the demographic trends, the likely developments in the economy and therefore disposable income, the social changes with particular reference to household and family size and structure, the trends in food preparation in the factory and the home, eating out habits, the influence of the multiples in the retail sector and the likely impact of political decisions. I shall take much of that as read.Only one aspect needs to be brought out. This is the effect of changing life-styles, family structure, shopping, cooking and eating habits on consumer requirements. Our industries need to grasp these issues more positively and carry out more product development work and associated marketing activity if not to be totally outsmarted by poultry, fish and non-animal-based convenience foods. The potentials are very great, because the great majority of consumers are still looking for cheap, lean, nutritions tasty meat and convenient products - whatever the technology.But I suggest that for our industry the biggest imponderables in forecasting and planning are whether there is or will be a significant resistance from consumers to technological advance (both on the farm and in the processing plant) and whether there is or will be a significant rejection of exploitation of animals for food.

A Golden Age for a Changing Nation: Polish National Identity and the Histories of the Wilanów Residence of King Jan III Sobieski

2006 ◽  
Vol 49 ◽  
pp. 101-128
Author(s):  
Barbara Arciszewska
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Architectural History ◽  
The Body ◽  
Body Of Knowledge ◽  
New Meanings ◽  
History Of ◽  
Architectural Language ◽  
Social Agendas ◽  
Different Characteristics

As we continue to probe the boundaries of architectural history and to seek new approaches to the complex legacy of the past, we have to reassess the body of knowledge produced thus far, exposing its often-hidden agendas in order to be aware of our own engagement with today’s ideologies. The architectural history of Central Europe, although usually marginalized, serves as a particularly instructive field in which to study the mutability of ideological positions and their impact on interpretation. Scholarship on the Wilanów Palace near Warsaw (c. 1677–96) (Figs 1 and 2) offers some of the most interesting examples of architectural history’s appropriations, oversights and extraordinary intellectual constructions devised solely in order to claim a relationship with the glorious past, or to sever ties with certain aspects of it, depending upon the contemporary ideological agendas. This material demonstrates how a single building has been used over the years to express diverse concepts of national identity, either by subjecting that building to certain physical modifications, or by making it serve as a point of departure for narratives that emphasize different characteristics of precisely the same physical fabric. The vocabulary of classical architecture employed in Wilanów was particularly well suited to such cultural practices. Classicism – the paradigmatic architectural language, positioned at the nexus of the indigenous and the foreign – has traditionally been associated with discourses of national identity. It was a universal idiom of authority, easily reflecting diverse (or even conflicting) social agendas, its visual vocabulary lending itself to a succession of new meanings, in line with shifting expectations and ideological priorities. In Wilanów the classical and the universal were continually redefined in an attempt to express in visual form the national and the particular.

Mental Structures in Transition Culture

2008 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 901-927 ◽  
Author(s):  
Triin Vihalemm ◽  
Veronika Kalmus
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Minority Group ◽  
Value Orientations ◽  
Cultural Reproduction ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Common Elements ◽  
Linguistic Groups ◽  
The Empirical Analysis ◽  
Generational Continuity ◽  
Level Analysis

Based on the concept of transition culture, the article discusses patterns of generational continuity and disruption in post-Soviet Estonia. We suggest a tool for meso-level analysis: factor structures of self-identification and value orientations. The empirical analysis of population survey data collected in 2005 shows that such mental structures have significant correlations with indices of perceptions about social changes and everyday social and cultural practices. Our analysis focuses on mental patterns of three generations among two main ethno-linguistic groups: ethnic Estonians and the Russian minority. The results reveal considerable differentiation between older and younger generations. We suggest that post-Soviet transition has brought about generational disruption in cultural reproduction, which is particularly visible among the ethnic minority group: Russian youngsters differ from their parents to a greater extent than do young Estonians from theirs. Moreover, the mental patterns of young Estonians and Russians have common elements.

Lost in Transition? Managing paradoxical situations by inventing identities

Paragrana ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 306-318
Author(s):  
Iris Clemens
Keyword(s):  
Working Conditions ◽  
Living Conditions ◽  
Indian Society ◽  
Social Implications ◽  
Call Centre ◽  
Asian Countries ◽  
Call Centres ◽  
Life Styles

AbstractThe article focuses on Ashim Ahluwalias documentation John and Jane, which describes the living conditions, life styles and ambitions of six call centre employees in Mumbai at a time when call centres were not yet questioned in Indian society in respect of their working conditions or social implications. One main focus of the documentation therefore is a more general transition of Asian countries. The call centre agents embody almost perfectly this time of transition: Indians during day time who have never been abroad but become well trained Americans at night, their bodies still in India, but their mind overseas. This striking example is taken to analyse the framing of humans in times of globalisation and the related virtuality of constructions, including their own bodies.

scholarly journals Championing Physical Cultural Sciences

2019 ◽  
Vol 82 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-93
Author(s):  
Jerzy Kosiewicz
Keyword(s):  
Biological Sciences ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Social Values ◽  
Physical Phenomenon ◽  
Physical Culture ◽  
Cultural Character ◽  
Theoretical Assumptions ◽  
Institutional Field ◽  
Political Character ◽  
Supportive Function

AbstractThe term “physical culture” is, first of all, associated (referring to the etymology of the word “culture” from the Latin “colo,-ere”, meaning “to cultivate”, “to inhabit” or “to honor”) with cultivation and taking care of the human “physis” – obviously in the context of social and natural environment. What matters in physical cultural reflection is not movement as such – as a purely physical phenomenon – but only such a form of movement which has been cultivated and attributed with conventionalized social values of symbolic and autotelic character. Biological sciences connected with the human being are traditionally – after MacFadden, among others – counted among physical cultural sciences. Because of the bodily foundations of human physical activity, they perform a significant cognitive function: they describe natural foundations of special forms of movement, but they are not offering knowledge of cultural character. As there are no values in the human being’s nature, the biological sciences within the institutional field of physical culture can with their separate methodological and theoretical assumptions only offer an auxiliary, supportive function. Physical cultural sciences are primarily dealing with the significant relations between humans in physical cultural practices, with knowledge of an axiological (ethical and aesthetical) and social (philosophical, sociological, pedagogical, historical or political) character. The alleged superiority of biological sciences within physical cultural sciences and the connected marginalization of the humanities – which constitute, after all, a necessary and hence an unquestionable foundation for cultural studies – is, therefore, a clear challenge in the institutional field of physical culture.

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