“A Promissory Note with a Trick Clause”: Legend, History, and Lynch Law in Requiem for a Nun

2017 ◽  
pp. 51-66
Author(s):  
Sean McCann
Keyword(s):  
Social Order ◽  
Historical Source ◽  
Founding Fathers ◽  
Racial Hierarchy ◽  
Jacksonian Era ◽  
Main Plot ◽  
Mississippi History

This chapter explores the conflicting versions of Jacksonian-era Mississippi history in the origin narrative Faulkner creates for Jefferson in the narrative prologues of his 1951 novel. In his account of the civic crisis that leads to the town's incorporation, Faulkner deviates from his primary historical source, Robert M. Coates's 1930 study, The Outlaw Years, to develop a “prominent legend about a transition from anarchic innocence to the burdens of civilization.” The prologues' “competing historiographic visions” anticipate the “rival visions of Mississippi's social order” at work in the main plot, where Gavin Stevens espouses an ethos of “civic obligation” and “paternalist racial hierarchy” that recalls his community's founding fathers, while Temple's ties to the criminal underworld evoke “the corrosive freedoms of the commercial marketplace”.

The Paradox of Black Citizenship

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christen A. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Social Order ◽  
Black People ◽  
Black Body ◽  
Spatial Practices ◽  
National Belonging ◽  
State Terror ◽  
Racial Hierarchy ◽  
Racial Democracy ◽  
National Ideology ◽  
The City

This chapter discusses the politics of citizenship, blackness, and exclusion in Bahia, taking up the question of Afro-nationalism. It argues that black people confront visible and invisible human walls in their everyday attempts to access resources and dignity in the city, and these walls are often subtle, elusive, and guileful. The police and other residents tasked with maintaining security act as a border patrol that delineates the boundaries of the moral racial social order. Spatial practices of race performatively and theatrically press the black body to the margins of national belonging. Through these embodied practices, the state produces national frontiers of belonging along the cartographic lines of a racial hierarchy. The maintenance of racial democracy as a national ideology depends on the diffuse, mundane repetitions of violence in states, cities, and neighborhoods as well as the more spectacular moments of state terror that we associate with police violence.

Durkheim and Organizational Analysis: Two Legacies

1992 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 627-642 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ken Starkey
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Organizational Analysis ◽  
Founding Fathers ◽  
Middle Period

All three of the 'founding fathers' of social science (Marx, Weber and Durkheim) have played important if contrasting roles in the evolution of management thought and organizational analysis. Of the three, the influence of Durkheim has been relatively less examined. This article argues that the time is ripe for a reconsideration of Durkheim's contribution and its potential for understanding past and present developments in management and organization. The dominant Durkheimian tradition emphasizes solidarity, the major concern of the work of Durkheim's middle period. His later work emphasizes differing systems of sym bolic classification and their role in the genesis or reconstruction of social order, and provides us with a very different legacy.

“What’s so p/funny?”

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roderick N. Labrador
Keyword(s):  
Local Knowledge ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Racial Hierarchy ◽  
Self Image ◽  
The Voice

This chapter critiques the idea of Hawaiʻi as a “multicultural paradise” and the production of Local by examining the popular practice of ethnic humor. It argues that Hawaiʻi ethnic humor is a space for the production of “Local knowledge(s)” and ideologies where identities are constructed and social order and racial hierarchy are enacted. It draws attention to the production of Local as a nonimmigrant identity, especially the ways in which Local comedians appropriate the voice of immigrant Filipinos through the use of Mock Filipino (or speaking English with a “Filipino accent”). Although understood as “innocent” and “harmless” joking in which “we can laugh at ourselves,” Hawaiʻi ethnic humor in general, and Mock Filipino in particular, simultaneously produce racially demeaning or “racially interested” discourses that uphold the positive self-image of Locals, especially their membership in Hawaiʻi's “racial paradise,” while lowering that of immigrant Filipinos.

United Irishmen and Unionists: Irish Presbyterians, 1791 and 1886

1989 ◽  
Vol 25 ◽  
pp. 171-189 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. F. G. Holmes
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Detailed Examination ◽  
Home Rule ◽  
Founding Fathers ◽  
Irish History ◽  
History Of ◽  
Irish Republicanism ◽  
United Irishmen

When Gladstone decided, some time in 1885, that the only way to achieve ‘social order’ in Ireland was to concede Home Rule, he was disappointed to find that among his most implacable and vociferous opponents were the Irish Presbyterians. In vain he was to remind them that their ancestors had been United Irishmen in the 1790s, the founding fathers of Irish republicanism. His appeal to them to ‘retain and maintain the tradition of their sires’ fell on deaf ears.It seemed to Gladstone as it has seemed to Irish nationalists and to some historians that the Irish Presbyterians had turned their political coats, that the grandsons of the United Irishmen had repudiated the principles of their grandfathers. Lecky, in his monumentalHistory of Ireland in the Eighteenth Century, writing in the context of the Home Rule crisis, expressed his magisterial opinion that ‘the defection of the Presbyterians from the movement of which they were the main originators, and the great and enduring change which took place in their sentiments… are facts of the deepest importance in Irish history and deserve very careful and detailed examination’.

The Social Order Yields to Functional Analysis

1958 ◽  
Vol 3 (6) ◽  
pp. 158-160
Author(s):  
LAWRENCE SCHLESINGER
Keyword(s):  
Functional Analysis ◽  
Social Order ◽  
The Social

Sex and the Social Order.

1946 ◽  
Author(s):  
Georgene H. Seward
Keyword(s):  
Social Order ◽  
The Social

Terror salience and punishment: Does terror salience induce threat to social order?

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Fischer ◽  
Tobias Greitemeyer ◽  
Andreas Kastenmueller ◽  
Dieter Frey ◽  
Silvia Osswald
Keyword(s):  
Social Order
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