scholarly journals When a Peasant Can Only Grieve or Rejoice: Thomas and Znaniecki’s Approach to Emotions

Stan Rzeczy ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 95-110
Author(s):  
Bogna Dowgiałło
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Sociology Of Emotions ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Individual

The present article represents a new attempt to read the first two volumes of The Polish Peasant in Europe and America from the perspective of the sociology of emotions. Reconstructing Thomas and Znaniecki’s approach to emotions entails defining the place of emotions (as emotional habits, feelings, and sentiments) in a theoretical framework of values and attitudes and presenting how Thomas and Znaniecki took affectivity into account at the analytical level. The authors’ approach seems to correspond to the contemporary understanding of emotions, which avoids a separation between the individual and the social, the emotive and the cognitive.

The Social Semiotic Analysis of Translation of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness Based on Peircean Model

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (12) ◽  
pp. 1281
Author(s):  
Iraj Noroozi ◽  
Somayeh Tork
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Social Semiotics ◽  
Semiotic Analysis ◽  
Source Text ◽  
Persian Version ◽  
The Social ◽  
Heart Of Darkness ◽  
Persian Translation

The aim of the present article is to investigate the meaning of the signs in Persian translation of Heart of Darkness. To reach the desired goal, the researcher has used social semiotics and Peirce’s triadic sign model as the theoretical framework. In the current study, Peirce semiotics has been used for detecting signs. After detection 50 signs, the researcher used Peirce’s triadic sign model for analyzing the translation of each sign. The researcher decoded the signs to identify their components and analyzed them in social semiotic level to clarify whether they have the same impression on the Persian version of Heart of Darkness as their English source or not. After performing data analysis, it was cleared that 37 signs (out of 50) in the corpus of the study have the same effect and meaning in the target text as what they have in the source text.

Genurile romanului românesc (1901-1932). O analiză cantitativă

Transilvania ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 53-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrei Terian ◽  
Daiana Gârdan ◽  
Emanuel Modoc ◽  
Cosmin Borza ◽  
Dragoș Varga ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Analysis ◽  
Present Article ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Popular Fiction ◽  
Genre Theory ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Individual Self

Combining the instruments of quantitative analysis with those of genre theory, the present article studies the ratio, characteristics, and tendencies underpinning the most important subgenres of the Romanian novel between 1901 and 1932. Among these subgenres, we lay special emphasis on those of popular fiction, on the social, historical, sentimental, psychological, and philosophical novel, as well as on the so-called “event novel”. The conclusions of our inquiry illustrate the ever-growing divide between artistic literature and popular fiction, the recasting of the Romanian novelistic subgenres during the early 20th century, and the gradual relocation of the novelists’ focus from the unmediated depiction of events towards the world and the individual self.

Social Influence Opportunity Recognition, Evaluation, and Capitalization: Increased Theoretical Specification Through Political Skill’s Dimensional Dynamics

2016 ◽  
Vol 44 (5) ◽  
pp. 1926-1952 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charn P. McAllister ◽  
B. Parker Ellen ◽  
Gerald R. Ferris
Keyword(s):  
Social Influence ◽  
Organizational Behavior ◽  
Research Effort ◽  
Political Skill ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Opportunity Recognition ◽  
Social Effectiveness ◽  
The Social ◽  
Primary Focus ◽  
The Individual

Social influence is one of the oldest and most researched constructs in organizational behavior. Most research has examined the “what” and “who” of social influence behavior, but it was not until recently that scholars began examining the “how,” or the operation, of social influence techniques and behaviors. Social effectiveness constructs, such as political skill, have been the primary focus of this research effort. However, despite these constructs illuminating social influence processes, little is known about the actual operation of the social effectiveness constructs themselves. Thus, to develop a more complete understanding of social influence effectiveness, this article develops a theoretical framework by synthesizing several literatures and explaining how the individual dimensions of political skill affect the social influence process. Specifically, the authors (a) review and integrate research and theory in social influence and political skill; (b) develop an opportunity recognition, evaluation, and capitalization model to provide a theoretical framework for the dimensional dynamics of political skill; and (c) provide suggestions for how this framework informs future political skill research.

scholarly journals Re-Imagining ‘Event Management’: on Governmentality and its ‘Afterlife’

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 369-387
Author(s):  
Tony Blackshaw ◽  
Willem Coetzee
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Social Gradient ◽  
Event Management ◽  
Subject Field ◽  
Mega Events ◽  
The Social ◽  
Ontological Uncertainty

Abstract In an important collection of publications Chris Rojek (2013a, 2013b and 2014) raises some apposite questions pertaining to ‘Event Management’ as a source of ideological power that surrounds both the staging of Mega Events and ‘Events’ as a subject field. The present article begins by elaborating on the key themes emerging from Rojek’s unconventional understanding of ‘Event Management’ which provides the backdrop against which it advances its own arguments. The rest of the discussion develops a novel framework of analysis which suggests that we should substitute ‘governmentality’ for ‘ideology’. It is argued that ‘performative governmentality’ achieves the rule of the ‘knowledgeable’ and ‘knowledge’ as the ruling force in a new way, through ‘efficiency’. The article provides a familiar theoretical framework and equips it with some new conceptual tools. Performative governmentality emerges as the ‘afterlife’ of Foucauldian governmentality, demonstrating that its capability is released only when the context in which it originally existed has disappeared, when it lingers precariously on the verge of disappearance. The article posits a mutual ‘fit’ between sport and the ‘social gradient’ in health and the tasks these pose to individuals under the dramaturgical conditions of the ‘performativity criterion’: to produce for themselves in their leisure the knowledge and the techniques of ‘fitness’ or ‘well-being’. Thereafter it explores how control operates with the societal shift from ‘hierarchy’ and ‘normalization’ to ‘democracy’ and ‘freedom’, arguing that existential insecurity and ontological uncertainty – the products of the fear of invisibility – have become functional to performative governmentality, which appears capable of conjuring conformity through impulses we conventionally associate with empowerment.

Scandals of abuse: policy responses in intellectual disabilities

2015 ◽  
Vol 35 (1/2) ◽  
pp. 107-124 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Mark Halladay ◽  
Charlene Harrington
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Case Study Methodology ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Descriptive Case Study ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Policy Responses ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Uk

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to compare two scandals related to the care of individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD) in the USA and the UK. Design/methodology/approach – A descriptive case study methodology was used to conduct an in-depth qualitative analysis of the two scandals to examine the process of scandal development, and to survey the policy response against policy trends and theories of abuse in each case. The two cases were systematically analysed against a theoretical framework derived from Bonnie and Wallace (2003) theoretical framework for understanding abuse based on its sociocultural context, the social embeddedness of organisations providing care, and the individual level characteristics and interactions of subjects and carers. Findings – In both cases the process of scandal construction was comparable, and each case offered confirmatory support to extant theories of abuse, and to wider policy trends within I/DD. Research limitations/implications – The study examines only the short-term policy responses to the scandals in two countries, based on published material only. Originality/value – This paper contributes an international comparison of the similarities and differences in the social construction of scandal and the policy responses to abuse and neglect of a vulnerable population using systematic analytical frameworks.

scholarly journals Post-Utopia: The Long View

Humanities ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 65
Author(s):  
David Konstan
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Present Article ◽  
The United States ◽  
Social Self ◽  
The Third ◽  
Social Breakdown ◽  
Roman Literature ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Near Future

The present article is divided into three parts. The first discusses the nature of utopias and their hypothetical anti-type, dystopias, and also disaster scenarios that are sometimes assimilated to dystopias, with reference also to the idea of post-utopia. An argument is made for the continuity of the utopian impulse, even in an age when brutal wars and forms of oppression have caused many to lose faith in any form of collectivity. Representations of social breakdown and its apparent opposite, totalitarian rigidity, tend to privilege the very individualism that the utopian vision aspires to overcome. The second part looks at examples of each of these types drawn from classical Greek and Roman literature, with a view to seeing how utopias were conceived at a time before the emergence of the modern ideology of the pre-social self. Finally, the third part examines several stories from the collection A People’s Future of the United States which imagine life in the near future. While most illustrate the failure of confidence in the social that has encouraged the intuition that a utopian future is passé, one, it is suggested, reconceives the relation between the individual and the social in a way that points to the renewed possibility of the utopian.

scholarly journals Challenging the theoretical framework of the totalitarian syndrome

2021 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 7-17
Author(s):  
Roman Bäcker ◽  
Joanna Rak
Keyword(s):  
Content Validity ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Political Regimes ◽  
Social Worlds ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Social Phenomena ◽  
Educational Role ◽  
The Social ◽  
Individual Concepts ◽  
The Individual

The article is of methodological nature and aims to evaluate the content validity of Carl Joachim Friedrich and Zbigniew K. Brzezinski’s totalitarian syndrome, that is, the extent to which this theoretical framework accurately represents the social phenomena to which it refers. It introduces the critical analysis of the individual concepts extracted from the totalitarian syndrome as the indicators of totalitarianism and the model as a whole as a research tool for measuring political regimes. The paper begins with the discussion on an alternative concept of totalitarianism formulated by Nicholas Timasheff to illustrate the context in which the authors of the theoretical categories of totalitarianism created them. Then, the article goes on to analyze the nature and major characteristics of Friedrich and Brzezinski’s totalitarian syndrome as well as these reviews of Totalitarian Dictatorship and Autocracy, which addressed the validity of the model. Social scientists have widely criticized Friedrich and Brzezinski’s totalitarian syndrome. The most serious objection concerns the non-specific essential features collected and combined to define totalitarianism. The taxonomic nature of the model has allowed researchers, who blindly adopted the framework, to classify discretionarily political regimes of numerous states as totalitarian. Friedrich and Brzezinski failed to advance any clear criteria for coding. They did not establish a line between meeting and not meeting the listed essential features. Furthermore, it is unknown what character the features enumerated under this syndrome have. This generates a question if the six “indicators” are essential, distinctive, significant, co-decisive, contours, features, factors, frames, pillars, or mechanisms. Although Friedrich and Brzezinski’s totalitarian syndrome fulfilled a prominent educational role mostly for US citizens by showing that there could be social worlds completely different from those in which one lives, the proposed understanding of totalitarianism is insignificant in defining such regimes. This theoretical framework inaccurately represents the social phenomena to which it refers. The paper finishes with the argument against applying the syndrome to scrutinize political regimes because of its considerably limited content validity.

scholarly journals Il linguaggio come collante tra menti individuali e socialità umana

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Filippo Batisti
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Physical Environment ◽  
Human Mind ◽  
Contemporary Research ◽  
Research Fields ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social And Physical Environment ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Individual Human

The pragmatist tradition in philosophy has left a sound legacy in many contemporary research fields. John Dewey’s continuist and emergentist approach to the nature-or-nurture problem in relation to the individual human mind has been regained lately in evolutionist psychology and related disciplines. For Dewey, language plays a fundamental role in creating and maintaining this continuity between the individual mind and the social and physical environment humans inhabit. The present article will focus on a few contemporary lines of research that identify language as the ‘glue’ that bonds each individual to one another and to society, with a decisive impact on the development of one’s own mind.

scholarly journals INTERTEKSTUALITAS SAJAK “KAMPUNG” DAN CERPEN “DILARANG MENYANYI DI KAMAR MANDI” DALAM PERSPEKTIF POSMODERNISME

Widyaparwa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 292-306
Author(s):  
Suyono Suyatno ◽  
Dina Amalia Susamto
Keyword(s):  
Social Environment ◽  
Gender Bias ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
The Social ◽  
Female Protagonist ◽  
Hermeneutic Approach ◽  
The Individual

This study aims to discover the intertextuality of the poem "Kampung" by Subagio Sastrowardojo and the short story "Dilarang Menyanyi di Kamar Mandi" by Seno Gumira Ajidarma. The problem discussed is the realization of the short story text of "Dilarang Menyanyi di Kamar Mandi" as a postmodernist work seen in its aesthetic tool. The theoretical framework applied in this paper is intertextuality and postmodernism, while the method used is a qualitative method with a hermeneutic approach. The result of this study shows that "Dilarang Menyanyi di Kamar Mandi" in fact substantially confirms the hypnogram,  the problem of the individual conflict with the social environment. However, in a postmodernist style "Dilarang Menyanyi di Kamar Mandi" demonstrates resistance to the former aesthetics or its hypogram and utilizes intertextuality by means of pastiche, kitsch, schizophrenia, and parody to express the poetic. In addition, the short story has also shifted the perspective differently than its hypogram by displaying the female protagonist as a victim of gender bias thus, it  has a feminist atmosphere, while the hypogram represents lyrical characters identical to men. The last point is appropriate with the postmodernist obsession to voice the minorities and oppressed, including those who are marginalized.Penelitian ini bertujuan mengungkap intertekstualitas sajak “Kampung” karya Subagio Sastrowardojo dan cerpen “Dilarang Menyanyi di Kamar Mandi” karya Seno Gumira Ajidarma. Masalah yang dibahas ialah bagaimana cerpen “Dilarang Menyanyi di Kamar Mandi” sebagai cerpen posmodernis merealisasikan intertekstualitas sebagai puitika/sarana estetika posmodernis? Teori yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini ialah teori intertekstualitas dan posmodernisme. Metode yang digunakan ialah metode kualitatif dengan pendekatan hermeneutik. Hasil penelitian memperlihatkan bahwa cerpen “Dilarang Menyanyi di Kamar Mandi”, dari sisi substansi mengukuhkan hipogramnya, yakni masalah konflik individu dengan lingkungan sosialnya. Namun, sebagai cerpen posmodernis, “Dilarang Menyanyi di Kamar Mandi” melakukan “perlawanan” terhadap estetika hipogramnya dan memanfaatkan intertekstualitas dengan sarana pastiche, kitsch, skizofrenia, dan parodi untuk mewujudkan puitikanya. Selain itu, cerpen tersebut juga telah melakukan pergeseran perspektif terhadap hipogramnya dengan menampilkan protagonis perempuan sebagai seorang korban bias gender sehingga cerpen ini beratmosfer feminis, sementara hipogramnya merepresentasikan tokoh lirik yang identik dengan laki-laki.  Hal terakhir ini sejalan dengan obsesi kaum posmodernis untuk menyuarakan pembelaan terhadap kaum minoritas dan tertindas, termasuk mereka yang tersisih secara gender.

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