scholarly journals Petera L. Bergera przejście od teorii sekularyzacji do teorii desekularyzacji

2021 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Janusz Mariański
Keyword(s):  
Social Process ◽  
Sociology Of Religion ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Contemporary Sociology

In this paper I present the evolution of views of the american sociologist Peter L. Berger which is a transition from the theory of secularization into the theory of desecularization. He was one of the major representatives of the secualrization paradigm and since the 1990’s he became the creator and adherent of the desecularization paradigm. Desecularization means a persistent and strong presence of religion in the modern world or as a social process it is a reverse version of secularization. According to Berger contemporary sociology of religion should take care of research on the forces affecting mutually secularization and desecularization because “antisecularism is a phenomenon just as important in the modern world as secuarlization.” Berger until the end of 1970’s did focus on the analysis of the secularization processes and later on he commited his research to the issue if desecularization processes.

Book Reviews: Behavioral Sociology: The Experimental Analysis of Social Process, Balance in Small Groups, Racial Violence in the United States, The Education of Borstal Boys, The Sociology of Religion: A Study of Christendom, IV, Types of Religious Man, Men in Mid-Career: A Study of British Managers and Technical Specialists, The Family and the Handicapped Child: A Study of Cerebral Palsied Children in Their Homes, The Assessment of Social Research: Guidelines for the Use of Social Research in Social Work and Social Science, The Conditions of Social Performance: An Exploratory Theory, Families and Their Relatives: Kinship in a Middle-Class Sector of London, The Population Census: A Social Science Research Council Review, Introduction to Social Work, Theories of Social Psychology, Put Away: A Sociological Study of Institutions for the Mentally Retarded, City Lads in Borstal: A Study Based on 100 Lads Discharged to Addresses in Liverspool, Science, Industry and Society: Studies in the Sociology of Science, Interaction Concept of Personality, Hightown Grammar: The School as a Social System, Causes of Delinquency, towards a Sociology of the Cinema: A Comparative Essay on the Structure and Functioning of a Major Entertainment Industry

1970 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 421-456
Author(s):  
A. P. M. Coxon ◽  
Patrick Doreian ◽  
Robin Oakley ◽  
Ian B. Stephen ◽  
Bryan R. Wilson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Social Process ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Sociology Of Religion ◽  
The United States ◽  
Population Census ◽  
Sociological Study

The Sacred Canopy

2016 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-25
Author(s):  
Isaac Nizigama
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Sociology Of Religion ◽  
Methodological Individualism ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Multidimensional Approach ◽  
Sacred Canopy ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Methodological Holism ◽  
Epistemological Framework

Peter L. Berger’s sociology of religion is one of the most studied and quoted in the contemporary social science of religions. Nevertheless, it is also one of the most discussed, notably because of the changes of position by the author with regard to his thought on the secularization of the modern world, and on the relationship between his theses of a sociological nature and his reflections on Protestant theology. The present article questions his global epistemological framework by placing that problematic within the framework of the criticisms which have been directed at ‘absolute functionalism,’ notably by the structuralists or moderate functionalists. By linking it with the prospect of going beyond the opposition between methodological holism and methodological individualism and between substantivism and functionalism, we propose a multidimensional approach to the religious, which seems to lead to a better understanding of the latter in its transformations and metamorphoses into modernity.

scholarly journals GREED AS A FACTOR IN THE HISTORICAL PROCESS

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (18) ◽  
pp. 81-90
Author(s):  
R.L. Livshits ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Evolution ◽  
Social Process ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Slowing Down ◽  
The Social ◽  
Main Motive ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Modern Era ◽  
Human Characteristic ◽  
Collectivist Society

Greed is regarded as a human characteristic that occurs naturally in the course of social evolution. Under capitalism, unlimited desire of possession acts as the main motive of economic and any other activity, which leads to a number of objective technical, ecological, social, cultural and moral consequences – both positive and extremely negative. Greed has influenced the development of civilization constructively but it slowing down the social process increasingly in the modern era. Greed should be taken away from the historical stage. Curbing the demon of greed is required not only for the modern world reality, but also for the challenges that are expected by humanity in the future. The experience of the Soviet project implementing, based on an appeal to the over-utilitarian motives of the individual, demonstrates the objective possibility of building a collectivist society in which greed is perceived not as a norm, but as a deviation.

scholarly journals The religious dimension reconstruction of the public sphere in modern theories of sociology of religion

2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 (4) ◽  
pp. 7-16
Author(s):  
Natalia Vashrova
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Religious Life ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Sociology Of Religion ◽  
The Public ◽  
Religious Dimension ◽  
Contemporary Sociology ◽  
The Public Sphere

The article describes the features of studying interaction between religion and society in contemporary sociology of religion. In particular, author presents theories, studying the transformation of religion, its adaptation to modern conditions, the emergence of new forms of interaction with political and public. Conducted is the review of Ukrainian sociologists’ elaborations in the interpretation of the religion’s role and place in modern society. The author also focuses on the possibilities of applying the approaches of Western sociology of religion for the conceptualization and the study of religious life in Ukraine.

scholarly journals Conceptualization of serious play in modern sociocultural reality

2020 ◽  
Vol 48 (6) ◽  
pp. 31-39
Author(s):  
Tatiana V. Fanenshtil ◽  
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Irina V. Sadykova ◽  
Sofya Y. Sukhanova ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Process ◽  
Social World ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Social Philosophy ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Social Phenomena ◽  
Theory Of Practice ◽  
The Social

In the conditions of transformation of sociocultural reality, its processes, levels, spheres, and new integrative social phenomena emerge, the meaning and role of which in the modern world have yet to be clarified. One of such phenomena is serious play. Traditionally, the playful and the serious, at the intersection of which serious play arises, are positioned as independent and mutually exclusive elements of the social world. We examine what changes in the social reality, in the relations of the playful and the serious, in the position of man in modern social processes make serious play possible and how serious play redetermines the conditions of its occurrence. For this, we used methods of philosophical analysis and hermeneutics: interpretation, conceptualization, comparative analysis. As a theoretical and methodological basis, we used the categorical apparatus of social philosophy, theory of practice, pragmatism, and social epistemology. As a result, we found that serious play is thought of as a social process in the range from an individual to global scale. In serious play, the subject, through the generation of meanings, performs both the production and reproduction of culture in predetermined ontoaxiological bases, and constructs these bases, while realizing the degree of his freedom, responsibility and immersion in the world he creates through his practices. The significance of the results of our research lies in the fact that the concept of serious play at the intersection of serious and game relations reveals the potential of serious play as an element of sociocultural reality. Serious play reflects the level of complexity of modern reality and ensures that a person adapts to the ever-increasing dynamics of this complexity. The trend of gamification registers this in the space of higher education, which causes a change in the role of the university in the modern social world. Serious play redefines the position of a person in the modern, dynamic and individualized social world. For the first time, serious play is conceptualized at the intersection of the playful and the serious as independent and mutually exclusive elements of sociocultural reality and is analyzed in the trend of the gamification of higher education.

The Sociology of Theology Revisited and Applied

2016 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-114
Author(s):  
Milan Zafirovski
Keyword(s):  
Political System ◽  
Sociology Of Religion ◽  
Ruling Class ◽  
Social Origins ◽  
Contemporary Sociology ◽  
The Social ◽  
And Diffusion

This paper reconsiders and restates the sociology of theology as an investigation of the social origins of theological doctrines. It treats the sociology of theology as an integral part of the sociology of religion and links it with the sociology of ideology (or knowledge). In particular, it applies the sociology of theology to the emergence and diffusion of Calvinism as a theological system. The paper posits and identifies essential social origins of the main Calvinist sociological doctrines, such as those of an absolute, omnipotent God and Divine predestination. It specifically identifies their social origins in a definite political system for the first doctrine and a ruling class of society for the second. It shows that these doctrines are theological and ideological projections and rationalizations of Calvinists pursuing or attaining power and domination since Calvin and his collaborators, and through their descendants. The paper aims to make a contribution to the sociology of theology as a relatively neglected part of the contemporary sociology of religion and ideology.

scholarly journals Islam and the Cultural Accommodation of Social Change

1991 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 339-340
Author(s):  
Ibrahim M. Abu-Rabi'
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Social Process ◽  
Sociology Of Religion ◽  
Philosophical Tradition ◽  
Cultural Patterns ◽  
Cultural System ◽  
Social Fact ◽  
Cultural Accommodation ◽  
General Order ◽  
Cultural Reality

In a previous work entitled The Crisis ofModem Islam, Bassam Tibiargues for the understanding of religion in the social process as it is incorporatedinto reality as a social fact. Toward this goal, his methodology allowsno place for religion as theology and metaphysics. He draws from bothDurkheim’s sociology of religion and Bloch’s philosophy of religion but, ashe explains, his intention is directed toward international relations and towardIslam as a cultural system. This intention evokes some disappointment, fordespite the fact that Tibi sees international relations and the Islamic culturesystem as interdependent, one must conclude that his understanding of thegreat philosophical tradition of Islam is reductionist.In the book under review, Tibi defines his central thesis as follows:“[Religion consists of sociocultural symbols that convey a conception of realityand construe a plan for it. These symbols are concerned with reality butdo not correspond to it, as is the case, for example, with symbols of nature”(p. 8). This is by no means an original thesis. Tibi’s new mentor is the bourgeoisanthropologist Clifford Geertz, who in the late 1960s wrote an essay on“Religion as a Cultural System,” in which he defines religion in the followingterms: Religion is: (1) a system of symbols which acts to (2) establish powerful,pervasive, and long-lasting moods and motivations in man by (3) formulatingconceptions of a general order of existence and (4) clothing theseconceptions with such an aura of factuality that (5) the moods of motivationsseem uniquely realistic. Tibi’s focus is, therefore, on the production of meaningin Muslim societies.In order to interpret the religious and cultural reality of contemporaryMuslim societies, Tibi takes on a number of challenges. In the first chapter,he attempts to define Islam by using sociological criteria. Since he dismissesthe spiritual side of religion, Tibi’s endeavor emerges as yet another reductionistapproach to Islam. On the basis of this approach, he ventures to discusswhat he calls “the basic cultural patterns for the perception of change in Islam.”He contends that Muslims from all walks of life have constantly striven tobring their actions into harmony with the message of the Qur’an and, consequently,the need to reinterpret the Qur’an has always arisen.Tibi maintains that Muslim societies are traditional and thus incompatiblewith modern needs and conditions. He claims that there is an important ...

scholarly journals Potencialidades del protagonismo social del estudiante en relación comunitaria

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Edita Josefa Franco Alonso
Keyword(s):  
Social Role ◽  
Social Process ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Student Community ◽  
Education Community ◽  
The Social ◽  
Individual Integration ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
Community Relationship

Dentro del protagonismo social estudiantil es la educación el principal eje rector para la integración del individuo y su relación con el contexto. Es así que contribuye a consolidar un  sistema  que  de  manera  intencional,  resalta     las  potencialidades  del  individuo modificando así su conducta a partir de los conocimientos adquiridos. Este artículo, permite mostrar e identificar cuál es el rol protagónico que el estudiante debe tener para hacer frente a un proceso social, marcado por los avances de la ciencia y la tecnología, permitiendo generar alternativas de formación, instrucción, enseñanza, capacitación, actualización e información,  que  ayuden     desarrollar  integralmente  las  capacidades,  habilidades  y destrezas, para trabajar en  la vida. Esta investigación se llevó a cabo en la escuela "Colegio Rocafuerte", ubicado en Manabí, Ecuador, donde hay una necesidad de profundizar en los problemas, las características del proceso de enseñanza-aprendizaje   y las nuevas posibilidades de la instrucción con el fin de contribuir a la formación integral del estudiante para enfrentar el trabajo en la sociedad. Palabras claves: Potencialidades, estudiantes, protagonismo social, contexto, educación,  comunidad  Potential social role of student community relationship    Abstract  The education is the outstanding axis in the individual integration of the student formation process and his/her relationship with the social context as well. This is the way that it contributes to the consolidation of a system that intentionally,  highlights the potentiality of the individual. Thus modifying its behavior from the acquired knowledge. This paper lead to an understanding and to identify the important role that the student should have to face in the social process in a modern world, marked by the progress of science and technology, and hence allowing to generate alternatives for the formation, tools for the instructions, the learning, the training, the upgrading and skills through which the individual have to face life. This research was carried out in “Colegio Rocafuerte” school located in Manabí, Ecuador, where there is a need to deepen in the problems, features of the teaching-learning process a new possibilities for the instruction in order to contribute to the overall formation to face work in society. Keywords: Potentiality, students, social role, context, education, community.

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