scholarly journals Framing Sálvame: Public debates on taste, quality and television in Spain

2018 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 209-233 ◽  
Author(s):  
Reinald Besalú ◽  
Mercè Oliva ◽  
Óliver Pérez-Latorre
Keyword(s):  
Child Protection ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Legal Issue ◽  
Regulatory Body ◽  
Social Hierarchies ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Social ◽  
Celebrity Gossip ◽  
Working Class Women

Abstract The main aim of this article is to analyze the social circulation of discourses on non-hegemonic cultural practices, in particular, on what is called “trash TV”, and how they are connected to struggles over cultural and social hierarchies. To do so, it takes a specific event as starting point: the injunction that the CNMC (the Spanish broadcasting regulatory body) filed against Mediaset (a commercial TV operator) to adjust the contents of Sálvame Diario (a celebrity gossip program frequently associated with “trash TV”) to the requirements of what is known as the “child protection time slot”. This paper uses constructionist framing to analyze how this event was discussed by different social actors. Our analysis shows that while the CNMC and the press painted the conflict as a legal issue, Sálvame and social media users focused their discussion on the social acceptability of celebrity gossip media and their viewers (specifically working-class women).

scholarly journals THE SOCIOLOGY OF LAW PERSPECTIVE ON CHILD PROTECTION AT THE SYAR’IYAH COURT IN ACEH

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 70
Author(s):  
Fajri M Kasim ◽  
Abidin Nurdin ◽  
Ridhwan Ridhwan
Keyword(s):  
Child Protection ◽  
Sociology Of Law ◽  
Court Decisions ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
Education And Health ◽  
The Social ◽  
Legal Sociology ◽  
Banda Aceh

This study aims to examine child protection at the Syar'iyah Court in Aceh from the perspective of the sociology of law. This research uses the study of legal sociology, which is an approach that views law as a tool to create order and order in society. The approach used is a case study of child protection in court decisions in Banda Aceh, Bireuen, and Lhokseumawe regarding child guardianship. Meanwhile, data collection techniques are literature studies and court decisions. This study concluded that the Syar'iyah Court in Banda Aceh granted guardianship rights to adult male siblings and to become guardians and take care of parental inheritance. In Bireuen, guardianship rights are given to the mother for a child because her father who has a pension salary is left behind. Whereas in Lhokseumawe, guardianship rights are also given to the mother while the living father is obliged to give one million per month and education and health costs. In addition, judges also become al-Qur’an, Hadith, and the opinions of the ulama as arguments in their decisions that are in accordance with the sociological characteristics of religion in Aceh. This shows that the Syar'iyah Court as part of the social system and judges as social actors have functioned to provide child protection so as to create order and order in society.

scholarly journals Cultural Practices and the Problems of their Modernization in the Cultural Space of Contemporary Societies

2020 ◽  
pp. 165-177
Author(s):  
Valentyna Sudakova
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Cultural Practice ◽  
Practical Significance ◽  
Cultural Space ◽  
Social Transformations ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Self Organized ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Modernization ◽  
Reproductive Processes

The article presents the analytical research of the specifics of cultural practices as phenomena of the cultural space of the globalized social world, their role in the processes of the social modernization of everyday communications and the self-organized human initiative practices, the importance of which increase under conditions of the contemporary social transformations. It determines the content of the concepts “cultural space,” “cultural practice” and “everyday life” as the cognitive instruments. It argues that these concepts as the cognitive instruments reflect the system of the different everyday reproductive processes by the activities of social actors who use the accumulated social experience. The author analyzes the conditions for the formation of associations, groups and communities in the cultural space that based own activity by the principle of self-organization. Such communities actually produce the democratic influence to the institutions of political power and to the moral “climate” in society. They are considered as relatively free and independent from the states’ institutions. These public communities are able to demonstrate in society the interests, intentions and actions of social actors who support common ideas significant for this society. The author determines and characterizes essential features and functions of self-organizing groups and practices of their initiative activities. It is proved that the study of such groups, communities and the cultural forms of their activity is of the theoretical and practical significance.

scholarly journals The Cogs and Wheels of Authenticity: How Descriptive and Evaluative Beliefs Explain the Unequal Appreciation of Authentic Products

2021 ◽  
pp. 073112142110571
Author(s):  
Sebastian Weingartner ◽  
Patrick Schenk ◽  
Jörg Rössel
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Capital ◽  
Apple Juice ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Economic Value ◽  
High Status ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Social ◽  
Hedonic Evaluation ◽  
Evaluative Beliefs

In times of cultural omnivorousness, authentic products are highly valued by high-status consumers. The article scrutinizes the social and individual preconditions for attributing hedonic and economic value to authentic products. Taking the concept of cultural capital as a starting point, it argues that cues indicating a product’s authenticity affect taste and price evaluations only if individuals perceive authenticity cues correctly (descriptive beliefs) and regard authenticity as an important product feature (evaluative beliefs). This interplay of descriptive and evaluative beliefs explains the appreciation of authentic products. The model is tested by combining an experimental tasting of apple juice samples with a survey. We find that cues of authenticity causally influence the hedonic evaluation of products only for consumers with both strong descriptive and evaluative beliefs. Attribution of economic value depends on descriptive beliefs only. In addition, such beliefs are socially structured: descriptive beliefs correlate with higher formal education, whereas evaluative beliefs covary with highbrow cultural practices.

scholarly journals Problematic, disturbing and non-conforming children’s behaviors: the concepts and care demands related to agitation in children in Santos and Campinas, Brazil

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 12-26
Author(s):  
Eunice Nakamura ◽  
Tatiana Barbarini
Keyword(s):  
Social Consequences ◽  
Sociocultural Perspective ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Child Mental Health Services ◽  
Psychological Dysfunction ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Social ◽  
Children's Behaviors ◽  
Care Demands ◽  
Theoretical Reflection

Abstract This article discusses the social consequences of the impossibility of specifically defining the boundaries of the concept of mental disorder, which seems to be a “vague” term with no satisfactory definition, especially when referred to children’s behaviors. We argue that when discussing children’s problematic, disturbing or non-conforming behaviors it is necessary to understand how these concepts are related to the classificatory categories of children’s behaviors and presented as care demands, whether in common sense or in biomedical discourses. Data were collected in qualitative research developed in three different child mental health services (CMHS), one in Santos (2012) and two in Campinas (2009-2010; 2017-2018), Brazil. Based on what seems to be a relation between biological-psychological dysfunction and social-cultural expectation or response, our starting point is that agitation is also a multidimensional and vague category, presenting a description and theoretical reflection about the various concepts regarding agitation. The analysis focuses on the different uses of the concepts of agitation; the social actors and institutions involved in care demands and how they are interdependently connected; then revealing, from a sociocultural perspective, the implications of classifying and defining children’s behavior from this vague category.

scholarly journals What is a mode? Smell, olfactory perception, and the notion of mode in multimodal mediated theory

2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sigrid Norris
Keyword(s):  
Individual Characteristics ◽  
Olfactory Perception ◽  
Social Actor ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Mediated Action ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Mediational Means

AbstractMoving towards multimodal mediated theory, I propose to define a mode as a system of mediated action that comes about through concrete lower-level actions that social actors take in the world. In order to explain exactly how a mode is a system of mediated action, I turn to a perfume blog and use one blog entry as my starting point. The mode that I primarily focus on in this article is the mode of smell, explicating that the mode of smell is not synonymous with olfactory perception, even though modal development of smell is certainlyAs I am ostensibly focusing on theEven though the concept of mode is problematical - and in my view needs to always be problematized - I argue that the term and the notion of mode is theoretically useful as it allows us to talk about and better understand communication and (inter)action in three respects: 1. The notion of mode allows us to investigate regularities as residing on a continuum somewhere between the social actor(s) and the mediational means; 2. The theoretical notion of mode embraces socio-cultural and historical as well as individual characteristics, never prioritising any of these and always embracing the tension that exists between social actor(s) and mediational means; and 3. The theoretical notion of mode demonstrates that modal development through concrete lower-level actions taken in the world, is transferable to other lower-level actions taken.

scholarly journals Familienduell

2013 ◽  
Vol 43 (173) ◽  
Author(s):  
Katharin Hajek
Keyword(s):  
Social Reproduction ◽  
The Political ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
The Public ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Tasks

Taking the thorough changes in the political regulation of family in Germany as a starting point, this article considers these developments as (discursive) struggles between different social actors over the meaning, the form and the social tasks of family. Family therefore is not considered as a ‘pre-societal’ given but rather a socio-political and power-laden construct, which takes a central role in governing privatized social reproduction and reproductive work. To capture these aspects four critical debates on family are discussed: First, feminist approaches which focus on the separation of the private and the public, second, queer-theoretical approaches which discuss family as a heteronormative concept; third, Foucault’s writings which enables to capture family as an aspect of biopolitics; fourth, Gramscian theory of hegemony which allows analyzing family as a contested notion and a field of struggle.

Archaic Sovereignty and Colonial Law: The reintroduction of corporal punishment in colonial India, 1864–1909

2020 ◽  
Vol 54 (5) ◽  
pp. 1712-1747
Author(s):  
ALASTAIR MCCLURE
Keyword(s):  
Corporal Punishment ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Indian Society ◽  
Social Hierarchies ◽  
Colonial India ◽  
New Methods ◽  
The Social ◽  
Penal Law ◽  
Legal Restrictions ◽  
Discretionary Powers

AbstractThe judicial and summary punishment of whipping—absent from the Indian Penal Code (IPC) of 1860—was passed into law through Act No. VI of 1864. This legislation, tacked on as an appendage to the IPC, invested the judge with wider discretionary powers to administer violence across Indian society. In this case what emerged was an evolving attempt to enlarge the colonial state's capacity for quotidian violence, targeting certain bodies to reaffirm, manage, and police the social hierarchies upon which colonial sovereignty depended. In the context of a slow imperial movement away from the cast-iron distinctions that had been made between groups in the early nineteenth century—distinctions that had, among other things, supported a legally enforced system of slavery—new methods to mark the value of different bodies were created. The events of the 1850s, in particular the rebellion of 1857–1858, saw the re-emergence of the colonial idea that certain bodies could withstand violence, and that violence itself could be used to create economically productive colonial societies, in debates around penal law and punishment. This article will trace this history through formal legal restrictions and informal legal-cultural practices in relation to corporal punishment in colonial India. Over the course of the period under study, this legislation introduced into law what one official termed ‘the category of the “whippable”’.1 Charting the changing shape of this legal category along lines of race, gender, caste, class, and age, the article will argue that a logic of exceptionality, channelled here through the application of judicial violence, attempted to structure and manage Indian society in complicated ways.

Cycles of Empowerment? The Bicycle and Everyday Technology in Colonial India and Vietnam

2011 ◽  
Vol 53 (4) ◽  
pp. 971-996 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Arnold ◽  
Erich DeWald
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Social Hierarchies ◽  
Sewing Machine ◽  
Colonial India ◽  
Technology Transfers ◽  
The Social ◽  
Capital Intensive ◽  
Innovation And Entrepreneurship

In recent years, discussion of technology in the nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century colonial world has moved away from earlier insistence on the centrality of imperial agency and the instrumentality of empire's technological “tools” of conquest and exploitation. There has been a broad shift from diffusionist preoccupations with a one-way traffic in “technology transfers” that privileged Euro-American innovation and entrepreneurship, to consideration of the “social life of things” within the colony. This has corresponded with a move away from understanding technology through European representations of machines as the measure of the imperial self and colonized other, to rethinking technology's role in reconfiguring social hierarchies and cultural practices in colonized or semi-colonized non-Western societies. Without ignoring empire's importance in facilitating change or restricting the socio-economic parameters within which innovative technologies might operate, there has been a growing tendency to identify colonialism as a conduit for technological modernity rather than its primary embodiment. The colony is understood as a locally constituted, rather than merely imperially derivative, site for engagement with techno-modernity and its discontents. Scholars now commonly eschew emphasis on the implanting of “big technologies” such as railroads, telegraphs, steamships, modern weaponry, major irrigation works, and electrification systems (capital-intensive, often state-managed technologies that figured proudly in the rhetoric of imperial achievement), in favor of the ways in which these were understood, assimilated, and utilized by local agency. There has also been growing interest in small-scale, “everyday technologies,” from the sewing machine, wristwatch, and radio, to the typewriter, camera, and bicycle. Colonial regimes were unable to monopolize or disinclined to control these, and they passed with relative ease into the work-regimes, recreational activities, social life, and cultural aspirations of colonized and postcolonial populations.

Liszt at the Piano: The Impact of Iconography on mid-Nineteenth Century Musicology

2014 ◽  
Vol 55 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 131-144
Author(s):  
Suzanne Marie Francis
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Music History ◽  
Collective Identities ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
Maximum Benefit ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Social ◽  
Iconic Status ◽  
The Impact

By the time of his death in 1827, the image of Beethoven as we recognise him today was firmly fixed in the minds of his contemporaries, and the career of Liszt was beginning to flower into that of the virtuosic performer he would be recognised as by the end of the 1830s. By analysing the seminal artwork Liszt at the Piano of 1840 by Josef Danhauser, we can see how a seemingly unremarkable head-and-shoulders bust of Beethoven in fact holds the key to unlocking the layers of commentary on both Liszt and Beethoven beneath the surface of the image. Taking the analysis by Alessandra Comini as a starting point, this paper will look deeper into the subtle connections discernible between the protagonists of the picture. These reveal how the collective identities of the artist and his painted assembly contribute directly to Beethoven’s already iconic status within music history around 1840 and reflect the reception of Liszt at this time. Set against the background of Romanticism predominant in the social and cultural contexts of the mid 1800s, it becomes apparent that it is no longer enough to look at a picture of a composer or performer in isolation to understand its impact on the construction of an overall identity. Each image must be viewed in relation to those that preceded and came after it to gain the maximum benefit from what it can tell us.

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