Alltägliche Lebenswirklichkeit und ontologische Theorie

2020 ◽  
Vol 68 (2) ◽  
pp. 275-287
Author(s):  
Moritz von Kalckreuth
Keyword(s):  
Social Ontology ◽  
Practical Significance ◽  
Material Objects ◽  
Cultural Dimension ◽  
Cultural Objects ◽  
Ordinary Life ◽  
Critical Ontology ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Nicolai Hartmann

AbstractThe aim of this paper is to discuss the relation between our experience in everyday life and ontological reflection. While many accounts in contemporary ontology still defend the idea that the world consists only of material objects, some new views on everyday metaphysics or social ontology which try to articulate the specific properties of the objects used and found in ordinary life have been established during the last years. In the critical ontology of Nicolai Hartmann, the social and cultural dimension of our life is situated in the sphere of spiritual being [Geistiges Sein]. By investigating the methodical relation of phenomenology and critical ontology as well as specific entities (objective spirit, cultural objects), it is established that Hartmann offers a wide and methodologically reflected view which could be able to satisfy the practical significance of these entities.

Playful mobilities in the Global South: A study of Pokémon Go play in Rio de Janeiro and Nairobi

2021 ◽  
pp. 146144482110164
Author(s):  
Adriana de Souza e Silva ◽  
Ragan Glover-Rijkse ◽  
Anne Njathi ◽  
Daniela de Cunto Bueno
Keyword(s):  
South America ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Global South ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Urban Mobility ◽  
Ordinary Life ◽  
Perceptions Of Risk ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Pokémon Go

Pokémon Go is the most popular location-based game worldwide. As a location-based game, Pokémon Go’s gameplay is connected to networked urban mobility. However, urban mobility differs significantly around the world. Large metropoles in South America and Africa, for example, experience ingrained social, cultural, and economic inequalities. With this in mind, we interviewed Pokémon Go players in two Global South cities, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) and Nairobi (Kenya), to understand how players navigate urban spaces not only based on gameplay but with broader concerns for safety. Our findings reveal that players negotiate their urban mobilities based on perceptions of risk and safety, choosing how to move around and avoiding areas known for violence and theft. These findings are relevant for understanding the social and political aspects of networked urban spaces as well as for investigating games as venues through which we can understand ordinary life, racial, gender, and socioeconomic inequalities.

A Social Ontology for Integrating Security and Software Engineering

2007 ◽  
pp. 70-106 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Yu ◽  
L. Liu ◽  
J. Mylopoulous
Keyword(s):  
Software Engineering ◽  
Social Ontology ◽  
Software Systems ◽  
Engineering Process ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
The Core ◽  
Modelling Framework ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Software Engineering Process

As software becomes more and more entrenched in everyday life in today’s society, security looms large as an unsolved problem. Despite advances in security mecha-nisms and technologies, most software systems in the world remain precarious and vulnerable. There is now widespread recognition that security cannot be achieved by technology alone. All software systems are ultimately embedded in some human social environment. The effectiveness of the system depends very much on the forces in that environment. Yet there are few systematic techniques for treating the social context of security together with technical system design in an integral way. In this chapter, we argue that a social ontology at the core of a requirements engineering process can be the basis for integrating security into a requirements driven software engineering process. We describe the i* agent-oriented modelling framework and show how it can be used to model and reason about security concerns and responses. A smart card example is used to illustrate. Future directions for a social paradigm for security and software engineering are discussed.

scholarly journals REFERENTIAL SOCIAL SYSTEM OF MODERN PERSONALITY (CROSS-CULTURAL ASPECT)

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-36
Author(s):  
Oksana Shmyhlyuk
Keyword(s):  
Social Environment ◽  
Ethnic Differences ◽  
Social System ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Sexual Differences ◽  
Practical Significance ◽  
Demographic Questionnaire ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Reference Environment

The article deals with the study of the reference social environment peculiarities of modern personality. It is known that the personality develops and forms in the process of entering the social environment under the influence of micro-, meso- , macro- and mega-factors. According to the transformational processes that take place in the world and particularly in Ukraine, the issues concerning modern social system peculiarities of the personality acquire relevance and practical significance. In order to investigate the reference environment peculiarities of representatives of Ukrainian and Polish ethnic groups and the significance of their influence on these groups, the Demographic Questionnaire by B. Pietrulewicz and J. Tivendell was used. It was modified and adapted by L. Zhuravlyova and O. Shmyglyuk in Ukraine by the agreement of the authors. The existence of ethnic and sexual differences in the reference social environment of the testees is studied empirically. It is stated that the interest of the contemporary Poles and Ukrainians in the reference environment with ethnocultural issues is at an average level. The presence of ethnic and sexual differences in the reference of microcommunity has been proved empirically. The representatives of the female sample differ in their assessment of the interest of the social environment in ethnocultural issues. Ukrainian women show a higher level of the interest in family, compared to the Poles who consider that friends are more important. Ukrainians are believed to be the most interested in the ethnocultural issues of friends, and Poles – teachers and employers. The sexual and ethnic differences in the reference point of the social environment are specified. Mass media are the most significant for Ukrainian men, parents’ opinion is significant for Ukrainian women. The Polish men make an emphasis on the "referencing friends", and Polish women give a great prominence to the opinion of teachers and employers.

A Social Ontology for Integrating Security and Software Engineering

2008 ◽  
pp. 2462-2491 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Yu ◽  
L. Liu ◽  
J. Mylopoulous
Keyword(s):  
Software Engineering ◽  
Social Ontology ◽  
Software Systems ◽  
Engineering Process ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
The Core ◽  
Modelling Framework ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Software Engineering Process

As software becomes more and more entrenched in everyday life in today’s society, security looms large as an unsolved problem. Despite advances in security mecha-nisms and technologies, most software systems in the world remain precarious and vulnerable. There is now widespread recognition that security cannot be achieved by technology alone. All software systems are ultimately embedded in some human social environment. The effectiveness of the system depends very much on the forces in that environment. Yet there are few systematic techniques for treating the social context of security together with technical system design in an integral way. In this chapter, we argue that a social ontology at the core of a requirements engineering process can be the basis for integrating security into a requirements driven software engineering process. We describe the i* agent-oriented modelling framework and show how it can be used to model and reason about security concerns and responses. A smart card example is used to illustrate. Future directions for a social paradigm for security and software engineering are discussed.

A Social Ontology for Integrating Security and Software Engineering

2011 ◽  
pp. 148-177
Author(s):  
E. Yu ◽  
L. Liu ◽  
J. Mylopoulos
Keyword(s):  
Software Engineering ◽  
Social Ontology ◽  
Software Systems ◽  
Engineering Process ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
The Core ◽  
Modelling Framework ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Software Engineering Process

As software becomes more and more entrenched in everyday life in today’s society, security looms large as an unsolved problem. Despite advances in security mechanisms and technologies, most software systems in the world remain precarious and vulnerable. There is now widespread recognition that security cannot be achieved by technology alone. All software systems are ultimately embedded in some human social environment. The effectiveness of the system depends very much on the forces in that environment. Yet there are few systematic techniques for treating the social context of security together with technical system design in an integral way. In this chapter, we argue that a social ontology at the core of a requirements engineering process can be the basis for integrating security into a requirements driven software engineering process. We describe the i* agent-oriented modelling framework and show how it can be used to model and reason about security concerns and responses. A smart card example is used to illustrate. Future directions for a social paradigm for security and software engineering are discussed.

We Are, Therefore I Am—I Am, Therefore We Are: The Third in Sartre’s Social Ontology

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicolas de Warren
Keyword(s):  
Group Formation ◽  
Social Ontology ◽  
Collective Agency ◽  
Material Objects ◽  
Individual Action ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Social ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Sport Teams ◽  
Dialectical Reason

This paper examines the meaning and significance of Sartre’s concept of “the third” within the social ontology of the Critique of Dialectical Reason. Through an examination of three different types of group formation (serial collectives, statutory groups, and sport teams), this paper provides an analysis of central Sartrean insights into how individual action and collective agency are co-constituted. This paper also draws attention to the role ascribed to material objects as well as ideological views and beliefs in the formation of social agency.

scholarly journals The Thoughtful University: A Feasible Utopia

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 54-72
Author(s):  
Ronald A. Barnett
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
Critical Realism ◽  
Social Ontology ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Standing Up ◽  
The University

Philosophers have long made allegations of a thoughtlessness in the world and, in the wake of their charges, critiques of thoughtlessness on the part of the university have also been made. Explanations for such thoughtlessness are rooted in both exogenous and endogenous sources. Thinking has not been vanquished entirely from the university but rather a malign thoughtlessness has descended on it. Drawing especially on Bhaskar’s Critical Realism, a conception of the thinking university is proffered here that both recognizes the deep structures at work and opens a sense of the university as an agent. Four criteria of university thoughtfulness are proposed. The prospects for such a cognitive culture emerging are explored, two phenomena being identified; first, that the social ontology of the university is widening and second, that contra postmodernism, universals associated with the university are increasing. Further, the constellation of reason has been displaced by the constellation of utility but a new constellation is struggling to emerge, which is calling for thought on the part of the university, namely the constellation of otherness. The thinking university is, therefore, a feasible utopia, its legitimacy standing up to the rigorous scrutiny of six conditions of adequacy. The thinking university is already living in the real world.

Practice, Spatiality and Embodied Emotions: An Outline of a Geography of Practice

Human Affairs ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kirsten Simonsen
Keyword(s):  
Social Ontology ◽  
Human Geography ◽  
Focus Of Attention ◽  
Social Differentiation ◽  
Social Analysis ◽  
Short Discussion ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
The Way

Practice, Spatiality and Embodied Emotions: An Outline of a Geography of PracticeThe paper outlines an approach to social analysis/human geography taking off from a social ontology of practice. This means a focus of attention to embodied or practical knowledges and their formation in people's everyday lives, to the world of experiences and emotions, and to the infinitude of encounters through which we make the world and are made by it in turn. The paper proceeds in three parts. First, considering the way in which subjectivity and identity are created in and through practices sets the ground. The two following sections are extensions from that discussing "embodiment and spatiality" and "affectivity and emotion" respectively. The purpose is threefold; to develop the sensuous character of practice, to consider the spatialities involved in that character, and to discuss possible developments including power and the social differentiation of bodies. The paper is concluded by a short discussion of the geographies following from the suggested account.

scholarly journals Seeing Matters: The Remarkable Relevance of the Object-Representation Relationship to Science … and to Society!

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas Martin Rosseinsky
Keyword(s):  
Object Representation ◽  
Practical Significance ◽  
Material Objects ◽  
Direct Realism ◽  
Symbolic Notation ◽  
The World ◽  
Basic Relationship ◽  
Theoretical Results ◽  
Mainstream Science

The basic relationship between consciously-experienced representations, and material objects they represent, is hotly debated in some circles. But is it practically important? To investigate this, I introduce new symbolic notation, capable of labelling object, brain-perception, and conscious representation. Simple physics-based reasoning argues against identity of object and representation (rejecting e.g., direct realism). Nevertheless, a pivotal concern of the direct-realism school remains: how do we have knowledge of the world, if it’s only experienced indirectly? I sketch an indirect-school response, and review recent theoretical results showing how it simply doesn’t work in the dynamically-conventional setting (which is the hallmark of modern mainstream science). After illustrating how dynamically-conventional dysfunctions affect the foundations of science itself, I point to an experimentally-based resolution of knowledge-problems (and of the direct/indirect debate itself). Because the foundational problems for science affect its standing in society (for example, in its conflict with postmodernist ‘post-Truth’), the object-representation debate does turn out to have a practical significance, far beyond its conventional, academic/abstract/technical, framing.

scholarly journals Out of the Closet, into the World: The Power of Puppets in Jessie Burton’s The Miniaturist

Literatūra ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 61 (4) ◽  
pp. 101-121
Author(s):  
Rūta Šlapkauskaitė
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Material Culture ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Literary Text ◽  
Material Objects ◽  
Dutch Society ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Moral Ambivalence

The present paper examines the tropological significance of miniature figures in Jessie Burton’s novel The Miniaturist. By highlighting the ways in which the narrative’s figural system negotiates the structural and conceptual dichotomies of human/doll, object/thing, interiority/exteriority, authenticity/artificiality, and mobility/stasis, this reading of Burton’s novel attempts to show how the literary text rethinks the social life of things and the ambiguity of subject-object relations in the seventeenth-century Netherlands. Aligned with the commercial circuits of material culture, which underscore the moral ambivalence of the novel’s Dutch society, material objects are shown to exceed their decorative function and reveal their destructive purchase on human life.

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