scholarly journals Gestimmt sein

2021 ◽  
Vol 69 (5) ◽  
pp. 691-719
Author(s):  
Tonino Griffero
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Sociological Research ◽  
Modern Age ◽  
Therapeutic Value ◽  
Linguistic Dimension

Abstract The boom in new theories of resonance is most certainly due to an intellectual atmosphere closely linked to the so-called “affective turn” in the humanities. The paper compares some theories of resonance or responsivity such as Thomas Fuchs’ phenomenological-psychopathological analysis of resonance and Bernhard Waldenfels’ phenomenology of responsivity with a sociological research on resonance by which Hartmut Rosa aims at contrasting the capitalist dictatorship of the growth-acceleration-innovation triad and the resulting loss of bodily resonance in the modern age, and above all with Hermann Schmitz’s (neo) phenomenology idea of felt-bodily (leiblich) communication. My aim is to show that by providing a neophenomenological approach to atmospheric perception – viewed as an affective and pre-reflexive bodily communication triggered by a spatial feeling whose sounding board is our Leib – a pathic aesthetics can assign both a diagnostic and a therapeutic value to the concept of resonance. This furthermore means that a sociology also attentive to the bodily and pre-linguistic dimension and a phenomenology also attentive to situative and historical-collective dimensions, both being able to focus on the pathicity of everyday life, may find an unexpected but promising point of contact.

scholarly journals Justice in Sociological Discourse: Semantic, Empirical, Historical, and Conceptual Challenges

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 218-249 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irina Trotsuk
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Sociological Research ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
Military Conflicts ◽  
Order Construct ◽  
History Of ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Sociological Discourse ◽  
Conceptual Foundations ◽  
Additional Explanation

One of the key features of social sciences and humanities distinguishing them from technical and natural sciences are the frequent intersections of their terminology with everyday discourse. Some social concepts have completely different interpretations in sociological discourse and everyday life, with the words “field” and “panel” as good examples. However, the majority of similar concepts of everyday life and sociological research have quite the same content. The word “justice” and its derivatives stand out in this set of terms, for hardly any other concept in human history is saturated with political connotations, or requires little additional explanation when used in social-economic debates or military conflicts. As a result, the word “justice” is widely used in all “life-worlds” (i.e., according to A. Schütz, justice seems to be both a ‘first-order construct’ and a ‘second-order construct’), which complicates its unambiguous conceptual and empirical interpretations in sociological research. The article was supposed to be a review of two books, A History of Justice: From the Pluralism of Forums to the Modern Dualism of Conscience and Law by P. Prodi, and The Idea of Justice by A. Sen, providing a clearer conceptual definition of justice. However, it turned into reflections with some theoretical and empirical examples on why such searches in sociology are important and inevitable, but are unlikely to end with a satisfying result. This does not make such searches meaningless, but rather utopian in nature, and essential for the self-identification of the discipline through the questioning of its own conceptual foundations.

scholarly journals Urban Life Experiences of Syrians in Turkey: The Cases of Gaziantep and Izmir

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 169-208
Author(s):  
Sait Vesek ◽  
Nadir Suğur
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Host Country ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Sociological Research ◽  
Geographical Proximity ◽  
Local Labour ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Everyday Life Activities

The civil war in Syria resulted in a massive population influx into the neighboring countries since 2011. Geographical proximity of Turkey and its position as a gateway to Europe have made Turkey a host country for most Syrians refugees. Prolonging civil war in Syria and difficulties to get access to Europe compelled them to stay in Turkey. The reason why they have settled down in certain cities and difficulties that they have encountered in their everyday life merit attention to understand the very issue of refugee problems in Turkey. On that purpose, we conducted a sociological research on Syrians who settled in Gaziantep and İzmir. This paper tries to examine the degree to which Syrians are integrated into the local labour market and problems that Syrians endure in everyday life activities. The research is drawn from a fieldwork conducted on 30 semi-depth interviews in Gaziantep and 27 in İzmir. The results show that the reasons for Syrian to make a living in Gaziantep are its proximity to Syria, cultural familiarity and opportunities for Syrians entrepreneurs to do business. As for İzmir, Syrians stated its closeness to Europe, availability of jobs and better life prospect.

scholarly journals Interest of Moscow Youth in Non-Traditional Religions, Eastern Religions and Esoteric Teachings

2021 ◽  
pp. 83-88
Author(s):  
И. В. Лютенко ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Sociological Research ◽  
Traditional Religions ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Alternative Religions

This material analyzes the empirical indicators of sociological research in the Moscow metropolis, conducted in 2018 and 2020. The research data characterize the interest of young people in alternative religions and esoteric teachings, the involvement of the practices of these views in the everyday life of young people.

scholarly journals Pamiętniki żołnierzy uczestniczących w działaniach wojennych jako przykład materiałów uzupełniających wywiady biograficzne

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 41-50
Author(s):  
Olga Nowaczyk
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Sociological Research ◽  
States Of Mind ◽  
Military Operations ◽  
Ethical Research ◽  
The Everyday

The soldiers’ memoirs involved in the warfare as an example of additional materials in biographical researchThe aim of the article is an attempt to explore the role of personal documents in sociological research. I asked myself whether it makes sense to use those documents as an additional materi­al describing the problems raised by people with whom I carry out biographical interviews. The interviews were conducted with soldiers and former soldiers, participants of military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. During and after the interviews have emerged some problems, which I did not predict, and which surprised me and have prompted to look at my research in a new way. Those problems are related with important issues concerning: ethical research, the role of the researcher, its impact on research, as well as the fear of trivialization of research. I think that the memoirs, as a particular kind of personal documents, may complement my research or be a ma­terial illustrating states of mind of the soldiers involved in the war and their readaptation to the everyday life after returning a home. The validity of those documents is also significant because the material is free from the influence of research situations and gives the possibility to scrutinize the reflexive consciousness and individual sphere of writer’s knowledge, which is not always be re­vealed during the biographical interview.

scholarly journals Sociology towards death: Heidegger, time and social theory

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 111-137
Author(s):  
Kelly Nielsen ◽  
Tad Skotnicki
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Martin Heidegger ◽  
Social Theory ◽  
Death And Dying ◽  
Human Existence ◽  
Sociological Research ◽  
Existential Phenomenology ◽  
Research Tradition ◽  
Institutional Contexts ◽  
Sociological Thought

In this article, we draw on the existential phenomenology of Martin Heidegger to propose an approach to sociology that takes human experiences of finitude and possibility as crucial topics of investigation. A concern with death is not absent in sociological thought. To the contrary, Durkheim’s Suicide grounds a sociological research tradition into death and dying. Yet Heidegger’s existentialism renders our finitude – not just death – a matter of everyday life, a constitutive feature of human existence and a source of sociological investigation. By explicating Heidegger’s interconnected concepts of finitude, futurity, authenticity and resoluteness, we propose to investigate people’s ordinary temporal experiences as well as the institutional contexts that make them possible. On this basis, we develop two concepts – existential marginalisation and existential exhaustion – that foreground questions of time, meaning and institutions in the study of poverty, inequality and everyday life.

Understanding Climate Change as an Existential Threat: Confronting Climate Denial as a Challenge to Climate Ethics

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tim Christion Myers
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Martin Heidegger ◽  
Sociological Research ◽  
Ethical Reflection ◽  
Industrialized Countries ◽  
Climate Ethics ◽  
The World ◽  
Public Responsibility ◽  
Ethical Significance

Climate change cannot be managed by experts and politicians alone. Consequently, climate ethics must take up the challenge of inviting public responsibility on this issue. New sociological research on climate denial by Kari Norgaard, however, suggests that most citizens of industrialized countries are ill-prepared to cope with the ethical significance of climate change. I draw upon Martin Heidegger to offer a new reading of climate denial that suggests viable responses to this problem. I argue that the implications of climate change are largely received as an ‘existential threat’ to the extent that they endanger the integrity of everyday existence. In other words, the implications of climate change for everyday life unsettle what phenomenologists call the ‘lifeworld’. Should basic lifeworld assumptions, which cultures rely on to makes sense of the world and their purposes in it, come under serious question, anxieties surface that most people are profoundly motivated to avoid. Hence, the ethical obligations entailed by climate change are ‘denied’ in the form of protecting lifeworld integrity for the sake of containing anxieties that would otherwise overwhelm people. Finally, I submit that existential approaches to climate denial can empower a confrontation with ‘climate anxiety’ in ways that open up ethical reflection.

scholarly journals Running in everyday life and festive culture of the Renaissance and the Modern Age

2021 ◽  
pp. 143-154
Author(s):  
Stanislav Vladimirovich Kannykin
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Social Philosophy ◽  
The Body ◽  
Social Classes ◽  
Binary Opposition ◽  
Endurance Running ◽  
Human Capabilities ◽  
Modern Age ◽  
The City

The subject of this research is determination of the peculiarities of running as a type of activity in the sociocultural situation of the Renaissance and the Modern Age of the Old and New World. The relevance of studying the socially important aspects of running in everyday life and festive, carnival culture of the XV – XIX centuries is substantiated by the fact that namely this period marks the onset of mental requests and revival of physical practices, which in 1896 would become the heart of the First Olympic Games, the beginning and culmination of which were the athletic competitions. The ancient ideal of kalokagathia at this time is instilled with the ideas of self-sufficiency and self-projectivity of a person, whose creative aspirations equally captivate the spirit and the body. Running develops physical and mental qualities that broaden human capabilities, being that instrument for existential growth through overcoming the boundaries of physical and spiritual “normality”, conditioned by the stereotypes and norms of everyday life. The author views running from the perspective of culturological concepts of “everyday life”, “festivity”, “carnival”, as well as the binary opposition sacred/profane. The fields of application of the acquired results include social philosophy, philosophical anthropology, and philosophy of sports. The novelty of this research consists in the interpretation of endurance running as an existential measurement of everyday life, the method of communication between different types of communities and population groups, and formation of the prototype of a “cultural body” of that time. Running is examined as a type of activity that is characteristic mostly to the lower, marginal social classes. Participation in the city festival in the format of a “carnival” running was a way to integrate into society, a manifestation of collective solidarity. Their buffoonery running distracted the audience from the everyday routine, becoming its counterpoint. The author also determines the contribution of the upper social classes to the development of running practices d: economic (funding of professional runners and material reward for the non-professional winners of the city festivals); practical (amateur running or other athletic practices as a component of a gentleman's everyday life); ideological (Renaissance humanists assumed that physical activity is a non-religious way to overcome time through maintaining physical well-being).

scholarly journals HISTORICAL MEMORY AND PATRIOTISM OF EVERYDAY LIFE

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (3/2) ◽  
pp. 161-174
Author(s):  
G. S. SHIROKALOVA
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Historical Memory ◽  
The State ◽  
Sociological Research ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Great Patriotic War ◽  
Patriotic Education ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Government

The article investigates the reasons for rejection of patriotism during  the preparation and the collapse of the Soviet Union. Among  them we distinguish the material and other possibilities of so-called  “offshore aristocracy” for the management of public opinion in order  to maintain their status through the destruction of sacred  relationship to the history and the state, which was inherent to the  Soviet mentality. The loss of spiritual base could lead to the  destruction of the Russian Federation according to the scenario of  the Soviet Union, that’s why the government - unable to find a new  national idea – had to appeal to the people’s exploit during the Great Patriotic War as a manifestation of the highest level of patriotism.  Since the beginning of the 2000`s, patriotic education becomes the  direction of public policy. Its effectiveness can be measured through  the empirically observable indicators of attitude to historical events  and modernity. The author believes that the historical memory is a  necessary, but insufficient condition for the patriotism formation. Patriotism of everyday life is the feature that brings social  stability to the state. The article presents the data of  sociological research of the youth’s attitudes to the Great Patriotic  War, which was conducted in Nizhniy Novgorod in 2015. The author  comes to the conclusion that as a result of wide-ranging preparation  to 70th anniversary of the Victory, the historical memory was  actualized. However, the question remains how long it will be  possible to maintain the historical identity in the face of increasing social and economic crisis.

scholarly journals Sensory Ethnography as a Methodological Resource for Qualitative Research

Inter ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 8-26
Author(s):  
Polina Vanevskaia
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Cultural Anthropology ◽  
Research Problem ◽  
Sociological Research ◽  
Research Focus ◽  
Methodology Development ◽  
Sensory Ethnography ◽  
Research Designs ◽  
Methodological Approaches

The article poses the problem of the possibility of including sensory ethnography in the methodological arsenal of qualitative sociological research. In order to substantiate the possibility of this step in sociological methodology development the author presents the theoretical origins of the sensory turn that took place in social and humanitarian knowledge. After that, the author reconstructs the process of sensory turn reception in cultural anthropology and sociology. According to the author, the sensory ethnography approach formation may be considered as one of the methodological consequences of sensory turn as well as extension of research problem set opportunities. Shifting the research focus towards the sphere of sensory experience and, as a result, including the sensory aspect of everyday life in research designs, are considered as the incentives to development of new methodological approaches, such as sensory ethnography.

scholarly journals Chicha-Coronavirus: 1-0. On trust, natural disasters, and pandemics in the Ecuadorian Amazon

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 244-254
Author(s):  
Leonidas Oikonomakis
Keyword(s):  
Natural Disasters ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Life Events ◽  
Telephone Network ◽  
Trust Building ◽  
Sociological Research ◽  
Short Article ◽  
Emergency Situations ◽  
Ecuadorian Amazon ◽  
The Times

Sarayaku is an Amazonian Kichwa community on the shores of Río Bobonaza, Ecuador. There is no road connecting it to the rest of the country no electricity and no telephone network. I happened to be there on fieldwork during the times of a double disaster: the COVID19 crisis, and the biggest flood in the community’s living memory. This short article explores how the community managed both the flood and the COVID19 crisis, according to communitarian practices, as well as how relations of trust are built during sad “everyday life” events in the life of an Amazonian community, as well in not-so-everyday-life emergency situations that are more rare, yet more intense when they occur. While trust-building is crucial in any anthropological or sociological research that involves fieldwork, in the relevant bibliography trust-building during everyday life “insignificant” actions has only recently been attributed the value it deserves. At the same time, trust-building during emergencies has also gone largely unnoticed, maybe due to the rarity of events of disaster/emergency in the lifetime of an Amazonian community.

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