scholarly journals Initiated into Subordination. On Joyce Carol Oates’s I’ll Take You There

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 223-260
Author(s):  
Anna Zawadzka
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Structure ◽  
Social Reproduction ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Social Mechanisms ◽  
Joyce Carol Oates ◽  
Academic World ◽  
Anti Semitism ◽  
The Social ◽  
Academic Novel

Abstract The article proposes a sociological reading of the novel I’ll Take You There by Joyce Carol Oates. Though the book can be classified as an initiation novel, it also constitutes an accusation of the very procedure of initiation as forcing individuals to agree and adapt to unfair social mechanisms. The context of the protagonist’s struggles is provided by the social structure of the early-1960s United States, with its inherent misogyny, anti-Semitism, racism and classism. All these factors shape her destiny in accordance with the logic of social reproduction. A destiny of overwhelming power of allocation, which the heroine is trying to resist. As an academic novel, I’ll Take You There is also an insightful deconstruction of the universalism preached within the Western academic world, and especially philosophy.

scholarly journals The social positions of taste between and within music genres: From omnivore to snob

2021 ◽  
pp. 136754942110060
Author(s):  
Jean-François Nault ◽  
Shyon Baumann ◽  
Clayton Childress ◽  
Craig M Rawlings
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Cultural Capital ◽  
Social Structure ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Music Genres ◽  
Original Dataset ◽  
The Social ◽  
Musical Genres ◽  
Status Position ◽  
Middle Status

Are higher status cultural tastes in the modern United States better described as being inclusive and broad or exclusive and narrow? We construct an original dataset in response to conflicting answers to this question. We fill a major gap in the literature on cultural tastes by simultaneously considering taste for both musical genres and artists within genres. By examining the compositional balance of respondents’ taste portfolios, we reconcile seemingly incommensurate theoretical frameworks of class homology and omnivorousness. The results indicate that an omnivorous disposition to music is a relatively middle-status position in the social structure. In contrast, positions characterized by higher levels of cultural capital map onto exclusive and narrower tastes for consecrated culture.

Dynamics of Pakhtun Social Structure: Implications for Economic Development

2021 ◽  
pp. 27-42
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
United States ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Social Structure ◽  
The United States ◽  
Protestant Work Ethic ◽  
Social Character ◽  
Capitalist Economy ◽  
The Social

Every region and people has peculiar economic characteristics and these features largely have roots in that region‟s social structure, social psychology and its dynamics. The capitalist economy of the United States has roots in individualismand Protestant Work Ethic, influenced both by Protestant religion and the social character of the Americans; the Client Economy of Saudi Arabia has deep linkages to its tribal social structure and the so-called Bazaar Economy of Afghanistan is profoundly embedded in the Pakhtun social structure of the country. The Pakhtuns of Pakistan have a peculiar social structure and social psychology thereof having profound and extensive influence on the region‟s economy particularly its largely underdevelopedcondition. The paper explores the characteristics of Pakhtun social structure and the interactive linkages between the social edifice and economic development or lack of it.

The Social Structure of Organ Transplantation in the United States

2013 ◽  
pp. 199-206 ◽  
Author(s):  
Srividhya Venugopal ◽  
Evan Stoner ◽  
Martin Cadeiras ◽  
Ronaldo Menezes
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Structure ◽  
Organ Transplantation ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Social

Where Spirituality Ebbs and Flows: Religion and Diasporic Alienation in Ask the Dust

2020 ◽  
pp. 43-57
Author(s):  
Suzanne Manizza Roszak
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The Social ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
John Fante ◽  
White Majority ◽  
Nuanced Understanding ◽  
Ebb And Flow

In recent scholarship on the work of John Fante, issues of spirituality and the sacred have not been a popular emphasis. Yet in Ask the Dust spirituality is intrinsically tied to representations of the Italian diasporic experience in the United States, including social alienation and selective accommodation, two key concepts in diaspora theory. Despite his self-professed Americanism, Fante’s protagonist Arturo Bandini faces alienation by members of Los Angeles’s white majority, and he hesitates to adopt entirely the social mores of this culture into which he has thrust himself. The ensuing ebb and flow of his spirituality becomes a barometer of both of these experiences. Bandini’s skepticism about organized religion and even the existence of God marks his attempts to shake off his Italian cultural inheritance and accommodate the norms of secular, consumerist America. At the same time, he exhibits almost violent bursts of investment and pride in Catholic doctrine and culture that indicate the depth of his alienation in 1930s Los Angeles. Tracing this ebb and flow of investment in the sacred allows us to reach a more nuanced understanding of both the novel and the Italian diasporic experience in the United States.

scholarly journals The End of Modernism: Elias Canetti's "Auto-da-Fé"

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Donahue
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Nobel Laureate ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Literary Modernism ◽  
Contemporary Philosophy ◽  
Anti Semitism ◽  
Elias Canetti ◽  
Considerable Body

Nobel laureate Elias Canetti wrote his novel "Auto-da-Fé" ("Die Blendung") when he and the twentieth century were still quite young. Rooted in the cultural crises of the Weimar period, "Auto-da-Fé" first received critical acclaim abroad—in England, France, and the United States—where it continues to fascinate readers of subsequent generations. "The End of Modernism" places this work in its cultural and philosophical contexts, situating the novel not only in relation to Canetti's considerable body of social thought, but also within larger debates on Freud and Freudianism, misogyny and modernism's "fragmented subject," anti-Semitism and the failure of humanism, contemporary philosophy and philosophical fads, and traditionalist notions of literature and escapist conceptions of history. "The End of Modernism" portrays "Auto-da-Fé" as an exemplum of "analytic modernism," and in this sense a crucial endpoint in the progression of postwar conceptions of literary modernism.

scholarly journals Isu Pertembungan Sosial dalam Novel Ke Hujung Usia Berdasarkan Teori Konflik Fungsional Coser

2020 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 243-264
Author(s):  
Umairah Shafei ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Structure ◽  
Religious Education ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Positive Influence ◽  
Conflict Theory ◽  
The Novel ◽  
District Office ◽  
Chief Minister ◽  
The Social

This research intends to prove social conflict in the novel Ke Hujung Usia (2018) by A. Rahman C.M. based on Lewis A. Coser's Functional Conflict Theory, which places conflict as an indicator of a healthy relationship in the social structure. The conflicts presented between characters in the novel include clashes involving Tuk Aki, Tuan Guru Haji Munir, District Office officials, Rasol (the Political Secretary of the Chief Minister), and Umar, who represents the students at Pondok Haji Hamid, and others. The conflicts between the characters have a positive influence on the integration, consensus and strength of the in-group among the students, and on the position of Tuk Aki himself, as the administrator of the centre of religious education. Based on Coser's theory, conflict is not negative because the clashes of out-group are normal due to the positive impact on the strength of social structure. Thus, Coser rejected the argument that absence of conflict is an indicator of the strength and stability of a relationship. Based on the thought of Coser, the conflict between Tuk Aki and the out-group help to strengthen structural relations, in addition to enhancing the integration of the students who are led by Umar. The social group consensus exists because there is two-way communication in the conflict, and because Tuk Aki plays the role of the safety valve to control the conflict.

scholarly journals KRISTALISASI KONDISI SOSIAL, EKONOMI, DAN POLITIK DALAM NOVEL RASA MERDIKA

2016 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 72
Author(s):  
Agus Sulthon
Keyword(s):  
Social Structure ◽  
Cultural Condition ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The Social ◽  
Political Conditions

<p>Rasa Merdika is a novel released in 1924. This novel narrates the people’s misery occured in Dutch- Indies era. The internationalism ideology becomes the alternate undderstanding for people by using poetry as a messenger. In this research, the social, economical and political conditions depicted in the novel will be correlated to the history when the novel is created. using Goldmann's theory, considered having homological relations  with the social structure. Umar Junus takes advantage of it as a story to depict the social-cultural condition of society.</p><p> </p><p>Rasa Merdika merupakan novel bacaan liar yang terbit tahun 1924. Novel ini membicarakan tentang penderitaan rakyat yang terjadi di Hindia Belanda. Ideologi internasionalisme menjadi alternatif pemahaman kepada rakyat dengan memanfaatkan sastra sebagai alat penyampai pesan. Dalam penelitian ini, kondisi sosial, ekonomi, dan politik novel akan korelasikan terhadap sejarah saat novel itu diciptakan kemudian menghubungkan konsep keduanya menggunakan teori Goldmann, dianggapnya memiliki keterkaitan homologis dengan struktur sosial (kondisi).</p><p> </p>

REPRESENTASI HEGEMONI KEKUASAAN PADA ZAMAN KOLONIAL DAN ORDE BARU DALAM NOVEL 'BALADA SUPRI'

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 65
Author(s):  
Syahrotul Latifah ◽  
Candra Rahma Wijaya Putra
Keyword(s):  
Social Structure ◽  
New Order ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Ordinary People ◽  
Colonial Era ◽  
Sociological Approach ◽  
The Social ◽  
Capital Owner ◽  
Native Resistance ◽  
People Group

The purpose of this research is to describe the social structures and the forms of power as well as their repetition from colonial era to New Order. This study used a sociological approach to literature with the theory of power hegemony proposed by Gramsci. This research was a type of descriptive-qualitative research. The data in this research are narratives, dialogues, and monologues quoted from the novel Balada Supri written by Mochamad Nasrullah. The results of this research showed that in the colonial era, th social structure consisted of colonizer and colonized group whereas in New Order era, there were government official group, which was supported by the capital owner group, and ordinary people group. In regard with the form of power, colonial era showed the dominance of violence and hegemony that was countered by native resistance through violence sas well. Meanwhile, in New Order era, there appeared to be violence and hegemony dominance with the resistance in the form of hegemony over intellectuals. On the other hand, the social structure and the form of power in the colonial era, particularly the dominance of violence, still continued in New Order era and was termed as neocolonialism.

‘A New and Fierce Disorder’s Raging’: Monomania in Mary Barton (1848)

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 492-506
Author(s):  
Lindsey Stewart
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Social Structure ◽  
Material Deprivation ◽  
Class Consciousness ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Fallen Woman ◽  
Steep Rise ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Press ◽  
Medical Vocabulary

Abstract This article examines Elizabeth Gaskell’s use of the early psychiatric idea of monomania in her novel Mary Barton (1848). Digital searches show a steep rise in the textual use of the word so that by the mid-1830s it might be described as popularly familiar, albeit still invested with the esotericism and prestige of medical vocabulary. The furore in the press circulating around monomaniacal assassins would not have escaped Gaskell’s notice as she began the novel, which was written intermittently between the years 1844 and 1847 and set in c. 1834 to 1840. John Barton, and his sister-in-law, fallen woman Esther, are gripped by obsessive, avenging missions fostered by the pathogenic environments they inhabit. Their trajectories are similar: the loss of a child, a recourse to opiates and alcohol to manage misery and hunger, and an expulsion from the normalizing world of domesticity. The narrative describes both as monomaniacs. I argue that these monomanias are equivalent to a tormenting class consciousness wherein their over-abundant imaginations refuse to accept their lot. A challenge to the notion that the working class were morally at fault, monomania is presented as a condition caused by an environment that can only foster despair. The text does not simply pathologize the characters, but presents the social structure itself as pathological. Gaskell uses a gothic formulation of the disease as ‘haunting’ and ‘incessant’. It is a novelistic version which is both proto-sensational in the projects its sufferers pursue (murder and detection) whilst also signifying a nervous collapse brought about by material deprivation. Gaskell’s monomaniacs come closest to replicating the aetiologies of their ‘real’ counterparts in County Asylums.

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