Representation

2018 ◽  
pp. 253-298
Author(s):  
Tonio Hölscher
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Community Life ◽  
Social Partners ◽  
Fundamental Categories

Regarding the role of images in social life, three fundamental categories are to be distinguished: representation, decor, and objects of discourses. Representation was a major aim, because ancient societies consisted not only of their living members but also of two other social groups, their dead ancestors and their gods and heroes. Community life developed in interactions, through rituals and other cultural practices, between these social partners, of which those that were, in fact, absent could be made present by images within the society’s living spaces. Specific groups of images, such as cult statues, votive images, athletes’ statues, and honorary portraits, had their specific places, in sanctuaries, public spaces, and necropolises, where they were dealt with according to specific rules of “living with images.”

Are Information Technologies So Dangerous for Written Culture?

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Asya Syrodeeva
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Writing Practices ◽  
Sociocultural Diversity ◽  
History Of ◽  
Personal Level ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Broad Interpretation

One of the factors that determines the current lifestyle is technology, which persistently draws the world into competition for new means and practices. As the subject of these processes, our contemporary not only takes an active part in them, but also reflexes a lot about his/her own impact. Although technology is ambivalent and multivector in its development, the humanitarian role of protecting the history of human experience, as well as creating the updated versions of cultural practices is not alien to it. Inspired by the broad interpretation of the writing practices proposed by J. Derrida, the author of the article shows how important it is for the understanding of technology not to be overloaded with alarmism. Information technologies have a democratizing effect on social life by offering new tools and formats for the writing. In particular, they support on a personal level the freedom of self-realization, while on a public scale — sociocultural diversity and interaction.

ROLE OF WAR IN SOCIAL LIFE. PART I - WAR IN PRE-MODERN HISTORICAL THOUGHT

2012 ◽  
Vol 164 (2) ◽  
pp. 193-205
Author(s):  
Janusz ŚWINIARSKI ◽  
Marian MARCINKOWSKI
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Community Life ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Historical Thought

At the beginning the authors present two opposing trends related to the understanding of the nature and the role of war in society: first, that these phenomena are embedded in the nature of human beings and humanity (which means that without war there is no human being, culture and civilization, its life, society or state, so war is natural and necessary for life); second, war is not embedded in human nature, is a distortion in community life and relations between people; this means that if wars occur, they show the degradation of human beings and society. These trends are observed in the eternal debate on war and the authors show numerous examples in which war is perceived in this way.

scholarly journals Mobilność artefaktów protestu. Maska Guya Fawkesa w cyklu kontestacji 2008–2017

2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 83-97
Author(s):  
Bartosz Ślosarski
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Approach ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
The Other ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
The Social ◽  
New Meanings ◽  
The World ◽  
The Given

The mobility of protest artifacts: The Guy Fawkes mask in the cycle of contestation in the years 2008–2017The aim of the article is to present the process of protest artifacts’ mobility using the example of the social biography of Guy Fawkes’ mask. The applied theoretical approach is based on a three-ele­ment concept of the social biography of the artifact which includes transformations in the field of cultural practices what is done with an object, industrialization of an object how and by whom it is made, and the change and acquisition of new meanings by the given artifact in which cultural contexts it is located. The example of the Guy Fawkes mask, as well as masking policy in general, is considered in the context of protests against ACTA in Poland and the other events in the world from the 2008–2017 contestation cycle. The mask leads its own social life, being active and mobile, both in the spaces in which it occurs, social groups that use it and what they do with it, and the forms that it takes.

The Bobo ‘house’ and the uses of categories of descent

Africa ◽  
1991 ◽  
Vol 61 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-97 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mahir şaul
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Economic Life ◽  
Community Life ◽  
Conceptual Systems ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Core ◽  
Constitutive Norms ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Village

The purpose of this article is to show how conceptual systems of classification in the case of Bobo ethnography enter into the construction of social life without narrowly determining people's conduct. The southern Bobo recognise both patrilineal and matrilineal descent categories in which people are included by patrifiliation and matrifiliation. The inclusion occurs at the birth of the person and there are cultural mechanisms that make the change or the misrepresentation of this identity especially difficult. However, the unilineal sets do not frequently materialise as social groups. Agnatic segments may join each other to form the core of associations which constitute the social groups most in evidence in the political and economic life of the village. These associations in turn establish larger confederations of varying strength and different time depth on the basis of common settlement history and political interest. All these forms of association are achieved without the constituent segments losing their separate agnatic identities. The article shows how land, and offices in important cults such as the public do and Kono can be claimed on the basis of any of these organisational principles in a political game that implicitly questions the constitutive norms that shape community life.

scholarly journals RESPON ISLAM TERHADAP PERUBAHAN SOSIAL

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-90
Author(s):  
Mohammad Deny Irawan
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Bargaining Power ◽  
Community Life ◽  
World Community ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World

As a universal religion, Islam has promised social change in society. Even so, a number of Muslim and Islamic scholars have also admitted that Islam has all the conditions to rise and color the social life of the world community. This article will explain the Islamic response to social change in society, including the role of fatwa as ijtihad products. Religion and Social still get space in the community. At least there are 3 bargaining power positions that are given between religion and society, namely: Religious affairs are more dominant, community affairs are more dominant and compromise between religion and social society in the frame of religion and social frame. This certainly shows that religion as a response to social change as a win-win solution to community life. Sebagai agama universal, Islam telah menjanjikan perubahan sosial di masyarakat. Pun demikian dengan sejumlah cendekiawan muslim serta Islamolog ikut mengakui jika Islam memiliki segala syarat untuk bangkit dan mewarnai kehidupan sosial masyarakat dunia. Artikel ini akan menjelaskan tentang respon Islam terhadap perubahan sosial masyarakat termasuk juga perani fatwa sebagai produk ijtihad. Agama dan Sosial masih mendapatkan ruang di masyarakat. Setidaknya ada 3 posisi daya tawar yang diberikan antara agama dan masyarakat, yaitu: Urusan agama lebih dominan, urusan masyarakat lebih dominan dan kompromi antara agama dan sosial kemasyarakatan dalam bingkai agama maupun bingkai sosial. Hal ini tentunya menunjukan bahwa agama sebagai respon perubahan sosial sebagai win win solution kehidupan bermasyarakat.

scholarly journals PERAN ORANG TUA DALAM PEMAHAMAN ETIKA SOSIAL ANAK

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 307
Author(s):  
Siti Asdiqoh
Keyword(s):  
Social Development ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Child Behavior ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Social Ethics ◽  
Community Life ◽  
Positive Approach ◽  
Self Confidence ◽  
Role Of Parents

<p>Abstract: THE ROLE OF PARENTS IN THE CHILDREN’S SOCIAL ETHICS<br />UNDERSTANDING. Many parents have difficulty in understanding the<br />behavior of their children who often seem illogical and incompatible with<br />healthy feelings. This article tries to describe the roles and approaches<br />parents make in shaping child behavior. To understand children, foster<br />physical life, moral development, social development, and personality<br />development, parents are required to have knowledge about their<br />behavior. Child social development is strongly influenced by the process of<br />treatment or guidance of parents to children in introducing various<br />aspects of social life, or norms of community life and encourage and give<br />an example to their children how to apply these norms in everyday life.<br />Parents who want to change their child's behavior first make a change in<br />him. When parents have successfully adopted a positive approach to<br />encourage children, there will be significant improvements in the behavior<br />of their children, so that they will develop self-confidence, responsibility,<br />cooperation, and independence in their children.</p><p>Abstrak: Banyak orang tua mengalami kesulitan dalam memahami<br />perilaku anak-anaknya yang seringkali terlihat tidak logis dan tidak<br />sesuai dengan perasaan sehat. Artikel ini mencoba mendeskripsikan<br />peran dan pendekatan yang dilakukan orang tua dalam membentuk<br />perilaku anak. Untuk memahami anak, membina kehidupan jasmaniah,<br />perkembangan moral, perkembangan sosial, dan perkembangan<br />kepribadian, orang tua dituntut memiliki pengetahuan tentang perilaku<br />mereka. Perkembangan sosial anak sangat dipengaruhi oleh proses<br />perlakuan atau bimbingan orang tua terhadap anak dalam mengenalkan<br />berbagai aspek kehidupan sosial, atau norma-norma kehidupan<br />bermasyarakat serta mendorong dan memberikan contoh kepada<br />anaknya bagaimana menerapkan norma-norma tersebut dalam<br />kehidupan sehari-hari. Orang tua yang ingin mengubah perilaku anaknya<br />pertama-tama melakukan perubahan dalam dirinya. Bilamana orang tua<br />berhasil menerapkan pendekatan yang bersifat mendorong anak berbuat<br />positif, pasti akan terjadi perbaikan-perbaikan yang berarti dalam<br />perilaku anak-anaknya, sehingga akan berkembang rasa percaya diri,<br />tanggung jawab, kooperatif, dan kemandirian dalam diri anak-anaknya.</p>

scholarly journals Model organizacji życia zbiorowego a więzi wspólnotowe

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam Rosół
Keyword(s):  
Social Identity ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Community Life ◽  
Human Species ◽  
Norbert Elias ◽  
Related Individuals ◽  
State Organization ◽  
In The Beginning ◽  
Social Units

Human social life goes in frame of organized social wholes. Those wholes, according to Norbert Elias proposition, we can call social units of survival. Character of indicated wholes was changing together with the development of humanity. In the beginning survival was assured in a group of closely related individuals. Later on the same function performed different forms of state organization. Some claim today that today such a survival unit is or will be the whole humanity. In a group of relatives members were connected with personal bonds. In a structure of identity dominating character had we-identity. Along with the development raises also the role of bonds connected with associations, which were established to realize various goals and social identity becomes more and more I-identity. As rightly noticed Ralf Dahrendorf – collective character of human species requires community bonds, which are necessary to realize fulfilling life. Then it is a matter worth reflection the relation between changing models of organiazation of collective life and their ability to provide satisfying community bonds. Some manners of organization the community life are more and some are less favourable to preservation of community bonds. Especially threatening for this preservation are organization models of community life, which are extremely collectivistic or individualistic. For a preservation of appropriate community bonds there is a need for such a model of social life, in which individual and group actors will find, in a given space of security and resistance, field to practise autonomic individual and group behaviours.

scholarly journals MEANING OF PUBLIC SPACE AND SENSE OF COMMUNITY: The Case of New Neighbourhoods in the Kathmandu Valley

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 213 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rajjan Man Chitrakar
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Sense Of Community ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Individual Factors ◽  
Kathmandu Valley ◽  
Community Life ◽  
Urban Context ◽  
Actual Use ◽  
Present Context

This paper examines the meaning of public space and sense of community among neighbourhood residents in the changing urban context of the Kathmandu Valley in Nepal. Two new neighbourhoods were selected for the purpose of this study with data collected from interviews with the residents. The study has found that most residents of the new neighbourhoods have an understanding of the significance of public space in community life. However, such understandings are based less on the actual use of public space. The existing public spaces in these neighbourhoods are less successful in offering a meaning to the residents, due to their poor development and the lack of active use. Despite these changes, some residents believe they have developed a sense of community, which is an outcome of other individual factors than the use of public space. It is argued that the role of contemporary neighbourhood public space in fostering a sense of community appears to be less significant in the valley’s present context.

Performing the Public Man: Cultures and Identities in China's Grassroots Leisure Class

2014 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Junxi Qian
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Cultural Difference ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Collective Identities ◽  
Cultural Meanings ◽  
The Public ◽  
Leisure Class ◽  
Or Groups

This article examines cultural practices and social life in urban public spaces of postreform China, focusing on the everyday leisure, entertainment, and cultural activities spontaneously organized by grassroots residents or groups. It examines performativity in constituting cultural meanings, reproducing everyday identities, and building up mutual engagements, and unravels the ways in which ordinary people devote resources, labor, and energy to keep alive individual or collective identities. Performances of cultural identities in public spaces entail improvised and temporary social relations which emerge from the immediate contexts of mundane spatial practices. Empirical analyses of public performativity in Guangzhou identify three scenarios, namely, the performativity of public teaching, public shows and performances, and the performative displays of cultural difference between carnivalesque dancing and “high–end culture” in public leisure.

PESANTREN; AKAR TRADISI DAN MODERNISASI

ALQALAM ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 137
Author(s):  
Zaki Ghufron
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Accurate Result ◽  
Education Institution ◽  
Boarding School ◽  
Islamic Education ◽  
Government Partner

Islamic Boarding school is an islamic education institution which has an identical tradition in indonesian muslim societuy. This institution has emerged long before the colonialism era in Indonesia. In its long history since years to pursue the concept of modernism, islamic boarding school, sometimes ,has also been perceived negatively because of transnasionalism ideology which is adopted in recent years. In that case, this paper aimed to describe the existence of islamic boarding school in indonesian social life. By argumenting and comparing some previous studies in this case to gain an accurate result. Moreover, this paper is intended to answer some western perception about islamic boarding school in Indonesia, and finally emphasize the role of islamic boarding school as a government partner and its function in creating democracy.  Keyword: Islamic Boarding School, Tradition, Modernization.

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