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 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).

Young people online and the social value of privacy

2014 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 298-313 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valerie Steeves ◽  
Priscilla Regan
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Data Privacy ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
Social Consequences ◽  
Online Privacy ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Importance

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to develop a conceptual framework to contextualize young people’s lived experiences of privacy and invasion online. Social negotiations in the construction of privacy boundaries are theorized to be dependent on individual preferences, abilities and context-dependent social meanings. Design/methodology/approach – Empirical findings of three related Ottawa-based studies dealing with young people’s online privacy are used to examine the benefits of online publicity, what online privacy means to young people and the social importance of privacy. Earlier philosophical discussions of privacy and identity, as well as current scholarship, are drawn on to suggest that privacy is an inherently social practice that enables social actors to navigate the boundary between self/other and between being closed/open to social interaction. Findings – Four understandings of privacy’s value are developed in concordance with recent privacy literature and our own empirical data: privacy as contextual, relational, performative and dialectical. Social implications – A more holistic approach is necessary to understand young people’s privacy negotiations. Adopting such an approach can help re-establish an ability to address the ways in which privacy boundaries are negotiated and to challenge surveillance schemes and their social consequences. Originality/value – Findings imply that privacy policy should focus on creating conditions that support negotiations that are transparent and equitable. Additionally, policy-makers must begin to critically evaluate the ways in which surveillance interferes with the developmental need of young people to build relationships of trust with each other and also with adults.

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 addicted.pregnant.poor

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kelly Ray Knight
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Pregnant Women ◽  
Sex Work ◽  
Illicit Drug ◽  
Social Consequences ◽  
Housing Instability ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Privately Owned

addicted.pregnant.poor is an ethnography addressing the biomedical, social, political, and ethical dimensions of ongoing illicit drug use during pregnancy. A result of four years of fieldwork in daily-rent hotels – privately owned buildings in which the exploitation of women’s sex work and on-going poor health was normative – the book follows nineteen women who had twenty-three pregnancies. To answer the question ‘What forms of life are possible here?’ I engaged with the social actors who are called upon to produce knowledge about addicted pregnancy, including addicted, pregnant women; an anthropologist; public health epidemiologists; advocates; social policymakers; treatment professionals; bureaucrats; and scientists. In this essay, I describe the relationship between the scientific contours of reproductive health and the personal and social consequences of pregnancy in the context of addiction and housing instability. Pregnant women in the daily-rent hotels existed within multiple temporalities. Here I explore what an ethnographic understanding of memorial time and biomedical time can teach us about the vital politics of viability at work in addicted pregnancy.

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.

scholarly journals Coolification and Language Vitality: The Case of Esperanto

Languages ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 93
Author(s):  
Federico Gobbo
Keyword(s):  
Language Attitudes ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Parallel Increase ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
Vitality Diagnosis ◽  
Digital Language ◽  
Theoretical Reflection

Despite experiencing a relatively positive revival in the digital age, Esperanto and the assessment of its language vitality is often problematic and prone to gross errors; therefore, a theoretical reflection is required. Unlike other lesser-used languages, Esperanto is intergenerationally transmitted mainly outside the family, and so Fishman’s GIDS and subsequent scales such as the EGIDS cannot be applied straightforwardly for language vitality diagnosis and estimation. In particular, it is the social movement of language activists who have guaranteed Esperanto’s vitality and development for more than a century. A key aspect is the digital domain, where, paradoxically, the relatively good positioning of Esperanto in terms of new users does not imply a parallel increase in the number of activists. This paper critically assesses the digital language vitality of Esperanto on the basis of its language ideology and other sociolinguistic data as a starting point for a discussion to overcome the limits of Blanke’s (2006) scale of language vitality of Esperanto and its rivals (in the sense of Garvía 2015). This assessment eventually leads to a more general reflection on the role of ‘coolification’, i.e., positive effects on language attitudes and development due to digital visibility, its limits and the issue of placing it in the context of language vitality in general.

scholarly journals With an orchestra or solo? Norwid in the Paris studio of Juliusz Kossak

2020 ◽  
Vol 38 (English Version) ◽  
pp. 217-234
Author(s):  
Edyta Chlebowska
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Fine Arts ◽  
Social Situation ◽  
Musical Instruments ◽  
Personal Traits ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Theoretical Reflection

The article discusses the relationship between Cyprian Norwid and the circle of Polish painters gathered around Juliusz Kossak’s Paris studio in the mid-nineteenth century. The starting point is Kossak’s humorous drawing titled Orkiestra artystów [An Orchestra of Artists], which portrays Norwid with his back turned to the viewer and a lyre at his side, depicted among other painters, members of the orchestra, who are playing various musical instruments. On the basis of this composition, which illustrates an anecdote from the life of the exile community of Polish artists, and drawing on other accounts from the period, the article outlines the social situation of the painters, placing Norwid against this background. Emphasising the community of emigration experiences, it is thus also possible to indicate the distinctness of Norwid’s situation, resulting both from his personal traits and the profile of his work, which combines literature and fine arts and is strongly rooted in theoretical reflection.

scholarly journals “Digital Twins” in Education: Prospects and Reality

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 22-32
Author(s):  
V. V. Vikhman ◽  
M. V. Romm
Keyword(s):  
Social Consequences ◽  
Digital Revolution ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Digital Twins ◽  
The Social ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Network Technologies ◽  
Twin Methodology ◽  
Network Of Networks

This article is aimed at understanding the revolutionary in meaning and “digital” in essence metamorphoses in education and the prospects for the emergence of a new educational network reality based on them. The focus of the discussion is not so much on digital innovations and transformations in education as such, but rather on the need to understand the possible prospects and results of these social network changes and modifications brought to life by the next stage of the digital revolution in education. It is proposed to include a wide range of network technologies and methodologies among the latest scientific and technological innovations taking into account the fact that the main focus of the work is on understanding the process / result of implementing the methodology of “digital twins” in education. Despite the fact that the latter is only at the beginning of its implementation in a broad educational context, the paper raises the question of the social consequences of implementing the methodology for constructing the latest network reality of “digital twins in education”, which has all the chances in the future to become a unique network of networks of “digital twins” of various social actors in education. The article discusses the managerial potential of developing and the difficulties of implementing the digital twin methodology, the expected effects of implementing the latter in education, and the socio-technological consequences of converting this technology into a new network educational reality in the Russian Federation.

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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