Why (what) does(n’t) kitsch teach?

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 27-50
Author(s):  
Andrzej Pluta
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
Primary Function ◽  
Ways Of Thinking ◽  
The Way

The aim of the article is to draw attention to kitsch as a category in the field of social sciences and humanities with appropriate implications for the pedagogical discipline I place the problem of kitsch within a specifically understood and cultivated cultural studies reflection. The system of concepts necessary for this embedding is presented in the following order: culture – art – participation in culture (art) – introduction to participation in culture (art). In the adopted perspective, delineating the boundaries between “art”, “bad art”, “anti-art”, “kitsch” is not very attractive. This problem is relieved of unnecessary tensions. The key here is the way of understanding the concept of culture, which implies an appropriate way of understanding art and, consequently, participation in and introduction to culture (art) (which is the primary function of education). The aim of the publication is to familiarize the reader with various ways of thinking about kitsch and to invite him to discuss it.

‘One man’s junk culture . . .’: A state-of-the-art review on the problem of mass culture in Argentine cultural studies

2020 ◽  
pp. 136787792097212
Author(s):  
Diego Labra
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Mass Culture ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Blind Spot ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
The Simpsons

Could you truly understand contemporary Argentine culture without considering the local appropriation of The Simpsons? In this article, we argue that mass culture has been a blind spot of Argentine social sciences and humanities because of the particular development of local cultural studies. In order to articulate a critique and build upon it, we will review relevant literature, identify promising current research, and offer an outline on how to rethink the problem of production, circulation and consumption of culture in 21st-century Argentina and beyond.

scholarly journals The influences of religion on the Japanese conception of robots

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tung Manh Ho
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Close Attention ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
Digital World ◽  
And Behaviors ◽  
Technological World ◽  
The Way

The studies on the Japanese conception of robots and artificial intelligence (AI) represent an example of the unexpected way cultural specificities influence people’s emotions, thoughts,and behaviors. In a digital world where rapid social and institutions innovation must occur to adapt to the speed of the cyberspace, it is imperative for social sciences and humanities researchers to pay close attention to how the undercurrents of cultures and religions might influence the way people interact with the technological world.

scholarly journals KONFLIK DALAM ADAPTASI BUDAYA (Studi Deskriptif pada Komunikasi Mahasiswa Fakultas Ilmu Sosial dan Humaniora di Lingkungan UIN Sunan Kalijaga Yogyakarta)

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 57
Author(s):  
Fajar Iqbal
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Cultural Adaptation ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
Intergroup Dynamics ◽  
Community Heterogeneity ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
Intrapersonal Conflict ◽  
University Life ◽  
The Way

Campus is a miniature community heterogeneity. We can find a diversity of individuals and groups in the dynamics of the campus that are relatively complex. The uniqueness of the campus is also felt by the presence of the academic community are different in purpose and the way to achieve that goal in every interaction between them. Especially for students, this difference can be sourced from a background influenced by family, ethnic, social, and economic before their presence in university life. One campus has a unique advantage which is typical UIN Sunan Kalijaga Yogyakarta. Positioning this campus who use Islam label makes this campus has an environment and atmosphere that is unique compared to other campuses. The research focused on students in the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities have found that the students experienced various conflicts in cultural adaptation in the environment UIN Sunan Kalijaga. Starting from intrapersonal conflict to conflict in interpersonal and intergroup dynamics that occur.

scholarly journals Entanglement

2013 ◽  
Vol 10 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 7-13
Author(s):  
Marina Gržinić
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Contemporary History ◽  
European Context ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
History Of Art ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Way

My intention is to expose the way in how gender, class and race and media were and are overdeterminated, but without falling into a simplification that they are simply “contradictory.” I will make recourse to some contemporary performative practices and political spaces in Europe that dismantles the singular established contemporary history of art and performative practices in European context. Author(s): Marina Gržinić Title (English): Entanglement Journal Reference: Identities: Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture, Vol. 10, No. 1-2 (Summer-Winter 2013) Publisher: Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities – Skopje  Page Range: 7-13 Page Count: 7 Citation (English): Marina Gržinić, “Entanglement,” Identities: Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture, Vol. 10, No. 1-2 (Summer-Winter 2013): 7-13.

scholarly journals Meaghan Morris: Cultural Historian

2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Healy
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Knowledge Work ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
The Social ◽  
Cultural Historian ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Cultural Theorist

Meaghan Morris was celebrated at the Meaghan Morris Festival as a mentor, a cultural theorist, a much-loved colleague, a lecturer, a polemicist and a stirrer, a teacher, an internationalist, a translator and much else besides. Here, I want to add to that chorus by making a very specific case: that Meaghan Morris is the most significant and innovative living Australian cultural historian. This characterisation is, in part, rooted in my own investments in work at the intersections of cultural studies and cultural history but it is of much greater significance. An influential contemporary characterisation of cultural studies is that it was a boomer reaction to existing disciplinary constraints, a manifestation of anti-canonical impulses that choose instead to celebrate marginality while at the same time making an innovative case for the ways in which culture matters. It follows that if, today, academic disciplines in the social sciences and humanities have become highly flexible (rather than canonical) and maintained their institutional hegemony while simultaneously becoming irrelevant to much knowledge-work and that, today, margins and mainstreams seem like next-to-useless terms to describe cultural topographies or flows and that, today, culture matters nowhere so much as the rapacious industries of media cultures, then perhaps the moment of cultural studies seems of historical interest only.1

The concept of legal custom in philosophy, cultural studies and legal anthropology

2021 ◽  
pp. 162 (184)-173 (193)
Author(s):  
A.V. Agoshkov
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Russian Society ◽  
Legal Anthropology ◽  
English Version ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
Domestic Science

Despite the ambiguous attitude of legal researchers to the place and role of legal customs in modern legal systems, this topic is of great interest in domestic science. The transitive nature of Russian society is a recognized reason. The goal was set — to conduct a comparative analysis of approaches to this phenomenon in three social sciences and humanities — philosophy, cultural studies and legal anthropology. Based on the analysis of a number of works of the last 5 years, it was concluded that the greatest cognitive potential is contained in legal anthropology — a relatively young science that studies the legal existence of mankind (and its constituent ethnic groups, peoples, nations) at all stages of the development of this existence, from archaic to modern. English version of the article on pp. 184-193 at URL: https://panor.ru/articles/the-concept-of-legal-custom-in-philosophy-cultural-studies-and-legal-anthropology/65909.html

scholarly journals A Arqueologia na Era Digital: Contexto e tendências / Archaeology in the Digital Age: Context and Trends

2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Danny Rangel ◽  
Nelson Almeida
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Research Development ◽  
Specific Study ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Way

ABSTRACTSince its beginning, archaeology stands between the natural sciences and the social sciences and humanities. This shared position and the search for a greater understanding of its specific study objects, created the need among archaeology experts to resort to various methods (and technologies) originated from other disciplines. Similarly to other sciences, archaeology is an area permeable to experimentation and application of theoretical and practical exogenous concepts. This lead to the development of several specializations that unite archeology and other areas, such as Zooarchaeology. As happened throughout its history, academics are facing a time of change in the way the acquisition of knowledge is processed. The Digital Era of globalization is related to the shifting of paradigms and the growing need for unceasing adaptation; archeology is also affected by this reality. After a brief introduction to the humanities "digital paradigm" we review some of the main uses of the Internet as a support to research development in archeology, their main obstacles and tendencies.RESUMODesde a sua génese, a Arqueologia encontra-se entre as ciências naturais e as ciências sociais e humanísticas. Esta posição partilhada e a procura de uma maior compreensão dos seus objetos de estudo específicos, criou nos profissionais de Arqueologia uma necessidade de recorrerem a várias metodologias (e tecnologias) originárias de outras disciplinas. De forma similar a outras ciências, a Arqueologia é uma área permeável à experimentação e aplicação de conceitos teórico-práticos exógenos que levou, inclusive, à formação de diversas especialidades que unem a Arqueologia e outras áreas, como a Zooarqueologia. Como aconteceu ao longo da sua história, o meio académico está perante um momento de mudança na forma como se processa a aquisição de conhecimento. O fato de estarmos na Era Digital da globalização faz com que a adaptação do meio académico a esta realidade seja mais continuada, não sendo a Arqueologia alheia a esta transformação. Após uma breve introdução ao novo "paradigma digital" das humanidades, revemos alguns dos principais usos de tecnologias relacionadas com o uso da Internet no apoio à investigação em Arqueologia (e.g., bases de dados enriquecidas), e descrevemos algumas questões relacionadas com o uso de novas ferramentas e técnicas, seus principais obstáculos e tendências.

Translation as a metaphoric traveller across disciplines

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 388-406 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cornelia Zwischenberger
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
Translation Studies ◽  
Cultural Translation ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Way

Abstract Translation, as a concept, may be regarded as a prototype of a ‘travelling concept’ as it has travelled to numerous disciplines in recent years. Therefore, a ‘translational turn’ was proclaimed for the humanities, cultural studies, and social sciences (cf. Bachmann-Medick 2007, 2009). Outside of translation studies, the use of the translation concept is not bound to “translation proper” (Jakobson 1959, 232) or to the way in which the concept is used and defined in translation studies. Consequently, ‘translation’ is usually used as a very broad metaphor in translation studies’ neighbouring disciplines and fields of research. This mobility shows the potential and high polysemantic value of the translation concept. What we are missing, however, is a ‘translaboration’ between translation studies and the various other disciplines that employ translation studies’ master concept. The paper will illustrate the background of the translational turn and the rise of the notion of ‘cultural translation’ as well as the deployment of the translation category in organisation studies and sociology. It will thus limit itself to examples from cultural studies and the social sciences. The paper’s aim is to revise and dispel some of the misconceptions held against translation proper and the discipline of translation studies, thereby showing that translation studies has the conceptual and theoretical grounding to be the leading discipline for the unfolding of a translational turn outside its disciplinary borders. Furthermore, the paper will show the common ground for a translaboration from which both translation studies and its neighbouring disciplines could ultimately benefit.

scholarly journals University Writing Guidebook for Natural, Social Sciences and Humanities

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (3.21) ◽  
pp. 464
Author(s):  
Hilmi Aulawi ◽  
M Ali Ramdhani ◽  
Dedi Sulaeman
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
Result Show ◽  
The University ◽  
The Way

Natural and social sciences have its own uniqueness in seeing, describing and analyzing a phenomenon. Humanities have also its own distinctiveness between them. Literature, as one of department in humanities has its extreme perspective in considering a phenomenon. While natural and social sciences describing fact, literature is indeed describing fiction.  These two different paradigms have its consequences to the way of students’ writing for their papers. Since literature as one of humanities beside natural and social sciences in a university, this research investigates the university writing guidebook provided by the university in leading the students’ writing in describing fact and fiction. This research uses content analysis by analyzing four writing guide books emphasizing on how to write the final paper for natural, social sciences and literature (humanities). The result show that the four university writing guidebooks provided the writing for natural and social sciences, namely how to describe and analyze facts.  While for literature, on how to analyze fiction, the university writing guidebook does not provide yet. This research contributes for the university that university must provide the rules of final paper for literature students on how to write their final papers.

“Spellbinding Portugal: Two British Women’s Travel Voices”

2018 ◽  
pp. 295-312
Author(s):  
Maria Zulmira Castanheira
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Travel Writing ◽  
Cultural Difference ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
The Social ◽  
Travel Writers ◽  
Women's Travel ◽  
The Way

A genre prone to the thematization of cultural difference, travel writing has, in recent decades, attracted great attention within the area of the Social Sciences and Humanities and gained the respect of both academics and critics. Travel writers are mediator fgures who, through their literary constructs, resulting from their experience of mobility and confrontation with alterity, may shape and circulate positive ideas about foreign cultural realities, thus facilitating openness to difference, empathy, acceptance, understanding, admiration. This article analyses Sybille Bedford’s and Brigid Brophy’s representation of Portugal, paying attention to the authors’ focus on the natural and built landscapes and the way they seek out what they considered to be unique to this Iberian country, thus promoting an image of it as a spellbinding place, charming and exotic, worth the journey.

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