scholarly journals Social Dependency: the Values of Collectors, Fishing Logics and the Economics of Gift

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dmitry Khaustov ◽  
Ekaterina Zimina
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Analysis ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Economic Structure ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Ethical Values ◽  
Economic Practices ◽  
Post Industrial ◽  
Social Dependence ◽  
Negative Phenomena

The phenomenon of social dependence is considered as a phenomenon that accompanied the life of society at all times. On the basis of analysis of the theoretical resources and empirical studies, a parallelism of dependency strategies is carried out. The evolution of the moral and ethical values of human communities is analyzed through the works of K. Polanya, I. Morris, T. Shanin and others. The convergence of systems of moral and ethical values of prehistoric, non-historical society and modern societies is described. Dependency is considered as fishing, intermediate equipment and gift economics. A unique phenomenon is being studied, which is practically not reflected in the information field, does not find direct accounting in official statistics, however, is well-known in Russian everyday life — «garage-owners». Based on a deep theoretical analysis, it is concluded that the practices of dependency are characterized by a certain form of extremely archaic egalitarianism, and the convergence of the values of collectors and members of post-industrial communities is expressed in fishing, that is, in essence assigning logics to economic practices of our time. The theoretical constructions of the modern topical studies resonate with the empirical studies, both of the garage socio-economic structure and the practices of social dependence. The conceptual approaches discussed in the article have the potential to study various socially negative phenomena of the modern society.

scholarly journals Love, Rights, and Solidarity: Sports’ Potential for Recognition

2015 ◽  
Vol 68 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wivi Andersen
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Necessary Conditions ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Ethical Values ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Just Society ◽  
The Right

AbstractSport occupies a central role in modern society. Philosophers of sport suggest that sport can offer a realm of play by being structurally and logically independent from everyday life. But what ethical values can sport be seen to offer us, if any? Explanations are sought based on Honneth’s theory of recognition. Honneth views the presence of three forms of recognition - love, rights, and solidarity - as necessary conditions not only for a just society, but also for a society in which human beings can realize their potential and experience life as being good. Based on Honneth, I argue that sport can be seen as an arena with potential for an aggregated form of recognition. If practiced in the right way, sport has the potential to realize all three forms of recognition inherent in society.

CRITICAL STUDY ON DATABASE AND PROMINENT PROGRAMMES

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-47
Author(s):  
Dr. Vinod Kumar ◽  
Gagandeep Raheja ◽  
Sukhpreet Singh
Keyword(s):  
Human Brain ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Database Systems ◽  
Simple Device ◽  
Critical Study ◽  
Essential Component ◽  
The People

The people who work with computers, the programmers, analysts, and operators who seem to live by rules of their own and seldom leave their own environment, tend to be very cynical towards the stories of electronic brains. This attitude will appear hardly surprising when one eventually learns that the computer is a very simple device and is as far removed from an electronic brain as a bicycle from a spaceship. Programmers in particular are the people most aware that computers are no substitute for the human brain; in fact, the preparation of work to be run on a computer can be one of the most mind-bending exercises encountered in everyday life. Databases and database systems have become an essential component of everyday life in modern society. In the course of a day, most of us encounter several activities that involve some interaction with a database. So in this paper we will talk about how to manage the different type of data involved in any form in the database.

Mass culture in modern society: a functional approach. Scientific and methodological materials on social philosophy

2020 ◽  
pp. 40-49
Author(s):  
Anna Vladimirovna Kostina
Keyword(s):  
Mass Culture ◽  
Information Society ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Social Philosophy ◽  
Digital Information ◽  
Cultural Form ◽  
Functional Nature ◽  
Natural Decay ◽  
Post Industrial

At present, social philosophy is dominated by the view that the importance of mass culture is constantly decreasing, which soon is supposed to lead to the natural decay of this cultural form. The author refutes the arguments of those who are skeptical about the position of mass culture in the post-industrial and digital information society and shows that the functional nature of this type of culture allows it to successfully fulfill its role in modern social systems. The materials of the article can be useful in preparing courses in the framework of social philosophy.

Methodology of humanitarian knowledge. Mass culture: adaptive and socializing potential

2020 ◽  
pp. 36-43
Author(s):  
Anna Vladimirovna Kostina
Keyword(s):  
Mass Culture ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
Adaptive Function ◽  
Social Communities ◽  
Positive Functions ◽  
Post Industrial

The author proves that despite the generally accepted point of view regarding the negative functions performed by mass culture in society, i.e., first of all, simplifying consciousness, escapist, and compensatory one, there is a number of positive functions performed by mass culture in modern society. Among them, the author highlights the ability of mass culture to construct social communities and the adaptive function that becomes necessary within the framework of non-traditional — industrial, post-industrial, and informational social structures. The material of the article may be of interest as a specific methodology for the study of socio-cultural phenomena.

scholarly journals Symbolic Amateurs: On the Discourse of Amateurism in Contemporary Media Culture

2012 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Caroline Hamilton
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Media Culture ◽  
Work Role ◽  
Professional Work ◽  
Network Economy ◽  
Contemporary Media ◽  
Industrial Network ◽  
Post Industrial

The amateur is the person who engages in activities that for another constitute a professional work role. Despite the global drive for professional development, amateurs are increasingly valued in the digitised economy. This leads to a series of interesting and increasingly pressing questions with regard to the nature of ‘the amateur’ in modern society and culture. Are amateurs necessarily good? Is amateurism necessarily located with amateur practitioners? Do divisions between professional producers and amateurs hold relevance to a post-industrial, network economy?

scholarly journals Individualism and collectivism in advertising – An overview

2022 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-36
Author(s):  
TAM PHAM
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Cultural Dimensions ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
Individualism And Collectivism ◽  
The World

Advertising is increasingly important in every corner of the world.  It has become an indispensable part for both producers and consumers in modern society to boost the production and consumption of the products. To succeed in advertising, one component advertisers cannot ignore is cultural values because they are one of the determinants of customers’ behavior. Of the cultural dimensions, individualism and collectivism are considered the most important one. This study, therefore, sets the light on an overview of how individualism and collectivism is manifested in advertising in term of advertising themes, advertising creative tactics and linguistic advertising features in empirical studies. It then specifies what have and has not been done on the topic alike so that anyone interested in the field will find the gaps for their future research.

scholarly journals Environment, tourism and planning

2003 ◽  
Vol 83 (2) ◽  
pp. 19-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stevan Stankovic
Keyword(s):  
Tourism Development ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
International Tourism ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Tourism Planning ◽  
Nature Protection ◽  
Active Protection ◽  
Foreign Tourism ◽  
Different Levels ◽  
Negative Phenomena

One of the characteristics of modern society are more massive tourist trends. Tourists overcame all parts of our planet and provoked line of positive and negative phenomena and processes. Positive dominate negative and that?s the reason why many countries develop domicile and foreign tourism. Environment and tourism perform indivisible totality. Contemporary tourism demands important areas of original or well protected environment, because only on this areas can be develops planned and brings economic and social advantages to domicile population (receptive) and to tourists (initiative). Science and practice for needs of tourism considers line of positive relations toward environment, because some of her elements are special tourist values. For need of tourism is underlines need of acceptation principles of active protection environment, because it is always better to plan, than to reclaim negative effects. In work which treats environment, modern tourism and planning, is appeared to scope of international tourism in world and dynamics of tourism development in a last six decades. It was special emphasized relations between tourism and nature, because in many countries offer of natural tourist values is more massive than offer of monuments. It is a word about need of nature protection for tourism, because nature is a real tourist value only when she is authentic or well protected. In second part it was analyzed importance of tourism planning on different levels, considering local and national traits in areas favorable for tourism development.

scholarly journals Echolocation, as a method supporting spatial orientation and independent movement of people with visual impairment

2019 ◽  
pp. 353-371
Author(s):  
KAMILA MILER-ZDANOWSKA
Keyword(s):  
Visual Impairment ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Spatial Orientation ◽  
Visually Impaired ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Blind People ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Visually Impaired People ◽  
The World ◽  
Impaired People

Kamila Miler-Zdanowska, Echolocation, as a method supporting spatial orientation and independent movement of people with visual impairment. Interdisciplinary Contexts of Special Pedagogy, no. 25, Poznań 2019. Pp. 353-371. Adam MickiewiczUniversity Press. ISSN 2300-391X. DOI: https://doi.org/10.14746/ikps.2019.25.15 People with visual impairment use information from other senses to gain knowledge about the world around them. More and more studies conducted withthe participation of visually impaired people indicate that data obtained through auditory perception is extremely important. In this context, the ability of echolocation used by blind people to move independently is interesting. The aim of the article is to present echolocation as a method supporting spatial orientation of people with visual impairment. The article presents the results of empirical studies of echolocation. It also presents the benefits of using this ability in everyday life and signals research projects related to the methodology of teaching echolocation in Poland. People with visually impaired to get knowledge about the world around them use information from other senses. Many studies conducted with the participation of visually impaired people indicate that data obtained through hearing are extremely important. In this context, the ability of echolocation used by blind people to move independently is interesting. The aim of the article is to present echolocation as a method supporting spatial orientation of people with visual disabilities. The article presents the results of empirical studies on echolocation. It also presents the benefits of using this skill in everyday life and signals research projects on themethodology of teaching echolocation in Poland.

scholarly journals Appscapes in everyday life

2020 ◽  
Vol 36 (69) ◽  
pp. 029-051
Author(s):  
Signe Sophus Lai ◽  
Sofie Flensburg
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Mobile Apps ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Mobile App ◽  
Trade Off ◽  
Online Tracking ◽  
Material Conditions ◽  
Infrastructure Studies ◽  
App Economy

It has long been acknowledged that the use of ‘free’ mobile apps comes at a price,but few empirical studies have looked into this supposed trade-off. This articlecombines qualitative interviews with mappings of infrastructures for dataficationin order to study the implications of mobile app usage from the perspectiveof individual users. It analyses users’ understanding of online tracking, maps theinfrastructural tenets of mobile datafication, and finds a disconnect between whatusers believe happens to their data and the actual data harvesting and distributionmechanisms of their apps. We thereby argue that users’ resigned attitudes shouldbe understood in light of the material conditions of the app economy and, as such,that user and infrastructure studies should join forces in exploring and enhancingusers’ agency, empowerment and emancipation.

Between Ethics and Aesthetics – Reception of Genetic Information and Narrative Experience

2021 ◽  
Vol 66 (Special Issue) ◽  
pp. 144-144
Author(s):  
Raphaël Pfeiffer ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Genetic Information ◽  
Aesthetic Experience ◽  
Suicide Attempts ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Ethical Reasoning ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Negative Feelings

"In a clinical context, the communication of genetic information is an event that can give rise to unexpected situations for health professionals. Several empirical studies have shown that, despite being presented with “good” presymptomatic test results, some patients develop negative feelings, depression, which can in extreme cases lead to suicide attempts. Here, genetic information takes full meaning when considered in a personal narrative. In this presentation, we would like to look at the specificities of this narrative experience in the light of works on the aesthetics of everyday life, with a particular focus on the works of John Dewey. For Dewey, the aesthetic experience is possible in all aspects of people’s daily lives, including clinical experience. In this case, “aesthetics” appears in the sensitive character of an experience rather than in a specific type of object. Through the examination of this thought, we will ask to what extent we can speak of an aesthetic experience when thinking of the communication of genetic information, and how this consideration can help ethical reasoning. We will begin by examining how the moment of the communication of genetic information to patients by the clinician can constitute a process of defamiliarization of everyday life. This will lead us to look at patients’ accounts of genetic information reception and to analyse how these appear to be more than mere testimonies about the experience of pathologies, but a means by which the patient is confronted with difficult experiences in order to reformulate them. "

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