Role of Social Myth in Russia’s Internal Political Crises: A Social and Philosophical Analysis

Author(s):  
Galina Devnina ◽  
Author(s):  
Tatyana B. Markova

The article discusses the social and cultural functions of reading. Philosophical analysis of the phenomenon of reading reveals its transformation into knowledge society. The types of modern reading are analyzed and a new role of libraries in society is showed.


Author(s):  
Victor Yu. Apryshchenko ◽  
Maksim A. Mukhin

The article analyses the contents and the significance of the Scottish governance system in the second half of the 18th century. The authors point out that English political elite had little interest in governing Scotland and draw attention to the role of the Scottish lobby in the Scottish governance as a tool of interaction between the centre and the periphery. The text reveals how the Scottish lobby distributed various amenities via the patronage in order to achieve political stability, as shown with the elections to the House of Commons. The article also demonstrates the role of Scottish managers as the representatives of Scottish interests in London. The authors conclude that the Scottish political system was different from the English one and note that there were no acute political crises in the second half of the 18th century, which indicates that in the midst of a rapid modernisation the Scottish governance system proved to be successful.


Author(s):  
Hasan Dinçer ◽  
Emrecan Aracı

The process of financial liberalization draws attention as a process that took place after the 1980s and led by the strong countries, in order to overcome the narrowing in the economies of the world countries which have become polarized because of the Second World War and the Cold War period immediately following the Second World War. In this chapter, firstly, the definition of the financial liberalization period and the effects according to the countries are examined, while the risk and crisis issues are also evaluated. Economic and political crises that have occurred in Turkey after the financial liberalization process in ongoing part of the study also were assessed by considering the effects on the economy. In this context, the economic and political crisis in Turkey are analyzed as to their effects on the country's economic performance. Accordingly, every 10 years, an economic and political crisis in Turkey took place. The country's economy is affected negatively in the macro-frame.


Author(s):  
Jeffrey Kurebwa

Traditional leaders have been at the centre of controversy from the pre-colonial to the post-colonial period. The recognition of traditional leaders by the ruling party Zimbabwe African National Union Patriotic Front (ZANU PF) in Zimbabwe has been controversial. Since 1999, the ZANU-PF government has been facing a serious political crises and an increasingly powerful opposition party (Movement for Democratic Change). Zimbabwe adopted a new Constitution in 2013 which, among other things recognizes the role of the institution of traditional leadership which operates alongside modern state structures. While recognizing the role and status of the institution, the Constitution strictly regulates the conduct of traditional leaders.


2002 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 362-395
Author(s):  
Xavier Gil

AbstractThe Cortes of Aragon, Catalonia, and Valencia were well known in Renaissance times for their mature institutional development and their capacity to counterbalance the tendency of monarchs towards authoritarianism. But, from the mid sixteenth century onwards, they were summoned by kings at increasingly long intervals, thus losing part of their visibility in the political scene. But this did not exactly mean parliamentary decline. As Cortes became rarer, lesser corporate bodies, ultimately deriving from the Cortes themselves, acquired an enhanced political status. Different sorts of meetings of estates (brazos) and small committees of members of the estates, while already known in previous times, won a more active role by the late sixteenth century and were a major, if not crucial, factor in the different political crises of the seventeenth century. This article contributes to the current reassessment of the Cortes by emphasizing the role of these bodies, focusing on their interplay with the Cortes, with some comparative remarks on other such bodies in Europe.


Author(s):  
Lia Figgou ◽  
Xenia Chryssochoou

Political psychology constitutes a problem-oriented and interdisciplinary field (Staerkle, 2015). In fact, being born in the decades between the First and Second World Wars, it is intrinsically characterized by the concern to study and cope with social and political crises and their implications (Nesbitt-Larking & Kinnvall, 2012). Its theoretical tools and concepts were developed in order to cast light on phenomena such as mass psychology and collective action, racism, the rise of fascism and authoritarianism. The role of psychology in the study of these phenomena was, as Moscovici (1988) argued, not only necessary but also functional.


2021 ◽  
Vol 32 (5) ◽  
pp. 136
Author(s):  
Irina Zherebkina

The article analyzes the concepts of comic and laugh in some texts by V.A. Podoroga on anthropology of power, and his view on critical potential of the comic for the philosophical analysis of modern politics and culture. Based on Podoroga's study of M.M. Bakhtin’s theory of laughter culture, grotesque images of corporeality by A. Artaud, A.F. Losev and S. Eisenstein, author argues that Podoroga understands the comic in the context of his theory of the phenomenology of body in which the laughter is associated with the grotesque, when the funny manifests itself in inseparability from the terrible and horrible. The article examines how Podoroga's concept of grotesque correlates with thoughts about the comic and laughter of A. Bergson and Ljubljana philosophical school (S. Zižek, A. Zupancic). It is argued that the prohibition on reading the experience of transgressive corporeality and sexuality (texts of A. Artaud, A.F. Losev and drawings of S. Eisenstein) in terms of the comic, introduced by Podoroga, is canceled when he understands sex not as a sign, a symbol of the sublime, but as a social construct, gender. It is revealed that in the case of gender study of the anthropology of power by Podoroga on the example of post-soviet gender identities and strategies of hegemonic masculinity (on the example of reading M. Proust by M.K. Mamardashvili) he is applying similar to Zižek's strategies of comization, emphasizing the moment of transgression in the comic.


2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 174-179
Author(s):  
GULBARAM KULZHANOVA ◽  

Task. The phenomenon of human capital in line with socio-philosophical analysis requires multilateral study, where intellectual development comes to the fore. Indeed, the decisive role in the development of any country in the world belongs to man as a bearer of wealth [10: 108]. The concept of human capital is gradually acquiring the status of a general scientific concept (it is already more and more often used in pedagogy, sociology, political science, cultural studies and other social sciences with a humanitarian profile). In a post-industrial society, the sphere of culture is revealed in its new state, including family, education, science, computer science, art, acquiring a qualitatively new role, becoming an increasingly leading sector of production, its “basis” and driving force [5: 6]. It follows that philosophy plays a methodological, integrative role in the origin and development of human capital. Based on the analysis of the work of domestic and foreign researchers, as well as the ideas of classics and contemporaries of philosophical thought, the prerequisites for the formation of the concept of human capital, and their basic theoretical approaches are shown. Methodology and research methods. The study traces the idea that human capital in conditions of rapid change determines the dynamics and direction of social development. Ensuring its compliance with social values and the requirements of the time becomes an important task of the targeted socio-cultural development of the individual and society [15: 1]. To clarify the content of the concept of “human capital”, the author uses a historical analysis and a content analysis method as a scientific method of cognition. Based on these methods, text data was studied, the essence of which is to divide text data into structural elements, detect keywords in documents, and determine the frequency of their references. These methods are the main ones in the study of the essence of concepts, the content of media messages, answers to questions of sociological research [11: 29]. Conclusions. In a modern transformational society, in the subtext of human value in the role of capital and resource, positive and negative contradictory directions arise, and their solution requires socio-philosophical research. The ambiguity of the wording of the category“human capital” is based on the categorical relationship between its forms in science and the leveling in the interpretation of the concept of the fact of profitability. As a key evidence, the idea that human capital is a multifaceted socio-cultural resource of society is substantiated. It is regarded as an engine of historical progress in the social and cultural spheres. In the system of views, the role of man in society allows us to distinguish the objective basis of the modern theory of human capital, its historical roots, its scientific logic of significance as the fundamental basis of historical progress. The scope of the study / the possibility of subsequent use of the results of scientific work. The main form of the country's wealth is the leading level of intellectual and spiritual development of the citizen, taking the form of human capital, ensuring the innovation process in every area of its activity. A measure of human innovative capital, vitality and resilience of a society becomes its ability to provide a social space for creative, creative activity of people [14: 1181]. Human capital, like all internal personal wealth, cannot be imagined without the spiritual and moral component of the essence of man and his being. Spirituality is the basis of almost everything, everything that has to do with the self-realization of a person. It can be argued that certain spiritual attitudes explicitly or discreetly direct any activity of each person and all social structures. The absence of the spiritual and moral component of technogenic civilization has led mankind to a standstill. Now more than ever, a qualitative shift in the human mind is required, fundamentally changing his worldview. In the system of education and upbringing, it is necessary to return to the thoughts and ideas of great thinkers, starting from antiquity and ending with modernity in the spiritual and moral elevation of man. Practical value. Today, increased attention to the socio-philosophical aspects of human capital comes down to the practical significance of the identified problem. Therefore, the proposed topic can be applied as a theoretical instruction for social research institutes. The conceptual results of the study provide a theoretical basis for a deeper understanding of social transformationsin society, and on the other hand, it can be used as a theoretical basis for future comparative socio-philosophical studies of human capital. Research materials may be useful in the preparation of textbooks, courses in social philosophy. The author proposes the introduction of a special course for undergraduates and doctoral students“Human capital and its manifestations in the development of the Republic of Kazakhstan”. And also in universities, in the process of teaching social sciences and humanities, to practice conducting scientific discussions on the above topic. Originality / value. We believe that the topic of the article touched upon will give an impetus to reflection and encourage the writing of articles on the development of human capital from a position of socio-philosophical analysis. As for the concept of the phenomenon under study, its extrapolation opportunities will be realized on the “reciprocal flows” of the economy and other important areas of social life - science, culture, education, politics, etc. The problem under study is addressed to social scientists, employees of the management system, university professors and doctoral students, as well as all those who are interested in the problems of the formation and development of human capital in the world.


2018 ◽  
Vol 55 ◽  
pp. 05006
Author(s):  
Rushalina Lukyanova

This article attempts to analyze the educational views of an outstanding scholar-theologian of 19th-20th century, Rizaitdin Fakhretdin, whose fate and activities reflected the vicissitudes of the complex historical era of the changes in pre-revolutionary Russia and the hard years of the establishment of Soviet power in the regions of the Volga and the Urals. The spiritual dominant, as a factor of Enlightenment, forms the basis of the evolutionary development of the society. In the conditions of the development of modern Russia and the urgent need to develop the principles of peaceful coexistence of peoples and concessions, the philosophical study of the national and cultural heritage, spiritual experience, the values and traditions of generations, the place and role of ethnonational communities, the destinies of its ideological enlighteners in the spiritual life of modern Russia is of the highest importance. The article also focuses on the development of the spirituality of human being and the degree of enlightenment of the society, which are the foundation of the unity, stability, strength, and greatness of society and the state. The choice of the topic is dictated by both theoretical interest and practical needs. The contemporaru image of multinational Russia requires a serious historical and philosophical analysis of its social development. The heterogeneous immune nature of the Russian civilization facilitates the assimilation of spiritual and practical experience in the conditions of the coexistence of different peoples. The use of unique socio-historical knowledge stimulates the widening of the capacity of every social, confessional, national community to be involved in the strengthening of Russian unity.


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