Creating a Hero . . . Laughing at Clowns? Representations of Sports and Fitness in Soviet Fiction Films after the Olympic U-Turn in Politics

In the 1940s–1960s, the USSR made an ideological turn from leftist sports politics to the struggle for Olympic achievements. How has this U-turn affected the social order in Soviet sport and its artistic repre-sentation? The article offers a systematic review of Soviet sport fiction films. The study of sport and fit-ness imagination is conducted through a correlation between artistic performance and social context. Fo-cusing on the 1950s–1980s, we found three different types of representation: № 1 is the creating of a hero (for an elite athlete). This is the lion’s share of all sport movies where the “Myth of a Hero” in Olympic sport was constructed. In praising elite sport, modern Russian movies continue the well-known Soviet tradition; № 2 is the laughing at clowns (for mass sportsmen). These are mostly episodes in feature films on themes, where mass sport (i.e., non-elite, grassroots, recreational, fitness, and ordinary) is mentioned. Surprisingly, this sport is presented in a comic sense (except hiking and mountaineering); №3 is sport reality. This type comprises the tiniest selection of movies where art reflects the real situation inside the Soviet sport industry. Elite athletes are presented here as antiheroes with social adaptation problems; ad-ditionally, such issues as shamateurism are severely criticized. The conclusions are following: since the 1970s, sport films ceased to function as propaganda of fitness and recreational sport. On the contrary, elite sport (as an art branch), its representations in official arts and media jointly constructed the great “evan-gelical myth” about itself, which became the part of public consciousness. However, this myth had little to do with a new reality. Elite sport’s positive representation acted only as a propagandist tool that created a fictional social world. The existing social order’s irrationality was critically reflected only by the comedy genre.

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2. Motility in Sport-Artistic Activities – A Social Phenomenon

Review of Artistic Education ◽

10.2478/rae-2020-0020 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 19 (1) ◽

pp. 165-170

Author(s):

Ana-Cristina Leșe

Keyword(s):

Physical Education ◽

Social Order ◽

Academic Education ◽

Professional Performance ◽

Physical Exercises ◽

The Social ◽

History Of ◽

General Physical ◽

The University ◽

Selection Of

AbstractThe history of Physical Education reports us that the physical exercises have emerged and have been perfected in accordance with the social order, evolving in direct relation with it. During this paper we will define the phenomenon of Physical education and sport as a discipline of academic education, starting from the general notions to the particular ones in the general physical training of the student actor. In this paper we try to highlight some similarities between the preparation of the actor and the preparation of the athlete for professional performance. We will present the theoretical framework with well-defined and accepted notions in both sports and theater. We will subsequently present the particular framework in which the theoretical principles in the sports field are taken over by the university theater programme and put into practice for the general preparation of the future actor. The article closes with the selection of some basic conclusions and recommendations appropriate to the topic under discussion

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Ideas about religious and political threats in Russian political science and philosophy

Transbaikal State University Journal ◽

10.21209/2227-9245-2020-26-7-97-105 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 26 (7) ◽

pp. 97-105

Author(s):

I. Romanova ◽

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V. Mladenov ◽

А. Zhukova ◽

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Keyword(s):

Social Order ◽

Social Evolution ◽

Religious Conflict ◽

Social Adaptation ◽

Religious Groups ◽

Russian Scientific ◽

Interaction Processes ◽

The Social ◽

Wide Range ◽

The Right

The article analyzes the problems of religious threats in the framework of Russian philosophical, theological, sociological, psychological thought. The analysis was carried out based on the provisions of the theory of the social evolution of religion, theory of religious conflict and theory of social adaptation of religion. The results of the analysis showed that the situation of studies of the religious threat within the Russian scientific field is complicated by the active confrontation among authors of publications on this topic. A large group of authors publish works in which they indicate the existence of a threat to national security from all religions that are not considered traditional in Russia. Fulfilling a social order and reflecting their metaphysical beliefs, biased authors classify a wide range of religious groups as dangerous and extremist. On the contrary, another group of researchers publishes materials through which it tries not only to justify the need for scientifically verified research of state-confessional interaction processes, but also to protect the right of believers to exercise the right of religious choice

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Ideology and moral: relationship of norm and ideal in the light of synergetic philosophy of history

E3S Web of Conferences ◽

10.1051/e3sconf/202021016031 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 210 ◽

pp. 16031

Author(s):

Sergey Busov ◽

Mariya Zobova ◽

Alexey Rodukov

Keyword(s):

Social Order ◽

Philosophy Of History ◽

Value Systems ◽

New Order ◽

Main Function ◽

The Social ◽

Moral Relationship ◽

Relationship Of ◽

Selection Of ◽

The Ideal

The formation of notions about the mechanism of transition from the social order to the chaos and vice versa - from the chaos to a new order, represented by the synergetic philosophy of history, which is entirely based on the ideas of V.P. Branskiy, allows us to take a fresh look at the process of changing value systems in society. It is based on the process of changing ideals. The social ideal aims to overcome the contradictions of life. However, when its main function is implemented, some contradictions disappear, but others appear. The selection of viable ideals leads us only to a temporary softening of social contradictions: the implementation of new ideals deduces the society from the deadlock, but at the same time, it forms the conditions for new contradictions and new crisis in the new system of values. The study of the process of self-organization of ideals and values allowed the St. Petersburg school of social synergetics to discover the operation of law of correlation of the standards of behavioral stereotype to the standards of ethical ideal. The study of this law serves as a system-forming element in the study of the ideology of society, it allows us to understand why an adequate form of existence of such cultural universals as freedom, goodness, beauty, truth, besides the ideal, is also the norm - as value and the regulator of relations.

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Political and legal Manipulation as a Psychological Phenomenon and a Scientific Category

Psychology and Law ◽

10.17759/psylaw.2021110113 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (1) ◽

pp. 163-180

Author(s):

A.V. Malko ◽

V.V. Subochev

Keyword(s):

Social Relations ◽

Psychological Impact ◽

Social Processes ◽

The Public ◽

The Social ◽

Political Expediency ◽

Public Consciousness ◽

The Impact ◽

Goals And Objectives ◽

Selection Of

The article attempts to justify and introduce the scientific term of "political and legal manipulation" that will make it possible to reach a new level of discussion of closely coupled psychological, political and legal means influencing the public consciousness. It is maintained that the term under discussion offers a kind of a methodological stepping stone in the research of the two most important aspects of a far-reaching process of political and legal influence on social processes: a) legal mechanisms, tools, tricks and techniques of carrying out certain political manipulations; b) the impact of political expediency on the law itself, on the processes of lawmaking, implementation and interpretation of law within nations of the world. Political and legal manipulation is viewed as a form of psychological impact on the social relations combining psychological, political and legal means. The article studies in detail the nature, essence and indicators of political and legal manipulation, its main goals and objectives, as well as the selection of tools that lends such a specific character to this kind of manipulation.

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Adaptation of New Employees as the Criterion of Social Efficiency of Company’s Corporate Culture

Humanities and Social Sciences Bulletin of the Financial University ◽

10.26794/2226-7867-2019-9-3-31-34 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 9 (3) ◽

pp. 31-34

Author(s):

N. V. Uzyumova

Keyword(s):

Corporate Culture ◽

Social Adaptation ◽

Social Aspect ◽

Social Efficiency ◽

Unsuccessful Attempt ◽

New Employees ◽

The Social ◽

New Employee ◽

The Right ◽

Selection Of

The article is devoted to corporate culture as a method of indirect management, which is especially in demand in companies working in the feld of intellectual services. Developed corporate culture helps to avoid cumbersome bureaucratic structures, as the employees of such an organisation can make the right decisions based on the values, norms and rules adopted in their company. The author considers the culture of the organisation through the prism of its effectiveness, paying the primary attention to the social aspect. As for maintenance and reproduction of the established corporate culture, the selection of staff and ensuring the subsequent production adaptation are crucial; the author specifes the concept of social effciency, as regards adaptation of new employees of the commercial organisations and considers the main stages of their social adaptation. The author also describes the conditions of successful adaptation of new employees, identifes the main features of socially effective corporate culture and the system of adaptation of new employees. The author concluded that each successfully adapted new employee strengthens the corporate culture of a commercial organisation and contributes to its social effciency, while each unsuccessful attempt to adapt reduces this indicator.

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Models of Perceiving Social Reality in the Middle Ages

Prepodavatel XXI vek ◽

10.31862/2073-9613-2019-4-241-252 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 241-252 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Ju.Eu. Arnautova

Keyword(s):

Middle Ages ◽

Social Order ◽

World Order ◽

Way Of Life ◽

Professional Groups ◽

The Social ◽

The World ◽

The New Testament ◽

Public Consciousness ◽

The Church

The article considers the views of contemporaries about the social structure of the Western European Middle Ages. Social knowledge has represented these ideas in interpretative schemes (models), operating with the ancient concept of ordo. Medieval authors understood ordo metaphysically — as the „order“ of the world order and as an „estate“, i.e. the part of the world created by God, which has its place and purpose. In public consciousness, there were two parallel models of perception of the social order, which can be arbitrarily described as “hierarchical” and “functional”. The earliest interpretation scheme was based on the New Testament (2 Tim. 2:4 and 1 Cor. 9:14; 1 Tim. 5: 1) and divided society into “two estates of the Church” (duo ordines ecclesiae), i.e. to „clerics“ (clerici) and „laity“ (laici), which vary in their way of life and occupation. In the year 400 monasticism appeared, also having a specific “life form”. Therefore concept of social order formulated by Augustine and then by Gregory the Great, had noted the existence of “the three estates of the Church” (tres ordines ecclesiae) — clerics, monks and laity. Both models were hierarchical, because they justified the priority nature of service to God. At the turn of the X–XI centuries in the process of differentiation of new professional groups (knights, peasants), the model of the “three estates of the Church” has been rethought. “Estates” are defined in it in accordance with their functions: “oratores (praying)”, “bellatores (fighting)” and “laboratores (working)”, each of them working as a part of the whole for the rest, which meant the equivalence of their functions. The scheme of the tres ordines ecclesiae existed until the beginning of the New Time, constantly adding new social realities. The highest point of its socio-historical impact is the consolidation of peasants and townspeople into one “estate”, later called in France the “third estate” (tiers état, tiers membre), whose social and economic existence was predetermined by work and lack of privileges.

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POLITIKAL SOCIALISATION AS “CARE OF” IN CONTEXT OF CULTURAL-SYMBOLICAL SCENARIOS OF COMMUNICATIONS

Vestnik Tomskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta Kul turologiya i iskusstvovedenie ◽

10.17223/22220836/39/4 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 33-44

Author(s):

Ivan V. Kirdjashkin ◽

Keyword(s):

Political Culture ◽

Social Order ◽

Social Situation ◽

The Political ◽

Public Expectations ◽

The Social ◽

Public Consciousness ◽

Will To Live ◽

The Given ◽

Cultural Experts

In article political socialisation is considered as a part of processes personal and social “cares of”, representing cultural experts of self-transformation, self-checking and society self-transformation. The given experts in work are presented as the general orientation of the political phenomena, allowing to form and transform the political culture of the person including a set of means of understanding of a society as interconnected the cultural-historical integrity informed on the basis of symbolical means of self-transformation of set the general outlook of individuals. In this plan “the care of” appears as area of existence and genesis of values political which role is interfaced to reproduction and transformation of forms social “managements of self”, about a live continuum of the purposes and means of human relations. At the same time social “the care of” appears as a product performative the certificates de-signing a society under the influence of the changing social situation of the person. Performativnyj character social “cares of” creates possibilities socioculture designing of the political phenomena, political culture in the course of political socialisation of the person. Thus social “the care of” occurs in a context of cultural-symbolical scenarios of communications which are caused by “own values” or rather mobile the unchangeable structures of a social order. In this respect symbolical scenarios of communications create isolation public “cares of” on certain his-torical values of society, form it difference, senses and forms of an autonomy and self-changes in world around. Scenarios “the care of” can be considered cares of as set of symbolical forms of public consciousness. It provides autopoecis communications in society, symbolical connection of communi-cations, a choice of their means, institutional forms. Communications scenarios, expressing symbolical social “will to live”, allow to organise “practice of” as sets the connected paradigms, actions and forms, values and senses of transformation of society and the person, the general purposeful processes of self-knowledge and society self-transformation. In this respect the above-stated scenarios represent public expectations or the structures neces-sary for joining of one communications to another. Cultural scenarios of communications represent socioculture expectations concerning ways samoreference societies which express readiness for repro-duction and changes, to self-correction of structures of consciousness of society, representing its aspi-ration to self-change, training, to perception of evolution of culture of a society. In this respect scenari-os act as possibilities of existence and training ways autopoecisa the communications, entering into cultural toolkit of the social consciousness providing interrelation, a reconstruction and deconstruc-tions of understanding of the political phenomena.

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