scholarly journals The Tricky ’True Object’: Bourdieu’s Masculine Domination and Historicity

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 210
Author(s):  
Miklos Hadas
Keyword(s):  
Social Practice ◽  
Physical Violence ◽  
Symbolic Violence ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
French Version ◽  
Long Run ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Church

Pierre Bourdieu’s Masculine Domination was published in English in 2001, three years after the appearance of the French version. In order to deconstruct in vivo the working of sociological paradigm-alchemy, a close reading of the Bourdieusian argument is offered. After summing up the main thesis of the book, Bourdieu’s statements will be intended to be questioned, according to which the school, the family, the state and the church would reproduce, in the long run, masculine domination. The paper will also seek to identify the methodological trick of the Bourdieusian vision on history, namely that, metaphorically speaking, he compares the streaming river to the riverside cliffs. It will be argued that when Bourdieu discusses ‘the constancy of habitus’, the ‘permanence in and through change’, or the ‘strength of the structure’, he extends his paradigm about the displacement of the social structure to the displacement of the men/women relationship. Hence, it will be suggested that, in opposition to Bourdieu’s thesis, masculine domination is not of universal validity but its structural weight and character have fundamentally changed in the long run, i.e. the masculine habitual centre gradually shifted from a social practice governed by the drives of physical violence to symbolic violence.

scholarly journals Aspects of the Christian Missionary in Nationalist China: Mrs. Jiang Jieshi and the Missions

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vincenza Cinzia Capristo
Keyword(s):  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Religious Community ◽  
Social Community ◽  
Strong Point ◽  
Potential Development ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Church ◽  
Family Dimension ◽  
The Way

The present essay, beginning with Catholic press and various authors known in the sector of Missiology, underlines a connection between Song Meiling and Mission in general, particularly the Catholic ones. This work aims at adding a further piece to complete the already well-known Song Meiling’s career, after her marriage to Chiang Kai-shek. Further on, it will be clearly underlined the way she managed to established relationships with representatives of Missions, both Catholic and Protestant, thanks to the reform movement “New Life”, which brought Chinese people closer to Christian values. All this was possible by starting from the family dimension, thus enhancing the link between civil and religious society. Song Meiling’s strong point was the way she promoted social inclusion of the religious confessions, especially of the Catholic Missions, through solidarity initiatives, considering the religious community on the same level as the social community. This was a factor of potential development for the Church in China.

scholarly journals Overcoming Barriers in Education: Research and Social Practice

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 125-133
Author(s):  
David L. Konstantinovskiy
Keyword(s):  
Social Practice ◽  
Further Education ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Cultural Economic ◽  
Life Chances ◽  
Professional Careers ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
Life Path ◽  
The 1960S

The paper discusses the socio-cultural, economic, territorial, and other barriers in the educational sphere and the possibilities of overcoming them. The first part presents the results of research carried out on national empirical data from the 1960s to the present. The significant impact of barriers on the formation of educational and professional careers of young people is shown. It is noted that overcoming barriers becomes possible if the family has the resources to get over them; otherwise, children are forced to adjust their intentions by lowering their demands for education. The second part of the article analyzes the experience of several low-resource schools with students from low-status families. That schools undertake targeted efforts to help students overcome barriers. The teachers and management of these schools use special strategies for their work. Pedagogical measures are a significant part of these strategies; however, complex social conditions require a response by means of social measures. The most important is the formation of the motivation of all participants in the educational process. As a result of the school’s efforts, academic performance is improved, students’ intentions for further education are growing, their understanding of educational and professional careers, on the possibilities of social mobility are expanding. Changing orientations associated with building a life path is taking place. Examination of the experience of the social practice of these schools makes it possible to conclude: their activity manifests itself as a powerful resource that schools provides to families when they do not have the opportunity to overcome barriers. This resource can increase not only the potential of the educational organization but also the life chances of students, helping them no less effective than other types of resources are able to do it.

scholarly journals Catechesis of Seniors in the Context of Their Activity

2020 ◽  
Vol 57 ◽  
pp. 265-282
Author(s):  
Kazimierz Skoczylas
Keyword(s):  
Good Health ◽  
Professional Activity ◽  
Third Age ◽  
Social Good ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
Religious Tourism ◽  
The World ◽  
The Church

Modern seniors who are characterized by good health at the end of their professional activity engage in new forms of activity. Some of them are involved in the activities of universities of the third age, belong to the Family of Radio Maryja, are volunteers or use various forms of religious tourism and pilgrimages. Many manifestations of their activity come from the religiosity of seniors. The growing religiosity of seniors requires a systematic catechesis that helps them in its development. The church emphasizes that this catechesis should be adapted to the situation of a senior. Catechesis helps to read the religious meaning of this stage of life and to strengthen the motivation for Christian presence in the family and environment. Therefore, this catechesis should strengthen religious interest in faith, shape and sustain the motivation of Christian activity, in the Church and in the world. This is reflected in the Christian involvement in family upbringing, in the ecclesial community, for the social good and also in an attractive way of spending free time.

Teaching Hatred

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
David A. Hamburg ◽  
Beatrix A. Hamburg
Keyword(s):  
Cooperative Behavior ◽  
First Century ◽  
Youth Movement ◽  
Youth Groups ◽  
Long Run ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Insight Into

We turn now to egregious examples of ways that education can be used to instill hatred, with the help of authoritarian states and fanatical leaders (either theological or secular) who shape children’s lives. There have been vivid examples of this throughout the twentieth century. The twenty-first century starts with the dramatic case of some Islamic fundamentalist schools that follow in this tradition of molding the lives of children for careers of hatred and violence.We describe these examples to provide a sharp contrast to the remainder of this book. Our fundamental aspiration is to inspire educators and leaders to embrace the important alternative role of education in fostering prosocial, empathic, and cooperative behavior—with insight into the destructive forces of human experience—that can provide the basis for a peaceful world in the long run. To be effective, we must address the obstacles to education in constructing such programs. Children can be brought up to hate, to condone killing, and even to participate in killing. That experiment has been done repeatedly. In the rest of this book, let us look briefly at examples of this destructive educational experience and then at the other side of the coin—learning to live together peacefully. The human capacity to shape child and adolescent development toward a pervasive culture of hatred and violence was vividly demonstrated by the Nazi experience. The his- torian Klaus Fischer writes on youth and education, and women and the family, in his book Nazi Germany—A New History. We begin with the origin of youth groups as a countercultural protest and move to the creation of the Hitler Youth movement and ways in which it exploited these relatively innocent youthful protests. Nazi education, its philosophy, and the creation of elite schools are described in terms of their attempt to shape the minds and bodies of boys toward devotion to the Führer and toward their future as Nazi leaders. Teachers, as well, were indoctrinated and obligated to behave in a prescribed manner toward the same end. The family, particularly the woman’s role in it, was seen as the social underpinning of society. The Nazi glorification of motherhood and the family was a means of creating more children to serve Hitler and the Nazi regime.

scholarly journals Social Practice Participants in the Independent Graduation in the Family Hope Program (PKH)

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 136-149
Author(s):  
David Prima Darwin ◽  
Azwar ◽  
Indraddin
Keyword(s):  
Social Practice ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Symbolic Capital ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Economic Capital ◽  
Health Checks ◽  
Depth Interview ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
Sense Of Shame

This study aims to describe the social practice of independent graduation participants in the Family Hope Program (PKH) in Nagari Batu Balang, Harau District, Lima Puluh Kota District. This study uses a descriptive-based qualitative approach with the informants selected using a purposive sampling technique. In collecting data used in-depth interview techniques, involved observation, and documentation studies. The results of this study indicate that habitus plays a role in encouraging PKH participants in independent graduation from persistence in working, having a sense of shame, discipline, frugal, and honest. The forms of capital owned by PKH participants in independent graduation are social capital, economic capital, cultural capital, and symbolic capital. The form of the PKH arena that plays PKH participants in independent graduation is to hold monthly meetings to add insight, monthly meetings as a first step to starting a household business, conducting health checks at the Polindes and Puskesmas, paying attention to the presence of children at school, saving to open a household business, dare to open a household business, and use the land around the neighbourhood to grow vegetables and medicinal plants.

scholarly journals Psychoemotional impact of moral-religious education in the family, school and Church

2021 ◽  
pp. 159-163
Author(s):  
Aurelia Cojocaru ◽  
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Rodion Brasoveanu ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Religious Education ◽  
Social Role ◽  
Human Person ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Body ◽  
Spiritual Dimension ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
Psychological Structure ◽  
The Church

The human person is not a static being, he must be understood as a dynamic being, in constant development. Its continuous evolution concerns both the psychological structure (intelligence, character, emotion) and biological infrastructure (or body) and the social superstructure (or society). From an objective angle, the being is as far as the body is seen. From the point of view of the soul, however, the being never stops at the frontier of the body. It is not only us, but also the family in which we were born, the marriage we have established, the profession we have, the class and the nation we belong to, etc. The present paper aims at the development of the personality from the perspective of the family, the school and the Church, as fundamental factors of education. The importance of such a topic lies in the practical approach by researching the current phenomenon of education in terms of the factors mentioned. The interest for this topic was born from the interdisciplinary psychological and theological approach. The two fields of research have in common the issue of the human being, one emphasizing its social role, the other emphasizing its spiritual dimension.

Immanente Kritik und soziales Leben

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arvi Särkelä
Keyword(s):  
Critical Theory ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Social Criticism ◽  
Social Philosophy ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Philosophical Critique ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Immanent Critique

Based on a close reading of the works of Hegel, Dewey and Critical Theory, this book develops the concept of an immanent-critical, naturalistic social philosophy. In a first step, the author sketches a conception of immanent critique as a self-transformative social practice which consists in a dialogue between the philosopher and the everyday critics. This is followed by a cartography of the ontological presuppositions and metaphysical implications required of a successful philosophical critique of society according to Hegel and Dewey. The book develops a concept of the social which is not purely normative; the social is not separated from the rest of nature, but articulated as a peculiar process of life. Finally, social criticism is portrayed as an art that transforms this social life.

THE SENSE OF SAFETY AMONG CHILDREN AND TEENAGERS IN THE LIGHT OF EMPIRICAL RESEARCH

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 148-157
Author(s):  
Maria Katarzyna Grzegorzewska ◽  
Mariusz Kapusta ◽  
Henryk Noga ◽  
Piotr Pawel Migo
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Physical Violence ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
Healthy Development ◽  
Sense Of Security ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
External Causes

The social life is dominated by concepts such as aggression, violence, frustration. The symptoms of this phenomenon are present in schools, families and on the street. They may have different forms, from physical violence both verbal and mental. All this favours the crisis of values and authority. One of the main external causes are the mass media, that do create the lack of authority and values One of the conditions of a child healthy development is to provide him a sense of security, which at the end will be again emphasized, not only by the family but also by a school, carers, environment the police and organized prevention programs. The study shows how children and young people perceive the issues related to security.  

scholarly journals Private Spirits, Public Lives: Sober Citizenship, Shame and Secret Drinking in Victorian Britain

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Beckingham
Keyword(s):  
Church Of England ◽  
Domestic Space ◽  
Private Sphere ◽  
Apparent Absence ◽  
Temperance Movement ◽  
Victorian Britain ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
Public Lives ◽  
The Church

Abstract This article considers Victorian concerns about the rise of secret drinking amongst respectable women. These new, apparently dangerous, practices were blamed on licensed grocers and even railway station refreshment rooms. Understandings of different male and female natures went hand in glove with anxieties about the potential effects of drinking. That alcohol might be consumed in secret, at home, triggered concerns about the shameful state of womanhood and the risks for the domestic space and state of the family. This secrecy, and an apparent absence of reliable evidence as to the scale of the problem, is central to the methodological challenge and argument in this article. Using their knowledge of and putative responsibilities for the private sphere, women in the temperance movement organized against the grocer. The article analyses published accounts of women’s work in the Church of England Temperance Society, the British Women’s Temperance Association, and Women’s Total Abstinence Union. It argues that their efforts, rooted in private and domestic imperatives, tested the social and spatial reach of women’s reform work. Acting against the grocer helped women to articulate a distinctively public model of sober citizenship.

scholarly journals Theology of the family in the final documents of the General Latin American Episcopal Conferences

2021 ◽  
pp. 81-94
Author(s):  
Ryszard Hajduk
Keyword(s):  
Central America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Social Situation ◽  
The People ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
Latin American Theology ◽  
Original Interpretation ◽  
The Church

The final documents from the General Conferences of the Latin American Bishops (CELAM) held in Medellín (1968), Pueblo (1979), Santo Domingo (1992) and in Aparecida (2007) present the fruits of reflecting on the situation of the family in South America, Central America and the Caribbean, as well as its role in the Church and its importance in shaping social life. Consequently, one can speak of a Latin American theology of the family, which draws its impetus from the teaching of the universal Church, and at the same time has specific features. It is distinguished by the emphasis placed on the subjectivity of families in the saving mission of the Church and treating them as a “theological key”, opening the way to getting to know God's mysteries. It is a practice-oriented theology that gives concrete guidelines to families and their pastors. The character of Latin American theology of the family is influenced by the pastoral context and theological trends, born in South and Central America (liberation theology, indigenous theology and theology of the people). Latin American theology of the family is therefore not a repetition of the contents of the Magisterium of the universal Church, but their original interpretation, taking into account the social situation and the needs of people living in it.

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