scholarly journals Clash of Linguistic Ethnocultures and Its Effect (Iberian Region from the point of view of Historical Ethnolinguistics)

2019 ◽  
pp. 209-218
Author(s):  
N. M. Korbozerova
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Original Design ◽  
Cultural Changes ◽  
Culture Form ◽  
Social Transformations ◽  
Ambiguous Effect ◽  
Complex Relationships ◽  
Political Economic

Modern Spanish is a multi-ethnic, complex structured, hierarchical formation ofnan abstract nature that serves its communicative, cognitive, pragmatic and other needs, diverse peoples, ethnos and social groups in contemporary Spanish -speaking countries located on different continents. This language has gone the difficult way of asserting its identity and has felt the ambiguous effect of collision with other linguistic cultures in the process of socio-political, economic and cultural changes. We consider that the language is the main consolidating force of society, it participates in the complex relationships in the triad society-language-culture, and simultaneously plays a key role in social transformations and preserving national and cultural identity. A culture that relies on the language system and cannot exist without it, is a decisive factor in changes in social practices. Therefore, we regard the language as a kind of a framework for culture, and in its complex, both the language and the culture, form an indivisible phenomenon such as the linguoculture, which is inherent in a particular people, ethnicity, society. Within the limits of the theory of linguistic collision, the causes of the original design of the Iberian-Roman linguistic culture can be considered as the intrinsic processes, which were set in the crisis (in the Vth century) and the fall (in the VIth cenury) of the Roman Empire, in the collapse of the Roman linguistic culture. The effect of the contact with German and Arabic linguistic cultures were manifested in complete abandoning of German linguoculture or partial rejection of Arabic linguoculture and in the Spaniards’ awareness of their own national linguistic and cultural identity.

Expressing Political Legitimacy and Cultural Identity Through the Use of Spolia On the Ambo of Henry II

1999 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 156-183 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Rose Mathews
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Political Legitimacy ◽  
The Political ◽  
Ancient Rome ◽  
Artistic Production ◽  
Symbolic Value ◽  
Political Economic

AbstractThis paper will explore the significant role appropriated objects played in Ottonian artistic production through a close examination of the Ambo of Henry II. Created by the last Ottonian emperor for the Palace Chapel at Aachen between 1002 and 1014, the Ambo of Henry II abounds with spolia. I will argue that the spolia reused on the Ambo of Henry II presented an innovative statement of Henry II's political, economic, and cultural agenda. The spolia from ancient Rome and contemporary Byzantium portrayed Henry II as the political successor to an illustrious Roman past, and as an equal to the Byzantine emperors in the East. The luxury objects reused on the Ambo also served as commodities whose symbolic value increased dramatically when they were taken out of economic circulation and used on this precious artwork. Finally, the Islamic and Byzantine spolia on the Ambo allowed Henry II to define himself and his Western Roman Empire in terms of an Other, associating his rule with the power, prestige, and sophistication of contemporary and competitive foreign cultures.

LITHUANIAN MODERN CULTURE AND IMAGES UNDER GLOBAL TRANSFORMATION

2010 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-54
Author(s):  
Lilijana Astra
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Model ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Fundamental Question ◽  
Cultural Changes ◽  
Modern Culture ◽  
Cultural Images ◽  
Global Modernity ◽  
Cultural World ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Fundamental Values

The present day discourse of the postmodern European and national self‐identification is closely related to a fundamental question, how to evaluate theoretically the essential cultural changes under global transformation. The global technological, political, economic and socio‐cultural world powers are highligted in recent years. These powers in the national and European space reveal a unique, multicultural and global process of new images and symbols. But so far there is no any theoretical model or paradigm, which could define peculiarities of postmodern culture under global transformation. Changing European and national cultural identity is an integral part of global modernity. Identity, that is undergoing changes in global modernity, becomes an inter‐subjective cultural unity; an expression of that identity which is represented by new cultural images, beliefs, customs and a unique worldview. Lithuanian identity is still perceived as a unique cultural combination of European and national fundamental values, symbols and images. Modernioji lietuviškoji kultūra ir įvaizdžiai flobaliosios transformacijos sąlygomis Santrauka Europietiškojoje ir pasaulinėje kultūros istorijoje dar nebuvo tokio masto ir tokios apimties kultūros vertybių kaitos, kokia vyksta dėl šiuolaikinių telekomunikacijų, medijų ir transliacijų. Europos erdvėje išryškėja unikalus, daugiakultūris ir vis labiau intensyvėjantis naujųjų medijų diktuojamas globaliųjų įvaizdžių bei simbolių judėjimas. Dėl šiuolaikinio globaliojo daugiakultūriškumo poveikio europietiškieji ir nacionaliniai tapatumai patiria milžinišką perkaitą, nes jie nėra baigtiniai ir statiški, bet, atvirkščiai, kintantys, nuolat formuojami ir rekonstruojami. Šiuolaikinėje globalybėje didelį poveikį tapatumui daro virtualiosios informacijos pobūdis ir naujoji medijų kultūra, diktuojanti masinės sąmonės įvaizdžius, formas. Kultūrinės kaitos požiūriu tai reiškia, kad šiuolaikiniame pasaulyje jau nebelieka uždarų etninių bendruomenių ir kultūrų. Visas jas veikia ir susieja naujųjų medijų diktuojamų globaliųjų įvaizdžių, formų ir masinės kultūros produkcijos srautai. Globalizacijos procesai, keisdami nacionalines kultūras, skatina daugiakultūrių procesų savikūrą. Globaliųjų pokyčių kontekste europietiškoji tapatybė tampa unikaliu daugiakomponenčiu kultūriniu junginiu, grindžiamu daugialype ir skirtinga savęs identifikacija. Daugialypis identitetas gali egzistuoti tik tada, kai europietiškasis ir tautinis identitetas nėra supriešinamas, nėra suvokiamas kaip kartą ir visiems laikams susiformavusi konstanta. Europietiškasis arba europiečio identitetas savo ruožtu suvokiamas kaip buvimo europietiškosios kultūros dalimi jausmas. Todėl šiandien globalių daugiakultūrių pokyčių ir daugialypio identiteto pažinimas bei teorinių prieigų formavimas išlieka aktualiausiu teoriniu uždaviniu.

scholarly journals Socio-philosophical and legal analysis of the development of a technogenic society through the process of technologization

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (Extra-B) ◽  
pp. 157-164
Author(s):  
Sergei Igorevich Pelevin ◽  
Bagdat Saginganovna Rakhmetulina ◽  
Alexey Mikhailovich Vasiliev
Keyword(s):  
Political System ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Legal Analysis ◽  
Cultural Changes ◽  
Systematic Analysis ◽  
Social Transformations ◽  
Development Cycle ◽  
Fundamental Reason

The article examines the main key technologization of modern society as a fundamental reason for the value and socio-cultural changes in public life. Therefore, for a socio-philosophical analysis of social transformations, it is not enough to study only the processes taking place in the economy or political system. For a systematic analysis of social transformations, it is necessary to take into account exactly what changes are taking place in the culture and social system, the development cycle of which is much longer than in the economy or in the industrial sphere; what changes in culture follow economic and political reforms and how these processes are interconnected. In addition, the problem of technologization of modern society is important, which is considered from the point of view of the value and dangers of technocratism and the identification of technocratic thinking and rationality, as well as problems and prospects for the development of a technogenic society in the modern world.

scholarly journals URBAN MAGNETISM IN THE GLOBAL CITY FRAMEWORK: EXPLORING THE LINK BETWEEN URBAN FUNCTIONS AND POPULATION GROWTH

2021 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 4-21
Author(s):  
Jelena J. Stanković ◽  
Ivana Marjanović ◽  
Saša Drezgić
Keyword(s):  
Management Strategies ◽  
Living Environment ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Global Cities ◽  
Cultural Changes ◽  
Urban Quality Of Life ◽  
Key Factor ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
The City ◽  
Urban Functions

Dynamics in global processes have led to a number of political, economic and cultural changes that have resulted in the emergence of global cities. In the hierarchy of global cities, those who successfully use the limited available resources and offer an adaptable and flexible living environment, represent the most competitive global cities. Nonetheless, accelerated globalization has conditioned direct competition of global cities for different resources, and one of the most desirable being highly-skilled, talented and creative residents. In such conditions, city leaders face the need to understand the concept and factors of urban magnetism. The analysis of the determinants of urban magnetism can facilitate the formulation of concrete actions aimed at increasing the attractiveness of the city, which ultimately leads to the preservation of long-term socio-economic development of cities. Although financial wellbeing and incentives were considered to be a key factor of urban magnetism, contemporary research approaches have emphasized other factors that may influence urban attractiveness. Starting from that point of view, this paper aims to identify the main urban functions that influence the cities’ size with an analysis focusing on global cities worldwide. The panel regression analysis is applied to the sample of 39 global cities over the period from 2013 until 2019 and the data on urban functions are obtained from the Global Power City Index (GPCI). The results indicate that the size of the global cities population is positively affected by urban functions related to the cultural interaction and accessibility, while research and development function influences negatively on the size of the urban population. Results of the paper led to the conclusion that contemporary urban management strategies need to be defined and implemented aimed at improving the urban magnetism beyond economic performance of the city, focusing on sustainability and urban quality of life.

Conceptual Foundations of Civilizational Transformations in Contemporary Social Philosophy

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 405-413
Author(s):  
Stanislav A. Malchenkov
Keyword(s):  
Systems Analysis ◽  
Scientific Literature ◽  
Social Philosophy ◽  
Cultural Development ◽  
Cultural Changes ◽  
Social Transformations ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Code ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Conceptual Foundations

Introduction. The relevance of the analysis of civilizational transformations in Russia is explained, first of all, by the vast vicissitudes of its political, economic and socio-cultural development in recent decades. The importance of the topic is growing, since the content of the philosophical problem in the period of building a multipolar world is supplemented by geopolitical components. Methods. The work used historical and dialectical methods, as well as systems analysis. Results. In modern scientific research, the ideas of linear and cyclical development are no longer opposed to each other as rigidly as was customary in the 19th – 20th centuries. The development of the concept of “axial time” by K. Jaspers leads to the idea that local civilizations, throughout their development, undergo significant transformations, while maintaining their own uniqueness. The concept of “civilizational transformations” is closely related to the category of “social transformations” that has developed in the scientific literature, however, it focuses primarily on cultural changes that cover the spiritual sphere of society. Discussion and Conclusion. At present, there is a need to include the concept of “civilizational transformations” in the scientific circulation, which in its most general form describes all possible changes in civilization on the way of its development. Civilizational transformations not only change the social code in the spiritual sphere, but also significantly affect the transformation of social, political and economic institutions.

scholarly journals Toponyms and the Political and Ethnic Identity in Serbia

2012 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ljubiša Rajić
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
The Political ◽  
Cultural Changes ◽  
Personal Names ◽  
Research Institutes ◽  
Political Relations ◽  
State Administration ◽  
Sport Clubs ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Name Changes

In the course of the last 150 years about 25 place-name changes have taken place in Belgrade. Some were more significant than others, and some of the renamed places have suffered as many as six name changes. These changes are part of a blanket process that includes renaming of state administration institutions, research institutes, schools, universities, factories, museums, sport clubs, etc., as well as personal names. This process reflects political, economic, demographic, and cultural changes serving the purpose of constructing and reconstructing political, ethnic, religious, and cultural identity, as well as political relations, and history. In this paper the author discusses this renaming process, its causes and consequences, as well as its potential for constructing and reconstructing reality.

Monumentality and the Roman Empire

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edmund Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Full Length ◽  
Classical Antiquity ◽  
Early Modern Europe ◽  
Close Link ◽  
The Public ◽  
Roman Italy

The quality of "monumentality" is attributed to the buildings of few historical epochs or cultures more frequently or consistently than to those of the Roman Empire. It is this quality that has helped to make them enduring models for builders of later periods. This extensively illustrated book, the first full-length study of the concept of monumentality in Classical Antiquity, asks what it is that the notion encompasses and how significant it was for the Romans themselves in molding their individual or collective aspirations and identities. Although no single word existed in antiquity for the qualities that modern authors regard as making up that term, its Latin derivation--from monumentum, "a monument"--attests plainly to the presence of the concept in the mentalities of ancient Romans, and the development of that notion through the Roman era laid the foundation for the classical ideal of monumentality, which reached a height in early modern Europe. This book is also the first full-length study of architecture in the Antonine Age--when it is generally agreed the Roman Empire was at its height. By exploring the public architecture of Roman Italy and both Western and Eastern provinces of the Roman Empire from the point of view of the benefactors who funded such buildings, the architects who designed them, and the public who used and experienced them, Edmund Thomas analyzes the reasons why Roman builders sought to construct monumental buildings and uncovers the close link between architectural monumentality and the identity and ideology of the Roman Empire itself.

scholarly journals Verbena officinalis Verbenaceae (Lamiales): a new plant model system for phyllotaxis research

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beata Zagórska-Marek ◽  
Magdalena Turzańska ◽  
Klaudia Chmiel
Keyword(s):  
Vascular System ◽  
Cumulative Effect ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Theoretical Point ◽  
Inflorescence Axis ◽  
Organ Identity ◽  
Lateral Organ ◽  
Complex Relationships ◽  
Secondary Transitions

AbstractPhyllotactic diversity and developmental transitions between phyllotactic patterns are not fully understood. The plants studied so far, such as Magnolia, Torreya or Abies, are not suitable for experimental work, and the most popular model plant, Arabidopsis thaliana, does not show sufficient phyllotactic variability. It has been found that in common verbena (Verbena officinalis L.), a perennial, cosmopolitan plant, phyllotaxis differs not only between growth phases in primary transitions but also along the indeterminate inflorescence axis in a series of multiple secondary transitions. The latter are no longer associated with the change in lateral organ identity, and the sequence of phyllotactic patterns is puzzling from a theoretical point of view. Data from the experiments in silico, confronted with empirical observations, suggest that secondary transitions might be triggered by the cumulative effect of fluctuations in the continuously decreasing bract primordia size. The most important finding is that the changes in the primary vascular system, associated with phyllotactic transitions, precede those taking place at the apical meristem. This raises the question of the role of the vascular system in determining primordia initiation sites, and possibly challenges the autonomy of the apex. The results of this study highlight the complex relationships between various systems that have to coordinate their growth and differentiation in the developing plant shoot. Common verbena emerges from this research as a plant that may become a new model suitable for further studies on the causes of phyllotactic transitions.

Explaining the Epigraphic Habit in the Roman Empire: The Evidence of Epitaphs

1990 ◽  
Vol 80 ◽  
pp. 74-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth A. Meyer
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
North Africa ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Right ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Over Time

It is now notorious that the production of inscriptions in the Roman Empire was not constant over time, but rose over the first and second centuries A.D. and fell in the third. Ramsay MacMullen pointed this out more than five years ago, with conclusions more cautionary than explanatory: ‘history is not being written in the right way’, he said, for historians have deduced Rome's decline from evidence that–since it appears only epigraphically–has merely disappeared for its own reasons, or have sought general explanations of decline in theories political, economic, or even demographic in nature, none of which can, in turn, explain the disappearance of epigraphy itself. Why this epigraphic habit rose and fell MacMullen left open to question, although he did postulate control by a ‘sense of audience’. The purpose of this paper is to propose that this ‘sense of audience’ was not generalized or generic, but depended on a belief in the value of romanization, of which (as noted but not explained by MacMullen's article) the epigraphic habit is also a rough indicator. Epitaphs constitute the bulk of all provincial inscriptions and in form and number are (generally speaking) the consequence of a provincial imitation of characteristically Roman practices, an imitation that depended on the belief that Roman legal status and style were important, and that may indeed have ultimately depended, at least in North Africa, on the acquisition or prior possession of that status. Such status-based motivations for erecting an epitaph help to explain not only the chronological distribution of epitaphs but also the differences in the type and distribution of epitaphs in the western and eastern halves of the empire. They will be used here moreover to suggest an explanation for the epigraphic habit as a whole.

Inclusive vis-à-vis Exclusionary Constitution: An Analysis of the Current Constitutions of Nepal and Bhutan from Ethnic Lens

2021 ◽  
pp. 097639962097863
Author(s):  
Krishna Prasad Pandey
Keyword(s):  
South Asia ◽  
Ethnic Minorities ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Parliamentary Democracy ◽  
Narrow Sense ◽  
Large Section ◽  
Royal Decree ◽  
Constituent Assembly ◽  
Democratic Rights ◽  
Political Economic

Nepal and Bhutan, two Shangri-las of South Asia, share similar geo-political features but substantially differ in terms of demographic size and ethno-political history. The Constitution of Nepal 2015 which was promulgated by the second Constituent Assembly formed in 2013 came up with its inclusive character as it secured reasonable space for the ethnic minorities and owned their political, economic and cultural concerns. On the contrary, Bhutan adopted a different course in terms of accommodating ethnic and minority aspirations, although the country has also chosen parliamentary democracy in a narrow sense since 2008. From constitutional point of view, Nepal’s move from a liberal to an inclusive constitution made strenuous effort to bring all sections of Nepali society on board but Bhutan’s shift from a royal decree to an exclusionary constitution consciously left a large section of minority behind by suppressing their legitimate claims for basic democratic rights. This article explores the inclusive and exclusionary characters of the current constitutions of these countries from ethnic perspective.

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