The Social Impacts of Televised Media among the Yucatec Maya

1998 ◽  
Vol 57 (3) ◽  
pp. 307-314 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cynthia Miller
Keyword(s):  
Television Viewing ◽  
Social Role ◽  
Yucatec Maya ◽  
Household Economy ◽  
Role Performance ◽  
The Social ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Direct Contrast ◽  
The Media ◽  
And Behavior

The development of the Yucatan region has brought a wide range of new issues and pressures to indigenous Maya communities. Many of these are transmitted through the discourse of televised media, which is becoming increasingly popular among the rural Maya. Televised programming depicts an array of values, social roles, and behavior patterns that are in direct contrast to Yucatec Mayan culture. As exposure to the media and its urban orientation becomes more accessible, and contact between national and local cultures through the televised media increases, members of the Yucatec Mayan community of Yalcoba are rapidly renegotiating their senses of self and community. The tensions and contradictions that result from the political economy of television viewing are highly evident in how people talk about their consumption of televised media, as well as in emerging contrasts regarding language, social role performance, and household economy.

scholarly journals Memory in Linguistic Narrative vs. Postmodern Multitasked Multimedia Art Memory

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 101
Author(s):  
Vesna Srnic ◽  
Emina Berbic Kolar ◽  
Igor Ilic
Keyword(s):  
Short Term Memory ◽  
Social Role ◽  
Procedural Memory ◽  
Short Term ◽  
The Social ◽  
Multimedia Art ◽  
The Media

<p><em>In addition to the well-known classification of long-term and short-term memory, we are also interested in distinguishing episodic, semantic and procedural memory in the areas of linguistic narrative and multimedial semantic deconstruction in postmodernism. We compare the liveliness of memorization in literary tradition and literature art with postmodernist divisions and reverberations of traditional memorizations through human multitasking and performative multimedia art, as well as formulate the existence of creative, intuitive and superhuman paradigms.</em></p><em>Since the memory can be physical, psychological or spiritual, according to neurobiologist Dr. J. Bauer (Das Gedächtnis des Körpers, 2004), the greatest importance for memorizing has the social role of collaboration, and consequently the personal transformation and remodelling of genomic architecture, yet the media theorist Mark Hansen thinks technology brings different solutions of framing function (Hansen, 2000). We believe that postmodern deconstruction does not necessarily damage memory, especially in the field of human multitasking that utilizes multimedia performative art by means of anthropologization of technology, thereby enhancing artistic and affective pre&amp;post-linguistic experience while unifying technology and humans through intuitive empathy in society.</em>

Journalistic Organizations: Arenas for Professional and Symbolic Struggles

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Florence Le Cam
Keyword(s):  
Trade Unions ◽  
Social Role ◽  
National Level ◽  
Media Companies ◽  
Employment Conditions ◽  
General Terms ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Media ◽  
The 19Th Century

From the end of the 19th century until the present, journalists have created associations, trade unions, clubs, and major international networks to organize workers, defend their rights, set out their duties, establish rules of good conduct, and structure their professional journalistic skills. These journalistic organizations are central actors in the history of the professionalization of journalistic groups around the world. They have enabled journalists to make their demands public, exchange views with journalists from other countries, and sometimes even promote and achieve legal recognition of their profession. In general terms, they have provided journalists with fora to discuss their working conditions, their profession, and the social role of the media and journalism. In this way, they have helped to structure not only discourses and practices, but also networks of solidarity at both national and international levels. These organizations can exist in different arenas: within media companies, at the national level, or internationally. And, despite their variety over time, they have often pursued similar objectives: protect journalists’ pay and employment conditions and status; conceive strategies to maintain a certain form of autonomy in authoritarian political contexts; nourish international networking ambitions that have made it possible to disseminate ways of doing and thinking journalism; and finally generate a set of actions that aims to defend the ethics of journalism, the quality of news, and the lives of journalists.

To the Question about a Social Role of the Critical Text Author and Its Linguistic Actualization

10.12737/7779 ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-55 ◽  
Author(s):  
Кремер ◽  
Inessa Kremer
Keyword(s):  
Social Role ◽  
Main Attention ◽  
The Social ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Critical Text

The article dwells upon the social role of the critical text author and its linguistic realization. Theoretical aspects of the problem are introduced. A wide range of verbal means for the expression of the social role of the peer reviewer is presented. Objective and subjective positions of the peer reviewer are elicited as a result of the analisis. The main attention is drawn to the personally-oriented analysis of the critical text.

The Social History of Alcohol as Portrayed in the Comics up to the End of the Prohibition Era

1986 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 585-608 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sylvia Lambert ◽  
Stephen Israelstam
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social History ◽  
The United States ◽  
Considerable Effect ◽  
Comic Strips ◽  
Daily Newspapers ◽  
The Social ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Media

The mass media tend to shape the values and opinions of their audience as well as reflect the culture in which they exist. The comics have long been an integral part of the media, appealing to a wide range of age and social class. As such, they could have considerable effect on attitudes and behaviours regarding alcohol consumption. In this paper, we examine the comic strips appearing in the daily newspapers before, during and up to the end of the Prohibition era in the United States, to see how alcohol was portrayed during this period when its manufacture and sale were prohibited.

scholarly journals From Mediation to Mediatisation: the Migration Issue

Monitor ISH ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-94
Author(s):  
Karmen Medica
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Power ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Collective Identities ◽  
The Public ◽  
Migrant Communities ◽  
The Social ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Media

The interaction between media and migrants is an integral part of the everyday social context at all levels of modern society, institutional and non-institutional alike. Such dynamism promotes a wide range of social changes and processes. These processes have recently come to be marked by a transition from mediation to mediatisation. While mediation is simply a transfer or transmission of communication by the media, mediatisation involves the active impact of the media on communication in the social and cultural contexts within which this impact can be understood and interpreted. Mediatisation refers to the broader (meta)changes of the media and forms of communication, which in turn cause changes in daily life and in personal and collective identities, as well as in social relations and in society as a whole. Mediatisation is increasingly changing the relationship between the media and society. In the context of the EU, the reporting on migrants tends to be depersonalised. This encourages generalisation, which in its turn reinforces stereotypes and fails to convey a realistic picture of the situation. Another problem identified is the lack of distinctly profiled individuals who could function as representatives of the migrant communities. Moreover, both media and journalists often neglect information coming from direct immigrant sources. The result of this vicious circle is confirmed by the general opinion that migrants typically appear only in cases diverging from the standard, with a strong emphasis on sensational presentation. The integration of migrant communities largely depends on how much they are recognised, identified and found attractive at least by a part of the public. Changes in the form and means of communication further change the forms of grouping and forms of social power. The changes in dealing with migrant issues become evident at three levels: in the media, in politics, and in everyday life.

scholarly journals The Limits of Hegemony?

2015 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-30
Author(s):  
Ľuboš Blaha
Keyword(s):  
Behavior Patterns ◽  
Public Official ◽  
Business World ◽  
The Public ◽  
Official Discourse ◽  
Marginalized Groups ◽  
The Social ◽  
Regulative Principle ◽  
The Media ◽  
And Behavior

Abstract In this study I will try to put forward the views of the social theorists and critics who consider “postmodern culture” (Jameson) as deeply manipulative. The fundamental patterns of the system of the ideology preach to the spread of the values of consumerism, individualism and hedonism (Fromm). As the study shows, the media play a key role in spreading these values (Chomsky). The media became the main “ideological apparatus” (Althusser) and the business world, the world of culture and politics is controlled by these media. Economic system thus gains support of the population and can reproduce itself. According to some interpretations there is no escape from the environment of the systemic manipulation (Jameson, Foucault, Marcuse), but there are also opinions according to which systemic indoctrination can intervene only in the public - official discourse, but not culture and behavior patterns of marginalized groups (Scott, Bloch, Williams). I will try to interpret and analyze systematically these two intuitive views. In this context, I will develop the thesis that the value of truth, not as an epistemologically or metaphysically regulative principle, but as a socio-emancipating force which can have in the environment of the absolute manipulation a decisive impact in the formulation of alternative to the current (post)modern global-capitalist society. The study is based on the author's book Matrix of Capitalism: Is the Revolution Coming? (Veda, Bratislava 2011).

Three questions to start the sociological study of heroism

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 169-180
Author(s):  
I. V. Trotsuk ◽  
M. V. Subbotina
Keyword(s):  
Social Representations ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Sociological Study ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Media ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
Sociological Studies ◽  
Public Opinion Polls

Despite the understandable and predictable lack of sociological interest in the issues related to heroism, the search for clear and unambiguous conceptual and empirical definitions of the hero in the contemporary society seems to be a relevant sociological task, especially under the current pandemic which made the criteria of heroism interesting for the wider public. The authors briefly outline the main aspects of the traditional scientific interpretations of heroism as presented in the social-cultural narratives worldwide, and proceed to the issues that constitute the field of the sociological studies on heroism. The first research question is not so much a single definition of the hero as types of heroes based on social representations of when and how heroes reveal themselves in decisions and actions. The authors rely on the traditional typologies of heroes usually based on the psychological aspects of heroic thinking and behavior to suggest a sociologically relevant typology based on both literature and the Russian public opinion polls. This typology implies answers to the questions of why the society needs heroes and what makes someone a hero in the eyes of the society, and allows to better understand and to more precisely define the false/pseudo/antiheroism. The second research question is about the sources of images and understanding of heroism, which focuses on the mass media and especially cinemas potential to represent certain social practices as heroic and to construct heroic images. The third research question is about the possibilities of the empirical sociological study of the types of heroes and their representation in the media (cinema). The authors argue that sociology should use its own methods (in a combination with techniques for studying the audiences perception of movies) - content analysis and surveys, especially the unfinished sentences technique, and provide some examples of how this can be done, for instance, to compare the social representations of a real hero and a movie hero among different age groups and generations. The authors conclude with mentioning a new issue associated with heroism, which became evident under the pandemic - changes in the social representations of heroism determined by heroization of healthcare workers due to their selfless fight against the coronavirus epidemic.

The social role performance of depressed women: Comparisons with a normal group.

1971 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 390-405 ◽  
Author(s):  
Myrna M. Weissman ◽  
Eugene S. Paykel ◽  
Risé Siegel ◽  
Gerald L. Klerman
Keyword(s):  
Social Role ◽  
Normal Group ◽  
Role Performance ◽  
The Social

scholarly journals Personal: Mapeando uma Nova Profissão no Mercado de Serviços Pessoais

ILUMINURAS ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (52) ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Luisa Célia Escalona de Dios
Keyword(s):  
Service Providers ◽  
Social Role ◽  
Specific Knowledge ◽  
Personalized Services ◽  
The Social ◽  
Personal Services ◽  
Cultural Mediators ◽  
Professional Field ◽  
The Media

Resumo: O artigo trata do surgimento de uma nova profissão, a de personal, que prestam serviços pessoais. Os prestadores de serviço que atuam nesse mercado se autointitulam  personal destacando a natureza individualizada dos serviços e se anunciam como especialistas por deterem um conhecimento específico. Busco evidenciar por meio de uma etnografia como surge na sociedade brasileira a ideia de serviços personalizados – personal, quais são as condições que tornaram possíveis o surgimento desta profissão e como esses profissionais se legitimam no mercado. Para tal sigo  de três caminhos: procurei compreender como se constrói essa oferta a partir do mapeamento dessa nova profissão denominada de personal por meio de um levantamento na mídia. Na sequência analiso o papel social exercido pelos personals recorrendo ao recurso conceitual de medidor cultural e por último busco compreender como se estrutura esse campo profisisonal por meio das trajetórias dos interlocutores.Palavras-chave: Personal. Serviços pessoais. Precarização. Empreendedorismo. Mediadores culturais Abstract: The article deals with the emergence of a new profession, called personal, who provides personal services. Service providers operating in this market call themselves personal, highlighting the individualized nature of the services, and announce themselves as specialists for having a specific knowledge. I seek to show through an ethnography how the idea of personalized services - personal, which are the conditions that made the emergence of this profession possible and how these professionals legitimize themselves in the market. For this I follow three ways: I tried to understand how to build this offer by mapping this new profession called personal through a survey in the media. In the following I analyze the social role played by the personals using the conceptual resource of cultural meter and finally I try to understand how this professional field is structured through the trajectories of the informants.Keywords: Personal. Personal services. Job insecuruty. Entrepreneurship. Cultural mediators

scholarly journals “DE QUEM...É...O PRÓXIMO...EX?” – COMUNICAÇÃO, IMAGEM E PERFORMANCE NO REALITY SHOW DE FÉRIAS COM O EX BRASIL

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 146-163
Author(s):  
Manuela do Corral Vieira ◽  
Erick Matheus Nery
Keyword(s):  
Selection Process ◽  
Narrative Structure ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Social Stereotypes ◽  
Reality Show ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Media ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
Image Performance

O De Férias Com o Ex Brasil é um reality show que focaliza relacionamentos amorosos. Líder de audiência entre o público jovem brasileiro, o programa apresenta estereótipos de beleza e comportamentos, trabalhando com as performances sociais dos participantes. O presente artigo discute a forma como o reality show, um programa de simulação da realidade, constrói padrões de beleza e de comportamento, problematizando tal estratégia. Como percurso metodológico, foram analisados a estrutura narrativa dos episódios da segunda temporada da atração e o processo de seleção dos participantes. A pesquisa está centrada nos estudos acerca da imagem, performance e comunicação, onde foi possível verificar como a construção de estereótipos sociais passa pelo discurso midiático.   PALAVRAS-CHAVE: Estereótipo; Performance; Corpo e Comunicação; Reality Show; De Férias Com o Ex Brasil..     ABSTRACT The Ex On The Beach Brazil is a reality show that focuses on loving relationships. Audience leader among the young Brazilian public, the program present’s stereotypes of beauty and behaviors, working with the social performances of the participants. This article discusses how the reality show, a reality simulation program, constructs patterns of beauty and behavior, problematizing such a strategy. As a methodological course, the narrative structure of the episodes of the second season of attraction and the selection process of the participants were analyzed. The research is centered on studies about image, performance and communication, where it was possible to verify how the construction of social stereotypes goes through the media discourse.   KEYWORDS: Stereotype; Performance; Body and Communication; Reality Show; Ex On The Beach Brazil.     RESUMEN El reality show La Venganza de Los Ex Brasil es un formato que se centra en las relaciones amorosas. Líder de audiencia entre el público joven brasileño, el programa presenta estereotipos de belleza y comportamientos, trabajando con las performances sociales de los participantes. El presente artículo discute la forma en que el reality show, un programa de simulación de la realidad, construye estándares de belleza y de comportamiento, problematizando tal estrategia. Como recorrido metodológico, se analizaron la estructura narrativa de los episodios de la segunda temporada de la atracción y el proceso de selección de los participantes. La investigación se centra en los estudios sobre la imagen, la performance y la comunicación, donde fue posible verificar cómo la construcción de estereotipos sociales pasa por el discurso mediático.   PALABRAS CLAVE: Estereotipo; Performance; Cuerpo y Comunicación; Reality Show; La Venganza de Los Ex Brasil.

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