scholarly journals Religious-Secular Reality of Individual Consciousness In The Context of COVID-19

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonid MOZGHOVYI ◽  
Volodymyr MULIAR ◽  
Olena STEPANOVA ◽  
Vitaliy IGNATYEV ◽  
Viacheslav STEPANOV
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Regulation ◽  
Religious Values ◽  
Religious Knowledge ◽  
Religious Consciousness ◽  
Social Nature ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Individual Consciousness ◽  
Widespread Dissemination

The question of the secularity of society still remains open, since scientists have proposed only cautious speculative answers, while every scientist understands that in the social sciences it is a sad experience of predictions, that history is random and therefore unpredictable and the future always remains fundamentally open. The process of transformation of postmodern society, the development of which is actively influenced by the current pandemy of COVID-19, entailed the revival of religious values ​​and the formation of a qualitatively new religious consciousness. In connection with the rise in the social status of religious consciousness and the widespread dissemination of religious ideas, primarily at the everyday level, the analysis of individual religious consciousness as one of the ways to comprehend the world is of particular importance. The social nature of religious consciousness is manifested not only in the fact that religious values ​​are perceived as a kind of khanism of social regulation, but also in the fact that they serve as epistemological guidelines and often compete with scientific values. This determines the growing philosophical interest in the analysis of the epistemological functions of religion and secular reality, as well as the cognitive capabilities of religious consciousness, which is impossible without a consistent study of the methodological basis of religious knowledge.

The Everyday in a Time of Transformation: Exploring a Single South African Lifeworld after 20 Years of Democracy

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-54
Author(s):  
P. Conrad Kotze ◽  
Jan K. Coetzee
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
Sociological Research ◽  
Contemporary Debate ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Ontological Turn ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Epistemological Framework

Transformation has come to be a defining characteristic of contemporary societies, while it has rarely been studied in a way that gives acknowledgement to both its societal effects and the experience thereof by the individual. This article discusses a recent study that attempts to do just that. The everyday life of a South African is explored within the context of changes that can be linked, more or less directly, to those that have characterized South Africa as a state since the end of apartheid in 1994. The study strives to avoid the pitfalls associated with either an empirical or solely constructivist appreciation of this phenomenon, but rather represents an integral onto-epistemological framework for the practice of sociological research. The illustrated framework is argued to facilitate an analysis of social reality that encompasses all aspects thereof, from the objectively given to the intersubjectively constructed and subjectively constituted. While not requiring extensive development on the theoretical or methodological level, the possibility of carrying out such an integral study is highlighted as being comfortably within the capabilities of sociology as a discipline. While the article sheds light on the experience of transformation, it is also intended to contribute to the contemporary debate surrounding the current “ontological turn” within the social sciences.

scholarly journals ‘What is infrastructure? What does it do?’: Anthropological perspectives on the workings of infrastructure(s)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lav Kanoi ◽  
Vanessa Koh ◽  
Al Lim ◽  
Shoko Yamada ◽  
Michael R. Dove
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
Unintended Consequences ◽  
Human Relations ◽  
Social Nature ◽  
Nature And Culture ◽  
The Social ◽  
Growing Body

Abstract Infrastructure is often thought of in big material terms: dams, buildings, roads, and so on. This study, instead, draws on literatures in anthropology and the social sciences to analyse infrastructures in relation to society and environment, and so cast current conceptions of infrastructure in a new light. Situating the analysis in context of President Biden’s recent infrastructure bill, the paper expands what is meant by and included in discussions of infrastructure. The study examines what it means for different kinds of material infrastructures to function (and for whom) or not, and also consider how the immaterial infrastructure of human relations are manifested in, for example, labour, as well as how infrastructures may create intended or unintended consequences in enabling or disabling social processes. Further, in this study, we examine concepts embedded in thinking about infrastructure such as often presumed distinctions between the technical and the social, nature and culture, the human and the non-human, and the urban and the rural, and how all of these are actually implicated in thinking about infrastructure. Our analysis, thus, draws from a growing body of work on infrastructure in anthropology and the social sciences, enriches it with ethnographic insights from our own field research, and so extends what it means to study ‘infrastructures’ in the 21st century.

Disentangling the Translational Sciences: A Social Science Perspective

2010 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 56-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louis D. Burgio
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Research Literature ◽  
Community Settings ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Services Research ◽  
Community Based ◽  
The Social ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Widespread Dissemination

In this article the author first attempts to disentangle a number of issues in translational science from a social science perspective. As expected in a fledgling field of study being approached from various disciplines, there are marked differences in the research literature on terminology, definition of terms, and conceptualization of staging of clinical research from the pilot phase to widespread dissemination in the community. The author asserts that translational efforts in the social sciences are at a crossroads, and its greatest challenge involves the movement of interventions gleaned from clinical trials to community settings. Four strategies for reaching this goal are discussed: the use of methods derived from health services research, a yet-to-be-developed strategy where decisions to modify aspects of an intervention derived from a clinical trial are triggered by data-based criteria, community based participatory action research (CBPR), and a hybrid system wherein methods from CBPR and traditional experimental procedures are combined to achieve translation. The author ends on an optimistic note, emphasizing the impressive advances in the area over the existing barriers and calling for a unified interdisciplinary science of translation.

scholarly journals THE PROBLEM OF SOCIALITY IN GERMAN CLASSICAL PHILOSOPHY: BETWEEN FREEDOM AND NECESSITY

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (46) ◽  
pp. 57
Author(s):  
O. Yatsenko
Keyword(s):  
Historical Memory ◽  
Philosophical Concept ◽  
Social Nature ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Face ◽  
Individual Consciousness ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Classical Philosophy ◽  
Transcendental Apperception ◽  
Communicative Space

The article argues that the contradiction between mathematical necessity and the philosophical concept of freedom becomes a real road stone of idealist philosophy. Based on the inherent German classical philosophy of the absolutization of the subject, extends to the internalization of universal concepts of culture as the social nature of reason and rationality. It is proved the understanding of culture as an explication of activity, which based on ethical and axiological norms, and is consolidated in a single human community. The author argues that in the dialectic of the abstract and the concrete, the essence and the existing beginning of life is completed in the forms of thinking, and this is specifically the human, cultural way of being. That is, the personification of culture in the face of the subject is a process of forming a culture of personal thinking, and universal heritage (historical memory) in the communicative space of society is extrapolated to individual consciousness, which in turn becomes the driving force of the cultural process.Key words: culture, sociality, freedom, necessity, subjectivity, thinking, transcendental apperception.

scholarly journals The Social Production of Interiority:

IDEA JOURNAL ◽  
2010 ◽  
pp. 90-101 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lubomir Savov Popov
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Design Research ◽  
Symbolic Interaction ◽  
Alternative View ◽  
Social Production ◽  
Production Of Space ◽  
Space Planning ◽  
Major Mechanism ◽  
Social Nature ◽  
The Social

Postmodern transformations in philosophy, the humanities and the social sciences have led to new ways of interpreting the social production of space and the spatialisation of social and cultural phenomena. Emergent discussions about interiors and interiority typically emphasise the social nature of space, while related research examines the complexities of socio-spatial phenomena. This paper contributes to this growing body of literature by introducing an alternative view of interiority. More specifically, the phenomenon of interiority is viewed as a by-product of the processes of the social production of space and the appropriation of space through instrumental activities and symbolic interaction. Interiority is seen as first emerging with considerations for comfort and convenience; later branching out to embrace concerns related to experience, productivity, and efficiency. More concretely, interiority can be viewed as providing the necessary conditions for social agents to undertake their activities, as well as protecting them from undesirable influences. Activity is perceived as the major mechanism for the appropriation of space and also for endowing it with the quality of interiority. By interpreting interiority this way, it becomes possible to dematerialise it and liberate it from the constraints of structures, building shells, and technical systems, as well as the problems associated with them. This alternative approach will facilitate the incorporation of knowledge and methodologies developed in the social sciences and cultural studies for the purpose of producing knowledge in the areas of design research, programming/briefing, and space planning.

Compassion

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric J. Cassell
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Social Situations ◽  
The Troubles ◽  
Social Nature ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Everyday World

Compassion is a feeling evoked by the serious troubles of another where the onlooker can identify with the sufferer and believes that it is possible that he or she might have the same difficulty. The troubles must not be self-inflicted. Discussions of compassion go back to Aristotle, although they were originally called “pity.” The idea of compassion rests on beliefs about the social nature of everyday life as well as clear evidence of identification with others, which is even found in newborns. The everyday world is a social world. The place of the internet and contemporary social media in these processes is discussed. The idea of spirit is discussed, as are the religious and philosophical origins of the idea. Social situations where compassion is absent are discussed. The importance of compassion in medicine is stressed. Suffering, its definition and its importance in compassion are covered.

scholarly journals Religious studies on the pages of the scientific journal "Mandrivets" (2005-2013)

2014 ◽  
pp. 29-33
Author(s):  
Fedir Polyanskyy
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Journal ◽  
Publishing House ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
Religious Knowledge ◽  
Joint Project ◽  
Professional Journals ◽  
Social Nature ◽  
The Social ◽  
National University

Religious studies, as a complex of academic academic disciplines, studying the social nature of religion - its history, development and place in culture and society, is being created today. Religious knowledge is formed, the controversy of reports at conferences, in the pages of monographs and professional journals takes place. An all-Ukrainian scientific journal Mandrivets, a joint project of the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy and the Mandrivets publishing house, is included in the list of scientific specialties in philology, history, philosophy, in this context.

scholarly journals Photographing prisoners: The unworthy, unpleasant and unchanging criminal body

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (5) ◽  
pp. 591-604
Author(s):  
Diana Miranda ◽  
Helena Machado
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Probation Officers ◽  
Historical Evolution ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Identification Practices ◽  
Prison Guards

The use of photography in representing the criminal body has long been a focus of interest in the social sciences, especially so when exploring the historical evolution of criminal identification practices. By contributing to the emerging field of visual criminology, this article explores current practices around photography of prisoners in the everyday contexts of the prison space. Drawing on a qualitative study conducted with prisoners, prison guards and probation officers in three Portuguese prisons, we analyse how different social actors construct the criminal body. This construction is explored through the meanings attributed to prisoners’ photographic portraits used for their identification. In particular, we discuss how their photographic documentation acts as a classification device and a visual representation of the criminal. We argue that this representation, by portraying elements of unworthiness, unpleasantness and immutability, plays a significant role in the parole board’s decisions and produce an embodied sense of identity and perpetuation of stigma.

The Contributions of Patrick Colquhoun to Social Theory and Social Philosophy

2007 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 288-320
Author(s):  
Ralph Pieris
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
French Revolution ◽  
Social Theory ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Social Philosophy ◽  
Social Regulation ◽  
Childhood And Adolescence ◽  
Grammar School ◽  
The Social ◽  
Local Grammar

AbstractBiographical details of Colquhoun's early life are remarkably scanty. Little is known of his childhood and adolescence. His only formal education was at the local grammar school, where he would have learnt Latin. At the age of sixteen, Colquhoun immigrated to America. During the five years he spent in Virginia, Colquhoun developed an interest in law, political economy, and the social sciences from his legal acquaintances there. In the year of the French Revolution, Colquhoun abandoned the pursuit of commerce and devoted himself to philanthropic and intellectual interests. Colquhoun was far in advance of his time as he argued for the compatibility of social regulation with liberty.

scholarly journals Qualidade de vida de cuidadores de pacientes hospitalizados/Pacient caregivers life quality inside the hospital

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 780-792
Author(s):  
Ana Paula Fagundes ◽  
Valéria Leite Soares
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Life Quality ◽  
Health It ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Health Quality ◽  
Structured Questionnaire

Este estudo tem como objetivo investigar a qualidade de vida e o cotidiano de cuidadores de pacientes hospitalizados. Para coleta de dados, foi utilizado como instrumento de pesquisa o WHOQOL – Bref e um questionário estruturado. Os dados foram analisados pelo programa Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS). Dos 19 sujeitos investigados, 100% eram cuidadores informais; 10,53 % não tinham laços parentais com o paciente e 89% eram do gênero feminino. Quanto à percepção destes em relação à qualidade de vida, 52,6% a consideram-na boa, e quanto ao quesito saúde, 52,6% disseram estar satisfeitos neste aspecto. Visto que a percepção em relação à qualidade de vida e saúde foi favorável, observou-se que outros fatores relacionados à qualidade de vida, como: sono, lazer, relações sociais e outros estavam prejudicados. As condições emocionais e de ambiência do hospital foram investigadas apontando fragilidades. Os resultados indicaram prejuízos na qualidade de vida e no cotidiano dos cuidadores pesquisados. AbstractThe purpose of this study is to investigate the quality of life in the everyday routine of hospitalized patient caregivers. For data collection, WHOQOL - Bref and a structured questionnaire was used as research instruments, and the data were analyzed using Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS). Of the 19 people investigated, 100% were informal caregivers; 10.53% have no parental ties with the patient; and 89% were female. Regarding the perception of these in relation to quality of life, 5.3% consider it very bad and about the health quality, 5.3% exposed being very dissatisfied while 10.5% are just dissatisfied. Despite the favorable perception of the quality of life and health, it was observed that another factors associated to life quality like sleep, leisure, social relationships and others were harmed. The emotional ambience and hospital conditions were investigated and the results indicate that the quality of life and routine of the caregivers who have participated in the survey were affected.Keywords: Caregivers; Quality of life; Occupational therapy.

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