scholarly journals Systemic Intertextuality. A Morphogenetic Perspective

Text Matters ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 433-445
Author(s):  
Tomasz Burzyński

If late modern literary production is structured by any principles rendering order to the otherwise nebular character of the process, this is the idea of intertextuality that paves the way for the dissolution of well entrenched structures, literary conventions and institutionalized canons. By fostering and facilitating the erosion of boundaries between elite and popular culture, mechanisms of intertextuality show that literature is not only a fixed collection of texts, but also a dynamic social system including structured practices of production and reception together with their institutional, cultural and technological determinants. The paper aims to provide a sociologically-oriented model of intertextual relations taking place within the social system of literature. In this context, circulation, dissemination, and recycling of literary motifs is viewed from a perspective of morphogenetic processes which result in the structural elaboration and systemic change due to the mobilization of social, cultural, and economic capitals in an effort to alter pre-existent practices of signification. Consequently, literature is discussed as an intertextual system in statu nascendi, a sphere of social practices that knows no sense of institutional boundaries or structural constraints.

1999 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-121 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Middleton ◽  
Helen L. Hewitt

This work represents the development of two lines of interest, one in the study of social practices of remembering and the other concerning issues of identity in the care of people with profound learning difficulties. We examine of the way life story work is used as a resource in providing for continuities in the experience of people with profound learning difficulties when moved from hospital to community based care. Our concern is the way carers attend to issues of identity in their relationships with people who are unable to speak on their own behalf. We discuss how identities are accomplished as part of the social practice of remembering in the construction of life story books designed to resource continuities of identities across changes in the provision of care. Identities are not examined in terms of some subjective representation of coherence across time and space. We examine the way social organisation of remembering in life story work makes visible identities in terms of continuities of participation in the social practices that make up the conditions of living of the recipients of care and the working practices of those who provide it.


2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (S-1) ◽  
pp. 70-76
Author(s):  
Padmavathi R

Morgan found that the adi from of the clans formed on the basis of maternal rights, from which the clans based on paternal rights later developed. In this way we understand that the castes we see among the people who are tired of the ancient Social civilization are based on paternal rights and before that there were Social clans with maternal rights. As important as Darwin’s theory of evolution way in biology and how important Marx’s Philosophy of surplus value was in the field of Political, Economy, so important is the discovery that there was a Primitive maternal right that preceded patriarchy in civilized populations. The Social system that forgot this historical background enslaved the woman. set her aside from production. She was stripped of her rights and made to kneel before the man the began to paint her limbs. Myths about women and literary evidence in written form spilled out of masculine thought. Thus, the women become the most physically vulnerable in the attack on the country. In his poems, he shows the way in which the Tamil community considers activities that are considered sacred and pure. Malati Maitri writes about Social liberation, questioning the sacred practices of sacrifice, family morality, domesticity, motherhood and affection.


2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-36
Author(s):  
Katja Kanzler

Abstract The following article outlines a way to conceptualize invective form in popular culture that is particularly interested in accommodating the range, fluidity, and slipperiness that define pop-cultural invectivity. It is an approach that draws on one very well-established concept of formal criticism – that of mode – and one concept that has recently been brought to the fold of formalist inquiry – that of affordance. I will argue that conceiving of invective form in popular culture as a mode and as an affordance allows to address the diversity and range of external forms by which pop-cultural invectivity operates. In addition, it brings into focus the fluidity that marks the repertoire of invective popular culture, its paradoxical tendency to gravitate toward routinization in more set conventions, only to conspicuously push against these conventions’ boundaries. Finally, to conceive of the invective valence of the mode’s repertoire not as a fixed property but as an affordance helps talk about the volatility and dynamism of invective performances in popular culture, the way in which their invective effects are contingent on the social positionality from and for which they realized, and the way in which their invective valence is open for resignification.


2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine Vinum ◽  
Morten Nissen

This paper aims to reflect on research findings from different empirical studies of social work with young drug users and socially excluded young people in Copenhagen. In the paper we account for historical changes in social policy and interventions into young people's drug taking in Copenhagen, and we discuss some of the most central dilemmas in today's social work with young drug users. Among other things, we identify pervasive marginalizing dynamics in the social system that result partly from the deep-rooted cultural dichotomy between stigma and taboo that organizes the drug issue, and partly from the decentralizing and specializing efforts characteristic of the Danish welfare state and its institutions. We discuss a general turn towards street level interventions to address the problems of social exclusion, as well as different attempts to create what we term street level heterotopias - sites of alternate ordering - where issues of drug use and other social problems can be dealt with and objectified in more flexible ways and handled as part of ongoing social practices of everyday life.


Legal Theory ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 265-292 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Noah Smith

A central tenet of positivism is that social practices are at the foundations of law. This has been cashed out in a variety of ways. For example, Austin argues that, among other practices, a habit of obedience to a sovereign is at the foundations of law, and Hart argues that at the foundations of law is the converging attitudes and behaviors of a class of relevant officials. Since Hart, some prominent positivists have employed either David Lewis's analysis of conventions or Michael Bratman's theory of shared cooperative activities to develop new accounts of the social practices that are at the foundations of law, whatever those foundations might be. In this paper, I identify five features characteristic of the Lewisean and Bratmanian models of social facts—models of what I call hypercommittal social practices. I then show that models of social facts that have these features ought not to be used to explain the way in which a social practice is at the foundations the law. I conclude that hypercommittal social practices such as Lewisean conventions or Bratmanian shared activities are not at the foundations of law.


2014 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Bakardjieva

AbstractThis article employs the concept of McDonaldization introduced by George Ritzer (1993) in his Weberian analysis of the processes of formal rationalization characteristic of late modern consumer society to reflect on the social and cultural implications of the most recent wave of communication technologies – social media. It argues that social media smuggle formal rationality into the elementary forms of social interaction, most clearly illustrated through the way they redefine the notion of friendship. In an attempt to lay the ground for a “multiperspectivist approach” (Kellner, 1999) to this phenomenon, the article enters the Weberian argument into a conversation with other styles of theorizing social media such as Marxism, Critical Theory and sociological phenomenology.


1968 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 461-473 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jack Goody

That the distinction between myth and history is a tenuous one hardly requires elaborate documentation. Anthropologists have recorded the way in which accounts of the tribal past, recorded in genealogies, change with the organisation of the social groups to which they refer. In Malinowski's phrase, they serve as the ‘mythical charters’ of the social system. But this is a feature not only of non-literate societies.


Rhetorik ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandra Kuhlhüser

AbstractNowadays, we live in mediatized environments, which are more and more shaped by visual means of expression. Visual social media platforms, such as Instagram, Flickr, Tumblr, Pinterest and Snapchat, are now the tools of communication and self-representation - especially for the younger generations. How users of these visual social media use hashtags and pictures in a rhetorical way to realize their personal representation is shown in this article by analyzing ›travel-narrations‹ of public accounts on Instagram. After a short theoretical approach, which includes the application of the strategic rhetorical process on the social practices on Instagram, the hashtag and the picture are characterized as rhetorical instruments. The analysis showed that there are specific practices of idealized self-representation as a certain type of traveler and rhetorical-communicative patterns, concerning the way hashtags are applied and pictures are uploaded by the users. The result is that even on a mainly visual platform, like Instagram, pictures as a form of communication are too undefined without the textual component in form of hashtags, which are essential contextgiving resources. Thus, the successful realization of the self-representation includes both communication forms, which dialectically build meaning together.


2006 ◽  
Vol 55 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesco D’Agostino

L’articolo propone l’antico tema della convivenza tra i popoli, quanto mai attuale al giorno d’oggi, per il fatto che ci troviamo di fronte a nuove forme di conflitto, non gestibili con vecchi parametri concettuali, che impongono di riflettere sul come sia possibile una società multiculturale. Le strade ipotizzabili per una convivenza a carattere interculturale e interreligioso sono soltanto tre: la via dell’assimilazione, la via della marginalizzazione e la via dell’integrazione: le prime due sono state abbondantemente sperimentate in diversi contesti politico-nazionali e mostrano da tempo tutti i loro limiti, la terza via è quella che, molto faticosamente, si cerca di mettere alla prova in molti paesi del mondo di oggi ed è quella che richiede un significativo impegno intellettuale e di buona volontà (politica e morale). Un punto essenziale che qualifica il modello dell’integrazione è il primato della persona, secondo due linee: il primato della persona sullo Stato di cui sia cittadina e il primato della persona sulla comunità di cui essa sia un membro. La persona è intesa nel suo essere soggetto in relazione, giacché essa manifesta tutte le proprie potenzialità donandosi all’altro e non chiudendosi autoreferenzialmente in se stessa. Questo è il fondamento autentico di ogni progetto di pace, che prima ancora di essere un progetto politico possiede il carattere di un autentico progetto antropologico. Tale relazionalità chiede, pertanto, di essere garantita. Garante della relazionalità è proprio il diritto, quale forma di esperienza umana costitutivamente relazionale. Lo Stato dovrà operare per garantire la relazionalità multietnica, attraverso l’assunzione di un atteggiamento di imparzialità, distinguendo i valori elaborati dalle culture, e le pratiche sociali ad essi corrispondenti, in almeno tre categorie: quella dei valori che appaiono semplicemente tollerabili, quella dei valori che meritino di essere ritenuti rispettabili e quella, infine, dei valori che per la loro forza intrinseca debbano essere qualificati come condivisibili L’aspetto più arduo concerne l’integrazione, i suoi limiti e quindi la tolleranza verso le culture. Occorre, infatti, fissare i confini della tolleranza che dovrà essere sempre condizionata, argomentata, dinamica, credibile e dovrà, infine, possedere un carattere dialogico. ---------- The article proposes the ancient theme of the cohabitation between peoples, very actual nowadays, for the fact that we have to face new forms of conflict, not manageable with old conceptual parameters, that impose to reflect on how a multicultural society is possible. The roads for an intercultural and interreligious cohabitation are only three: the way of assimilation, the way of the marginalization and the way of the integration: first two have been abundantly experimented in different political- national contexts and they have shown for time all their limits, the third way is that which, very laboriously, many countries of the world of today are trying to test and it requires a meaningful intellectual engagement and good (politics and moral) will. An essential point that qualifies the model of the integration is the primacy of the person according to two lines: the person’s primacy on the State of which it is citizen and the person’s supremacy on community of which it is a member. The person is understood in his being subject in relationship, since it manifests the whole own potentialities giving itself to the other and not closing in itself. This is the authentic base of every project of peace, that possesses the character of an authentic anthropological project even before being a political project. Such relational nature, therefore, must be guaranteed. Guarantor of the relational nature is really the law, as form of human experience constitutively relational. The State must operate to guarantee the multiethnic relational nature, through the assumption of an attitude of impartiality, distinguishing the values elaborated from cultures and the social practices corresponding to them, in at least three categories: that of the values that appear simply tolerable, that of the values which deserves to be thought respectable and, finally, that of the values which must be qualified as shareable for their intrinsic strength. The most arduous aspect pertains to the integration, its limits and therefore tolerance toward cultures. Needs, in fact, fixing the confinements of tolerance that must be always conditioned, deduced, dynamics, believable and, finally, it must possess a dialogical character.


2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (02) ◽  
pp. 25-30
Author(s):  
Detya Wiryany ◽  
Tiarani Vidia Pratami

Technology has never ceased to grow through time. The development itself giving a chance to new media such as Youtube to grow rapidly. Youtube is one of the largest social media that we had now. Popular culture was born from YouTube, and it’s so quickly spread by anyone who does. The Innovation Diffusion Theory developed by Everett Rogers describes how new ideas and technologies spread in culture. Basically, the Innovation Diffusion Theory explains the process of how innovation is delivered through certain channels all the time to the people from the social system. The most obvious impact that we can see today was the number of famous people that came from YouTube


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