scholarly journals The Construction of the Neoliberal Self in Belgrade Psychotherapeutic Practice

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bogdan Vukomanović
Keyword(s):  
Personal Development ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Survival Strategies ◽  
The Public ◽  
Psychotherapeutic Practice ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
The Relationship

The processes of neoliberalization and European integration in Serbia have been underway for some time, and in addition to their effect on certain elements of the social structure such as the family, the economy, political life etc., their impact is also evident in the way that Serbian citizens perceive themselves and their position in this environment. Due to reduced social protection, the withdrawal of the state from the public sphere, and increasing financial and employment insecurity, individuals are obliged to assume responsibility for their lives and to engage in self-improvement with the aim of personal development and the finding of new survival strategies. Through interviews with psychotherapists and persons who have used the services of private psychotherapy, this paper looks at the relationship between private psychotherapeutic practice in Belgrade as a technique for self-improvement and the construction of the self in its clients, and then relates it to the broader socio-economic context in which the respondents live and work. The findings suggest that with regard to its clients, private psychotherapeutic practice mirrors the emphasis on independence, autonomy and responsibility for one's life and life decisions, which are typical features of the entrepreneurial self characteristic of the period of post-socialist neoliberalization.

scholarly journals SIKAP SOSIAL KEAGAMAAN ROHIS DI SMA PADA DELAPAN KOTA DI INDONESIA

2014 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Achmad Habibullah
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Religious Education ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Religious Movement ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Main Instrument ◽  
Religious Aspects

The opinion from studies on religious aspects of senior high school Islamic club summarized in this paper is important considering as lately there is a stronger tendency that Islamic club at school has became a religious movement that is spreading inclusive religious social attitudes. At the beginning of its formation, Islamic club is expected to be the arena for development of Islamic religious knowledge and insight for students that are not sufficiently explored in the activities of Islamic religious education lessons in the classroom. The study used a qualitative approach with in-depth interviews as the main instrument in eight cities in Indonesia, and seeks like to see the social religious attitudes of Islamic club activists associated with aspects of Islam in social life, Islam in the political life of the state, and Islam in gender equality. The findings show that in general high school Islamic club activists are more open and tolerant in neighboring life, but they expect the Islamic system can be the foundation. There is also a tendency that high school Islamic club activists expect that islam can be the foundation of our state system, in which the Islamic system of government (Khilafah Islamiyah) is the best alternative on the democratic system that has drawbacks. High school Islamic club activists in high school tend to put women in a subordinate position of men in both the domestic and the public sphere.

Das russische Verfassungsexperiment 1906–1918: Zum Verhältnis von Tradition und Modernität

2008 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 88-115
Author(s):  
Dietmar Neutatz
Keyword(s):  
Western Europe ◽  
Left Wing ◽  
The Public ◽  
Peter The Great ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
The Russian Empire ◽  
The One ◽  
Special Circumstances ◽  
The Relationship

The Russian Constitutional Experiment, 1906–1918: On the Relationship between Tradition and Modernity The revolution of 1905 turned the virtually unlimited autocracy of the Russian Empire into a constitutional monarchy. However, this experiment survived the fall of the Tsar in 1917 by only a few months and was obliged to give way to the Bolshevik dictatorship. This article investigates how far the failure of constitutionalism in Russia was due to the special circumstances surrounding the crisis of 1917, or whether it is better explained by the ill-conceived application of a notion imported from Western Europe that could not be grafted onto indigenous Russian traditions. The article discusses the competing concepts of Western-style parliamentarianism on the one hand and a ‹Russian› ideal of direct popular representation on the other (i.e. the ‹Zemskij Sobor› dating from the era before Peter the Great). It investigates the constraints within which the State Duma worked, and the social and political practice of Russian constitutionalism between 1906 and 1918, in order to analyse how deeply rooted constitutional concepts were in late Tsarist society. Special attention is paid to the following themes: the capacity of the Duma to address practical problems; the changing character of political culture; new forms of the public sphere and the growth of civil society; the relationship between parliament and the peasantry; the activities of both supporters of a parliamentary order and their right- and left-wing opponents; and finally the importance of ‹Russian›-style counter-proposals to ‹Western›-style constitutionalism during the crisis years of 1917/18.

Daenerys Targaryen Will Save Spain:Game of Thrones, Politics, and the Public Sphere

2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (5) ◽  
pp. 423-442 ◽  
Author(s):  
Concepción Cascajosa Virino ◽  
Vicente Rodríguez Ortega
Keyword(s):  
Participatory Culture ◽  
The Political ◽  
Social Fabric ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
Political Forces ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Bottom To Top ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

This article deals with the use of the American television series Game of Thrones (HBO: 2011–) as part of the political discourse of the emerging political party Podemos in Spain. First, we focus on Podemos leader, Pablo Iglesias, who, in 2014, edited a book devoted to analyzing this series from a political science viewpoint. We then move on to study ideologically charged symbolic gestures and the detailed analysis of the parallelisms between Daenerys Targaryen’s revolutionary enterprise and Podemos’s bottom-to-top quest to seize power. We then scrutinize how emergent political forces that threaten the enduring hegemony of traditional parties use popular cultural artifacts to intervene in the social fabric and how they attempt to tune in with the Internet-dedicated, socially networked younger classes. This article, thus, analyzes how the relationship between politics and serialized TV fiction has morphed within the Spanish mediascape, paying special attention to the impact of participatory culture.

The Public Sphere

2006 ◽  
Vol 23 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 607-611 ◽  
Author(s):  
Klaus Eder
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Self ◽  
Social Bond ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Do So

The article situates the issue of the public sphere as a phenomenon that is historically bound and culturally specific. According to this point of view, the Western practices and the Western way of thinking about the public sphere appear as a historically particular way of dealing with the more general phenomenon which is the creation of a social bond beyond the family. Looking at the self-contradictory effects of the ‘modern’ Western public sphere, the question is asked whether the public association of self-interested or self-governing individuals might have to be theorized as a partial and insufficient solution to the social bond. A comparative perspective shows that it is not individuals but cultural forms that link people in the public sphere. They do so by providing a narrative basis of discourses and/or markets that in the self-understanding of modernity shape social life.

The Rise of the Public Meeting in Great Britain, 1758–1834

2010 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 291-299
Author(s):  
Charles Tilly
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
Social Process ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Sharp Decline ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Meetings ◽  
Public Meeting ◽  
The Social ◽  
Political Entrepreneurs ◽  
The Public Sphere

This article conducts an analysis of public meetings in Great Britain between 1758 and 1834. The profound changes in frequency and character, the enormous increase of public meetings and the sharp decline in the relative frequency of violent gatherings, serve as an indicator of the expansion of the public sphere and its capacity to shape the social process. The article explains the rise of the public meeting and why it became so central to British political life during the nineteenth century through four intertwined changes: the development of British capitalism, the growing importance of Parliament, the multiplied opportunities for political entrepreneurs, and the effect of public contention itself.

Ethnic Minorities in Hungary: Democracy and Conflict Resolution

1997 ◽  
Vol 552 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-39
Author(s):  
KINGA GÖNCZ ◽  
SÁNDOR GESKÓ
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Minority Rights ◽  
Survival Strategies ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Positive Potential ◽  
The Public ◽  
Hungarian Society ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Open Expression

The authors discuss the survival strategies of Hungarian society during the socialist regime. One such strategy was to avoid open conflicts in the public sphere. New skills are needed to address the social changes since the end of communism in 1989-90. The article illustrates the positive potential in the open expression of public conflicts by examining cases of minority rights in Hungary.

scholarly journals Digital authorship and social media: French digital authors’ attitudes towards Facebook

2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 121-137
Author(s):  
Erika Fülöp
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
World Wide ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Different Response ◽  
The Relationship

Social networks have changed our relationship to the world wide web and the ways in which we communicate. This applies to the relationship between authors and readers and affects the ways in which authors can and need to be present in the public sphere and enact their authorship. Digital authors experience this particularly acutely, and the present article proposes an overview of the three main types of attitude they have chosen facing the largest social network, Facebook: using, refusing and abusing, each presented through a case study. François Bon embraces the platform and encourages authors to take advantage of the tools it offers in order to reach readers, network with authors, and become independent of traditional infrastructures. After years of almost addictive use, Neil Jomunsi came to quit the network and explained his decision, but also the dilemma upon his return, until eventually leaving again. Jean-Pierre Balpe’s ‘digital installation’ ‘Un Monde Uncertain’, finally, abuses the website by circumventing its terms and conditions and animating a series of fictional author profiles whose Facebook statuses are created by Balpe’s text generator software. Each of the three approaches represents a different response to the constraints and opportunities offered by the social network in light of the author’s situation, their political stance regarding Facebook, and objectives as an author.

scholarly journals Three dimensions of the relationship between gender role attitudes and fertility intentions

Genus ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 77 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Trude Lappegård ◽  
Gerda Neyer ◽  
Daniele Vignoli
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Gender Role ◽  
Gender Role Attitudes ◽  
Fertility Intentions ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Gender Revolution

AbstractThe relationship between gender role attitudes and fertility intentions is highly debated among social scientists. We emphasize the need for a multidimensional theoretical and empirical approach to extend the two-step behavioral gender revolution approach to a three-step attitudinal gender revolution approach distinguishing between gender roles in the public sphere, mothers’ role in the family, and fathers’ role in the family. Using the Generations and Gender Survey of eight European countries, we demonstrate the usefulness of such an approach. Gender equal attitudes related to the public sphere are more widespread than those concerning mothers’ or fathers’ roles in the family. Our results show that the association between gender role attitudes and fertility intentions varies—in terms of significance and magnitude—according to the dimension considered (gender roles in the public sphere, mothers’ and fathers’ role in the family), gender, parity, and country. We conclude that without a clear concept of and empirical distinction between the various elements of the gender role attitudes/fertility nexus, scientific investigations will continue to send conflicting messages.

The Dynamics of Egypt’s “Semi-opposition,” 2004–11

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 83-103
Author(s):  
Mai Mogib Mosad
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Political System ◽  
Muslim Brotherhood ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Muslim Brotherhood ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
The Relationship

This paper maps the basic opposition groups that influenced the Egyptian political system in the last years of Hosni Mubarak’s rule. It approaches the nature of the relationship between the system and the opposition through use of the concept of “semi-opposition.” An examination and evaluation of the opposition groups shows the extent to which the regime—in order to appear that it was opening the public sphere to the opposition—had channels of communication with the Muslim Brotherhood. The paper also shows the system’s relations with other groups, such as “Kifaya” and “April 6”; it then explains the reasons behind the success of the Muslim Brotherhood at seizing power after the ousting of President Mubarak.

A successful person, society and civic activism

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (10) ◽  
pp. 1800-1816
Author(s):  
G.B. Kozyreva ◽  
T.V. Morozova ◽  
R.V. Belaya
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Public Confidence ◽  
Russian Society ◽  
The Public ◽  
Civic Activism ◽  
The Social ◽  
Human And Social Capital ◽  
Person Model ◽  
Social Disparity

Subject. The article provides considerations on the formation and development of a successful person model in the modern Russian society. Objectives. The study is an attempt to model a successful person in the Russian society, when the ideological subsystem of the institutional matrix is changing. Methods. The study relies upon the theory of institutional matrices by S. Kirdina, theories of human and social capital. We focus on the assumption viewing a person as a carrier of social capital, which conveys a success, socio-economic position, social status, civic activism, doing good to your family and the public, confidence in people and association with your region. The empirical framework comprises data of the sociological survey of the Russian population in 2018. The data were processed through the factor analysis. Results. We devised a model of a successful person in today's Russian society, which reveals that a success, first of all, depends on the economic wellbeing and has little relation to civic activism. The potential involvement (intention, possibility, preparedness) in the social and political life significantly dominates the real engagement of people. The success has a frail correlation with constituents of the social capital, such as confidence in people and doing good to the public. Conclusions and Relevance. Based on the socio-economic wellbeing, that is consumption, the existing model of a successful person proves to be ineffective. The sustainability of socio-economic wellbeing seriously contributes to the social disparity of opportunities, which drive a contemporary Russian to a success in life.

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