The “Troublesome Garden of Eden” (1920–1923)

Tautai ◽  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia O'Brien
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Social World ◽  
League Of Nations ◽  
Influenza Epidemic ◽  
Social Worlds ◽  
Garden Of Eden ◽  
Private World ◽  
The Social

In 1921, Sāmoa’s status shifted to a League of Nations Mandate under New Zealand’s ‘sacred trust’, a circumstance that significantly altered Sāmoan perceptions of its New Zealand rulers. This chapter examines Ta’isi’s relationships with administrator Colonel Robert Tate and how New Zealand shifted its governing style according to the new international conditions. In particular, it traces how ideas about race and governance operated and how these impacted Ta’isi during the time of the first Mau movement that erupted in the aftermath of the influenza epidemic and that plagued Tate’s administration throughout. As well as outlining the shifting conditions in the mandate, this chapter also examines Ta’isi’s private world that became centered at his new house of Tuaefu that became an iconic element of Ta’isi’s place in Sāmoa. We see into his library and the social world he created and how in the fraught racial conditions in the mandate, these social worlds were highly politicized from the perspective of New Zealand authorities.

Voorbij navelstaren en narcisme

KWALON ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Thaddeus Müller
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Social World ◽  
Qualitative Studies ◽  
Added Value ◽  
Social Worlds ◽  
Cultural Understanding ◽  
The Social ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
Auto Ethnography

Beyond navel-gazing and narcissism.Ferrell’s auto-ethnography as part of ethnography Beyond navel-gazing and narcissism.Ferrell’s auto-ethnography as part of ethnography The labeling of auto-ethnography as navel-gazing does not do justice to the variety with which auto-ethnography is applied. A distinction should be made between emotional and analytical auto-ethnography. In the first form the central person of the researcher plays the central role, in the second auto-ethnography is applied to get a better understanding of the social world which is being studied. In this article the author discusses the second approach by using the work of Jeff Ferrell. Ferrell is a well-known cultural criminologist, who focuses critically on the cultural understanding of social life. By looking at how Ferrell applies auto-ethnography, insight is gained into the added value of this method for qualitative studies: (1) the integration of the personal experiences of researchers in texts in order to achieve a richer description of the social worlds they explore, (2) making explicit the role of the researcher in publications, and (3) developing new (more appealing) forms of representation.

Political Language and Political Reality

1985 ◽  
Vol 18 (01) ◽  
pp. 10-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Murray Edelman
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Social World ◽  
Language Games ◽  
Social Worlds ◽  
Political Language ◽  
Logical Positivist ◽  
Linguistic Turn ◽  
Political Reality ◽  
The Social

The most incisive twentieth century students of language converge from different premises on the conclusion that language is the key creator of the social worlds people experience, and they agree as well that language cannot usefully be understood as a tool for describing an objective reality. For the later Wittgenstein there are no essences, only language games. Chomsky analyzes the sense in which grammar is generative. For Derrida all language is performative, a form of action that undermines its own presuppositions. Foucault sees language as antedating and constructing subjectivity. The “linguistic turn” in twentieth century philosophy, social psychology, and literary theory entails an intellectual ferment that raises fundamental questions about a great deal of mainstream political science, and especially about its logical positivist premises.While the writers just mentioned analyze various senses in which language use is an aspect of creativity, those who focus upon specifically political language are chiefly concerned with its capacity to reflect ideology, mystify, and distort. The more perspicacious of them deny that an undistorting language is possible in a social world marked by inequalities in resources and status, though the notion of an undistorted language can be useful as an evocation of an ideal benchmark. The emphasis upon political language as distorting or mystifying is a key theme in Lasswell and Orwell, as it is in Habermas, Osgood, Ellul, Vygotsky, Enzensberger, Bennett, and Shapiro.

scholarly journals Resilience Among Dementia Family Caregivers in a Changing Social World

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 9-9
Author(s):  
Brandy McCann ◽  
Karen Roberto ◽  
Tina Savla ◽  
Rosemary Blieszner ◽  
Emily Hoyt
Keyword(s):  
Family Caregivers ◽  
Care Setting ◽  
Social World ◽  
Social Connections ◽  
Social Worlds ◽  
Social Situations ◽  
Dementia Caregivers ◽  
The Social ◽  
Early Phases ◽  
Roll Out

Abstract Dementia caregivers must manage the social worlds of their loved ones as well as their own. In a mixed methods study, we interviewed 50 family caregivers prior to the pandemic, twice during early phases of the pandemic, and again during the vaccine roll-out phase. Findings revealed how implementation of stay-at-home orders altered reliance on informal support as well as social ties and interactions. Using content analysis, we identified three ways in which caregivers’ managed changes in their social world: rethinking family visits (fewer people, higher quality); reinventing public spaces (church services, exercise venues); and reconsidering self-care (setting boundaries, solace in nature). Caregivers showed varying degrees of resilience in the ways they managed adverse social situations and cared for themselves. Findings reinforce the need for inclusive programs and services to help caregivers learn to maintain supportive social connections that reinforce their care decisions and routines, particularly during times of duress.

scholarly journals ‘You can’t stand on a corner and talk about it …’: Medicinal cannabis use, impression management and the analytical status of interviews

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 205979911876842 ◽  
Author(s):  
Craig Morris
Keyword(s):  
Impression Management ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Social World ◽  
Cannabis Use ◽  
Rhetorical Strategies ◽  
Social Worlds ◽  
The Social ◽  
Medicinal Cannabis ◽  
Interviews As Topic

In this article, I examine how four medicinal cannabis users used impression management during in-depth, qualitative interviews to attend to self-presentational concerns. I examine the rhetorical strategies and narratives articulated by the participants while also attending to the role that I played in co-construction as the interviewer. Later I discuss how, although the participants’ accounts are occasioned by the interviews, they can still provide significant insights into the social worlds of the participants beyond the interviews. While discussions about whether to treat interviews as topic, resource or both are not new, I argue that we can treat interviews as both topic and resource because impression management is a product of the individual’s habitus and it and the accounts it produces are part of their social world.

Convergence

2019 ◽  
pp. 131-170
Author(s):  
Jesse E. Hoffnung-Garskof
Keyword(s):  
Complex Terrain ◽  
Social World ◽  
Equal Treatment ◽  
People Of Color ◽  
Social Worlds ◽  
National Unity ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
The Social ◽  
Black Migrants ◽  
Political Commitments

This chapter considers why Rafael Serra and the others accepted the call to demonstrate patience and forgiveness in the name of national unity. It asks why they chose to promote the idea of a nation for all and with all as if it were José Martí's idea rather than their own and how they managed to assert themselves in the nationalist struggle without giving up their right to form independent associations or to demand equal treatment as people of color. The chapter explains that the answers to these questions are not to be found in the intricacies of Martí's writings, but instead in the social worlds built by artisan intellectuals and black migrants over the previous two decades. Men and women in this social world did not just support Martí; they helped to create him. This reveals a complex terrain of interconnected political commitments that were in play on a single extraordinary day—a day when Serra led a group of black and brown constituents to naturalize as U.S. citizens and become Republican voters.

Slander, Abuse, and Calumny (1929)

Tautai ◽  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia O'Brien
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Social Worlds ◽  
Legal Proceedings ◽  
The Social ◽  
Return Home ◽  
The Government

As Ta’isi’s efforts to have his exile revoked had failed, he began settling into life in Auckland though he believed the merits of his case would soon prevail and he would be permitted to return home. The chapter reveals his family’s experiences of living in Auckland from late 1928, particularly his experience with a landlady who would launch legal proceedings against him in a legal suit replete with racist ideas about Sāmoans as well as the pervasive campaign of disgrace the government was waging against him. As well as this exploration of the social worlds Ta’isi was forced to inhabit from 1928, this chapter looks at the implications for the 1929 report into the Sāmoan administration (the VPB Report) that found many of the Mau complaints were in fact valid. The chapter also follows the fate of Tupua Tamasese Lea’lofi who was released from prison in June 1929 and his subsequent return to Sāmoa. The chapter concludes with Ta’isi’s preoccupations at the end of 1929 that centered on his slander case against the New Zealand Herald, and his sending a lawyer to Apia to gather evidence; a move that would end tragically.

scholarly journals I’m gonna get it for my birthday: Young children’s interpretive reproduction of literacy practices in school

2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 706-731
Author(s):  
Lucy Henning
Keyword(s):  
Social Practice ◽  
Literacy Practices ◽  
Social World ◽  
First Century ◽  
Social Worlds ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Early Twenty ◽  
The Social ◽  
Children's Literacy ◽  
Classroom Literacy

In this paper, I argue that the mainstream assumptions that inform current educational policy and practice for young children’s in-school literacy development in schools are insufficient to secure a helpful account of young children’s classroom literacy practices. A particular problem lies with the reliance of such policy and practice on perspectives that assume, first, that literacy acquisition comprises the orderly acquisition of predefined concepts, skills and knowledge; and second, that the task of schools is to bring individual children’s concepts, skills and knowledge of literacy in line with what is considered ‘normal’ for their age. I argue that such perspectives are too narrow to secure a clear enough view of the complex phenomenon of young children’s encounter with being taught to read and write in school. In this paper, I present two alternative theoretical lenses through which the familiar phenomenon of young children’s encounter with being schooled in literacy can be viewed: first, that of Literacy as a Social Practice (henceforth LSP); and second, that of ‘interpretive reproduction’, a theoretical account of young children’s participation in their social worlds developed by William Corsaro. To demonstrate how helpful such perspectives can be in understanding the familiar phenomenon of young children’s literacy schooling, I apply them to the analysis of one child, Dean’s, encounter with schooled literacy within the social world of an early twenty-first century London classroom.

News for free in the late-modern metropolis: An exploration of differentiated social worlds

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 213-227 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Lamour
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Social World ◽  
Social Worlds ◽  
Anthropological Perspective ◽  
Commercial Media ◽  
Modern Cities ◽  
The Social ◽  
Late Modern ◽  
Evening Peak

The free daily papers, Metro and 20 Minutes, originally from Scandinavia, have conquered many national markets with a single recipe: short, illustrated and easily consumed content distributed in large urban areas during the morning or evening peak hours. However, could one say that the urban news mediatized by this press is structured according to the standardized infotainment and sensationalism objectives that are often associated with the commercial media? The research based on three case studies shows that these publications, which have a single logo and format worldwide, develop a specific, place-bound editorial line of exposing the most important risks perceived within late-modern cities by its reporters and their audiences. Interactionism and, more precisely, the ‘social world’ approach to a profession can help understand these differentiated representations of metropolitan dangers by offering a more place-bound and socio-anthropological perspective of journalism.

‘Did You Know Your Great-Grandmother Was an Indian Princess?’

2018 ◽  
pp. 210-232
Author(s):  
Robyn Andrews
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Oral History ◽  
Social World ◽  
Migrant Community ◽  
Large Numbers ◽  
The Social ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Indian Princess ◽  
Anglo Indian

This chapter is based on oral history and brings valuable new perspectives to the social world of the Anglo-Indian migrant community—an ethnically and culturally hybrid Indian minority of colonial origin, whose members are primarily Westernised, English-speaking, and Christian. Anglo-Indians have migrated from India in large numbers, mainly to English-speaking Commonwealth countries, including Australia and New Zealand. While most migrated after India’s independence in 1947, a number arrived in Australia and New Zealand much earlier. This chapter explores early Anglo-Indian migration to New Zealand, focusing on the experiences of Mrs Frederica Hay, née Coventry, who migrated from Calcutta via South Africa to Dunedin in 1869 and the importance of this transnational link to some of her descendants.

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