Productivity and the Social System: The USSR and the West

1978 ◽  
Vol 57 (2) ◽  
pp. 417
Author(s):  
William Diebold ◽  
Abram Bergson
Keyword(s):  
Social System ◽  
The West ◽  
The Social

Why the West is Perceived as Being Unworthy of Cooperation

2010 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 594-613 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gorik Ooms
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Social System ◽  
Natural Rights ◽  
The Other ◽  
The West ◽  
The Social ◽  
Natural Sense ◽  
The One ◽  
Sense Of Justice ◽  
In Virtue Of

Natural selection generated a natural sense of justice. This natural sense of justice created a set of natural rights; rights humans accorded to each other in virtue of being members of the same tribe. Sharing the responsibility for natural rights between all members of the same tribe allowed humans to take advantage of all opportunities for cooperation. Human rights are the present day political emanation of natural rights. Theoretically, human rights are accorded by all humans to all humans in virtue of being humans; however, the idea that the corresponding responsibility is now shared among all humans is not broadly accepted. The natural sense of justice creates an ambiguity: on the one hand humans consider the nation they belong to as the social system that should guarantee their human rights (and likewise they do not consider themselves as having responsibility for the human rights of inhabitants of other nations); on the other hand, as cooperation between nations intensifies, expectations of global mutual responsibility increase as well.

scholarly journals Afterword

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (4-5) ◽  
pp. 430-436
Author(s):  
Hedda Reindl-Kiel
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Social System ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Eating Habits ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
The West ◽  
The Social

Abstract The paper questions the function of the anti-Ottoman approach that, until recently, prevailed in Southeastern European historiography. This mindset and its concomitant attitudes were steps in nation building. A short comparison of the Ottoman social system with the social structures of countries in the region that did not come under direct Ottoman rule shows only minor differences. Thus, the adoption of Ottoman cultural practices including material culture was not a difficult choice. At the same time, we see individuals and whole groups whose lifestyles were oriented toward the West. Changing eating habits serve as an illustration for this phenomenon.

Productivity and the Social System-The USSR and the West.

Economica ◽  
1980 ◽  
Vol 47 (185) ◽  
pp. 89
Author(s):  
Alastair McAuley ◽  
Abram Bergson
Keyword(s):  
Social System ◽  
The West ◽  
The Social

Productivity and the Social System. The USSR and the West.

1979 ◽  
Vol 89 (354) ◽  
pp. 443
Author(s):  
David A. Dyker ◽  
Abram Bergson
Keyword(s):  
Social System ◽  
The West ◽  
The Social

The Reconstruction of the Civilization of the West, from Charlemagne (Transitio Imperil) to the Era of the Crusades (and Concordat, 1122).

1881 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 152-173
Author(s):  
W. J. Irons
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
Public Opinion ◽  
Social System ◽  
The State ◽  
Roman Law ◽  
The West ◽  
Personal Freedom ◽  
The Social ◽  
Christian Society

The influence of Christianity on the Roman Empire, and so ultimately on modern Civilization, was immediately felt, as we first observed, in its action on the social system; and eventually in the formation of better public opinion in morals and Religion. The ideas of individual right and personal freedom (absolutely essential to the new faith which had appeared as the teacher of conscience), found their echo, and also in some sense a defined limit, in the advancing Roman Law; but the more active relations of the gradually-formed Christian Society to the State in which it took its mission would, as we saw, be much determined by the course of events, and by the action and development of the State itself.

Productivity and the Social System--The USSR and the West

1979 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 670
Author(s):  
Joseph Pelzman ◽  
Abram Bergson
Keyword(s):  
Social System ◽  
The West ◽  
The Social

Semantics and pragmatics of the noun communism and of the adjective communist and challenges in understanding prof. Efremov’s science fiction novels about remote future

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 80-91
Author(s):  
Andrei V. Yakovlev
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
Social System ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
The West ◽  
System Versus ◽  
The Social ◽  
Semantics And Pragmatics ◽  
Classless Society ◽  
The One ◽  
The Russian Language

The paper deals with the polysemy of the word communism, focusing on its canonical meaning – "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs" classless society, depicted in Prof. Efremov’s SF novels and which assumed official definition in 1961. This meaning is now being ousted by the one traditional for the West and referring to what Prof. Efremov called pseudosocialism. The change in the semantics of the word "communism" in the Russian language leads to communicative failures in the perception of texts in which the word "communism" is used in the canonical meaning. Along with the undoubted polysemy of the noun "communism" (and the adjective "communist") – communism as a social movement versus communism as a social system versus communism as a worldview, it is necessary to state the lexical ambiguity of these words in relation to the social system.

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