The Deccan Riots of 1875

1965 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 613-635 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ravinder Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Special Interest ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
The Political ◽  
Western India ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Social Transformations ◽  
Administrative Policy ◽  
British Rule ◽  
The Social

The Deccan Riots of 1875 highlight the social transformations brought about in rural Maharashtra in western India during the first five decades of British rule. The riots are of special interest to the social historian since they hinged upon relations between two important and well defined rural social groups, namely, the cultivators and the moneylenders. This paper will focus on the social changes which precipitated this conflict. I shall also attempt to link these changes with the social ideals and the political objectives which inspired the new rulers of Maharashtra and determined their administrative policy.

Social Inequalities

2019 ◽  
pp. 646-652
Author(s):  
Raj Kollmorgen
Keyword(s):  
Income Inequality ◽  
Social Inequality ◽  
Social Stratification ◽  
Relative Deprivation ◽  
Social Inequalities ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Radical Change ◽  
Social Transformations ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Impact

Social inequality means the existence of social status groups and, therefore, a normatively embedded structure of social stratification. This chapter deals with social inequalities and their dynamics as conditional and causal factors and as results of processes of radical change. Concerning the first aspect, the chapter discusses social class inequalities and dynamics of (absolute) impoverishment, relative deprivation, and rising expectations among certain social groups that may determine ‘transformative’ pressure or even revolutionary situations. Regarding the impact of social transformations on social inequalities, the chapter suggests that the more radical and complex the social transformations, the greater are their effects on social structures and regimes of social inequality. This thesis is underpinned by providing empirical findings on social mobility and income inequality in different historical waves and (sub-)types of transformation. Finally, the chapter identifies seven crucial bundles of factors determining the extent of income inequality as an outcome of current societal transformations and their characteristics.

International Courts in Latin America and the Caribbean

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
Salvatore Caserta
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Environment ◽  
Methodological Issues ◽  
International Courts ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Caribbean

This introductory chapter presents the main theoretical and methodological issues of the book. In terms of theory, the chapter explains that the book relies on the concept of de facto authority, according to which international courts become authoritative and powerful when their rulings are endorsed by relevant audiences in their practices. To complement this approach, the chapter explains that the book proposes five original analytical markers, which are central for analysing and explaining the social processes through which international courts, in general, and regional economic courts, in particular, gain or lose de facto authority. These are: (i) the nature of the political environment surrounding them; (ii) the timing of their institutional founding; (iii) the material and/or abstract interests of the agents interacting with them; (iv) the fundamental support of different social groups relating to them; and (v) the societal embeddedness in their operational context.

scholarly journals The Changes of Forms of Public Contestation in PostDemocracy

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 134-143
Author(s):  
Roman V. Savenkov
Keyword(s):  
Political Action ◽  
The United States ◽  
State Funding ◽  
The Political ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Collective Actions ◽  
Social Transformations ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
Basic Institution ◽  
The Cost

The paper discusses the main trends in changing forms of political contestation of citizens in contemporary competitive and non-competitive political regimes. Social transformations led to the destruction of traditional social groups capable of joint political action. Along with social changes in the political sphere, the nature of the basic institution of political contestation - political parties - has changed, acting as political opposition. Contemporary political party reduces the scale of citizen involvement in political action, increasing the cost of political advertising, thereby becoming dependent on influential economic interest groups and state funding. The weakening of the political pressure of society through institutionalized channels led to the disappointment of the democratic system as a whole. Citizens in the contemporary world increasingly prefer noninstitutionalized and illegitimate forms of political action. However, observations of dispute practices in North Africa, the Middle East, Spain, the United States, France, and Russia in the 2010s demonstrate that the dominant position of institutional channels of influence on political and public decisions has been maintained. New opportunities of the Internet for organizing collective actions of citizens have not led to the formation of a new identity of dissatisfied people and the consolidation of effective online deliberation practices.

scholarly journals «The Book of delicious and healthy food» of the XXI century: social transformations and traditions

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
О.Д. Попова
Keyword(s):  
Political System ◽  
Healthy Food ◽  
The Political ◽  
Social Transformations ◽  
The Social

В статье анализируется новое издание книги «О вкусной и здоровой пище» как источник по социальной истории. Кулинарный рецепт и практика его представления отражает особенности эпохи и времени. Проведенный анализ показал, что кулинарные книги в СССР испытывали влияние политической системы и обладали пропагандистскими функциями. Современное издание выявляет социальные трансформации, произошедшие в обществе. This article is about a new edition of «The Book of delicious and healthy food». The author shows that the culinary recipe and the practice of its presentation reflect the peculiarities of the era and time. The USSR cookbooks are shown to be influenced by the political system and to serve as propaganda. The modern edition demonstrates the social transformations that have taken place in society.

Athens after the Social War

1955 ◽  
Vol 75 ◽  
pp. 74-81 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raphael Sealey
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
Special Interest ◽  
The Political ◽  
Ancient Athens ◽  
Actual Working ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Social ◽  
Dionysius Of Halicarnassus ◽  
Social War ◽  
Political Scene

The period of Demosthenes has a special interest for the student of Greek politics; more evidence exists, in the form of speeches, for the actual working of Athenian affairs in this period than in any other. It should therefore provide the starting-point in any attempt to find out the presuppositions of Athenian politics, to find what sort of behaviour is habitually expected of politicians and what motives are taken for granted as the normal motives of public men. Here the political scene at the entry of Demosthenes into politics will be examined in the hope of contributing towards answering these questions. For the ascertainable facts, preserved mainly in Speeches xx, xxii and xxiv of Demosthenes; are comparatively plentiful, and so they may be used in order to criticise current assumptions about the nature of political parties and conflicts in ancient Athens.A preliminary question concerns the dates of these three speeches. Dionysius of Halicarnassus assigns Speeches xx and xxii to 355/4 and Speech xxiv to 353/2. It is hoped to defend elsewhere the general credibility of the Dionysian dates for the Demosthenic speeches. That for Speech xxii has been seriously questioned by Mr. D. M. Lewis.

Identity and intersectionality

2020 ◽  
pp. 123-140
Author(s):  
Chris Gilleard ◽  
Paul Higgs
Keyword(s):  
Older People ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Later Life ◽  
The Political ◽  
Multiple Sources ◽  
Social Divisions ◽  
Social Positioning ◽  
The Social ◽  
Power And Influence

This chapter addresses the question of intersectionality and the positioning of older people at points in a complex set of locations structured and leant upon by multiple sources of difference and inequality. It argues that social locations are no longer organised through simple binary divisions underpinned by single hierarchies of power and influence. Instead, identities and inequalities are located in the interstices that social divisions and differences form. The positioning both of age and of able-bodiedness, class, ethnicity, gender is rendered contingent by this intersectionality, making each of these potential divisions the source of at most a limited set of demi-regularities that constrain both the political claims of different social groups and the restrict the commonalities of different communities. The chapter concludes that intersectionality, though a much-contested concept, does draw attention to the social positioning of and social divisions within later life.

Perspectives on Teaching: A Space for Reflection on the Sociopolitical Nature of Doing

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (10) ◽  
pp. 1017-1022
Author(s):  
Isabel Cristina Rincón Rodríguez ◽  
◽  
Jorge E. Chaparro Medina ◽  
José Gregorio Noroño Sánchez ◽  
Marcela Garzón Posada ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Professional Practice ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Student Interaction ◽  
The Political ◽  
Social Phenomena ◽  
Training Performance ◽  
Teacher Student ◽  
The Social ◽  
Teaching Learning

In the exercise of teaching, teachers give account of different forms of organization: emerging, self-managed and autonomous product of conceptions that arise from training, performance and experiences where the socio-political nature of both his being and individual that integrates and makes part of social groups, as in the exercise of professional practice. Under this horizon, the aim of this work is to analyze from the social function of the teacher the sociopolitical role of their task as far as the political vision has, ability to understand social problems and generate actions for which is part of a frame of reference where the concepts that allow to develop theoretical analysis to identify the sociopolitical expression of the teaching exercise are exposed, considering that in this practice this type of content is revealed in the teachers as actors of the teaching-learning process, both in the training in their performance based on the training they receive, the historical geographical relationship and the experiences that their activity provides them with what has framed this work. It is concluded that in the exercise of teaching work are present sociopolitical categories that affect both the understanding of social phenomena and the pretense of practical actions that transform these realities from the institution-teacher-student interaction.

Repression and endurance: anathematized Hindu and Sikh women of Afghanistan

2016 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 628-645
Author(s):  
Hafizullah Emadi
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Political Process ◽  
Religious Life ◽  
Religious Communities ◽  
The Political ◽  
Religious Leaders ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Face

Hindus and Sikhs, longtime minority religious communities in Afghanistan, have played a major role in the social, cultural, and economic development of the country. Their history in Afghanistan has not been faithfully documented nor relayed beyond the country's borders by their resident educated strata or religious leaders, rendering them virtually invisible and voiceless within and outside of their country borders. The situation of Hindu and Sikh women in Afghanistan is significantly more marginalized socially and politically. Gender equality and women's rights were central to the teachings of Guru Nanak, but gradually became irrelevant to the daily lives of his followers in Afghanistan. Hindu and Sikh women have sustained their hope for change and seized any opportunity presented to play a role in the process. Active participants in the social, cultural, and religious life of their respective communities as well as in Afghanistan's government, their contributions to social changes and the political process have gone mostly unnoticed and undocumented as their rights, equality, and standing in the domestic and public arena in Afghanistan continue to erode in the face of continuous discrimination and harassment.

scholarly journals Neighbours of a family with a disabled person

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-60
Author(s):  
Beata Górnicka
Keyword(s):  
Social Exclusion ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Negative Attitudes ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family

Nowadays, social changes include the perception not only of disability itself, but also of a family with a disabled member. These changes concern the organisation of support for the family, which functions in the entire social ecosystem, including the closest social groups, e.g., the neighbourhood. Although this neighbourhood, which is also subject to changes, can become an invaluable source of support, unfortunately, it may also become an environment that contributes to the social exclusion of a family. In this paper, the author presents selected aspects of the co-existence of people with disabilities and their families with their neighbours. The paper used research on opinions about being the neighbour of a family with a disabled person, which included declarations of help or support really offered. The author asserts that a family with a disabled person can experience both positive and negative attitudes and behaviours from neighbours.

scholarly journals MUDANÇAS NA CRIMINALIDADE URBANA MOÇAMBICANA

Revista LEVS ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 21 (21) ◽  
Author(s):  
Joaquim Miranda MALOA
Keyword(s):  
Social Structure ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Urban Crime ◽  
Early Years ◽  
The Political ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
The Social ◽  
Economic Transformations

Resumo: O objetivo deste artigo é identificar os fatores socioeconômicos e políticos que direta ou indiretamente estão atrelados às mudanças da criminalidade urbana moçambicana. As transformações políticas, sociais e econômicas operadas a partir da década de 1990, influenciaram, ao menos nos anos iniciais da década, mudanças na estrutura social da sociedade moçambicana, nas relações sociais; padrões convencionais de juventude, infância, cujo resultado provocou impactos na mudança da criminalidade urbana moçambicana de “criminalidade de formigueiro” para a “criminalidade urbana violenta”.Palavras-chave: Criminalidade, Mudanças sociais, Relações sociais, Criança e juventude.Abstract: The objective of this article is to identify the facts politics and socioeconomics that directly or indirectly are related to the changes of Mozambican urban crime. The political, social and economic transformations o fthe 1990s influenced, atleast in the early years of the decade, changes in the social structure of Mozambican society, in social relations; conventional patterns of youth, childhood, the result of which has caused impacts on the change of Mozambican urban crime from “tingling crime” to “violent urban crime”.Keywords: Crime, Social changes, Social relations,Child and youth.

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