A Case of Anomalous Values in Indian Civilization: Meat-Eating Among the Kanya-Kubja Brahmans of Katyayan Gotra

1966 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 229-240 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. S. Khare
Keyword(s):  
Social Situations ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Meat Eating ◽  
Philosophical Thought ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Anthropologist ◽  
And Function ◽  
Meaning And Function ◽  
Different Levels

Indian philosophical thought has always attempted to deal with opposite or binary values. However, when faced with contradictions, social scientists try to analyze the form, meaning and function of opposed values in real social situations. The problem of opposed values becomes difficult and anomalous when the culture, at different levels, not only permits oppositions, but simultaneously sanctions them. The data on meat-eating among the Kanya-Kubja brahmans of Katyayan gotra (primarily an exogamous group composed of several lineages) present this type of problem to the social anthropologist.

Value-driven issues throughout the development of sociological theory

2020 ◽  
pp. 147-160
Author(s):  
Gulbarshyn Chepurko ◽  
Valerii Pylypenko
Keyword(s):  
Social Interactions ◽  
Social System ◽  
Sociological Theory ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Social Sphere ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Different Levels

The paper examines and compares how the major sociological theories treat axiological issues. Value-driven topics are analysed in view of their relevance to society in times of crisis, when both societal life and the very structure of society undergo dramatic change. Nowadays, social scientists around the world are also witnessing such a change due to the emergence of alternative schools of sociological thought (non-classical, interpretive, postmodern, etc.) and, subsequently, the necessity to revise the paradigms that have been existed in sociology so far. Since the above-mentioned approaches are often used to address value-related issues, building a solid theoretical framework for these studies takes on considerable significance. Furthermore, the paradigm revision has been prompted by technological advances changing all areas of people’s lives, especially social interactions. The global human community, integral in nature, is being formed, and production of human values now matters more than production of things; hence the “expansion” of value-focused perspectives in contemporary sociology. The authors give special attention to collectivities which are higher-order units of the social system. These units are described as well-organised action systems where each individual performs his/her specific role. Just as the role of an individual is distinct from that of the collectivity (because the individual and the collectivity are different as units), so too a distinction is drawn between the value and the norm — because they represent different levels of social relationships. Values are the main connecting element between the society’s cultural system and the social sphere while norms, for the most part, belong to the social system. Values serve primarily to maintain the pattern according to which the society is functioning at a given time; norms are essential to social integration. Apart from being the means of regulating social processes and relationships, norms embody the “principles” that can be applied beyond a particular social system. The authors underline that it is important for Ukrainian sociology to keep abreast of the latest developments in the field of axiology and make good use of those ideas because this is a prerequisite for its successful integration into the global sociological community.

scholarly journals Sociology of political satire: United States and China

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tung Manh Ho
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Sociological Perspective ◽  
Political Satire ◽  
Online Networks ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Landscape ◽  
And Function ◽  
Meaning And Function

Satire, in the broadest sense, is an art of using humor, irony, exaggeration to criticize and expose some ridiculous aspects of people’s behavior, stupidity, and vices. One of the crucial aspects of satire is the laughter that arises from the interaction between the producer (writer, comedian, cartoonist) and the audience through a number of mediums: print, cartoon, TV, audio, or online networks. Though the literature on the meaning and function of satire is extensive, most researchers seem to agree on the two most crucial components: humor and criticism (Phan, 2003). Given that the nature of satire and political satire is about using humor to criticize and expose some ridiculous, vicious, and stupid aspects of politics, this essay will look at the changes in the social landscape of political satire in the United States and China from a sociological perspective.

scholarly journals Future Anticipation in Sociology

2021 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 333-341
Author(s):  
Carlos Miguel Ferreira ◽  
Sandro Serpa
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
Social Situations ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
The Social ◽  
Scientific Approach ◽  
The Future ◽  
Object Of Study ◽  
Scientific Fields

The ability to make forecasts about events is a goal favored by the so-called exact sciences. In sociology and other social sciences, the forecast, although often sought after, is not likely to be realized unconditionally. This article seeks to problematize and discuss the connection between sociology and forecast. The object of study of sociology has particular features that distinguish it from other scientific fields, namely facts and social situations, which deal with trends; the systems of belief of social scientists and policymakers that can influence the attempt to anticipate the future; the dissemination of information and knowledge produced by sociology and other social sciences, which have the potential to change reality and, consequently, to call into question their capacity for the social forecast. These principles pose challenges to sociology’s heuristic potentials, making the reflection on these challenges indispensable in the scientific approach to social processes.

scholarly journals Why resilience is unappealing to social science: Theoretical and empirical investigations of the scientific use of resilience

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. e1400217 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lennart Olsson ◽  
Anne Jerneck ◽  
Henrik Thoren ◽  
Johannes Persson ◽  
David O’Byrne
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Resilience Theory ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Interdisciplinary Dialogue ◽  
Sustainability Research ◽  
The Social ◽  
Core Concepts ◽  
Social Scientific ◽  
And Function ◽  
Integrated Sustainability

Resilience is often promoted as a boundary concept to integrate the social and natural dimensions of sustainability. However, it is a troubled dialogue from which social scientists may feel detached. To explain this, we first scrutinize the meanings, attributes, and uses of resilience in ecology and elsewhere to construct a typology of definitions. Second, we analyze core concepts and principles in resilience theory that cause disciplinary tensions between the social and natural sciences (system ontology, system boundary, equilibria and thresholds, feedback mechanisms, self-organization, and function). Third, we provide empirical evidence of the asymmetry in the use of resilience theory in ecology and environmental sciences compared to five relevant social science disciplines. Fourth, we contrast the unification ambition in resilience theory with methodological pluralism. Throughout, we develop the argument that incommensurability and unification constrain the interdisciplinary dialogue, whereas pluralism drawing on core social scientific concepts would better facilitate integrated sustainability research.

The social meaning and function of food rituals in healthcare practice: An ethnography

2008 ◽  
Vol 61 (12) ◽  
pp. 1775-1802 ◽  
Author(s):  
Di Thomson ◽  
Anne-Marie Hassenkamp
Keyword(s):  
Social Meaning ◽  
The Social ◽  
Healthcare Practice ◽  
And Function ◽  
Meaning And Function

Adoption Policy in Great Britain and North America

1984 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. David Kirk ◽  
Susan A. Mcdaniel
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
North America ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Social Meaning ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
History Of ◽  
And Function ◽  
Meaning And Function

AbstractThis paper has two purposes. First, to explore what existing adoption legislation may indicate about the meaning and function of adoption practices in North America and Great Britain. Second, to consider some possible policy implications revealed by clearer understanding of the social meaning of existing adoption laws. The first part of the paper summarizes briefly the history of legal adoption. The second examines what is explicitly and implicitly revealed by adoption law and policies about the social purposes of adoption and about prevailing social values concerning the family. The third part examines possible avenues of policy change in North America.

Social Attitudes: Social Status and Sibling Constellation Correlates

1979 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 995-1000 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin Marjoribanks
Keyword(s):  
Social Status ◽  
Birth Order ◽  
Surface Analysis ◽  
Regression Models ◽  
Social Attitudes ◽  
Social Situations ◽  
Linear Interaction ◽  
The Social ◽  
Status Level ◽  
Different Levels

Regression surface analysis was used to examine Adler's proposition that adults' social attitudes are related to siblings' variables and that the relations vary at different levels of family social situations. Surfaces were constructed from regression models which examined possible linear, interaction and curvilinear relations between birth order and sibsize and measures of dogmatism, radical-conservative attitudes, and tough-minded versus tender-minded social attitudes, at different family social-status levels for 250 adults. Generally, the findings suggest that at different levels of both sibsize and birth order the social attitudes of adults from lower social-status families, in relation to adults from higher status families, are more dogmatic and tough-minded. Also, at each social-status level adults from larger families have a tendency for lower dogmatism and more tender-minded attitudes.

Epidemiology and Anthropology: Some Suggested Affinities in Theory and Method

1957 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 38-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Fleck Jr. ◽  
Francis Ianni
Keyword(s):  
Attitude Change ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
Health Improvement ◽  
Action Program ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
The Social ◽  
Medicine Today ◽  
Social Anthropologist ◽  
Health Field

One of the most promising partnerships in recent scientific history is the growing liaison between social science and medicine. Today, anthropologists and other behavioral scientists are working with physicians, psychiatrists, health workers, and medical scientists in a variety of tasks. Most of these social scientists working in the health field have been involved in action programs of various sorts. Inter-disciplinary projects designed for health improvement, attitude change, and even psychotherapy have been much more common than any basic socio-medical research and as a result of the applied nature of such studies, there has been little real communication between theorists in these fields. Another reason for this lack of intercommunication has been the characteristic role of the social anthropologist in the health field. Since the eventual goal of all health research is an action program designed to improve the health and welfare of the patient, the various practitioners of health are the ones who become the actual implementers. Consequently, the anthropologist is usually assigned to the role of consultant.

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