Institutions of Reading: The Social Life of Libraries in the United States. Ed. by Thomas Augst and Kenneth Carpenter. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2007. xii, 368 pp. Cloth, $80.00, ISBN 978-1-55849-590-6. Paper, $28.95, ISBN 978-1-55849-591-3.)

2008 ◽  
Vol 95 (1) ◽  
pp. 182-183
Author(s):  
D. G. Davis
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Life ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Social ◽  
University Of Massachusetts

scholarly journals #aintnobodygottimeforthat: cultural appropriation, stylization and the social life of hashtag interjectionality

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-97
Author(s):  
Anne H. Fabricius
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Media ◽  
African American ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Language Use ◽  
American English ◽  
The United States ◽  
Cultural Appropriation ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Future

Th is paper will discuss a particular hashtag meme as one example of a potential new manifestation of interjectionality, engendered and fostered in the written online context of social media. Th e case derives from a video meme and hashtag from the United States which ‘went viral’ in 2012. We will ask to what extent hashtags might perform interjectional-type functions over and above their referential functions, thereby having links to other, more prototypically interjectional elements. Th e case will also be discussed from multiple sociolinguistic perspectives: as an example of the (indirect) signifying of ‘whiteness’ through ‘black’ discourse, as cultural appropriation in the context of potential policing of these racial divides in the United States, and as a case of performative stylization which highlights grammatical markers while simultaneously downplaying phonological markers of African American English. We will end by speculating as to the implications of the rise of (variant forms of) hashtags for processes of creative language use in the future.

Political Constitutionalism and Legal Constitutionalism—an Imaginary Opposition?

2020 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 737-763
Author(s):  
Alexander Latham-Gambi
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Life ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Political ◽  
Social Imaginary ◽  
Political World ◽  
The Social ◽  
Shared Understandings ◽  
The Way

Abstract This article argues that the opposition between political and legal constitutionalism can be traced to a cleavage in what philosophers have called the ‘social imaginary’: the shared understandings that underpin social life. Since social imaginary understandings are by their nature nebulous and ill-defined, political and legal constitutionalism should not be thought of as competing theories or heuristic models, but—more abstractly—contrasting ways of imagining the political world. Drawing on historical and contemporary examples, I argue that my claim is supported by the way in which legal constitutionalism embedded itself as the governing idea in the United States and in France, and also by the failure of the ‘new Commonwealth model of constitutionalism’ to yield a genuinely distinctive alternative to political and legal constitutionalism.

Book Reviews: Social Relations in a Secondary School, A Sociology of English Religion, Rôleplaying in Psychotherapy: A Manual, Political Systems: Some Sociological Approaches, A Social Geography of Zambia, The Changing Social Structure of England and Wales 1871—1961, Group Conflict and Co-Operation: Their Social Psychology, Approaches to Cross-Cultural Psychiatry, Communities in Britain: Social Life in Town and Country, Mental Health and Contemporary Thought, Supervision in Social Work, Psychological Needs and Cultural Systems: A Case Study, Education and Social Work, The Lazy South, The Political Economy of Slavery, Intelligible Fields in the Social Sciences, Passing On: The Social Organization of Dying, Dilemmas of Social Reform: Poverty and Community Action in the United States, Poverty in Canada and the United States, The Government of Associations: Selections from the Behavioral Sciences, Wages and Work Allocation: A Study of Social Relations in a Garment Workshop, The Origins of Modern Town Planning, Basic Thinking in Regional Planning, Land and People, The City Region in Western Europe, Kinship and Casework

1967 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 357-388
Author(s):  
S. John Eggleston ◽  
John Highet ◽  
Paul De Berker ◽  
Hugh Berrington ◽  
P. Harries-Jones ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Life ◽  
The United States ◽  
Psychological Needs ◽  
Community Action ◽  
Town Planning ◽  
City Region ◽  
The Social

First Principles and the Paraguayan Constitution

1944 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 94-102
Author(s):  
Sigfrido V. Gross-Brown
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
First Principles ◽  
Social Life ◽  
The United States ◽  
American People ◽  
James Madison ◽  
The Social ◽  
Natural Inclination ◽  
Santa Maria

The outstanding merit of James Madison consists in having contributed notably to the making of a constitution that would serve as an instrument of government to achieve the happiness of the nation and the greatness of the United States of America. Without departing from modern political doctrines, the formula conceived by him is perfectly suited to the social life, temperament, manners, and natural inclination of the American people; reconciling in this way the rational juridical principle of self-government with what Santa Maria de Paredes calls “the historical positive.” It is something made to measure, by masterly hands, in accordance with the supreme postulates of science.

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