scholarly journals The Value of Vulnerability: Sexual Coercion and the Nature of Love in Japanese Court Literature

1999 ◽  
Vol 58 (4) ◽  
pp. 1059-1079 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret H. Childs
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Coercion ◽  
Japanese Literature ◽  
Political Systems ◽  
Considerable Effort ◽  
Classroom Experience ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
Experience Teaching ◽  
Court Literature ◽  
American Society ◽  
Society Today

While modern readers willingly acknowledge the virtues of informing themselves about the ways the cultural contexts of fiction of various times and places differ from their own and the ramifications this may have for interpretation, we tend to assume that the emotions depicted in the fiction of other cultures are essentially the same as those we find in our own hearts. Scholars of literature exert considerable effort to help readers understand such things as contemporary political systems, kinship structures, marriage practices, and norms of etiquette, but we have not wondered whether the smiles, tears, and frowns of characters of other times and places reflect the same feelings as our own. Love, hate, jealousy, anger, joy, and sadness are popularly taken to be universal human emotions. However, classroom experience teaching classical Japanese literature and close readings of texts have led me to the conclusion that there are subtle but significant differences between the nature of love as depicted in premodern Japanese literature and love as we expect to find it in American society today.

Latin American Society Today

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabriela Benza ◽  
Gabriel Kessler
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
American Society ◽  
Latin American Society ◽  
Society Today

Epilogue

2019 ◽  
pp. 215-228
Author(s):  
Ethan Schrum
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Faculty Member ◽  
Academic Capitalism ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Academic Practice ◽  
Clark Kerr ◽  
Robert Nisbet ◽  
American Society ◽  
Society Today

The epilogue treats critics of American modernity and the instrumental university, especially the sociologist Robert Nisbet, a University of California faculty member (and sometime administrator) at Berkeley and Riverside from 1939 to 1972 who knew Clark Kerr. Nisbet lashed out at organized research in his 1971 book The Degradation of the Academic Dogma, where he coined the term “academic capitalism.” The most unfortunate consequence of the ORU’s rise to prominence, Nisbet believed, was that it separated research from teaching, thus tearing asunder what he conceived as a coherent fabric of academic practice. Nisbet’s thought provides a helpful framework for assessing the instrumental university’s legacy for higher education and American society today.

Woman in American Society Today

Thought ◽  
1967 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 112-120
Author(s):  
John P. Leary ◽  
Keyword(s):  
American Society ◽  
Society Today

Conclusion

Paper Trails ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 157-164
Author(s):  
Cameron Blevins
Keyword(s):  
Federal Government ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
The Us ◽  
Postal Network ◽  
American Society ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
American Geography ◽  
Society Today

This concluding chapter offers an overview of the US Post and the wider federal government from the early 1900s to the present. Both the US Post and the American state became more centralized and bureaucratic during the 20th century, but elements of the agency model and the challenges of American geography have continued to shape governance through the present. Today, the federal government’s “indirect” workforce outnumbers its “direct” workforce of salaried employees, while the US Postal Service’s ongoing fiscal crisis has seen the re-emergence of elements of the 19th-century postal network and its localized, semi-privatized workforce. The book concludes with lessons that the 19th-century postal system holds for understanding the kind of structural power wielded by technology companies and other large-scale forces that shape American society today.

Desafios à segurança pública no Brasil

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raimundo Pereira Pontes Filho
Keyword(s):  
Social Reality ◽  
Public Security ◽  
Considerable Effort ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
Good Practices ◽  
Brazilian Society ◽  
The Social

The problems and themes dealt with in the course of this work constitute repeated challenges to public security in Brazil. There are several others, no doubt, but here is a simple sample of the main ones. The urgent need to review the concept and the model put into practice, predominantly, as a public security paradigm in Brazilian society is evident. It is a demanding task, it requires considerable effort, however, it is essential to the perspectives of life in society in the country, under penalty of making the social reality increasingly dramatic and violent. In this sense, without pretending to point out or constitute any conclusive character, this work aims to collaborate to understand, subsidize, encourage the search for new multidisciplinary solutions with a view to overcoming the serious scenarios of violence and crime in force in the country. It is important to recognize the existence of good practices, including with an interactive focus between disciplines that study or deal with the problem, although they are still far from the answers demanded by the problems arising from public insecurity. In short, “Challenges to public security” is a work that proposes dialogue, questioning and the effort to jointly build possible alternatives and solutions aimed at different socio-cultural contexts impacted adversely by the damages imposed by violence and the culture of crime in Brazil.

Resistance and Rebellion: Lessons from Eastern Europe. By Roger D. Petersen. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. 338p. $59.95.

2002 ◽  
Vol 96 (4) ◽  
pp. 860-861
Author(s):  
Jan Kubik
Keyword(s):  
Political Behavior ◽  
Comparative Politics ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Political Systems ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
Historical Reconstructions ◽  
Game Theoretic ◽  
Cross Fertilization ◽  
Intellectual Climate

The most challenging task in today's comparative politics is crafting a fruitful combination of a general theory of political behavior with a nontrivial and sufficiently rich portrayal of that behavior's social, cultural, and historical context. At the same time, a consensus is emerging that holism is out, individualism is in, and the discipline's intellectual effort should be primarily focused on the reconstruction of the rules (mechanisms) governing the strategizing behavior of individuals in various social and cultural contexts. Macro-historical-structural explanations are largely out of favor. Given this intellectual climate, the premium is placed on studies that employ rational choice/game theoretical framework and test its applicability and limitations in the study of non-Western political systems. Such tests of applicability inevitably involve a confrontation between slim and parsimonious game-theoretic models and detail-rich ethnographic or historical reconstructions. Sometimes such confrontations end up in fruitless, mutual acrimony; recently, however, they have led to many instances of cross-fertilization and productive revisions of both sides' analytical assumptions.

scholarly journals Civic Religion in the Context of Ukrainian and Russian Political Realities

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (19) ◽  
pp. 103-105
Author(s):  
Iryna Bogachevska
Keyword(s):  
Social Transformation ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
Complex Processes ◽  
Soviet Space ◽  
Civic Religion ◽  
American Society ◽  
Political Realities ◽  
Society Today ◽  
Made In ◽  
Post Soviet Space

The notion of "civil religion" today in public opinion and socio-humanitarian research is increasingly called complex processes of social transformation involving religious factors that take place in the post-Soviet space, in particular in its "traditionally Orthodox" segment. If in the twentieth century. most of the scientific reflections on the phenomenon of civic religion were made in the context of American society, today the turbulent processes of building national states in the post-Soviet territories have led to a shift in the scientific interest in this issue in Eastern European realities.

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