The Untouchable Soldier: Caste, Politics, and the Indian Army

1969 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 453-468 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen P. Cohen
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Indian Politics ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Caste Politics ◽  
Relationship Of

Military establishments are omnipresent if not everywhere omnipotent. While these costly bureaucracies are the bane of finance ministers around the world, they do provide an important opportunity for comparative analysis. This paper examines a military system—the Indian one—through time, and attempts to demonstrate the changing relationship of that system to Indian politics and society in general, and to the low-caste communities of India in particular. We select the low-caste untouchables because they represent an extreme challenge to the integrative capacity of both political and social systems, and because they have recently been the subject of intensive political and academic concern.

Strategien zur Vermeidung von V-S im Französischen

2021 ◽  
Vol 137 (4) ◽  
pp. 1078-1100
Author(s):  
Ulrich Wandruszka
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Strict Sense ◽  
French Translation ◽  
Central Question ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
Viable Method

Abstract French is a heavily postdetermining iambic language. This also implies that, in contrast to German, the subject-predicate sequence is dominant even though this is not a relationship of determination in the strict sense of the term. Despite the predominant iambic intonation pattern, postposition of rhematic subjects is only possible under certain conditions in modern French. This contrasts with Italian or Spanish in cases like Domani viene Maria/Mañana llega María. A French equivalent Demain vient Marie instead of Marie vient demain or also Demain Marie vient is no longer common today for reasons to be discussed. The central question to be answered is “By which means does French resolve the conflict of linearisation arising from the tension between the dominant rising intonation pattern and the ‘phobia’ of subject inversion even when the subject is rhematic?” A comparative analysis of translations is a viable method for discovering how French marks rhematic subjects when simple postposition is not a possible strategy. This approach shows how constructions with the subject in postposition, for instance in Italian, are rendered in their French translation.

Medidas Socioeducativas e Desenvolvimento Moral: uma Possibilidade Através da Interação e do Respeito

2018 ◽  
pp. 16
Author(s):  
Henrique Abarca Schelini Carnevalli
Keyword(s):  
Ordered Set ◽  
Children And Youth ◽  
Constructivist Theory ◽  
Moral Autonomy ◽  
Cooperative Relationships ◽  
De Se ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
Development Prospects

O objetivo deste trabalho é revelar as perspectivas de desenvolvimento moral contidas nas diretrizes pedagógicas do Sistema Nacional de Atendimento Socioeducativo - SINASE/2006, analisadas sob a luz da teoria construtivista das obras de Jean Piaget e Lawrence Kohlberg. Segundo estes autores, a autonomia moral é alcançada por meio de relacionamentos cooperativos, em que se estabelece uma relação de diálogo e respeito entre os sujeitos. Já o SINASE, enquanto conjunto ordenado de princípios, regras e critérios que envolvem a execução de medidas socioeducativas aos adolescentes em conflito com a lei, objetiva promover o desenvolvimento destes defendendo um alinhamento conceitual estruturado em bases éticas e pedagógicas. Ambos enxergam na educação, no respeito e na interação entre o sujeito e o mundo, meios de contribuir na formação de um sujeito autônomo, solidário e capaz de se relacionar melhor consigo mesmo e com os outros, cujos princípios e valores se tornarão os norteadores para uma tomada de decisão em detrimento de uma obediência irrefletida, baseada no medo e na punição. Diante de um quadro agravante de violência envolvendo o público infantojuvenil é fundamental que as bases, que sustentam os direitos e norteiam os serviços sejam constantemente ressignificadas para que as práticas alcancem os resultados esperados.Palavras-chave: SINASE. Adolescentes. Desenvolvimento.AbstractThe objective of this work is to reveal the moral development prospects contained in pedagogical guidelines SINASE, analyzed in the light of the constructivist theory of Piaget and Kohlberg’s works. According to these authors the moral autonomy is achieved through cooperative relationships that establish a relationship of dialogue and respect among subjects. Whereas SINASE as an ordered set of principles, rules and criteria involves the educational measures execution for young offenders, aiming to promote the development of adolescents defending a conceptual alignment with structured ethical and pedagogical bases. Both sighted in education, respect and interaction between the subject and the world, means to contribute to the formation of an autonomous subject, supportive, able to relate better with himself or herself and with others, the principles and values will become the guiding for a decision-making at the expense of an unthinking obedience based on fear and punishment. Faced with a worsening situation of violence involving children and youth it is essential that the underpinning rights and guide services are constantly reinterpreted so that the practices achieve the expected results.Keywords: SINASE. Adolescents. Development.

scholarly journals Translating Anna Karenina - to the Question About the Pragmatics of Translation

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 307-315
Author(s):  
Ekaterina Gurina
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Word Order ◽  
Russian Orthodox ◽  
Orthodox Church ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Russian Orthodox Church ◽  
Anna Karenina ◽  
The World ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Impact

The article deals with the stylistic peculiarities of the translations made by R. Pevear and L. Volokhonsky, L. and A. Maud, J. Carmichael of the novel Anna Karenina by L. Tolstoy on the basis of pragmastylistics and comparative analysis. It tries to analyze the text of the novel using the lingo-stylistic characteristics in accordance with the national bias in the way of thinking and individual creative preferences of every translator taking an attempt to introduce a foreign picture of the world to his countrymen. It underlines the impact of Tolstoy’s complicated attitude towards the customs and traditions of the Russian Orthodox church and the specific relationship of the author of the novel with God and its manifestation in the description of the heroes’ characters. In stresses how vital it may turn out to preserve the author’s ideostyle - lexis and syntax (the word order, the choice of them and the length of the sentences) for the successful interpretation of the writer’s views and stance by the reader.

scholarly journals “Congenial people”, “dissonant people” and “image of the word” of a mature person

2020 ◽  
pp. 54-68
Author(s):  
Valeriya Alperovich
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Theoretical Study ◽  
Psychological Characteristics ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
The World ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Communication Partners ◽  
Positive Assessment ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Mature Person

This research is dedicated to the problem of correlation between perception of other people by a subject and phenomenon of the “image of the world”. This topic is relevant for scholars of humanities in different countries in conditions of aggravation of various macrosocial conflicts. A theoretical study is conducted on correlations between the phenomena of “image of the world”, “worldview”, “model of the world”,  and approaches of the Russian psychology towards them. The author explores the results of empirical study of the “image of the world”, reflected in drawings, through the prism of metaphorical representations of a mature person on “congenial people” and “dissonant people”. The goal consists on carrying out a comparative analysis of peculiarities of the “image of the world” among persons differing in metaphorical representations on “congenial people” and “dissonant people”. The subject of this research is the metaphors of "congenial person” and “dissonant person”, the basic principles of a person and types of the “image of the world” depicted in drawings and verbal characteristics. The scientific novelty lies in the development of additional parameters for the analysis of the “image of the world” of a person, reflected in drawings. This article is first to determine correlations between different types of metaphors of “congenial person” and “dissonant person” as communication partners, and parameters of the “image of the world” of a person depicted in drawings. The conclusion is made that attribution of positive metaphorical socio-psychological characteristics to “congenial people” and “dissonant people” is associated with positive assessment of the objects of surrounding world. Stereotypization of images of other people as communication partners correlates with such of the “image of the world” in consciousness of a subject. The research results indicate that perceptions of “congenial people” and “dissonant people” by the subject affect their “image of the world”. The presented materials can be used in socio-psychological counseling for elaboration of the programs of correcting the system of relations of the subject to themselves and other people.

scholarly journals An Ontological Politics of Comparative Environmental Analysis: The Green Economy and Local Diversity

2015 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 140-151 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tim Forsyth ◽  
Les Levidow
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Environmental Analysis ◽  
Science And Technology Studies ◽  
Domestic Politics ◽  
Green Economy ◽  
Policy Framework ◽  
Local Diversity ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Tacit Assumptions

This article contributes to comparative environmental politics by integrating comparative analysis with debates about ontological politics as well as science and technology studies. Comparative environmental analysis makes two tacit assumptions: that the subject of comparison (e.g., an environmental policy framework) is mobile and can be detached from its contexts; and that studying this subject in more than one location can identify its diffusion and implementation anywhere. These assumptions are sites of ontological politics by predetermining (or restricting) environmental outcomes. Environmental analysis needs to consider how its own comparative acts might reify supposedly global frameworks rather than acknowledging how different localities appropriate and give meaning to them in diverse ways. The concept of civic epistemologies illustrates how domestic politics are organized around supposedly global concepts, rather than how global concepts diffuse around the world, as illustrated here by a comparative analysis of the United Nations’ Green Economy Initiative.

scholarly journals Clinic Stories Possible Learning from Drug Addiction

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Drug Addiction ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Chemical Dependency ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Psychoactive Substances ◽  
Chemical Substances ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Relationship

Search for a theoretical framework that answers cultural, social and anthropological questions about man, using complements to live as a being-in-the-world, based on the psychoanalytic clinic. Investigate whether the use of narcotics is individual or a result of social issues that drive the subject to use psychoactive substances. Analyze the clinical structures linked to the use of these substances. To investigate the relationship between fractures with the law and chemical dependency, and religion/ spirituality, establishing links between clinical structures in drug addiction and society. As objectives: to investigate the issues with the Father’s Law and the use of chemical substances. Relate cultural and social systems linked to addictions; seek individual and family assumptions, perhaps social, that elucidate the necessary search for a complement/drug.

scholarly journals Tradition of nature and man in the literature (based on the material of comparative analysis of the Russian and English worldviews)

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
M.A. Ganyushina
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
World Language ◽  
Cultural Space ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
The World ◽  
Linguistic Sign ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Way

The article focuses on the problem of the symbolic properties of language and linguistic sign within of the world language image (further WLI). Its solution offers the prospect of a deeper understanding of the relationship of language and culture. As a subject of study the metaphorical rethinkings of different concepts in English and Russian languages with the components of ancient symbols, legends left their mark on the world perception of different nations. The study shows the way the linguistic sign begins to express symbolic ideas, influence the semantics of expressions, closely cooperating with the cultural space, a myth and modern associations.

scholarly journals The problem of novelty in legal science: to the question on methodological aspects of studying legal doctrines

2020 ◽  
pp. 28-39
Author(s):  
Vladimir Sergeevich Gorban
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
The Past ◽  
Legal Science ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Methodological Approaches ◽  
Scientific Value ◽  
Methodological Aspects

The subject of this research is the problem of interpretation of continuity and novelty in carrying out historical-philosophical and problematic-theoretical reconstructions of legal doctrines of the past and modernity. The absence of due knowledge on the origin, history of acquisition and application of theoretical ideas of the past often leads to significant modifications, distortions and loss of historical linkage within the legal picture of the world. The repetition of legal ideas and theoretical constructs of the past is natural, but firstly it can and should be viewed as a methodological prerequisite for searching of approaches and means to substantiate the interests to certain aspects of law, and secondly, for ensuring scientific value of modern research, it must be clarified not by the conventionality of scientific knowledge, but based on the reconstruction of origin, application and valid meaning and designation of ideas. The methodology leans on the comparative analysis of legal ideas of the past and modernity in synchronic and diachronic angle. The novelty of the conducted research consists in interpretation of the problem of novelty in legal science based on the requirement for preservation of continuity in terms of their historical-philosophical and problematic-theoretical reconstruction. At the same time, such requirement reveals in a number of specific reconstructions and examples of utilization of methodological approaches for their conduct.

scholarly journals Lyrical object and other lyrical characters in J. Brodsky’s cycle “Part of Speech”

2021 ◽  
pp. 19-27
Author(s):  
Alisa Mukhamatovna Rakhmatova
Keyword(s):  
Subjective Organization ◽  
Specific Nature ◽  
Part Of Speech ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Lyrical Subject ◽  
Artistic Images ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Literary Unity

The object of this research is the poetics of J. Brodsky's cycle “Part of Speech” as literary unity. The subject of this research is the subjective organization of poems included in the cycle “Part of Speech”. Special attention is given to the nature of value attitude of the lyrical object towards other characters depicted in poems of the cycle. Such attitude is viewed as an aspect of authorial artistic reflection and assessment of depicted reality. Following the footsteps of S. N. Broytman, the author interprets the lyrical object as a speech bearer, as well as the main (encompassing other) perspective on the world in the poem. The lyrical character is a supported character, being assessed by the lyrical object (lyrical characters include a “lyrical addressee” and “lyrical You”). The scientific novelty of this research consists in viewing the nature of value attitude of the lyrical objects towards other lyrical characters in the “Part of Speech” as an aspect of poetics of the cycle as literary unity (previous studies were dedicated only to separate poems of J. Brodsky’s cycle). The analysis of selected texts of the cycle indicates the specific nature of the relationship between lyrical object and other characters depicted in the poems: 1. the relationship of the lyrical object with other characters (the lyrical heroine, “You”, etc.) is built as an anti-dialogue, demonstrating total loneliness of the lyrical object; 2. The theme of loneliness in the cycle also intersects with the artistic images for yourself; 3. in the “Part of Speech”, the forms of indirect representation of the lyric object (when the lyrical subject refers to himself as another) also point at his self-centeredness, loneliness, and disruption of ties with others.

Early Mesoamerican Cities

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
First Generation ◽  
Urban Centers ◽  
Transformational Process ◽  
Cultural Variables ◽  
Dynamic Phase ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Ancient Civilizations ◽  
Broad Interest

Urbanization is a phenomenon that brings into focus a range of topics of broad interest to scholars. It is one of the central, enduring interests of anthropological archaeology. Because urbanization is a transformational process, it changes the relationships between social and cultural variables such as demography, economy, politics, and ideology. As one of a handful of cases in the ancient world where cities developed independently, Mesoamerica should play a major role in the global, comparative analysis of first-generation cities and urbanism in general. Yet most research focuses on later manifestations of urbanism in Mesoamerica, thereby perpetuating the fallacy that Mesoamerican cities developed relatively late in comparison to urban centers in the rest of the world. This volume presents new data, case studies, and models for approaching the subject of early Mesoamerican cities. It demonstrates how the study of urbanism in Mesoamerica, and all ancient civilizations, is entering a new and dynamic phase of scholarship.

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