Special Issue on Social Dynamics of COVID-19

AbstractThe introduction to the special issue provides a framework to think about the changing conceptions of Sayyid-ness in various historical contexts in South Asia. First, we review some of the sociological and anthropological literature on caste among South Asian Muslims, to argue for a contextualised and historicised study of Muslim social stratification in Muslims’ own terms. Second, we throw light on the fact that Sayyid-ness, far from being a transhistorical fact, may be conceptualised differently in different socio-political and historical contexts. For instance, Sayyid pedigree was at times downplayed in favour of a more encompassing Ashraf identity in order to project the idea of a single Muslim community. Far from projecting an essentialising image of Sayyid-ness, by focusing on historical change, the articles in this collection de-naturalise Sayyids’ and Ashraf's social superiority as a ‘well-understood and accepted fact’. They further shift attention from the debate on ‘Muslim caste’, often marred by Hindu-centric assumptions, to focus instead on social dynamics among South Asian Muslims ‘in their own terms’. In so doing, these studies highlight the importance of the local, while pointing to possible comparisons with Muslim groups outside South Asia.

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Introduction: mobilizing nostalgia in Asia

International Journal of Asian Studies ◽

10.1017/s1479591420000649 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 18 (1) ◽

pp. 1-5

Author(s):

Ryoko Nakano

Keyword(s):

Social Dynamics ◽

International Order ◽

The Political ◽

Special Issue

AbstractWhat is the role of nostalgia in our increasingly dynamic and interconnected world? This special issue, Mobilizing Nostalgia in Asia, assesses the mobilization of nostalgia in the changing international order, and within individuated socioeconomic and cultural spheres. Its four articles examine the political and social dynamics that evoke, utilize, amend, and manipulate nostalgia for collective present needs and demands. This Introduction connects the issue's four contributions to three interconnected themes: the power of nostalgia, the plurality of nostalgia, and nostalgia as a process of creation.

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Special Issue of Contemporary Social Science The Social Dynamics of Web 2.0

Contemporary Social Science ◽

10.1080/21582041.2011.584727 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 6 (2) ◽

pp. 273-273

Keyword(s):

Social Science ◽

Web 2.0 ◽

Social Dynamics ◽

Special Issue ◽

The Social

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Introducing an Interdisciplinary Frontier to Judging, Emotion and Emotion Work

Oñati Socio-legal Series ◽

10.35295/osls.iisl/0000-0000-0000-1095 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 9 (9(5)) ◽

pp. 548-556

Author(s):

Stina Bergman Blix ◽

Kathy Mack ◽

Terry Maroney ◽

Sharyn Roach Anleu

Keyword(s):

Social Dynamics ◽

Emotional Experience ◽

Emotion Work ◽

Sociology Of Law ◽

International Institute ◽

Special Issue ◽

Cultural Variations ◽

Historical Perspectives ◽

Judicial Practice ◽

International Diversity

This special issue of Oñati Socio-legal Series, titled Judging, Emotion and Emotion Work, is the result of presentations and discussions during an interdisciplinary workshop at the International Institute for the Sociology of Law (IISL) held in May 2018. This issue builds on the growing critique of the dispassionate ideal of judicial work, combining original theoretical insights with imaginative empirical analyses to extend the understanding of emotion in judging. Fifteen articles are presented in four themes: Theoretical, cultural and historical perspectives; Tensions of the dispassionate ideal; Social dynamics of emotion in judging; and Research methods, empirical insights and [changing] judicial practice. The international diversity of contributions recognises similarities and differences in the structure and organization of courts and the judiciary, and socio-cultural variations in emotional experience and expression. Este número de Oñati Socio-legal Series, titulado Judging, Emotion and Emotion Work, es el resultado de las exposiciones y debates de un seminario interdisciplinar celebrado en el Instituto Internacional de Sociología Jurídica (IISJ) en mayo de 2018. El número se basa en la creciente crítica del ideal desapasionado del trabajo judicial, combinando perspectivas teóricas originales con análisis empíricos imaginativos, a fin de ampliar la comprensión de la emoción en el trabajo judicial. Se presentan quince artículos en cuatro temas: Perspectivas teóricas, culturales e históricas; Tensiones del ideal desapasionado; Dinámicas sociales de la emoción en el trabajo judicial; y Métodos de investigación, perspectivas empíricas y trabajo judicial [cambiante]. El carácter diverso e internacional de los artículos reconoce similitudes y diferencias en la estructura y organización de los juzgados y de la judicatura, y variaciones socioculturales en la experiencia y expresión de la emoción.

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Special issue on modeling and control in social dynamics

Networks & Heterogeneous Media ◽

10.3934/nhm.2015.10.3i ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 10 (3) ◽

pp. i-ii

Author(s):

Pierre Degond ◽

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Gadi Fibich ◽

Benedetto Piccoli ◽

Eitan Tadmor ◽

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Keyword(s):

Social Dynamics ◽

Special Issue ◽

Modeling And Control ◽

And Control

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Book Review: Neville Alexander, (ed), Social Dynamics - special issue on 'Language Policies in Africa', Ayo Bamgbose, Language and Exclusion: The consequences of language policies in Africa

Journal of Humanities ◽

10.4314/jh.v15i1.6285 ◽

2004 ◽

Vol 15 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Gregory H Kamwendo

Keyword(s):

Social Dynamics ◽

Language Policies ◽

Special Issue

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Social pedagogy: historical traditions and transnational connections

Education Policy Analysis Archives ◽

10.14507/epaa.v21n35.2013 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 21 ◽

pp. 35 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Daniel Schugurensky ◽

Michael Silver

Keyword(s):

Community Development ◽

Social Dynamics ◽

Social Issues ◽

Social Dimensions ◽

Special Issue ◽

Social Pedagogy ◽

The Social ◽

Transnational Connections ◽

History Of ◽

Field Of Inquiry

With over 150 years of history, social pedagogy is both an interdisciplinary scholarly field of inquiry and a field of practice that is situated in the intersection of three areas of human activity: education, social work and community development. Although social pedagogy has different emphases and approaches depending on particular historical and geographical contexts, a common theme is that it deals with the connections between educational and social dynamics, or put in a different way, it is concerned with the educational dimension of social issues and the social dimensions of educational issues. The first part of this paper analyzes the history of the field of social pedagogy since its origins until today, with a focus on transnational flows between Europe and the Americas. The second part of the paper discusses the main issues raised in this special issue of EPAA, and extracts the main threads and connections among the different papers included in the volume.

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Strangers and States: Situating Accentism in a World of Nations

Journal of Language and Social Psychology ◽

10.1177/0261927x19884093 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 39 (1) ◽

pp. 172-179 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Peter Hegarty

Keyword(s):

Language Use ◽

Social Dynamics ◽

Experimental Studies ◽

Psychological Research ◽

Special Issue ◽

Social Psychological ◽

Nation Formation ◽

Social Bias ◽

The Social ◽

Social Psychological Research

This afterword to the Special Issue “Sounding Strange(r): Origins, Consequences, and Boundary Conditions of Sociophonetic Discrimination.” engages the editors’ enthusiasm to consider how to scale things up from smaller experimental studies of accentism to larger social dynamics. In so doing, I highlight some different epistemologies that might engage when conversations are studied for instances of accentism, and nation formation creates the conditions for accentism. I suggest that more explicit attention to contexts in which some ways of speaking are made normative and others are marked will facilitate this development. Some of the historical impact of nation formation on accentism are evident in the results and the methods of the social psychological research included in the Special Issue. Nation formation creates different norms for language use in similar ways. Situating accentism research this way allows us to reconsider the question raised by several of the authors that accentism may be a more profound form of social bias than racism.

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