The Eyes of Odars

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanne Randa Nucho
Keyword(s):  
Social Conditions ◽  
Infrastructure Projects ◽  
Municipal Governance ◽  
Neighborhood Scale ◽  
State Infrastructure ◽  
The Way

This chapter jumps beyond the neighborhood scale to a city-to-city collaboration between Bourj Hammoud and a foreign municipality as a means of challenging Lebanese state infrastructure projects. It analyzes the ways in which the overlapping jurisdictions of power go far beyond the fragmented infrastructures of the neighborhood block to transnational circulations of expertise and resources. In doing so, it demonstrates how the popular notion that Lebanon's infrastructural and conflict-oriented problems could be solved through a strong centralized state or through the ideology of decentralization completely ignores the way that municipal governance works through overlapping jurisdictions. While Lebanese centralized state-sponsored infrastructure projects have had a destructive impact on environmental and social conditions in Bourj Hammoud, municipality-endorsed initiatives have often been equally destructive.

The Climate of Nihilism

Worldview ◽  
1970 ◽  
Vol 13 (7-8) ◽  
pp. 10-12
Author(s):  
Bernard Murchland
Keyword(s):  
Social Conditions ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Way

I have never been convinced of the Marxian belief that thought is the outcome of social conditions, particularly the modes of production and exchange. It seems to me that the opposite is more nearly true, that the social substance in any given age is primarily defined by its climate of ideas, its philosophical worldview, if you will. The structures of society derive their being as well as their significance from the prevailing philosophy; truth is always a function of a state of consciousness, of the way we view things.

Durkheim's Suicide and the Question of Intention

1974 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-54
Author(s):  
Vanderlyn R. Pine
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Social Factors ◽  
Statistical Information ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
Social Fact ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Way

Durkheim dismissed “intention” and “motives” from his conceptual framework in his effort to analyze suicide as a social fact He also rejected psychopathic states, heredity, and other “extra-social” factors as possible causes of suicide on the basis of statistical information available to him. This paper examines the way in which Durkheim worked out his position on the social conditions he regarded as responsible for suicide, and discusses some of the major problems involved. It is argued that Durkheim did not achieve the consistent position for which he strived, and that his methods did not always parallel his views on the use of “intention.”

Introduction

2016 ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Christian W. McMillen
Keyword(s):  
Past History ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
National Institutes Of Health ◽  
Clear Relationship ◽  
Epidemic Disease ◽  
The Past ◽  
Population Immunity ◽  
Mobile Population ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Way

What are pandemics? The National Institutes of Health proposed pandemics must meet eight criteria: wide geographic extension, disease movement, high attack rates and explosiveness, minimal population immunity, novelty, infectiousness, contagiousness, and severity. The introduction explains that much of the way we confront pandemics now has been shaped by the past history of pandemic and epidemic disease. There is a clear relationship between disease and social conditions, conditions that do not exist everywhere and that will not be alleviated with biomedicine. The question of susceptibility—who gets a disease and why—is also important. Epidemics and pandemics cannot occur without a dense and mobile population.

The Morricone Paradox: A Film Music Genius Who Missed Writing Symphonies

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 113-115
Author(s):  
Marcello Sorce Keller
Keyword(s):  
Film Music ◽  
Specific Aspect ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
Personal Character ◽  
The Social ◽  
Short Essay ◽  
The Way

This short essay reviews a specific aspect of Ennio Morricone’s work as a film music composer. The review is of personal character and analyses the expectation of the composer as a projection of the social conditions he lived in. The review invites controversial discussions and may show some ideas of the way how purposeful research can turn into culturally contributing subjectivity.

David’s Sojourn in Keilah in Light of the Amarna Letters

2010 ◽  
Vol 60 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-97 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nadav Naaman
Keyword(s):  
Social Conditions ◽  
14Th Century ◽  
Biblical Story ◽  
Historical Episode ◽  
Amarna Period ◽  
Amarna Letters ◽  
The Way

AbstractThe article examines the story of David’s sojourn in Keilah (1 Sam. 23:1-13) in light of the episode of the sojourn of a band of ‘Apiru in the same city in the Amarna period. The biblical story is analyzed in the first part of the article, and is followed by a reconstruction of the 14th century BCE historical episode on the basis of some Amarna letters. The remarkable accord between the biblical and extra-biblical descriptions with regard to location and social conditions opens the way to a better understanding of both. The pro-Davidic character of the biblical story is evident from what the narrator includes in his story, as much as by what he left out. The extra-biblical source is the key to filling in the missing details that the narrator deliberately left out of his story.

scholarly journals Social entrepreneurs in challenging places: A Delphi study of experiences and perspectives

2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (8) ◽  
pp. 800-821 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gareth RT White ◽  
Anthony Samuel ◽  
David Pickernell ◽  
Dan Taylor ◽  
Rachel Mason-Jones
Keyword(s):  
Government Policy ◽  
Delphi Study ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
Social Enterprises ◽  
Relative Influence ◽  
Local Policy ◽  
Social Entrepreneurs ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
South Wales ◽  
The Way

Social Enterprises have grown in number and scope in response to reductions in state-provided welfare and increasing ambition to improve social conditions. While a range of issues have been identified in the literature as affecting the ability of Social Enterprises to successfully conduct their activities, there is currently a dearth of research into the relative influence of these factors. This study explores and ranks the challenges faced by social entrepreneurs in South Wales. Based on a Delphi study with 21 social entrepreneurs, government policy-developers and scholars, it presents a hierarchy of 14 factors, useful instruments for informing social entrepreneurs and policy-makers about the way social enterprises are managed, and how national and local policy should be developed. As part of this, the study also identifies four novel factors that affect the sustainability of social enterprises: ‘Professionalisation of Marketing’, ‘Perception of Validity’, ‘Leadership’ and ‘Situatedness’.

scholarly journals Feeling, Knowledge, Self-Preservation: Audre Lorde's Oppositional Agency and Some Implications for Ethics

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 463-482
Author(s):  
CALEB WARD
Keyword(s):  
Moral Psychology ◽  
Sexual Partners ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
Sexual Intimacy ◽  
Audre Lorde ◽  
The Face ◽  
Deep Source ◽  
Intimate Encounters ◽  
The Way

AbstractThroughout her work, Audre Lorde maintains that her self-preservation in the face of oppression depends on acting from the recognition and valorization of her feelings as a deep source of knowledge. This claim, taken as a portrayal of agency, poses challenges to standard positions in ethics, epistemology, and moral psychology. This article examines the oppositional agency articulated by Lorde's thought, locating feeling, poetry, and the power she calls ‘the erotic’ within her avowed project of self-preservation. It then explores the implications of taking seriously Lorde's account, particularly for theorists examining ethics and epistemology under nonideal social conditions. For situations of sexual intimacy, for example, Lorde's account unsettles prevailing assumptions about the role of consent in responsibility between sexual partners. I argue that obligations to solicit consent and respect refusal are not sufficient to acknowledge the value of agency in intimate encounters when agency is oppositional in the way Lorde describes.

Biliotti's Excavations at Satala

1974 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
pp. 221-244
Author(s):  
T. B. Mitford
Keyword(s):  
British Museum ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Rescue Work ◽  
Valuable Source ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
Late Ottoman ◽  
The Way

Alfred Biliotti, British vice-consul at Trebizond, spent nine days at Satala in 1874. He is well known as an enquiring and meticulous observer. The account of his visit, in a consular paper in the British Museum, remains by far the best description of the legionary fortress, and holds several items of particular interest.Biliotti was able to record at leisure structural remains in an altogether better state of preservation than is true today. His 18 ft walls, with traces of ashlar facing, are now reduced to rubble cores visible, except at the north-east and south-east angles, only in eroded sections (Figs. 1, 2). Of the square projecting towers there is now barely a trace. The supposed look-out towers reported on the surrounding mountain tops are known from no other source.His are the only excavations on record in Armenia Minor, and at any point on the limes itself between Trapezus and the rescue work north of the Keban dam.His account is a valuable source for social conditions in the villages during the late Ottoman period. The way of life at Satala depended on techniques that can have changed little since Roman times, and survived virtually unaltered until the introduction of tractors in the later 1960s.

scholarly journals HUMAN SPIRITUALITY PHASES IN SUFISM The Study of Abu Nasr Al-Sarraj in The Book of al-Luma'

Teosofia ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 21
Author(s):  
Ayis Mukholik
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Inner Experience ◽  
The Social ◽  
Short Time ◽  
Human Spirituality ◽  
The Way ◽  
Good Deeds

<p>This study discusses the phases that human beings must go through to achieve a noble degree in the sight of God. In Sufism, this topic is known as <em>maqamat</em> and <em>ahwal</em>. <em>Maqamat</em> is the spiritual position, that is, the existence of a person in the way of Allah by trying to practice the deeds to be closer to Allah. While <em>ahwal</em> is a condition or spiritual circumstance within heart bestowed by God because of the intensity of the <em>dhikr</em> (remembering God). To reach the highest level (ma'rifatullah), it can not be reached in a way that is easy and short time. Man must try to empty himself from sin and fill it with good deeds. For only with a holy soul, God gives much of His knowledge. This paper aims to describe and analyze the stages of human spirituality in the book of a classic Sufi figure, Abu Nasr Al-Sarraj. Through inner experience, Sarraj formulated the concept of being close to God. This thought is based on the social conditions of society at that time concerning with material matters rather than spiritual ones. Therefore, the question is how the spiritual phases should be achieved by Al-Sarraj? To answer this question, the researcher uses a qualitative method by examining the text and analyzing it to find the sequences of phases. The result of this research is that Al Sarraj formulates 7 levels of <em>maqam</em> and 9 levels <em>ahwal.</em> Humans who can run the phase are classified into Insan Kamil (perfect human) because there is no distance between him and God.</p>

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