scholarly journals MODERN MYTH AS A MEANS OF CONSTRUCTING REALITY

2018 ◽  
pp. 134-138
Author(s):  
Valentina Lvovna Tikhonova
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
The Other ◽  
Social Burden ◽  
The World ◽  
The One ◽  
Female Audience ◽  
Modern Myth

The myth in the modern sociocultural space bears an important cultural and social burden, has many forms and manifestations and is used by modern man consciously and with specific goals. The influence of mythology on modern society is ambiguous. An example is the illusory picture of the world produced by Russian television series intended for a female audience. The low quality of these products and the unified standard of the plot based on the archetypical images of the characters, are capable of playing on the psyche of viewers susceptible to the offered illusions, on the one hand, comforting, on the other - leading away from real life. The fact of the existence of myth in the modern cultural space, its relevance in the world of social relations proves the reality of the existence and functioning of mythological thinking.

scholarly journals Modernitetens modsigelser. Konfigurationskonflikter og samfundstænkning i Grundtvigs »Om Mennesket i Verden«

1998 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 142-156
Author(s):  
Henning Eichberg
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Life ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Other ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Time Space ◽  
The World ◽  
The One

Contradictions of Modernity. Conflicting Configurations and Societal Thinking in Grundtvig's »The Human Being in the World«A Worm - a God. About the Human Being in the World. Ove Korsgaard (ed.). With contributions of Niels Buur Hansen, Hans Hauge, Bosse Bergstedt, Uffe Jonas and Knud Bjarne Gjesing. Odense Universitetsforlag 1997.By Henning EichbergIn 1817, Grundtvig wrote »Om Mennesket i Verden« which can be regarded as a key to the understanding of his philosophy and psychology, but which is difficult to place in relation to his later folkelig, societal engagement. A recent reedition of this text together with some actual comments by Grundtvig researchers is an occasion to quest deeper about this relation.However, it is not enough to ask - as Grundtvig research has done for a long time - what Grundtvig wanted to say, but his text can be regarded as a document of how modem orientation in the world is characterized by conflicting linguistic and metaphorical patterns, which sometimes may tell another story than intended.On the one hand, Grundtvig's text speaks of a lot of dualistic contradictions such as life vs. death, light vs. darkness, truth vs. lie, God vs. devil, human fall vs. resurrection, body vs. spirit, nature vs. history and time vs. eternity. In contrast to the author's intention to produce clarity and lucidity - whether in the spirit of Christianity or of modem rationality - the binary constructions give rather a confusing picture of systematical disorder where polarity and polemics are mixed, antagonism and gradual order, dichotomy and exclusive either-or, paradoxes and dialectical contradictions. On the other hand,Grundtvig tries again and again to build up three-pole imaginations as for instance the threefold human relation to time, space and truth and the three ages of spiritual seeing, feeling and conceptualization resp. of mythology (childhood), theology (youth) and history (adult age). The main history, Grundtvig wants to tell in his text, is built up around the trialectic relation of the human being to the body, to the spirit and to itself, to the living soul.The most difficult to understand in this relation seems to be what Grundtvig calls the spirit, Aanden. Grundtvig describes it as Aandigt Samfund mellem Menneske og Sandhed, »the spiritual community between the human being and the truth«, and this may direct our attention towards samfund, meaning at the same time association, togetherness and society. Aanden is described by threefold effects - will, conscience and faith, all of them describing social relations between human beings resp. their psychological correlate. The same social undertone is true when Grundtvig characterizes three Aande-Livets Spor (»traces of spiritual life«): the word, the history and love. If »the spirit« represents what is larger or »higher« than the single human being and what cannot be touched by his or her hand, then this definition fits exactly to society or the sociality of the human being. Social life - whether understood as culture, social identity or folk (people) - is not only a quantitative sum of human individuals, but represents another quality of natural order. Thus it has its logic that Grundtvig places the human being in between the realms of minerals, plant and animal life on the one hand and the »higher« order on the other, which can be understood as the social existence.In this respect, the societal dimension is not at all absent in his philosophy of 1817. However, it is not enough to state the implicite presence of sociality as such in the earlier Grundtvigian thinking before his folkelig break-through. What was the sociality, more concretely, which Grundtvig experienced during the early modernity? In general, highly dichotomous concepts are dominating the modem discourse as capitalism vs. feudalism, materialism vs. idealism, modernity vs. premodemity, democracy vs. absolutism or revolution vs. restoration; Grundtvig was always difficult to place into these patterns. Again, it might be helpful to try a trialectical approach, transcending the dualism of state and market by civil society as a third field of social action. Indeed, it was civil society with its farmers' anarchist undertones which became the contents of Grundtvig's later folk engagement.

scholarly journals SOME FEATURES OF MUSLIM LAW: NEW TRENDS IN ITS DEVELOPMENT

THE BULLETIN ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 389 (1) ◽  
pp. 278-283
Author(s):  
N.L. Seitakhmetova
Keyword(s):  
Public Relations ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
The Other ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Legal Systems ◽  
Integration Process ◽  
Global Order ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
The One

The essence of the integration process in Muslim law has expressed in the enlargement and consolidation of the social relations through the definite points, objects of the concentration of the tension and gradual incorporation of the human being into the community with the system of the relations, with the global order, based on the balance of the regulating influence of the legal systems of the different states and synchronic of the regulating behavior in the different societies. The movable force of the process of the integration is inside the system of the society and social relations in the world scale. Muslim law is an Islamic doctrine about the rules of behavior of the Muslims. The main content of Muslim law is the rules of behavior of believers, that follow from the Sharia and sanctions for non-compliance with these regulations. It was formed in the VII-X centuries in the connection with the formation of the Muslim state - Caliphate. The formation of Muslim law was caused, on the one hand, by the need to bring the actual law in line with the religious norms of Islam, on the other hand, by the need to regulate public relations on the principles, based on the religious and ethical teachings of Islam.

scholarly journals Economics Of Freedom: An Empirical Analysis

2011 ◽  
Vol 7 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Reza G. Hamzaee ◽  
G. Rod Erfani
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Economic Freedom ◽  
Civil Liberties ◽  
The Other ◽  
Political Freedom ◽  
Political Rights ◽  
Significant Relationships ◽  
The World ◽  
The One

Human freedom, and therefore, quality of life in many countries of the world have been restricted and diminished. Economic freedom and a controversial issue of interrelationship between economic and political freedom are empirically examined here. In several empirical estimations, embodying 155 countries of the world, some tight as well as statistically significant relationships are detected between economic freedom, on the one hand, and civil liberties, political rights, and political freedom, on the other.

scholarly journals Eesti- ja Liivimaa libahundipärimus rahvapärase ontoloogia muutumise peegeldajana

Mäetagused ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 80 ◽  
pp. 71-88
Author(s):  
Merili Metsvahi ◽  
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
17Th Century ◽  
Human Mind ◽  
The Other ◽  
Human Being ◽  
The World ◽  
The One ◽  
The 19Th Century

The article gives a short overview of the Estonian werewolf tradition in the 16th and 17th centuries and a glimpse into the 19th–20th-century werewolf beliefs. The image of werewolf of the earlier and later periods is compared. The differences between the images of these two periods are explained with the help of the approaches of Tim Ingold and Philipp Descola, which ground the changes in the worldview taking place together with the shift from the pre-modern society into modernity. The mental world of the 16th–17th-century Estonian and Livonian peasant did not encompass the category of nature, and the borders between the human being and the animal on the one side and organism and environment on the other side were not so rigid as they are in today’s people’s comprehension of the world. The ability to change into a wolf was seen as an added possibility of acquiring new experiences and benefits. As the popular ontology had changed by the second half of the 19th century – the human mind was raised into the ultimate position and the animal was comprehended as being inferior – the transformation of a man into an animal, if it was seriously taken at all, seemed to be strange and unnatural.

scholarly journals KOMI FEMALE DRAMA: SOME ASPECTS OF STUDYING THE QUESTION

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 643-652
Author(s):  
Natalia Vasilievna Gorinova
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
National Culture ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Family Values ◽  
The Other ◽  
Female Authors ◽  
Female Consciousness ◽  
The World ◽  
The One ◽  
Female Drama

The beginning of the 21st century opened a new page in the development of Komi literature connected with the activity of female authors earlier unprecedented on a dramatic field. In the 2000s Nina Kuratova, Elena Kozlova and Nina Obrezkova addressed dramaturgic genres. By this time they had already been popular writers. Having addressed a dramaturgic genre, new to itself, each writer introduced organic features in a palette of dramaturgic poetics, enriching and updating national culture. We devoted this work to research the specifics of Komi female dramatic art. Gender approach and method of the comparative analysis allowed us to reveal features of Komi female dramatic art. The Komi female dramatic art is not stereotypical and cliched, there is no similarity in the creation of plots and the features of characters in plays by the playwrights. N. Kuratova's, E. Kozlova's and N. Obrezkova's plays differ on the one hand from each other, on the other hand from plays by male Komi playwrights. It is not only about female playwrights reproducing in plays the female character and especially female household reality, but also about reproduction of how women feel and understand the world. In the Komi female drama we see the desire of the woman to live in harmony with the world, to constantly feel safe, to arrange family cosiness, to keep and transfer to the subsequent generations family values, love and respect (Kuratova). Also female drama transmits that pain which is felt by the woman, building relations with men, feeling their pressure and even violence (Kozlova). The female drama reveals changes the woman in modern society experiences, her finding new social roles, finding male features against the background of spiritual weakening of men (Obrezkova). So, the female consciousness gets into Komi dramaturgic space, opening new ways in an artistic judgment of reality, enriching an aesthetic paradigm.

scholarly journals THE DESTINY OF SUBJECTIVITY IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF POSTFEMINISM

2020 ◽  
pp. 55-65
Author(s):  
Zoia Shevchenko
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
Public Attitudes ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Judith Butler ◽  
Simone De Beauvoir ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Dynamic Relationship ◽  
The World ◽  
The One

The article examines the relationship between the development of feminist ideas in the positioning of the subject in feminist theory (Simone de Beauvoir) and postfeminism (Judith Butler) in a dynamic relationship with social practices of modern society, their impact on public attitudes and on observance of equality between its representatives according to the different identities they could take: not only gender, but also racial, age, economic, political, etc. Philosophy of postmodernism is the theoretical basis of this research. This means the non-logocentric, non-fallocentric and non-textocentric research intentions. Fallocentric world is the world designed from a men perspective. Feminist theorists — such as Simone de Beauvoir — try to argue that fallocentric world is just a worldview construction, but not the world as it is in real. So feminist theorists construct their own feminist world — designed from femine perspective. However postmodern methodology denies any absolute centre and centrism. So, postfeminism rejects feminist project of just female history, just female culture, just female world. The world is the one, and it has both dimensions — male and female. Therefore feminism matters to the men too, not only the women. Logocentric methods should be supplemented with methods focused on emotional dimension of human life. Textocentric methods should be supplemented with methods focused on images and their presentations. Non-centric methodology is proper and adequate approach to the rhizome structure of the postfeminist field of inquiry. There are practical and theoretical planes that characterize the current situation of feminism: from declarative denial of classic feminism principles in real life to the further development of emancipatory ideas in academic studies. It is emphasized that existing discrimination on the basis of gender or other grounds is often supported not only by members of dominant groups, but also by people who are the object of oppression or violence. The defining role of the media in the formation of a policy of tolerance / intolerance to gender identities is noted. The characteristics of the representation of male and female visual images inherent in both patriarchal culture and the world of modern media are highlighted.

scholarly journals Gubitak transcedencije i nastojanje oko sigurnosti unutar svijeta

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dušan Travar
Keyword(s):  
World View ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Human Existence ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The World ◽  
Cultural Processes ◽  
Specific Manner ◽  
The One

The "world view" influences the basic determination of man to the extent that all phenomena and events, all scientific problematizations and socio-cultural processes and, not least, human existence itself are networked into a coordinating system which is enmeshed in the "here present" or in the "otherworldly". Knowing one’s enmeshment in the otherworldly offers to man the possibility to experience in a specific manner the dangers and the risks of human existence and not to take the world as the only reality. Christianity demythologized the world and with the Biblical creative injunction addressed to man to subjugate the Earth it contributed to progress as a path of discovering and controlling the world. However, regardless of the nature of security within the world, progress is immanently prone to risk ("the remaining risk"). The loss of the otherworldly in modern society, on the one hand, contributes to the growing attenuation of endangerment of life but, on the other, man is becoming more and more insecure despite the enormous efforts devoted to security. This can ultimately lead to a point where "progress" is experienced as a power which endangers security and which needs to be curtailed.

scholarly journals Psychological Aspects of Destructive Information-Psychological Influence

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 75-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
A.M. Stolyarenko ◽  
N.V. Serdyuk ◽  
V.V. Vakhnina ◽  
O.M. Boeva
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Safety ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Negative Information ◽  
The Other ◽  
Psychological Resources ◽  
Psychological Practice ◽  
Psychological Influence ◽  
Internal Affairs ◽  
The One

The article exposes the identity of the destructive psychological influence on the personality and offers directions and methods of information-psychological counteraction. One of the areas of psychological practice is being studied - counteraction to informational psychological influence. The most effective methods and practices of counteracting negative information-psychological influence are highlighted. The specific features of counteracting the destructive information-psychological influence, the features of timely psychodiagnostics and the development of effective countermeasures are described. The relevance of the study of this area of psychological work is imposed by the need on the one hand in assessing the quality of psychological protection of employees of internal affairs bodies, and on the other, in searching and stimulating intraorganizational and intrapersonal psychological resources, which necessitates the development of theoretical, methodological and conceptual approaches to the implementation of approaches to protect personnel from negative psychological information influence. The authors consider the destructive informational and psychological influence as one of the most serious problems of modern society, which threatens the psychological safety of not only employees of the internal affairs bodies, but also citizens, entails significant losses, and has a strong psychological effect.

Social Media and OPSEC / An Analysis through Sociology of Security

2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (26) ◽  
pp. 160-172
Author(s):  
M. Kubilay Akman
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Cyber Attacks ◽  
Cultural Groups ◽  
Corporate Security ◽  
Military Background ◽  
The One ◽  
Sociology Of Communication

When virtual social relations and online interactions have increased in our age media also had a transformation. Social media is a phenomenon which came with wide usage of internet by modern society and individuals. On the one hand it has created opportunities for a more democratic way of communication, participation and dialogue between members of different socio-cultural groups, communities, friends and family members, colleagues, Etc.; on the other hand this new version of media has caused criminal risks, security gaps and vulnerabilities to contemporary threats varied from fraud to cyber-attacks, terrorism, identity theft, ransomwares and so on. Even “old types” of crimes in real life can begin from social media and virtual reality. All these problems are related to several subdisciplines of sociology: sociology of communication, sociology of crime, sociology of security are among them. In this paper we will analyze the topic though sociology of security’s prism. Also, we will discuss what can be the functionality of OPSEC as a measure, which has military background and widely used later on by civilian sectors including corporate security as well.

scholarly journals Information society: the interaction of tradition and innovation in communicative processes

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (27) ◽  
pp. 217-226
Author(s):  
Yuriy P. Bytiak ◽  
Oleg G. Danilyan ◽  
Alexander P. Dzeban ◽  
Yury Y. Kalinovsky ◽  
Volodymyr V. Chalapko
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Information Society ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
The Other ◽  
Public Communication ◽  
Network Communications ◽  
The One ◽  
Key Aspects ◽  
Communicative Processes

Scientific novelty of work is in revealing the key aspects of understanding the nature and characteristics of contemporary processes of communication at various levels of socially organized matter, in identifying their most significant features in conditions of the actual information society. The article expresses the view that in modern society, reality is manifested in the form of “normal accidens”, and in this context some of the most illustrative trends of modern social development, that are manifested in various aspects of human activity are highlighted that are the “normal accidents”. It is substantiated that modern network communications are characterized by non-linearity, absence of a core and hierarchy, which affects the dynamics of society. Conclusions. New forms of communication are multidirectional and ambiguous: on the one hand, they are a continuation and a new measurement of the traditionally established forms of public communication and, on the other hand, they are socio-cultural innovations capable of a new influence on the quality of life of an individual, functionality and dynamics of society and its institutions development.

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