scholarly journals Imaginaires de l’identité collective au prisme d’événements sidérants

2021 ◽  
Vol 40 ◽  
pp. 129-144
Author(s):  
Véronique Magaud ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Collective Identity ◽  
Ingroup Identity ◽  
Charlie Hebdo ◽  
The Way

"This paper analyses the ingroup identity which emerges through three events, the Cologne attacks in January 2016, the attacks against the Charlie Hebdo journalists in January 2015 and the Yellow Vests’ demonstrations in France from November 2018 to 2019. It focuses on the images and fictions which are performed by the citizens as well as those which appear through the reactions of academics, journalists and politicians in media. It aims at revealing the accommodation of political myths and the way the representations of collective identity are built."

Becoming Politicized

2017 ◽  
Vol 225 (4) ◽  
pp. 324-335 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dimitrios Barkas ◽  
Xenia Chryssochoou
Keyword(s):  
Collective Identity ◽  
Political Socialization ◽  
Greek Society ◽  
Economic Vulnerability ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Identity Model ◽  
Beliefs About The Future ◽  
Of Greece ◽  
The Way

Abstract. This research took place just after the end of the protests following the killing of a 16-year-old boy by a policeman in Greece in December 2008. Participants (N = 224) were 16-year-olds in different schools in Attiki. Informed by the Politicized Collective Identity Model ( Simon & Klandermans, 2001 ), a questionnaire measuring grievances, adversarial attributions, emotions, vulnerability, identifications with students and activists, and questions about justice and Greek society in the future, as well as about youngsters’ participation in different actions, was completed. Four profiles of the participants emerged from a cluster analysis using representations of the conflict, emotions, and identifications with activists and students. These profiles differed on beliefs about the future of Greece, participants’ economic vulnerability, and forms of participation. Importantly, the clusters corresponded to students from schools of different socioeconomic areas. The results indicate that the way young people interpret the events and the context, their levels of identification, and the way they represent society are important factors of their political socialization that impacts on their forms of participation. Political socialization seems to be related to youngsters’ position in society which probably constitutes an important anchoring point of their interpretation of the world.

Catalan Sociolinguistics

2021 ◽  
pp. 228-240
Author(s):  
Toni Mollà Orts
Keyword(s):  
Collective Identity ◽  
Technological Progress ◽  
Main Challenge ◽  
Ultimate Purpose ◽  
The Way

Humans learned to talk a thousand years ago, but our written abilities are more modern. Technological progress—from writing to digitalization—have crucially changed the way we communicate with each other. Yet, research about linguistic uses, which happens under the area of sociolinguistics, is only a modern phenomenon. In fact, the concept sociolinguistics was only coined in 1949. In the Catalan culture, the first sociolinguistic studies took the form of anti-Franco essays. It was only during the late 1960s that these essays took a sociological dimension thanks to Lluís-Vicent Aracil and Rafael-Lluís Ninyoles. Nowadays, in a context of increasing multidisciplinary approaches, Catalan sociolinguistic studies have become a hybrid field. For the discipline, the main challenge that lies ahead is how find its own perspective and how to incorporate theoretical and methodological tools without eroding the goal of sustaining a collective identity, which is the ultimate purpose that led to its foundation.

scholarly journals The Free Spirit by Yorgos Theotokas and the Concept of the Generation of the ‘30s

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 89-114
Author(s):  
Lara Unuk
Keyword(s):  
Interwar Period ◽  
Collective Identity ◽  
Greek Literature ◽  
Literary Movement ◽  
Free Spirit ◽  
The Core ◽  
Literary Heritage ◽  
The Way

This paper presents the way in which the members of the Generation of the ‘30s, a Greek literary movement in the interwar period, formed their collective identity or denied it, and how they defined themselves as a ‘generation’ without ever creating a formal literary school. I also observe how this affected the conclusions of later literary historians. The article contains a brief presentation of the situation in Greek literature before the appearance of the Generation of the ‘30s, since the notion of a break with tradition or else reinterpretation of literary heritage was at the core of their self-definition. I focus mainly on the work of Yorgos Theotokas and his contribution to the forming of their ‘myth’, as he calls it himself, and present his first and most important essay, The Free Spirit.

scholarly journals Translation and Identity: Social Trajectories of the Translators of Hebrew Literature in French1

2016 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 59-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gisèle Sapiro
Keyword(s):  
Collective Identity ◽  
Hebrew Literature ◽  
Historical Process ◽  
The Social ◽  
Modern Hebrew ◽  
Linguistic Skills ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
The Way

This paper focuses on the relation between translation and identity through the case of translators from Modern Hebrew literature into French. The conditions of acquisition of linguistic skills and the paths that lead to the translational practice are analysed on the basis of a study of the social properties and trajectories of the translators, which reveals the population’s double historical process of specialization and of femininization. The way translators represent their activity to themselves, as expressed during in-depth interviews, is then placed in the context of the translators’ trajectories and habitus, following Daniel Simeoni’s suggestion. The question of translation’s role in the construction of individual and collective identity is thereby raised.

scholarly journals Prestige and alcohol in South Mexican fiesta: drinking with saint patrons in the central valleys of Oaxaca

2015 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 250-63
Author(s):  
Joanna Zamorska
Keyword(s):  
Collective Identity ◽  
Excessive Drinking ◽  
Drinking Alcohol ◽  
Suburban Communities ◽  
The Way

Food and alcohol are the key elements of celebrating a Mexican fiesta. I show that drinking at patronal feasts can be the way of constructing a respectful position, as presented in the ethnographic material collected in the three suburban communities of the Central Valleys of Oaxaca (in the years 2012–13). I discuss the relation between drinking alcohol at fiestas, participation and collective identity. I analyse the issue of prestige in the context drinking at fiestas and its relation to gender. I also discuss the role of alcohol in ritual exchanging of gifts at the patronal feasts which were under study and its relation with prestige. Other questions being analysed include the problem of refusing drink and the Catholic and non-Catholic critiques of patronal feasts as based on perceptions of excessive drinking. 

scholarly journals Collective identity and dance in modern urban Greece

2010 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 213-221 ◽  
Author(s):  
Filippos Filippou ◽  
Dimitris Goulimaris ◽  
Vasilis Serbezis ◽  
Maria Genti ◽  
Dimos Davoras
Keyword(s):  
Collective Identity ◽  
Folk Music ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Video Recording ◽  
Urban Society ◽  
Performance Theory ◽  
Cultural Groups ◽  
Ethnographic Data ◽  
Open Question ◽  
The Way

The aim of this study is to trace the way some cultural groups demonstrate their identity through dance in the contemporary urban society. The survey follows revelry with folk music, singing and dancing organized by a local cultural troupe on the occasion of a feast day. The collection of the ethnographic data relied on long standing observation and the video recording of the revelries between 2000 and 2005. Further information was gathered with the means of a closed questionnaire and open question interviews. In the process of the material two theories were mainly employed: the performance theory and the theory of collective identity in postmodern culture. To sum up, we would say that dance as presented on the feast day reflects the local “multicultural” society’s characteristics. It retains its dynamic with its entity, function and content to be composed of agricultural and urban features. Dance continues to exist since it has the potential to adjust to each time social, economic and historical circumstances.

A Systematic Review on the Functions of Rap Among Gangs

2015 ◽  
Vol 61 (11) ◽  
pp. 1243-1261 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Lozon ◽  
Moshe Bensimon
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
General Population ◽  
Antisocial Behavior ◽  
Collective Identity ◽  
Rap Music ◽  
Gangsta Rap ◽  
Urban Ghetto ◽  
Empirical Information ◽  
Gang Life ◽  
The Way

Although the field of gangs is well studied, information regarding the way gangs may use or misuse music for different needs is sparse. The aim of this systematic review is to gather descriptive and empirical information to ascertain the important roles rap music possesses within gang life. This review suggests five main functions of rap used within gangs with an emphasis on the subgenre of gangsta rap. First, rap facilitates antisocial behavior by reinforcing such messages in its lyrics. Second, its deviant lyrics serve as a reflection of the violent reality experienced in many urban ghetto communities. Third, it operates as a means for constructing individual and collective identity, as well as resistance identity. Fourth, it functions as an educating force by teaching its members how to act and respond in the urban ghetto. Finally, rap glorifies gang norms among newcomers and successfully spreads its values to the general population.

scholarly journals Collective Identity and Collective Memory in the Philosophy of Paul Ricoeur

2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 114-131 ◽  
Author(s):  
David J. Leichter
Keyword(s):  
Collective Memory ◽  
Collective Identity ◽  
Paul Ricoeur ◽  
The Self ◽  
Or Groups ◽  
Paul Ricœur ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Way

Collective memory has been a notoriously difficult concept to define. I appeal to Paul Ricoeur and argue that his account of the relationship of the self and her community can clarify the meaning of collective memory. While memory properly understood belongs, in each case, to individuals, such memory exists and is shaped by a relationship with others. Furthermore, because individuals are constituted over a span of time and through intersubjective associations, the notion of collective memory ought to be understood in terms of the way that memory enacts and reenacts networks of relations among individuals and the communities to which they belong, rather than in terms of a model that reifies either individuals or groups. Ricoeur’s account can show sources of oppression and offers ways to respond to them.

scholarly journals The Operationalization of Ernesto Laclau’s Theory of Populism: Case of the Political Party “The Way of Courage”

2018 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 43-70
Author(s):  
Karolis Jonutis
Keyword(s):  
Identity Formation ◽  
Collective Identity ◽  
Political Party ◽  
Discourse Theory ◽  
The Political ◽  
Research Model ◽  
Main Disadvantage ◽  
New Research ◽  
High Level ◽  
The Way

This article aims to explain the rise of the Lithuanian political party “The Way of Courage” using Ernesto Laclau’s discourse theory of populism, in which populism is understood as a logic of collective identity formation. The advantages of this theoretical approach are revealed by comparing it with other tendencies of conceptualizing populism. In addition, this article is an attempt to solve the main disadvantage of E. Laclau’s theory – its high level of abstractness, understood as an obstacle for operationalization. Therefore, various possibilities of combining E. Laclau’s theory with other methodological perspectives are discussed, and a new research model is suggested, which is later applied in the discourse analysis of the political party “The Way of Courage.”

scholarly journals Remembering the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Collective memory of post-war Japan

2011 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hiroko Okuda
Keyword(s):  
Collective Memory ◽  
Collective Identity ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Government ◽  
Post War ◽  
Peace Parks ◽  
The Way

Nanzan UniversityThis study examines the way in which Tokyo has exploited the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki as a symbolic means of inducing post-war Japanese collective identity. To consider an effort on Tokyo’s part to integrate A-bomb memories into the country’s victim consciousness rather than to overcome the past, the study compares the A-bombed cities written with different Japanese forms, the peace parks, and the peace memorials. It also analyses the news coverage by two national daily papers on the A-bomb memorial days. By doing so, the study shows how the nation has been guided in its memory by the government.

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