The Myth-Shaping Power of a Past Vision of the Future

2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 185-202
Author(s):  
Imola György V.
Keyword(s):  
Identity Formation ◽  
Cultural Development ◽  
Cultural Changes ◽  
Clear Cut ◽  
Personality Cult ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Status ◽  
Shaping Power ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Moment

Abstract The creation of an era itself, as rhetoric of time, creates the otherness from which it builds up its own borders. Thus the creation of an era goes hand in hand with identity formation. The beginning of the 20th century, as the boundary of an era, appears as such a self-reflective moment in the life of Târgu Mureş. The study aims at presenting the social, economic and cultural changes of this period, notably the time when György Bernády was the mayor, the most significant period of urbanization of the town, the moment of the conscious designation of the above mentioned boundary of an era. It makes an attempt to grasp the beginning of the powerful personality cult of the former mayor; it analyzes those strategies of canonization and discourses that have played a key role in the process of the myth-formation of the hero and its time. In this era the process of György Bernády’s raising to the status of a cultural hero took place. The articles, which appeared in the local press, give a clear-cut image about what kind of judgements and appreciations have developed about the city and its councillor, as well as the infrastructural and cultural development

The Prophets and Homiletics

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonora Tubbs Tisdale ◽  
Carolyn J. Sharp
Keyword(s):  
Identity Formation ◽  
Truth Telling ◽  
People Of God ◽  
Prophetic Preaching ◽  
Prophetic Literature ◽  
Hebrew Scriptures ◽  
The Social ◽  
Ancient Israel ◽  
Contemporary Christian ◽  
The Status

This chapter encourages readers to embrace the task of “prophetic preaching”—defined both as preaching that challenges the status quo, and as proclamation that mediates for contemporary believers dimensions of truth-telling and identity formation performed by the prophetic books of the Hebrew Scriptures. The authors begin by debunking several myths related to prophetic preaching, positing that such preaching ultimately offers hope in the midst of a discordant and unjust world. They show how the very prophetic books that are too often avoided in the pulpit offer themes and perspectives that are essential for living as people of God today. Next they address challenges involved in trying to bridge ideational and ethical differences between the social values and theologies of ancient Israel and those of contemporary Christian congregations. Finally, they illustrate how the biblical prophetic literature may be helpful for advancing broader aims of Christian homiletics.

scholarly journals Support to women who denounce experiences of violence based on her social network

2015 ◽  
Vol 23 (5) ◽  
pp. 865-873 ◽  
Author(s):  
Letícia Becker Vieira ◽  
Ivis Emília de Oliveira Souza ◽  
Florence Romijn Tocantins ◽  
Florentina Pina-Roche
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Health Professional ◽  
Methodological Framework ◽  
Relational Context ◽  
Health Network ◽  
Secondary Network ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Moment

Objective: to analyze the possibilities of help/support through the mapping and acknowledgement of the social network of women who denounce experiences of violence at a Police Precinct for Women.Method: qualitative study based on the theoretical-methodological framework of Lia Sanicola's Social Network, through interviews with 19 women.Results: the analysis of the network maps evidenced that the primary social network was more present than the secondary on and, despite consisting of significant relations, it demonstrates limitations. The women access the secondary network occasionally in the violence problem and/or its repercussions in their life and health. The discrete presence of the health network in the composition of the social network was revealed and, when mentioned, the relation between the health professional and the woman was characterized as fragile.Conclusion: the importance of the social network relates to the creation of spaces of help/support for the women beyond the moment of the aggression, which accompany them throughout their process of emancipation from an experience annulled by violence, considering that each woman acts and makes decisions in the relational context when she is ready for it.

Is Female Labour Force Participation Really Low and Declining in Pakistan? A look at Alternative Data Sources

1987 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 699-709
Author(s):  
M. Afzal ◽  
Zafar Moeen Nasir
Keyword(s):  
Labour Force ◽  
Participation Rate ◽  
Labour Force Participation ◽  
Cultural Changes ◽  
Female Labour ◽  
Female Workers ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Status ◽  
Working Out ◽  
Status Of Women

For working out appropriate strategies and action programmes in order to fully utilize human resources for development and to advance the role and the status of women in society, it is essential that the statistical data collected on female participation in economic activity should reflect their position adequately and accurately in all the relevant sectors. In Pakistan, and other developing countries, the rural-agricultural segments, in the overall population have a large number of female workers who, directly and indirectly, contribute to agriculture, household and other unregistered rural activities. Similarly, in the urban organized sector, the work participation rate of women has registered a constant increase as a result of the social, economic and cultural changes which are taking place in these countries due to their development programmes.

Bridging the Social and the Symbolic: Toward a Feminist Politics of Sexual Difference

Hypatia ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 19-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily Zakin
Keyword(s):  
Identity Formation ◽  
Sexual Difference ◽  
Social Reality ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
The Public ◽  
Feminist Politics ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Language Law

By clarifying the psychoanalytic notion of sexual difference (and contrasting it with a feminist analysis of gender as social reality), I argue that the symbolic dimension of psychical life cannot be discarded in developing political accounts of identity formation and the status of women in the public sphere. I discuss various bridges between social reality and symbolic structure, bridges such as body, language, law, and family. I conclude that feminist attention must be redirected to the unconscious since the political cannot be localized in, or segregated to, the sphere of social reality; sexual difference is an indispensable concept for a feminist politics.

scholarly journals ‘A disastrous blow’: psychiatric risk, social indicators and medical authority in abortion reform in post-war Britain

2019 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 124-134
Author(s):  
Sarah Crook
Keyword(s):  
Social Indicators ◽  
Medical Professionals ◽  
Medical Journals ◽  
Medical Practitioners ◽  
Patient Agency ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Post War ◽  
A Site

The Second World War lent impetus to the creation of new models and explanatory frameworks of risk, encouraging a closer reading of the relationship between individual psychiatric disorder and social disarray. This article interrogates how conceptions of psychiatric risk were animated in debates around abortion reform to forge new connections between social conditions and psychiatric vulnerability in post-war Britain. Drawing upon the arguments that played out between medical practitioners, I suggest that abortion reform, culminating in the 1967 Abortion Act, was both a response to and a stimulus for new ideas about the interaction between social aetiologies and medical pathologies; indeed, it became a site in which the medical and social domains were recognised as mutually constitutive. Positioned in a landscape in which medical professionals were seeking to assert their authority and to defend their areas of practice, abortion reform offered new opportunities for medical professionals to intervene in the social sphere under the guise of risk to women’s mental health. The debate in medical journals around the status of issues that were seen to bridge the social and the medical were entangled with increasing anxiety about patient agency and responsibility. These concerns were further underscored as conversations about psychiatric risk extended towards considerations of the potential impact on women’s existing families, bringing domestic conditions and the perceived psychosocial importance of family life into relief within medical journals. This article, then, argues that conceptions of psychiatric risk, as refracted through the creation of new synapses connecting the social and the medical domains, were critical to medical debates over abortion reform in post-war Britain.

Introduction

2005 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bogumil Jewsiewicki ◽  
Bob W. White
Keyword(s):  
Primary Objective ◽  
Careful Examination ◽  
Social Production ◽  
Authoritarian Rule ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Status ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Horizon Of Expectations

In many societies, especially those where individual and collective memory are marked by the trauma that can accompany authoritarian rule, people attempt to come to terms with the past by finding ways of making it relevant to the present. One way to understand this complex relationship with history is through a careful examination of the practice of mourning. Mourning constitutes, above all, a framework from which the deceased's relationship with the living is collectively inventoried, evaluated, and debated so that the social work of memory may graft the experiences of yesterday onto a horizon of expectations. Defining the status of the deceased means making important decisions about how to “move on,” since the moment of mourning is not only a moment for weighing the acts and deeds of the deceased, but also a way of testing more generally the criteria for becoming recognized as an ancestor. As death seems increasingly present in the lives of people in many parts of Africa, emerging forms of social mourning echo the need for new political futures, and mourning shows itself as an important terrain for the social production of meaning. The primary objective of this collection of articles is to look at how the process of mourning mediates between the past and the future, and how the practices and perceptions of mourning are linked to real and imagined divisions in political time. Mourning, in other words, is a way of rethinking time.

The Biosemiotics and Phylogenesis of Culture

2002 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dominique Lestel
Keyword(s):  
Social Learning ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Social Dimension ◽  
Social Community ◽  
The Social ◽  
Semiotic Approach ◽  
The Status ◽  
Living Organisms ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Animal Societies

The question of animal cultures has once again become a subject of debate in ethology, and is now one of its most active and problematic areas. One surprising feature of this research, however, is the lack of attention paid to the communications that go on in these complex animal societies, with the exception of mechanisms of social learning. This neglect of communications is all the more troubling because many ethologists are unwilling to acknowledge that animals have cultures precisely because they do not possess language, a refusal therefore on semiotic grounds. In the present article, I show that the biosemiotic approach to animal cultures is, on the contrary, essential to their understanding, even if the complexity of animal communications is far from being well enough understood. I consider that some of the consequences of this approach are very important, in particular the question of whether we can talk about subjects in the case of animals. Alternatively, I suggest that the semiotic approach to animal cultures leads to a discussion of some of the most serious limitations of biosemiotics, particularly when it comes to investigating the status of the interlocutors in a social community, or to taking into account interspecific communications and the social dimension of any biosemiotic interaction - which biosemiotics has for the moment failed to do. Finally I call attention to the importance of animals living in human communities and suggest that this be studied so as to better apprehend the capacities for culture in non-human living organisms.

scholarly journals For a Vygotskian concept of nurse professional identity: reflective essay

2020 ◽  
Vol 73 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rogério Silva Lima ◽  
Marlene Fagundes Carvalho Gonçalves
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Students ◽  
Professional Identity ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Cultural Development ◽  
Professional Relationships ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Nurse Professional

ABSTRACT Objective: to understand the nurse professional identity from a vygotskian perspective and to understand its implications in the education process of nursing students. Methods: theoretical-reflexive study, based on the historical-cultural approach of Lev Seminovich Vigotski. Results: the perspective of human cultural development defended by Vigotski can support an understanding of nurse professional identity as a complex psychological construction, which takes into account both the elements of the historical-cultural context that circumscribes the profession and the subject, as well as the set of psychological functions, developed by the subject in personal and professional relationships. Final considerations: the professional identity formation necessarily passes through the social relations that take place in formative process and it places the nursing professor in relief in the conduct of learning, which results not only in appropriations of attributes and codes, but also in students psychological development.

Conceptual Foundations of Civilizational Transformations in Contemporary Social Philosophy

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 405-413
Author(s):  
Stanislav A. Malchenkov
Keyword(s):  
Systems Analysis ◽  
Scientific Literature ◽  
Social Philosophy ◽  
Cultural Development ◽  
Cultural Changes ◽  
Social Transformations ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Code ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Conceptual Foundations

Introduction. The relevance of the analysis of civilizational transformations in Russia is explained, first of all, by the vast vicissitudes of its political, economic and socio-cultural development in recent decades. The importance of the topic is growing, since the content of the philosophical problem in the period of building a multipolar world is supplemented by geopolitical components. Methods. The work used historical and dialectical methods, as well as systems analysis. Results. In modern scientific research, the ideas of linear and cyclical development are no longer opposed to each other as rigidly as was customary in the 19th – 20th centuries. The development of the concept of “axial time” by K. Jaspers leads to the idea that local civilizations, throughout their development, undergo significant transformations, while maintaining their own uniqueness. The concept of “civilizational transformations” is closely related to the category of “social transformations” that has developed in the scientific literature, however, it focuses primarily on cultural changes that cover the spiritual sphere of society. Discussion and Conclusion. At present, there is a need to include the concept of “civilizational transformations” in the scientific circulation, which in its most general form describes all possible changes in civilization on the way of its development. Civilizational transformations not only change the social code in the spiritual sphere, but also significantly affect the transformation of social, political and economic institutions.

scholarly journals NEW SIBERIAN JERUSALEM: ORIGINS, TRANSFER, TOPONYMICS IN THE XVII-BEGINNING OF THE XX CENTURY

2020 ◽  
pp. 182-198
Author(s):  
Михаил Сергеевич Шаповалов
Keyword(s):  
Gold Mining ◽  
Academic Discourse ◽  
The Urals ◽  
Religious Texts ◽  
New Jerusalem ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Status ◽  
Active Transfer ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Universe

В статье, основанной на материалах религиозных и светских текстов сибирских авторов XIX – начала XX в., документах региональных архивов, рассматривается феномен сибирского Иерусалима. Особое место уделено вопросам анализа иерусалимской и палестинской топонимики в Сибири. Автор преследует цель проанализировать процесс формирования феномена сибирского Иерусалима: какова его семантика, как соотносятся понятия «сибирский Иерусалим» и «Новый Иерусалим» и соотносятся ли вообще. В методологическом плане статья опирается на разработки в области иеротопии (А. М. Лидов) и культурно-семиотического трансфера (С. С. Аванесов). Автор приходит к выводам, что Иерусалим на протяжении XVII–XXI вв. оставался одним из пространствообразующих сакральных символов Сибири. В разное время в общественно-религиозном и научном дискурсе к сибирским Иерусалимам относили Тобольск, Енисейск, Томск, Каинск, Новокузнецк. Сибирские паломнические и религиозные тексты XIX – начала XX в. указывают на факт разделения в сознании сибиряков понятий Старого и Нового Иерусалима. Сибирский Иерусалим можно рассматривать в качестве образа Нового Иерусалима, продолжением процесса иконизации Московской Руси. До 1917 г. сибирским Новым Иерусалимом жители Зауралья признавали Тобольск. Статус Тобольска подкреплялся культурно-семиотическим трансфером иерусалимского топоса в Сибирь в формах идеи (Тобольск как центр Вселенной), образа (комплекс Тобольского кремля) и литургии (обряд «шествия на осляти»). Строительство сибирского Иерусалима сопровождалось активным переносом символов Иерусалима в Сибирь, что нашло отражение в топонимике региона. Реконструкция происхождения наименований раскрывает несколько источников создания палестинской топонимики в Сибири: церковное строительство, золотодобыча и еврейское присутствие. The paper examines the phenomenon of the "Siberian Jerusalem" based on both materials of religious and secular texts of Siberian authors of the XIX – early XX centuries and documents of the regional archives. Special attention is paid to the analysis of Jerusalem and Palestinian toponymy in Siberia. The author aims to analyze the genesis of the phenomenon of Siberian Jerusalem: its semantics, the relation between the concepts of Siberian and New Jerusalem if such a relation exists. In terms of methodology, the article relies on developments in the field of hierotopy (A. M. Lidov) and cultural-semiotic transfer (S. S. Avanesov). The author comes to the conclusion that Jerusalem during the XVII–XXI centuries remained one of the space-forming sacred symbols of Siberia. At various times, in the social-religious and academic discourse, Tobolsk, Yeniseisk, Tomsk, Kainsk, Novokuznetsk were attributed to Siberian Jerusalem. Siberian pilgrimage and religious texts of the XIX – early XX centuries point to the fact of separation of the concepts of the Old and New Jerusalem in the consciousness of the Siberians. Siberian Jerusalem can be regarded as the image of the New Jerusalem, a continuation of the iconization of Moscow Russia. Until 1917, residents of the territory beyond the Urals recognized Tobolsk as Siberian New Jerusalem. The status of Tobolsk was reinforced by the cultural-semiotic transfer of the Jerusalem topos to Siberia in the form of an idea (Tobolsk as the center of the Universe), an image (the Tobolsk Kremlin complex) and liturgy ("the procession on the donkey"). The construction of Siberian Jerusalem was accompanied by an active transfer of the symbols of Jerusalem to Siberia, which was reflected in the toponymy of the region. Reconstruction of the origin of names reveals several sources of the creation of Palestinian toponymy in Siberia such as church construction, gold mining and the Jewish presence.

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