scholarly journals Reflections on the Context of the Change of War

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-94
Author(s):  
Mihai Marcel Neag ◽  
Lucian Ispas
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
The Other ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
Operational Environment ◽  
Abstract Form ◽  
Continuous Transformation ◽  
Combined Analysis ◽  
Technological Developments ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Real Challenge

Abstract In order to understand and explain the changes of war in a very complex operational environment and in a continuous transformation, we must anticipate, render in an abstract form and create solutions for successful decisions. The estimates of this communication resulted from a combined analysis of the conditions of war without winners and losers, given that humanity has evolved towards modernity from the perspective of changing the forms of consciousness, reshaping relationships and social structures, technological developments, or reporting the individual to the environment around him. In this context, identifying the relationships between the phenomenon of war and the other aspects (domains) of social life becomes a real challenge.

The Individual and Society

1996 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 102-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Bevir
Keyword(s):  
Social Structure ◽  
The Other ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
Mutual Dependence ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

What is the relationship of the individual to society? This paper argues it is one of mutual dependence. Individuals cannot hold beliefs or perform actions other than against the background of particular social structures. And social structures only influence, as opposed to restricting or deciding, the beliefs and decisions of individuals, so social structures can arise only out of performances by individuals. The grammar of our concepts shows it is a mistake to postulate a moment of origin when either individuals or social structures must have existed prior to the other. Our concepts of an individual and a social structure are vague, and this allows for their existence being dependent on one another.

scholarly journals The social life of emotive interjections in spoken British English

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 174-193
Author(s):  
Ulrike Stange
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Economic Status ◽  
Young Female ◽  
The Other ◽  
British English ◽  
Socio Economic Status ◽  
The Social ◽  
Potential Factors ◽  
The Individual

This paper explores the discursive use of selected emotive interjections (Ow!, Ouch!; Ugh!, Yuck!; Whoops!, Whoopsadaisy!) in spoken British English. The data (drawn from the Spoken BNC2014) are coded for age, gender, social grade and type of dyad to identify potential factors governing the discursive use of these interjections. Based on 140 relevant tokens, the results suggest that: 1) The individual interjections vary significantly regarding how frequently they are found in discursive uses (p<0.001***). 2) Whoopsadaisy! is not attested in discursive uses. 3) Young female speakers behave differently from the other speaker groups in that they use emotive interjections discursively significantly more frequently (p=0.006***). 4) Female speakers in general use a wider range of interjections discursively: Ow! and Whoops! in discursive uses were absent from male speech. 5) Socio-economic status is irrelevant, as is 6) type of speaker dyad. Thus, the social life of emotive interjections is mainly influenced by speaker gender, and if the speakers are female, also by their age.

Panem et circenses / Bread and circuses – nowadays

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 155-163
Author(s):  
Józef Węglarz
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
The Other ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
Physical Culture ◽  
Individual Choice ◽  
Human Needs ◽  
Individual Preferences ◽  
Physical Affection ◽  
The One ◽  
The Individual

Human needs have their own hierarchy and are significantly dependent on the lifestyle of the individual. They are also culturally conditioned. The satisfaction of one’s needs determines the level of human existence and location of a person in social structures as well as individual preferences. Taking care of the body, in our world, can be understood in two ways. On the one hand it is a socially postulated custom encouraging to participate in a physical culture and on the other hand it is an act of individual choice. The latter marks the attitude towards physical affection as a need. Body kindness must be taught by showing its value. This is to be done, among others, by physical education as an organised pedagogical process.

Disillusioning Gender

2018 ◽  
Vol 66 (2) ◽  
pp. 243-261 ◽  
Author(s):  
Britt-Marie Schiller
Keyword(s):  
Gender Identity ◽  
Sense Of Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
Masculinity And Femininity ◽  
The Social ◽  
Erroneous Beliefs ◽  
Gender Categories ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Internal Sense

Illusions are not errors but erroneous beliefs motivated by wishful ideas and fantasies. To disillusion gender is to challenge the traditional Freudian construction that splits masculinity and femininity into agency versus passivity, the first with power, the second without. Disillusioning femininity as impotent frees up potency and power as generativity. Disillusioning masculinity as phallic and omnipotent opens the masculine subject to permeability and vulnerability. Illusions regarding the transgender include the idea that there are only two gender categories and the idea that gender identity is generated solely from an internal sense of self. The wish “to be seen as” or “to pass as” one gender or the other shows that social structures exceed the individual. At least for now, the disillusionment of gender with which we are left marks a tension between the internal sense of gender identity and the social structures of gender.

scholarly journals Etno-confessional features of Ukraines integration into the united Europe

2017 ◽  
pp. 107-119
Author(s):  
Serhiy Zdioruk
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Religious Tradition ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
The Status ◽  
Art Philosophy ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Right

In all societies, at least prior to the Enlightenment, religion served as a basis for formation of ideology determining the existence of culture. All important areas of society and its institutions were determined by the religious legitimacy this way or the other. Today they are separated from the order of life and culture specified for the society as a whole by the religion and have the status of independent subsystems. However, in fact, religion has become one of the spheres of social life. Now it coexists with the art, philosophy, science, politics, economics and so on. According to the differentiation and specialization of society the individual acquires the status of free and autonomous entity: he is not required to submit to the power of the religious tradition. He is free to use the opportunities to choose any branch of knowledge opening prospects for his capacities. Man has the right to profess any religion or profess none being limited to purely secular activities.

The Ugly Face of the Digital World

2022 ◽  
pp. 489-505
Author(s):  
Ethem Merdan
Keyword(s):  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Digital World ◽  
Technological Developments ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Day By Day

Technology is present in every moment of our lives and has become a part of our lives. Developments in information and communication technologies affect and facilitate social life and business life day by day. Although the positive aspects of technological developments are generally mentioned, it also brings many negativities. One of these downsides is cyberbullying. Cyberbullying can be expressed as behaviors that hurt, humiliate, disturb, frighten, exclude, and cause victimization by using information and communication technologies of the individual. These behaviors can cause an individual's job and life satisfaction to decrease anxiety, sadness, tension, and loss of motivation. In this case, it becomes difficult for the individual to be effective and efficient in his/her business and social life. For this, it is useful to combat cyberbullying, and it is important to develop combat strategies for it. Otherwise, cyberbullying cannot be prevented. With the precautions, most cyberbullying can be prevented before it happens.

PATTERN OF ANIMATOR IN POLISH AND FOREIGN LITERATURE ON THE SUBJECT

2019 ◽  
pp. 4-13
Author(s):  
T. Łapian
Keyword(s):  
Spiritual Development ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Human Life ◽  
The State ◽  
The Other ◽  
Industrial Society ◽  
Contemporary Culture ◽  
Ecological Sensitivity ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Individual

The emergence and development of socio-cultural animation are closely related to the state of modern society and contemporary culture. Animation has become a response to their deficiencies and deficiencies, for the needs that our post-industrial society cannot satisfy. The development of civilization, which led to industrialization and urbanization, meant that the social structure underwent a radical transformation. Traditional forms of community life and the types of lasting relationships related to them have disappeared, and their place was replaced by individualistic culture focused on the individual and its self-fulfillment. The way we live has become increasingly dependent on the one hand on the state, with its ubiquitous institutions, and on the other hand on market mechanisms, increasingly aggressively entering all possible areas of social life. Many outstanding humanistic psychologists, such as Maslow, Perls, Rogers and Fromm, demanded action to transform the human individual. It was postulated to strive to develop in the individual such qualities as: openness, flexibility, the ability to make conscious choices, intrsteer, creativity, skepticism towards positively understood science and technology, striving for authenticity, treating life as internal changes, autonomy, caring for others, ecological sensitivity, independence, ability to self-organize into self-sufficient institutions, spiritual development. The theme of animation requires an interdisciplinary approach, as it concerns many areas of human life. Seen from a social perspective, it is associated with such phenomena as: enriching social and cultural life forms, inspiring people to creative life and creative activities, reviving local communities and various groups and environments, discovering the unrealized potentials of both individuals and groups. On the other hand, from the pedagogical perspective, you can see a range of methods in animation that can help you deal with contemporary educational and educational challenges. The publications have rich thematic literature that goes beyond Central Europe. The topic raised was not fully exhausted; this text is one of the components of the monograph being created, which will describe the overall profile of the animator and leisure time animation.

Integrating Population Data: Challenges and Prospects

2021 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 5-14
Author(s):  
М. A. Klupt ◽  
О. N. Nikiforov
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Necessary Conditions ◽  
Population Data ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The City ◽  
Different Sources ◽  
Clear Description

The article deals with methodological, organizational, and technological issues of integrating population data obtained from various administrative sources and corporative big data. The article proves the particular relevance of the interaction between official statistics and other governmental and corporative information systems amidst the digitization of the economy and social life and the incipient establishment of the federal population data register. The authors propose a system of interrelated aggregates, characterizing various categories of population, which differ according to criteria of citizenship, permanent residence, duration, and purposes of stay on the territory of Russia. Challenges associated with estimating these aggregates are analyzed. The article considers possibilities and legal limitations in the work of statisticians on systematizing information, rationalizing the selection and subsequent joint use of information, characterizing an individual (i.e. matching) for addressing various tasks faced by social and demographic statistics. Special attention is paid to the various options for resolving the issue of a personal code (one or more) that allow linking information on the individual from different databases. The need to ensure the transparency of the methodology used by the various participants of informational interaction is emphasized, which in turn shall pave the way for the harmonization and, where possible, the unification of such methodology. The paper demonstrates the crucial role of preliminary qualitative analysis of data from different sources and explains mechanisms for further interaction of statistical authorities with organizations, interested in this information, and social structures. Using mobile operators’ and providers’ data on the population of the city, necessary conditions for their adequate interpretation – transparent methodology, clear description of population aggregates to estimate, and assumptions used for such estimations – are characterized.

scholarly journals The problem of sociology in the Arab world between its theoretical reality and applied necessities

2017 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-35
Author(s):  
Salih Samir Al-Dulaimi Salih Samir Al-Dulaimi
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Arab World ◽  
Applied Science ◽  
The Other ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
Social Facts ◽  
Political Forces ◽  
Rapid Changes ◽  
Theoretical Science

The rapid changes that have occurred in the countries of the Arab world is reflected on the concerns of the humanities in general and sociology in particular. They have also changed the nature of the problems that social thought deals with. It has become the interest of sociologists to study these societies starting from their own desire to understand the problems of these societies, their social structures, their problems, and their inner socio-political forces. Sociologists agree that sociology leads to knowledge and a sound understanding of human behavior, but they disagree about whether this science is trying to uncover any social facts in order to deploy them in making better societies. Some scientists believe that sociology is a theoretical science, but others see it as an applied science. Other scientists, on the other hand, see sociology as both a theoretical and applied science, and even they do not see that there are boundaries between theoretical sociology and applied sociology.The argument that sociology is both a theoretical and applied science cannot only enhance our interest and scientific knowledge about facts, but also contribute to the possibility of drawing a clear picture of the nature of the current and future social life. At the same time, the theoretical importance that contributes to the enrichment of scientific knowledge can be deployed to study the reality of our societies under the current circumstances.

Natural law as early social thought: The recovery of natural law for sociology

2019 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 72-90
Author(s):  
Angela Leahy
Keyword(s):  
Natural Law ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Social World ◽  
Social Thought ◽  
The Other ◽  
Human Sciences ◽  
Methodological Framework ◽  
Contemporary Sociology ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Individual

Natural law contains much social thought that predates sociology and related disciplines, and can be seen as part of the prehistory of the human sciences. Key concerns of natural law thinkers include the achievement of social life and society, and the individual’s place therein. However, there is an enduring tendency within sociology to dismiss the ahistoricism and universalism of natural law, and therefore to reject natural law thought in its entirety. This article proposes an approach that rescues the sociological relevance of natural law. It draws on the respective methods of Chris Thornhill and Gary Wickham, who each seek to recover the importance of natural law for sociology. Thornhill treats natural law as a valid sociological object by focusing on its functions within society rather than engaging with its ahistorical concepts. His focus on the external functions of natural law, however, leads to a neglect of the internal conceptualisations of the social world in natural law thought. This in turn leads to a misinterpretation of Hobbes and voluntarist natural law. Wickham, on the other hand, explores in detail Hobbesian conceptions of society and the individual that Wickham argues can be utilised within contemporary sociology. This article revises Thornhill’s methodological framework in order to secure a space for the recovery of natural law as social thought. This approach allows for the recognition of natural law as an important piece of the epistemological background against which contemporary understandings of the human and society emerged.

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