scholarly journals Jacek Tittenbrun, Neither capital nor class. A critical analysis of Pierre Bourdieu’s theoretical framework, Wilmington: Vernon Press 2017

2017 ◽  
Vol 66 (4) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Class A

Getting Real?

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Goodhart
Keyword(s):  
Political Theory ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Political Analysis ◽  
Political Theories ◽  
The World ◽  
Political Norms

Chapter 3 engages with realist political theory throughcritical dialogues with leading realist theorists. It argues that realist political theories are much more susceptible to conservatism, distortion, and idealization than their proponents typically acknowledge. Realism is often not very realistic either in its descriptions of the world or in its political analysis. While realism enables the critical analysis of political norms (the analysis of power and unmasking of ideology), it cannot support substantive normative critique of existing social relations or enable prescriptive theorizing. These two types of critique must be integrated into a single theoretical framework to facilitate emancipatory social transformation.

scholarly journals Marx and Feminism

2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 468-475 ◽  
Author(s):  
Silvia Federici
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Work Force ◽  
Division Of Labour ◽  
Class A ◽  
Unpaid Labour ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Unemployed ◽  
Labour Migrant

This contribution focuses on aspects of feminism and gender in Marx’s theory. Marx’s methodology has given us the tools and the categories enabling us to think together gender and class, feminism and anti-capitalism. However, his contribution is an indirect one because Marx never developed a theory of gender. It is important to include the role of reproductive labour, slave labour, migrant labour, labour in the Global South and the unemployed in the critical analysis of capitalism and its division of labour. Reproductive labour is the largest activity on this planet and a major ground of divisions within the working class. A different Marx was discovered in the 1970s by feminists who turned to his work searching for a theory capable of explaining the roots of women’s oppression from a class viewpoint. The result has been a theoretical revolution that has changed both Marxism and Feminism. What was redefined by the realisation of the centrality of women’s unpaid labour in the home to the production of the work-force was not domestic work alone but the nature of capitalism itself and the struggle against it. This meant to turn Marx upside down to make his work important for feminism.

scholarly journals Systematic Review of COVID Spillover and Online Education Pedagogy

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1(V)) ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
Haroon Aziz ◽  
Samina Malik ◽  
Abdul Ahad ◽  
Umair Javed
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Online Education ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Spillover Effect ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Chinese Government ◽  
Critical Area ◽  
Learning Modules ◽  
The World ◽  
E Learning

This paper has touched one of the most critical area affected due to pandemic situation created by the COVID-19 and its powerful spillover effect on education sector by customizing education pedagogy. Earlier researchers have studied online education separately, whereas this paper discussed the natural transition and systematic review of upsurge of e-learning. The objective of this paper is to make the systematic review of COVID spillover and transition towards e-learning education pedagogy through theoretical framework. The study makes systematic review of switchover towards e-learning and spillover effect of COVID-19 and customization of the education pedagogy. In this study, past literature has been utilized to make critical analysis of spillover effect of COVID-19 and impact on education pedagogy by creation of prepositions. The findings of the study reveal that in the exceptional circumstances of COVID-19, e-learning transition has taken place from conventional to e-learning modules. All over the world, countries have shifted towards online education by schooling out but classes in campaign ignited by Chinese government. The same has also been replicated in other countries of the world during COVID-19.

Core and the Video Game Industry

Gaming Sexism ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 23-55
Author(s):  
Amanda C. Cote
Keyword(s):  
Video Game ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Video Game Industry ◽  
Privileged Position ◽  
Casual Games ◽  
Game Industry ◽  
Many Core

This chapter elaborates on the theoretical framework that serves as a through line for the book in its entirety. Specifically, it draws on discourses about “core” and “casual” games to show how “core” describes a hegemonic set of ideologies that work to frame games in specific, masculinized ways. The chapter also argues, however, that recent industrial changes, from the rise of casual games to the diversification of funding and distribution platforms, serve as counterhegemonic forces, challenging many “core” assumptions about games and audiences. Using a critical analysis of gaming news, the chapter lays out these changes and addresses both their real impact on the games industry and their felt impact on audiences and power structures. Through this, it shows that gaming is in the midst of a crisis of authority, where previously powerful members of the community fear losing control of it. As a result, they are exerting extra force to maintain their privileged position, accounting for the divergent narratives about games that dominate the casualized era.

scholarly journals Officina: experiments in engaging with the arts

Modern Italy ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 199-214
Author(s):  
Francesca Billiani
Keyword(s):  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Political Engagement ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Capitalist Society ◽  
Pivotal Role ◽  
Political Debate ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Organic Intellectual ◽  
The Aesthetic

This article is primarily concerned with interconnections between forms of impegno (political engagement) and aesthetic choices, as they were articulated in the literary and cultural journal Officina. In order to reassess the role of Officina within the Italian cultural and political debate of the day, this article considers two main narratives unfolding in the journal: the aesthetic rejection of Novecentismo, understood as the epitome of artistic autonomy, and the articulation of a form of Marxist impegno suitable for a neo-capitalist society and stemming from the class-based idea of the organic intellectual. Using published and unpublished correspondence, we argue that Officina had a pivotal role in producing a theoretical framework for the conceptualisation of a post-neorealist idea of Marxist critical analysis as well as of intellectual, aesthetic and political engagement.

scholarly journals Det halte begreb: ‘De idrætsusikre elever’

2015 ◽  
Vol 31 ◽  
pp. 35-48
Author(s):  
Anne-Didde Holt
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Primary School ◽  
Social Constructionism ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Children's Health ◽  
Children’S Health ◽  
Children’S Physical Activity

Physical activity has important benefits for children’s health, but many children do not reach the recommended levels. The school settingprovide a promising environment to increase children’s physical activity. In regards to that, politicians and scientists are especially focusingon a certain group of pupils, the so-called ‘sports insecure’ (‘idrætsusikre’). On the basis of a social constructionism theoretical framework, this article presents a critical analysis of the term ‘sport insecure’. The article draws on findings from a phenomenological-hermeneuticcase study taking place in a multi-ethnic primary school in Denmark.

scholarly journals On perception as the basis for object concepts: a critical analysis

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicolás Alessandroni ◽  
Cintia Rodríguez
Keyword(s):  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Developmental Psychology ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Conceptual Basis ◽  
Conceptual Foundation ◽  
Sensory Experiences ◽  
Physical Attributes ◽  
Cultural Functions ◽  
Epistemological Perspectives

Within cognitive and developmental psychology it is commonly argued that perception is the basis for object concepts. According to this view, sensory experiences would translate into concepts as a result of the recognition, correlation and integration of physical attributes. Once attributes are integrated into general patterns, subjects would become able to parse objects into categories. In this article, we critically review the three epistemological perspectives according to which can be claimed that object concepts depend on perception: state non-conceptualism, content non-conceptualism, and content conceptualism. We show the three perspectives have problems that make perception inadequate as a conceptual basis. We suggest that the inquiry about the origin and development of object concepts can benefit from a pragmatic perspective that considers objects’ cultural functions as a conceptual foundation. We address this possibility from the theoretical framework of the pragmatics of the object, considering the importance of objects’ functional permanence.

Children and Religion under Article 14 UNCRC: A Critical Analysis

2008 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 475-504 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sylvie Langlaude
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Religious Freedom ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Rights Of The Child ◽  
The Right

AbstractThis article examines the text of Article 14 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child 1989 and the work of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child. It considers the text of the Article and its travaux préparatoires; it then provides an analysis of the issues considered by the Committee: the concept of the evolving capacities of the child, freedom of religious choice, freedom of manifestation, and education. It also highlights the problems that have emerged in the Committee's work, in the light of a theoretical framework of the right of the child to religious freedom in international law. It concludes that the Committee fails children in relation to their religion and suggests some positive steps to be taken by the Committee.

scholarly journals Power Relation Reproduction Through Images: A Critical Semiotic Analysis of Language Textbooks

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 93
Author(s):  
Hajra Yousif Pardesi
Keyword(s):  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Image Theory ◽  
Human Consciousness ◽  
Semiotic Analysis ◽  
Government Schools ◽  
Language Textbooks ◽  
Analysis Of The Images ◽  
Iconic Signs

Images are in the form of pictures are often used to make books more attractive or more reader-friendly. Images are iconic signs that also convey some meaning. Unlike texts, the messages conveyed by images are less direct and affect human consciousness. This study offers critical analysis of images used in language textbooks from grade 1 to 5 used in government schools of Sindh, Pakistan. The aim of the study is to analyze what and how power relations are maintained and propagated through iconic signs, and how socioeconomic division and nationalist ideology is reproduced by the state through images. The analysis of images shows the portraying of reality in textbooks that legitimizes power relations. Based on Barthe’s image theory, the theoretical framework is adapted from Fitsumbirhan (2006) for the critical analysis of the images.

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