scholarly journals Engaged, Practical Intellectualism: John Porter and ‘New Liberal’ Public Sociology

2009 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 831-868
Author(s):  
Richard Helmes-Hayes
Keyword(s):  
American Sociological Association ◽  
Presidential Address ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Public Sociology ◽  
Fundamental Question ◽  
The Other ◽  
Critical Sociology ◽  
Professional Sociology ◽  
The World ◽  
Organic Solidarity

The debate initiated by Michael Burawoy’s 2004 Presidential Address to the American Sociological Association, “For Public Sociology,” has been a ‘public good’ (2005a; see also 2004abc, 2005bcdefg, 2006, 2007abc, 2008). Burawoy provoked sociologists around the world into revisiting the fundamental question “What is the nature and purpose of the discipline?”, and the variety of responses they have crafted is remarkable. Whatever the views individual scholars might hold, the discipline as a whole is deeply, inherently, and unavoidably political. Many of his critics have commented on the fact that it incongruous for him to call for a rejuvenated, highly politicized public sociology and simultaneously claim that such an entity could realistically involve relationships of “synergy,” “reciprocal interdependence,” and “organic solidarity” with the other three types (or “faces”) of sociology, including professional sociology It is axiomatic – part of the conventional wisdom of the discipline – that professional sociologists cannot accept the politicization of the research process. In order to remain scientific, professional sociology must stand in an unalterably adversarial relationship with the value-laden radical/ critical sociology that constitutes the basis for Burawoy’s vision of a properly constituted public sociology.

Changing Methods and Aims in Prehistory: Presidential Address for 1935

1935 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 1-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. Gordon Childe
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Presidential Address ◽  
The Other ◽  
Dual Function ◽  
Prehistoric Archaeology ◽  
The World ◽  
The One ◽  
General Topic

This is the first Presidential Address to be delivered before our Society since it has become the Prehistoric Society without qualification. It seems therefore appropriate to choose in preference to any particular problem the general topic of the aims and methods of our science. The last ten years have witnessed an extraordinary increase in the data available to the prehistorian and a remarkable expansion in the field he must survey. For this very reason we have been led to a revaluation of the methods and concepts to be employed in the interpretation of our material. To arrange and classify data pouring in from every corner of the world parochial categories that worked well enough for local collections can no longer serve.Prehistoric archaeology has twin roots and a dual function; it tries on the one hand to prolong written history backward beyond the oldest literary records, on the other to carry natural history forward from the point where geology and palaeontology would leave it. In practice prehistoric remains were first systematically studied with a view to supplementing the information about Celts, Druids, Britons, Picts and Germans provided by ancient authors. But it was the union with geology after the acceptance of Boucher de Perthe's discoveries that made prehistory a science.

scholarly journals Tworzenie wspólnego ciała, czyli o przetwarzaniu terenu wśród boliwijskich Moré

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paweł Chyc
Keyword(s):  
Field Experience ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Narrative Structure ◽  
Analytical Form ◽  
Research Process ◽  
The Other ◽  
Language Family ◽  
The World ◽  
Over Time

The aim of this anthropological essay is to present the emotional and intellectual processes accompanying me over the years of field research among the Bolivian Moré, who belong to the Chapacura language family. The narrative structure is twofold: addressing both topics and issues that motivated me intellectually to do the research, and the attitudes of Moré themselves, as well as conceptual categories around which their narratives seem to focus. Some passages of this essay take a more analytical form, as I focus on the impor- tance of unpredictable events, the context, and the transformation of field experience over time during the research process. I conclude that both sides of the fieldwork encounter face the task of getting to know the Other. Each gets to know the Other in a particular way through conceptual categories and ways of acting that result from their current way of being in the world.

MUNDANIDADE E DIFERENÇA ONTOLÓGICA

2012 ◽  
Vol 40 (126) ◽  
pp. 85
Author(s):  
Acylene Maria Cabral Ferreira
Keyword(s):  
Fundamental Question ◽  
The Other ◽  
Ontological Difference ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The World ◽  
The One

Na ontologia heideggeriana, podemos dizer que a questão fundamental da metafísica concerne ao problema da mundanidade do mundo. Nossa hipótese é que o conceito de reunião antecipadora (Versammlung) estrutura a mundanidade do mundo no modo de uma circularidade ontológica. Nesse sentido, nosso objetivo consiste em mostrar como a diferença ontológica funda a significância do mundo através da estrutura da reunião antecipadora e do caráter de circularidade ontológica. Pretendemos indicar, por um lado, que a reunião antecipadora estrutura a conjuntura (Bewandtnis) que determina, antecipadamente, a mundanidade do mundo; e por outro, que a circunvisão (Umsicht) é a abertura prévia do compreender referencial, que enquanto estruturado pela reunião antecipadora e pela circularidade ontológica, realiza remissões de ser-para (Umzu) e reenvios de para-quê (Wozu) em uma significância de mundo. Para finalizar, apontaremos porque a concepção da mundanidade do mundo, na filosofa heideggeriana, não é uma concepção instrumentalista do mundo.Abstract: In Heidegger’s ontology, we can say that the fundamental question of metaphysics concerns the problem of the worldhood of the world. Our hypothesis is that the concept of recollection (Versammlung) structures the worldhood of the world in an ontological circularity. In this sense, our goal is to show how the ontological difference grounds the significance of the world through the structure of recollection and through the anticipatory character of ontological circularity. We intend to indicate, on the one hand, that recollection structures the interwoundedness (Bewandtnis) that determines, in advance, the worldhood of the world; and, on the other hand, that circumspection (Umsicht) is the prior disclosure of the referential understanding that, while being structured by recollection and ontological circularity, refers to the Umzu (in-order-to) and Wozu (towards-which) in the significance of the world. Finally, we will identify why the worldhood of the world, in Heideggerian philosophy, is not an instrumentalist conception of the world.

Presidential Address: Britain and the World in the Eighteenth Century: I, Reshaping the Empire

1998 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 1-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. J. Marshall
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
National Identity ◽  
Presidential Address ◽  
The Other ◽  
British India ◽  
British Economy ◽  
Global Orientation ◽  
World Power ◽  
Die Forging ◽  
The World

By the end of the eighteenth century Britain was a world power on a scale that none of her European rivals could match. Not only did she rule a great empire, but the reach of expeditionary forces from either Britain itself or from British India stretched from the River Plate to the Moluccas in eastern Indonesia. Britain's overseas trade had developed a strongly global orientation: she was die leading distributor of tropical produce diroughout die world and in the last years of the century about four-fifths of her exports were going outside Europe. Britain was at die centre of inter-continental movements of people, not only exporting her own population but shipping almost as many Africans across the Atantic during die eighteenth century as all the other carriers put together. It is not surprising therefore that British historians have searched for the qualities that marked out eighteeth-century Britain's exceptionalism on a world stage. Notable books have stressed, not only the dynamism of die British economy, but developments such as the rise of Britain's ‘fiscal-military state’ or die forging of a sense of British national identity behind war and empire overseas.

scholarly journals Rethinking ‘Current Crisis’ Arguments: Gouldner and the Legacy of Critical Sociology

2009 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Hollands ◽  
Liz Stanley
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Public Sociology ◽  
Current Crisis ◽  
Critical Sociology ◽  
University System ◽  
Professional Sociology ◽  
Contemporary Sociology ◽  
Key Dimensions ◽  
The University

Proclamations of ‘current crisis’ in sociology are long-standing and have recently resurfaced in Britian and North America. This article explores the response of Alvin Gouldner to an earlier 1970s perceived ‘current crisis’. It then discusses some of the key dimensions ascribed to the current ‘current crisis’ – fragmentation, the decline of the intellectual, the need for a higher profile for public and professional sociology - to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of Gouldner's ideas for analysing the situation of contemporary sociology. It concludes that Gouldner's critical sociology provides a useful basis for understanding current debates about fragmentation and public sociology, but less so in explaining the decline of intellectuals. In addition, neither Gouldner nor contemporary thinking about sociology's present-day ‘current crisis’ give much attention to the vastly increased regulation and bureaucratisation of the university system accompanying the expended remit of regulatory government, something we think underlies the discipline's successive perceptions of crisis. The contemporary version of critical sociology, with which this article aligns itself, provides a more structural and less voluntaristic rethinking of ‘current crisis’ arguments.

Courtly Culture and Courtly Style in the Anglo-Norman World

1988 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
C. Warren Hollister
Keyword(s):  
Presidential Address ◽  
The Other ◽  
Council Meeting ◽  
Courtly Culture ◽  
Anglo Norman ◽  
International Reputation ◽  
The World ◽  
One Year ◽  
Technical Discussion ◽  
Daunting Challenge

Two years ago, at an NACBS council meeting at the now defunct Shamrock Hotel in Houston, one of our officers—not me, I hasten to say—suggested that NACBS Presidents really ought to begin earning their keep by delivering presidential addresses. I objected that NACBS Presidents receive no keep, but I was ruled out of order. I therefore stand before you this evening as the first person ever to deliver an NACBS presidential address. This, I can assure you, is a daunting challenge. One provision of the council resolution was that the address should be published as a scholarly essay in Albion, and with Albion's international reputation, this means that what I say here tonight will be read very critically—perhaps even scoffed at—by historians of medieval Britain throughout the world. I dare not be frivolous. On the other hand, we have all just enjoyed a splendid banquet. We have indulged in good wine. Some might now be in the mood for an hour's technical discussion of Anglo-Norman prosopography, but in actuality, I suspect that very, very few of you are in such a mood.So the great challenge of the presidential address is to be amusing and significant at one and the same time—and I'm not at all certain that I am capable of squaring that circle. I was puzzling over the problem almost exactly one year ago, at our NACBS Annual Meeting last October, at the elegant and, indeed, unsinkable Brown Palace Hotel in Denver.

scholarly journals Generasi Millenial dan Resep Kuliner Tradisional sebagai Budaya Bangsa Indonesia

DeKaVe ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 35-42
Author(s):  
Setya Putri Erdiana
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Millennial Generation ◽  
Fast Food ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Cooking Time ◽  
The Other ◽  
Emerging Trends ◽  
Cooking Process ◽  
The World ◽  
People’S Perceptions

Abstract.Indonesia is one of the most cultured countries in the world and one of them is traditional culinary. On the other hand, Indonesian traditional culinary is now being displaced and replaced by fast food or culinary from other countries. And lately, traditional culinary is hard to find especially in big cities, it shows that interest of it decreases and only few who can cook the traditional culinary. This is the effect of the generation itself because each generation influences society. Now, millennial generation is the most influential generation, because most of them are in the productive age of 19-35 years old. Aside from being the next generation, millennial generation is also considered to be the generation that has the most influence on the emerging trends in society. Especially the use of gadgets and technology nowadays, causing them to be called instant generation, which is the opposite to people's perceptions of traditional culinary that is complicated to make and requires a long cooking time. By using qualitative research methods, it is expected to obtain data as accurately as possible with the facts and conditions. By observing and interviewing the target audience to gather information about the community's perspective on Indonesian culinary and the cooking process, also gathering theories to support the research process. Thus, the results of this study are expected to provide concept of culinary recipes traditional form of design that can be used in designing traditional recipe application that attracts millennials to cook traditional Indonesian culinary.Key words:millenial generation, recipe, traditional Indonesian culinary

Indonesian Literature’s Position in World Literature

TEKNOSASTIK ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Dina Amelia
Keyword(s):  
World Literature ◽  
The Other ◽  
National Literature ◽  
Western World ◽  
The World ◽  
The One ◽  
The Voice

There are two most inevitable issues on national literature, in this case Indonesian literature. First is the translation and the second is the standard of world literature. Can one speak for the other as a representative? Why is this representation matter? Does translation embody the voice of the represented? Without translation Indonesian literature cannot gain its recognition in world literature, yet, translation conveys the voice of other. In the case of production, publication, or distribution of Indonesian Literature to the world, translation works can be very beneficial. The position of Indonesian literature is as a part of world literature. The concept that the Western world should be the one who represent the subaltern can be overcome as long as the subaltern performs as the active speaker. If the subaltern remains silent then it means it allows the “representation” by the Western.

Experiment role in the world music (based on the «The Road» album of the Ukrainian «Dakha Brakha» band)

2018 ◽  
pp. 215-227
Author(s):  
Iia Fedorova
Keyword(s):  
Folk Music ◽  
World Music ◽  
The Other ◽  
Modern Music ◽  
Musical Practice ◽  
The Road ◽  
Music Practice ◽  
The World ◽  
Binary Oppositions ◽  
Musical Practices

The main objective of this study is the substantiation of experiment as one of the key features of the world music in Ukraine. Based on the creative works of the brightest world music representatives in Ukraine, «Dakha Brakha» band, the experiment is regarded as a kind of creative setting. Methodology and scientific approaches. The methodology was based on the music practice theory by T. Cherednychenko. The author distinguishes four binary oppositions, which can describe the musical practice. According to one of these oppositions («observance of the canon or violation of the canon»), the musical practices, to which the Ukrainian musicology usually classifies the world music («folk music» and «minstrel music»), are compared with the creative work of «Dakha Brakha» band. Study findings. A lack of the setting to experiment in the musical practices of the «folk music» and «minstrel music» separates the world music musical practice from them. Therefore, the world music is a separate type of musical practice in which the experiment is crucial. The study analyzed several scientific articles of Ukrainian musicologists on the world music; examined the history of the Ukrainian «Dakha Brakha» band; presented a list of the folk songs used in the fifth album «The Road» by «Dakha Brakha» band; and showed the degree of the source transformation by musicians based on the example of the «Monk» song. The study findings can be used to form a comprehensive understanding of the world music musical practice. The further studies may be related to clarification of the other parameters of the world music musical practice, and to determination of the experiment role in creative works of the other world music representatives, both Ukrainian and foreign. The practical study value is the ability to use its key provisions in the course of modern music in higher artistic schools of Ukraine. Originality / value. So far, the Ukrainian musicology did not consider the experiment role as the key one in the world music.

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