scholarly journals Ethical subjectification and search engines: ethics reconsidered

2005 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 33-38
Author(s):  
Tobias Blanke
Keyword(s):  
Search Engines ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Human Subjects ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Common ◽  
Ethical Critique ◽  
Do So

This article will explore the relation of search engines to the freedom they invoke in human subjects. Away from questions about the social impact of search engines and their ethical use, it shall investigate the influence of search engines on ethical subjectifications. The article will criticise the common critique that search engines should only deliver neutral and objective results to their users, where ‘neutral’ and ‘objective’ are defined as anti-subjective. On the contrary, it will argue that search engines are designed to deliver subjective results. A possible ethical critique starts therefore where they fail to do so. Due to reasons immanent to the technology, search engines are never subjective enough in their relevance decisions. Their results collide at the same time with what their users expect them to deliver. The article will show that, far from being a disadvantage, this disagreement between the users’ expectations and the search engines results is what triggers an ethical subjectification.

Current issues in aesthetics and beyond: Revisiting lookism

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 59-68
Author(s):  
Peter Takáč
Keyword(s):  
Plastic Surgery ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Common View ◽  
Aesthetic Medicine ◽  
Unequal Treatment ◽  
Self Confidence ◽  
Public Status ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Common

AbstractLookism is a term used to describe discrimination based on the physical appearance of a person. We suppose that the social impact of lookism is a philosophical issue, because, from this perspective, attractive people have an advantage over others. The first line of our argumentation involves the issue of lookism as a global ethical and aesthetical phenomenon. A person’s attractiveness has a significant impact on the social and public status of this individual. The common view in society is that it is good to be more attractive and healthier. This concept generates several ethical questions about human aesthetical identity, health, authenticity, and integrity in society. It seems that this unequal treatment causes discrimination, diminishes self-confidence, and lowers the chance of a job or social enforcement for many human beings. Currently, aesthetic improvements are being made through plastic surgery. There is no place on the human body that we cannot improve with plastic surgery or aesthetic medicine. We should not forget that it may result in the problem of elitism, in dividing people into primary and secondary categories. The second line of our argumentation involves a particular case of lookism: Melanie Gaydos. A woman that is considered to be a model with a unique look.

German Ordnung

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 269-293 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rahel Cramer
Keyword(s):  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Interpersonal Style ◽  
Culture Studies ◽  
Cultural Understanding ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
The Social ◽  
Cultural Themes ◽  
The Common ◽  
Core Value ◽  
Do So

This study aims to illustrate the intricate connections that exist between features of a certain language and underlying culture-specific conceptualizations. The analysis sheds new light on a German cultural core value, namely, Ordnung “order,” its relationship to other cultural themes, and the influence it exerts on German interpersonal style. To reach a better understanding of the German core value Ordnung “order” as it relates to other German cultural themes, we first provide an analysis of the common expressions alles (ist) in Ordnung “everything [is] in order” and Ordnung muss sein “there has to be order.” This will be followed by an analysis of the social descriptor term locker “loose.” We seek to illustrate the merits of a perspective in language and culture studies that is truly culture-internal and can thus facilitate cross-cultural understanding, and we do so by applying the principles of the Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) approach to semantic and ethnopragmatic description.

Vexed Again: Social Scientists and the Revision of the Common Rule, 2011-2018

2019 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 254-263 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zachary M. Schrag
Keyword(s):  
Human Subjects ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Revision Process ◽  
Common Rule ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
The Social ◽  
Final Rule ◽  
Advance Notice ◽  
The Common ◽  
Protection Of Human Subjects

In revising the Federal Policy for the Protection of Human Subjects (Common Rule) between 2009 and 2018, regulators devoted the vast bulk of their attention to debates over biomedical research. They lacked both expertise in and concern about the social sciences and humanities, yet they imposed their will on experts in those fields. The revision process was secretive, spasmodic, and unrepresentative, especially compared to rulemaking in Canada, where social scientists participate in the process, and revisions take place every few years. The result was a final rule that offers some wins for social science and the humanities, but that fails to solve the problems identified by Ezekiel Emanuel and in the 2011 advance notice of proposed rulemaking.

scholarly journals Dhammamātā: Buddhadāsa Bhikkhu's notion of motherhood in Buddhist women practitioners

2007 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 409-432 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomomi Ito
Keyword(s):  
Social Status ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
New Creation ◽  
Spiritual Training ◽  
The Social ◽  
Common Notion ◽  
The Common ◽  
Thai People

AbstractThe notion of dhammamātā is one of the last items of the legacy of the late Buddhadāsa Bhikkhu. In order to accord women practitioners better social status and provide them with opportunities for spiritual training, Buddhadāsa avoided committing himself to the reintroduction of bhikkunī ordination. Instead, he proposed the notion of dhammamātā, which literally means ‘dhamma mother’. This article postulates that by using the metaphor of the mother, Buddhadāsa invited less conflict, appealing to the high respect which Thai people generally held for women. Moreover, the article argues that with dhammamātā Buddhadāsa challenged the common notion of motherhood which usually regards women as nurturers of the Sanġha. Dhammamātā nurture people's spirituality through their teaching and virtues. Whilst the social impact of dhammamātā cannot be compared to that of bhikkunī, whose yellow robes visually suggest a status equivalent to that of male bhikkhu, the concept of dhammamātā was a new creation revolving around the image of the female religious teacher, a role that Buddhist women had wanted.

scholarly journals Culorile Noului Val Românesc. Simbolism și semnificații psihologice / The Colors of the Romanian New Wave. Symbolism and psychological significance

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 132-145
Author(s):  
Sorin Octav Candel
Keyword(s):  
Social Reality ◽  
New Wave ◽  
Common Features ◽  
The Social ◽  
Psychological Significance ◽  
The Common ◽  
To Receive ◽  
Do So

Recent Romanian films continue to be appreciated by critics and to receive important international awards. This, along with a series of common techniques and themes, led to the emergence of the term "New Romanian Wave", a term assumed by some critics and directors and rejected by others. In this article, I aim to check if the use of colors is a technique that characterizes the films reunited under this umbrella term. In order to do so, I analyzed five films from different years but overall accepted as part of the New Wave. These are Marilena from P7, 4 months, 3 weeks and 2 days, Best intentions, Child’s Pose and Self-Portrait of a Dutiful Daughter. I was interested in discovering the symbols associated with each color, while also emphasizing their psychological meaning. Another goal was to check if and how the chromatic aspects were related to the social reality presented in each movie. Finally, I presented the common features of the films and the differences between them.

This Is the Time

2020 ◽  
pp. 166-171
Author(s):  
Yael Tamir
Keyword(s):  
Common Good ◽  
Social Conflict ◽  
Public Morality ◽  
The Common Good ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Common ◽  
Economic Balance ◽  
The Right ◽  
Do So

This chapter argues that national sentiments should be used to induce a readiness to rebuild a cross-class coalition, giving individuals worthwhile reasons to work together to promote the common good, securing a more just distribution of risks and opportunities. The chapter then presents four reasons why this is the right time to do so. It also describes how state-directed actions must be taken in order to allow millennials to conduct a productive and satisfying life. By narrating the states' new task to reestablish a cross-class coalition that will promote a fairer distribution of risks and opportunities, the chapter acknowledges that some risks and opportunities are unifying — promoting social cohesiveness and undermining class tensions — while others are divisive — pulling the different classes in different directions and exacerbating social conflict. Ultimately, the chapter explicates shifting the social and economic balance in ways that will allow a more even distribution of risks and opportunities. It analyzes how such moves are likely to make a difference in the basic perceptions of public morality.

scholarly journals The shift from Media Art to the Future Art-Design-Think-Tank

Lumina ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 139-161
Author(s):  
Ludger Pfanz
Keyword(s):  
Digital Technology ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Think Tank ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Science Technology ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Future ◽  
Experimental Laboratory ◽  
Do So

In the coming decades, new technologies will change our lives and the way in which we perceive them in hitherto unimaginable ways.Future Design is acreative collusion of science, technology and art– an experimental laboratory for new art forms and perspectives on the social impact of technologies within Europe.Future Design explores the future of digital technology from atoms to bits and from bits back to atoms again, highlighting the ways in which these technologies are adapted in different cultural contexts. The chief objective is to attract widespread attention to these technologies, to generate debates and interest in their use among independent artists and otherwise under-represented groups.Future Design provides new and critical views on imagination and new insights into reality.In view of the risks and possible collateral damage connected to these new technologies, scientist and artist must make a stand for their values, and do so by openly discussing the potential and risks, and by formulating a vision for the Earth and BEYOND.

EXPRESS: Enabling and Cultivating Wiser Consumption: The Roles of Marketing and Public Policy

2020 ◽  
pp. 074391562097540
Author(s):  
Lucie K. Ozanne ◽  
Jason Stornelli ◽  
Michael Luchs ◽  
David Mick ◽  
Julia Bayuk ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Circular Economy ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Marketing Mix ◽  
Government Policies ◽  
Integrative Approach ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Common ◽  
Do So

Contemporary consumers, societies, and ecologies face many challenges to well-being. Consumer researchers have responded with new attention to what engenders happiness and flourishing, particularly as a function of consuming more wisely. Consumer wisdom has been conceptualized as the pursuit of well-being through the application of six interrelated dimensions: Responsibility, Purpose, Flexibility, Perspective, Reasoning, and Sustainability (Luchs, Mick, and Haws 2020). However, up to now, the roles of marketing management and government policies with respect to enabling and supporting consumer wisdom have not been thoroughly and systematically considered. To do so, we adopt an integrative approach based on a range of theoretical and empirical insights from both wisdom research in the social sciences and in consumer research. We weave those insights into the stages of an expanded version of the circular economy model of the value cycle, within which we also include the traditional four Ps of the marketing mix. This approach allows us to identify how marketing practices and public policies can enable and support consumer wisdom, resulting in advancements to well-being and the common good as well as restorations to the missions and reputations of business and government.

The Social Impact of Suffering: Physical Pain Thwarts Social Needs

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paolo Riva ◽  
James H. Wirth ◽  
Kipling D. Williams
Keyword(s):  
Social Impact ◽  
Social Needs ◽  
Physical Pain ◽  
The Social
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