scholarly journals STRATIFIKASI SOSIAL, Kepemimpinan Tradisional Toraja dalam Dinamika Demokrasi Modern

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rannu Sanderan
Keyword(s):  
Social Stratification ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Traditional Religion ◽  
New Religions

Social stratification is part of Aluk in Torajan culture. The Aluk (as a religion) that is going to be described is Aluk Todolo; the name for the traditional religion before Christianity, Islam, and other new religions came to Toraja. According to the myth of Toraja, the whole of matter in this world originally began in the sky, including all the ancestors of creatures. This profane world is the image or the duplicate of the transcendent world. Leadership and social life also had been regulated above and downloaded through aluk to the human beings.In Torajanese myth, aluk was determined in the sky, consequently, aluk is divine. Puang Matua and all gods submit to aluk as a higher authority. Actually, Aluk Todolo is exceedingly greater than religion. That’s why (in this topic) social research has to be seen as a part of aluk.

THE CONTRIBUTION OF THE AMARNA LETTERS TOWARDS A STUDY OF SYRO-PALESTINIAN SOCIAL STRUCTURE (1). TERMINOLOGY FOR GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS

2017 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 788-832
Author(s):  
Lukas M. Muntingh
Keyword(s):  
Social Structure ◽  
Bronze Age ◽  
Social Stratification ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Upper Class ◽  
Government Officials ◽  
The Social ◽  
Amarna Letters ◽  
Free People ◽  
Shed Light

Egyptian domination under the 18th and 19th Dynasties deeply influenced political and social life in Syria and Palestine. The correspondence between Egypt and her vassals in Syria and Palestine in the Amarna age, first half of the fourteenth century B.C., preserved for us in the Amarna letters, written in cuneiform on clay tablets discovered in 1887, offer several terms that can shed light on the social structure during the Late Bronze Age. In the social stratification of Syria and Palestine under Egyptian rule according to the Amarna letters, three classes are discernible:1) government officials and military personnel, 2) free people, and 3) half-free people and slaves. In this study, I shall limit myself to the first, the upper class. This article deals with terminology for government officials.

Inventing the Social

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alex Wilkie
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Ways Of Knowing ◽  
Creative Practice ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Social

Inventing the Social, edited by Noortje Marres, Michael Guggenheim and Alex Wilkie, showcases recent efforts to develop new ways of knowing society that combine social research with creative practice. With contributions from leading figures in sociology, architecture, geography, design, anthropology, and digital media, the book provides practical and conceptual pointers on how to move beyond the customary distinctions between knowledge and art, and on how to connect the doing, researching and making of social life in potentially new ways. Presenting concrete projects with a creative approach to researching social life as well as reflections on the wider contexts from which these projects emerge, this collection shows how collaboration across social science, digital media and the arts opens up timely alternatives to narrow, instrumentalist proposals that seek to engineer behaviour and to design community from scratch. To invent the social is to recognise that social life is always already creative in itself and to take this as a starting point for developing different ways of combining representation and intervention in social life.

The makeup art: social stratification and social myth

2021 ◽  
pp. 121-126
Author(s):  
Kateryna Malyarchuk
Keyword(s):  
Social Development ◽  
Social Stratification ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Social Phenomena ◽  
Positive Role ◽  
Scientific Methods ◽  
Public Consciousness ◽  
The One ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
Social Myth

Purpose of the article. The purpose of the article is to analyze the phenomenon of makeup art and its connection with social stratification and social myth. Methodology. The study of the phenomenon of makeup in connection with social mythology and social stratification is associated with the use of general scientific methods of analysis, generalization, synthesis, etc. Not only in line with art history and sociological knowledge, but also knowledge of psychology, cultural studies, philosophy, etc., which provides for the integration and inclusive combination of appropriate methods and approaches. The artistic and typological method made it possible to analyze the phenomenon of makeup, social myth and social stratification as integral phenomena with specific features. The combination of anthropological, axiological and historical approaches with the use of socio-cultural and art criticism tools made it possible to identify the main value-semantic and content-structural constants of these phenomena. Scientific novelty. The art of makeup is presented as the basis of social mythology and its connection with social stratification, which makes it possible to position makeup as one of the backbone components of the socio-cultural system, as well as facilitate the study of the entire spectrum of its cultural phenomena. Conclusions. Makeup, as an axiologically loaded phenomenon, is the basis for the creation of social mythology and support for social stratification, characterizes the processes of social development, significantly affects the public consciousness and behavior of both social groups and individual subjects. By the nature of the course of the processes of being, the phenomenon of makeup allows one to see the specifics of social phenomena and determine their place in the structure of social life. The positive role of makeup is that it is one of the conditions for the integrity of society, providing cultural, art, moral, etc. the continuity of its imperatives. The negative one is that it not only represents the social stratification of society, but also becomes a means of deepening it, stereotyping and accumulating in its practices both positive and negative patterns of sociocultural models of behavior. Because, as part of social mythology, the phenomenon of makeup is ambiguous: on the one hand, it partly threatens social development, and on the other hand, it helps to consolidate people and society in overcoming the challenges of our time.

(Re)Considering Information Science Research

2020 ◽  
pp. 286-306
Author(s):  
Norma Ruth Arlene Romm ◽  
Patrick Ngulube
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Information Systems ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Ethical Justification ◽  
Transformative Potential ◽  
Scientific Approach ◽  
Social Scientific

This chapter provides an epistemological and ethical justification for (re)considering information science in terms of its potential to contribute to the way in which “information” and “knowledge” become co-constructed in social life in view of social justice aims. The chapter refers to and extends arguments for viewing information science as an interdisciplinary and indeed transdisciplinary endeavor. This is discussed in relation to transformative and indigenous-oriented paradigms for social research considered more generally and also considered specifically in relation to information science (as a social scientific approach). The chapter provides a detailed example of how the transformative potential of information science might be realized. This example can serve as a resource for information science researchers and for information systems practitioners who may find that it has some relevance to their continued work. The chapter also offers suggestions for expanding the research possibilities (co-inquiry options) provided by the example.

Latter-Day Saint Social Life: Social Research on the LDS Church and Its Members

1999 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 286
Author(s):  
Richley H. Crapo ◽  
James T. Duke
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Lds Church

The Man With the Leaking Bucket: Ethnography, Journalism, and the Quest for the Transformative Self

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (6) ◽  
pp. 515-523
Author(s):  
Max Mauro
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Digital Revolution ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
Siegfried Kracauer ◽  
The Status ◽  
Long Time ◽  
German Jewish ◽  
Intellectual Journey

This article looks into the status and identity of ethnography by paying attention to the ideas of transformation and becoming, and to the meanings of “reality” in post postmodern times. Based on a personal reflection about the intellectual journey of the author, and his transition from journalism to academic research, it first provides an illustration of the complicated relationship between journalism, and journalistic practices, with social research during the 20th century. It highlights the trailblazing work of German–Jewish intellectual Siegfried Kracauer during the Weimar years, whose eclectic attention to popular culture and social theory has been for a long time overlooked. Following the postmodern turn, reflexivity has taken center stage in ethnographic methods, but this has not diminished the differences within social sciences and humanities in the way the subject, the researcher, is perceived and interpreted. A contested area of debate remains that of representation, and particularly, the realization that nothing meaningfully exists outside the process of representation. However, this point is further complicated by the status of “reality” in the age of the implosion of social life through the conflation of the private and the public brought about by the digital revolution.

Itawes Indigenous Foods: Their Health and Socio-Cultural Meaning

2014 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
HILDA A. MANZOLIM
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Participatory Approach ◽  
The Other ◽  
Descriptive Research ◽  
Indigenous Groups ◽  
Depth Interview ◽  
Social Meanings ◽  
Indigenous Foods

The Itawes is one of the indigenous groups of Isabela, Philippines, along withthe Ybanags, Yogads, and Gaddangs. In Cagayan Valley, two groups of Itawes arefound: one from the Province of Cagayan and the other, from Echague, Isabela.This study was conducted to document the indigenous foods of the Itawes thatare gradually vanishing due to the modern way of living or due to acculturation.As the foods slowly disappear, so do the foods’ associated meanings and beliefsattached to them.  Being aware of their indigenous foods would help maintainand create a link or bridge the gap between the Itawes’ past generations to thepresent. The study used the descriptive research method. Triangulation wasutilized using direct participatory approach, in depth interview and a focus groupdiscussion. The foods were documented and the health and social meanings andbeliefs attached to these foods were noted and explained by the elders. Frequencyand percentages were used. The findings showed that Itawes favorite exotic foods were the following: fried “duron”, ‘simmawa”, “utoy” and “talagang”; their dessert, “bahat”, “mang-ga”, “dendelut”, “pinatarak” and “dinuntuan”. TheItawes’ social life and physical health had been closely associated with their foods.Some of their indigenous foods and practices had been consistently confrontedwith the influence of modernization and development that seriously endangertheir traditional cultures or the total obliteration of their culture.Keywords: Social Research, Itawes, indigenous foods, descriptive design, Philippines

scholarly journals The project “DiverCity – intercultural urban perception”

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katharina Lehmann
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Minority Groups ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Homeless People ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Spatial Diversity ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Structured Interviews

The project "DiverCity" observes spatial diversity in cities from an intersectional point of view and analyzesdifferent forms of urban life with an interdisciplinary approach. The main reason for this research is given by raising sociocultural coexistences living together in urban spaces; a subject that occupies the man from the beginning of his settlements, actually since the early development of cities. In spite of the social changes that are produced within modern urban lifes, the debate about social life very often seems more a matter rooted in politics than in everyday life itself. Societies generate solutions and create its own concept of coexistence, very since allowing joint relationships between different spheres and social groups. But how is this actually done? These dynamics are precisely the main object of investigation in the "DiverCity" project.   It therefore focuses its study on socio-cultural minorities and their perception of urban space. This is basically examined in two cities of different dimensions, a small and larger city in Germany, Lüneburg and Hamburg. The investigated minority groups are Muslims, people with disabilities, homeless people and homosexuals. Using empirical social research methods, especially based on semi-structured interviews and participant observation, the urban and spatial perception of the mentioned groups was examined and compared to each other. The presentation shows the first results of the analyzes carried out in Hamburg and Lüneburg as well as the planned extension of the project and its realization in Argentina.

Political Sociology and the People's Health

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason Beckfield ◽  
Nancy Krieger
Keyword(s):  
Population Health ◽  
Social Stratification ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Social Inequalities ◽  
Social Epidemiology ◽  
Political Sociology ◽  
Leading Edge ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
Advance Research ◽  
And Gender

Health, illness, and death are distributed unequally around the world. Babies born in Japan can expect to live to age 80 or over, while babies born in Malawi can expect to die before the age of 50. As important, birth into one race, class, and gender within one society vs. another also matters enormously for one’s health. To answer such questions about social inequalities in health, Political Sociology and the People’s Health responds to two research trends that are motivating scholarship at the leading edge of inquiry into population health. First, social epidemiology is turning toward policy and politics to explain the unequal global distribution of population health. Second, social stratification research is turning toward new conceptualizations and theorizations of how institutions—the “rules of the game” that organize power in social life—distribute social goods, including health. Political Sociology and the People’s Health advances these two turns by developing new hypotheses that integrate insights from political sociology and social epidemiology. Political sociology offers a rich array of concepts, measures, and data that help social epidemiologists develop new hypotheses about how macroscopic factors like social policy, labor markets, and the racialized and gendered state shape the distribution of population health. Social epidemiology offers innovative approaches to the conceptualization and measurement of population, etiologic period, and distribution that can advance research on the relationships between institutions and inequalities. Developing the conversation between these fields, Political Sociology and the People’s Health describes how human institutional arrangements distribute life and death.

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