scholarly journals Societal Self-Observation in the Time of Datafication: Interfunctional Analysis of the Chilean Open Data Web Portal

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maximilian Heimstädt
Keyword(s):  
Social Research ◽  
Technological Development ◽  
Open Data ◽  
Hard Core ◽  
Functional Differentiation ◽  
Web Portals ◽  
Web Portal ◽  
The Status ◽  
Role Of Religion

Datafication, the technological development that emerged out of computerization and global interconnectedness, has spawned new forms of societal self-observations. In the present article I turn to the example of Open Data web portals – specialized websites that make large amounts of governmental datasets publicly available – to show how they relate to the status quo of social research on functional differentiation. For my analysis of the Chilean Portal de Datos Públicos I developed a method to link metadata categories from the web portal to a hard-core list of ten function systems. My results confirm literature, which finds economized or politicized forms of societal self-description. Moreover the results are in line with studies that show the vanishing role of religion. Interestingly, my study finds health to be of high importance – I might even speak of a “healthized” self-observation – which I argue is at odds with a negligible representation of the function system “sport” within the self-observation. For future interfunctional social research in the time of datafication, I recommend sharpening the empirical approach by exploring emerging text-as-data methods.

scholarly journals Societal Self-observation in the Time of Datafication: Interfunctional Analysis of the Chilean Open Data Web Portal

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maximilian Heimstädt
Keyword(s):  
Social Research ◽  
Technological Development ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Open Data ◽  
Hard Core ◽  
Functional Differentiation ◽  
Web Portals ◽  
Web Portal ◽  
Role Of Religion

Datafication, the technological development that emerged out ofcomputerization and global interconnectedness, has spawned new forms ofsocietal self-observations. In the present article I turn to the example ofOpen Data web portals—specialized websites that make large amounts ofgovernmental datasets publicly available—to show how they relate to thestatus quo of social research on functional differentiation. For myanalysis of the Chilean Portal de Datos Públicos I developed a method tolink metadata categories from the web portal to a hard-core list of tenfunction systems. My results confirm literature, which finds economized orpoliticized forms of societal self-description. Moreover the results are inline with studies that show the vanishing role of religion. Interestingly,my study finds health to be of high importance—I might even speak of a“healthized” self-observation—which I argue is at odds with a negligiblerepresentation of the function system “sport” within the self-observation.For future interfunctional social research in the time of datafication, Irecommend sharpening the empirical approach by exploring emerging text-as-data methods.Keywords: Datafication, functional differentiation, interfunctionalanalysis, self-observation, social systems, Open Data

Religion, Reconciliation, and Modern Society: The Shifting Conclusions of Hegel'sLectures on the Philosophy of Religion

2013 ◽  
Vol 106 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-60
Author(s):  
Thomas A. Lewis
Keyword(s):  
Political Institutions ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Focal Point ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Religion And Politics ◽  
Policy Debates ◽  
The Status ◽  
Religious Reasons ◽  
Role Of Religion

G. W. F. Hegel's greatest contributions regarding religion and politics stem from his abiding concern with social cohesion. While Hegel was interested in now classic questions regarding the role of religion in government, the focal point of his engagement with religion and politics lay in his view of religion's role in binding together a complex society in which a more traditional social order had been fragmented by interrelated economic, social, political, and intellectual transformations. He was less concerned with the role of religious reasons and language in policy debates or elections than with politics in a broader sense—specifically, the way that religion enables the population as a whole to identify with the society's defining social and political institutions, including the family, the economic order, and other legal institutions. In this image, religion reconciles the population with the existing practices and institutions. Without significant degrees of such identification and reconciliation, even the best of laws will be insufficient to sustain a polity. Though reconciliation is one of Hegel's principal terms for this relationship, it in no sense implies “making do,” settling for, or simply accepting the status quo because it happens to exist. Rather, he is ultimately concerned with religion's ability—or inability—to enable us to find ourselves at home in a just and rational social order that promotes freedom.

scholarly journals Adaptive Changes in the Psyche of Homo sapiens during the Period of the Singularity (Part 2)

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 68-72
Author(s):  
Alexander Kruglov ◽  
Andrey Kruglov
Keyword(s):  
Social Dynamics ◽  
Homo Sapiens ◽  
Technological Development ◽  
Mental Activity ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
Higher Power ◽  
The Status ◽  
Quantitative Changes ◽  
External Forces

Creativity, the integrative function of the psyche of Homo sapiens (HS), which arose about 50,000 years ago, allowed HS to project the image of the goal (IG), transformed into a “symbol,” into the external environment. The projection constructs of the psyche have become autonomous fragments of the environment in the HS perception, not being its derivatives. Objective reality, perceived by HS, has acquired non-inherent properties: a mental product of the psyche that integrates the virtual and real components of the environment. In other words, the role of HS has evolved over the last 10,000 years, since the beginning of the agrarian revolution: from (1) a dependent subject controlled by external forces in an animated world to (2) “the crown of God's creation” in “theism” and, (3) to the status "Higher power" during the period, in which "God is Dead." Initially, HS exists in an incompletely real environment, with an increasing component of virtuality. With symbolic virtual content, HS supplemented or duplicated the entire surrounding world, creating a two-component habitat (virtual and real). The emergence and development of conceptual thinking (ConceptT) led to a partial "devirtualization" of the environment, the removal of restrictions on scientific knowledge, the rapid growth of technology and social dynamics. The result of technological development was, in the recent past, a temporary resolution of the primary frustration: the establishment of the current equilibrium in the relationships with the regulatory "dissociated symbol"—the virtual "information universe” (IU). The IU, defining as the interference of "media" with the "information body" of the Internet, we consider as a unified information space, integrated with reality and in total constituting the HS habitat. Clip thinking (ClipT), qualitatively different from ConceptT, is a new operating system of the psyche, a moderator of adaptation to a new, virtualized environment. A technological derivative of mental activity HS—the IU—without the participation of conscious forms of mental activity, transforms the algorithms of thinking, i.e. formats the psyche as a whole with adaptation to qualitative and quantitative changes in the virtual component of the environment, and to the perspectives on the development of technologies during the singularity.

Freedom of Religion in Post-Soviet Russia

2001 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-116
Author(s):  
Olga Kazmina ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Religious Freedom ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Status ◽  
Collapse Of Communism ◽  
Soviet Russia ◽  
State Relations ◽  
Role Of Religion

The religious situation in Russia has changed greatly following the collapse of communism in 1991. Although the process was more difficult and contradictory than expected in the early 1990s, Russia has made considerable progress on its way to religious freedom. Now, people can openly profess their faith. To evaluate the degree of religious freedom in contemporary Russia, it is necessary to examine legal acts such as the Constitution arui laws on religion, and how they are implemented, the dynamics of the denominational structure of the population, and the status of different denominations in society. During the 1990s, there were crucial changes in such spheres as the principles of church-state relations, religious legislation, and the role of religion in the social, political, and cultural life of the country. Religion is recovering its place in society lost during the Soviet period, and can play a significant role in overcoming the social crisis and contribute to building a civil society. The growing interest in religion can be reconciled with freedom, pluralism, and tolerance.

Children As Web Portal Designers: Where Do We Start?

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Large ◽  
Jamshid Beheshti ◽  
Valerie Nesset ◽  
Leanne Bowler
Keyword(s):  
Design Process ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Web Portals ◽  
Web Portal

This paper emerged from a research question concerning the most effective way to introduce children to the role of web portal designer. One approach would be for the team critically to evaluate a variety of existing children's and/or adult web portals to gain ideas before commencing the design process proper. An alternative would be to begin the design process without such a critical. . .

Religious Reasons in Public Deliberation

2018 ◽  
pp. 202-217
Author(s):  
Andrew March ◽  
Alicia Steinmetz
Keyword(s):  
Public Reason ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Communicative Action ◽  
Public Deliberation ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
The Status ◽  
History Of ◽  
Religious Reasons ◽  
Role Of Religion

This chapter reviews the history of and analyzes current trends within normative debates about the role of religion in public deliberation. Starting with the idea of an “exclusivist” approach, we look at the status of religious reasons within the frameworks broadly inspired by Rawlsian and Habermasian theories of public reason and deliberation, and recount seven core arguments against excluding religious reasons from public deliberation. The second section reviews approaches which work from similar moral assumptions and principles to those of exclusivism, but take the critiques surrounding the status of religious reasons seriously, leading to the development of a wide variety of models that we refer to broadly as “liberal inclusivist.” In the final section, we treat models which seek to incorporate religious reasons by rejecting the standard assumptions of public reason and communicative action, sometimes in the process, also rethinking the fundamental goals and methods of deliberation as such.

The Catholic Sage: Remarks on Southey’s Sir Thomas More: or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society

Moreana ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 50 (Number 193- (3-4) ◽  
pp. 131-149
Author(s):  
Jorge Bastos da Silva
Keyword(s):  
Church Of England ◽  
General Question ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Thomas More ◽  
Sir Thomas More ◽  
The Status ◽  
Role Of Religion ◽  
The Church ◽  
Moral Legacy

This article addresses the general question of the status of Thomas More as a cultural icon by focusing on Robert Southey’s Sir Thomas More: or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society (1829). The discussion emphasizes the role of religion in Southey’s view of history and of More’s character, as well as the ways in which Southey’s work conveys a sense of the traditions of utopianism and implies a particular conception of intellectual authority. It is shown that, whereas authors like Thomas Stapleton, Anthony Munday, Robert Bolt and Hilary Mantel represented More as a man who challenged established opinions and authorities, either wisely or presumptuously, in the name of the authority of his own conscience, Southey was interested in overcoming the oppositional view of More’s character, career and moral legacy. The Colloquies accordingly express the author’s hopes of a future, eschatological state in which religious differences between Catholic and Protestant will be subsumed. It becomes clear that the work is as much a commentary on contemporary society, and especially on the condition of the Church of England, as it is an exercise in self-definition on the part of its author.

scholarly journals Characteristics and Activities of Women with Socio-Economic Prone in the Pattingaloang Baru Village, Ujung Tanah District, Makassar City

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 131-143
Author(s):  
Ibnu Hajar ◽  
Andi Agustang ◽  
Arlin Adam
Keyword(s):  
Social Research ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Economic Life ◽  
Socioeconomic Conditions ◽  
The Family ◽  
Low Education ◽  
The Status ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
Modern Perspective

The role of women in the family is very influential in welfare as the smallest unit in society. Women must play an active role in changing their own circumstances, especially women who are vulnerable to socioeconomic conditions, the position of women in a modern perspective no longer sees women as mere objects, but rather their position as subjects who play a role in economic life, therefore this study aims to determine their activities and characteristics. Socioeconomic vulnerable women. This research is a form of social research that uses a qualitative descriptive format that aims to describe, summarize various conditions, as situations or various social reality phenomena that exist in society which are the object of research, and attempt to draw that reality to the surface as a characteristic, character, and nature. , sign model, or a description of certain conditions, situations, or phenomena. Women who are socially and economically vulnerable in Darmaguna village are relatively aged 20-40 years, have the status of widows, have low education and limited skills, and have a large number of dependents. In fulfilling physiological, economic, emotional, intellectual, and religious needs, it still shows a very low presentation.

scholarly journals Human potential in the function of intellectual capital creation

Bastina ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 315-332
Author(s):  
Drago Orčić ◽  
Ivanka Gajić
Keyword(s):  
Homo Sapiens ◽  
Technological Development ◽  
Human Potential ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Business Coaching ◽  
New Era ◽  
Business Consulting ◽  
The Status ◽  
Intellectual Potential

The new era in which we find ourselves certainly has many challenges but as well many chances. By entering in, the era of knowledge, we are conditioned to radically change the status of human potential and with that the strategies of relationship towards homo sapiens (reasonable man) as potential. In the knowledge era, man is no longer an extended hand of machines. In order to survive in the game with modern technical-technological development trends, it is inevitable for him to take over its naturally given uncompetitive role of unique thoughtful being with unlimited intellectual potential and inevitable in the process of creating the new value. Constant development, changes conditioned by automation, globalization, informatization, for a "reasonable man" can be an unprecedented threat or a civilizational chance to discover, develop, materialize his hidden intellectual potential. In the conditions of the new economy, intellectual potential takes on not only a leading but a key role. Modern research shows that inventiveness and innovation create a leverage effect, directing the intellectual potential to create new high-tech achievements. There are more and more companies which establish the value of its service or product precisely on the discovery, development, materialization of intellectual potential as an unlimited competitive resource. The subject of this paper is to show the importance of research and finding new approaches, new tools, new methods for detection, development, materialization of unlimited intellectual potential of the "thinking man". The goal of this paper is to raise awareness of the chance, which humanity has not had up until now, in the domain of natural resource from the role of "talking tool" or "extended machine hand" to take on the role of "unique, thinking, creative, inventive, unlimited, potential". In this paper, we also only superficially touched on possible modern methods for discovering, developing, materialization of human potential, such as: business consulting, business coaching, business mentoring.

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