scholarly journals Foucault’s Dismissal of Ideology: A Critique

2021 ◽  
pp. 78-87
Author(s):  
Kagendra Prasad
Keyword(s):  
Social System ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Important Task ◽  
Reciprocal Relation ◽  
True False

Foucault dismisses ideology as an object of investigation in understanding power relations for three important reasons bearing on his rejection of true-false distinction, dismissal of reference to subject and trivialization of ideology. This paper argues against Foucault's claim and shows that investigation of ideology constitutes an important task in understanding relation of domination—which is substantiated by demonstrating firstly that the true-false distinction is not only ontologically real but also morally warranted; and secondly that ideology is not merely a passive effect of infrastructure of an oppressive social system but is in reciprocal relation with it and therefore plays an indispensably important role in maintaining the system in general and the present-day capitalism in particular. 

scholarly journals Uma revisão crítica da antropologia de Carmen Junqueira

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (1-2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lindinalva Laurindo Teodorescu
Keyword(s):  
Social System ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Group Interaction ◽  
The Core ◽  
Nature And Culture ◽  
The Social ◽  
System 2 ◽  
Human World ◽  
The Village ◽  
Animal World

O artigo faz uma revisão crítica da antropologia produzida pela antropóloga Carmen Junqueira, junto ao povo Kamaiurá, do alto Xingu, ao longo de cinquenta anos de pesquisa. Entre as publicações selecionadas para análise, foram retidos quatro temas que são recorrentes em suas pesquisas e que constituem o cerne de sua antropologia. São eles: 1) a composição do universo Kamaiurá (as formas de produção, parentesco e relações de poder, a generosidade ostentada e o sacrifício do líder, mudanças e interação grupal entre os povos do alto Xingu, política protecionista e deslocamento de poder na aldeia de Ipavu e os ritos como fundamento do sistema social); 2) o espaço das mulheres nas sociedades indígenas (as narrativas míticas e a situação das mulheres); 3) o imaginário e o simbólico na configuração do tempo Kamaiurá; 4) o mundo animal e o mundo humano ou a relação natureza e cultura. Neste último item, foi feita uma tentativa de comparação entre a antropologia de Carmen Junqueira e a perspectiva que dá conta da composição do universo indígena, em termos de pluralidade de mundos, como o modelo desenvolvido por Philippe Descola e Eduardo Viveiros de Castro.  Abstract: This article reviews the anthropology produced by the anthropologist Carmen Junqueira, around the Kamaiurá people of the upper Xingu, over fifty years of research. Among the publications selected for analysis four themes were retained that are recurrent in her research and which constitute the core of her anthropology. They are: 1) the composition of the Kamaiurá universe (the forms of production, kinship and power relations, the leader´s bounty and sacrifice, changes and group interaction among the upper Xingu peoples, protectionist politics and power displacement in the village of Ipavu and rites as the foundation of the social system); 2) the space of women in indigenous societies (the mythical narratives and the situation of women); 3) the imaginary and the symbolic in the configuration of Kamaiurá time; 4) the animal world and the human world or the relation between nature and culture. In this last item, an attempt was made to compare the anthropology of Carmen Junqueira with the perspective that accounts for the composition of the indigenous universe in terms of a plurality of worlds, such as the model developed by Philippe Descola and Eduardo Viveiros de Castro.  

scholarly journals Wszyscy jesteśmy wymyśleni

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michał Rydlewski
Keyword(s):  
Social System ◽  
Career Path ◽  
Social World ◽  
Forming Process ◽  
True False

The term “true fabrications” refers to an idiom “true false” created by a Polish writer Marek Hłasko and used in his late novel Beautiful Twentysomethings. However, it is just an attempt to translate this idiom into English without losing its meaning. “True false” is a literary strategy applied to show the experience of living in Poland ruled for fifty years by communists. From Hłasko’s perspective the communism past was both contrived and fantastic. Nonetheless, it is also a way to create an auto- identity by means of putting on masks taken from books and films to breath life into that fantastic social system which is formed out of true and false. Life has become a story to tell. In another dimension, the article contains autobiographical reflections on Hłasko`s “true fabrication” metaphor as a tool of interpretation with which I contemplate my anthropological career path. The problem here is my perception of culture as a source of fabrications and social world as a reservoir of social masks, stemming from the anthropological rite de passage, to which I was subjected during the disciplinary forming process.

Task division in a facultative cooperative breeder bird: do males take out the trash?

Behaviour ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Raphael Igor Dias ◽  
Debora Goedert
Keyword(s):  
Reproductive Performance ◽  
Social Group ◽  
Social System ◽  
Important Task ◽  
Ecological Conditions ◽  
Social Species ◽  
Passerine Species ◽  
Nest Sanitation ◽  
Group Members ◽  
Task Division

Abstract Cooperative animals share different activities during reproduction, but individuals of a social group may invest in these tasks in different proportions. Nest sanitation is an important task that may impact reproductive performance of birds, and yet, little is known about the relative participation of individuals of a social group, particularly in non-passerine species. Here, we describe nest sanitation behaviour and materials removed, and test the occurrence of task division regarding faecal sac removal in Campo flickers (Picidae), a facultative cooperative breeder with complex social system. We found that helpers removed proportionally more faecal sacs than breeders, and male helpers are mainly responsible for this activity. These results are different than the commonly reported patterns for passerines, where females are the main contributors. Different ecological conditions and benefits achieved by group members may influence their investment in nest sanitation, but additional studies on social species could greatly contribute to our understanding of how general our results are in non-passerine species.

Reanalysing International Conflicts: Proposals from the Sociology of Power

2019 ◽  
Vol 56 (4) ◽  
pp. 255-271
Author(s):  
Guillem Farrés-Fernández
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Approach ◽  
Social System ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
International Conflict ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
The Other ◽  
International Conflicts ◽  
Power Resources ◽  
Abstract Entities

This article opens a dialogue between different notions of conflict and the sociology of power and suggests a new theoretical framework for the analysis of international conflicts. Refusing to consider abstract entities as actors, it helps us better determine who the relevant actors are in each international conflict and gives special attention to the existing power relations between them. Accordingly, it is considered that a large social system is made up of numerous actors with multiple conflicts between them. Thus, in the case of international conflicts, we do not face one single conflict, but a conflictual complex involving a multitude of actors with their different power resources, who weave a network of conflicts and power relations between them, and at its top a dominant conflict, the conflict around which the other conflicts evolve. Acknowledging the complexity of international conflicts, this new theoretical approach should better explain both the behaviour of the actors and the evolution of the conflictual complex itself.

Youth

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicolas Argenti ◽  
Deborah Durham
Keyword(s):  
Social System ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Social Constructs ◽  
Social Construct ◽  
The Status ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
New Generation

Youth was originally theorized by ethnographers of colonial Africa in functionalist terms that saw each age grade as an integral part of a social system that reproduced itself intact with every new generation. Theories developed in the 1960s began to account for social strife and tensions between youth and elders in hierarchical, gerontocratic social systems, but still saw initiation and other rites as resolving tensions and restoring the status quo. With the advent of the Marxist turn in the 1970s and renewed interest in youth and politics from the 1990s, ethnographies of youth in Africa have made two important new interventions: they have theorized youth not as a biological given, but as a social construct or discourse uncoupled from age, and they have highlighted not the integration of youth in society, but the tensions and instabilities at the heart of the power relations that social constructs of youth denote.

Accent Policy and Accent Modification Enterprises as Potential Indicators of Intercultural Power Relations: A Call for an Updated Research Agenda

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brynne D. Ovalle ◽  
Rahul Chakraborty
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Identity Construction ◽  
Social Theory ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Linguistic Diversity ◽  
Cultural Organization ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

This article has two purposes: (a) to examine the relationship between intercultural power relations and the widespread practice of accent discrimination and (b) to underscore the ramifications of accent discrimination both for the individual and for global society as a whole. First, authors review social theory regarding language and group identity construction, and then go on to integrate more current studies linking accent bias to sociocultural variables. Authors discuss three examples of intercultural accent discrimination in order to illustrate how this link manifests itself in the broader context of international relations (i.e., how accent discrimination is generated in situations of unequal power) and, using a review of current research, assess the consequences of accent discrimination for the individual. Finally, the article highlights the impact that linguistic discrimination is having on linguistic diversity globally, partially using data from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and partially by offering a potential context for interpreting the emergence of practices that seek to reduce or modify speaker accents.

The Social System of the Welfare Hotel

1980 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 161-162
Author(s):  
VERNON L. ALLEN
Keyword(s):  
Social System ◽  
The Social

Learning and the School's Social System

1981 ◽  
Vol 26 (8) ◽  
pp. 614-615
Author(s):  
Wilbur B. Brookover
Keyword(s):  
Social System
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