scholarly journals Law and Literature: A Review of Interdisciplinary Literary Texts

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 79-90
Author(s):  
Raj Kishor Singh
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Norms ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Law And Literature ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Legal Language ◽  
Norms And Values ◽  
Humanities And Social Sciences

This paper explores and recognizes common points of intersection of law and literature. Different literary texts have legal language, court scenes, cross examinations, lawyers, witnesses, judge, and audience. The main focus of this paper is to identify such events from literary texts and also to present instances that people take into the courts from literary texts. Law and literature originate and develop, after all, from the same culture and society. Humanities and social sciences are common grounds of origin and development of law and literature. They are related with each other. They do have correlation on the basis of culture, social norms and values, and humanities. In this paper, they discussed on the grounds of cognitive and behaviouristic aspects of human life.

scholarly journals RECONSTRUCTION OF SOCIAL SCIENCE AND HUMANITIES THROUGH NARRATIVE

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (5) ◽  
pp. 134-140
Author(s):  
Kang, Hyeon-Suk ◽  
Shin, Hye-Won
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Narrative Theory ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Ways Of Knowing ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Human Experience ◽  
Research Strategies ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
Humanities And Social Sciences

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to present new directions and research strategies through critical analysis of the academic tendencies of existing social science and humanities. The narrative theory of human experience is adopted as a theoretical rationale for critical analysing existing social sciences and humanities. Since the 1970s and 1980s, the academic tendencies of the humanities and social sciences have been transformed into the narrative turn. We focus on the new integrity of humanities and social sciences in light of the narrative theory that approaches the totality of human life. The narrative theory for academic inquiry makes use of the position of Bruner, Polkinghorne, Ricoeur Methodology: We reviewed the literature related to the research topic and took an integrated approach to the philosophical analysis of core claims. Main Findings: As a result, the narrative theory has a characteristic approach to human life and experience as a whole, and it is possible to integrate by narrative ways of knowing. Implications/Applications: Based on this narrative theory, existing humanities and social sciences need to be reconstructed into narrative science. And a narrative method or narrative inquiry is useful as its specific inquiry method. As a narrative science, humanities and social sciences can be implemented by the integration of human experience and narrative epistemology. It has the advantage of integrating the atomized sub-sciences into the narrative of human experience according to this new method. Also, in-depth research on concrete exploration strategies is expected in the future.

scholarly journals Psychic Abnormalities and Aberrations in Paulo Coelho’s Veronika Decides to Die

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 40-45
Author(s):  
S Ancy Jeba Sundari ◽  
M R Rashila
Keyword(s):  
Suicide Attempt ◽  
Social Norms ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Psychological Problem ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
Norms And Values ◽  
Human Psyche ◽  
Cultural Pressures ◽  
The Web

Entangled in the web of absurd and alienated society, modern man confronts bounteous problems and keeps on suffering with the greatest curse of the absence of inter-personal relations. Lack of humanity, results in fragmentation, frustration, chaos, desperation, perplexity and detachment in the human psyche. The injuries inflicted and the scars left on his psyche generate a cynical attitude towards the established social norms and values. The socio-cultural pressures tend to affect his inner peace causing disorders in his physical, mental and psychological attitudes. The issue of existing meaninglessly can be traced in all facets of human life which seems to be a major menace. Paulo Coelho’s Veronika Decides to Die, in which he deals with life and death and its complexities. The society finds unacceptable and unmentionable, such as insanity and suicide that is depicted in the novel meticulously. It is about the protagonist Veronika’s psychological problem and she decides to die and how she attempts to kill herself and how after her tailed suicide attempt, she learns to live.

Radical Islamism as a Mode of Production

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-108
Author(s):  
Masdar Hilmy
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Current Theory ◽  
Production Theory ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
Norms And Values ◽  
Dominant Structure ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Theoretical Paradigms ◽  
Epistemological Basis ◽  
Mode Of Production

This article attempts to provide a breakthrough which I call mode of production theory. This theory will be employed to analyze the contemporary phenomenon of radical Islamism. The mode of production theory is meant to bridge the two clashing theoretical paradigms in social sciences and humanities, i.e., Weberian and Marxian. Despite its bridging nature, the paper argues that the two cannot be merged within one single thread. This is because each paradigm has its own epistemological basis which is irreconcilable to one another. Mostly adapted from Marx’s theory, the current theory of the mode of production covers five interrelated aspects, namely social, political, economic, cultural, and symbolic structures. If Marx’s mode of production theory heavily relies on a material and economic basis, the theory used in this paper accommodates cultural and symbolic structures that are Weberian in nature. Although the two paradigms can operate together, the strength of structure (Marxian) overpowers the strength of culture (Weberian). This paper further argues that such cultural-based aspects as ideology, norms, and values play as mobilizing factors under a big schematic dominant structure in the rise and development of the radical Islamist groups.

RELEVANCE OF PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION TO CURRICULUM THEORY AND DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIAN EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 256-261
Author(s):  
Zaka Rauf ◽  
MUSA YUSUF
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Educational System ◽  
National Curriculum ◽  
Philosophy Of Education ◽  
Curriculum Theory ◽  
Best Interest ◽  
Humanities And Social Sciences

Attempts of undue separation of the philosophy of education and curriculum theory and development in the teaching of systematic functional education have been seriously criticized. This has been so because it is not in the best interest in the teaching of an intelligent and national curriculum which forms the bedrock to the development of a truly vibrant educational system in Nigeria. This paper, therefore, is an attempt to investigate the relevance of the philosophy of education to the development of an intelligent curriculum which is imperative to the teaching of functional education in the technical, the sciences, the humanities and social sciences towards the revitalization of the Nigerian educational sector. 

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