scholarly journals Incidencia de la posición en el espacio social sobre la vocación periodística en la Ciudad de México

2020 ◽  
pp. 61-70
Author(s):  
Ana-Leticia Hernández-Julián ◽  
Sandra Vera-Zambrano
Keyword(s):  
Social Space ◽  
Job Insecurity ◽  
Pierre Bourdieu ◽  
Social Characteristics ◽  
Unequal Distribution ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Face ◽  
Professional Field ◽  
Medios De Comunicacion ◽  
Depth Interviews

At first glance, journalists appear to form a socially homogeneous professional group. Nothing seems to distinguish them with respect to their position in the social space. Men and women from diverse social origins work in the profession, being mostly urban and with higher education, employed by different media, and who also define themselves–and their work–mainly as a vocation and passion. Much of the literature holds the same. Journalism would then be defined by individual motivations rather than social elements. However, it is also possible to verify that within this group there are very different working conditions, as well as an unequal distribution of (economic, cultural, and social) capital. This research questions how each journalist, beyond the vocational argument, defines their profession through their own social conditions of possibility. To understand the diversity of conceptions about journalism that we find empirically through the prism of position in the social space, this work is inspired by the field theory of Pierre Bourdieu. Based on 30 in-depth interviews with editors and journalists from different media in Mexico City and with different social characteristics, we argue that the volume and structure of the resources possessed by each journalist will contribute to nurturing the discourse of vocation, but with the inclusion of elements that are particular to their individual condition. We can thus explain the multiple positions in the face of differences in terms of job insecurity, journalistic values, and permanence in the professional field. Resumen A primera vista, los periodistas parecen conformar un grupo profesional socialmente homogéneo. Nada parece distinguirlos con respecto a su posición en el espacio social. En la profesión trabajan hombres y mujeres de orígenes sociales diversos, mayoritariamente urbanos y con estudios superiores, empleados por distintos medios de comunicación, y que además se definen –y definen su trabajo– principalmente por la vocación y la pasión. Una gran parte de la literatura sostiene lo mismo. El periodismo se definiría entonces por motivaciones individuales más que por elementos sociales. Sin embargo, también es posible constatar que dentro del grupo existen condiciones laborales muy distintas, así como una distribución desigual de capitales (económico, cultural y social). Esta investigación cuestiona cómo cada periodista, detrás del argumento vocacional, define la profesión a través de sus propias condiciones sociales de posibilidad. Con el fin de comprender la diversidad de concepciones sobre periodismo que encontramos empíricamente según el prisma de la posición en el espacio social, este trabajo se inspira en la teoría de campos de Pierre Bourdieu. A partir de 30 entrevistas a profundidad hechas a editores y periodistas de distintos medios en la Ciudad de México y con distintas propiedades sociales, sostenemos que el volumen y estructura de recursos poseídos por cada periodista contribuirá a nutrir el discurso de la vocación, pero insertando elementos propios a su condición individual. Es así que podemos explicar las múltiples posturas frente a las diferencias en lo que compete a la precarización laboral, los valores periodísticos y la permanencia en el campo profesional.

En un rincón de la frontera se teje insurgencia. Territorios encarnados ante la (re)patriarcalización

2020 ◽  
pp. 16-23
Author(s):  
Delmy Tania Cruz Hernández
Keyword(s):  
Social Space ◽  
Organizational Networks ◽  
Regional Economies ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Face

In the face of the imminent threats of despoilment and increase of violence on the bodies-territories-lands of rural, indigenous, and farming women and their community frameworks, six years ago an exchange of dialogue and organizational networks began between different collectives from the border and women from the Tojolabal Meseta of Chiapas (Comitán, Trinitaria and Margaritas) with the goal of building a repertoire of actions to establish dams that could put a break on the (re)patriarchalization of the social space. The objective of the article is to start with the conceptualization of the meaning of embodied territory, an analytic category that elaborates on the organizational loom of diverse women. First, I will outline the context of the border to frame the (re)patrarchalization of the territories that are spread out in this corner of the southeast, which is characterized by the existence of regional economies that constitute unequal geographies of wealth and offset dynamics of violence. Subsequently, I analyze the itineraries, routes, and strategies that organized women of the border deploy to enunciate what they are witnessing as embodied territory.

Fluid kinship: Race, power, and the hydrosocial order of water flow along New Mexico’s acequias

2019 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 718-735
Author(s):  
Elise T Jaramillo
Keyword(s):  
New Mexico ◽  
Water Flow ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Water Rights ◽  
Water Conflict ◽  
Human Relationships ◽  
The Social ◽  
Material Reality ◽  
Depth Interviews

In New Mexico, the marketization of water rights, urbanization, and the legacies of colonialism divide neighbors and pit them against one another over water. New Mexico’s acequias (community irrigation ditches) are organized by water flow, and the physical and interpersonal connections that enable it and are enabled by it. I examine the way that the social and material reality of water flow troubles deeply embedded racial and socioeconomic divisions by creating what I call fluid kinship: a social space that flows like an acequia, according to a topography of human relationships. Based on participant observation and in-depth interviews with acequia users in New Mexico, I elucidate how fluid kinship can reshape the terms of water conflict into unexpected configurations. By drawing attention to fluid kinship, I seek to elucidate the potentiality of the acequia as a counter-geography of relatedness and possible reconciliation.

Manipulating post-Soviet nostalgia: contrasting political narratives and public recollections in Central Asia

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-81 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timur Dadabaev
Keyword(s):  
Central Asia ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Public Attitudes ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Master Narrative ◽  
Policy Goals ◽  
The Social ◽  
Political Narratives ◽  
Depth Interviews

AbstractThe vision of the Soviet years in post-Soviet republics varies depending on the government's official master narrative, foreign policy priorities, and general public perceptions of the past. By contrasting the published interviews of presidents Putin, Nazarbayev, and Karimov and the outcomes of in-depth interviews with the elderly public in Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan), this paper reveals the differences between the official master narratives of political leadership (positive or negative) with respect to the Soviet past and public attitudes. This paper aims to demonstrate that the narratives of political leaders/governments and public recollections coexist in the same social space in parallel to each other. While governments attempt to use their narratives to promote certain policy goals, people use their nostalgic recollections to make sense of the social changes in their respective countries and use such recollections to interpret their lives.

scholarly journals PERJUANGAN PEREMPUAN MERAIH KEMANDIRIAN DALAM RUANG SOSIAL STUDI ATAS NOVEL MIDAH SIMANIS BERGIGI EMAS KARYA PRAMODYA ANANTA TOER

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Imam Sofyan Yahya
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Theory ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Pierre Bourdieu ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The Social ◽  
Pramoedya Ananta Toer ◽  
Private And Public

Abstract. The struggle of women gain independence in the social space studies on novel Midah simanis gold teeth Pramodya work Ananta Toer. This article analyzes the novel Midah Simanis Gold Teeth by Pramoedya Ananta Toer using elements of narrative theory and the concept of Pierre Bourdieu on social room, arena, capital, habitus and distinction, discusses the process of Midah leaders struggle to achieve independence in the social space. The results showed that although Midah received discriminatory treatment in the social space, both private and public, he was able to perform a variety of operations and strategies by optimizing and developing its capitals to achieve success and independence of life.

scholarly journals Livsstil og energiforbruget - analyseret med bourdieusk optik

2006 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 19-35
Author(s):  
Susanne Kuehn
Keyword(s):  
Power Relations ◽  
Energy Use ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Pierre Bourdieu ◽  
Social Patterns ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Sociological Concept

Lifestyle and energy use: as analysed with concepts from Bourdieu This article focuses on the concept of lifestyle. This is a concept that is widely used in environment studies, but is often used as an empirical rather than theoretical con-cept. The article raises the question as to whether a sociological concept of lifestyle can provide newer insights about the relationship between lifestyle and energy use. The article develops a sociological concept of lifestyle based on the ideas of Pierre Bourdieu. In this framework lifestyle is closely related to the concepts of habitus, field and social space. The article shows how this framework is fruitful as it provides insights into the social processed and dynamics behind energy use. Energy use is here under-stood as salient, related to symbolic competition between different classes and fractions of classes and fundamental power relations. Furthermore the analyses focuses on the reproduction of habits and social struc-tures rather than rapidly changing social patterns, a perspective that often dominates lifestyle analyses.

Constituting Resilience at Work: Maintaining Dialectics and Cultivating Dignity throughout a Worksite Closure

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 463-494
Author(s):  
Stacey M. B. Wieland
Keyword(s):  
Job Loss ◽  
Communication Theory ◽  
Job Insecurity ◽  
Temporary Work ◽  
Central Process ◽  
Workplace Interactions ◽  
The Face ◽  
Communicative Constitution ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Significant Attention

Job insecurity—seen in practices like temporary work, furloughs, and site closures—is an ongoing reality for increasing numbers of workers. While the communicative constitution of resilience in situations of job loss has received significant attention, we know little about how resilience is constituted in the face of ongoing job insecurity. This study explores that question by considering how a group of employees enacted resilience during the 22-month period between the announcement that their worksite would close and the actual closure. Based on in-depth interviews, this study considers how soon-to-be terminated employees created and maintained resilience by (de)centering themselves, framing the future optimistically, affirming their value, keeping work in perspective, and caring for one another. These findings point to the importance of sensemaking that enabled employees to hold conflicting emotions and interpretations in tension and meaningfully enact purpose, agency, and humanity. Specifically, the analysis suggests that maintaining dialectics and cultivating dignity are important for constituting resilience. This study contributes to our understanding of the communicative constitution of resilience by offering a sixth central process—maintaining dialectics—to the communication theory of resilience and suggesting that workplace interactions that cultivate dignity enable resilience.

scholarly journals Women and Make-Up: The Dilemma of Bourdieu's Subjectivism-Objectivism on Social Media

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 16
Author(s):  
Suharnanik Suharnanik
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Structure ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Literacy Studies ◽  
The Social ◽  
Dual Mechanism ◽  
Depth Interviews

This research refers to the trend of women's makeup in the 2020 era, which is dominated by natural makeup. Influencers and makeup artists have a role in popularizing it. The author is interested in examining the makeup behavior in women with Bourdieu's theory. What behaviors make a woman look natural, prioritize skin health, minimal makeup. What culture is behind it. The findings of this study are all women like makeup, habitus leads to natural makeup. Habitus emphasized freedom in analyzing a practice as an agent and social structure. Women have a habitus in using makeup determined by a dual mechanism not just the dominance of social media factors, but also played by self-freedom as women as influencers in the social media itself. The arena is an environment where strength is at stake in the struggle over capital resources. Social media is an arena, a different social space, more enabling women to compete more dynamically in gaining position and legitimacy. Women use practices in makeup as a strategy in winning a competition. The makeup practice is an accumulation of women's capital and habitus, where every woman is different in her practice. The method used in this research includes in-depth interviews with women who use makeup, as well as literacy studies of the concepts of capital, habitus, and the realm. The results showed that women undergoing their practice experienced "ambiguity" or dilemmas when using make-up strategies in their social arena.

scholarly journals Adaptation Strategies to Turkish Society of Europeans Married to Turkish Citizens

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-121
Author(s):  
Nevena Gojkovic Turunz
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
International Migration ◽  
Adaptation Strategies ◽  
Social Characteristics ◽  
Transnational Families ◽  
Research Participants ◽  
The Social ◽  
Complex Patterns ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Turkish Society

AbstractAccelerated and increasingly complex patterns of international migration are correlated with the emergence of various types of transnational families and an ever-rising number of culturally and ethnically mixed couples. Once a typical emigration country, Turkey has recently been established as a transit and receiving society, where numerous Europeans settle due to emotional ties with Turkish citizens. This paper is based on a qualitative study of 10 mixed European-Turkish families based in Istanbul, carried out through in-depth interviews. The paper is divided into three parts. First, it examines the social characteristics of the research participants. Second, it analyses the reactions of family and friends to the mixed relationship. Third, it discusses four adaptation strategies of foreign partners to Turkish society – namely, integration, assimilation, separation, and marginalization.

‘Putting on a Face’: Sartre, Goffman, and Agoraphobic Anxiety in Social Space

10.1068/d45j ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-122 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joyce Davidson
Keyword(s):  
Social Space ◽  
Coping Mechanism ◽  
Social Spaces ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Social Existence ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Look ◽  
Theoretical Dimension

In this paper I attempt a hermeneutics of agoraphobic experience, presenting a reading of sufferers' accounts of the social and spatial phenomenology of this disorder in terms of managing existential anxieties. I seek to combine the philosophical insights of Sartre's account of ‘anguish’ with Goffman's sociotheoretical account of the individual's employment of techniques of ‘front management’ and ‘self-presentation’. Such techniques might, I argue, be regarded as a form of coping mechanism for dealing with the anxieties of social existence, especially those stemming from what Sartre terms the ‘look’ of Others. Agoraphobics' testimonies illustrate their difficulties in successfully deploying such techniques in the face of the anxieties they experience in social spaces. Interpreting agoraphobic experiences in this way adds a sociospatial theoretical dimension to existing accounts of the disorder, accounts that are currently of a predominantly psychological nature.

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