scholarly journals Language as Power: Construction of Social Reality on Riffat Abbas Poetry "A Dream on the Intersection of Past and Future"

2021 ◽  
Vol VI (IV) ◽  
pp. 30-38
Author(s):  
Rafida Nawaz ◽  
Syed Hussain Murtaza ◽  
Muqarab Akbar
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Political System ◽  
Social Reality ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Power Construction ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Face ◽  
Poetic Expression ◽  
Societal Relations

The poetic approach to constructing social reality is a significant source of reflection on the livedexperience of voiceless ordinary men and women. Poetic expression becomes a source of power andresistance expressed through language. Social reality expressed in poetry constructs a vision of historybeyond time. The civilizational heritage of Multan dates back to the time of Rag Ved. The City's richesattracted many conquerors, subdued but never defeated. As Poet himself is the product of land andculture, Riffat Abbas's poetry expresses all the imprints that land has carved on his Cognition. His poetryrepresents the phenomena of continuity and preservation of cultural heritage in the face of all historicalupheavals. The paper aims to analyze the social reality constructed in Riffat Abbas's poetry opting forthe method of discourse analysis given by Mitchel Foucault to study the progressive trends on socialattributes, societal relations, and socio-political system.

Critical discourse analysis on gender relations: women's images in Sasak song

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 113
Author(s):  
Khirjan Nahdi ◽  
Usuludin Usuludin ◽  
Herman Wijaya ◽  
Muh. Taufiq
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Social Construction ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Gender Relations ◽  
Social Reality ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Women's Images ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
The Social ◽  
Images Of Women

Sasak song as one form of artistic discourse is used as an instrument of male domination of women in gender relations through various forms of imaging that do not benefit women. The image is understood through the process and mechanism of work of critical discourse analysis. This study aims to reveal the image of women in the Sasak song by discovering the tendency of social construction in gender relations between men and women based on the principles of Critical Discourse Analysis. Through the position of the Sasak song text, the importance of the text, and the consequences of the text in the social reality of gender relations between men and women, found six images of women in the Sasak song text, namely women as male subordination; women as inferior, resigned women, cheap women, dependent women, and women without choice. As a text, discursive reasoning, and social reality, the results of the study show the tendency to dominate women who give birth to forms of discrimination. The six images of women in Sasak song texts are contained in works of art for the purpose of disguising the tendencies behind artistic elements, so that they are accepted as truth and reasonableness in history inherited between generations.

Islamists between revolution and the state: an epilogue

2014 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 283-298 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdul Ghani Imad
Keyword(s):  
Political System ◽  
Arab World ◽  
The State ◽  
Social Needs ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Face ◽  
Heavy Burden ◽  
New Type ◽  
Political Realities

The problematic addressed in this article is the challenge initiated by the Arab revolutions to reform the Arab political system in such a way as to facilitate the incorporation of ‘democracy’ at the core of its structure. Given the profound repercussions, this issue has become the most serious matter facing the forces of change in the Arab world today; meanwhile, it forms the most prominent challenge and the most difficult test confronting Islamists. The Islamist phenomenon is not an alien implant that descended upon us from another planet beyond the social context or manifestations of history. Thus it cannot but be an expression of political, cultural, and social needs and crises. Over the years this phenomenon has presented, through its discourse, an ideological logic that falls within the context of ‘advocacy’; however, today Islamists find themselves in office, and in a new context that requires them to produce a new type of discourse that pertains to the context of a ‘state’. Political participation ‘tames’ ideology and pushes political actors to rationalize their discourse in the face of daily political realities and the necessity of achievement. The logic of advocacy differs from that of the state: in the case of advocacy, ideology represents an enriching asset, whereas in the case of the state, it constitutes a heavy burden. This is one reason why so much discourse exists within religious jurisprudence related to interest or necessity or balancing outcomes. This article forms an epilogue to the series of articles on religion and the state published in previous issues of this journal. It adopts the methodologies of ‘discourse analysis’ and ‘case studies’ in an attempt to examine the arguments presented by Islamists under pressure from the opposition. It analyses the experiences, and the constraints, that inhibit the production of a ‘model’, and monitors the development of the discourse, its structure, and transformations between advocacy, revolution and the state.

scholarly journals Positioning and Rebranding as a State Security Tools in Global Space

2021 ◽  
pp. 99-117
Author(s):  
Ihor Ishchenko ◽  
Olena Bashkeieva
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Political System ◽  
State Security ◽  
Political Risks ◽  
Global Space ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Face ◽  
Unstable Environment ◽  
Mental Construct ◽  
Benefits And Costs

The purpose of this article is to explore positioning and rebranding as tools for state security in global space, using the methodology of constructivism in international relations. The author hypothesizes that positioning the country as safe will be attractive only if there is a unifying factor based on the principles of consocial democracy. To achieve this purpose, the authors used several scientific approaches and methods: constructivism as a scientific paradigm; dialectical method; content analysis, and comparison. The article covers the following issues: Positioning and rebranding in modern conditions; Level of branding effectiveness in Ukraine; National identity as the basis for rebranding and state security; Rebranding states in the face of new challenges and threats. The essence of the conclusions is as follows: States will choose a partner for economic cooperation under difficult conditions in terms of political risks, benefits, and costs. This trend is about renewed positioning and rebranding to facilitate decisions on cooperation. The effectiveness of the existing state brand depends not only on creating an attractive external picture of the country’s positioning. Without a genuine alignment of the declared brand with the internal situation of the state, the political system as a whole, the congruent of the mental construct of the main political structures and the social environment, the brand will not be attractive to investors and the country will remain in an unstable environment.

scholarly journals Openness and Closedness: Four Categories of Closurization in Modern Arabic Fiction

1970 ◽  
pp. 1-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ibrahim Taha
Keyword(s):  
Social Reality ◽  
Arabic Literature ◽  
The Political ◽  
Open Type ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Face ◽  
Arabic Fiction ◽  
Modern Arabic

The discussion of the four categories of ending and closure in modern Arabic literature in terms of openness and closedness clearly indicates the interrelations between the ending and the model of the textual reality, and the interrelations between this model and the extra-literary reality. It seems that when the historical, and especially the political and the social reality slaps writers across the face and stands before them in all its might and immediacy, they do not remain indifferent and write a literature with optimistic, promising, and closed endings; and vice versa: a text with a model of reality which does not relate to a well defined piece of history ends with a more open type of ending and becomes a closure in the reader.

scholarly journals Theoretical-Methodological Foundations and Practical Systematization of Sociological Discourse Analysis

2022 ◽  
Vol 62 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Katiuscia Schiemer Vargas ◽  
Gilnei Luiz de Moura
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Social Reality ◽  
Practical Application ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Senses ◽  
Sociological Discourse ◽  
Procedural Basis ◽  
Incremental Process

ABSTRACT The objective of the paper is to present the theoretical and methodological foundations of sociological discourse analysis (SDA) and to demonstrate the practical application of its procedural basis by way of an exemplary case that has as its theme the culture of devotion to organizations. The development of a practical SDA plan is a constructive and incremental process and its paths are outlined as procedures under development. There is no general and/or rigid rule on what procedures are necessary for achieving the research objectives; the contextualizing interpretation of the discourses will determine the practice. The use of SDA as an analytical lens enabled us to explore the internal dimensions of the discourse, considering the social reality in which it is produced and providing an understanding of the culture of devotion through the senses and meanings that are constructed by the workers of the company we studied.

Proactive law and reactive law: transformation of legal systems in the face of great challenges

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (5) ◽  
pp. 39-55
Author(s):  
Vladimir Przhilenskiy
Keyword(s):  
Goal Setting ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Social Reality ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Legal Systems ◽  
Legal Analysis ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Face ◽  
Intention To Change ◽  
Constitutional Identity

The paper substantiates the thesis that the distinction between proactive and the reactive rulemaking [lawmaking] becomes much more distinct and significant in crisis periods of societal development. In such periods, when social systems face huge challenges, the corresponding transformation of legal systems either follows the logic of preserving existing institutions and values (reactive law), – alternatively – goal-setting is based on lawmaking aimed at transforming the social reality (proactive law). Both proactive and reactive lawmaking can come into conflict with the existing constitution, moving society to change it by bringing it into compliance with changed goals and values or changed social realities. In this regard, the fundamental differences between proactive law and reactive law are determined, based on the necessity of introducing these understandings into the conceptual space of social legal analysis. In addition, the concept of anticipatory rulemaking, which has become widespread in Russian legal publications, is analyzed, and the irrelevance thereof to the purposes of the research in question is shown. The concept of proactive law is analyzed in more detail and depth, resulting in identification and description of two main types of this kind of rulemaking. The first type, called pragmatic proactive law, is rulemaking based on practical objectives. This type is characterized by an intention to change social reality without affecting the values of the society being reformed through development and adoption of new laws. Unlike the first one, the second type is initiated by a process of value reassessment and abandonment of old ideals in favor of new ones. The desire to restore the lost correlation between the system of values and social practices gives birth to ethico-teleological proactive law or value-based rulemaking. The transformations in legal systems during the last decade are further considered and analyzed in the context of the major challenges whose impact entails the need to choose between proactive and reactive rulemaking, and – in the instance of proactive rulemaking – gives rise to a dichotomy of the pragmatic-goal-oriented type and the value-based type. It is concluded that it is necessary to include a conceptual-and-methodological model of analysis in the toolkit of analysis of the lawmaking policy of present-day Russia, especially in evaluating the consistency of innovations with constitutional identity.

scholarly journals Development of Bisexual Identity

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (5) ◽  
pp. 1669-1678
Author(s):  
Juan Pablo Perera Gómez ◽  
Ysamary Arenas
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Method ◽  
Social Reality ◽  
One Dimension ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
The Social ◽  
Constant Comparative Method ◽  
Physical Attraction ◽  
Constant Comparative ◽  
Bisexual Identity ◽  
Major Project

Abstract Bisexuality is the sexual, romantic, emotional and physical attraction that a person experiments for both of the biological sexes (men and women). Since the Venezuelan society is built under a heteronormative paradigm sometimes is considered that those sexualities, that drift apart from the social reality, are not comprehended thus generating a reject. Therefore, we conducted a study that was titled “Construction of Bisexual Identity in Venezuelan Adults: ‘It is Not a transition, I Just Simply Am Like That’” that had as a general objective the understanding of the bisexual identity in Venezuelan adults. This article contemplates one dimension of this major project degree. In-depths interviews were carried out to willing participants and the obtained data were analyzed with the constant comparative method following an emerging design. Among the results four major categories were described, however, in this article we will be only focusing on the development of the bisexual identity.

Asserting Religious Text in the Modern World

2010 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Mazen Hashem
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Social Reality ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Religious Imagination ◽  
Analysis Study ◽  
Religious Text ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Face ◽  
Concentric Circles

The khutbah delivered each Friday in mosques represents an important facet of the Muslims’ religious imagination. Islam, being an ultra-scriptural religion, requires that those who deliver this sermon, the khatib, engage in a wide range of creative handling of texts. The khutbah stands as concentric circles of belonging to a text-rooted religion and to the continuous realignment of those texts when addressing social reality; the khatib stands as an interpreter of lived experiences as well as a maker and shaper of such experiences. The quest of relevance in the khutbah is counterbalanced by the quest for authenticity. This discourse analysis study, which analyzes two years’ worth of khutbahs delivered in Southern California, focuses on three interrelated dimensions of khutbahs: how certain texts assert their authority, the different approaches to contextualizing the text, and how texts are reinterpreted in the face of the challenges of modernity.

Asserting Religious Text in the Modern World

2010 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Mazen Hashem
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Social Reality ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Religious Imagination ◽  
Analysis Study ◽  
Religious Text ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Face ◽  
Concentric Circles

The khutbah delivered each Friday in mosques represents an important facet of the Muslims’ religious imagination. Islam, being an ultra-scriptural religion, requires that those who deliver this sermon, the khatib, engage in a wide range of creative handling of texts. The khutbah stands as concentric circles of belonging to a text-rooted religion and to the continuous realignment of those texts when addressing social reality; the khatib stands as an interpreter of lived experiences as well as a maker and shaper of such experiences. The quest of relevance in the khutbah is counterbalanced by the quest for authenticity. This discourse analysis study, which analyzes two years’ worth of khutbahs delivered in Southern California, focuses on three interrelated dimensions of khutbahs: how certain texts assert their authority, the different approaches to contextualizing the text, and how texts are reinterpreted in the face of the challenges of modernity.

scholarly journals FILOSOFÍA PRÁCTICA PARA LA VIDA JURÍDICA COTIDIANA

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (15) ◽  
pp. 132-138
Author(s):  
Tlexochtli Rocío Rodríguez García
Keyword(s):  
Moral Responsibility ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Driving Force ◽  
Social Reality ◽  
Daily Practice ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
The Face ◽  
Life Philosophy ◽  
Sobre Todo

RESUMENEl presente artículo tiene como objeto mencionar que la filosofía no sólo es teoría, sino que está abierta a la reflexión del conocimiento, el cual se puede sustentar en todas las personas para aprender a hablar, pensar y, sobre todo, cómo actuar ante los problemas qué se le presenten en su vida cotidiana. La filosofía en la práctica cotidiana tiene la exigencia de ser una reflexión constante para entender la realidad social que enfrentamos, cómo para resolver las eventos qué encuentran en el mundo y que debe de ser un motor de actuación en la vida, la filosofía nos permite enfrentarnos a lo justo, a lo injusto utilizando  la paciencia y el conocimiento pero con responsabilidad moral que implican todas las actos que llevemos a cabo en nuestra práctica diaria, La filosofía proporciona mejorar nuestra vida al encontrarnos uno mismo. ABSTRACTThis article aims to mention that philosophy is not only theory, but it is open to the reflection of knowledge, which can be sustained in all people to learn to speak, think and above all, how to act in the face of problems that present themselves to you in your everyday life. Philosophy in daily practice has the requirement of being a constant reflection to understand the social reality that we face, how to solve the events that are found in the world and that should be a driving force in life, philosophy allows us to face to the just, to the unjust using patience and knowledge but with moral responsibility that all the acts that we carry out in our daily practice imply, Philosophy provides to improve our life by finding ourselves 

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