ANGER AND EMPATHY: BUILDING IDETICS IN INTERGENERATIONAL POLITICAL COMMUNITIES

2020 ◽  
pp. 36-44
Author(s):  
Y.A. Pustovoyt ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Collective Identity ◽  
Political Institutions ◽  
Political Identity ◽  
Group Identification ◽  
Political Processes ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Emotional Component ◽  
Characteristic Features ◽  
Political Communities ◽  
New Generation

In the article are considered questions of modern political processes within the framework of concepts that focus on the formation of individual and collective identity, conscious or unconscious, expressed in concentrated form, correlation themselves to certain social groups on the basis of different criteria. Within the theoretical approaches of F. Fukiyama, J. Gold-stone, and A. Hockshild, the author examines the emotional component of the group identification process and its significance for self-determination. The analysis of empirical data (observations and interviews) collected over the past six years on power coalitions and protest communities in Siberian cities leads to a preliminary conclusion about the formation of a new type of political identity. Its characteristic features are an increased emphasis on individual and collective emotional experiences that take precedence over traditional class, ethnic and territorial demands and goals, a focus on empathy rather than anger, a search for allies by feeling, not the interests. In the coming years, political generations will change by naturally and since the new generation was formed in fundamentally different conditions, got a different socialization than their predecessors, another serious transformation of social and political institutions is possible.

Imagined Institutions: The Symbolic Power of Formal Rules in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Slavic Review ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 75 (4) ◽  
pp. 944-969 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karlo Basta
Keyword(s):  
Bosnia And Herzegovina ◽  
Collective Identity ◽  
Political Institutions ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Stated Preference ◽  
Institutional Reform ◽  
Detailed Examination ◽  
Political Community ◽  
Post War ◽  
Political Communities

Through a detailed examination of institutional discourses in post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina, this article demonstrates that formal political institutions may play a more layered role than is allowed by existing theories of nationalist and ethnic conflict. Competing institutional preferences of Bosniak, Serb, and Croat elites are not simply instruments for the achievement of collective or individual goals. They are symbolically salient expressions of collective identity as well. For Bosniak elites, the stated preference for a non-ethnicized territorial framework and majoritarian central government suggest the vision of a multiethnic, but not institutionally multinational,Bosnianpolitical community. Their Serb and Croat counterparts, by contrast, insist on the continued “ethnicization” of the territorial architecture and the central government apparatus. These preferences express an understanding of Bosnia as a state of three discrete political communities. Any attempts at comprehensive institutional reform must thus reckon with the opposing and deeply embedded visions of institutions-as-symbols. The theoretical implications of this work go well beyond the Bosnian case.

scholarly journals A Comparative Analysis of Theoretical and Methodological Foundations of Political Culture

wisdom ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-47
Author(s):  
Emil Ordukhanyan
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Political Culture ◽  
Political Communication ◽  
Political Institutions ◽  
Political Process ◽  
Modern World ◽  
The Political ◽  
Cultural Changes ◽  
Political Processes ◽  
Theoretical Approaches

In modern world various transformations have an impact on social and political processes of the society. Even cultural changes somehow depend on these transformations. Therefore, social and political phenomena need new approaches for their study, where the political culture has its proper relevance. The article explores the theoretical and methodological foundations of political culture based on the analysis of foreign and Armenian scholars works. The behavioral, psychological, comparative and other approaches as well as methods of political culture analysis are examined. In a result of generalization of theoretical approaches and summarizing the outcomes obtained from a comparative analysis of political culture methodologies, we can define political culture as the aggregate of political ideas, knowledge, traditions and values; as a whole of political participation and behavior models; as a relatively stable link between political consciousness and socialization, between stages and levels of political communication tools and political institutions, which defines the political process and which is expressed through the political discourse.

Political psychology

2013 ◽  
Vol 154 (16) ◽  
pp. 619-626
Author(s):  
Mária Resch ◽  
Tamás Bella
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Political Psychology ◽  
Group Dynamics ◽  
Political Institutions ◽  
Cognitive Mapping ◽  
Medical Sciences ◽  
Political Processes ◽  
Behavioural Patterns ◽  
Essential Components ◽  
History Of

In Hungary one can mostly find references to the psychological processes of politics in the writings of publicists, public opinion pollsters, philosophers, social psychologists, and political analysts. It would be still important if not only legal scientists focusing on political institutions or sociologist-politologists concentrating on social structures could analyse the psychological aspects of political processes; but one could also do so through the application of the methods of political psychology. The authors review the history of political psychology, its position vis-à-vis other fields of science and the essential interfaces through which this field of science, which is still to be discovered in Hungary, connects to other social sciences. As far as its methodology comprising psycho-biographical analyses, questionnaire-based queries, cognitive mapping of interviews and statements are concerned, it is identical with the psychiatric tools of medical sciences. In the next part of this paper, the focus is shifted to the essence and contents of political psychology. Group dynamics properties, voters’ attitudes, leaders’ personalities and the behavioural patterns demonstrated by them in different political situations, authoritativeness, games, and charisma are all essential components of political psychology, which mostly analyses psychological-psychiatric processes and also involves medical sciences by relying on cognitive and behavioural sciences. This paper describes political psychology, which is basically part of social sciences, still, being an interdisciplinary science, has several ties to medical sciences through psychological and psychiatric aspects. Orv. Hetil., 2013, 154, 619–626.

A Poetics of Discretion

2019 ◽  
pp. 200-212
Author(s):  
Marion Froger
Keyword(s):  
Collective Identity ◽  
Group Identity ◽  
Film Studies ◽  
Significant Shift ◽  
Social Imaginary ◽  
Community Belonging ◽  
Relational Experience ◽  
New Generation

Through an analysis drawn from microsociology and attentive to the tiny and subtle trials of the relational experience that the “new generation” of Quebec filmmakers tend to point out, this chapter explores how a poetics of “discretion” contributes to give form to a collective sentiment that does not presuppose a community belonging to be felt. By filming the urban sociality, understood as a fleeting experience of an “invisible binding,” the filmmakers find new forms to express this sense of collectivity, which does not pretend to be a sense of collectivity grounded in group identity but instead tends to blur the very issue of collective identity and its correlate (social imaginary). This blurring notably makes sense in the particular context of “the Printemps Erable” and its casserole concerts, which argues for a significant shift in research on imaginary and community in film studies.

Populism in the 21st century: Today, tomorrow, always?

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 33-61
Author(s):  
A. V. Glukhova
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Global Financial Crisis ◽  
Public Support ◽  
Political Scientist ◽  
Early 21St Century ◽  
Political Processes ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Characteristic Features ◽  
The Global Financial Crisis

The concept of populism has been known since Antiquity. However, in recent decades it gained new prominence amongst politicians and political experts. The present paper attempts to reconstruct the image of populism of the 21st century and to assess the viability of populist parties and movements involved in the context of current social and political processes within Western societies. The first section of the paper examines various definitions of populism elaborated by both Russian and foreign political scholars. On that basis the author attempts to identify the core meaning of this phenomenon, its historic roots and psychological underpinnings, as well as a social-political profile today. The author highlights such constituent elements of the populist discourse that crystallized throughout its development, as direct appeal to the public sentiments, oversimplification of reality and the use of manipulative techniques. The second section of the paper examines the origins and characteristic features of the populist wave that spanned across both developed and developing countries in the early 21st century. For that matter, the effects of globalization are considered particularly problematic, as they have uncertain implications for international relations and exacerbate social and economic tensions even within developed societies creating both ‘winners’ and ‘losers’. They also allowed various populist movements to take advantage of the growing social instability in the wake of the global financial crisis of 2008–2009. Additionally, the author links the recent rise in the populist sentiments to the deepening crisis of traditional political party systems, the erosion of principles of parliamentarianism and the development of new information and communication technologies. The author stresses that in these circumstances different charismatic leaders gain new opportunities for mobilizing public support. The research concludes that the prospects for the ongoing populist wave are best described by a formula, proposed by a German political scientist Klaus von Beyme: ‘Populism never lasts very long — but it is somehow always around’.

DEVELOPMENT OF MANAGEMENT STAFF OF THE ORGANIZATION IN A KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY

2021 ◽  
Vol 296 (4) ◽  
pp. 40-50
Author(s):  
Mykhailo VEDERNIKOV ◽  
◽  
Nataliya BAZALIYSKA ◽  
Lesia VOLIANSKA-SAVCHUK ◽  
Maria ZELENA ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Economy ◽  
Scientific Basis ◽  
Economic Resource ◽  
Managerial Work ◽  
Material Wealth ◽  
Organization And Management ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Characteristic Features ◽  
Business Entities ◽  
Management Staff

Features of labor management in modern conditions are re-searched in the article. Directions of improving management system activities are determined. Methodological approaches to the formation of the system of development of management personnel of the organization in the conditions of knowledge economy are considered. The stages of development of the information society in connection with the innovative phase of development of the knowledge economy are described. Theoretical approaches to the definition of “knowledge economy” are formed. The characteristic features of the “knowledge economy” are highlighted. The stages of implementation of the process of increasing the efficiency of development of the management staff of the organization in the conditions of knowledge economy are offered. An organizational model of the process of increasing the development of management staff of the organization in a knowledge economy. This paper improved theoretical and methodological basis of the system of administrative personnel. In the context of globalization and integration of the domestic labor market, the managerial staff of the organization acts as a valuable socio-economic resource, the cost of professional qualities and competencies of which is steadily growing due to the acquisition of new knowledge by employees. The effectiveness of the managerial work of an organization, in contrast to the labor productivity of direct participants in the creation of material wealth, is not measured directly, but by the performance indicators of the work of business entities over a certain period of time. An important role in increasing the efficiency of the organization’s managerial work belongs to the organization of labor of the employees of the management apparatus on a scientific basis, which means a system of sound technical, organizational and economic measures aimed at directly improving the organization and management methods using scientific and technical achievements, the widespread introduction of mechanization, automation and computerization of all functions of the management process.

Political processes in the post-Soviet space: new trends and old problems

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
International Organizations ◽  
Political Institutions ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Systems ◽  
South Caucasus ◽  
Political Processes ◽  
Political Forces ◽  
Soviet Space ◽  
Post Soviet Space

The authors of the book analyze domestic political processes and international relations in the post-Soviet space. They examine the balance of political forces in Belarus after the presidential elections in August 2020, and transformations of political systems in Ukraine and Moldova. The main features of formation of the political institutions in the countries of South Caucasus and Central Asia and the latest trends in their devel-opment are analyzed. Attention is paid to the Karabakh and Donbass conflicts. The book examines the policy of major non-regional actors (USA, EU, China, Turkey) in the post-Soviet space. The results of develop-ment of the EAEU have been summed up. The role in the political processes in the post-Soviet space of a number of international organizations and associations (the CIS, the Union State of Russia and Belarus, the CSTO etc.) is revealed.

Trolls Just Want To Have Fun

2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 21-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shefali Virkar
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Citizen Participation ◽  
Political Institutions ◽  
Body Politic ◽  
The Body ◽  
Public Confidence ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
Political Processes ◽  
The Government

Over the last two decades, public confidence and trust in Government has declined visibly in several Western liberal democracies owing to a distinct lack of opportunities for citizen participation in political processes; and has instead given way instead to disillusionment with current political institutions, actors, and practices. The rise of the Internet as a global communications medium and the advent of digital platforms has opened up huge opportunities and raised new challenges for public institutions and agencies, with digital technology creating new forms of community; empowering citizens and reforming existing power structures in a way that has rendered obsolete or inappropriate many of the tools and processes of traditional democratic politics. Through an analysis of the No. 10 Downing Street ePetitions Initiative based in the United Kingdom, this article seeks to engage with issues related to the innovative use of network technology by Government to involve citizens in policy processes within existing democratic frameworks in order to improve administration, to reform democratic processes, and to renew citizen trust in institutions of governance. In particular, the work seeks to examine whether the application of the new Information and Communication Technologies to participatory democracy in the Government 2.0 era would eventually lead to radical transformations in government functioning, policymaking, and the body politic, or merely to modest, unspectacular political reform and to the emergence of technology-based, obsessive-compulsive pathologies and Internet-based trolling behaviours amongst individuals in society.

scholarly journals Root causes and ways of the settlement of ethno-political conflicts

2019 ◽  
Vol 89 (4) ◽  
pp. 390-392
Author(s):  
V. V. Naumkin
Keyword(s):  
World Order ◽  
Political Conflict ◽  
The State ◽  
National Interests ◽  
Political Processes ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
Political Conflicts ◽  
Characteristic Features

The presentation analyzes three belts of ethno-political conflict that directly affect the national interests of Russia. The link between ethno-political processes and globalization is highlighted, uncovering a number of challenges. Seven characteristic features of the contemporary world order are identified and their influence on the state of ethno-political conflicts and the prospects for their settlement are discussed.

scholarly journals Modern socio-cultural communications: Transformations in the digital age

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 386-389
Author(s):  
Evgeniya V. Listvina ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Communicative Interaction ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
Communication Processes ◽  
Media Space ◽  
Emotional Component ◽  
The Media ◽  
Multi Level ◽  
Characteristic Features ◽  
Qualitative Changes

The article deals with the problem of transformation of modern communication processes caused by the formation of a new digital society and its influence on all aspects of social and cultural life. Communication becomes diverse, rhizomatically branched, offering an interweaving of channels and means of communication, a multivariate effectiveness and a change in the actual communicants, communication actors. It is noted that long-term social ties cease to be dominant. A qualitatively new environment, called the media space, lays down a new format of communication. Information is perceived in increasingly shorter blocks. The essence and depth of communicative interaction is flattened. People are increasingly communicating taking into account specific brief cases or events, uniting for their implementation in rapidly disintegrating fragile social formations. Horizontal socio-cultural ties and social stigmergia are being strengthened. There is a playization, which is becoming one of the characteristic features of modern communication. There is a leveling of communications, interactions of different levels and different tasks. The author notes that such changes contribute to the disappearance of hierarchy, multi-level, highly contextual interaction from the space and at the same time strengthen the emotional component of communication. All this creates conditions for qualitative changes in the meanings and methods of social interaction.

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