La mobilitŕ spaziale di entitŕ tangibili nella societŕ globale

2009 ◽  
pp. 41-64
Author(s):  
Giuseppe Scidŕ
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Evolutionary Process ◽  
Cultural Adjustment ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Communication Structure ◽  
Sharp Drop ◽  
Global Society ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Sixties

- The spatial mobility of tangible entities in a global society, The paper handles some tangible consequences of the mobiletic revolution, as a necessary but not exhaustive catalyst of the evolutionary process of globalization whose effects have deep repercussions on the social, economic and territorial organization of the social system both at a national and an international level. For the social scientists coining the formula "mobiletic revolution" by the middle of the Sixties, the overall results seem to be expressed by a new global society benefiting a sharp drop of space friction. Today, the related consequences of it find their evidence in the people, goods and information mobility, respectively through public and private networks, through the transport system and finally through the communication structure development. In turn, such changes produce a number of interactions and synergies caused by the growth of each of the three mobility carriers, which gradually brought the human beings to an ambiguous cultural adjustment as regards the new shaped space-time dimensions. Key words: mobiletic revolution, social change, social relations, mobility carriers.

Queering social reproduction: Sex, care and activism in San Francisco

Urban Studies ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 004209802094787
Author(s):  
Max J Andrucki
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Reproduction ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Urban Activism ◽  
The Social ◽  
Sex Practices

In this paper I ask what is at stake when we move past static ontologies of the ‘gayborhood’ as a form of commercial and residential concentration in decline to theorise gay urban activism as a mode of queer social reproduction, through which queer caring labour ‘redeems’ the dislocations of the neoliberal city structured by oedipalised and capitalist social relations. Through well-documented formal and informal collective action, queers in the urban West have organised in response to health crises, exclusion and systemic threats of violence. Returning to socialist feminist imaginaries of care beyond the ‘social’, and to Guy Hocquenghem’s often-overlooked theory of the sociality of the anus, this paper draws on excerpts from the film Milk, the poetry of Thom Gunn and a discussion of gay men’s volunteering to examine San Francisco as a queer urban space constituted through a network of encounters, crossings, intimacies and labours enacted through the mundane caring practices of everyday life. I ask in what ways we can think of gay urban space as continuously made and remade through non-monogamous sex practices that perform the messy marrying of public and private, and erotic and platonic.

Sufism, Spirituality and Sustainability / Rethinking Islamic Mysticism through Contemporary Sociology

2010 ◽  
Vol 4 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 1-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kubilay Akman
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Ecological Crisis ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Modern Life ◽  
Life Styles ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Contemporary Context ◽  
Modern Sense

People are looking for therapeutic ways to deal with the damaging rhythms and handicaps of modern life styles which threaten the physical, social and psychological endurance of human-beings. Reconsideration of "old" philosophies, ancient wisdom and spiritual/mystical paths in a contemporary context was among the solutions that were launched to overwhelm the modern sense of alienation in the second half of 20th Century and this tendency is still going on nowadays no comma at the first decade of 21st Century. Sufism has been one of the traditions from which modern individuals expected answers to their ontological dilemmas produced in daily life by the society, social relations, media and finally by themselves. The purpose of this paper is to discuss sociologically whether Sufism, the mystical, peaceful and tolerant way of Islam could be an answer to the social problems of modern societies. What is the social alternative of Sufi traditions regarding the contemporary issues such as: social and technological alienation, sustainable development and environmental/ecological crisis? This paper is an attempt to emphasize the possibilities of Sufism beyond spirituality, with a discussion based on the sociological conception of the subject.

Humanism and Humanistic Education in the Eighties: The Lessons of Two Decades

1980 ◽  
Vol 162 (3) ◽  
pp. 5-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Nash
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Conflict Resolution ◽  
Productive Efficiency ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Humanistic Education ◽  
Knowledge And Attitudes ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Sixties ◽  
Self Actualization ◽  
Organizational Competence

The decades of the sixties, seventies, and eighties are analyzed as representing the thesis, antithesis, and synthesis of the humanistic dialectic. The sixties represented the decade of independence, affluence, hedonism, dissent, tolerance and non-interference, permissiveness, self-expression, self-actualization, and individualism. The seventies epitomized the advent of dependence, scarcity, anxiety, competitiveness, Puritanism, patriotism, hierarchy, cognition, productive efficiency, and obedience. The lesson of the sixties and seventies is that humanism and humanistic education in the eighties must help us to move from the idea of the isolated self to that of the social, independent, synergetic self. The skills, knowledge, and attitudes of collaboration, mutual creativity, conflict resolution, communication, political sensitivity, and organizational competence will have to become paramount if humanism, humanistic education, and human beings are to flourish in the last decades of the twentieth century.

Reviews of the Literature: Objective Studies of the Social Behavior of Animals

1943 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 21-39
Author(s):  
Charles Harding
Keyword(s):  
Social Behavior ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
The Social ◽  
Direct Use ◽  
Working Out ◽  
Social Behavior Of Animals

The purpose of this paper is to review that portion of the literature on animal sociology which should be of interest to those engaged in working out observational and objective techniques for describing human social relations. Human beings are, after all, animals and therefore it ought to seem neither strange nor shocking should it appear that techniques developed in the study of animal sociology and generalizations resulting from the use of such techniques may have a direct use in the study of human societies.

scholarly journals al-Farāfīr

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alba Rosa Suriano
Keyword(s):  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Social Inequalities ◽  
Economic Systems ◽  
Human Society ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Political Condition ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Sixties ◽  
The Spectator ◽  
Poor Management

Based on the Hegelian dialectic of the servant-master, this comedy represents, with the sarcasm and irony typical of its author, a profound reflection on the relationships between human beings. Starting from the local, with a pungent criticism on the social and political condition of Egypt in the Sixties, the two protagonists Farfūr and the Master guide and involve the spectator in a consideration on humanity and on the meaning of life that reaches universality. Divided into two acts, the comedy has no precise indications about time and space, which is confused with the time of representation, also thanks to the involvement of actors who are among the spectators. Discussing each other on names, trades and interpersonal relationships, the two protagonists criticise corruption, poor management of public health, social inequalities, but also the intellectual class that fails to give answers to people’s practical needs. The division in two of human society is even more evident with the second act, when the author’s reflection moves towards the existing organisational and economic systems, dismantling the complexity and reducing them again to a mere servant-master relationship. The other characters of the play are functional to the discourse of Idrīs: wives and children, spectators-actors and especially the figure of the author, who gradually disappears and abandons his own creatures to their fate.

The Wrong of Rudeness

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy Olberding
Keyword(s):  
Facial Expressions ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Political Environment ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Great Cost ◽  
Social Nature ◽  
The Social ◽  
Political Turmoil ◽  
Chinese Philosophers

Being rude is often more gratifying and enjoyable than being polite. Likewise, rudeness can be a more accurate and powerful reflection of how I feel and think. This is especially true in a political environment that can make being polite seem foolish or naive. Civility and ordinary politeness are linked both to big values, such as respect and consideration, and to the fundamentally social nature of human beings. This book explores the powerful temptations to incivility and rudeness, but argues that they should generally be resisted. Drawing on early Chinese philosophers who lived during great political turmoil but nonetheless sought to “mind their manners,” it articulates a way of thinking about politeness that is distinctively social. It takes as a given that we can feel profoundly alienated from others, and that other people can sometimes be truly terrible. Yet because we are social neglecting the social and political courtesies comes at great cost. The book considers not simply why civility and politeness are important, but how. It addresses how small insults can damage social relations, how separation of people into tribes undermines our better interests, and explores how bodily and facial expressions can influence how life with other people goes. It is especially geared toward anyone who feels the temptation of being rude and wishes it were easier to feel otherwise. It seeks to answer a question of great contemporary urgency: When so much of public and social life with others is painful and fractious, why should I be polite?

7. Marxism

2020 ◽  
pp. 128-146
Author(s):  
Mark Rupert
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Historical Materialism ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Dialectical Theory ◽  
Nation States ◽  
Global Power ◽  
The Social

This chapter examines Marxist theory’s understanding of capitalism as an historically particular way of organizing social life and how Marxism can shed light on complex social relationships through which human beings produce and reproduce their social relations, the natural world, and themselves. It argues that the kind of social organization envisioned by Marxists has political, cultural, and economic dimensions that must be viewed as a dynamic ensemble of social relations not necessarily contained within the territorial boundaries of nation-states. The chapter first provides an overview of historical materialism and the meaning of dialectical theory, with particular emphasis on Karl Marx’s critique of capitalism and the Marxist tradition’s theorizing of imperialism, before discussing Western Marxism and Antonio Gramsci’s theory of hegemony. It then considers Marxist concepts of global power and hegemony and concludes with a case study that highlights the social relations underlying US global militarism.

Introduction

Inland Shift ◽  
2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan D. De Lara
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Material Force ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
For Profit ◽  
The Social ◽  
Private Entrepreneurs ◽  
Human Desire

HUMAN DESIRE FOR PROFIT AND CONSUMPTION is a powerful material force. For us to buy the things that we want—such as a new pair of jeans or the latest electronic gadget—public and private entrepreneurs, as the agents of capital, have to construct the social relations and spatial landscapes that enable consumer yearnings to become material realities....

7. Marxism

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Rupert
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Historical Materialism ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Dialectical Theory ◽  
Nation States ◽  
Global Power ◽  
The Social

This chapter examines Marxist theory's understanding of capitalism as an historically particular way of organizing social life and how Marxism can shed light on complex social relationships through which human beings produce and reproduce their social relations, the natural world, and themselves. It argues that the kind of social organization envisioned by Marxists has political, cultural, and economic dimensions that must be viewed as a dynamic ensemble of social relations not necessarily contained within the territorial boundaries of nation-states. The chapter first provides an overview of historical materialism and the meaning of dialectical theory, with particular emphasis on Karl Marx's critique of capitalism and the Marxist tradition's theorizing of imperialism, before discussing Western Marxism and Antonio Gramsci's theory of hegemony. It then considers Marxist concepts of global power and hegemony and concludes with a case study that highlights the social relations underlying U.S. global militarism.

scholarly journals The Specific of the Power Relationship

2014 ◽  
Vol 34 ◽  
pp. 45-52
Author(s):  
Oprea Valentin Buşu
Keyword(s):  
Power System ◽  
Social Organization ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Political Power ◽  
Social Function ◽  
Power Relationship ◽  
Global Society ◽  
The Social ◽  
Sovereign Authority ◽  
Absence Of Power

The study emphasizes that political power is the generalized social function of making decisions for the whole global society in accordance with the interests of those who dominate the power system, and to ensure the fulfillment by the sovereign authority and by means of public force. The exercise of power is the central dynamic in the process of social organization, we should note, in the same time, that the power does not characterize all the social relations and that, conversely, there are types and forms of such relationships that are established and manifested in the absence of power.

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