scholarly journals Construction of Reality in Pakistani English Newspapers: A Semiotic Analysis Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 26-35
Author(s):  
Awais Rubbani ◽  
Robina Sarwar ◽  
Rabia Ghaffar
Keyword(s):  
Social Issues ◽  
Semiotic Analysis ◽  
Analysis Study ◽  
Logical Connection ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Government

Representation of social issues of the society through cartoons is of great importance in Pakistan. The newspapers’ cartoonists represent social issues according to their own objectives. They construct satire on these social issues by using images and captions. It is significant to investigate how the newspapers’ cartoonists frame reader’s opinion about social issues of the society through linguistic choices. The current study was conducted to examine social satire in cartoons in Pakistani English newspapers. The objectives of the current research were to identify the recurring social themes in cartoons, to investigate the semiotic devices used in cartoons and to find out the logical connection developed between linguistic and semiotic devices in cartoons for the reflection of social issues in Pakistani English newspapers. The present research was qualitative in nature. The data were collected from the cartoons published in Pakistani English newspapers i.e. Daily Times (Pakistan), Dawn and The Nation. Barthes’ (1974) model of semiological analysis was used for interpretation of social satire in cartoons in Pakistani English newspapers. After analysis, it was found that the newspaper’s cartoonists used specific linguistic devices like exaggeration, symbolism, labeling, caption, irony and analogy for construction of social satire in cartoons. They also exposed the social issues like corruption, inflation, explanation, terrorism, poor democracy, wrong policies of the government, thana culture, energy crises, meat adulteration and child brutality. There were also logical connections between linguistic and semiotic devices in cartoons to enhance the reader’s understanding of social satire.

scholarly journals СОЦІАЛЬНІ ПРОЕКТИ В СИСТЕМІ СОЦІАЛЬНОГО ЗАХИСТУ НАСЕЛЕННЯ

2019 ◽  
Vol 127 (5) ◽  
pp. 73-80
Author(s):  
Марина Іванівна Тімофєєва
Keyword(s):  
Social Protection ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Essential Element ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Social Situation ◽  
Information Platform ◽  
Business Goals ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Project ◽  
The Government

The paper discusses the issues of social projects development to meet the citizens’ needs or to resolve certain social problems by changing the social situation. The reason for designing social projects is responding to the challenges with conflicting, multi-vector development trends or those to be adequately addressed. Social projects demonstrate their specifics. In this context, the principal expert in their assessment is not the government or the project contractor but the society. In modern realia, it is critical to build a strong social state which can not be achieved through the government’s policies alone, however the combined efforts and close cooperation between the community and the state contributes to the desired effect. evidence revealed that such partnerships have gained great significance, although it is argued that there is a need to clearly demarcate the roles of each of the parties. An appropriate information platform was created in Ukraine that optimizes the process of selecting the best projects and accessing the results after their testing. Social projects have a large variety of forms, dimensions, sources of funding and terms of execution. The issue of project feasibility remains paramount. The key criteria to evaluate the social project implementation expediency are the following: harmonization of project proposals, business goals and the overall government strategic development plan; identifying the significance of the project results for the government; specification of the social project capability to adapt for most regions of the country; social project effectiveness. Social projects have become an essential element within the social protection framework, since modern society have no more expectations as to the government assistance, but ultimately seek to search for their own tools to resolve social issues through developing social projects and programs, attracting investment, etc.

scholarly journals The Pragmatics of Political Claims and Social Responses amidst Covid-19 and EndSARS Saga in Nigeria

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 102-118
Author(s):  
Chioma Onwubiko
Keyword(s):  
Social Issues ◽  
The Political ◽  
Theoretic Approach ◽  
Ruling Class ◽  
Undue Influence ◽  
Political Class ◽  
Social Responses ◽  
Online Newspapers ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Government

There have been few stand-alone linguistic studies on the Covid-19 virus and the 2020 EndSARS protests in Nigeria. The present study intersects these two critical events with particular focus on the political claims made by the ruling class and the corresponding social responses in line with the contextual affordances shared by the participants. Searle’s speech act theoretic approach is adopted to analyse the pragmatic intentions of the illocutionary acts which political claims perform while Juvenalian satire is used to discuss the satirical elements embedded in the social responses in a bid to ridicule leadership follies and abuses. Three popular Nigerian online Newspapers and few comments from Facebook are selected for this study. Their selection is based on their coverage of these events, coverage of these political claims and popular readership evidenced in the social responses. In all, a total of 6 political claims and 25 social responses relevant to this study are analysed. The study revealed that the pragmatic relevance of these claims is embedded in its political functions of wielding undue influence over the populace, making promises driven by rhetoric and short of initiative and calculated reticence in response to social issues. Consequently, the social responses highlight and criticise leadership vices and the weak efforts of the government in dispensing its leadership interventions. It also fulfils communicative purposes of the contextual space, promote solidarity among the people while prompting change in the political class and the society at large.

scholarly journals The Role and Importance of Social Marketing in the Economy

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anara Kamalova
Keyword(s):  
Social Marketing ◽  
Political Party ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Public Figure ◽  
Positive Image ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Government ◽  
A Company

Today one of the most important problems of the Kyrgyz economy is the involvement of business to the social issues of society and social marketing. The main goal of social marketing is to raise the company's image, because it can promote a brand by solving social problems. Also compliance with the principles of social marketing in activity provides the conditions for the creation of a positive image of a company, political party or a public figure. Despite the fact that global social marketing is growing rapidly, unfortunately, in Kyrgyzstan, it has not yet received adequate development and only some businesses take responsibility for the performance of these functions and occasionally solve social issues. Analyzing the social marketing technologies in Kyrgyzstan, it should be noted that, their use is very unpopular. This is due to the lack of effective support from the government. In our opinion, it is necessary to provide tax breaks for companies that address social issues as well as provide moral and legal support to these enterprises.

scholarly journals Conflict over Women’s Working Times on the Eve of Industrialisation: Spanish Social Reformers’ Surveys at the End of the Nineteenth Century

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 19
Author(s):  
Cristina Borderías
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
State Intervention ◽  
Social Reforms ◽  
Social Instability ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Government ◽  
Empirical Sociology ◽  
Social Reformers

During the last two decades of the nineteenth century, Spain experienced growing social instability. The worsening working conditions stimulated social conflict and the rise of the labour movement. In this context, the first voices in favour of state intervention in conflicts between capital and labour arose among the reformist intellectual elite. One of the first social policy measures undertaken by the state was the creation, in 1883, of the Comisión de Reformas Sociales (Commission for Social Reforms, CRS) as a consultative and advisory institution of the government on social issues. Under the influence of positivist methods of empirical sociology, the commission’s first initiative was to conduct a survey with the objective of undertaking a detailed diagnosis of the living conditions of the working population. Changing gender relations in the family and labour market, especially the conflicts over the use of women’s time, was one of the central questions in this survey. Thus, its results allow us to analyse both the discourses – by social reformers and other social groups – and the social practices of women at work in different sectors and in different parts of Spain.

scholarly journals A Realist Interpretation of Chika Unigwe's On Black Sisters' Street

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-40
Author(s):  
Laura Haruna-Banke ◽  
Iorwuese Gogo
Keyword(s):  
Social Services ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Lower Class ◽  
Civil Society Organizations ◽  
Social Realism ◽  
Research Subject ◽  
The Social ◽  
Realist Interpretation ◽  
The Government

This paper is a realist interpretation of Chika Unigwe’s On Black Sisters’ Street. The text is considered for study here because it dwells on the popular, the modern and social issues that define realist works. The paper involves realism of subject-matter and social realism as its theoretical tools for the evaluation of the research subject. Realism of subject-matter deals with themes that are common to society while social realism looks at the poor social conditions of the middle and lower classes. The paper is a qualitative research and it is based on a content analysis of the select text for study. The paper probes the ugly life of four young girls in Nigeria who are trafficked into Antwerp, Belgium, to work as prostitutes and earn income for their traffickers. The girls suffer from sexual abuse and deceit from their parents and older men. They undergo hardship as a result of lack of proper parental care, unemployment, insecurity and poor social services which make them frustrated. All of these make their lives vulnerable. Therefore, the study concludes that, well placed individuals, parents, civil society organizations and the government should make efforts to improve and secure the lives of vulnerable young women in Nigeria in order to help them escape from their vulnerabilities. Also, the novel’s authentic representation of life and society and its focus on character more than plot, including its attention to the lower class, the social and the contemporary issues fits it into the realist agenda. 

scholarly journals El CIEGVER, propuesta para una de sus líneas de investigación a modo de un observatorio de las cadenas de valor y de las economías de aglomeración

UVserva ◽  
2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Darío Fabián Hernández González ◽  
Jessica Fernández Lara
Keyword(s):  
Value Chain ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Public Institution ◽  
Development Economic ◽  
Value Chains ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Social ◽  
Toma De Decisiones ◽  
The Government ◽  
Productive Development

El  Centro de Información Estadística y Geográfica de Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave (CIEGVER), es un organismo creado para la  generación de información en la investigación científica y para la toma de decisiones públicas y privadas. Avalada por el INEGI, elaborada por los investigadores y personal de la Universidad Veracruzana, con información aportada por el Gobierno del Estado de Veracruz, además de otra información de origen propio de la UV. Relacionado a ello, se propone la creación de un observatorio sobre las economías de aglomeración y cadenas de valor en Veracruz las cuales nunca antes han sido estudiadas de forma precisa, correcta y recurrente, y cuyo estudio  podría aportar bases de datos determinantes para el desarrollo productivo, económico ambiental y sobre todo social del Estado de Veracruz.Palabras clave: Observatorio; cadenas de valor; economías de aglomeración; desarrollo pro­ductivo; económico y ambiental AbstractThe Center for Statistics Informa­tion and Geography of Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave, or CIEGVER (its acronym in Spanish), is a public institution created for the genera­tion of information related to scientific inves­tigation that helps in the process of decision making in both public and private spheres. It is validated by INEGI and elaborated by re­searchers and personnel from the Universidad Veracruzana, with information contributed by the government of Veracruz State, as well as information from UV. Related to this, it sug­gests the creation of an observatory studying the economics of agglomeration and value chain in Veracruz, which have never been studied precisely, correctly, and recurrently before; the study could provide determinant databases for the productive development, economic environmental, and especially the social issues in the state of Veracruz. Keywords: Observatory; value chains; agglo­meration economies; productive development; economic development and environmental development

scholarly journals Social Movement in Pengajian at Jogokariyan Mosque

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 103
Author(s):  
Ahmad Muttaqin
Keyword(s):  
Social Movement ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Basic Tool ◽  
Political Opportunities ◽  
The Social ◽  
Religious Teaching ◽  
Prophetic Tradition ◽  
The Government

Pengajian (religious teaching) is one of the primary programmes at Jogokariyan mosque. It has been held regularly and incidentally using the current issues as a theme. After the 212 demonstration 2016 in Jakarta, pengajian in Jogokariyan always uses the specific themes related to the religious social issues.  This article tries to explore how the reception of hadis or the teachings of prophetic tradition live in a social movement in the context of pengajian at Jogokariyan mosque. Employing a social movement approach, this article seeks to explore deeply how the hadis or prophetic traditions are expressed and its relevance to the social movement in pengajian. The social movement has three strategies, namely, (1) political opportunities, (2) mobilizing structures and (3) framing process. This present paper concludes that firstly, religious teaching in Jogokariyanmosque is a model of reception of hadis about seeking knowledge and majlis ilm’. The hadis is used as a basic tool to mobilize the process of social movement in pengajian. Secondly, the social movement in the Jogokariyan mosque is motivated by the injustice feeling caused by the policy of the government today.

Social conflicts, philosophical accumulation, and advertisements in the 21st century

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
İncilay Yurdakul
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Private Life ◽  
Information Organization ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Capitalist System ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Government

Heidegger, Nietzsche, and Foucault associated the human existence with the power of questioning and action of freedom. Despite the action of freedom of human being as a being with questioning power, the society has become a surveillance community. According to Foucault, these two states are in a delicate balance. Man in a liberation act gets into a state of protesting and becomes rebellious when his/her private life and rights are threatened. The social life turns into a state of resistance and chaos with the rebellions of the poor and the other marginal groups. According to Foucault, the government has to face the new information, organization, and challenge of opinion groups. These views point to the existence of serious contradictions and conflicts in the society while looking at the society with philosophical evaluations. For example, the series of global conferences, TED, which started off with the slogan ‘Ideas Worth Spreading’, published Ads Worth Spreading list in its 3rd year. These consisted of the most effective 10 advertising films of the previous year. Advertisements provide a large spectrum from social responsibility projects to inspiring projects and from entertaining works to advertisements proposing complex ideas. In these advertisements, properties such as innovation and encouragement, etc. are rewarded.These advertisements are not the advertisements of the capitalist system which instigate over-consumption, but they are the advertisements which see the social issues, conflicts and contradictions, and emphasize and question those issues. The most powerful, well-known, and successful advertising agencies are in an elite position in these evaluations. For example, we can mention ‘Young and Rubicam’ and ‘Saatchi and Saatchi’. Another view which the advertisements studied in this paper are based on was the post-modern society evaluations of Baudrillard. He proposed the term simulation to show that the post-modern world took the place of the real and concrete as a virtual-reality. The philosopher emphasized at this point that the post-modern society became a world of images and signs. According to Baudrillard, revolution and freedom are structures that entrap the individuals in an array of simulation. Noteworthy advertisements of the advertising companies selected by The Top Consolidated Agency Net Works in 2013 by Estimated World Wide Revenues will be analyzed according to the views of the contemporary philosophy thinkers.Evaluations were made in accordance with the conflicts and contradictions in the society by approaching through the windows of concepts, ideas and designs created in the 21st century world by the creative and skilled designers of these companies.Study: was completed with the review of the literature, watching and analyzing the advertisements, and discussing and examining them through the philosophical accumulation created by the era. In this respect, the views of the expert views as well as the views of the average audience of the consumer society were included in the study.Conclusion: The study tried to answer the question “In line with the social conflict, contradiction, and changes, can advertisements be extraordinary despite being in the capitalist production system?”  Keywords: Communication, advertising, ads worth spreading, philosophy, critics, show society.

scholarly journals Clustering of Social Conditions in Batam, Indonesia Using K-Means Algorithm and Geographic Information System

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dwi Ely Kurniawan ◽  
Agus Fatulloh
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Geographic Information System ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Geographic Information ◽  
Social Characteristics ◽  
The Public ◽  
System P ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Government

Batam is an archipelago that has different social characteristics of each sub-district. Social problems should be a concern and responsibility of both the public and government. For the programs launched by the government in accordance targeted and it is necessary to determine the priorities of the social problems that arise in each region. This study uses k-means algorithm to classify social problems in the form of clusters. Each group has the same characteristics in the group while the other cluster to form the next group according to their characteristics. The results of the study, a k-means algorithm determines the group and map the distribution of social issues into the Geographic Information System (GIS) to facilitate the social information to know each district and identify priorities for help to the government program on target.

scholarly journals Characteristics of Social Entrepreneurs and How to Foster Them

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Adrianus Tirta ◽  
Agus Gunawan ◽  
Jol Stoffers ◽  
Dewa Gede Ngurah Byomantara ◽  
Dewa Ketut Sujatha
Keyword(s):  
Social Welfare ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Practical Implication ◽  
Regression Method ◽  
Linear Regression Method ◽  
Social Entrepreneurs ◽  
Multiple Linear Regression Method ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Contributions ◽  
The Government

The purpose of this study is to find the characteristics that affect social entrepreneurs’ level of social contribution, and what should be done to empower social entrepreneurs with the observed characteristics to fulfill the needs of social welfare in Indonesia. In total, 106 valid units-of-research from a survey with a base response number of 5,620, provided by the GEM report of 2015, are analyzed, using a multiple linear regression method to find the characteristics of the social entrepreneurs. Previous literature is used to provide suggestions for practical implication. Based on the Five Social Entrepreneurial Characteristics, it is found that the only characteristic which significantly affects social entrepreneurs’ level of social contributions is perseverance. To nurture this attribute, social entrepreneurs could be driven to develop active partnerships with NGOs. Active partnerships would make social entrepreneurs develop not only perseverance, but also become more competent in contributing to social issues. This research is very specific for social entrepreneurs in Indonesia, and points to the possibilities of resorting to social entrepreneurs for fulfilling the demand of social welfare support rather than only depending on the government or NGOs. In addition, instead of encouraging the establishment of more social entrepreneurs, this research aims to foster their potential.

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