scholarly journals The Covid-19 Emergency and the Risk of Social Fragmentation in the Palermo Case

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonia Roberta Siino
Keyword(s):  
Social Dynamics ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Italian Region ◽  
Social Phenomena ◽  
Social Fragmentation ◽  
Physical Isolation ◽  
The Social ◽  
Multicultural Context ◽  
Local Actors

The global Covid-19 crisis has shown its impact on all the aspect of life: health, social, economic, and politic. The attention mainly reserved to the economic and politic aspect musts also take into account the risk of social fragmentation. In which way this emergency has impact on communities where social fragilities were already existing? In which way, social dynamics are changed by the fear of the pandemic and the physical isolation imposed by governments to contain it. In which way local associations and citizen are coping the new challenges imposed by this emergency? In this article, the Sicilian context will be explored with a specific view on the Palermo capital. This Italian region has a peculiar and complex social asset determined by interrelated socio-economic phenomena such as mafia, unemployment and poverty. Fortunately, the existence of problematic and historical social phenomena has to face with the constant activities organized by local associations, civil society and authorities to fight them. There is one element that must to be consider: a global event like a pandemic oblige to be careful to the new ways in which phenomena we are accustomed to can manifest. Inequalities and racial matter can be exacerbated even in a multicultural context like Palermo one if social balance is missing. New form of poverty and the higher number of people exposed to this risk can give to mafia-type organizations more instrument to establish their control on the territory. The same introduction of economic measures aiming to support people can be manipulated and have a distorted effect when concretely applied. It is a great challenge because the lack of a complete comprehension can determine a failure of the adopted measures and a lack of cohesion of the social tissue. Starting from the context definition, the analysis will explore the perspective and the experiences of associations working with people belonging to the weaker part of the community, thanks to semi-structured interviews to representatives of the main local associations as privileged witness. In this way, the analysis will try to highlight how local actors' activities and how dynamics of solidarity are influenced by the global Covid-19 phenomenon.

“We Speak the Truth!”

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 53-80
Author(s):  
Sari Hanafi
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Social Science ◽  
The Political ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Social Phenomena ◽  
The Social ◽  
Academic Qualifications

This study investigates the preachers and their Friday sermons in Lebanon, raising the following questions: What are the profiles of preachers in Lebanon and their academic qualifications? What are the topics evoked in their sermons? In instances where they diagnosis and analyze the political and the social, what kind of arguments are used to persuade their audiences? What kind of contact do they have with the social sciences? It draws on forty-two semi-structured interviews with preachers and content analysis of 210 preachers’ Friday sermons, all conducted between 2012 and 2015 among Sunni and Shia mosques. Drawing from Max Weber’s typology, the analysis of Friday sermons shows that most of the preachers represent both the saint and the traditional, but rarely the scholar. While they are dealing extensively with political and social phenomena, rarely do they have knowledge of social science

Practising conviviality: social uses of ethnic cuisine in an Asian multicultural environment

2015 ◽  
Vol 32 (7) ◽  
pp. 564-575 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katayoun Zafari ◽  
Gareth Allison ◽  
Catherine Demangeot
Keyword(s):  
Social Dynamics ◽  
Everyday Practice ◽  
Cultural Dynamics ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Multicultural Environment ◽  
The Social ◽  
Multicultural Context ◽  
Single Block ◽  
Social Uses ◽  
Depth Interviews

Purpose – This paper aims to understand the social dynamics surrounding the consumption of non-native, ethnic cuisines in the multicultural context of an Asian city. Design/methodology/approach – Data were collected via in-depth interviews with 21 culturally diverse residents of Dubai. Data were analysed inductively, leading to the emergence of three themes characterising social dynamics underpinning the consumption of non-native cuisines in an Asian multicultural environment. Findings – Three types of social dynamics were identified: instrumental uses, expressive uses and conviviality considerations. Research limitations/implications – The study suggests that the different types of cultural dynamics at play have different roles; some act as influencing or constraining factors in the everyday practice of multicultural consumption, whereas others are used more proactively as enablers. Originality/value – This paper contributes to the authors’ understanding of how people “practice conviviality” in multicultural marketplaces, providing insights into the complex social dynamics, underpinning the consumption of non-native cuisines in multicultural marketplaces. Although the consumer literature on food and cuisines has acknowledged the social influences surrounding cuisines and food consumption, these have typically been viewed in a single block. This study shows the importance of conviviality considerations in non-native cuisine consumption. Further, the paper shows that the consumption of non-native cuisines is an everyday practice in a multicultural context, which is used with varying degrees of proactiveness for social lubrication and multicultural socialisation.

scholarly journals Forest Protection Unifies, Silviculture Divides: A Sociological Analysis of Local Stakeholders’ Voices after Coppicing in the Marganai Forest (Sardinia, Italy)

Forests ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 708
Author(s):  
Giampiero Branca ◽  
Irene Piredda ◽  
Roberto Scotti ◽  
Laura Chessa ◽  
Ilenia Murgia ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Rural Communities ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Multiple Scale ◽  
Social Actor ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Traditional Use ◽  
Forest Protection ◽  
The Social ◽  
Local Stakeholders

Today, a forest is also understood as a real social actor with multiple-scale influences, capable of significantly conditioning the social, economic, and cultural system of a whole territory. The aim of this paper is to reconstruct and interpret the population’s perception of the silvicultural activities related to traditional use of forest resources of the southwestern Sardinian Marganai State Forest. The “Marganai case” has brought to the attention of the mass media the role of this forest and its silviculture. The research was carried out via semi-structured interviews with the main stakeholders in the area. The qualitative approach in the collection and analysis of the information gathered has allowed us to reconstruct the historical-cultural and social cohesion function that the forest plays in rural communities. The results highlight that the main risks concern the erosion of the cultural forest heritage due to the abandonment of the rural dimension (mainly by the new generations, but not only), with the consequent spread of deep distortions in the perception, interpretation, and necessity of forestry activities and policy.

scholarly journals The methodology and subject matter in sociology of the founding fathers of Ibn Khaldoun and Auguste Comte: A comparative study

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lara Ahmad Al Hadeed
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Social Dynamics ◽  
Social Phenomena ◽  
Positive Approach ◽  
Founding Fathers ◽  
The Social ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Auguste Comte ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Historical Comparative

AbstractThis study provides a discussion about the contributions and efforts made by Ibn Khaldoun and Auguste Comte to develop sociology in terms of subject matter and methodology. Since they are the founding fathers of this science, this paper shows their interpretation of the social phenomena. The study is also exposed to the reasons that led Ibn Khaldoun and Auguste Comte to study sociology. Accordingly, the research peculiarity required using historical, comparative, and critical approaches.The central problem of this study is how Ibn Khaldoun and Auguste Comte deal with the development of sociology and its independence from other sciences. The study results showed the accordance of both Ibn Khaldoun and Auguste Comte in terms of the methodology of sociology as being a positive approach consisting of observation and induction. Ibn Khaldoun's distinction, due to his five-century precedence, is vivid though. The results of the study also showed that Ibn Khaldoun and Auguste Comte differed greatly in terms of the divisions of sociology (subject matter of sociology): where Ibn Khaldoun divided the subject of sociology into multiple sections, each section includes a set of homogeneous social phenomena in peculiarity. Ibn Khaldoun studied the phenomenon by mingling the static aspect and dynamic one together, analyzing its parts, elements, and functions and at the same time studying its development and the laws to which it is subject to development. However, Auguste Comte has divided the social phenomenon into two main parts: Social dynamics and social statics.

Minorities and Foreigners in a Provincial Iranian City: Bahāʾis in the Russian Consulate of Isfahan in 1903

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-132
Author(s):  
Saghar Sadeghian
Keyword(s):  
Social Dynamics ◽  
Power Struggles ◽  
The Social ◽  
Iranian History ◽  
Local Actors ◽  
The City ◽  
Previous Scholarship

This article is about the struggles of a persecuted confessional minority in Qajar Iran. It shows that the massacre of the Bahāʾis in Isfahan in 1903 was representative of the ongoing power struggles in the city. Previous scholarship that has briefly explored these events has relied primarily on a handful of British diplomatic sources. Drawing on unexplored documents in British and Iranian archives, this article provides crucial details about the social dynamics on the ground and stresses the role of key actors involved in this episode in Iranian history. In the process, the article puts together the socio-economic contexts of the events in Isfahan, explains why the Bahāʾis sought foreign protection, and analyzes the attitudes of powerful local actors such as Zell al-Soltān and Āqā Najafi.

scholarly journals The Social Dynamics of People Cooperation: A Study on On-line Knowledge Construction Networks

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Network Structure ◽  
Social Dynamics ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Central Authority ◽  
Social Phenomena ◽  
Economic Relations ◽  
The Social ◽  
On Line ◽  
Education In China

A classic question common to social sciences revolves around how people cooperate. Indeed,under what conditions will cooperation emerge without central authority? However, as the complication ofcommunity is growing, the importance of answering this question is increasing. That’s because the spread ofmass collaboration has changed everything, such as Wikinomics. Questions posted about how networks connectindividuals through structure and process, what rules and resources situate them in larger social systems, andaffect the interaction to and from them. This paper concerns that why people are willing to cooperate withoutthe aid of a central authority and how behavior and norms are affected by social relations. But the answer forpeople developing cooperation has a fundamental effect on social, political, and economic relations with others.Because of the social phenomena is composed of action, interaction, and relationship through network structure,analysts should not discrete individual behavior and ongoing network structure. As central objectives ofnetwork analysis are to measure and represent structural and to explain both why they occur and what are theirconsequences. The approach of this study is to propose network analysis to explain how participator actions forthe cloud aid education in China. The aim of this study is to utilize network diagram to analyze networkstructure of the cloud aid education. Based on longitudinal study, we offer a structural means to understand howknowledge creation and sharing occurs within networks, and then find the key determinants of efficientknowledge management. Mapping these dimensions in social networks enable social and technicalinterventions managers can employ to improve a network’s ability to create and share knowledge. The result isillustrated by investigating conditions of cooperation and identifying social

Le Liban, entre révoltes arabes et conflit syrien: un exercice de flexibilité

2014 ◽  
Vol 94 (2) ◽  
pp. 317-334 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lorenzo Trombetta
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Syrian Refugees ◽  
Contemporary History ◽  
Great Ability ◽  
The Social ◽  
Local Actors ◽  
Current Transition

Since the beginning of the Syrian uprising in Spring 2011, the social, economic and political Lebanese landscape – described as one of the most unstable and fragile of the Middle East – has unexpectedly showed a great ability in absorbing the effects of the crisis. The massive influx of Syrian refugees and the prolonged status of war in Syria have indeed exacerbated the pre-existent domestic political and sectarian tensions in various Lebanese regions. But the country appears far from being on the brink of a new nationwide ‘civil war’. This paper intends to discuss the exceptional flexibility of the Lebanese system in the light of its modern and contemporary history and to examine the crucial role played by local actors in the current transition.

scholarly journals Musical communities in the society of captives: Exploring the impact of music making on the social world of prison

2021 ◽  
pp. 102986492110176
Author(s):  
Sarah Doxat-Pratt
Keyword(s):  
Social Skills ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Social Dynamics ◽  
Social World ◽  
Potential Contribution ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Music Making ◽  
The Social ◽  
Prison Community ◽  
The Impact

This article examines the ways in which music making can inspire and facilitate social change amongst the “society of captives.” It explores the social dynamics of prison music projects, and then looks at the ways in which music making can begin to transform the wider social world of prison. It reports a qualitative investigation of two such projects delivered by the Irene Taylor Trust (ITT) in a medium-security, adult male prison in England. Methods comprised participant observations of the projects over a period of 14 months, and semi-structured interviews with prisoner participants, facilitators, and members of prison staff. Much research shows that taking part in prison music projects can help participants develop social skills and thus contribute to their rehabilitation and desistance from crime. The present study revealed that the ITT projects were not merely the setting for learning individual social skills; the participants also felt themselves to be joining or forming a community that was distinct from the wider prison community. The impact of their musical activities on their lives in prison was as important to them as its potential contribution to their lives following release. The findings are discussed with reference to the work of DeNora, suggesting that music projects can provide the setting for removal communities, with norms distinct from and better than those of typical social life in prison, and can transform or refurnish the wider prison environment, as participants continue their music making on the landings and in their cells.

scholarly journals SOCIO-CULTURAL DYNAMICS OF SOCIAL PHENOMENA OF THE RUSSIAN CIVILIZATION

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 385-389 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valeriya Leonidovna Vorontsova ◽  
Maksim Vladimirovich Salimgareev ◽  
Dmitriy Vladimirovich
Keyword(s):  
Social Action ◽  
Social Dynamics ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Cultural Dynamics ◽  
Social Phenomena ◽  
Self Disclosure ◽  
Specific Content ◽  
Historical Reality ◽  
The Social

Purpose: Identification of the heuristic significance of radicalism and solidarity as elements of the Russian civilization concept, not only within the framework of a unified, strictly fixed theory, but as universal intellectual tools of a modern socio-humanitarian vision of historical reality. Methodology: The basis of the work is a civilizational approach, which allowed to most effectively evaluate the interesting aspects of the social development of Russian civilization. Main Findings: The authors revealed the specific content of national manifestations of radicalism and solidarity in a philosophical and historical context. The most important manifestations of the social aspirations of key mega-objects of Russian history: the ethnic group, the state and the church are analyzed. When considering the historical specifics of the designated vectors of civilizational dynamics, attention is drawn to the role of individuals in the process of activating or deactivating the indicated directions of Russia development. Novelty/Originality: The authors revealed the specific content of national manifestations of radicalism and solidarity in a philosophical and historical context. The tendency towards radical and solidary forms of interaction among the participants in the civilization process, especially at the tragic moments of historical changes, was a special form of manifestation of social dynamics. Its total completeness, expressed, among other things, through the acceleration or deceleration of the adaptation to historical reality processes, became a state of self-disclosure of specific subjects of social action, acting as vehicles of unknown metahistorical forces.

scholarly journals Stages of grief: Economic devastation and social oblivion

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 351
Author(s):  
Ildiko Erdei
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
Social Dynamics ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Multicultural Environment ◽  
Beer Consumption ◽  
The Social ◽  
Industry Center ◽  
Beer Production ◽  
The Town

In the spring of 2008, after Heineken bought the major stake in “Pančevačka pivara” (Pančevo brewery) from Efes, and thus became its owner, the corporation shut down production in the Pančevo factory, fired all remaining workers save for a few managers, and soon after halted production of the only remaining brand of “Pančevačka pivara” which was named after the brewery’s mid-nineteenth century founder – Weifert. Thus, after more than 150 years of beer production in Weifert’s brewery, and more than 280 years after beer first started to be produced in Pančevo, the town is left without a significant industrial capacity and one of its key cultural and identity symbols. What should be cause for concern for researchers is the huge discrepancy between the decades-long endeavor to traditionalize the brewery and the culture of beer consumption and utilize them in the representation of the town as an industry center as well as a multicultural environment with an urban sensibility and significant Habsburg heritage, and the complete silence which followed the closing of the brewery and is still there, four years after the factory shut down. The paper examines how the deep, uncomfortable silence which has enveloped these events, the absence of any kind of public debate on the issue as well as the lack of any kind of articulated unofficial discourse about this loss can be interpreted. Starting from the assumption that any way of speaking is simultaneously a way of not speaking, I will examine the social dynamics of the reverse process in a specific social, economic, political and cultural context. In other words, what is the role of social non-remembrance and what can be gleaned from this non-speaking, repressing, intentional oblivion?

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