scholarly journals Fighting for What? Couples’ Communication, Parenting and Social Activism: The Case Study of a “Christian-Muslim” Families’ Association in Brussels (Belgium)

Religions ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 270 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesco Cerchiaro
Keyword(s):  
Social Role ◽  
Social Activism ◽  
Direct Consequence ◽  
Social Consequences ◽  
Cultural Backgrounds ◽  
The Social ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Aims And Scope ◽  
The Public Sphere

Mixed families have historically been considered to be a direct consequence of a process of social and cultural integration of migrants within the host society, although this link has recently been problematized by scholars. By focusing on the case study of an association of “Christian-Muslim” families in Belgium, this article offers a better understanding of the social consequences of mixedness. The article seeks to shed light on the private and public life of the couples who are members of this association by answering the following research questions: Why do couples turn to this association? At what stages of their lives? What is the social role that the association aims to play in society? Using partners’ life stories and ethnographic observation gathered during the association’s meetings, the findings demonstrate how this association plays an important role at different levels and at different stages of a family’s life. The analysis will highlight that: (1) there is a specific aim to help new couples to face administrative, religious and cultural “obstacles” they encounter during the first period of their relationships, and (2) special meetings to discuss the challenge of parenting are at the core of the association’s activities. The “problem” of transmission requires of the couple further negotiations to find a way to balance their respective cultural backgrounds. These negotiations have to take into account the power misbalance within the Belgian hegemonic context. (3) The social activism of this association is an important aspect of its aims and scope. Some of the couples are active in countering a dominant stereotypical representation of mixed couples. They organize meetings and events to sensitize public opinion on interreligious dialogue, migration issues and the fight against racism. In this way, the association proposes itself as a new peculiar agent of social change in the public sphere.

The social consequences of broken urban structures: a case study of Belfast

2012 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
pp. 49-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ken Sterrett ◽  
Mark Hackett ◽  
Declan Hill
Keyword(s):  
Social Consequences ◽  
Urban Structures ◽  
The Social

Blogging as ‘Recoding’: A Case Study of the Discursive War over the Sinking of the Cheonan

2011 ◽  
Vol 141 (1) ◽  
pp. 98-106
Author(s):  
Yeran Kim ◽  
Irkwon Jeong ◽  
Hyoungkoo Khang ◽  
Bomi Kim
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
News Media ◽  
Korean Society ◽  
The Public ◽  
Digital Network ◽  
The Social ◽  
Discursive Politics ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Media Practices

This article explores how Korean bloggers, in contestation, participate in the social structure of communication and potentially transform it through their vernacular practices of decoding and recoding in the blogosphere. As a neo-liberal regime has been established, citizens practise discursive politics in a seemingly democratic and technologically advanced society that is actually a coercive-controlled communication system. Through the analysis of news blogs on the Cheonan disaster, it is suggested that a majority of bloggers are seen to utilise news media stories to gain leverage for their points of view or to provide counter-arguments against the dominant frames generated by the established news media. The critical reframing of the digital network in Korean society allows a reflexive reading of the Korean digital wave, which should be contextualised within generation politics, economic polarisation and ideological contestation. In order to avoid a nationalistic celebration of the IT power of the country, citizens' digital media practices are analysed as contributions to the democratisation of the public sphere and the enhancement of social openness and participation in the digitised arena of discursive politics.

scholarly journals Legal regulation of pawnshops in pre-revolutionary and Soviet civil legislation

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 198-203
Author(s):  
Gennadiy G. Bril’ ◽  
Ekaterina I. Bogdanova
Keyword(s):  
Social Role ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
New Economic Policy ◽  
The Public ◽  
Russian State ◽  
The Social ◽  
Consumer Services ◽  
History Of ◽  
Legal Forms ◽  
The Public Sphere

The article examines the process of the origin and development of pawnshop activity in the Russian state in the pre-revolutionary and Soviet periods. Special attention is paid to improving the conditions for granting loans to the population secured by property. The authors investigated the normative legal acts regulating the activities of pawnshops. It is noted that the creation of pawnshops was due to the need to rid the population of usurious oppression and the search for new sources of replenishment of the state treasury. The analysis of the sources of legal regulation shows that in the pre-revolutionary period there was a gradual transfer of the work of pawnshops from the public sphere to the private – the organisational and legal forms of pawnshops were improved, the system of control over their activities changed. The chronological framework of the study also includes the Soviet stage of the formation of pawnshop activity, which is poorly studied. After the temporary cessation of pawnshops, the process of its revival began within the framework of a new economic policy in order to improve consumer services for the population. The authors reveal the contribution of pawnshops to the preservation of citizens' property during the Axis-Soviet War. The analysis of the history of pawnshop activity allowed us to conclude about the social role of pawnshops and their importance for maintaining the financial situation of the population, which indicates the need for the development of pawnshop activity at the present stage.

scholarly journals Trip Generation by Transportation Mode of Private School, Semi-private and Public. Case Study in Merida-Venezuela

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angela María Quintero Petit ◽  
Mary Isabel Díaz Gallardo ◽  
Emilio German Moreno González
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Private School ◽  
Travel Demand ◽  
Correlation Coefficients ◽  
Generation Model ◽  
Trip Generation ◽  
Transportation Mode ◽  
The Social ◽  
Private And Public

The trip generation model (TGM) is the first step in transportation forecasting, this is useful for estimating travel demand because it can predict travel from or to a particular land use. Typically, the analysis focuses in residential trip generation as a function of the social and economic attributes of households, but nonresidential land use suggests others variables. Travel generator poles such as: Private school, Semi-private and Public, have not been studied in Venezuela. The TGMs that shows the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE), EE.UU, are used typically and could be not appropriate. By using stepwise regression and transformation of data, high correlation coefficients and substantial improvements in the variability of data from several schools they were found. The trip generation rates (TGRs) by transportation mode: walking, motorcycle, public transport and cars, can be compared and be included in the Ibero-American Network of travel attractors poles.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/CIT2016.2016.3410

scholarly journals In Waze We Trust: Algorithmic Governance of the Public Sphere

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 153-162 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shenja Van der Graaf
Keyword(s):  
Urban Ecosystem ◽  
Market Structures ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Public Organisations ◽  
Dynamic Domain ◽  
Point Of Departure ◽  
Public Oversight

This article explores the current ‘place’ of e-government in realizing public value in the context of what seems to be an emerging platform urbanism. It highlights a complex platform-based urban ecosystem encompassing private and public organisations and citizens. This ‘mainstreaming’ of e-government practices puts demands on cities and governments to reconsider their own role in ‘city making’ so as to achieve meaningful public oversight. The point of departure is the operationalization of this ‘place’ by conceptualizing participation and (multi-sided) platformisation as a framework to draw attention to the dynamic domain of e-governance where shifts can be seen in market structures, infrastructures, and changing forms of governance, and which may challenge the public interest. This is illustrated by an exploration of the social traffic and navigation application Waze.

Introduction: social activism, belonging and citizenship in a period of crisis

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shana Cohen ◽  
Jan-Jonathan Bock
Keyword(s):  
Social Space ◽  
Social Role ◽  
Social Activism ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Social Consequences ◽  
Social Good ◽  
Self Confidence ◽  
Just Society ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Uk

This chapter introduces the books and the individual chapters, which were written by both academics and practitioners in the field in Germany and the UK. The book reflects an interest in democracy and, more pointedly, in how to express and practice citizenship, particularly in relation to helping others and generating a physical and social space for individual belonging. The book builds a narrative of how policy has failed to account for social belonging and, likewise, provide a framework for social solidarity in welfare reform though in practice the experience of belonging seems critical for instigating changes in individual behaviour and self-confidence. Part I: The Social Consequences of Welfare Policy examines policy attempts to address related aspects of poverty and consolidate a social role for the state through specified responsibilities, whether through providing health services, unemployment insurance, or other benefits. Part II: The Practice of Social Good is comprised of practitioner case studies. The section shows how grassroots activism translates abstract notions of a just society fashioned by policymakers. Part III: Social Change and Neoliberalism returns to the presentation of academic research and Part IV: Situating Solidarity in Perspective continues providing a critical platform to discuss the meaning of citizenship.

Russian Christ

2011 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victor A. Shnirelman
Keyword(s):  
Religious Education ◽  
Religious Identity ◽  
Social Role ◽  
Social Consequences ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Peaceful Coexistence ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social ◽  
Role Of Religion

Interest in the social role of religion, including religious education (RE), is on the increase in the European Union. Yet whereas Western educators focus mostly on the potential of religion for dialogue and peaceful coexistence, in Russia religion is viewed mostly as a resource for an exclusive cultural-religious identity and resistance to globalization. RE was introduced into the curriculum in Russia during the past ten to fifteen years. The author analyzes why, how, and under what particular conditions RE was introduced in Russia, what this education means, and what social consequences it can entail.

scholarly journals UNRULY WOMEN IN THE PUBLIC SPHERE: LA BARBE ON LE PETIT JOURNAL

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy E Forrest
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Social Consequences ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
Television Programme ◽  
The Public Sphere

This article considers the social consequences of transgressing expected norms of gendered behaviour in the public sphere of a mainstream French television programme. La Barbe, who appeared on Le Petit Journal in December 2011, elicited an onslaught of indignant and sardonic public responses via social media. Drawing on Meehan (1995), Fraser (1990, 1995), and Landes (1995), this article analyses the televised appearance and the online reactions. Due to La Barbe’s unsuccessful communication and interested discourse, the public denounced, and so attempted to regulate, feminist disobedience.

scholarly journals Rubbish, Recycling and Religion: Indonesia’s Plastic Waste Crisis and the Case of Rumah Kompos in Ubud, Bali

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Michael S. Northcoot
Keyword(s):  
Local Community ◽  
Social Role ◽  
Sexual Relationships ◽  
Plastic Waste ◽  
Traditional Religions ◽  
Bodily Fluids ◽  
Mary Douglas ◽  
The Social

Indonesia is the second largest global source of marine plastic after China. Plastic waste, together with toxic smoke from extensive unregulated rubbish burning in homes and businesses, are grave public health threats in Indonesia. This paper presents a case study in Ubud, Bali of a community-based recycling and waste sorting project - Rumah Kompos –which demonstrates the potential of religious wisdom and belief to contribute to help solve Indonesia’s waste problem. The cultural role of religions in the case study is part of a larger Indonesian, and world religions, phenomenon in which churches, mosques and temples, and faith-based schools (and in Indonesia Islamic boarding schools or pesantren) have made efforts to sponsor pro-environmental behaviours at local community level. The paper also recalls the relevance of anthropological studies of religion, especially Mary Douglas’ classic study Purity and Danger, in understanding the connected genealogies of waste and religion. Douglas theorises that identification and regulation of hazardous and ‘polluting’ practices, concerning bodily fluids, food, clothing, housing, habitable land, potable water and sexual relationships was central to the social role of traditional religions. The disturbance to this long-established function of religion occasioned by the speed and scale of adoption of modern technological innovations, and of a modern ‘consumer lifestyle’, points to an under-studied dialectic between religion and waste which, in a nation as religiously active as Indonesia, ought to be included in both the conceptualisation of, and policy-making concerning, plastic and waste management.

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