scholarly journals Everyday Life from a Sacral Perspective. Individual Entries in Prayer Books of Intentions as Material for Social Research

Religions ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (11) ◽  
pp. 968
Author(s):  
Rafał Cekiera
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Comparative Research ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Ethical Dilemmas ◽  
Human Existence ◽  
Ethical Sensitivity ◽  
Dimensional Model ◽  
Valuable Source ◽  
Prayer Books ◽  
Source Materials

This paper presents the exploratory potential of entries in prayer books of intentions displayed in places of worship and in their online counterparts—virtual boxes of intentions. By reporting the happiness, dramas, and the whole element of human existence, individual prayer intentions are extremely authentic and valuable source materials. Their analysis requires extraordinary ethical sensitivity on the part of the researcher. Based on a review of previous research explorations and my own research, a four-dimensional model of analysis is proposed, consisting of the following areas: axionormative, communitarian, communicative, and ordinary theology. It can be useful for developing analyses of such documents and also allows for comparative research. The text also discusses the limitations associated with such analyses and briefly signals the basic ethical dilemmas and possible directions for further research using prayer entries.

scholarly journals Komiksy Marzeny Sowy. Marzi opowiada o dzieciństwie w PRL-u

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 99-111
Author(s):  
Anna Podemska-Kałuża
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Central Europe ◽  
Contemporary Culture ◽  
Cultural Impact ◽  
Valuable Source ◽  
Industrial City ◽  
Adult World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Difficult Times ◽  
International Success

Marzena Sowa’s Comics. Marzi Talks About Childhood in PRLPolish screenwriter Marzena Sowa is the author of the comics’ cycle about Marzi, which was published in the years 2005–2011 and was an international success (the drawings prepared by Sylvain Savoia). The storiesabout the red-haired girl, the daughter of the workman and the resident of industrial city are the forms autobiographical, that show the reality of life in Poland in the 1980s. The prospect of a child, who is a careful observer of the adult world, has allowed the presentation of history of country in Central Europe at the end of communism. The cycle of Marzi presents an evocative picture of experience “last generation of PRL”, is the witness to the contemporary culture and the record of the struggles of society with the problems of everyday life in “difficult times”. Since its debut in 2005, the critic compares this comic diary from the time of puberty to the famous Persepolisof Marjane Satrapi. For the modern reader the books of Marzena Sowa is a valuable source of knowledge about Poland in the days of “Solidarity” and Lech Wałęsa, as well as the iconic comics that has a big power of social and cultural impact.

scholarly journals THE EXISTENTIAL NATURE OF THE HIKMETS OF AHMED YASSAWI

Adam alemi ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 90 (4) ◽  
pp. 43-52
Author(s):  
N. Sarsenbekov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Research Methods ◽  
Comparative Research ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Meaning Of Life ◽  
Human Existence ◽  
Direct Path ◽  
Islamic World ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
Existential Crisis ◽  
Time And Being

This article analyzes existential concepts in the work of Ahmet Yassawi “Diwani hikmet”, which forms the Sufi direction of the deeply rooted Turkic civilization, using comparative research methods. In this context, the article collected and investigated the following metaphysical problems, such as the unity and struggle of time and being, disinterested attachment to the Creator, as well as the phenomenon of life and death. The content of the Hikmet is an existential representation of a religious preaching orientation, filled with the principles of a nomadic civilization developed in the Kazakh steppe. Although the main goal of the Hikmet is religious, there are often such existentials as the existence of the Creator and the problems of human existence, life and death, morality, justice, responsibility, conscience. The main position of the Hikmets is to point out a direct path to the Islamic world and suggest ways to form a “True Muslim”. The concepts of the book of wisdom are a way of revealing transcendental contradictions for those who are in an existential crisis. For those who cannot understand the meaning of life and are in existential stagnation, we decided to use the hikmet of Ahmet Yassawi to explain the meaning of real life.

scholarly journals Ethical Aspects of Social Research: Old Concerns in the Face of New Challenges and Paradoxes. A Reflection from the Field of Biographical Method

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 118-135
Author(s):  
Kaja Kaźmierska
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Animal Rights ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Ethical Dilemmas ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Ethical Aspects ◽  
Data Archiving

The paper deals with the ethical aspects of the research process and contemporary changes in this field, which make the discussion on ethical dilemmas and concerns more dynamic and varied. Although in natural science and social sciences one can find a common ground related to the most general ethical principles. In the article I refer primarily to the social sciences. The article discusses three aspects affecting the dynamics of ethical discussions: the development of research in the field of natural sciences leading to many ethical dilemmas and forcing ethical codification of research proceedings also in the area of social sciences; the increase in sensitivity and social consciousness and not only awareness of research as such (processes of democratization, emphasizing human and animal rights, protection of minority rights, the process of individualization); the dynamics of contemporary social changes resulting from the development of technology, especially the Internet, which has become a global resource of data and their exchange. This forces qualitative researchers to consider the issue of data archiving, their reanalysis, and determining the boundary for creating Big Qualidata from them. The article discusses these three dimensions, with particular emphasis on the last of them, which will be commented on in relation to the specific methodological approach, which is biographical research.

scholarly journals Beauty lived towards shalom. The Christian Life as Aesthetic-Ethical Existence

2020 ◽  
Vol Supp (29) ◽  
pp. 93-113
Author(s):  
A.M. Coates ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Human Existence ◽  
The Other ◽  
Theological Aesthetics ◽  
Christian Life ◽  
Relational Commitment ◽  
Modes Of Existence ◽  
Embodied Imagination

The apparent irrelevance of beauty to questions of justice reflects a problematic schism between aesthetic and ethical existence. While a theological aesthetics focused on the transcendent nature of beauty offers an important contribution, such an understanding of the place of beauty in human existence is incomplete without a complementary understanding of it as this-worldly: beauty as lived, as a relational category impelled by visceral desire and fuelled by the embodied imagination. By rightly ordering the appreciation and cultivation of beauty in everyday life, its relationship to works of justice is immediately apparent, as both modes of relating mutually serve as fitting shalom. In this light, fittingness becomes a measure of not only aesthetic but also ethical excellence, the two modes of existence being inextricably intertwined. Cultivating beauty-and-justice, as an expression of shalom, is a following after Christ’s being-for-the-other. It is a relational commitment, a life of discipleship that founds beauty in love.

scholarly journals The Problem of Personality on Soviet Television, 1950s-1960s

2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (5) ◽  
pp. 119 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Huxtable
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Mass Communication ◽  
Primary Source ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Television Shows ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
Source Materials

This article analyses the role of the television personality on Soviet television in its early years in the 1950s and 1960s. Using primary source materials from Russian archives, articles from the professional press, and analysis of a number of television shows, the article argues that television’s appearance in Soviet everyday life brought about a key change in the form of mass communication from a Stalinist model that focused on the pre-prepared and based on written Russian to a more spontaneous model that was closer to everyday speech forms. Analysing the role of continuity announcers, programme hosts, and ordinary individuals on Soviet television, the article suggests that while early television professionals held high hopes for the possibility of television to democratise the post-Stalin Soviet Union, these hopes were in fact riven with contradictions.

scholarly journals Aesthetics, verisimilitude and user engagement: reporting findings through fictional accounts in qualitative inquiry

2020 ◽  
pp. 146879412092576
Author(s):  
Will Gibson
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Ethical Dilemmas ◽  
Qualitative Inquiry ◽  
Academic Publishing ◽  
User Engagement ◽  
Evaluative Criteria ◽  
Key Drivers ◽  
Aesthetic Engagement ◽  
And Training

This article explores the use of fiction as a mode of representing data in social research. I show that three of the key drivers for fictionalising research accounts relate to the ambitions of aesthetic engagement, verisimilitude and user engagement. I look at the different ways that authors have attempted to achieve these ambitions and the methodological tensions that arise from them. I show that contemporary evaluative criteria in qualitative inquiry helps us to understand that fictional reporting is an important tool for researchers in creating more affective writing. However, there are divergences in how researchers conceive of and use fictional accounts, which highlight the importance of continued debate about the methodological practices of its use. In order to contribute to these debates I point to three areas that need particular consideration for researchers working in this area: (1) the structures of academic publishing and their embodiment in university audit regimes; (2) the absence of engagement with alternative forms of writing in academic professional development and training; and (3) the substantial ethical dilemmas in the use of fictional accounts.

LINGUISTIC AND SOCIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF THE TERM "ROAD MAP"

2020 ◽  
Vol 76 (4) ◽  
pp. 85-89
Author(s):  
NATAL’YA M. KOLOKOLOVA ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Comparative Research ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Sociological Analysis ◽  
Lexical Meaning ◽  
Inappropriate Use ◽  
Road Map

The paper refers to the lexical meaning of the term "road map", which initially had a geographical and cartographic meaning, as a result of the calculated translation of the economic term roadmap into Russian, gained popularity in the administrative activities of institutions. The comparative research conducted in Russian and English is supported by large-scale sociological probing, the results of which prove the inappropriate use of this term in the professional and everyday life of the Russian-speaking population.

Perceptions of Autonomy, Privacy and Informed Consent in the Care of Elderly People in Five European Countries: comparison and implications for the future

2003 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 58-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helena Leino-Kilpi ◽  
Maritta Välimäki ◽  
Theo Dassen ◽  
Maria Gasull ◽  
Chryssoula Lemonidou ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Informed Consent ◽  
Comparative Research ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Vulnerable Groups ◽  
Ethical Sensitivity ◽  
Good Care ◽  
Education Students ◽  
Ethical Problems ◽  
Care Of Elderly ◽  
The Uk

This article discusses nurses’ and elderly patients’ perceptions of the realization of autonomy, privacy and informed consent in five European countries. Comparisons between the concepts and the countries indicated that both nurses and patients gave the highest ratings to privacy and the lowest to informed consent. There were differences between countries. According to the patient data, autonomy is best realized in Spain, privacy in the UK (Scotland), and informed consent in Finland. For the staff data, the best results tended to concentrate in the UK. The conceptual and methodological limitations of the study are identified and discussed. Implications of the results are divided into three areas: nursing practice, education and research. In practice, the analysis of patients’ values and the ethical sensitivity of nurses are important as part of ethically good care. In nurse education, students should learn to recognize ethical problems, generally and particularly, among vulnerable groups of patients. Multicultural international research is needed in this area. This is the last of a set of five articles published together in this issue of Nursing Ethics in which the results of this comparative research project are presented.

Editorial Foreword: Applying Existential Social Psychology to Mental Health

2020 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 229-237
Author(s):  
Kenneth E. Vail ◽  
Daniel Sullivan ◽  
Mark J. Landau ◽  
Jeff Greenberg
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Social Psychology ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Social Functioning ◽  
Meaning In Life ◽  
Human Existence ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
The World ◽  
Editorial Foreword ◽  
Existential Concerns

Human existence is characterized by some rather unique psychological challenges. Because people can reflect on their lives and place in the world, they are regularly confronted with a variety of existential concerns: death and mortality; the burdens of freedom; uncertainty regarding one's identity; isolation from others; and indeterminate meaning in life. Existential social psychology (Greenberg, Koole, & Pyszczynski, 2004; Vail & Routledge, 2020) investigates whether and how such existential concerns shape everyday life and, as highlighted in the present special issue, how such processes impact mental health and social functioning.

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