scholarly journals Rap as indicator of protest potential of Z generation

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 33-40
Author(s):  
Alexandr N. Teslenko
Keyword(s):  
Political Identity ◽  
Pop Culture ◽  
Political Rights ◽  
Problem Statement ◽  
Protest Music ◽  
Psychological Study ◽  
Public Practice ◽  
Mass Consciousness ◽  
Cultural Sphere ◽  
Cultural Self

Contexts of youth protest potential in rap as a musical direction popular among modern youth are analysed in the article. Attempts of imposing of political identity «from above» does not meet requirements of the youth which seeks for self-realisation in the cultural sphere. Therefore, the article examines the socio-psychological phenomenon of such a youth public practice as rap culture, which has now become a brand of mass pop culture. On the basis of sociological data the author analyses social mood and topical problems of the Kazakhstani youth, designing its protest potential. Quite high percent of the young respondents concerned by violations of the legitimate social, civil and political rights is revealed. It is noted that the Z generation prefers non-political forms in a counterbalance a protest to means of cultural self-expression. In mass consciousness installation about rap as to «protest music» was approved. The historical and cultural retrospective of emergence and development of rap allowed the author to disprove the settled stereotype and to prove a position about rap as to music of success and active living position. Topicality and scientific novelty of the problem statement made it possible to show the importance of studying the protest behaviour of young people in the modern scientific space, highlighting its indicators and drawing a conclusion about the need for a psychological study of youth protest tendencies and pedagogic support of the socialisation process.

Conservatism

Sociology ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Kivisto
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
French Revolution ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Political Identity ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
The United States ◽  
Political Rights ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
The Right

Conservatism refers to one of the constituent political positions found in all contemporary democracies. It can be construed as a philosophy, an ideology, a political party, a movement, a disposition, a mode of discourse, performance style, and an emotional relationship to the political. Since the birth of modern democracies in the aftermath of the French Revolution, it has become commonplace to describe the range of political options available to the citizenry as occupying a spectrum from left to right, with a range of alternatives between the extreme poles, including a centrist position in the middle that straddles the divide. The left was associated with promoting challenges to established authorities and existing hierarchies, along with calls for increased economic equality and expanded social and political rights to all citizens, including the heretofore marginalized. This contrasts with the right, which was defined as defending inequalities and differential entitlements, concentrating matters involving rights around preserving property rights, shoring up public and social order, and promoting traditional values and conventional social relations. In this context, liberalism became a mark of political identity associated with the left, as did socialism, while conservatism, broadly construed, represented the right. This framing of politics also includes the possibility of underminings by extremism on both the left and right. For the former, the main threat since the Russian Revolution has been posed by revolutionary communism, while right-wing extremism has manifested itself in reactionary movements, including fascism and illiberal populism. Since liberalism and conservatism must be understood in relational terms, the spatial and temporal settings for the politics of opposition will vary considerably. It is impossible to do justice to the vast literature on conservatism in a bibliography such as this. What follows is a more delimited, and thus manageable examination of work on conservatism. First, it focuses on conservatism in the United States, and not elsewhere. Second, it is chiefly concerned with conservatism since the end of World War II. Third, it concentrates on the study of conservatism by sociologists and those working in cognate disciplines; while not all the authors are card-carrying sociologists, their works reflect a sociological character, although the exception to this third point is the overview section, which presents key readings by advocates of conservatism, and thus offers insider depictions of the meaning of conservatism. Fourth, this article does not concentrate solely on extremist right-wing movements; rather, in surveying the relevant literature on American conservatism broadly construed, it points to a growing consensus that the radical right wing has pushed mainstream conservatism increasingly further to the right.

Military cosmopolitanism and romantic indigeneity: Crafting claims to statehood in Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss and Easterine Kire’s Bitter Wormwood

2020 ◽  
pp. 002198941989730
Author(s):  
Sushmita Sircar
Keyword(s):  
West Bengal ◽  
Political Identity ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Rights ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Indigenous Identity ◽  
The World ◽  
Indian State ◽  
Identity Based ◽  
The Many

The world wars definitively changed the relations with the state of the peoples of India’s northeastern frontier. The wars were both fought on their terrain (with the invasion of the Japanese army) and led to the recruitment of people from the region to serve in the British Army. The contemporary Anglophone Indian novel documents the lingering effects of this militarization in the many insurgencies that have fragmented the region in the postcolonial era. Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss (2006) depicts the Gorkhaland uprising of the 1980s in the Kalimpong district of West Bengal, which demanded a separate state, while Easterine Kire’s Bitter Wormwood (2011) describes the Naga peoples’ traditional way of life against the backdrop of attempts to declare independence from the Indian state. In this article I argue that these novels capture how these secessionist movements use the experience of the world wars to craft a political identity based on military brotherhood to claim independence from the Indian state. These movements thus undertake a complex reworking of the valences of the figure of the “soldier”, central to so many accounts of national integrity. At the same time, reproducing the nationalist logic of the Indian state, these novels more readily recognize an “indigenous” identity based on a claim to the land as the political basis of nationhood. Hence, these novels about secessionist struggles reveal how certain narratives of nation formation become the only legitimate means for making claims for political rights and independent statehood over the course of the twentieth century.

scholarly journals The Concept of Civilization in Scientific, Ideological and Everyday Discursive Practices of Wartime in Ukraine

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Hard Core ◽  
Scientific Program ◽  
International Crises ◽  
Public Practice ◽  
Mass Consciousness ◽  
Small Countries ◽  
Dialectical Tension ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Moment

The article analyzes the concept of «civilization» in the context of the modern sociological language. It is shown that at the moment this concept has the lack of clarity of its content. Its history has led to the preservation in it the idea of linear progress with its characteristic steps and idea of different cultural areas. The dialectical tension between universalism and particularism in the concept of civilization has not yet become a stimulus for the development of the theory of civilization. The scientific program of the civilization approach is interdisciplinary and philosophical discourse prevails in it. The hard core of the program demonstrates the inability to development. The history of the study of civilizations is a series of author's visions of reality. There is no repeatability of the results and no falsification of the fundamental thesis of the civilizational approach. The peripheral moments of scientific program of the civilization approach vary depending on the political predilections of scientists and specific circumstances. Most of the forecasts made by supporters of the civilizational approach have not been confirmed in the course of historical development. Insufficient sociological elaboration of the concept of civilization makes it unproductive in scientific research and in public practice. At moments of international crises and wars the civilizational approach turns into a translator of ideological influences on sociology. This is demonstrated by the basic texts of Nikolai Danilevsky and Samuel Huntington. In the geopolitics of large countries, the civilizational approach justifies their right to dominate in some part of the globe. Elites of small countries use it to substantiate the choice of an external patron and to join certain unions. In Ukraine, at present, the civilizational approach is mainly used in the options of civilizational war and civilizational choice. As empirical studies show, it does not find support in the mass consciousness and can not serve the purposes of mobilizing the population to confront the enemy.

scholarly journals Political Identity Of Transmigrant Communities In Tanah Abang Village In Jambi Through Gamelan

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 34-39
Author(s):  
Devy Kartikasari ◽  
A. M. Susilo Pradoko
Keyword(s):  
Political Identity ◽  
Social Values ◽  
Musical Instruments ◽  
Problem Statement ◽  
Procurement Process ◽  
The Social ◽  
Field Notes ◽  
Agent Of Change ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Village

This research is intended to discover the procurement process of gamelan musical instruments as an effort to preserve the identity of Javanese transmigrants community in Tanah Abang village, reviewing the idea to the benefit to the community and exploring the meaning and the social values that is implied by the existence of the gamelan used by the communities to learn karawitan. The research was carried out in the Tanah Abang Jambi village, with the pengrawit and trainers as the objects, and the informants, through interview, of this research were the head of the Tanah Abang village, karawitan coach, pengrawit, and those who was part of the agent of change. The data taken was in the form of field-notes which were processed in such a way and sorted into an intact data that was easily traced. Afterward, the data was used to answers the problem statement. The results of the study conclude that the procurement process of gamelan in Tanah Abang village went through a challenging process, however; the impact that follows is quite satisfying since it brings benefits to the community and the village. The process is described through a chart to facilitate understanding. Furthermore, another  important point that can be taken from the existence of a set of gamelan musical instruments is social values that can be implemented in everyday life.

Maxims of Foreign Policy

Itinerario ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 62-79
Author(s):  
W.J. Boot
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Foreign Relations ◽  
East Asian ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
Cultural Sphere ◽  
Japanese Identity

In the pre-modern period, Japanese identity was articulated in contrast with China. It was, however, articulated in reference to criteria that were commonly accepted in the whole East-Asian cultural sphere; criteria, therefore, that were Chinese in origin.One of the fields in which Japan's conception of a Japanese identity was enacted was that of foreign relations, i.e. of Japan's relations with China, the various kingdoms in Korea, and from the second half of the sixteenth century onwards, with the Portuguese, Spaniards, Dutchmen, and the Kingdom of the Ryūkū.

Mutuality in Acculturation

2013 ◽  
Vol 221 (4) ◽  
pp. 205-213 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabriel Horenczyk ◽  
Inga Jasinskaja-Lahti ◽  
David L. Sam ◽  
Paul Vedder
Keyword(s):  
Intergroup Relations ◽  
Extended Model ◽  
Psychological Study ◽  
Intergroup Interactions ◽  
Mutual Contact ◽  
Acculturation Model ◽  
Plural Societies ◽  
Perceptions And Expectations

This paper focuses on processes and consequences of intergroup interactions in plural societies, focusing primarily on majority-minority mutuality in acculturation orientations. We examine commonalities and differences among conceptualizations and models addressing issues of mutuality. Our review includes the mutual acculturation model ( Berry, 1997 ), the Interactive Acculturation Model (IAM – Bourhis et al., 1997 ), the Concordance Model of Acculturation (CMA – Piontkowski et al., 2002 ); the Relative Acculturation Extended Model (RAEM – Navas et al., 2005 ), and the work on acculturation discrepancies conducted by Horenczyk (1996 , 2000 ). We also describe a trend toward convergence of acculturation research and the socio-psychological study of intergroup relations addressing issues of mutuality in attitudes, perceptions, and expectations. Our review has the potential to enrich the conceptual and methodological toolbox needed for understanding and investigating acculturation in complex modern societies, where majorities and minorities, immigrants and nationals, are engaged in continuous mutual contact and interaction, affecting each other’s acculturative choices and acculturative expectations.

Modeling Intraindividual Variability in Three-Level Multilevel Models

Methodology ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 95-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steffen Nestler ◽  
Katharina Geukes ◽  
Mitja D. Back
Keyword(s):  
Multilevel Model ◽  
Multilevel Models ◽  
Mixed Effects ◽  
Repeated Measurements ◽  
Scale Model ◽  
Suggested Approach ◽  
Psychological Study ◽  
Level Data ◽  
Ecological Momentary ◽  
Momentary Assessment

Abstract. The mixed-effects location scale model is an extension of a multilevel model for longitudinal data. It allows covariates to affect both the within-subject variance and the between-subject variance (i.e., the intercept variance) beyond their influence on the means. Typically, the model is applied to two-level data (e.g., the repeated measurements of persons), although researchers are often faced with three-level data (e.g., the repeated measurements of persons within specific situations). Here, we describe an extension of the two-level mixed-effects location scale model to such three-level data. Furthermore, we show how the suggested model can be estimated with Bayesian software, and we present the results of a small simulation study that was conducted to investigate the statistical properties of the suggested approach. Finally, we illustrate the approach by presenting an example from a psychological study that employed ecological momentary assessment.

Review of Reading and Its Difficulties: A Psychological Study.

1972 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 149-149
Author(s):  
JOSEPH M. WEPMAN
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Study
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