scholarly journals Socio-Economic Global Cultural Flow with Reference to Select Indian English Novels

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (S1-Dec2020) ◽  
pp. 37-39
Author(s):  
Uma Maheshwari ◽  
P Nagaraj
Keyword(s):  
English Literature ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Indian English ◽  
Contemporary Novels ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Jhumpa Lahiri ◽  
Material Goods ◽  
White Tiger ◽  
Social Anthropologist

The world is unified by the word ‘globalization’ as a result of the growing interdependence of the world’s societies, economies, technologies, cultures, investment and information. Today, everything is accessible at one’s finger tips, because the world is interconnected. There is networking in all walks of life. Communication has become easier than ever and technology has begun to replace human resources. On one hand, globalization claims to have simplified living by interconnecting different parts of the world, but on the other hand, life seems to have become more complicated in the name of sociocultural networking and technological revolutions. The circulation of ideas, culture, language, and material goods as a result of networking, the reason for globalization, has been identified as global cultural flows, according to the social anthropologist and globalization theorist, Arjun Appadurai. The paper aims to look into the socio-cultural, political and economic impacts of globalizationon developing countries like India, with the help of three contemporary novels of the twenty first century Indian English literature – The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri, The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga, and Q&A by Vikas Swarup. It explores the aspects of globalization in the select novels, in an attempt to understand the modern world under the influence of globalization, liberalization and capitalization.

4. The modern world

2018 ◽  
pp. 56-84
Author(s):  
Steve Bruce
Keyword(s):  
Social Mobility ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Modern World ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Intellectual Discipline

Although we can view sociology as a disinterested intellectual discipline that stands aside from the world it observes, sociology is itself a symptom of the very things it describes. ‘The modern world’ summarizes what sociology sees as distinctive about the social formations that concern it, considering modernity, social order, social mobility, and postmodernity. The key sociological proposition that much of our world is inadvertent and unintended is important, not just for understanding why things do not go as planned, but also for understanding why things are as they are. This has serious policy implications, because if we misunderstand the causes of what concerns us, we misdirect our efforts to change it.

scholarly journals Economic Adversity and Disgrace in Untouchable

NUTA Journal ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 40-47
Author(s):  
Bhim Nath Regmi
Keyword(s):  
English Literature ◽  
Social Reality ◽  
Indian Society ◽  
Indian English ◽  
Unique Position ◽  
The Social ◽  
Public Concerns

Mulk Raj Anand has created a unique position as a Humanist and a social writer in India writing in English. He has contributed in the development of Indian English Literature and focuses on caste issue, economic adversity and disgrace rooted in Indian society. He has public concerns and humanity for the subjugated people and his characters represent the social reality of suppressed people of India. His first novel Untouchable is an account of a day in the life of its protagonist- Bakha, an untouchable sweeper. He describes the depressed conditions of the untouchables, their immitigable hardships and physical and mental agonies almost with the meticulous skill of historical raconteur

scholarly journals Contributions of Muslim Women in Education

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Iqra Khan, Maryam Bibi, Muhammad Amin
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Human Body ◽  
Muslim Women ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Technological Factors ◽  
Realistic Approach ◽  
Future Needs ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Patterned Structures

The term education has been the living phenomena among the social and cultural lives of the human body that derives the crucial needs and necessities of the modern world. This could be considered as the realistic approach to say- as education provided the positive barrier between the old and new learnings to help bring out the development in the logical and literal minds. The fundamental requirements of education result the possibility when its acquirements are made reachable to the deserving hands. Education is hence freed from all the discrimination and racial comments- welcomes the technological and scientific learnings to those who seeks for it. As, for men, education has been the revolving agenda to succeed in the rushing world and as it’s similar for the women of every religion and culture. With the rising inventions and prominent technological factors, the demanding scope for the educational promotions established the future needs. This need in an outcome prevailed the exceeding desires of women to work side by side with men and to meet the necessities of the coming age. The patterned structures that the society follows, advances the efforts of men rather than women and if it belongs to any religion, Muslim women are the first to face the discriminative attitudes in the work places and learning institutes. But to count their efforts in an extensive manner, there are many of the Muslim women who took charge in the advancement of the technological and the social sciences. This article aims at the perpetual challenges and contributions of Muslim women in their respective work areas. The problems and hurdles they experienced at the social and cultural surroundings. The main objective of this paper is to highlight the difficulties and hardships of Muslim women all around the world and the challenging atmospheres they worked in while giving their utmost for the betterment of society  

scholarly journals Zagadnienie światopoglądu w edukacji ekologicznej

2003 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 505-515
Author(s):  
Jacek W. Czartoszewski
Keyword(s):  
Common Sense ◽  
The Other ◽  
Natural Environments ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Ecological Values ◽  
Material Goods ◽  
High Level ◽  
Huge Challenge ◽  
Human Awareness

The XXI century for humanity is a challenge in awareness of failures in the condition of the social environment as well in huge contamination of nature. This problem can be resolved only on the way of grasping junctures man in the world toward Absolute and the other adventitious entities. There is a necessary general change of human awareness, which will strengthen love to the other people and amends an evil site between mankind. It should be joined with changing mentality reducing consumption material goods (savings in using up energies and industrial goods) and taking care of remaining for succeeding generations natural environments on better condition than that nowadays. It also needs to create a new high level of outlook upon ecology, which accepts ecological values. This outlook eschewing idealism and inaccuracies should be based on the real ground of Aristotelic and Thomistic orientation. Moreover, it must avoid hatchway in the knowledge, from here society aside from knowledge natures, technical, juridical and economical should own knowing humanistic, which regards anthropology, axioms, theology, and religion (get into completely mode with helping of recognition common sense, wisdom, scientific, philosophic and religionist). On the other way hatchways, inaccuracies, and even contrarieties into understanding the world will become dominant and lead to quarrels and antagonisms. From here floats a huge challenge for leaders, who should take on their own shoulder responsibility upon the future of our planet and humanity.

scholarly journals Beyond Turner’s Liminal Community: The Perpetual Crisis of Politics and the Everyday

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Daniel Hignell-Tully
Keyword(s):  
Niklas Luhmann ◽  
Political Language ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The World ◽  
Autonomous Management ◽  
Social Anthropologist ◽  
Epistemological Violence ◽  
Politically Active

The social anthropologist Victor Turner describes the process of a communitas as orientated around crisis - a liminal stage by which the community compensates for any breaches within their existing understanding of the world. As a liminal stage, crisis is the means by which a community remains politically active, in so far as it relies on the local, autonomous management of change to the lived environment. This paper seeks to explore the nature of communication as a tool of crisis, arguing that the community relies upon a network of crisis occurring both from first-hand and communally-derived communication, for which it is the distance between its membership that allows a community to flourish. Invoking the critical theory of Jean-Luc Nancy, and systems theory of Niklas Luhmann to interrogate such a network, I will argue that it is the performed misuse of a communities shared symbols that allows it to maintain political resonance. With this in mind, I will propose that the advent of what I term ‘perpetual crisis’ seeks to fundamentally undermine such a resonance, usurping the lived crisis of our everyday interactions with Other, in favour of a perpetual state of epistemological violence that exists beyond the limits of our control.  Exploring the tone and utility of political language within the mainstream media, I will seek to draw a parallel between the narrative disjunction of politicians and their policies as a means of highlighting the imposition of a crisis that impedes communitas by distancing a communities membership from meaningful political redress.

scholarly journals Problems of economic globalization of China as a factor of cultural security

2018 ◽  
Vol 212 ◽  
pp. 08026
Author(s):  
Olga Borisenko ◽  
Dmitry Sukharev ◽  
Marina Fomina ◽  
Nataly Kondakova
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Regional Development ◽  
Economic System ◽  
World Economy ◽  
Economic Globalization ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Chinese Society ◽  
Chinese Government ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World

The article is devoted to the analysis of the problems of economic globalization in China and as a factor of cultural security. A philosophical analysis of the social aspect of China’s regional development. J. Sigurdson, like many researchers, analyzes economic, political factors, technological innovations, regional development programs of China. Our attention was drawn to the fact that he is one of the few Western researchers who analyze social problems. J. Sigurdson gives an analysis of Chinese society in the context of the development of technological systems. He notes that the creation of clusters, the use of new technologies contribute to the development of the social infrastructure of modern Chinese society. It is worth noting that his analysis is based on the historical information approach. In this case, we are not interested in ascertaining the facts presented by him, but in describing the role of innovation systems in the development of the social sphere of Chinese society. Thus, the relevance of this article is due to the need to analyze Western research on the social factor of regional changes in China. The entry into globalization processes and the perception of the economic opportunities of the modern world in China is refracted through traditional culture and allows not only to preserve its own values, but also to successfully adapt them to the realities of the present day on one hand and spread it outside on the other. China plays an important role in the modern economic development of the world. The main task of the Chinese strategy for the development of clusters was to ensure that the results met not only the economic development of the country, but also the rise of the social, cultural component. The Chinese government is aware of the depth of existing problems in society, and how we see new promising plans for the development of China’s economic system. In the artical, we allows us to view modern China not only as a simple element of the world economic system, but rather as one of the leading subjects of economic globalization, actively participating in the world economy and making a significant contribution to the development of the modern world. In our view, it is the integrity of the domestic political and foreign policy course of the country’s development that allowed the Chinese economy and culture to become a visible and important element of the world economy.

Homeric Values and Homeric Society

1971 ◽  
Vol 91 ◽  
pp. 1-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. W. H. Adkins
Keyword(s):  
Prima Facie ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Agreed Framework ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Social Anthropologist

Dr Long's interest in my work (JHS xc [1970] 121–39; hereafter referred to as ‘Long’) is naturally very welcome; but it seems to me to require further comment in its turn. In order to advance the discussion, I shall be compelled to refer on a number of occasions to what I have written elsewhere in articles, and indeed on other pages of Merit and Responsibility. I shall begin with some very general points, some concerned with philosophy, some with interpretation.First, can ‘an historical reference for Homeric society’ be found ‘in the individual oikos, such that Homeric values can be seen to derive consistently from its needs’? The ‘facts of Homeric life’ to which I endeavour to relate my analysis of Homeric values are those contained in Professor M. I. Finley's admirable The World of Odysseus. My very occasional disagreements are concerned with interpretations within an agreed framework: Professor Finley's framework. I shall turn to the historicity of the society in a moment; but there seems in any case to be no prima facie absurdity in employing the tools of the social anthropologist on an overtly fictional society, say More's Utopia, with the intention, perhaps, of displaying incongruities and discrepancies: however fictional it might be, there would still be a society and values to discuss.

scholarly journals The conceptual metaphor of play in P. Handke’s short novel «The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick»

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (23) ◽  
pp. 57-63
Author(s):  
Yana Kravchenko ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Metaphor ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Human Relationships ◽  
Social Community ◽  
Short Novel ◽  
Text Organization ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Textual Strategies ◽  
Play Elements

The paper focuses on determining the peculiarities of the conceptual metaphor of play in Peter Handke’s short novel «The Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick». The modern humanitarian discourse views the metaphor not only in its narrow sense (as a means of literary expressiveness) but also in the wide one – as a way of thinking and perception of the world around, which enables defining specific textual strategies aimed at interpreting complex, abstract, and principally incomprehensible concepts with the help of comprehensive, understandable, and mainly visual images. In P. Handke’s novel, the play acquires an ontological status developing into a multi-layer conceptual metaphor and functions as a key to understanding meanings on different levels of text organization – paratextual, informative, compositional, figurative, symbolic, and stylistic ones. The analysis conducted testifies that the play elements and devices can be found in various processes, activities, and people’s behavior because the category of play appeals to universal concepts, such as order, choice, pleasure, strive for results, etc. The play is realized as a complex integrity of worldview characteristics, unity of action, consciousness and communication. In P. Handke’s novel, the play is a model of self-cognition and a strategy of the character’s communication with the world. Since the P. Handke’s novel presents a type of a new subjective protagonist, who is usually a person alienated from the social environment, it is the play that is able to replace the usual behavioral practices and stereotypes in his mind. The play aspect serves as a means of constructing the literary world and helps to convey philosophical ideas. As a conceptual metaphor, the notion of play is actualized in the novel in order to explain complex abstract concepts: a crisis of a person or understanding of human relationships in the modern world. The play discards the principles of determinism and hierarchy being a guarantee of creative freedom and polivariability of events. In addition, the category of play generates an ironic attitude to the surroundings. The play does not intend to stick to reality, but rather to concentrate on urgent problems and stereotypes. The story of Joseph Bloch is a story of growing alienation from reality, exclusion of a person from the social community which has become impossible to comprehend. The play motifs of escape, silence, hide-out, and wordplay are signs of ironic self-identification. The character’s mind reconsiders the values, which highlights the distinct opposition of civilization and nature, rational and mythological, biological and physiological, male and female, etc.

A LOOK AT THE HEROES OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE'S "HAMLET" TRAGEDY

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 59-62
Author(s):  
Leyla Musa Rzayeva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
William Shakespeare ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Historical Period ◽  
Philosophical Thinking ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
Great Poet

William Shakespeare is the most famous writer in England. He was a great poet and playwright. In his works, he wrote about the eternal problems that afflict people: life and death, love, loyalty and betrayal. Therefore, Shakespeare's works, especially tragedies, are popular today. In the tragedy Hamlet, William Shakespeare reworked the plot of a medieval legend and an old English legend about Prince Hamlet, describing in depth the tragedy of humanism in the modern world. Prince Hamlet of Denmark is a humanist figure facing a world hostile to humanism. The spread of evil in society has a negative effect on Hamlet, causing him to become frustrated with his lack of strength. Man and the world are not accepted as they used to be. Thus, Hamlet faces a random crime, not a single enemy, but an entire hostile society, and it is his far-sighted philosophical thinking that makes him feel powerless in the fight against evil. The content of the "Hamlet" tragedy was inspired by the social conditions of England at that time, but its significance went far beyond the borders of one country and one historical period. The picture of oppression and lies, especially oppression, has long been true. This is the interest of Hamlet, who has been fighting alone against evil and injustice for centuries. Key words: Shakespeare, Hamlet, tragedy, murder, love, romance, cruelty, nobility, life, death

Transformation of the World Order and the Conflict Potential of Contemporary Societies

2015 ◽  
Vol 59 (11) ◽  
pp. 103-112
Author(s):  
E. Sadovaya ◽  
V. Sautkina
Keyword(s):  
Social Services ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Global Perspective ◽  
Modern World ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Russian Science ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World

Cleavages between economic growth and social development have deepened in recent decades. This is expressed in the growth of multidimensional inequality and is perceived as a global violation of the social justice principles, which leads to the growth of socio-economic conflicts. These are obviously long-term trends allowing to talk about the complete reconfiguration of the existing social space. This process is largely out of control and has a serious destructive potential. The authors emphasize that the modern high-tech economy is unmanned; high quality and secure jobs with permanent contracts are becoming less affordable. As a result, we are witnessing a shift from principles of the previously established social protection institutions, where access to basic social goods is reduced for a large number of citizens. Reforming the system of state support for citizens becomes a worldwide trend, which leads to an increase in the cost of social services and brings into question the very existence of the welfare state. Thus, in the context of social landscape global transformations in the modern world, the social impact of the unemployment problem has become a key issue for researchers and policy-makers. At present, it is difficult to foresee whether the world will continue to develop within a global perspective and whether the international community will be able to produce common regulatory principles, or we are heading for a period of fragmentation and disunity. The problem is largely politically determined, and its solution depends on whether humanity will be able to overcome the difficult period of controversy and confrontation in the name of development, and if so, on what principles consensus can be reached. Acknowledgements. The research of Elena Sergeevna Sadovaya was conducted with financial support of a grant provided by the Russian Science Foundation, № 15-18-00021 – “Regulating interethnic relations and managing ethnic and social conflicts in the contemporary world: the resource potential of civic identity (a comparative political analysis)”. The research was carried out at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations, Russian Academy of Sciences (IMEMO).

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