scholarly journals Bringing Political Upheaval and Cultural Trauma into Order: A Document-Theoretical Approach to the Social Significance of Bibliographic Classification Systems

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Joacim Hansson
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Change ◽  
Organization Theory ◽  
Public Libraries ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Classification Systems ◽  
Social Significance ◽  
Political Upheaval ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Acts ◽  
Immediate Function

This paper explores the ability to define bibliographic classification systems as socially significant documents in a way that goes beyond their immediate function in the information retrieval process. It does so in dialog with theory on documents and documentality, and knowledge organization theory. Two examples show how development of new classification systems address social and cultural structures in periods of rapid social and cultural change and crisis. The first example discusses the design of a classification system for Swedish public libraries in the late 1910s, and the second addresses the re-formulation of the Holocaust experience in American Jewish library classification practice in the 1950s and 1960s. Results indicate that social significance to classification systems influence the definition their institutional context in relation to wider social issues and movements. The character of this influence suggests research on documentality needs to address the relation between form and content in documents defined as reifications of social acts.

Evaluation for Arts-Based Research Performance: Audience Perceptions of Rising from the Ashes

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Viega
Keyword(s):  
Music Therapy ◽  
Rating Scale ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Research Evaluation ◽  
Research Performance ◽  
Music Performance ◽  
Social Significance ◽  
Arts Based Research ◽  
The Social ◽  
Insight Into

Abstract The purpose of the study is to understand how audiences evaluated an arts-based research performance called Rising from the Ashes. Audience evaluation promises egalitarian and pluralistic perspectives that may assist artist-as-researchers with gaining new insight into out of performative arts-based research results. Rising from the Ashes was performed several times between 2015 and 2019. Evaluations were provided to six different audiences and consisted of rating-scale and open-ended questions based on general criteria for judging arts-based research: incisiveness, concision, generativity, social significance, evocation and illumination, and coherence. Descriptive rating scores and thematic analysis of open-ended questions aided in the artist-as-researcher’s understanding of how audiences responded to the performances. Descriptive scores showed that audiences strongly agreed that the performance was concise, incisive, and evocative and illuminating. The performance was less likely to support audiences’ understanding of the social issues addressed in the study, which implied decreased generativity and social significance. Open-ended questions enhanced and supported rating-scale responses as well as revealed specific elements of the performance that addressed its coherence. The results deepened the artists-as-researcher’s understanding of potential strengths and limitations of Rising from the Ashes based on the audience evaluations. Implications for arts-based research evaluation in music therapy, particularly related to music performance, are discussed.

scholarly journals Sociology of religion and the occult revival

1975 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 202-214
Author(s):  
Lennart Ejerfeldt
Keyword(s):  
Social Structure ◽  
Cultural Change ◽  
Sociology Of Religion ◽  
Western World ◽  
Social Significance ◽  
New Religions ◽  
The Social ◽  
Counter Culture ◽  
The Sixties ◽  
Social Diffusion

The "new" that makes the cults of the occult revival to "new religions" of the Western world, is their recently increased social significance. Historically most of modern occultism is anything but new. From the research and theorizing about the occult revival we have picked up some main themes. The first is the social diffusion of the new occultism. In this field, we find some studies of superstition, especially astrology. These illuminate the differences in social connotation between the consumers of superstition and the followers of institutional religion. Secondly the study of the occult revival has made valuable contributions to the conceptualizing of "cult" and the cultic phenomenon. Thirdly, we will look upon the connection between the occult revival and the counter-culture. The problem of the rise of cults as a symptom of socio-cultural change will be briefly discussed with reference to Bell's thesis of "the disjuntion of culture and social structure". Lastly, we proffer some reflections on the occult revival and the new spiritual trends in the churches, which so sharply contrast with the theology and churchmanship of the sixties.

scholarly journals Mapeamento das Unidades de Formação Acadêmica – UFAS Região Sul II

2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 149
Author(s):  
Francisca Rodrigues de Oliveira Pini ◽  
Ana Lívia Adriano
Keyword(s):  
Professional Education ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Social Significance ◽  
Collective Work ◽  
Historical Factors ◽  
The Social ◽  
Curriculum Guidelines ◽  
Training Research ◽  
The Relationship

A pesquisa “Mapeamento das Unidades de Formação Acadêmica – UFAs Região Sul II”, realizada pela Associação Brasileira de Ensino e Pesquisa em Serviço Social (ABEPSS), na gestão 2009-2010, apresenta a intencionalidade de compreender as particularidades da formação profissional do assistente social, no que tange ao perfil das UFAs, a organização curricular, a relação com a ABEPSS, o estágio supervisionado, a pesquisa e as estratégias para afirmação das Diretrizes Curriculares na formação profissional. Apreender as particularidades da profissão, sua formação e exercício profissional, articulando-os, necessariamente, às determinações históricas em que estes estão inseridos, torna-se condição para a afirmação do projeto profissional, seus princípios, valores e lutas, bem como para a afirmação do significado social da profissão enquanto especialização do trabalho coletivo, que tem como objeto de intervenção as múltiplas expressões da questão social e os sujeitos que convivem com a exploração, a injustiça e a negação da dignidade humana. Abstract: The research “Mapping of Academic Unities of Formation – UFAs II South Region”, held by the Brazilian Association of Education and Research in Social Work (ABEPSS), the management from 2009 to 2010, shows the intention to understand the particularities of the training of social workers, with respect to the profile of UFAs, curricular organization, the relationship with ABEPSS, the supervised training, research and strategies for the affirmation of the curriculum guidelines in the professional training. Grasp the particularities of the profession, professional education and practice, articulating them necessarily to historical factors on which they are inserted, it becomes a condition for the affirmation of professional design, its principles, values and struggles, as well as for the claim the social significance of professional expertise as a collective work, which objective of intervention the multiple expressions of social issues and the individuals who live with the exploitation, injustice and denial of human dignity.

scholarly journals NEWSPAPER PORTRAYAL OF TEACHERS: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF REPRESENTATIONS OF TEACHERS IN A BRITISH AND A CZECH BROADSHEET

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 87-103
Author(s):  
Dita Trčková
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Teaching Profession ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Social Significance ◽  
Daily Telegraph ◽  
The Social

The study compares representations of teachers in the Czech broadsheet Mladá fronta and the British broadsheet The Daily Telegraph, aiming to reveal their possible impact on the level of public respect towards teachers. The methodology employed is critical discourse analysis, combining an investigation of semantic macrostructures and recurrent transitivity patterns. It is revealed that both newspapers call attention to problems regarding the teaching profession, advocating social change and higher job prestige. The social significance of a teacher is enhanced in both newspapers by allocating a teacher not only the role of a transmitter of knowledge but also a moral guide concerned with social issues. The main difference between the two broadsheets is that The Daily Telegraph foregrounds teachers’ wrongdoings, while Mladá fronta highlights teachers’ accomplishments. This seems to be mainly due to the inclusion of a section with regional content in the Czech broadsheet.

scholarly journals The Effects of Transfer of Learning and Literacy: An Analysis of Graffiti and Sgraffitiin the City of Johannesburg

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Farai Chinangure ◽  
Lawrence Mapaire
Keyword(s):  
Social Issues ◽  
Total Sample ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Gender Biases ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Acts ◽  
Human Practices ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
The City ◽  
Public Toilets

The study examined the social effects of graffiti as pieces of writing or drawings scribbled, scratched or sprayed on surfaces of public toilets or bus termini. The study followed a qualitative exploratory design in which the researchers observed the messages expressed in the graffiti and conducted a discourse analysis on their effects on the moral fabric of society. Themes and perceptions towards some societal ills emerged from the analysis. The main aim of the study was thus to unravel the possible social issues expressed through this art of graffiti and sgraffitti. A purposive total sample size of 10 public toilets and bus termini was used for the study. Among the major findings of this study was the view that the messages conveyed through the graffiti and sgraffitti expressed a disapproval and distaste of such anti-social acts as promiscuity, prostitution and crime that are prevalent in the city of Johannesburg and its environs. In addition, gender based violence, stereotypes prejudices and stigmas against women, homosexuality and HIV/AIDS were among the dominant graffiti and sgrafitto messages. The study concluded that although graffiti and sgraffitti artists tend to deform and deface some public utilities, their call for normative social behaviour in society shows that there is a need to deconstruct a number of societal biases such as gender biases, sex, sexual orientation, stigmas, stereotypes and other prejudices associated with the diverse nature of the human species. The recommendation made by this study is that there is a dire need for advocacy by social workers, the city fathers, the metro police division and other human rights organisations to deconstruct and demystify certain human practices, acts and mind sets.

Football Fitness - a figurational study of a new type of leisure football as a meaningful activity for men

2021 ◽  
pp. 101269022110397
Author(s):  
Stine Frydendal ◽  
Line Kremmer Pedersen ◽  
Laila Susanne Ottesen ◽  
Lone Friis Thing
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Change ◽  
Leisure Activity ◽  
Organisational Change ◽  
Social Significance ◽  
Meaningful Activity ◽  
Football Clubs ◽  
The Social ◽  
New Type ◽  
Group Interviews ◽  
Thematic Network Analysis

This article offers a nuanced exploration of Football Fitness (FF), a newer ‘sport for all' concept carried out in associative sport clubs in Denmark. The aim of the study was to examine FF as a meaningful leisure activity for men. Seven focus group interviews were conducted with 26 heterogeneous male FF players aged 24 to 76. Data were analysed by means of thematic network analysis within the interpretive tradition. Drawing on figurational sociology, more specifically Elias and Dunning’s perspective on leisure sport as a quest for excitement, and Connell’s theory of masculinities, we present three elements of the empirical material all highlighting the social significance of the FF concept. 1: The men’s fight for recognition in the club, 2: Competition as a play element and 3: Social bonding and sport as a male preserve. The findings of the study demonstrate a hegemony of multiple masculinities in football clubs. The play-pleasure values associated with the FF concept does not receive much recognition compared to traditional competitive football. Consequently, the FF players feel like the strange newcomers, experiencing being regarded as outsiders compared to the established players in the clubs. Our study indicates that organisational change do not automatically generate cultural change when implementing health-promotion initiatives such as FF.

Recent Advances in Medically Assisted Conception: Legal, Ethical and Social Issues

1991 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 329-361
Author(s):  
Bartha M. Knoppers ◽  
Sonia LeBris
Keyword(s):  
New Technologies ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Genetic Material ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Quality Of Services ◽  
Social Significance ◽  
Assisted Conception ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World

AbstractA review of reports, bills and legislation from around the world, during the period from 1987 to 1991, reveals certain areas of consensus on the possible or actual, ethical and legal regulation of medically assisted conception. Other areas remain controversial, due not only to cultural and religious differences but also to the social significance of the very implementation of these new technologies. Irrespective of these differences, the reformulation of certain shared international principles of human rights permits a greater specificity both in their translation and in their application to medically assisted conception. Areas discussed include the dignity of the person, the security of human genetic material, the quality of services, the inviolability of the person and the inalienability of the person.

Speaker-Oriented Attitude Datives in Social Context

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Youssef A. Haddad
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Shared Values ◽  
Social Functions ◽  
Rapport Management ◽  
The Social ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Levantine Arabic ◽  
Values And Beliefs ◽  
Social Acts

This chapter examines the social functions of speaker-oriented attitude datives in Levantine Arabic. It analyzes these datives as perspectivizers used by a speaker to instruct her hearer to view her as a form of authority in relation to him, to the content of her utterance, and to the activity they are both involved in. The nature of this authority depends on the sociocultural, situational, and co-textual context, including the speaker’s and hearer’s shared values and beliefs, their respective identities, and the social acts employed in interaction. The chapter analyzes specific instances of speaker-oriented attitude datives as used in different types of social acts (e.g., commands, complaints) and in different types of settings (e.g., family talk, gossip). It also examines how these datives interact with facework, politeness, and rapport management.

V.V. Rozanov Among Parties and Politicians

2019 ◽  
Vol 60 ◽  
pp. 165-170
Author(s):  
Aleksey V.  Lomonosov
Keyword(s):  
The Political ◽  
Editorial Office ◽  
Social Significance ◽  
Political Ideas ◽  
Political Journalism ◽  
Political Views ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Press ◽  
Journal Editorial ◽  
Political Essays

The article reveals the social significance of determining the political views of V.V. Rozanov in the system of the thinker’s worldview. The correlation of these views with his political journalism is shown. The genesis of social and political ideas of V.V. Rozanov is revealed. The author specifies his ideological predecessors in the sphere of public thought of the late 19th century and the thinker’s affiliation with the conservative political camp of Russian writers. The author of the article also gives coverage of the V.V. Rozanov’s polemical publications in the press. He outlines the circle of political sympathies and determinative constants in the political views of Rozanov-publicist and proves his commitment to the centrist political parties. The author examines the process of Rozanov’s socio-political views evolution at the turn of the 19th–20th centuries, and the related changes in his political journalism. The evaluations are based on the large layer of Rozanov’s newspaper publicism in the years of 1905–1917. To determine the Rozanov’s position in the “New time” journal editorial office and to reveal the motives of his political essays the author of the article used epistola

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