scholarly journals Plaga bezprawia. Wojna domowa i paradoks władzy suwerennej

2015 ◽  
Vol 17 ◽  
pp. 183-204
Author(s):  
Michał Pospiszyl
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Human Nature ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Sovereign Power ◽  
Peloponnesian War ◽  
Modern Capitalism ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of

This paper consists of three parts. The first is devoted to the role of the Athenian plague in Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War. There are indications that the civil war that broke out in the country, weakened by plague, was not simply the result of a historical and degraded human nature. Instead of using evil human nature as the key for understanding each social conflict, I suggest interpreting the Athenian civil war (stasis) as a symptom of non-egalitarian social relations. The  second part of the paper is devoted to the birth of modern capitalism and the analysis of Thomas Hobbes’ philosophy. An English philosopher, Hobbes not only translated The History of the Peloponnesian War, but was also an author who treated the reality of modern civil wars as a principal point of reference. Hobbes created his philosophy mainly as a result of fearing a conflict that could undermine the existing division of power and wealth. The result of this fear was a mechanism that I refer to as the paradox of sovereign power. It was a process during which the authority that had been established to defend society against lawlessness and chaos dominated the social life, not respecting existing laws and customs, and thus creating the very world it was supposed to protect the people from. The third part is devoted to Walter Benjamin’s criticism of sovereign power. Observing the same processes as Hobbes did, the German philosopher viewed them from the inside (i.e., from the perspective of the victims of modern progress, the same view that aroused fear in the author of Leviathan). Benjamin argued that the social order established at the threshold of modernity was built on unlawful violence (primitive accumulation) and that the condition for its duration was the permanent reproduction of this lawlessness (hence, the thesis of the state of emergency, which has become the rule). According to Benjamin, this vicious circle of violence can only be escaped by recovering the memory of folk traditions, past class struggles, lost revolutions and social systems that, like the Paris Commune, pose the possibility of life liberated from the yoke.

scholarly journals SAMFUND? Durkheim revisited i Amazonas og videre

1999 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hanne Veber
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Cultural Representations ◽  
Talcott Parsons ◽  
Structured Systems ◽  
The Social ◽  
Functionalist Theory ◽  
Empirical Context ◽  
Objective Structures

“Society” appears a difficult notion. We use it all the time. But is it any good as an analytical concept? Sociologists seem to agree it is not. Few societies have the empirical characteristics of the bounded entity that structural-functionalist theory assumed. Constructivist notions of society as “imagined community” appear to be tied up with the existence of the State or with the spread of information technology. This leaves contemporary anthropology with “society” as a residue, the left-over from culture’s gluttonous theoretical supper. Still, social science aims to explain or understand social relations, interactions, and the processes by which structures and functions are worked into social systems as implied by the notion of society. The notion of society allows us to assume the existence of objective structures of order in the social life of people. Unlike the notion of culture, however, the notion of society has not been critically scrutinized by anthropologists. In contemporary Danish anthropology with its focus on culture and cultural representations, writers tend to simply take society for granted as the intrinsic empirical context of culture. From the perspective of Durkheimian notions of “the social”, the paper provides a brief review of interpretations that retrospectively have appeared analytical dead-ends. The author goes on to suggest that the notion of “symbolically generalized media of communication” may offer a productive opening that embraces both sides of the culture/society dichotomy in the search for structured systems of social existence whether subjectively or objectively conceived. The idea of “symbolically generalized media or communication” was originally formulated by Talcott Parsons and subsequently reworked by German sociologist Niklas Luhmann. Rather than an interrelated series of parts that make up a whole plus something else in the classic Durkheimian sense, society from this perspective appears in the form of structured sets of actions oriented by a horizon of possibilities and expectations, symbolically constituted, yet always provisional and emergent. Inspired by analyses of two different cases in Amazonian research the paper offers a brief hint at how the notion may be employed in anthropology.

scholarly journals THE POSITION OF THE RUSSIAN SCIENTISTS OF SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTIONS DURING THE CIVIL WAR

2017 ◽  
pp. 110-114
Author(s):  
S. M. Sivkov
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Professional Competence ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Scientific Publication ◽  
Russian Science ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Scientific Institutions ◽  
The Social ◽  
The First World War ◽  
History Of

Hundred years separates us from the outbreak of Civil war in Russia. This is sufficient time for a rethinking of those past events that shocked the world. The reader is provided a review of the new scientific publication of the Krasnodar researcher A.N. Eremeeva, devoted to problems of development of science and the existence of scholars in this difficult period. Covers a considerable part of the territory of the former Russian Empire, associated with the confrontation of two social systems. Identified problems encountered with the mass relocation of universities and scientific personnel of the country and their daily lives. Given the social structure of the scientific and scientific-pedagogical personnel of higher schools of the prerevolutionary period. “Scientific" survival strategy allows to overcome depressive States, to implement the period of time in extraordinary circumstances, to increase professional competence, to develop optimistic model of the future life. One of the General conclusions indicates that the years of the civil war, a bloody fratricidal slaughter, as paradoxical as it sounds, was an important step in the “intellectualization" of the Russian regions. It is associated not only with civilians, but with the First world war. Materials peer-reviewed monographs can be used by students, graduate students, scientists, all interested in the history of Russian science and the Russian intelligentsia during the Civil war.

Units, Markets, Relations, and Flow: Beyond Interacting Parts to Unfolding Wholes

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Naeem Inayatullah ◽  
David L. Blaney
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Life ◽  
International Political Economy ◽  
Scientific Practice ◽  
European Expansion ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Violence

Heterodox work in Global Political Economy (GPE) finds its motive force in challenging the ontological atomism of International Political Economy (IPE) orthodoxy. Various strains of heterodoxy that have grown out of dependency theory and World-Systems Theory (WST), for example, emphasize the social whole: Individual parts are given form and meaning within social relations of domination produced by a history of violence and colonial conquest. An atomistic approach, they stress, seems designed to ignore this history of violence and relations of domination by making bargaining among independent units the key to explaining the current state of international institutions. For IPE, it is precisely this atomistic approach, largely inspired by the ostensible success of neoclassical economics, which justifies its claims to scientific rigor. International relations can be modeled as a market-like space, in which individual actors, with given preferences and endowments, bargain over the character of international institutional arrangements. Heterodox scholars’ treatment of social processes as indivisible wholes places them beyond the pale of acceptable scientific practice. Heterodoxy appears, then, as the constitutive outside of IPE orthodoxy.Heterodox GPE perhaps reached its zenith in the 1980s. Just as heterodox work was being cast out from the temple of International Relations (IR), heterodox scholars, building on earlier work, produced magisterial studies that continue to merit our attention. We focus on three texts: K. N. Chaudhuri’s Asia Before Europe (1990), Eric Wolf’s Europe and the People Without History (1982), and L. S. Stavrianos’s Global Rift (1981). We select these texts for their temporal and geographical sweep and their intellectual acuity. While Chaudhuri limits his scope to the Indian Ocean over a millennium, Wolf and Stavrianos attempt an anthropology and a history, respectively, of European expansion, colonialism, and the rise of capitalism in the modern era. Though the authors combine different elements of material, political, and social life, all three illustrate the power of seeing the “social process” as an “indivisible whole,” as Schumpeter discusses in the epigram below. “Economic facts,” the region, or time period they extract for detailed scrutiny are never disconnected from the “great stream” or process of social relations. More specifically, Chaudhuri’s work shows notably that we cannot take for granted the distinct units that comprise a social whole, as does the IPE orthodoxy. Rather, such units must be carefully assembled by the scholar from historical evidence, just as the institutions, practices, and material infrastructure that comprise the unit were and are constructed by people over the longue durée. Wolf starts with a world of interaction, but shows that European expansion and the rise and spread of capitalism intensified cultural encounters, encompassing them all within a global division of labor that conditioned the developmental prospects of each in relation to the others. Stavrianos carries out a systematic and relational history of the First and Third Worlds, in which both appear as structural positions conditioned by a capitalist political economy. By way of conclusion, we suggest that these three works collectively inspire an effort to overcome the reification and dualism of agents and structures that inform IR theory and arrive instead at “flow.”

scholarly journals FROM THE HISTORY OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF KAZAKHSTAN AFTER THE CIVIL WAR (1920-1924)

2020 ◽  
Vol 65 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
B.S. Zhumagulov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Civil War ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Economic Life ◽  
Demographic Situation ◽  
Ongoing Work ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Political Economic

The article analyzes a new view of the history of economic development of Kazakhstan after the civil war. The purpose of the work is to identify problems, analyze the implementation of the social and economic policy of Soviet power. In this article, there are new transformations in the political, economic and social life of Kazakhstan and the difficulties in its implementation. The ongoing work on restoration of peaceful life, destroyed economy and economy in Kazakhstan is indicated. The reasons for the decline in economic life, destruction, poverty and hunger in Kazakhstan are indicated. As a result of hunger, cold and the accompanying diseases, the demographic situation in the nomadic and semi-nomadic regions of the republic deteriorated – the population of the rural population in many provinces decreased to 1/3, more than 700 000 people left Kazakhstan.

Barefoot with a ‘band of criminals’: Law and the social life of objects in a street magician’s bag

2020 ◽  
pp. 1037969X2095743
Author(s):  
Dikshit Sarma Bhagabati ◽  
Malini Chidambaram
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Social Lives ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
Semantic Closure

Objects have social lives like humans and are invested with the properties of social relations. We restore performativity to the journeying objects of the Maseit street magicians by drawing on our ethnography with this wayfaring community from Kathputli Colony, Delhi. The shifting social incarnations of the magicians’ objects threaten law’s desire for semantic closure. Their truncated movements indicate how law traps the fluid history of street magic in a rigid definitional register by criminalising it as begging. By mapping these journeys, we illuminate the ways in which the Maseit make sense of their lives within the legal framework.

scholarly journals THE INFLUENCE OF GUILD TOWARDS THE DUTCH ECONOMY AND COMMUNITY

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Fajar Muhammad Nugraha
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
European Society ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Historical Approach ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of

The history of the growth of a city in Western Europe, particularly the cities in the Benelux region in the Middle Ages cannot be separated from the presence of Guilds, which is a group of craftsman for tools in need by society to lead their everyday life. With a simple and compact historical approach, this paper reveals the legacies left by Guilds in medieval times. These legacies have physical and non-physical (social systems) form in the social life of today's modern European society, especially the Dutch community who are in the Benelux region. However there are several loopholes that could bring negative impact in today's modern social life.

scholarly journals Inklusivitas Masjid Sebagai Perekat Sosial

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-96
Author(s):  
Lukman Fajariyah
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Educational Institution ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Unity ◽  
History Of ◽  
And Function ◽  
Islamic Civilization ◽  
Role And Function

In the history of Islamic civilization, the mosque is a center of worship and a place for social interaction. Based on this phenomenon, this paper tries to explore the role and function of the Ash-Shiddiiqi Mosque in social life. The social unity bound by the Ash-Shiddiiqi Mosque aims to strengthen the social relations of the community members in the Demangan Kidul neighborhood of Yogyakarta in order to realize an inclusive mosque. The method used in this study is a qualitative-descriptive method using the sociology approach of Emile Durkheim's theory of solidarity. This theory of solidarity becomes an analytical tool to reveal the role and function of the Ash-Shiddiiqi Mosque in an effort to strengthen individual relationships with other individuals in the Demangan Kidul Yogyakarta environment. The findings resulting from this research that; First, the Ash-Shiddiiqi Mosque is a place of worship that has a role and social social function such as the existence of a TPA (Taman Pendidikan Alquran) educational institution as a supporting facility in providing access to non-formal education to the community. Routine programs for pilgrims and the surrounding community are in the form of daily, weekly, monthly and yearly activities. Secondly, the inclusiveness of the Ash-Shiddiiqi Mosque in involving citizens in each of its programs which aims to strengthen social relations.

Human Nature

2020 ◽  
pp. 3-71
Author(s):  
Laurie M. Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Human Nature ◽  
Brute Force ◽  
Peloponnesian War ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Good Sense ◽  
History Of

This chapter discusses Thucydides' and Hobbes's ideas of human nature, which are often said to be very similar. International relations theorists are just as much prone to this mistake as others, referring to Thucydides, as they do to Hobbes, as a “realist.” Hobbes's view is close to the view of the famous “Athenian thesis” repeated throughout Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War. That thesis is similar in many ways to the realist thesis, claiming that human beings are universally selfish and always motivated by fear, honor, and interest. Since they are compelled by their passions, they are not to be blamed for their actions, and, as Thucydides' character Diodotus points out, they can be controlled only through superior power and brute force. However, the chapter argues that, in contradiction to the Athenian thesis, Thucydides' overall treatment of human nature proves that it is not so uniform and that passions do not force people to act. Individuals are responsible for their actions, capable of reason, and therefore guilty when they allow their passions to overcome their good sense. In Thucydides' view, political problems cannot be permanently solved, because there are elements in human nature that cannot be manipulated. While Thucydides depicts the bloodthirsty violence of civil war as well as genocidal international warfare as products of the extreme pressures of war, Hobbes sees them as events that take place whenever there is no power strong enough to prevent them.

THE ROOTS OF MODERN CAPITALISM: A MARXIST ACCOUNTING HISTORY OF THE ORIGINS AND CONSEQUENCES OF CAPITALIST LANDLORDS IN ENGLAND

2004 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rob Bryer
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Pivotal Role ◽  
Archival Research ◽  
Accounting History ◽  
Agricultural Revolution ◽  
Historical Literature ◽  
Modern Capitalism ◽  
History Of ◽  
Industrial Revolutions

A major debate neglected by accounting historians is the importance of landlords in the English agricultural revolution. The paper uses accounting evidence from the historical literature to test Marx's theory that, from around 1750, England's landlords played a pivotal role by adopting and then spreading the capitalist mentality and social relations by enclosures and changes in the management of their estates and tenants. It gives an accounting interpretation of Marx's theory of rent and argues that the available evidence supports his view that the conversion of English landlords to capitalism underlay the later stages of the agricultural revolution. The conclusion explains the linkages in Marx's theory between the agricultural and industrial revolutions, and calls on accounting historians to conduct archival research into the agricultural roots of modern capitalism.

Urban Space and Aristocratic Power in Late Antique Rome

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlos Machado
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Late Antiquity ◽  
Late Antique ◽  
The Social ◽  
Traditional Elite ◽  
History Of ◽  
The City

This book analyses the physical, social, and cultural history of Rome in late antiquity. Between AD 270 and 535, the former capital of the Roman empire experienced a series of dramatic transformations in its size, appearance, political standing, and identity, as emperors moved to other cities and the Christian church slowly became its dominating institution. Urban Space and Aristocratic Power in Late Antique Rome provides a new picture of these developments, focusing on the extraordinary role played by members of the traditional elite, the senatorial aristocracy, in the redefinition of the city, its institutions, and spaces. During this period, Roman senators and their families became increasingly involved in the management of the city and its population, in building works, and in the performance of secular and religious ceremonies and rituals. As this study shows, for approximately three hundred years the houses of the Roman elite competed with imperial palaces and churches in shaping the political map and the social life of the city. Making use of modern theories of urban space, the book considers a vast array of archaeological, literary, and epigraphic documents to show how the former centre of the Mediterranean world was progressively redefined and controlled by its own elite.

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