scholarly journals Heuristic Potentials of the Sociological Imagination

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 11
Author(s):  
Sandro Serpa ◽  
Carlos Miguel Ferreira
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Sociological Imagination ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Charles Wright

The concept of sociological imagination, originally proposed by Charles Wright Mill, is a classic of Sociology. This paper aims to present and discuss the sociological imagination projecting its heuristic capacity in contemporary society, in which the digital is a novelty vis-a-vis the original social context that shaped this proposal. The results of this analysis allow concluding that there are some contemporary challenges to be considered in this crucial analytical proposal in Sociology.

scholarly journals O sociologické imaginaci

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 147-162 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomáš Kobes
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Sociological Imagination ◽  
Critical Position ◽  
Charles Wright ◽  
Social Metaphysics

This article discusses the controversy of the sociological imagination as it was developed by Charles Wright Mills and its relevance for the current epistemology of social science. His notion of the sociological imagination has several problems due to the unreflected general prejudice distinguishing between structure and subjectivity, which creates from sociology a kind of social metaphysics. As a result, social context is conceptualised as an unproblematic domain used for the rationalisation of an actor’s behaviour and knowledge, and the sociological imagination gives the sociologist an absolute critical position which situates him paradoxically in the name of justice and freedom against humanity.

scholarly journals Reimagining the terrain of liquid times: Reflexive marketing and the sociological imagination

2020 ◽  
pp. 146954052095520
Author(s):  
Paul Hewer
Keyword(s):  
Consumer Culture ◽  
Critical Review ◽  
Sociological Imagination ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Public Issues ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
Liquid Modernity ◽  
The Third ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Political Economic

This paper has three objectives. The first is to deliver a critical review of the work of Zygmunt Bauman on Liquid Modernity and Liquid Times. I argue that Bauman’s work can provide a useful starting point for analysing the ‘unruly’ forces of contemporary society. Bauman’s work, as I have sought to reveal, takes us to the heart of liquid modern darkness. It forces us to take seriously the import of the sociological imagination and the insight that personal troubles are best understood as emerging public issues stemming from structural processes. The second objective, is to explore how consumer culture theorists have taken and in dialogue with these ideas sought to expand upon his initial ideas. Here I review the value of the concept of ‘liquid consumption’ and the ‘fresh start mindset’. The third and final objective, is to demonstrate how reflexive marketing practitioners are responding to such liquid times through rethinking their practice and thereby extending the terrain of marketing. Here I detail how the promise marketing imagination starts not with the darkness of liquid modern times but rather with a far more hope inspired tale to enchant new markets and new audiences on the possibilities and ‘solutions’ of being future oriented and technologically savvy. Finally, it argues that the task of reimagining appears essential given the current zeitgeist, where the climate of anxiety, fear and uncertainty whether it be political, economic, environmental or social threatens to engulf us.

scholarly journals Impact of Motherly Affection in Chokher Bali and Sons and Lovers: A Comparative Study

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 58-62
Author(s):  
Salma Parvin Suma
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Social Culture ◽  
The Impact

Rabindranath Tagore’s Chokher Bali and D.H Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers are two famous novels in the early 20th century from two different social culture. Both these novels have particular important issues in them to be discussed. As in Chokher Bali we find Tagore has presented his idea in feminism, man-woman relationship, woeful condition of widow in his contemporary society etc. In the same way in Sons and Lovers Lawrence has talked about critical mother-son relationship, social bondage among the characters, description of nature, problems in the lives of working class etc. Though Chokher Bali and Sons and Lovers are from different social context but they can be compared through the commonly discussed issue in them that is complex mother-son relationship and the impact of motherhood to the sons. This paper is going to discuss the impact of excessive motherly affection to the life of son, similarities and dissimilarities in mother-son relationship in Chokher Bali and Sons and Lovers. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3381310

Archives and Qualitative Research in Education (from Foucault and Bourdieu’s Approaches)

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dora Marín-Diaz ◽  
Flávia Schilling ◽  
Julio Groppa Aquino
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Educational Research ◽  
Michel Foucault ◽  
Sociological Imagination ◽  
Qualitative Investigation ◽  
What Is Said ◽  
Charles Wright ◽  
Reflexive Sociology ◽  
Per Se ◽  
Research In Education

This article focuses on the proposal of archival research in qualitative educational research. Based on the assumption that, in this context, different paths are available to the researcher, the question of how to select relevant sources in order to provide singular approaches to the issues at stake arises. More specifically, when conducting qualitative research in education how can the archives be navigated? To that end, the article begins with the notion of sociological imagination drawn from the work of Charles Wright Mills, in conjunction with Pierre Bourdieu’s reflexive sociology; for the latter, the construction of the object of investigation was based on a system of objective relations. Next, the archaegenealogical perspective of Michel Foucault is examined; for him the archive is the instance that governs the emergence of discourses. In both cases, the goal is for the researcher to glean certain insights from the surface of what is said, critically describing the functioning of discourse around the problem investigated according to its dispersion among different practices, which in turn are responsible for giving form to the objects to which the researcher dedicates himself. Rather than a methodology per se, the notion of the archive defended here, without any prescriptive intention, describes a specific way of conducting qualitative investigation marked by originality and critical accuracy.

Tangled between paradigms in the neo-baroque era

2016 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 152-158 ◽  
Author(s):  
Felipe Criado-Boado
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Baroque Era ◽  
Virtual Experiences ◽  
Crisis Of Modernity

AbstractThe underlying notion for this article is that archaeology requires an amalgamation of humanities and science, and of narrative and scientific knowledge. The need for this fusion has arisen in a context in which contemporary society is experiencing major changes in epistemics, aesthetics and fashion; an increase in virtual experiences; and an economic crisis. I refer to this situation as the neo-baroque, a condition that is elusive and partially ambiguous. This social context (perhaps the final crisis of modernity), and the breakdown of this integration in pragmatic terms, call for a repoliticization of science.

scholarly journals Committing Sociology: Being Healthy, Happy, and Up-High in St. James Town

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Bisaillon ◽  
Mehdia Hassan ◽  
Maryam Hassan
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Sociological Imagination ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
The World ◽  
First Time

There is a doggedly persistent, pervasive, and pernicious tendency to individualize ratherthan socialize problems. This is a discernable pattern that we see all around us,independent of any one particular social context. This collaboratively produced article isan example of and commitment to feminist praxis. We intentionally mobilize the “toolsof social science, friendship, and the power of conversation” (Mountz, 2016) to bring tolife ideas that Mehdia experienced for the first time in Laura’s undergraduate classroom.Specifically, she and fellow classmates, along with Maryam, learned how to cultivate andemploy their “sociological imagination” (Mills, 1959, 2000); connecting aspects ofbiography with materially arising social conditions. The aim of such inquiry is togenerate new insights and critically minded, contextually situated, and empiricallysupported explications for how things happen for and around us in the world we inhabit.In doing so, we are able to “sociologically reimagine” analysis by using visual modes ofinquiry and intentional “interdisciplinary entanglement” to blur the boundaries betweentraditional and so-called non-traditional modes of knowledge making (Jungnickel &Hjorth, 2014). We argue that the time is absolutely upon us to “commit sociology,”[1]and we offer this article as an intervention that does just this. [1] As per https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yT9dhHsKwc

Spirituality and Tourism in Japanese Pilgrimage Sites

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kumi Kato ◽  
Ricardo Progano
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Sacred Sites ◽  
The West ◽  
Specific Research ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Spiritual Tourism ◽  
Self Discovery

Contemporary society understands spirituality as an individualized "quest of self-discovery and reflection" that combines eclectic elements, while disregarding traditional religious organizations. This social context has shaped how sacred sites are managed and promoted in tourism, as well as tourist motivation and behaviour. Still, the information on religious and spiritual-related tourism remains Euro-centric, although around half of an estimated 600 million religious and spiritual travels take place in Asia and the Pacific (UNWTO 2011). In order to contribute to studies on the area, the purpose of this article is to explore the intersection of spirituality and tourism in a non-Western pilgrimage site utilizing the three categories of Olsen (2015) to interpret and organize research materials in a coherent format. The Kumano Kodo pilgrimage trails in Japan were selected as case study. Results showed a variety of Japanese-specific research materials related to contemporary spirituality and tourism that still draw some parallels to the West. Following Olsen's categories, the case study showed mainly elements from spiritual tourism, with some from New Age tourism as well. Wellness was a particularly emphasized characteristic. Further research is suggested to develop Olsen's categorization and to deepen the study of non-Western tourism contexts of contemporary spirituality in different areas.

Hidden meanings of the words “religion” and “religious” in legal discourse

Semiotica ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 (209) ◽  
pp. 341-355
Author(s):  
Maria Luisa Lo Giacco
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
North American ◽  
Legal Discourse ◽  
Case Law ◽  
South American ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Social Phenomenon ◽  
Legal Systems ◽  
Culture Education

AbstractThe words “religion” and “religious” are deeply influenced by cultural and social context. The word “religion” could mean to the ears of a North American a social phenomenon that a South American doesn’t consider such. The same thing can happen in a dialogue between an Asian and an European. In fact, in contemporary society, the word “religion” has many meanings, not always understandable, sometimes hidden. The same goes for the adjective “religious.” What do I mean when I define a place, a behavior, a building, a person with the adjective “Religious”? Can I really be sure that what for me is “religious” is so for the man talking to me as well? Do my culture, education, and family traditions lead me to consider as “Religious” something that for other people is not so? Such questions are particularly relevant if we think about the value that many legal systems attribute to “Religion” and “Religious.” The words “religion” and “religious” have hidden meanings that only knowledge of a given culture and tradition may help to unravel. These hidden meanings are often important in legal discourse, especially in case law; which is why it is necessary to reveal them.

scholarly journals Revisiting children’s studies through the lens of the sociology of childhood

2011 ◽  
Vol 4 (8) ◽  
pp. 473
Author(s):  
Danielle Barbosa Lins de Almeida
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Theoretical Approach ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Panoramic View ◽  
Historical Condition ◽  
Sociology Of Childhood

This article aims at presenting the Sociology of Childhood as an innovative theoretical approach to Children’s Studies, which situates the category of childhood in relation to contemporary society. Having said that, the article introduces the main principles related to a methodological approach supported by the Sociology of Childhood, offers a panoramic view on children’s historical condition in society, focuses on issues related to the so-called ‘paradoxes of childhood’ and children’s universal rights and finally, discusses the construction of the notion of childhood within the Brazilian social context.

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