scholarly journals DIRECTOR’S INTERPRETATION OF KAZAKH DANCE: DEVELOPMENT TRAJECTORIES IN THE PERSPECTIVE OF CREATIVITY

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 535-548
Author(s):  
Anipa Kussanova ◽  
Balzhan Tleubayeva ◽  
Lyudmila Nikolayeva ◽  
Aliya Shankibayeva
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Analysis ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Dance Education ◽  
Expression Level ◽  
Early 21St Century ◽  
Historical Identity ◽  
Development Trajectories

The study investigates the director’s interpretations of Kazakh dance in the perspective of creativity on the example of works dated the last quarter of the 20th – early 21st century to determine the choreography’s development vectors with taking into account the aspect of creativity. This research is based on the small and large dance performances analysis. The study relevance lies in the fact that it can become a tool for determining the expression level of the national aspect in Kazakh dance art. The results of the study show the role of creativity in the dance education and its ffectiveness in the development of Kazakh dance art. This tool is necessary for the choreographer’s worldview theoretical analysis and his/her dance interpretation, for the Kazakh choreography subsequent enrichment, and preservation of Kazakh historical identity.

scholarly journals Supernatural Characters in the Quasi-Historical Discourse of Modern Ukrainian Literature: Specificity and Functions

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 49-63
Author(s):  
Oleksandra Nikolova ◽  
Kateryna Vasylyna
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Historical Novels ◽  
Historical Discourse ◽  
Early 21St Century ◽  
Global Problem ◽  
The Past ◽  
Public Consciousness ◽  
Historical Past ◽  
The Early 21St Century

: The article is aimed at the study of Ukrainian quasi-historical novels of the early 21st century, characterized by the renunciation of “objectivity” of the narrative and emphasized the role of imagination. These are the pieces by Bakalets and Yarish (“From the Seventh Bottom”), Vynnychuk (“The Pharmacist”, “Lutetia”), and by Yatsenko (“Nechui. Nemov. Nebach”). The study reveals the features and functions of fantastic characters in the abovementioned novels. These fictional images of modern Ukrainian quasihistorical literary discourse are characterized by infernality, grotesque anthropomorphism, destruction of traditional antinomy “otherworldly– earthly/human”, philosophical and ironic coloring. Interpreting the fantasy in quasi-historical novels is expedient in the context of the global problem of perception of historical past by people of the 21st Century, with an emphasis on significant changes in public consciousness motivating writers to “Re-write/Reimagine the past”. The spread of this phenomenon reveals public distrust of the authorities, offering “correct” answers to the questions about past events, protest against permanent manipulation of historical facts (the tendency of growing consciousness and intellectualization of society).

scholarly journals The threat of surveillance capitalism

Teknokultura ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 265-276
Author(s):  
Chris H. Gray
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
21St Century ◽  
The Political ◽  
Early 21St Century ◽  
Media Companies ◽  
Important Addition ◽  
The Early 21St Century

Using Shoshana Zuboff’s 2019 book, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, the essay explores this latest form of capitalism and Zuboff’s claims about its organization. Her arguments are compared and contrasted with David Eggers novel, and the movie that came out of it, called The Circle, as well as other perspectives on capitalism (Marx, Barry Unsworth’s Sacred Hunger) and the current dominance of social media companies (especially Alphabet/Google, Facebook, and Amazon) from Evgeny Morozov, Natasa Dow Schüll, Zeynep Tufekci, Steve Mann and Tim Wu. Zuboff’s description and critique of Surveillance Capitalism is a convincing and important addition to our understanding of the political economy of the early 21st Century and the role of giant monopolistic social media companies in shaping it.

China: Party–Army Relations Past and Present

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sofia K. Ledberg
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Domestic Politics ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
Early Years ◽  
The Political ◽  
Reform Process ◽  
Early 21St Century ◽  
Chinese State ◽  
The Military

The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) is a key political actor in the Chinese state. Together with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the Chinese state institutions, it makes up the political foundation of the People’s Republic of China (PRC). In the early years after the founding of the PRC in 1949, the military played an important role in state consolidation and the management of domestic state affairs, as is expected in a state founded on Leninist principles of organization. Since the reform process, which was initiated in the late 1970s, the political role of the PLA has changed considerably. It has become less involved in domestic politics and increased attention has been directed toward military modernization. Consequently, in the early 21st century, the Chinese military shares many characteristics with the armed forces in noncommunist states. At the same time, the organizational structures, such as the party committee system, the system of political leaders, and political organs, have remained in place. In other words, the politicized structures that were put in place to facilitate the role of the military as a domestic political tool of the CCP, across many sectors of society, are expected to also accommodate modernization, professionalization, and cooperation with foreign militaries on the international arena in postreform China. This points to an interesting discrepancy between form and purpose of the PLA. The role of the military in Chinese politics has thus shifted over the years, and its relationship with the CCP has generally been interpreted as having developed from one marked by symbiosis to one of greater institutional autonomy and independence. Yet these developments should not necessarily be seen as linear or irreversible. Indeed, China of the Xi Jinping era has shown an increased focus on ideology, centralization, and personalized leadership, which already has had consequences for the political control of the Chinese armed forces. Chances are that these trends will affect the role of the PLA in politics even further in the early decades of the 21st century.

THE METHODOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS OF PEDAGOGICAL RESEARCH IN THE CONTEXT OF EDUCATION IN THE 21ST CENTURY

2016 ◽  
pp. 15
Author(s):  
Zoja Chehlova ◽  
Mihails Chehlovs
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Analysis ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Scientific Basis ◽  
Student Activity ◽  
Scientific Issue ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Pedagogical Research ◽  
Relationship Of

The methodological foundations of pedagogical research still remain a debatable and under-researched scientific issue. In our view, this is due to the following reasons:-- the lack of scientifically grounded understanding concerning the subject of pedagogy as a science;- different interpretations of the content of the object and the subject of pedagogical research;- denial of the inter-relationship of the object and the subject of pedagogical research;- lack of understanding of the role of hypothesis as the scientific basis of pedagogical research, resulting in the exclusion of the hypothesis from pedagogical research and its replacement with a research question.Different interpretations of the methodological foundations of pedagogical research and the resulting unproductive experiment determined the further study of this problem.The purpose of the article is the scientific interpretation of the methodological foundations of pedagogical research.Research Methodology – there were used the following approaches: the epistemological approach, the student- activity approach and the anthropological approach.Research method – theoretical analysis.

scholarly journals Emotion, interaction and the structure-agency problem: Building on the sociology of Randall Collins

Thesis Eleven ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 154 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-51
Author(s):  
Anthony King
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Agency Problem ◽  
Typical Feature ◽  
Early 21St Century ◽  
Interaction Ritual ◽  
Ritual Theory ◽  
Collective Goods ◽  
The Early 21St Century

Sociology today faces a number of serious challenges to its integrity as a discipline. As a synthesis of Weberian and Durkheimian traditions, the work of Randall Collins represents an innovative vindication of sociology in the early 21st century. This article explores Collins’s interaction ritual theory to demonstrate its contemporary utility. However, to highlight the importance of Collins’s work, it seeks to advance and refine it theoretically. Specifically, it seeks to develop Collins’s argument about the role of emotions and, specifically, effervescence, in rituals. This paper argues that, while important, effervescence alone cannot be sufficient to ensure the conformity which is a typical feature of interaction and essential to explaining social order. Drawing on Goffman, Asch and Scheff, the paper argues that effervescence is underpinned by more robust mechanisms of honour and shame, themselves immediately connected to access to collective goods. In this way, the paper affirms the importance of Randall Collins’s work for sociology today.

scholarly journals Globalne uwarunkowania wzrostu konkurencyjności Unii Europejskiej w XXI wieku

2018 ◽  
pp. 71-94
Author(s):  
Zdzisław W. Puślecki
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
21St Century ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Research Issues ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
Early 21St Century ◽  
External Relations ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The Eu

The paper aims to present the global determinants of the increased competitiveness of the European Union in the 21st century. Its detailed purpose was to determine the position of the European Union vis-à-vis the USA and Japan, to indicate the role of innovation and employment in the increased competitiveness of the EU, the position of the Common Agricultural Policy under the circumstances of increased competition, the increased importance of ser- vices, the position of the European Union as compared to the competitiveness of BRIC, and how the EU functions within WTO principles. The analysis of these research issues indicates that the European Union is facing a number of significant challenges in the early 21st century. Those related to the prices of goods and resources are particularly worth pointing out. They are closely, mutually related and concern political issues in the field of financial markets, de- velopment, trade, industry and external relations.

scholarly journals A Paradigm Framework for Social Work Theory for Early 21st Century Practice

2019 ◽  
Vol 49 (8) ◽  
pp. 2112-2129 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caroline McGregor
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Local Context ◽  
Late 20Th Century ◽  
Early 21St Century ◽  
Social Work Theory ◽  
Critical Reflexivity ◽  
Global And Local ◽  
Local Research

Abstract This article explores whether paradigms for social work that helped structure and focus social work theory in the late 20th century can continue to inform social work theorising in the present day. The question is considered by reviewing the work of Burrell and Morgan (1979), Howe (1987), Whittington and Holland (1985), Johnson et al., 1984 (cited in Rojek, 1986) and Mulally (1993) who offer specific considerations of paradigm frameworks. The main argument developed in the discussion is that while the nature and orientation of theories in paradigms from later 20th to early 21st century are more diverse and complex, the value of a paradigm as framework for theory for practice persists. But for a paradigm framework to hold sway, there are some essential requirements. These include a need to: emphasise more the importance of local context in global conditions; broaden scope of theory away from predisposition to ‘Western’ dominated ideas; include space for certain constants in social work and recognise the role of critical reflexivity in activating theory. The need for further global and local research studies that systematically test and interrogate the range of social work theories and practices to progress this project is emphasised.

scholarly journals The role of “Siberian Jerusalem” s metaphor in journalistic discourse of the early 21st century (based on the regional and city press of Kainsk and Yeniseisk)

2021 ◽  
Vol 59 ◽  
pp. 126-140
Author(s):  
Mikhail S. Shapovalov ◽  
Eliza R. Grigoryan
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Sacred Space ◽  
Syntactic Structure ◽  
Scientific Discourse ◽  
Early 21St Century ◽  
The Early 21St Century

Nowadays they build “Siberian Jerusalems” on the territory of Trans-Ural: Yeniseisk, Barguzin, Birobidzhan, Blagoveshchensk and Kainsk. Moreover in different times social and scientific discourse of Siberia (and Russia) already knew “Siberian Jerusalems”: Tobolsk, Kainsk. Researchers focus not only on the process of generating and existence of the phenomenon “Siberian Jerusalem”, but also on the issue of the very transferring process of the idea of Jerusalem to Siberia, spatial and semiotic introduction into the sacred space of Siberian cities. The authors pay special attention to the concept of “Siberian Jerusalem” as applied to the cities of Kainsk and Yeniseisk. Are there common qualities of two metaphoric “Siberian Jerusalem” and can we argue that these concepts are identical? Basing on these metaphors the study helps to figure out the genesis and essence of these constructs “Kainsk — Siberian Jerusalem” and “Yeniseisk — Siberian Jerusalem”, where they are implemented. In methodological terms the paper uses developments in the field of cultural-sematic transfer (S. S. Avanesov) and linguistic studies of metaphor as a language unit and mechanisms of its generation (N. D. Arutyunova, V. P. Moskvin). The authors conclude that while syntactic structure of the metaphor “Kainsk — “Siberian Jerusalem” and” “Yeniseisk — “Siberian Jerusalem” coincided they denote non-identical meanings.

scholarly journals Absurdity and Revolt in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road

PhaenEx ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 221
Author(s):  
MICHAEL KEREN
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Early 21St Century ◽  
The Road ◽  
Relevant Today ◽  
The World ◽  
Recent Developments

Camus’ notions of absurdity and revolt remain relevant today, especially with respect to very recent developments in the growing role of electronic and digital mass media. Cormac McCarthy’s 2006 novel The Road, describing a father and child’s journey after the world as we know it has been destroyed, is used to highlight the nature of absurdity and revolt in their updated early 21st century version.

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