What Does It Mean to Be a Developing Christian in Today's World?

2020 ◽  
pp. 222-260
Keyword(s):  
Social Action ◽  
Refugee Crisis ◽  
Income Equality ◽  
Dorothy Day ◽  
The Many ◽  
Immigrant And Refugee

All the preceding chapters have built up to this final and perhaps most important chapter. As the title of this chapter suggests, the goal is to present a clear answer to the question, “What does it mean to be a developing Christian in today's world?” Although there are many pressing problems in today's world that a developing Christian is obliged to confront, five key categories of problems are discussed: (1) poverty and income equality, (2) the immigrant and refugee crisis, (3) the many faces of violence, (4) the many faces of bigotry, and (5) the problems caused by power and oppression. In each case, consideration is given to explaining why developing Christians should consider the problem to be intolerable, why the problem exists, and potential solutions to them. To make the arguments in this book even more concrete and practical, the life of an exemplary modern Christian (Dorothy Day) is discussed and linked to the present and prior chapters. The chapter ends with a plea for dialog, unity, and a call to social action.

scholarly journals Los usos del pragmatismo o cómo hacer sociología con filosofía

2017 ◽  
pp. 49
Author(s):  
Philippe Schaffhauser
Keyword(s):  
Social Action ◽  
John Dewey ◽  
Continuous Process ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
Jürgen Habermas ◽  
Jurgen Habermas ◽  
The Social ◽  
Participative Approach ◽  
Siglo Xix ◽  
The Many

Resumen:El pragmatismo y la sociología son, por decirlo así, primos hermanos ya que fueron engendrados en la segunda mitad del siglo XIX por la modernidad y la imperiosa necesidad de contrastar procesos sociales y económicos mediante una postura científica, crítica y participativa. Sin embargo este lazo de parentesco no significa que en la actualidad se haya dado una relación real a través de la constitución por ejemplo de un programa sociológico de corte pragmatista. La tradición pragmatista no es sino una fuente entre muchas otras para el pensamiento de autores tan diversos como son Jürgen Habermas y David Bloor. Lo único que encontramos cuando se revisan las fuentes son contados casos de acercamiento teórico entre ambas miradas y formas de acción, esto es, mediante textos de Emilio Durkheim (1913-1914), Charles W. Mills (1968) y hoy día con Hans Joas (1998 y 2002). En este artículo se pretende discutir sobre los posibles aportes del pensamiento pragmatista para la reflexión sociológica, los cuales giran en torno a buscar soluciones a problemas metodológicos-teóricos. En este sentido la concepción “práctica” de la realidad social como un proceso continuo y situado en un espacio “plástico” o, conforme a G.H. Mead y John Dewey, el re-planteamiento del concepto de acción social como “acción creadora culturalmente situada” pueden ser de gran interés para ampliar las perspectivas de la reflexión sociológica.Palabras clave: Sociología, Pragmatismo, Acción Creadora, Creencia y Continuidades.AbstractPragmatism and sociology are sort of first-cousins as both emerged from modernity in the second half of the nineteenth century, upon the need to contrast social processes with economic ones from a scientific, critical and participative approach. However, this does not mean there is currently a real link between the two of them given by, for instance, the development of a sociological programme based on pragmatism. The pragmatic tradition is only one of the many other sources for various thinkers like Jürgen Habermas and David Bloor. The only theoretical link and ways of action connecting these two disciplines are given in cases such as Emilio Durkheim (1913-1914), Charles W. Mills (1968) and nowadays Hans Joas (1998 and 2002).  This article aims at discussing about the potential contributions of the pragmatic thought to the sociological one in order to find answers to methodological and theoretical problems. In this sense, the "practical" conception of the social reality as a continuous process placed in a "plastic" space, as stated by G.H Mead and John Dewey, reshaping the social action concept as a "creative action culturally placed" may be of help to expand sociological perspectives.Key words: sociology; pragmatism; creative action; belief and continuities

YaskoT 7OKM EL3aSKaR

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-27
Author(s):  
Michael Raish
Keyword(s):  
Social Action ◽  
Linguistic Diversity ◽  
Multinomial Logistic Regression ◽  
Linguistic Landscape ◽  
Political Protest ◽  
Current Effort ◽  
Multinomial Logistic Regression Analysis ◽  
Code Choice ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract This paper presents an analysis of the linguistic contents of political protest signs that were erected at sit-in sites in Cairo and Alexandria, Egypt, during the summer of 2011. Sign authors employed a wide variety of linguistic codes and symbolic visual resources to subvert state authority, urge fellow citizens to action, and advocate a number of other political goals. Drawing on the methodology of Linguistic Landscape (LL) studies, the current effort investigates the relationship between linguistic code and factors such as sign location, medium, length, and thematic content. Multinomial logistic regression analysis reveals a significant relationship between sign code and medium, for example, as handwritten signs show more linguistic diversity than printed signs. Qualitative analysis focuses on sign authors, use of the symbolic and semiotic resources associated with these codes. This study of the ephemeral, transitory LL of Egyptian sit-in sites demonstrates the many and varied ways in which citizen sign authors manipulate concepts of formality, code choice, and imagery to encourage audiences to take up their messages as resources for social action in their own worlds.

Fragments of the European Refugee Crisis: Performing Displacement and the Re-Shaping of Greek Identity

2017 ◽  
Vol 61 (2) ◽  
pp. 32-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalie Zervou
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Refugee Crisis ◽  
European Refugee Crisis ◽  
Immigrant And Refugee ◽  
A Site

The influx of immigrant and refugee populations in Greece, in the midst of the ongoing financial crisis, has given rise to performance collectives and initiatives concerned with the integration of newcomers. Such performances have become a site for the advocacy of immigrants’ rights and engagement with the shifting urban demographic in Greece, prompting a reconsideration of national identity.

scholarly journals The figure of the refugee in Hassan Blasim’s “The Reality and the Record”

2017 ◽  
Vol 54 (3) ◽  
pp. 319-333 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nadia Atia
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
First Century ◽  
Refugee Camps ◽  
Refugee Crisis ◽  
Displaced Persons ◽  
Trauma Narrative ◽  
Narrative Agency ◽  
The Many ◽  
Developed World

This article considers Hassan Blasim’s short story, “The Reality and the Record”. It argues that Blasim’s asylum seeker should be read as a powerful challenge to extant responses to the ever-growing global refugee crisis: a vision of the many difficulties faced by twenty-first century displaced persons, no longer confined to the refugee camps of the mid-twentieth century most often associated with Palestinian literature in the Middle East, but seeking elusive shelter in Europe. I argue that Blasim’s short story highlights the impossibility of the demands placed upon those seeking shelter in the developed world, reminding us of the under-recognized role of trauma, narrative, agency, and especially evidence in seeking humanitarian asylum. By undermining any confidence we might have in an idealized “truth”, the text questions the morality of asylum-seeking processes in the developed world, demanding that its readers reevaluate their own stance in relation to displaced persons, and asserting that the burden of narrating oneself into a place of safety, of performing worthy victimhood, is neither just, nor feasible.

scholarly journals “I have Felt so Much Joy”: The Role of Emotions in Community Sponsorship of Refugees

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jenny Phillimore ◽  
Marisol Reyes-Soto ◽  
Gabriella D’Avino ◽  
Natasha Nicholls
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Social Action ◽  
Negative Emotions ◽  
Group Formation ◽  
Refugee Crisis ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Individual Group ◽  
Refugee Families ◽  
The Uk

AbstractResettlement programmes are considered one solution to displacement following the so-called refugee crisis. Private or community-based sponsorship models enable volunteer groups to take responsibility resettling refugees. The UK Community Sponsorship scheme (CS) allows volunteer groups to support refugee families in their community. This paper explores the role of emotions in CS using Jaspers three-stage social action life cycle (1998) drawing upon Doidge and Sandri’s (Br J Sociol 70: 463–480, 2018) positive and negative emotions, Jaspers (Sociol Forum 13: 397–424, 1998) reactive and affective continuum and Hoggett and Miller’s (Community Dev J 35: 352–364, 2000) individual/group features to explore the role of emotions in CS work. Using interview data collected from 123 interviews with 22 sponsorship groups, we find across the life cycle that there is a shift from negative reactive emotions during group initiation to positive affective emotions during consolidation and finally a mix of negative and positive affective emotions as groups become sustained. Understanding the role of emotions in motivating and sustaining volunteers is essential to the success of the CS, to encourage group formation and reduce burnout.

Habitus and Beyond

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudio E. Benzecry
Keyword(s):  
Social Action ◽  
Pierre Bourdieu ◽  
Main Section ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Many

Chapter abstract Pierre Bourdieu coined the concept of habitus to capture the connection between embodiment, cognition, processes of singularization and temporalization, and the collective. This chapter discusses the aporias that result from this semantic ambition. It starts with a presentation of the many uses of habitus in Bourdieu’s own work; what follows is how the concept has been deployed in research by US sociologists; the third and main section of the chapter looks at the aporias provoked by the concept’s extension and the many critical avenues pursued by other scholars after it. This last section focuses less on criticisms to Bourdieu’s oeuvre and more on scholarship produced in tension with dispositional accounts of social action. The author presents six conversations that point at conceptual or semantic connections that are taken for granted in habitus and that have been examined by scholars such as Lahire, Steinmetz, Wacquant, Auyero, Elias, and Boltanski.

scholarly journals Ignorance as an Outcome of Categorizations: The “Refugees” in the Polish Academic Discourse before and after the 2015 Refugee Crisis

2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 730-751
Author(s):  
Anna Horolets ◽  
Adriana Mica ◽  
Mikołaj Pawlak ◽  
Paweł Kubicki
Keyword(s):  
Social Action ◽  
Political Action ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Refugee Crisis ◽  
Security Threat ◽  
The Public ◽  
Before And After ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Strategic Framing ◽  
Pragmatic Aspects

The article addresses the issue of the so-called refugee crisis in Europe from the perspective of ignorance studies and seeks to establish the mechanisms whereby ignorance is created through categorizations. We depart from the proposal of Proctor and view ignorance as either “native state,” “lost realm,” or “strategic ploy.” In all three, ignorance is an unalienable part of social action. The case of Polish academic research on refugees before and after 2015 is explored in order to establish who ignores what, when, and why, when categorizing, and to analyze the relationship between ignorance and social action. In the Polish refugee field, the crisis of 2015 was the moment when the refugee issue stepped out of the shadows and attracted the attention of the public and policymakers. The analysis of the category “refugee” in Polish scholarship before 2015 demonstrates that the category was based on culturalization and idealization; thus, the socio-political and pragmatic aspects of the group’s characteristics and actions were systematically ignored, and the ignorance worked as a “lost realm.” After 2015, a new body of scholarship emerges in which the category “refugee” acquires negative connotations with security threat or fakeness. In the new scholarship, ignorance is a strategic framing that sets the category of “refugee” outside the humanitarian issues. We claim that the new categorizations follow the logic of culturalization and moralization typical of the previous period. Strategic ignorance inherent in the categorizations that dichotomize “good” and “bad” refugees, or “refugees” and “migrants,” unlocks the potential for political action.

Restorationism in the Political Thought of Yamagata Daini (1725–1767)

1971 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tetsuo Najita
Keyword(s):  
Social Action ◽  
Political Thought ◽  
The Political ◽  
General Phenomenon ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
Modern Politics ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Many ◽  
Traditional Setting ◽  
Modes Of Thought

Few concepts in modern times are as full of paradoxes as nationalism. Widely agreed to be a general phenomenon of modern politics, it is known also to vary drastically in character in every country. It is presumed to make politics rational and purposeful, yet it is conceptually irrational, more akin to a “religion,” as Carleton Hayes once noted, than to a definable conceptual construct. Lacking precise definition, it is subject to manipulation and to being used as justification for a bewildering variety of often contradictory forms of political and social action. Despite this imprecision, it is thoroughly enmeshed in modern historiography, and the historian has little recourse than to seek greater precision in the use of this concept by providing it with explicit historical content. Of the many tasks that might be undertaken in this area, certainly one of the more serious is the reconstruction of patterns of political thought formulated in the traditional setting that exercised powerful influences on the specific character of nationalism in the modern history of a country. Especially important from the standpoint of this essay are those modes of thought that conceptualized subjective action against existing politics as being in the real or purported interest of the wider polity. For nationalism in modern Jajan, the key in this regard is, without question, the concept of “restorationism.”

scholarly journals The many faces of online community

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 55-74
Author(s):  
Annamari Martinviita
Keyword(s):  
Social Action ◽  
Online Community ◽  
Boundary Object ◽  
Image Sharing ◽  
Mediated Discourse ◽  
Shared Culture ◽  
The Many ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
And Function ◽  
Meaning And Function

This article discusses the meaning and function of “community” as a discourse on the image-sharing website Imgur. The analysis shows that the community term has many meanings and serves as a shorthand for a wide variety of social practices, and these meanings are shaped by the experiences of social action leading to the use of the term. Based on ethnographic data, nexus analysis provides an understanding of how the interactions related to community on the site come to take place the way they do. In conceiving of these interactions as mediated discourse, the article provides a fresh approach to the long-established academic discussion on the definition of community, suggesting a new conception of the community term as a boundary object, which takes on various meanings and functions as it is employed in social action. On Imgur, the community term is associated with an imagined connection to similar others, a shared culture, and the commitment to participation required by the intertextuality of the site content and the challenge of learning to read and create the content that is popular on the site.

scholarly journals Los usos del pragmatismo o cómo hacer sociología con filosofía

2017 ◽  
pp. 49
Author(s):  
Philippe Schaffhauser
Keyword(s):  
Social Action ◽  
John Dewey ◽  
Continuous Process ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
Jürgen Habermas ◽  
Jurgen Habermas ◽  
The Social ◽  
Participative Approach ◽  
Siglo Xix ◽  
The Many

Resumen:El pragmatismo y la sociología son, por decirlo así, primos hermanos ya que fueron engendrados en la segunda mitad del siglo XIX por la modernidad y la imperiosa necesidad de contrastar procesos sociales y económicos mediante una postura científica, crítica y participativa. Sin embargo este lazo de parentesco no significa que en la actualidad se haya dado una relación real a través de la constitución por ejemplo de un programa sociológico de corte pragmatista. La tradición pragmatista no es sino una fuente entre muchas otras para el pensamiento de autores tan diversos como son Jürgen Habermas y David Bloor. Lo único que encontramos cuando se revisan las fuentes son contados casos de acercamiento teórico entre ambas miradas y formas de acción, esto es, mediante textos de Emilio Durkheim (1913-1914), Charles W. Mills (1968) y hoy día con Hans Joas (1998 y 2002). En este artículo se pretende discutir sobre los posibles aportes del pensamiento pragmatista para la reflexión sociológica, los cuales giran en torno a buscar soluciones a problemas metodológicos-teóricos. En este sentido la concepción “práctica” de la realidad social como un proceso continuo y situado en un espacio “plástico” o, conforme a G.H. Mead y John Dewey, el re-planteamiento del concepto de acción social como “acción creadora culturalmente situada” pueden ser de gran interés para ampliar las perspectivas de la reflexión sociológica.Palabras clave: Sociología, Pragmatismo, Acción Creadora, Creencia y Continuidades.AbstractPragmatism and sociology are sort of first-cousins as both emerged from modernity in the second half of the nineteenth century, upon the need to contrast social processes with economic ones from a scientific, critical and participative approach. However, this does not mean there is currently a real link between the two of them given by, for instance, the development of a sociological programme based on pragmatism. The pragmatic tradition is only one of the many other sources for various thinkers like Jürgen Habermas and David Bloor. The only theoretical link and ways of action connecting these two disciplines are given in cases such as Emilio Durkheim (1913-1914), Charles W. Mills (1968) and nowadays Hans Joas (1998 and 2002).  This article aims at discussing about the potential contributions of the pragmatic thought to the sociological one in order to find answers to methodological and theoretical problems. In this sense, the "practical" conception of the social reality as a continuous process placed in a "plastic" space, as stated by G.H Mead and John Dewey, reshaping the social action concept as a "creative action culturally placed" may be of help to expand sociological perspectives.Key words: sociology; pragmatism; creative action; belief and continuities

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