scholarly journals Remediating the remediated : printed prose in the age of hypertext

2006 ◽  
Vol 39 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 71-83
Author(s):  
Mojca Krevel
Keyword(s):  
American Fiction ◽  
Internet Radio ◽  
Social Sphere ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Future ◽  
Insight Into

The article argues that with the spreading of computer hypertext into the social sphere, hypertext is no longer merely a writing technique or an organising principle; it becomes the logic implicit in the functioning of postmodern  societies.lts actualisation can be performed via any medium-TV, internet, radio or print. Based on instances from 1990s and early 2000s printed American fiction, the paper examines the ways in which print already is hypertextual, and attempts to provide an insight into the future of printed literature in an era no longer governed by the Modem Age principles and paradigms.

Making Maya Men

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-34
Author(s):  
Pete Sigal
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
First Century ◽  
Yucatec Maya ◽  
Hollywood Film ◽  
Social Sphere ◽  
Early Twenty ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Future ◽  
Film Producer ◽  
Maya People

The Franciscan friar Diego de Landa, in the mid-sixteenth century, and the Holly-wood film producer and director Mel Gibson, in the early twenty-first century, created Maya men as beings with perverted and penetrated bodies. In 1566 Landa wrote his Relación de las cosas de Yucatán, an extensive text about the Maya people. In 2006 Gibson released Apocalypto, a Hollywood film in which all dialogue was in Yucatec Maya. Landa and Gibson both argued that they showed the true Maya world, but each expressed a visceral reaction to Maya sacrifice and, in so doing, infested their own fantasies with nightmares of savage Maya men. This essay argues that by analyzing the voyeurism and fantasies of Landa and Gibson, we can come to terms with the position of Maya masculinity in modern Western imaginations. Moreover, by working to understand Landa’s and Gibson’s investments in perverse Maya men, we can think about why Western people formulate fantasies of colonized subjects. Finally, these fantasies of non-Western subjectivities can speak to the stakes involved in queer theory’s understanding of the social sphere, the heterosexual family, and the child as a sign of the future.

scholarly journals Environmental Discourse: A Comparative Ecocritical Study of Pakistani and American Fiction in English

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 260
Author(s):  
Monazza Makhdoom ◽  
Munazza Yaqoob
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Degradation ◽  
Ecological Crisis ◽  
American Fiction ◽  
Environmental Discourse ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
Social Sphere ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approaches ◽  
The Social ◽  
Ecological Relationship ◽  
Different Cultures

This article is an overview of how language communicates and construes humanity’s relationship to the environment in different cultural contexts. With reference to Moth Smoke (2012), Trespassing (2005), White Noise (1999) and A Thousand Acres (1991) the study explores particularities of American and Pakistani environmental discourse. Informed by interdisciplinary approaches like ecocriticism and toxic discourse the analysis seeks to demonstrate writers’ engagement with issues and concerns on environmental degradation. The purpose of the study is to explore the plurality of perspectives that are required to address the environmental contamination taking place globally. To understand the fundamental premise of how different cultures view and frame ecological crisis especially in the form of toxicity, pollution and contamination, this article briefly examines the selected Pakistani and American writers’ representation of their society’s ecological relationship with the living and non-living world recognising the complex altering relationship between the environment and the social sphere.

Archaeological Interpretation

2020 ◽  
pp. 34-52
Author(s):  
Amanda C. Watts
Keyword(s):  
Best Practice ◽  
Public Memory ◽  
Rhetoric And Composition ◽  
Social Sphere ◽  
Archaeological Interpretation ◽  
Roman Villa ◽  
The Social ◽  
Rhetoric And Composition Studies ◽  
Insight Into

This chapter explores the role of archaeological interpretation in relation to public memory. Tools from the fields of rhetoric and composition studies offer productive avenues to consider the role and responsibility of archaeologists in the earliest rhetorical shaping of public memory. Scholarship on publics and public memory apply to understanding the rhetorical process as archaeologists' texts circulate through filters of stakeholders, journalists, or other cultural heritage specialists. Case studies of texts produced during excavations at Mes Aynak, Afghanistan, and Chedworth Roman Villa, UK are rhetorically analyzed to understand their contribution to public discourses, offering insight into new approaches to ethical best practice in archaeological communication. Acknowledging the work texts is important for any author contributing to the social sphere, though there is a burden unique to archaeology as authoring history into modern cultural consciousness.

India's Development Experience.—By Tarlok Singh. MacMillan 1974. pp.458.

1978 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 131-133
Author(s):  
Sarfraz K. Qureshi
Keyword(s):  
Economic Evaluation ◽  
The Social ◽  
Development Experience ◽  
The Future ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Successes And Failures

Perhaps no person is better qualified to present an insight into India's development experience than the author of this book who was most intimately connected with the preparation of the first four five year plans. The scope of the book is broad and comprehensive as it presents a lucid and objective account of the main goals, constraints, successes and failures of planning in India during the period, 1950-1971. The book also attempts to draw lessons for the future planner in India. The evaluation of different plans is mostly in economic terms. However, this economic evaluation is supplemented with a useful account of the social, political and administrative aspects of the develop¬ment process in India.

scholarly journals Socio-Pedagogical Conditionsof Future Social SpecialiststTraining for Successful Professional Career

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Yaroslav Spivak ◽  
Svitlana Omelchenko ◽  
Mariana Mateeva Petrova ◽  
Svitlana Kurinna ◽  
Ian Kurinnyi
Keyword(s):  
Vocational Education ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Practical Experience ◽  
Professional Career ◽  
Social Sphere ◽  
Leading Role ◽  
The Social ◽  
Self Development ◽  
The Future

Problems of social protection have become one of the most discussed in the world. Specialists of various specialties work in the social sphere: psychologists, lawyers, doctors, sociologists, etc. However, the leading role belongs to social specialists. There is a lack of social specialists, and if there are any, they do not understand exactly what they should do. The article deals with singling out the socio-pedagogical circumstances of the future social specialistseducation for an effective professional career. The focus is on analyzing of the modern directions of vocational education of future social workers. It is singled out and substantiate the socio-pedagogical circumstances for of future social professionalseducation for an effective professional career, such as: actualization and development of students' motivation to build a successful professional career; taking into account the peculiarities of the practical activities of social specialists and their transformational influences on various subjects of communication activities; gaining practical experience based on self-development. The socio-pedagogical circumstances of future social spesialists education is defined in the work as set of external and internal cconditions,  which implemant in the process of vocational education of future social workers will ensure effective formation of hard and soft skills,  fundamental qualities for an effective professional career. It is found out possible ways to implement the selected socio-pedagogical conditions in the vocationaleducation of the future social professionals for an effective professional career. The using of the different methods allowed to obtain objective information about the socio-pedagogical conditions of vocationaleducation of future social specialists to a successful professional career. The statistical data of the research are represented  using diagrams, tables and figures.

scholarly journals The system of professional skills in the structure of readiness of future specialists in the social sphere for sustainable development of social groups

2019 ◽  
pp. 93-110
Author(s):  
Natalia Kabus
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Professional Activity ◽  
Prognostic Information ◽  
Professional Skills ◽  
Informative Advertising ◽  
Managerial Skills ◽  
Social Sphere ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Future

In accordance with the purpose, the article describes the essence of readiness of future specialists in the social sphere for the sustainable development of social groups as well as substantiates the place of the system of professional skills in its structure. In the course of the scientific research the following methods were used: analysis, synthesis, systematization and generalization. As a result future social teachers’ and workers’ readiness for sustainable development of social groups is defined in the study as a stable integrative personal and professional ability, based on the acquired motivational, theoretical and practical values, significant personal and professional qualities and manifested in the active creative social and pedagogical activity aimed at sustainable development of social groups, considering the specific characteristics of different of them. The components (motivational-axiological, competence-creative, personality-reflexive) of the future social specialists’ readiness for sustainable development of social groups are determined. The system of professional skills of future specialist, which ensure the success of professional activity for sustainable development of social groups, is substantiated. The specified system is represented by: general pedagogical skills (intellectual-research, constructive-prognostic, information-cognitive, educational-methodological, reflexive-corrective), general skills of a social worker’s professional activity (to implement a social-educational, informative, advertising, preventive, correctional and rehabilitation work in the context of sustainable development) and specific skills (communicative-stimulating and organizational-managerial). The study shows that communicative and stimulating skills are necessary for realizing convincing influence on the motives, values, beliefs of representatives of different social groups in order to promote their sustainable development. Organizational and managerial skills provide the ability to coordinate the activities of different social actors to create spiritually full stimulating and creative environment in society in order to move the representatives of various social groups up to the level of self-organization and self-management. In conclusion the article describes the ways of formation of the future specialists’ identified skills in different types of activity during studying at a university.

Alternative path for the future or a return to the past? Araujo’s “philosophical” history of psychology

2017 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 108-116 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adrian C. Brock
Keyword(s):  
Sociology Of Knowledge ◽  
History Of Psychology ◽  
Philosophy Of Psychology ◽  
Historical Discourse ◽  
The Past ◽  
Alternative Path ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of ◽  
Insight Into

Araujo begins by criticising what he calls the “social turn” in the history of psychology. He singles out the work of Kurt Danziger for special criticism in this regard. He then outlines the emergence of an allegedly new field called “History and Philosophy of Science” (HPS) and calls for a different approach which he labels a “philosophical” history of psychology. Here I examine his criticism of Danziger’s work and suggest that it is unjustified. I also point out that there is nothing new about the field of HPS and nothing original about the idea of relating history and philosophy of psychology. I conclude by suggesting that, although Araujo’s criticism is unjustified, it can give some insight into where his alternative path for the future will lead. It is an attempt to excise the sociology of knowledge from historical discourse and to return to a more traditional history of ideas.

scholarly journals Pedagogical System of the Future Social Workers’ Training for a Professional Mobility: Results of Experimental Work

2018 ◽  
pp. 214-224
Author(s):  
Hannа Ridkodubska
Keyword(s):  
Social Workers ◽  
Experimental Work ◽  
High Reliability ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Social Sphere ◽  
Formative Stage ◽  
The Social ◽  
Professional Mobility ◽  
The Future ◽  
Content Provision

The article is devoted to the pedagogical system of the future social workers’ training for a professional mobility. The purpose of the article is to characterize the results of research and experimental work on the introduction of the pedagogical system of the future social workers’ training for a professional mobility. The benefit of the study is that the theoretical and applied questions of implementing the pedagogical system of training future employees of the social sphere for a professional mobility are researched. The author has designed the appropriate model of this process and schematically shown it in the article. The summarization and systematization of experimental data of the study has allowed determining the content of the pedagogical system of training for a professional mobility, which consists of three blocks: conceptual, technological and evaluative-productive. The conceptual block covered a social demand for social workers, the purpose of the pedagogical system (that was to train future social workers for a professional mobility), specific tasks, principles and methodological approaches to the future social workers’ training for a professional mobility. The technological block combines a content provision of educational disciplines, technologies, methods and forms of the training. The evaluation-productive block presents components, criteria, levels and indicators of the future social workers’ readiness for a professional mobility. In the author’s opinion, expanding the content of each block in training on a professional mobility will substantially enrich and refine the content of the future social workers’ training. Moreover, disclosing the content of the experimental work on the future social workers’ training for a professional mobility will improve the quality of their training under modern conditions. Basing onto the results of the pedagogical experiment formative stage, the author has determined that the implementation of the author’s pedagogical system of the future social workers’ training for a professional mobility during the educational process at higher education institutions is effective, as the positive dynamics in the level of students’ readiness for a professional mobility was revealed according to designed indicators, levels, components. The analysis of the results of the pedagogical experiment has also proved a high reliability of the received quantitative data.

scholarly journals Born in the body of beasts. Animals and the social order in didactic Buddhist literature of Buryat-Mongols (XIX- beg. XX century)

2020 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ayur Zhanaev
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Social Order ◽  
The Body ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Species Relationships ◽  
Buddhist Literature ◽  
Social Sphere ◽  
The Social ◽  
Universal Order ◽  
Insight Into

This paper engages with current discussions concerning the ways in which human cultures construct the sphere labelled as “social” against that of the broadly defined environment. I contribute to these discussions with an analysis of the didactic Buddhist literature of Buryat-Mongols (19th–beg. 20th century), focusing on the image of non-human animals and their position in the social/universal order. With the emergence of environmentalist trends in the humanities, pre-modern/“non-Western” inter-species relationships have often served as counter-alternatives to the problematic “Western” nature-culture dichotomy. While expecting to see the human being described as a part of “nature” in the analyzed texts, I found a different picture: the anthropocentric social sphere is clearly distinguished from animals, and in some fragments, the idioms used with regard to animals are reminiscent of European evolutionist discourse. Through an exhaustive analysis of Buryat attitudes towards animals is beyond the scope of this study, this literature gives insight into a particular cultural discourse as represented in reputed sources of the period. 

scholarly journals SOCIAL LEADERSHIP: CRITERIA, INDICATORS AND LEVELS OF FORMATION IN FUTURE SOCIAL WORKERS

2020 ◽  
pp. 72-80
Author(s):  
Darya Bybyk
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
Cognitive Activity ◽  
Social Sphere ◽  
Stage Of Development ◽  
Current State ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Future ◽  
Social Leadership

Nowadays it is extremely important for society to be aware of the professional and experienced professional training of the future social workers. The article is devoted to the main issue of formation the social leadership in the conditions of professional training the future social workers. Contemporary conditions indicate the need to highlight certain scientific approaches to leadership in social work. It is determined that the theoretical study of the phenomenon of “social leadership” as a social phenomenon at the present stage of development of society determines the search for criteria for its formation in future professionals in the social sphere. On the basis of substantiated criteria (motivational-value, cognitive, activity-behavioral) there are established the corresponding indicators that reflect the characteristic of the manifestation the levels of formation the social leadership at future workers in social work (reactive, active, proactive). The purpose of the research is to determine the criteria, indicators and levels that can further influence the dynamics of social leadership in students — future social workers to improve the current state of society, in particular in the field of social work. The realization of this goal involved the use of the following methods: scientific knowledge, analysis of scientific literature, synthesis, comparison, generalization, specification, classification, systematization as well as the descriptive method. Based on the analysis, it is characterized that the components of social leadership and substantiates the criterion, indicators and levels of its formation in accordance with the understanding of the factors of formation of social leadership of future social workers in terms of training.

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