Li Zehou’s Reconception of the Classical Confucian Concepts of Autonomy and Individuality: With a Focus on Reading the Analects Today

Li Zehou coins the term “guanxi-ism” (relationalism) to confirm the Confucian self with its two aspects of social relations and independent character, while elaborating the classical Confucian notions of individuality, autonomy, and self-realization in his many works, especially in Reading the Analects Today. Li argues that Confucius interprets external ritual as a person’ own internal intention and drive, and as a result elevates social and ethical regulations as personal emotions and the autonomous power of decision. With a certain transformative construction, Li expects that this Confucian project can be efficiently applied in developing humanity and reconstructing the cultural order in today’s world.

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Thinking with Ngangas: Reflections on Embodiment and the Limits of “Objectively Necessary Appearances”

Comparative Studies in Society and History ◽

10.1017/s0010417506000326 ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 48 (4) ◽

pp. 852-886 ◽

Cited By ~ 18

Author(s):

Stephan Palmié

Keyword(s):

Twentieth Century ◽

Object Relations ◽

Social Relationships ◽

Social Relations ◽

Social Practices ◽

The Other ◽

Social Formation ◽

Commodity Exchange ◽

Cultural Order ◽

Personal Law

As Marcel Mauss (1967: 46) famously remarked, western societies draw a “marked distinction… between real and personal law, between things and persons.” Writing at the height of self-conscious early twentieth-century western modernism, Mauss was at pains to point out that it was “only our Western societies that quite recently turned man into an economic animal” (ibid.: 74), and that such a distinction was, historically speaking, a contingent elaboration. Commenting on Mauss' insights, James Carrier (1995: 30), thus, speaks of, “an increasing de-socialization of objects, their growing cultural separation from people and their social relationships” and the development of conceptions of “alienability and impersonality of objects and people in commodity relations” as characteristic of this moment. But Carrier is not entirely happy with the uses made of such insights by students of westerns societies. His intent, rather, is to qualify Mauss' famous distinction between forms of enacting object-relations as social relations shaped by sharply contrasting modes of gift or commodity exchange. Carrier, thus, expends much energy on expounding the extent to which “blocked exchanges” (Walzer 1983) “singularized goods” (Kopytoff 1986), conceptions of “market-inalienability” (Radin 1987) and “inalienable possessions” (Weiner 1992) are not random pre-capitalist survivals fortuitously lingering on within western cultures, but constitutive of forms of sociality indispensable to them. Of course, Carrier is largely concerned with dispelling the economistic fictions of forms of “occidentalist” discourse that systematically project a normative language of market functions and failures onto social practices which regularly produce, rather than merely accidentally throw up, what economists call “externalities” inhibiting optimal market allocations. Nevertheless, it is striking that both Mauss and most of his critics (Carrier being merely an example) take a principal, ontological distinction between people and things for granted. As a result, we are treated to sets of contrasting representations of how cultures (capitalist or other) construe such fundamental realities into different configurations of subjects and objects, so that the mystifications of one social formation or cultural order illuminate those of the other—to ultimately prove a Cartesian point.

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PENCIPTAAN NARASI PRODUK BUDAYA MASYARAKAT DESA PLUNTURAN KECAMATAN PULUNG KABUPATEN PONOROGO

PARAFRASE Jurnal Kajian Kebahasaan & Kesastraan ◽

10.30996/parafrase.v20i2.4651 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 20 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Y.B. Agung Prasaja ◽

Edy Wahyudi

Keyword(s):

Social Relations ◽

Participant Observation ◽

Narrative Form ◽

Cultural Products ◽

Cultural Aspects ◽

The People ◽

Art Works ◽

Cultural Order ◽

Narrative Culture ◽

Patterns Of Interaction

ABSTRACT Narrative can grow and develop regardless of geographical background. Of the various definitions of narrative, most of them relate the two main characteristics of it, namely: 1) events, governed by temporality-chronology of events and their presentation in the text; 2) telling or making a story, as a verbal act of mediation. Narrative is used to accommodate the interests of society such as ideology, nationalism, social relations, cultural order. These aspects include natural aspects, geographical aspects, social aspects, cultural aspects, political aspects, historical aspects, philosophical aspects, anthropological aspects, economic aspects, language aspects, artistic aspects, mythological aspects, technological aspects. Research on the ethnographic aspects of the people of plunturan village seeks to reveal the problems formulated as follows; 1. How is the construction of cultural products built by the villagers of plunturan, pulung district, kab. Ponorogo. 2. How the narrative was created by the villagers of Plunturan Pulung, Ponorogo? The phenomenon of narrative, literary works, art works, and cultural products are entities that are interrelated with one another, this also occurs in the community of plunturan village. Ethnography is defined as a form of investigation that relies heavily on participant observation, at least researchers are in a marginal position, trying to document in detail, patterns of interaction, people's perspectives, and patterns of their daily understanding and manifest the imagination of the people of plunturan kec. Pulung kab ponorogo in narrative form. Keywords: ethnography, narrative, culture, local, interdisciplinary

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The SRM Approach to Family Assessment

European Journal of Psychological Assessment ◽

10.1027/1015-5759.21.4.216 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 21 (4) ◽

pp. 216-225 ◽

Cited By ~ 21

Author(s):

William L. Cook

Keyword(s):

High Risk ◽

Risk Behaviors ◽

Social Relations ◽

Family Relationships ◽

Family Dynamics ◽

Family Assessment ◽

High Risk Behaviors ◽

Analysis Group ◽

The Social ◽

Direction Of Effects

Abstract. In family systems, it is possible for one to put oneself at risk by eliciting aversive, high-risk behaviors from others ( Cook, Kenny, & Goldstein, 1991 ). Consequently, it is desirable that family assessments should clarify the direction of effects when evaluating family dynamics. In this paper a new method of family assessment will be presented that identifies bidirectional influence processes in family relationships. Based on the Social Relations Model (SRM: Kenny & La Voie, 1984 ), the SRM Family Assessment provides information about the give and take of family dynamics at three levels of analysis: group, individual, and dyad. The method will be briefly illustrated by the assessment of a family from the PIER Program, a randomized clinical trial of an intervention to prevent the onset of psychosis in high-risk young people.

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Meta-Accuracy and Perceived Reciprocity From the Perception-Meta-Perception Social Relations Model

Social Psychology ◽

10.1027/1864-9335/a000356 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 50 (1) ◽

pp. 24-37

Author(s):

Ben Porter ◽

Camilla S. Øverup ◽

Julie A. Brunson ◽

Paras D. Mehta

Keyword(s):

Structural Equation Modeling ◽

Social Relations ◽

Latent Variables ◽

Structural Equation ◽

Multilevel Structural Equation Modeling ◽

Equation Modeling ◽

Complete Understanding ◽

Social Relations Model ◽

Flexible Framework ◽

Multilevel Structural Equation

Abstract. Meta-accuracy and perceptions of reciprocity can be measured by covariances between latent variables in two social relations models examining perception and meta-perception. We propose a single unified model called the Perception-Meta-Perception Social Relations Model (PM-SRM). This model simultaneously estimates all possible parameters to provide a more complete understanding of the relationships between perception and meta-perception. We describe the components of the PM-SRM and present two pedagogical examples with code, openly available on https://osf.io/4ag5m . Using a new package in R (xxM), we estimated the model using multilevel structural equation modeling which provides an approachable and flexible framework for evaluating the PM-SRM. Further, we discuss possible expansions to the PM-SRM which can explore novel and exciting hypotheses.

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