scholarly journals From Patterns to Freefall: Exposing the Vulnerability of Human Predicament in the Times of the Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 5889-5896
Author(s):  
Dr. Swapna Gopinath
Keyword(s):  
Social Order ◽  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Human Interaction ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
Indian Society ◽  
Human Predicament ◽  
The World ◽  
The Times ◽  
New Social Order

COVID-19 demands a paradigm shift in modes of human interaction and challenges hegemonic social structures to adapt and evolve themselves to the altered reality of human existence. Across the world, these shifts have been triggered by the new social order threatening to erase existing social systems. My paper attempts to look at the lives of the precariats, caught up within neoliberal structures, assuming these structures to be hegemonic normative systems, and the manner in which they refuse to change, thereby putting the precariats into a more exploitative crisis situation, dehumanizing them, demonizing them, thereby risking their erasure from the socio-political and legal systems that rule the world. I have used the context of India to substantiate my argument. My paper is divided into the following sections: a reading into the concept of precarity and contextualizing it in the neoliberal framework, analysing the pandemic against precarity using examples from Indian society.

Can the Schools Build a New Social Order?

1980 ◽  
Vol 162 (3) ◽  
pp. 57-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
Herbert Kohl
Keyword(s):  
Social Order ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Economic Democracy ◽  
Long Run ◽  
New Social Order

Although George Counts' 1932 challenge to American teachers provides a good framework for re-evaluating the roles of schools and teachers in society, his assumption that the schools alone can bring about a new social order is not likely. Teachers can expose their students to a variety of beliefs and social systems and raise issues ignored by the curriculum. They can also take stands as citizens to change society, but in the long run, all groups in society must be involved in a long-term struggle to build a social and economic democracy.

scholarly journals The Soviet Occupation of Afghanistan

1986 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 291-297
Author(s):  
Mushtaqur Rahman
Keyword(s):  
Social Order ◽  
Muslim World ◽  
Not Given ◽  
Law And Order ◽  
The West ◽  
Soviet Occupation ◽  
The People ◽  
The World ◽  
Oil Flow ◽  
New Social Order

ISLAM is as natural to the people of Afghanistan as the air they breathe.Any system repugnant to Islam or the introduction of alien forces to introducea new social order has always been resisted by the Afghans. The presentAfghan-Soviet war is one such story.The war is a matter of vital importance because its outcome will immenselyaffect Pakistan, Iran, and the rest of the Muslim world. It will also upset thebalance of power between the West and the Soviets, and might change thedirection of oil flow. It is curious that the war is not given the support orattention it deserves, in spite of its global ramifications. The West perhapsignores the war as Afghanistan is far removed from the Western mainstream,and its impact is not generally understood because the Afghan Mujahideenlack a sophisticated network of information. Moreover, the Soviets continuemisleading the world by claiming the war is only a law and order problembetween the Afghan government and a handful of “bandits” encouraged fromoutside.The war is neither a law and order matter nor its impact hard to realize.Afghan Mujahideen are fighting the Soviets to force them out of Afghanistan,and the Soviets are trying to hold on using biological, chemical, and othersophisticated weapons. In spite of enormous destruction and genocide, theAfghan Mujahideen are determined to fight to the last, and so apparently arethe Soviets to consolidate their occupation of Afghanistan. This paper presentsan analysis of the war and its impact on Pakistan, the Muslim world, andthe West from a geopolitical standpoint. A brief discussion of Afghanistanexplains the former status of Afghanistan as a buffer state first between theRussians and the British and later between the Soviets and Pakistan.Modern Afghanistan dates back to 1747 when Ahmad Shah Durrani tookover reins of that country. More or less during the same time, the British ...

scholarly journals Justice in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Mobility Capital and New Social Order

2021 ◽  
pp. 31-38
Author(s):  
Evgeniy Karchagin
Keyword(s):  
Social Order ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Spatial Mobility ◽  
State Of Emergency ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Global Threat ◽  
New Social Order ◽  
Opening Up

The COVID-19 pandemic forces us to reconsider the conceptual boundaries of the world and everyday social order, affecting such pairs of concepts as: natural / artificial; habitual / extraordinary. The author considers one of the aspects of the changes having occured: the transformation of spatial mobility, which is connected with deep social changes. In the first part, the experience of isolation is interpreted on the basis of the theoretical resources of the social theory of mobilities, primarily the concepts of mobility capital and mobility justice. Not all social groups were equally mobile, because they had different mobility capital. The issue of mobility equity has taken in a new context: a natural global threat that has exacerbated the existing inequalities caused by the emergency. The second part of the article deals with the concept of "state of emergency" by G. Agamben and analyzes the issue of transgression of the system of the world social order, including its everyday dimension. The answer to this question is given on the basis of an analysis of the interpretations and forecasts of the leading contemporary European intellectuals (Agamben, Žižek, Latour, Sloterdijk, Fuller). The problems of social distancing, the transformation of higher education, the increase in the powers of the state, associated with medical justifications are considered. Important parameters of the new social order are the environmental factor and the need for sociocritical optics to understand the consequences of the pandemic. Analysis captures the increasing role of digital intermediaries of social interactions, which forms a new context for the problem of justice, opening up perspectives for issues of distance with digital technologies and issues of digital ecology.

scholarly journals Paradigm Shift towards E-Learning in Nigeria

2021 ◽  
Vol 04 (11) ◽  
Author(s):  
Fasunwon, Adebayo Folorunso Ph.D ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Traditional Classroom ◽  
Educational Systems ◽  
Center Stage ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Learning Platforms ◽  
Political Realities

In almost every place in the world, the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic is pushing societies, cultures and civilizations into uncharted territories. Social systems, economic structures and to an extent, political realities are being disrupted on a scale unprecedented in human recorded history. Educational systems are no exception, with more than 1.6 billion learners forced out of traditional schooling since the beginning of the pandemic. E-learning platforms and models are thus taking the center stage, leaping out from the shadows of traditional classroom-based learning with such force that many have argued it is indeed the future of learning. This paper examines the realities of such a paradigm shift within the Nigerian context, with particular spotlight on its advantages to the educational sector, as well as challenges that may hinder the realization of these advantages and nullify potential positive impacts.

scholarly journals Geopolitical Challenges of Modern Ukraine

2018 ◽  
pp. 39-46
Author(s):  
Liudmila Novoskoltseva
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Security Policy ◽  
Mutual Influence ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Cultural Development ◽  
Human Interaction ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Common Denominator ◽  
European Security ◽  
The World

One of the most important and decisive phenomena of our time is globalization as a complex and ambiguous process that does not diminish but increases and deepens the economic differentiation of countries and peoples, forms contradictions in political, social and cultural development, and therefore finding a common denominator is becoming increasingly difficult. The essence of globalization as a social process lies in the growing interconnection and interdependence of national economies, national political and social systems, national cultures, and human interaction with the environment. At the beginning of the 21st century, globalization as a new reality was at the center of attention of academics and politicians. As the experts point out, the modern world is characterized by deepening economic and political interdependence and mutual influence, the expansion of international integration, the creation of regional integration associations, the inclusion of the interaction of new markets and actors, and the use of new rules and instruments in this process on a global scale. Globalization is prepared by the whole course of historical development and naturally continues the process of internationalization. Internationalization and globalization are closely interconnected, interact and rival, generating hybrid forms. However, globalization is qualitatively different from the process of internationalization. The distinctive feature of globalization is that the scale and depth of awareness of the world as a single space grows, while internal events in one or another country have the same effect on other peoples and states as foreign policy shares. The basis of the characteristic features of globalization in the economic sphere is the expansion of trade and its liberalization, the internationalization of the turnover of capital and the removal of obstacles to its movement, profound changes in the financial sphere, which more than other forms of cooperation are experiencing the consequences of the e-revolution, the deployment of transnational corporations (TNCs) and their growing expansion, dominant orientation of demand for the world market, the formation of international financial institutions. The processes of shaping the European security policy and the functioning of a common European foreign policy contribute to the transformation of the perception of the concept of neutrality by neutral states, as well as other EU member states that are simultaneously NATO members. Recognizing its geopolitical priorities and developing a foreign policy strategy, Ukraine needs to take into account the transformation of the concept of neutrality. Key words: Ukraine, geopolitical challenges, globalization, integration, national interests

scholarly journals Industri Pariwisata Ditinjau dari Etika Tanggung Jawab Hans Jonas

Humaniora ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 1356
Author(s):  
Vitria Ariani
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Human Interaction ◽  
Cultural Resources ◽  
Ethical Values ◽  
Hans Jonas ◽  
The World ◽  
Ecological Values ◽  
The Ideal

Ecology is a system of balance between the elements of nature and man. Man as an animal that thinks has the concept of moral and responsibility toward himself, man with another man, and man with nature surroundings. Harmony or disharmony realization of ecological values is a concept of how to realize the appreciation of human values and the ideal of human interaction with the nature. Social norms, ethical values and social systems, the communication between people with other people and the world must take place in a positive, sustainable, and harmonious way. Technology makes man exploit nature for his own benefit. Advances in technology, on one hand, make human life easier. However, on the other hand, the progress has made natural destruction. Tourism is an activity that utilizes natural, social, and cultural resources that have broad impact on the development of tourism-related activities with the technology and activities in it. Tourism activities also have broad impact as as a multi-sectoral, multi-dimensional, and an integrated tourism industry to one and another. Ethics that puts the responsibility for Tourism Sustainability is the answers to minimize ecological damage to nature caused by the Tourism Industry. 

scholarly journals DR. B.R.AMBEDKAR’S PHILOSOPHY OF SOCIAL JUSTICE ON INDIAN SOCIETY

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (37) ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Jammanna
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Social System ◽  
Caste System ◽  
Human Values ◽  
Indian Society ◽  
Hindu Religion ◽  
Scientific Analysis ◽  
The Social ◽  
New Social Order

The process of democratization from below has threatened the very existence of the caste system and the dominance of the traditionally powerful groups. We are now witnessing such momentous historic developments in the social system in India. It is in this historic perspectives, more and more sections of people are discovering the relevance and importance of the ideology of Dr. B. R. Ambedkar, who put forward scientific analysis of the caste system, the Hindu religion had evolved ways and means to fight out of the evils and degenerations, resulting into the very negation of human values and dignity. We often use the most elusive tern social justice but rarely define it as it is covered by conflicting claims of divergent approaches of divergent segments of society. Further it is a multi-contextual term having interpretations and implications in national and international spheres. The modern idea of social justice is concerned with ushering in a new social order without any border which could secure rights and advantages for the different sections of society in general and for the vulnerable and underprivileged sections of society in particular. As whole, it is correctly that any genuine democratization process can be started in India only through social justice. For that the emancipation of the Dalits, by a restoration of self-respect, is very much needed. The vision of Dr. B. R. Ambedkar has given us a comprehensive programme for achieving social justice in India. So, it is the duty of all progressive and democratic forces to assimilate the ideology and vision of Dr. B. R. Ambedkar for the establishment of genuine social justice.

Mapping the Elite

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Order ◽  
Political Power ◽  
Political Elite ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
Middle Classes ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Sizeable Number ◽  
Popular Image ◽  
Do So

India is being widely seen as an emerging economic and political power on the global scene. Despite having the largest population of chronically poor in the world today, it is home to a sizeable number of thriving rich and flourishing middle classes. They are reshaping the country’s popular image and its self-imagination. Equally important are its political dynamics. With increasing participation of erstwhile-marginalized sections in the electoral process, the social profile of India’s political elite has been changing, making way for those coming from the middle and lower strata of the traditional social order, thus broadening the social base of political power. Mapping the Elite seeks to expand the understanding of processes of formations and transformations of the Indian elite. The contributors explore the emergent elite spaces, the new idioms of power and inequality, the diverse strategies in which symbolic boundaries of privilege are traced in everyday lives, as well as the class mobilities in an age of proclaimed meritocracy. They do so by using the sociological frames of caste, class, gender, community, and their intersections. Exploring India’s Elite: This series provides a platform to scholars working on elite dynamics in India. It seeks to enable an understanding of the nuances of inequality, power, and other emerging social structures.

Collective Dreams: Political Imagination and Community

2007 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 261-262
Author(s):  
Colin Mooers
Keyword(s):  
Social Order ◽  
State University ◽  
Political Imagination ◽  
Paris Commune ◽  
English Revolution ◽  
Social Activists ◽  
The World ◽  
Penn State ◽  
The Many ◽  
New Social Order

Collective Dreams: Political Imagination and Community, Keally D. McBride, University Park PA: Penn State University Press, 2005, pp. 157.Political imagination is greatly underrated, not least because there is so little of it in what passes for “official” politics these days. But it is also understudied by political theorists whose domain encompasses the many imagined but rarely realized versions of the “good society” handed down from the past. And yet political imagination is arguably central to every vision of an alternative political order. Plato never lived in his Republic; Hobbes never wandered through the state of nature; and Marx never knew the rule of the “associated producers.” But, all of them may have felt that they had glimpsed elements of these alternate futures in their own time. Hobbes, after all, lived through the English Revolution which he may have thought resembled a “war of all against all” and Marx witnessed the heady days of the Paris Commune. This is surely as true today. Social conservatives may espy the glimmerings of a heavenly utopia in their local church group. Progressive social activists may see a new social order prefigured in their food co-op or trade union. Political imagination, in other words, is just as much a part of the world we inhabit as it is of those we dream of inhabiting. However, as Keally McBride observes, “Imagination itself, as opposed to its products, is generally not studied in political science. But it is our best tool for changing the world” (1).

scholarly journals How Society Changes: Sociological Enlightenment and a Theory of Social Evolution for Freedom

2020 ◽  
Vol 51 (4) ◽  
pp. 446-469
Author(s):  
Mitsuhiro Tada
Keyword(s):  
Social Order ◽  
Social Evolution ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Individual Freedom ◽  
Natural Attitude ◽  
Moral Individualism ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
The World ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Highly Evolved

AbstractThis article clarifies the relationship between individual freedom and social order by relying on Niklas Luhmann’s social systems theory and thereby defines sociology’s contribution to social evolution as sociological enlightenment, which seeks otherwiseness in living experience and action. For this purpose, Luhmann’s theory will specifically be compared with Emile Durkheim’s and Alfred Schutz’s sociological theories. Durkheim, a “child of the Enlightenment,” considered freedom a collective ideal of moral individualism and conceived that the rational state realizes freedom by spreading the civil-religious human ideal for modern social order. In contrast, Schutz, following Henri Bergson, who criticized rationality for spatially fixing inner time, regarded freedom as a given in the individual’s underlying duration, not as a shared ideal. Yet, unlike Bergson, he continued relying on rationalism, and he thought that the sociological observer observes how something appears to people with the epoché of natural attitude, not what it objectively is. Inheriting this phenomenological subjectivism, Luhmann showed that the self-referentiality of consciousness also applies to society: A social system, which path-dependently emerges itself from a double contingency, observes the world in its own way based on its self-referentially constituted eigen-time. On account of this system closure, and contrary to Durkheim’s illuminist belief, there is no controlling entity in a highly evolved society, where freedom results from the enlarged, diversified possibilities of living experience and action (contingency). Thus, sociological enlightenment doubts self-evidence so that society brackets the taken-for-granted social order or social reality and amplifies individuals’ deviations to evolve toward freedom.

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