scholarly journals Marxism and Literature: Marxist Analysis of ‘The Garden Party’

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 141-149
Author(s):  
Tayyaba Bashir ◽  
Shahid Hussain Mir ◽  
Arshad Mehmood
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Katherine Mansfield ◽  
Literary Genres ◽  
Marxist Analysis ◽  
Lower Social Class ◽  
Theory Research ◽  
Insight Into

Research is conducted on Marxism but many literary genres still need to be studied using Marxist lens. Short stories like ‘The Garden Party’ gives realistic depiction of life so demands a Marxist explanation. It is full of themes and characters, every individual encounters frequently in real life, has not yet been studied in view of some economic or social theory. This research aims to analyse this short story applying Marxism to yield plurality of meanings embedded in it and to widen compass of this economic and political theory. Research technique used here is qualitative in nature as it analyses ‘words and phrases’ used in the text to decipher its underlying theme. The findings of this study gives an insight into social condition of a common human being and subjugation of lower social class in the hands of upper social class. Further, it scrutinizes “the politics of class” to observe socio-economic circumstances of individuals and societies along with asserting how people are shaped, and their behaviour is affected by their social class. Through characters, Katherine Mansfield has not only portrayed exploitation and manipulation of the lower social class/stratum but has also revealed role of ideology to maintain this status quo.

Social class and envy among Chinese undergraduates: Victim justice sensitivity as a mediator

2020 ◽  
Vol 48 (6) ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
You-Juan Hong ◽  
Rong-Mao Lin ◽  
Rong Lian
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Negative Emotion ◽  
Social Hierarchy ◽  
Scholarly Research ◽  
Justice Sensitivity ◽  
Lower Social Class ◽  
Subjective Social Class ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Chinese Undergraduates

We examined the relationship between social class and envy, and the role of victim justice sensitivity in this relationship among a group of 1,405 Chinese undergraduates. The students completed measures of subjective social class, victim justice sensitivity, and dispositional envy. The results show that a lower social class was significantly and negatively related to envy and victim justice sensitivity, whereas victim justice sensitivity was significantly and positively related to envy. As predicted, a lower social class was very closely correlated with envy. In addition, individuals with a lower (vs. higher) social class had a greater tendency toward victim justice sensitivity, which, in turn, increased their envy. Overall, our results advance scholarly research on the psychology of social hierarchy by clarifying the relationship between social class and the negative emotion of envy.

Society and the Observer

2020 ◽  
pp. 61-102
Author(s):  
Alex Belsey ◽  
Alex Belsey
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Journal Writing ◽  
British Society ◽  
Social Involvement ◽  
Social Differences ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Social ◽  
Lower Social Class

This chapter analyses how, in his wartime journal-writing, Keith Vaughan articulated the social differences and exclusions that he believed were preventing him from fully participating in British society. In his accounts of failing to connect with those around him, he romanticized his failures and dramatized his distance from others, thereby justifying his exclusion and ultimately ascribing himself the powerful (if lonely) role of observer – a position from which he could assert superiority over his fellow C.O.s and men of lower social class whilst representing them in his sketches, paintings, and bathing pictures. The first section of this chapter considers how Vaughan used the early volumes of his journal to record his difficulties in making contact with his fellow man and reinforce them through self-dramatization. The second section explores the strategies employed by Vaughan to emphasize his difference from other individuals and groups, particularly around his homosexuality and artistic inclinations, and therefore justify and maintain his distance from them. The third section argues that Vaughan constructed an empowering role that made use of his remove from male society: that of the observer, enabling him to laud his own powers of perception whilst evading the problems of social involvement and possible surveillance.

Exploring Parliament

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristina Leston-Bandeira ◽  
Louise Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Real Life ◽  
First Century ◽  
Practical Case ◽  
Assisted Dying ◽  
Fresh Perspective ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Law Making

Exploring Parliament offers a fresh perspective on an ancient institution. It provides a real-life insight into the inner workings, impact, and relevance of twenty-first century Parliament. Short academic and practitioner chapters are combined with relevant and practical case studies, to provide an introduction to Parliament's structures, people, and practices. As well as covering the broader structure of UK Parliament, this text explains the role of small parties in law-making, the design and space of Parliament, and offers illuminating case studies on highly topical areas such as the Backbench Business Committee, the Hillsborough Inquiry and recent pieces of legislation such as the Assisted Dying Bill.

scholarly journals ANALISIS STRUKTURAL FABEL TEGODEK DAIT TETUNTEL: REPRESENTASI PERILAKU DALAM MASYARAKAT SASAK

MABASAN ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 164-176
Author(s):  
Syaiful Bahri
Keyword(s):  
Structural Analysis ◽  
Social Class ◽  
Problem Solving ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Active Behavior ◽  
Passive Behavior ◽  
Analysis Methods ◽  
The Social ◽  
Lower Social Class

This study analyzed structure of Tegodek Dait Tetuntel fable. Through these structures, it will be seen the role of each character in relationto the behavior of Sasak community based on the social levels . By using the structural analysis methods of Levi-Strau,it is shown that Tegodek and Tetuntel fable is not only presenting two main characters,  ‘Godek’ (monkey) and Tuntel (frogs/toads), but it is also presenting some phenomena of opposition figures such as ‘Godek’ is always insuperior position, while figures of Tuntel is always in inferior position. This indicates that ‘Godek’ figure is representation of a higher social class, while Tuntel is representation of a lower social class. Relating to the behavior, the ‘Godek’ character has a more active behavior, while the Tuntel figure tends to bea  passive behavior. If it is related to "working" activities, Tuntel figures have more knowledge than the characters of Tuntel. In relation to the behavior of revealing facts, the Tuntel figures tend to reveal something accordance with the facts, while the ‘Godek’ figures tend to precede the prestige that sometimes they do not meet the facts. When it is dealt with a problem solving, ‘Godek’ figures are more like doing intervention, whereas Tuntel figures to be relentless.

scholarly journals A brighter future: The effect of social class on responses to future debt

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 78-107
Author(s):  
Harrison J. Schmitt ◽  
Lucas A. Keefer ◽  
Daniel Sullivan ◽  
Sheridan Stewart ◽  
Isaac F. Young
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Class ◽  
Personal Control ◽  
Lower Class ◽  
The United States ◽  
Exploratory Investigation ◽  
Lower Social Class ◽  
Subjective Social Class ◽  
Brighter Future

The present study serves as an exploratory investigation of the role of social class in responses to the threat of future debt. Previous work has shown that individuals of high and low subjective social class differ in the ways that they respond to a broad range of threats and uncertainties about the future. Across three studies, we found that lower social class individuals expect more future debt and suffer greater attendant stress than higher class individuals (Study 1). We found that experimental manipulations of debt salience increased stress for lower class and not for higher class individuals (Studies 2-3). Likewise, we found that higher class individuals experienced higher affect balance and perceptions of personal control when the possibility of future debt was made salient, specifically as a function of decreased fatalism about future debt (Study 3). These three studies reveal yet another situation in which individuals of lower and higher social class respond differently to threat, and serve as an important step toward understanding the psychological ramifications of rising debt in the United States.

scholarly journals ENTREVISTA: Deconstructing Katherine Mansfield: An Interview with Vincent O’Sullivan

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerardo Rodríguez Salas
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Fictional Characters ◽  
Katherine Mansfield ◽  
Sexual Ambiguity ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
John Middleton Murry ◽  
E Mail

La presente entrevista1 con Vincent O’Sullivan, uno de los críticos más distinguidos en estudios sobre Katherine Mansfield y escritor reconocido, tuvo lugar en Wellington, Nueva Zealand, durante el verano de 2002, con posteriores modificaciones por e-mail. El editor de The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield discute aspectos centrales en la narrativa de esta autora, tales como su alcance literario, su relación con el relato corto, su ambigüedad sexual, el distanciamiento entre ella como autora y los personajes que crea, su peculiar modernismo distinto del canónico masculino, el papel de los niños y la autobiografía en su narrativa y sus principales logros y defectos como escritora. El resultado es una imagen subversiva de Mansfield que contrasta con el mito purificador cuidadosamente elaborado por su esposo John Middleton Murry tras la muerte de Mansfield en 1923.Abstract: Held in Wellington, New Zealand, during the summer of 2002 and subsequently upgraded via email, this is an interview with one of the most reputable scholars in Katherine Mansfield studies, Prof. Vincent O’Sullivan, a prolific and respectable writer himself. The editor of Mansfield’s Collected Letters discusses key issues in Mansfield’s fiction, such as her literary status, her connection with the short story genre, her sexual ambiguity, the breach between herself and the fictional characters that she creates, her distinctive modernism as detached from the male canon, the role of children and autobiography in her narrative, and her main achievements and flaws as a writer. The result is a subversive image of Mansfield, opposed to the purifying myth craftily designed by her husband John Middleton Murry after her death in 1923.

This Is What We Do, and These Things Happen: Literature, Experience, Emotion, and Relationality in the Classroom

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maura Spiegel ◽  
Danielle Spencer
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Clinical Education ◽  
Aesthetic Experience ◽  
Emotional Responses ◽  
Clinical Context ◽  
Floating Bridge ◽  
Healthcare Training ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Experience Emotion

The role of emotion in clinical education and practice is discussed, drawing upon thinkers such as Derald Wing Sue, John Dewey, Joanna Shapiro, and others. Focusing on Alice Munro’s short story “The Floating Bridge,” different themes of classroom discussion are described, as well as an in-class writing exercise including examples of participant responses. Several questions and themes are explored: How does exploration of judgment in readers’ response to a literary text offer insight into the role of judgment in a clinical context? What is the effect of hearing the various emotional responses of other readers in enhancing an appreciation of diverse perspectives? How might we understand this classroom/workshop in light of John Dewey’s description of an aesthetic “experience” of particular clarity and intensity? And finally, what are the consequences of such pedagogical approaches integrating attentiveness to emotion for healthcare training and practice?

Business Process Modeling as a Blueprint for Enterprise Architecture

2007 ◽  
pp. 114-128 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Barjis ◽  
I. Barjis
Keyword(s):  
Business Process ◽  
Process Modeling ◽  
Enterprise Architecture ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Business Process Modeling ◽  
Process Models ◽  
Modeling Methodology ◽  
Insight Into

For a successful study, design and development of the enterprise architecture, a thorough insight into the essence of the work and operation of an enterprise, is a crucial factor. As the well-known Zachman and other modern frameworks illustrate, enterprise processes and process modeling are one of the fundamental components of enterprise architecture for providing such an insight. Like building construction in which construction drawings or blueprints play crucial roles, enterprise process models are critical in developing enterprise architecture. Moreover, one may argue that the role of business process modeling in enterprise architecture is similar to the floor plan that defines the boundaries of a building to be constructed. Therefore, a suitable enterprise process modeling approach that could capture the essential operations and reflect the cross-enterprise (cross-departmental) processes is a needed component to complement enterprise architecture. In this chapter, authors study, discuss, and review the practical role of enterprise process modeling in enterprise architecture using a real life organization-based case study. Authors introduce a modeling methodology that captures essential activities not only within a process but also from the enterprise perspective where cross departmental or enterprise processes are represented.

Live, simulated, virtual clinical work experience widens access to medical careers (Preprint)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lauren Quinn ◽  
Olivia Coldicutt ◽  
Ciara Irwin ◽  
Alex Czepulkowski ◽  
Thaaqib Nazar ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Work Experience ◽  
Virtual Work ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Clinical Work ◽  
Clinical Environment ◽  
Patient Journey ◽  
Medical Careers ◽  
Insight Into

BACKGROUND The COVID-19 pandemic has prevented students, who are applying to medical school, from undertaking clinical work experience, despite this being critical for them to gain a realistic insight into medical careers. OBJECTIVE We aimed to evaluate the usefulness and benefits of the virtual work experience programme using a pre and post session (unpaired) questionnaire. METHODS Medic Mentor, a not-for-profit, social enterprise, launched a live, virtual, simulated clinical work experience programme made freely available to applying medical students aged 14-18 years across the UK. The one-day programme was developed by a clinical team to reflect real-life clinical practice, and was presented as an acutely unwell patient journey, from clerking a patient actor, to senior review, to further investigations and formulating a management plan. RESULTS A total of 3900 applying medical students joined the programme and the questionnaire achieved a 68% (n=2670) response rate. Prior to the session, 74% had no clinical work experience, and 82% said it was impossible or difficult to gain work experience in the current climate. Following the session, 97% recommended the programme; over 90% said the session replaced in-person clinical work experience; and 94% felt the programme gave them a realistic insight into NHS healthcare. Furthermore, 98% felt the programme was useful, and importantly, 95% felt the programme gave them sufficient time to reflect on the role of a doctor. We observed increased confidence in the understanding of a multidisciplinary team (21% pre vs 81% post-session, p<0.0001) and the role of medical students in the clinical environment (41% pre vs 86% post-session, p<0.0001). CONCLUSIONS We show that a live-streamed, virtual work experience programme is a highly-rated and accessible alternative for applying medical students during the COVID-19 pandemic. We recommend virtual work experience is widely implemented to increase access and to support informed decision making about pursuing a medical career, for the doctors of tomorrow.

scholarly journals The suit maketh the man: Masculinity and social class inKingsman: The Secret Service(Vaughn, 2014)

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 359-376 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ashley Morgan
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Social Class ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Hegemonic Masculinity ◽  
The Body ◽  
Social Classes ◽  
Secret Service ◽  
Lower Social Class ◽  
The Way

This article outlines the ways in which suits are synonymous with masculinity examining the, sometimes paradoxical, nature of suits worn by men of all social classes, and for different reasons. For example, hegemonic men wear suits in a bid to convey power, arguably, by rendering the wearers uniform in appearance so that the focus is on what hegemonic men might say and do, rather than how they might look. Moreover, the uniformity of suits is a means by which men of a lower social class demonstrate aspiration to a higher social class and might affect hegemonic power through wearing them. While much has been written about masculinity and suits, with many authors agreeing that the bespoke suit is at the pinnacle of the hierarchy of men’s clothing, yet there is a little attention paid to the way in which the bespoke suit is represented in media or popular culture. This article examines the role of clothing of the main characters in the filmKingsman: The Secret Service(2014) with a particular focus on the contribution that the bespoke suit makes to the masculinity of the bodies of the individuals within the film. Principally, the bespoke suit elevates the body of the wearer from quotidian to tailored, the fitting of which allows for better representation of a man’s body. It will explore representation of middle-class masculinity, hegemony and embodiment in the film, addressing the idea of whether wearing a bespoke suit can help a man transcend the boundaries of ‘chav’ masculinity, which is depicted as male subordination, and rise into middle-class hegemonic masculinity through the character of Gary ‘Eggsy’ Unwin (Taron Egerton).

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