Eden’s East: An ethnography of LG language communities in Seoul, South Korea

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Hadzantonis
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Social Structure ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Linguistic Theory ◽  
Social Spaces ◽  
Self And Other ◽  
Lesbian And Gay ◽  
Comparative Framework ◽  
Religious Piety ◽  
Cultural Positioning

Motivated by social inclusion, lesbian and gay communities have long attempted to negotiate languages and connected discourses. Social ascriptions act to oppress these communities, thus grounding Cameron’s (1985) Feminism and Linguistic theory. This practice of language negotiation significantly intensifies in regions where religious piety (Hinduism, Christianity, Buddhism, Islam) interacts with rigid social structure (Confucianism, Interdependency), mediating social and cultural positioning. Consequently, members of LG communities build linguistic affordances, thus (re)positioning selves so to negotiate ascribed identities and marginalizations. Paradoxically, these communities model discourses and dynamics of larger sociocultural networks, so as to contest marginalizations, thus repositioning self and other. Through a comparative framework, the current study employs ethnography, as well as conversation and discourse analyses, of LG communities, to explore ways in which these communities in Seoul (Seoul) develop and employ adroit language practices to struggle within social spaces, and to contest positivist ascriptions.

On humour in prison

2011 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
pp. 500-514 ◽  
Author(s):  
Malene Molding Nielsen
Keyword(s):  
Social Structure ◽  
Service Provision ◽  
Identity Work ◽  
Job Crafting ◽  
Conflict Avoidance ◽  
Social Spaces ◽  
Prison Life ◽  
Structure Interaction ◽  
Communication Device ◽  
Sense Of Power

This paper unravels the presence of humour in prison as an institutionalized aspect of prison life. The analysis shows how officers use humour to manage their relationships with prisoners and other staff, and how they make use of humour to establish a collective understanding of the officer job, crafting themselves as a group. The humorous exchanges between officers, prisoners and other staff facilitate social spaces where officers briefly meet prisoners as equals, and where staff articulate hostility towards one another. These social spaces exist as briefly as the humorous exchanges, but the implications are real. The officer–prisoner joking relationship fosters conflict avoidance, smooth daily interactions, service provision for prisoners and transgression of officer norms for camaraderie. In contrast, the staff–staff joking relationship grants officers a sense of power vis-à-vis other staff and an opportunity to articulate hostility where staff solidarity is required. As a communication device with ambiguous qualities, humour unites the real and the unreal, shapes social structure, interaction and positioning and is suitable for identity work in prison.

Cognition in context: Social inclusion attenuates the psychological boundary between self and other

2017 ◽  
Vol 73 ◽  
pp. 42-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah V. Bentley ◽  
Katharine H. Greenaway ◽  
S. Alexander Haslam
Keyword(s):  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Self And Other

scholarly journals Digital divide and social inclusion: policy challenge for social development in Hong Kong and South Korea

2010 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yu Cheung Wong ◽  
Chi Kwong Law ◽  
John Yat Chu Fung ◽  
Vincent Wan Ping Lee
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
South Korea ◽  
Social Development ◽  
Digital Divide ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Policy Challenge

South Korea

2009 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 162-176 ◽  
Author(s):  
Soon-Kyoung Cho
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Social Structure ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Public Sociology ◽  
Third Wave ◽  
Collective Knowledge ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Korean Society ◽  
Academic Knowledge ◽  
The Social

Third-wave marketization in South Korea has changed the social structure of academic knowledge production, revealing the dilemmas and limitations of both traditional and organic public sociology. The emergence of collective intellectuals during the candlelight movement points to an alternative relationship between the researcher and the researched. The candlelight vigils that recently rocked Korean society have pointed to new possibilities for a public sociology of labor. This article discusses the conditions for public labor sociology as a new paradigm based on collective knowledge and argues that when facing increasing professionalization of public sociology, the “crisis of labor” calls for a collective public sociology.

Ratatouille and Restaurants

Table Lands ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 122-143
Author(s):  
Kara K. Keeling ◽  
Scott T. Pollard
Keyword(s):  
Social Structure ◽  
Social Spaces ◽  
Limited Space ◽  
Ethical Inquiry ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
Revolutionary History

This chapter uses scholarship on the post-revolutionary history of haute cuisine, French food, chefs, Parisian restaurants and kitchen culture, rats, and animal tales to envision Disney•Pixar’s Ratatouille not as a sunny story of alterity leading necessarily to a more egalitarian and inclusive future. The vermin signifier and extermination paradigms motivate the action through most of the movie; although at the end they are absent at Remy’s restaurant of interspecies detente, the movie does not portray a universal revolution of “separate but equitable” social spaces. Outside the restaurant, there is no indication that the social structure which produced the oppression and violence throughout most of the film has changed. Instead, Remy’s bistro is a space for ethical inquiry to engage in possibilities, where, within its limited space, a Bakhtinian dialogic persists between humans and animals to explore ways to live in harmony.

Introduction

Homing ◽  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ji-Yeon O. Jo
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Heritage Language ◽  
Social Spaces ◽  
Global Modernity ◽  
Nationality Law

In this chapter I provide an overview of the book and introduce its conceptual and theoretical articulations. Using the frameworks of affect and global modernity, I delineate the trajectories of mobility involved in later-generation diaspora Koreans’ migration to contemporary South Korea. This serves as a springboard for laying out theories of borders and belonging that help make sense of legacy migrants’ trajectories and experiences. In outlining the book’s chapters, I explain how each adds a new dimension of understanding to transborder belonging. I also suggest that four borders—social spaces, citizenship and nationality law, Korean as a heritage language, and family—intersect to make and remake the notion of Korean peoplehood.

Assessing Central-Local Government Relations in Contemporary South Korea: An Application of Page & Goldsmith’s Comparative Framework

2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 505-528
Author(s):  
Jaewon Yoo
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
South Korea ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Party System ◽  
Government Relations ◽  
Local Identities ◽  
Comparative Framework ◽  
Appointed Officials

This paper has two main purposes: first, it measures the level and degree of decentralisation in contemporary Korea, and, second, it explains why decentralisation is slow or stagnant. To measure the level of decentralisation in Korea, this paper uses Page & Goldsmith’s triple measures of function, discretion, and access, which were developed to examine the extent of centralisation and decentralisation in any given polity. The results suggest that Korea is both legally and politically centralised. In Korea, a centralised party system has combined with other factors to drive centralisation, overcoming the decentralising forces that focus mainly on local elected and appointed officials. Centralising forces include the bureaucratic elitism of national officials, cultural disdain for local governments, and local people’s feeble affective attachment to local identities and communities.

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