scholarly journals ‘A racist challenge might force us apart’: divergence, reliance and empathy in Parable of the Sower, by Octavia Butler

2021 ◽  
Vol 74 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabriela Bruschini Grecca
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Octavia Butler ◽  
Racial Issues ◽  
The World ◽  
Critical Approaches ◽  
Parable Of The Sower

This article aims to analyze racial issues in the resistance community depicted in Parable of the Sower (1993), by Octavia Butler, named ‘Acorn’. By researching the critical approaches to this novel, I observed that, as much as they admit race as a force that interferes in the relation between offenders and offended, they have not gone further in questioning how the variety and the complexity of the previous backgrounds of these racialized subjects cannot be ignored and homogenized  in the establishment of bonds among the offended as well. As I aim to demonstrate, the world experience carried by each character, determined especially by race and social class, helps meditating on their own asymmetrical positions and showing how their empathy towards one another has to be built and (re-)negotiated all the time.

scholarly journals The Influence of Social Class on University Students’ Prosocial Behavior Based on the Game Perspective

Complexity ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Hao Ding ◽  
Feng Xu ◽  
Jia-Ming Zhu
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
University Students ◽  
Prosocial Behavior ◽  
Significant Influence ◽  
Dictator Game ◽  
Trust Game ◽  
Design Experiment ◽  
Chinese University ◽  
The World ◽  
Research Objects

In the present research, based on the game research paradigm, the research tools are the dictator game and the trust game, and the research objects are Chinese university students. We adopt 2(self-social class: high, low) × 2(target social class: high, low) between-subjects design experiment to investigate the influence of social class on university students’ prosocial behavior. Across the experimental study, we find that (1) in the two situations of dictator game and trust game, self-social class has no significant influence on university students’ prosocial behavior; (2) in the situation of dictator game, target social class has a significant influence on university students’ prosocial behavior, and it is regulated by self-social class. Under the condition of low self-social class, the higher the target social class, the more prosocial behavior of university students, which confirms the perspective of status and negates “if you are poor, you will be good for yourself.” Under the condition of high self-social class, the lower the target social class, the more prosocial the behavior of university students, which confirms the perspective of fairness and echoes “if you are good, you will be good at the world”; (3) in the context of the trust game, target social class has a significant influence on university students’ prosocial behavior, and there is no interaction effect with self-social class.

The Sunday Press

2020 ◽  
pp. 538-555
Author(s):  
Martin Conboy
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Social Class ◽  
News Media ◽  
Production Cycle ◽  
Success Story ◽  
High Profile ◽  
Daily Press ◽  
The World ◽  
Colour Photography

The Sunday newspaper is an often-neglected success story of the twentieth century news media landscape. The popularity and profitability of Sunday papers grew throughout the century to establish themselves as flagships of cultural and commercial trends and an essential complement to most national daily productions. On account of their production cycle, Sunday newspapers were always able to do things that the daily press with its punishing routines and pressure of deadlines were never able to achieve. Mapped onto the characteristic social class and politically stratified perspectives of British and Irish newspaper reading publics, the Sunday newspaper became a prominent vehicle for the experiments in layout and content after the full computerization of newspapers in the mid-1980s; lifestyle, commentary, colour photography all were pioneered in this format. The range of geographical variants of the Sunday newspaper are also considered from the regional Sunday Sun published in Newcastle from 1919 to the Irish Sunday Independent and Scottish Sunday Post to the migration of English titles across Britain into Ireland with increasing national specialization in their content and appeal. The chapter also considers the varying reasons for the failure of high-profile Sunday papers such as the Sunday Correspondent and the News of the World.

Introduction: foot notes

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Ezra ◽  
Catherine Wheatley
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Gender Identity ◽  
The World ◽  
Race Ethnicity ◽  
Silent Era

This chapter, written by the book’s editors, provides an introduction to the role of shoes in cinema, discussing the significance of shoes in terms of gender identity, sexuality, race, ethnicity and social class, through the lens of a range of philosophical, psychoanalytic, and historical approaches. It also presents an overview of the chapters in the book, which cover films in a variety of genres from around the world, and from the silent era to the present. The wearing of shoes, it is argued, tells us a great deal both about the wearer and about the time and place in which the shoes are worn—and there is no better medium than film in which to convey the myriad qualities of shoes, which have the capacity to be both very special and very ordinary.

Introduction

2009 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 403-409
Author(s):  
Daniela Merolla
Keyword(s):  
Visual Arts ◽  
Visual Representations ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Creation Myths ◽  
History Of Art ◽  
The World ◽  
Critical Approaches ◽  
History Of

AbstractSculptures, paintings, drawings, performances, and films have often refashioned narratives of the origins of the cosmos and of human beings. The essays collected in Creation Myths and the Visual Arts investigate the interplay between image and narrative and offer critical approaches from literary studies, the history of art, archaeology, and anthropology on the interpretation and categorization of verbal and visual representations of “creation myths” from all over the world.

One Risk Factor of Depression Disorder in Chinese Women

2016 ◽  
Vol 33 (S1) ◽  
pp. S455-S455
Author(s):  
Y. Zhang ◽  
L. Feihu ◽  
D. Zunxiao ◽  
S. Jianguo ◽  
W. Qiangju
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Depressive Disorder ◽  
Anxiety Disorders ◽  
Social Status ◽  
Psychosocial Functioning ◽  
Chinese Women ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Han Chinese ◽  
Assessment System ◽  
The World

BackgroundThe prevalence of major depressive disorder (MDD) is higher in those with the unemployed and those with low social status. Most of the available data comes from studies in developed countries, and these findings may not extrapolate to developing countries. However, the extent of unemployed status cause MDD is unclear. This study seeks to determine whether depressive disorder is associated with unemployment and to further investigate the relationship between occupation, and social class in Han Chinese women with MDD.MethodData came from Oxford and VCU Experimental Research on Genetic Epidemiology (CONVERGE) study of MDD (6017 cases, age between 30 and 60; 5983 controls, age between 40 and 60). DSM-IV depressive and anxiety disorders were assessed using the World Mental Health Composite International Diagnostic Interview. All subjects were interviewed using a computerized assessment system. All interviewers were trained by the CONVERGE team for a minimum of one week. The interview includes assessment of psychopathology, demographic and personal characteristics, and psychosocial functioning.ResultsThe odds ratio (OR) between employment and MDD is 0.69. An OR of less than one is protective. Lower social class is not associated with an increase in the number of episodes, or with increased rates of comorbidity with anxiety disorders.ConclusionThis study suggests that in Han Chinese women, employment is positive protect factor to MDD. Lower social status and unemployment increases the risk and severity of MDD. In China, lower socioeconomic position is associated with increased rates of MDD, as it is elsewhere in the world.Disclosure of interestThe authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.

Legal Dimensions to Valuing Aesthetics in World Heritage Decisions

2017 ◽  
Vol 26 (5) ◽  
pp. 581-605 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alice Palmer
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Method ◽  
World Heritage ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Aesthetic Value ◽  
Legal Requirement ◽  
World Heritage Convention ◽  
The Sublime ◽  
The World ◽  
Critical Approaches ◽  
Principle Of Legality

This article reveals the ways in which concepts associated with the humanities inform determinations of ‘outstanding universal’ aesthetic value of natural heritage under the World Heritage Convention. Language derived from humanistic ideas of beauty, the sublime and the picturesque, together with a range of images, are used in World Heritage deliberations to describe nature from, in the words of the treaty, ‘an aesthetic point of view’. However, a preference for ‘scientific method’ masks the use of humanistic approaches, impeding the development of critical approaches that could enhance World Heritage determinations. The deliberate use of humanistic methods and images to judge environmental aesthetics would, the article contends, facilitate critical inquiry without falling foul the ‘principle of legality’ – an international legal requirement of international bodies such as the World Heritage Committee to act in accordance with the powers conferred on them by the states parties under a treaty.

scholarly journals Fear of a Black planet: Climate apocalypse, Anthropocene futures and Black social thought

2021 ◽  
pp. 136843102110679
Author(s):  
Joe P. L. Davidson ◽  
Filipe Carreira da Silva
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Frederick Douglass ◽  
Social Thought ◽  
Cultural Tradition ◽  
Critical Race ◽  
Alternative Account ◽  
Du Bois ◽  
Octavia Butler ◽  
The World ◽  
End Of The World

In recent years, images of climate catastrophe have become commonplace. However, Black visions of the confluence of the Anthropocene and the apocalypse have been largely ignored. As we argue in this article, Black social thought offers crucial resources for drawing out the implicit exclusions of dominant representations of climate breakdown and developing an alternative account of the planet’s future. By reading a range of critical race theorists, from Frederick Douglass and W. E. B. Du Bois to Octavia Butler and Ta-Nehisi Coates, we propose a rethinking of the climate apocalypse. The African American theoretical and cultural tradition elaborates an image of the end of the world that emphasises the non-revelatory nature of climate catastrophe, warns against associating collapse with rebirth, and articulates a mode of maroon survivalism in which the apocalypse is an event to be endured and escaped rather than fatalistically expected or infinitely delayed.

scholarly journals „Antynaturalizm” Gombrowicza albo po co ekokrytyce pamięć o nowoczesności

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martyna Pańczak
Keyword(s):  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
Self Confidence ◽  
The World ◽  
Critical Approaches ◽  
Human World

The article discusses Gombrowicz’s declared “anti-naturalism”, which is often seen as a gesture of negating the non-human world as boring and unworthy of interacting with. Nevertheless, this seemingly radical anthropocentrism does not imply absolute indifference. On the contrary, human anti-naturalness, as emphasized in the work of Gombrowicz, is considered arbitrary, founded on logocentrism and influential interpersonal doctrines. It may therefore be a tragic experience – depriving of a sense of belonging, but also deflating self-confidence, which is grounded in the belief in nature’s otherness. Gombrowicz’s “anti-naturalism”, crucial for the experience of modernity, relates to the problem of definition. The aversion to the non-human is, in fact, the fear of recognising one’s own non-identity; the angst caused by blurring the boundaries that used to arrange the world. It also leads to ignorance, cruelty and a state of “blissful unawareness” on the issues of animal others. In this respect, the writer’s remarks can be very inspiring for ecocritical thought. Gombrowicz once again reminds the reader of the necessity to stop conceiving “Human” as stable, homogenic and self-assured identity and for that reason, collaboration between ecocriticism and posthumanist critical approaches seems unavoidable.

scholarly journals Defining and Achieving Freedom from Hunger: A Rights-Based Approach

2013 ◽  
pp. 54-64
Author(s):  
Saurav Ghimire
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Class ◽  
Armed Conflict ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Right To Life ◽  
Human Right ◽  
Short Life ◽  
The World ◽  
The Right ◽  
Wrong Place

If one is born in the right part of the world and in right social class, the problem of being hungry has its solution in the nearest refrigerator. However, if the situation is reverse, one may go hungry throughout one’s short life, as 800million born in the wrong place and in wrong social class are doing as we discuss the concern. Peace cannot exist where the hunger prevails as the former signifies not merely the absence of armed conflict but the establishment of human rights for all people, and no human right is worth anything to a starving person. That is why the freedom from hunger is fundamental to live as human being and is a necessary part of right to life.

scholarly journals Introduction

Transfers ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 28-35
Author(s):  
Mayurakshi Chaudhuri ◽  
Viola Thimm
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Exponential Growth ◽  
Special Section ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
Historical Trajectory ◽  
Power Negotiations

The past decade has witnessed an exponential growth in literature on the diverse forms, practices, and politics of mobility. Research on migration has been at the forefront of this field. Themes in this respect include heterogeneous practices that have developed out of traditions of resistance to a global historical trajectory of imperialism and colonialism. In response to such historical transformations of recent decades, the nature of postcolonial inquiry has evolved. Such changing postcolonial trajectories and power negotiations are more pronounced in specific parts of the world than in others. To that end, “Postcolonial Intersections: Asia on the Move” is a special section that engages, examines, and analyzes everyday power negotiations, focusing particularly on Asia. Such everyday negotiations explicitly point to pressure points and movements across multiple geosocial scales where gender, religion, age, social class, and caste, to name a few, are constantly negotiated and redefined via changing subjectivities.

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