Mellow Effulgence

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louis A. Pérez
Keyword(s):  
Gender Norms ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
Sense Of Agency ◽  
Market Forces ◽  
Colonial Rule ◽  
Economic Expansion ◽  
Daily Lives

This chapter explores the changes created by market forces, economic expansion, and increased consumption that impacted the daily lives of Cubans all across the island. The chapter shows how the increasing sense of Cuban identity led to a growing estrangement with Spain that would result in the inevitable dissolution of colonial rule. The chapter also highlights the increasing presence of women in public life, along with their growing sense of agency. The chapter specifically looks at the increase of women as writers and readers, a means through which new social concepts were spread. The chapter ends by returning to the fan and its role in the evolving social structures and changing gender norms.

scholarly journals FREE JOURNALISTS COLLECTIVE:
independence affirmed in everyday life

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (6) ◽  
pp. a7en
Author(s):  
Adilson Cabral ◽  
Jaqueline Suarez Bastos
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
The Social ◽  
Dialectical Perspective ◽  
Methodological Procedures ◽  
Independent Media

This article addresses the independent media after the 2013 demonstrations in Brazil, taking as object of analysis the notion of independence built by the collective Jornalistas Livres (Free Journalists) in their daily lives, understood here as central to the social structures (re) production and change, in order to to understand how communication is inscribed in the conquest, maintenance and dispute of hegemony. It is understood here that an independent media is not unique, assuming, on the contrary, different meanings in several contexts. Our objective give focus to the idea of independence, discussing potentialities and limitations to the initiatives that operate under this logic. Anchored in a critical and dialectical perspective, we established as methodological procedures the bibliographic review, documentary survey and discourse analysis.

scholarly journals Celibacy or Marriage? Dilemmas for Buddhist Monks in Korea

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2021/1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Beatrix Mecsi
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Social Darwinism ◽  
Viable Alternative ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Colonial Rule ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Korean Buddhism ◽  
Complex Picture ◽  
Japanese Colonial

Following the Confucian period of the Chosŏn era, which overshadowed Buddhists and confined them to the margins of society, at the beginning of Japanese colonial rule the possibility of monastic marriage typical of Japanese practice emerged as a viable alternative for Korean Buddhists in the early twentieth century. While the repressive memory of Japanese colonial heritage often appears in the relevant literature about clerical marriage today as the main reason for Korean Buddhists to get married, an analysis of contemporary documents presents us with a much more complex picture. Most notably among Korean intellectuals, one of the most significant personalities of the era, Manhae Han Young’un’s (1879−1944) systematically urged the reform of Korean Buddhism, Chosŏn Pulgyo yusinnon 朝鮮 佛 敎 維新 論 (Treatise on the Restoration of Korean Buddhism). In connection with the presentation and circumstances of the thirteenth point formulated to allow polemics and the practice of priestly marriage, we can see that his Confucian education, personality, and life play as important a part in his reasoning as the ideologies of the era, social Darwinism and modernism, and democracy. But primary sources revealing the daily lives and circumstances of the monks also show that thewillingness to marry was also greatly influenced by the new inheritance rules introduced in the Japanese colonial system.

Feminist Praxis in Sport Psychology Research

2001 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 412-418 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brenda Light Bredemeier
Keyword(s):  
Sport Psychology ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
Psychology Research ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Moral Exemplars ◽  
Dialectical Process ◽  
Research Praxis ◽  
Methodological Considerations ◽  
Study Participants

This article presents a discussion of feminist praxis in sport psychology research. Praxis is a dialectical process of reflection and action that is motivated by one’s commitment to transformation. Those who are engaged in feminist praxis are working to transform the power and privilege differentials based on social structures and practices that deny or diminish the full humanity of all peoples. Sport psychology research that is grounded in feminist praxis seeks to better understand the sport experiences of marginalized people, especially girls and women, in order to inform strategies and processes for personal and social change. Two research projects are used to illustrate feminist praxis in sport psychology research. The first research project involved an investigation of women’s epistemological perspectives in their daily lives and physical activity domains. The second involved a study of lesbian moral exemplars who have been active and influential in sport. The feminist praxis that grounded both projects impacted the relationships among sport psychology researchers and study participants as well as other methodological considerations.

scholarly journals Sense of Agency in Multi-Step Actions

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Garrido-Vásquez ◽  
Tanja Rock
Keyword(s):  
Present Experiment ◽  
Sense Of Agency ◽  
Implicit Measure ◽  
Opposite Pattern ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Perception Of Causality ◽  
Sensory Effects ◽  
One Step ◽  
Sensory Attenuation ◽  
The One

In our daily lives, we frequently execute actions that require several steps to bring about the outcome. However, investigations on how the sense of agency—the sense of controlling our actions and their outcomes—evolves in multi-step actions are still lacking. The purpose of the present research is to fill this gap. In the present study, the participants executed one-step, two-step, and three-step actions in which one, two, or three keys had to be pressed consecutively to generate a tone. We used sensory attenuation as an implicit measure of the sense of agency. Sensory attenuation means that self-produced sensory effects are perceived as less intense than externally generated effects. In the present experiment, sensory attenuation was measured in a psychophysical paradigm and increased in multi-step actions compared to the one-step action. We also asked the participants to explicitly rate the amount to which they felt that they had generated the tone. Ratings were highest in the one-step condition and dropped for multi-step actions, thus showing the opposite pattern of the sensory attenuation data. We assume that enhanced sensory attenuation in multi-step actions could be due to increased effort or more accurate sensorimotor predictions of action effects. The decrease in explicit ratings for multi-step actions might be attributed to reduced perception of causality.

Liberal Leviathan or Imperial Outpost? J. S. Furnivall on Colonial Rule in Burma

2010 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 759-790 ◽  
Author(s):  
NEIL A. ENGLEHART
Keyword(s):  
Recent Work ◽  
Market Forces ◽  
Colonial Rule ◽  
British Colonialism ◽  
British India ◽  
Modern Economy ◽  
British Rule ◽  
Colonial Economy ◽  
The Impact

AbstractJ. S. Furnivall, in his influential account of the impact of British rule in Burma 1824–1948, argues that British officials laid down a Liberal administration that exposed the colony to market forces, monetized the economy and devastated communities. However, there is little evidence that British administrators actually thought in Liberal terms: they relied heavily on institutions inherited from the Burmese monarchy, and when they introduced new administrative methods these were drawn from other parts of British India and only indirectly influenced by Liberalism. Furnivall's view of the ideological origins of British administration, in turn, distorts his reading of the impact of British rule, as illustrated by recent work on the pre-colonial economy showing that it was in fact more monetized and commercialized than he claims. If his account of the pre-modern economy is not viable, Furnivall's claims about the impact of British colonialism in Burma demand re-evaluation.

scholarly journals Fishing Livelihoods and Social Diversity

2021 ◽  
pp. 45-63
Author(s):  
Michael Fabinyi ◽  
Kate Barclay
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Gender Norms ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
Local Context ◽  
Social Differentiation ◽  
Pacific Island ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Class And Status

AbstractThis chapter shifts scale from Chap. 10.1007/978-3-030-79591-7_2 to focus on the local context and analyse the everyday sets of social relationships that frame the lives of those engaged in fishing livelihoods. The broad structural forces of migration, technology and markets along with the wider economy all intersect with local sets of social structures to shape the conditions in which fishing livelihoods operate. Here we present two examples of how different forms of social differentiation interact with fishing livelihoods. In the Western Philippines, class and status intersect with cultural values to generate power relations and hierarchies in different roles associated with fishing livelihoods. In Pacific Island countries, gender norms structure the different types of fishing activities in which men and women are involved.

scholarly journals An Image of God for the Future of Europe

2021 ◽  
Vol 68 (2) ◽  
pp. 23-41
Author(s):  
João Manuel Duque
Keyword(s):  
European Society ◽  
Image Of God ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
Cultural Perspective ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Jewish Communities ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
Political Effects ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Image Of God

The article intends to explore the possible impact of the image of God originated in Judaism and Christianity on some elements of the configuration of Europe, in an essentially cultural perspective, although with also political effects. It is not intended to assess this impact only within Christian or Jewish communities, that is, in relation to the believers of these religious traditions. It is intended to extend this impact to European society, as such, since the effect of this image of God can also refer to non-believers, especially in the way they interpret their daily lives and their social structures. It is not, therefore, about the recovery of a theocratic system, but about the possibility of effects of the reference to God, as if God did not exist.

Counterpatriarchal Pleasures of Muslim Turkish Women: A Feminist Ethnography of Rural Women Watching Daytime Television

Hawwa ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 9 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 171-193
Author(s):  
Aslihan Tokgöz Onaran
Keyword(s):  
Rural Women ◽  
Gender Norms ◽  
Soap Opera ◽  
The Black Sea ◽  
Soap Operas ◽  
Turkish Women ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Black Sea Region ◽  
The Status ◽  
Daytime Television

AbstractThis article examines the intersection of patriarchal hegemony, television viewing, domestic power relations and individual agency in the daily lives of rural Turkish women. More specifically, it analyzes the reception of daytime American soap operas by women in the Black Sea Region of Turkey. Employing an interdisciplinary methodology that combines ethnography, textual analysis and transnational feminist theory, this study investigates how women’s media experiences allow them to resist their traditional roles assigned by Islamic patriarchies.Among the major questions addressed are, “In what ways does soap viewership reflect the appropriation of anti-patriarchal modes of knowledge? How do soap operas allow women to question local gender norms? How, for example, does viewer identification with a female soap opera character committing adultery disrupt traditional gender norms, in which an act of adultery may lead to an honor killing?”Turkish women’s viewership habits as well as their pleasures from the anti-traditional plots contribute to the creation of a resistive female sphere. This study illustrates the multiple levels through which this female forum is socially constructed. I argue that women’s viewing pleasures and the actualization of a powerful female homosociality furnish the structural conditions under which alternative forms of meaning can gain a public momentum. Although respondents’ diverse uses of soap operas do not represent the formation of organized feminist protest, they, nevertheless, reflect these women’s dissatisfaction with the status quo. As such, soap viewership allows women to challenge traditional norms of gender and sexuality in the villages where this study was conducted.

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