Coming to Terms with Our Terms

2019 ◽  
pp. 23-52
Author(s):  
Ira Helderman
Keyword(s):  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Modern Concept ◽  
Socially Constructed ◽  
Ethnographic Observation ◽  
Core Concepts

This chapter surveys psychotherapists’ common understandings for the primary terms the volume tracks: psychotherapy, religion, secular, science, medicine, Buddhism, spirituality, and terms for the ultimate aim of life such as enlightenment. Psychotherapists’ “conventional definitions” for these concepts are established as drawn from both textual analysis and data from interviews and ethnographic observation. The chapter then explains how therapists inherited these conventional definitions through brief histories of how European communities came to invent a modern concept of religion that is based on a Protestant prototype of inner belief or came to discover a Buddhism defined as atheistic (despite the evidence of Buddhist communities throughout history who propitiate deities). The chapter thus clarifies the socially constructed nature of these core concepts, concepts to which psychotherapists then contribute to in an ongoing revision and reconstruction.

scholarly journals Western's Media Representation of Palestine

2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 357
Author(s):  
Rym Ezzina
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Social Institution ◽  
Media Representation ◽  
Socially Constructed ◽  
The Press ◽  
The World ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
International Event

Media is considered as an important social institution in society as it is the main source of knowledge about what is going on across the world influencing people and shaping their points of view concerning a given event. More specifically, this study is a textual analysis of the coverage of an international event, the Palestinian membership in the United Nations as seen from two western media networks of CNN, and BBC. It investigates the discourse of each network regarding the Palestinian and Israeli people, through the two analytical angles of transitivity and Critical Linguistics to demonstrate that news is socially constructed and that reality in the press is more about opinions and propositions than facts. 

Challenges and Opportunities

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janet Porter ◽  
Rosalie Hilde
Keyword(s):  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Discourse Theory ◽  
Socially Constructed ◽  
Analysis Methodology ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Diversity Issues ◽  
Multi Level ◽  
Multiple Levels ◽  
Linguistic Practices

For years, diversity scholars have been calling for more empirical studies that specifically show how linguistic and non-linguistic practices produce asymmetrical differences between and among social groups. To that end, we show that textual analysis methodologies can provide situational, contextual, and empirical research that demonstrates practices and productions of these differences in organizations and workplaces. We further provide researchers with two overlooked approaches of textual analysis methodology that add a multi-level organizational dimension to studying the production of these differences—critical sensemaking and discourse theory. By establishing and maintaining contextual relevance and casting organization as socially constructed on multiple levels, these two approaches help point to systemic-wide strategies for addressing critical organizational, institutional and societal diversity issues such as discrimination or harassment. This chapter will be useful for the diversity researcher who studies linguistic and non-linguistic practices in organizational, institutional, and social formations.

IN SEARCH OF A COLOR LINE

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Larry L. Hunt
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Race Relations ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Color Line ◽  
Native Population ◽  
Black And White ◽  
Socially Constructed ◽  
Colonial Virginia ◽  
Planter Class

Abstract This research examines laws in the colony of Virginia created by a powerful landowning planter class that attempted to draw a color line separating three descent groups: an indigenous native population (Indian), an immigrant population from Europe (English), and an imported population from Africa (Negro). Textual analysis of the Laws of Colonial Virginia shows that the English lawmakers had to learn they were the White component of a color line; they did not, for many years, refer to themselves as White. Contrary to some widely held views that race relations began as soon as these groups came into contact at some point in the seventeenth century, the analysis of written law suggests it took over 100 years, until near the middle third of the eighteenth century in Colonial Virginia, before a definitive concept of race was socially-constructed and a color line was drawn in Black and White.

scholarly journals Phenomenon of transgenderism and the modern concept of androgyny: philosophical and cultural analysis

2021 ◽  
pp. 212-221
Author(s):  
Svetlana O. Izrina ◽  
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Intrinsic Value ◽  
Cultural Analysis ◽  
Modern Concept ◽  
Cultural Issues ◽  
Simone De Beauvoir ◽  
Socially Constructed ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Feminist Movements

The article deals with the philosophical and cultural issues of the transgenderism phenomenon as seen through the modern concept of androgyny. The 20th century became a turning point for many scientific areas, including the humanities. Due to the activity of feminist movements, there took place a drastic revision of gender-based sociocultural patterns and the ontological status of a woman was changed (starting from Simone de Beauvoir). Moreover, a woman’s intrinsic value and independence from a man were proved and postulated. A distinct concept of gender (socially constructed characteristics of men and women). In the last third of the 20th century, that led to the emergence of an independent interdisciplinary scientific area named «Gender Studies», whose field of interest included studies of social and cultural phenomena using the theory of social sex (gender). Furthermore, the issues of self-identification and gender identity began to occupy a special place. The «transgender revolution» that took place at the beginning of the 21st century mainstreamed the transgender phenomenon again. It became the most striking and widespread form of expressing «other gender». However, it should be noted that any modern variation of the «third sex» is based on the Platonic idea of androgyny, which finds its reflection in modern gender models. Therefore, it is becoming extremely important to consider transgenderism as a phenomenon that forms a separate cultural discourse in the context of the modern idea of androgyny. We make an attempt to identify common metaphysical features of both anthropological phenomena (transgender and androgyne) and to assume their «ontological affinity».

The Core Concepts, Skills, and Components Curriculum: Increasing Trauma Expertise in Practitioners

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Layne ◽  
Abigail Gewirtz ◽  
Chandra Ghosh Ippen ◽  
Renee Dominguez ◽  
Robert Abramovitz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
The Core ◽  
Core Concepts
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