The Class Situation of Information Specialists: A Case Analysis

2000 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 71-81
Author(s):  
Clare Lewin ◽  
Myron Orleans
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Society ◽  
Insurance Company ◽  
Individual Mobility ◽  
Managerial Authority ◽  
The Social ◽  
Meaning Systems ◽  
Social Domination ◽  
Phenomenological Perspective ◽  
Social Conduct ◽  
Post Industrial

This paper examined the paradoxical class situation of information specialists in the post-industrial society as both professionals and employees. We described and analyzed the ‘technocratic’ authority wielded by them and their mode of consciousness. We assessed whether these workers functioned as the vanguard of a new style of democratized work or buttressed the position of managerial authority. We used qualitative methods to study the social conduct and meaning systems of fourteen computer specialists, including programmers, analysts, and project leaders employed in a large insurance company. The data was analyzed using a critical phenomenological perspective derived from the work of authors such as Berger, Braverman, Burawoy, Foucault, and Marcuse. We found that the subjects experienced a class situation that was somewhat more empowered than the industrial or corporate models, but did not differ substantially from that of the production workers in industrial society. Their power, prestige, privilege and status essentially camouflaged the subjects’ compliance to hierarchical authority. The subjects exhibited awareness of their power but essentially directed their energies toward task attainment and individual mobility. Lacking an orientation toward structure change, the information specialists did not appear to fit the notion of a vanguard group. From this research we foresee some possibilities of changes within organizational authority as information specialists confront management with their expertise, but we anticipate that the institutions of social domination will prevail.

Modern Media Communications in the Mechanism of Constructing Life Worlds

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 51-59
Author(s):  
Rashid Muhaev ◽  
Yuliya Laamarti
Keyword(s):  
Social Order ◽  
Industrial Development ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Main Tool ◽  
Industrial Society ◽  
Modern World ◽  
The Social ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
The Media ◽  
Post Industrial

The information and communication revolution of the late XX — early XXI century not only radically changed the modern world, but also formed a new social reality — a post-industrial society. The current stage of post-industrial development is associated with the formation of the information society, a distinctive feature of which is that in it information, the process of its production and methods of transmission, becomes more important than the thing itself. Information is a decisive factor in the social order, which has changed the ways and technologies of organizing social space and the nature of everyday practices, the life worlds of ordinary people, and the media become the main tool for the production of semantic systems.

scholarly journals Interpretation of M. Weber’s theory of ideal types in application to empirical sociological research

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 248-253
Author(s):  
Aminet M. Siiukhova ◽  
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Ella M. Kueva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Graphical Model ◽  
Professional Community ◽  
Industrial Society ◽  
Sociological Research ◽  
Sociological Study ◽  
Ideal Types ◽  
The Social ◽  
Sociological Studies ◽  
Post Industrial ◽  
The Ideal

The article analyzes the problems of interpretation of Max Weber’s theory of «ideal types» in empirical sociological studies. The theory of «ideal types» is effective for studying the systemic qualities of universal socio-cultural institutions, local social groups and individuals. The concept of «ideal» is differentiated in everyday consciousness and in scientific and sociological discourses. In sociology, the «ideal» is understood as referring to the sphere of consciousness, regardless of the positive or negative assessment of a social phenomenon. The examples of possible applications of Weber’s theory for the analysis of modern social spheres of health care and education are shown. In the conditions of industrial and post-industrial society, one of the important statuses in the social structure is the profession, and the typifying factor of the professional community is the professional culture. The scientific operation of the ideal type category within the framework of an empirical sociological study of the professional community/personal cultural level of an individual will be most effectively implemented by means the modeling method, when the essential qualities of the object under study are structured in a graphical model.

scholarly journals Musical culture of the post-industrial society: on the problem of analyzing basic definitions

2021 ◽  
pp. 45-50
Author(s):  
Ekaterina B. Kostiuk ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Public Discourse ◽  
Industrial Society ◽  
Pop Music ◽  
Musical Culture ◽  
Modern Culture ◽  
Cultural Phenomenon ◽  
Industrial Culture ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Status ◽  
Post Industrial

The article deals with the problem of definitions and boundaries of concepts widely used in modern postindustrial culture, scientific and public discourse: «mass», «popular», «academic», «classical», «elite» music. Mass music has several features that are largely determined by the specifics of the socio-cultural and technical development of society in the post-industrial era. However, the loosely applied term «popular» in relation to this direction of music is inaccurate, since not only the works of mass music become well-known, but also classical, academic. In the conditions of post-industrial culture, works of not only mass, but also academic, elite music are used as entertainment, and as a commodity of «organized consumer culture», receiving, among other things, the status of «popular», which is not identical in essence to the concept of «pop music», which is one of the directions of mass music as a cultural phenomenon of the XX century. The consideration of the essential aspects of the musical directions of mass and elite music leads to the conclusion about the social conditionality of the vector of development and their demand in the conditions of modern culture.

scholarly journals Skansen tourist activity in the system of updating the resources of cultural intangible heritage

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stepan Dychkovskyy
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Creative Industries ◽  
Economic Life ◽  
Industrial Society ◽  
Intangible Cultural Heritage ◽  
Intangible Heritage ◽  
The Social ◽  
Tourism Activity ◽  
Post Industrial

The purpose of the article consists of the study of the activity of skansen in the intangible cultural heritage system. The methodology is the application of historical, bibliographic, and analytical methods. The scientific novelty of the work is to justify the appropriateness and application of the new concept of tourism activity of scans in the system of intangible cultural heritage. Conclusions. Features of the development of tourism in a post-industrial society influenced the conceptual approaches to the museum topes, which first broadcast chronological meaning, but with the proliferation of skansen museums was beyond the phenomenological limits of time and space. The proliferation of scansions as interactive open-air exhibits became a reflection of changes in the cultural and socio-economic life of modern society. The trends in the development of active consumerism in the social and economic spheres, globalization processes, the growth of cultural and creative industries have identified new areas of activity for museums - skansens, which transformed from museums that showed ethnographic collections in the space of the formation of a new cultural being.

scholarly journals ICT Use and Digital Inclusion among Roma/Gitano Adolescents

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maialen Garmendia ◽  
Inaki Karrera
Keyword(s):  
Digital Divide ◽  
Research Strategy ◽  
Industrial Society ◽  
Digital Inclusion ◽  
Ict Use ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
The Social ◽  
Online Behaviour ◽  
Digital Exclusion ◽  
Post Industrial

This article analyses the way in which the digital divide affects Roma/Gitano minors. This ethnic group is a paradigmatic case among socially underprivileged groups in Spain; excluded from industrial society, they appear to be facing a similar situation in the post-industrial era. We, therefore, sought to explore the digital experiences of minors from this group in order to study social and digital exclusion/inclusion among them. The research strategy took a comprehensive approach, covering both offline and online behaviour. We focused on the results of fieldwork undertaken in Spain during 2017. In all, interviews were conducted with 17 adolescents (aged 11 to 18) as well as with several social workers who were providing support to the minors. Given that the use of technology has become a prerequisite for the welfare of children and for the development of their rights, the issue tends to centre on three main areas, commonly known as the three Ps: provision, participation, and protection. As such, the analysis of inequality was based on these areas. The findings presented in this article illustrate that the use of ICTs can contribute to empowering Roma/Gitano adolescents to improve the position they occupy as a group in the social structure.

scholarly journals Negatyvumas kaip konstituojamasis faktorius šiuolaikinės psichoanalizės ir postmodernizmo kontekste

Problemos ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 66 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-63
Author(s):  
Ekaterina Ignatovich
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Language ◽  
Industrial Society ◽  
Traumatic Experience ◽  
The Real ◽  
Discursive Formation ◽  
The Social ◽  
Common Foundation ◽  
The Common ◽  
Post Industrial ◽  
The Way

The article in question is concerned with the possibilities of overlapping of the conceptual fields of the contemporary psychoanalysis and postmarxism. The common foundation of the both theoretical discourses is the anti-essentialist attitude. E. Laclau, as one of the most prominent postmarxiit thinkers, proposes the thesis of “Impossibility of Society”, which implies that society as a discursive formation is based upon its immanent antagonism, inherent limit, which constitutes ideological statements about the fullness and completeness of the social. Very similarly sound the assertions of S. Žižek, the most acknowledged follower of J. Lacan, namely, that both on the subject's level and on the society's one we have to do with symbolic compensations, which are condensed around certain impossible traumatic experience – “the kernels of the Real”. The article examines these ways of rethinking and reformulating of such established notions as “unconscious”, “symptom”, “ideology”, “hegemony” and so on, actually the way of providing a quite different theoretical language, which respond adequately to the dislocating effects of the contemporary post-industrial society.

The Tendency Of “Open Building” Concept in the Post-Industrial Context

2011 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-15
Author(s):  
Jiang Yingying ◽  
Jia Beisi
Keyword(s):  
Architectural Design ◽  
Design Method ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Living Environment ◽  
Industrial Society ◽  
Industrial Economy ◽  
The Social ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Post Industrial ◽  
Industrial Context

When N.J. Habraken proposed the conception of support-infill in housing construction in 1960s, housing issues was centered by drawn material construction and consumption, although the needs of involving in the final occupants' participation emerged. It reflected a transition from the industrial economy to the post-industrial economy. Since the rapid development and evolution in the field of technology and social culture in the last several decades, both the social structure and ideology have been changing. The consumption conception of dwelling has also shifted from physical substance to some invisible items, such as knowledge and service. Therefore, open building, as an architectural design method, should adapt to this situation in its future development. This paper firstly describes the characteristics of the post-industry society. Based on analyzing and summarizing the theories and some examples, this paper tries to re-explain the definition of “flexibility” in the context of the post-industrial society. It concludes that the possible tendency of open building is to establish a service system for future occupants to adapt to the changing living environment in addition to physical changeability of the building.

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