scholarly journals Succeed and Flourish: Two Antagonistic Representations of Happiness

K@iros ◽  
2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rémy PAWIN ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Private Life ◽  
The Self ◽  
Social Success ◽  
Happy Life ◽  
Social Surveys ◽  
Box Office ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Universe ◽  
The Way

From the analysis of a corpus made up with books explicitly dedicated to happiness, box-office successes and social surveys, this article intends to highlight two struggleling happiness’s ideas in France after 1945 : the social success and the self-fulfillment. What is at stake is a better understanding of the models. Moreover, the purpose is to perceive that the universe of happiness is structured by the fights between the definitions of happy life. The way of the happiness by the success is an agonistique and stiff model which bases in particular on the deferred enjoyment and wants the individuals to be happy once the success is guaranteed, whereas the self-fulfillment invites the actors to assume their own desires, to love, to have fun and to savor the path they are now browsing. To promote it, the self-fulfillment’s partisans frontally criticized the social success, considered inequitable and, besides, unfit of getting the happiness. The upholders of the success responded and also forged justificatory discurses to try to compromise their opponents. The phases of this conflict allow a better understanding of their influence, but the individuals can also reconcile them and decide to succeed in the professional world and to fulfill in their private life.

The social spaces of hearing apps: problems, partners and intermediaries

2019 ◽  
Vol 171 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-37
Author(s):  
Nicole Matthews ◽  
Isabelle Boisvert ◽  
Catherine McMahon ◽  
Catharine Lumby
Keyword(s):  
Media Studies ◽  
The Self ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Social Environments ◽  
Individual Health ◽  
Health Consumer ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Media ◽  
Start Ups ◽  
The Way

This article offers an analysis of the development of three hearing and communication apps, drawing on interviews with people involved in their production. While a central figure in the media studies literature on apps is the self-managing individual health consumer, this article argues that physical and social environments and relationships within them are central to the way the hearing apps are produced, circulated and used. Often emerging from commercial start-ups, hearing apps become aligned with – or indeed stand in for – various kinds of governmental initiatives, not only in health but also in education and economic development. Partnerships between government, research and commercial organisations and the need to work through app intermediaries to find their end users shaped the way apps create recognisable ‘problems’ to address. This problematising function of apps and its impact on the uptake and use of apps are the key areas for future research.

Constructing Familiarity and Managing the Self: Ways of Adapting to Life in Nursing and Residential Homes for Older People

1996 ◽  
Vol 16 (5) ◽  
pp. 543-560 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Reed ◽  
Valerie Roskell Payton
Keyword(s):  
Older People ◽  
Social Activity ◽  
The Self ◽  
Residential Homes ◽  
Social Conventions ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Conversation ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Life History Methodology ◽  
The Way

AbstractThis paper reports on the analysis of data collected in a study looking at older people moving into nursing and residential homes. Using life history methodology, participants are interviewed before and after arrival at homes in order to determine the process of adapting to their new environment. Initial data analysis indicates that this process requires extensive social activity on the part of the new resident, involving negotiation of complex social conventions. The discussion focuses on two themes which have been identified from the data: constructing familiarity whereby participants use sometimes tenuous knowledge of people and places to make the home seem less strange, and managing the self, whereby familiarity is used as a means of permitting social conversation to take place without leaving residents open to the dangers of being intrusive. These two themes have relevance for the way in which new residents can be introduced to homes, and the way in which the social skills of older people are viewed.

scholarly journals The Discursive Problematization of Death, Dehumanization and Sociocultural identity: An Analysis of 'The Walking Dead'

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Victoria Skye
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
The Self ◽  
Cultural Representations ◽  
Major Site ◽  
The Walking Dead ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Discourses ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Way ◽  
Walking Dead

<p>The zombie is a significant cultural figure which is represented and produced as being symptomatic of and relevant to contemporary concerns about death and dehumanization. This thesis will focus on the ways that death and dehumanization are changing and being negotiated within popular cultural representations and discourses regarding zombies, particularly in Frank Darabont’s television series The Walking Dead. The thesis will consider the way in which the figure of the zombie is representative of issues and discourses that are indicative of a problematization of the category of the human, and the notion of the transcendental. This will involve an examination of the changing narratives of the body, with particular regard to consumerism and the insistence of the body as a major site of the truth and value of the self, in contrast to the horrifying bodily form of the zombie. The thesis will also examine the way that dehumanization is problematized in The Walking Dead, where the human/non-human distinction is shown to be increasingly precarious and difficult to sustain. Further, the thesis will examine how the zombie is represented as manifesting the collapse of identity, as agents become alienated from the social discourses, narratives and values which constitute and categorize the subject.</p>

#fernweh #wanderlust #explore: Reise- »Erzählungen« auf Instagram

Rhetorik ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandra Kuhlhüser
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Theoretical Approach ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
The Self ◽  
Social Media Use ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Communicative Patterns ◽  
The Way

AbstractNowadays, we live in mediatized environments, which are more and more shaped by visual means of expression. Visual social media platforms, such as Instagram, Flickr, Tumblr, Pinterest and Snapchat, are now the tools of communication and self-representation - especially for the younger generations. How users of these visual social media use hashtags and pictures in a rhetorical way to realize their personal representation is shown in this article by analyzing ›travel-narrations‹ of public accounts on Instagram. After a short theoretical approach, which includes the application of the strategic rhetorical process on the social practices on Instagram, the hashtag and the picture are characterized as rhetorical instruments. The analysis showed that there are specific practices of idealized self-representation as a certain type of traveler and rhetorical-communicative patterns, concerning the way hashtags are applied and pictures are uploaded by the users. The result is that even on a mainly visual platform, like Instagram, pictures as a form of communication are too undefined without the textual component in form of hashtags, which are essential contextgiving resources. Thus, the successful realization of the self-representation includes both communication forms, which dialectically build meaning together.

scholarly journals The Discursive Problematization of Death, Dehumanization and Sociocultural identity: An Analysis of 'The Walking Dead'

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Victoria Skye
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
The Self ◽  
Cultural Representations ◽  
Major Site ◽  
The Walking Dead ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Discourses ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Way ◽  
Walking Dead

<p>The zombie is a significant cultural figure which is represented and produced as being symptomatic of and relevant to contemporary concerns about death and dehumanization. This thesis will focus on the ways that death and dehumanization are changing and being negotiated within popular cultural representations and discourses regarding zombies, particularly in Frank Darabont’s television series The Walking Dead. The thesis will consider the way in which the figure of the zombie is representative of issues and discourses that are indicative of a problematization of the category of the human, and the notion of the transcendental. This will involve an examination of the changing narratives of the body, with particular regard to consumerism and the insistence of the body as a major site of the truth and value of the self, in contrast to the horrifying bodily form of the zombie. The thesis will also examine the way that dehumanization is problematized in The Walking Dead, where the human/non-human distinction is shown to be increasingly precarious and difficult to sustain. Further, the thesis will examine how the zombie is represented as manifesting the collapse of identity, as agents become alienated from the social discourses, narratives and values which constitute and categorize the subject.</p>

scholarly journals Beyond the Veil. A Comparative Study between France and India

2020 ◽  
Vol Varia (Articles) ◽  
Author(s):  
Laurence Lécuyer
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Self ◽  
North India ◽  
Multiple Dimensions ◽  
The Social ◽  
International Audience ◽  
Political Dimensions ◽  
The Veil ◽  
The Way

International audience The ghunghat is a veiling practice of North India. Its peculiarity holds in the fact that it is not linked to a religion. It reveals the social and family organisation in India, is tightly linked with marriage practices and mirrors the representations of the self and of the body. An anthropological analysis of this practice reveals its multiple dimensions, especially a social, aesthetic and sacred dimension. A comparative study between the way the veil is conceived both in India and in France will allow to rethink the veil beyond the religious and political dimensions in which it is crystalized in the French context. Le ghunghat est un voile du Nord  de  l’Inde. Il a pour particularité d’être non confessionnel. Son lien est étroit avec les systèmes de parenté, d’alliance, d’organisation familiale d’Inde du Nord, et reflète les systèmes de représentations et de constructions du corps. Une analyse anthropologique de ce voile fait ressortir ses dimensions sociales, esthétiques, et son lien au sacré. Le voile en tant qu’objet polysémique doit être repensé selon une perspective comparative qui permet de sortir des cristallisations autour des seules dimensions religieuses et politiques dans lesquelles le voile a été enfermé dans le contexte socio-politique français.

scholarly journals Making Sense of Shame

Philosophy ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-23
Author(s):  
James Laing
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
Social Evaluation ◽  
Self Evaluation ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
The Social ◽  
The One ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Sense Of Shame ◽  
The Way

Abstract In this paper, I argue that we face a challenge in understanding the relationship between the ‘value-oriented’ and ‘other-oriented’ dimensions of shame. On the one hand, an emphasis on shame's value-oriented dimension leads naturally to ‘The Self-Evaluation View’, an account which faces a challenge in explaining shame's other-oriented dimension. This is liable to push us towards ‘The Social Evaluation View’. However The Social Evaluation View faces the opposite challenge of convincingly accommodating shame's ‘value-oriented’ dimension. After rejecting one attempt to chart a middle course between these extremes, I argue that progress can be made if we reject the widespread assumption that the other-oriented dimension of shame is best understood primarily terms of our concern with the way we appear to others. Instead, I outline an account which treats shame as manifesting our desire primarily for interpersonal connection and which elucidates the property of shamefulness in terms of merited avoidance (or rejection).

scholarly journals Ξένοι εργαζόμενοι, συλλογικές αναπαραστάσεις και ταυτότητες. Η περίπτωση των μεταναστών στη συνοικία της Αγίας Τριάδας του Ηρακλείου Κρήτης

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Νικόλαος Κατριβέσης ◽  
Εμμανουήλ Προκοπάκης
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
The Self ◽  
Foreign Workers ◽  
Next Generation ◽  
Self Perception ◽  
The Social ◽  
Professional Acceptance ◽  
The Way

<p>The presence of foreign workers in our country,<br />contests their stereotypes, ‘representations’,<br />beliefs as well as their ‘identity’. Their social<br />and professional acceptance in the country<br />of ‘reception’ requires a change in the social<br />beliefs and representations and the distinct<br />acceptance of new cultural values. This transformation<br />to a divergent society provokes a<br />break-through in the self- perception which<br />leads to a new assessment and meaning of identity.<br />The ‘self- preservation’ strategies adopted<br />by the immigrants jeopardize their collective<br />identity when pursuing their symbolic and social<br />recognition. Against this background, the<br />expansion of their “networks”, the education<br />of the next generation and the change in their<br />personal preferences pave the way for new social<br />and symbolic opportunities.</p>

scholarly journals Duhkha Dalam Chandogya Upanisad Dan Cara Mengatasinya

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 179
Author(s):  
Made Joniarta
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
True Nature ◽  
Physical Body ◽  
The Senses ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Universe ◽  
Chāndogya Upaniṣad ◽  
The Way

The main purpose of this work is to conduct an investigation deep into the truth that reaches the step when someone becomes wise and mature to decide from all karma. The Chāndogya Upaniṣad text has been chosen to be studied in this study because this literature clearly explains the duḥkha conception. The concept of duḥkha in the Chāndogya Upaniṣad is a state of the soul that is materially bound to the physical body. When the soul is bound to the senses materially, it causes billions of desires to come out. All boundaries of these desires will throw the soul into the depths of grief (duḥkha). The way to let go of the duḥkha based on the Chāndogya Upaniṣad by understanding the atman which covers the universe, will experience unlimited happiness. Truly unlimited God is He transcends all that is. Thus Chandogya Upanisad encourages everyone to know and appreciate the true nature of the self, to be released from Dukha. <br /><br />

scholarly journals Becoming an Embodied Social Self Capable of Relating to Norms: Ricoeur’s Narrative Identity Reconsidered in the Light of Enactivism

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 121-142
Author(s):  
Annemie Halsema
Keyword(s):  
Social Problem ◽  
Narrative Identity ◽  
Social Situation ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Self ◽  
Social Self ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Way

In this paper, I argue for a revaluation of Paul Ricoeur’s notion of narrative identity in light of what Miriam Kyselo has coined “the body-social problem” in enactivism (Kyselo 2014). It is my contention that while phenomenological perspectives upon the body and the self are considered relevant in enactivism, the hermeneutical, discursive facets are understood as a less essential facet of the self, for instance as the self’s reflexive side, that gives expression to an experiential self (Zahavi 2007: 182-184, 2014: 57-59). Yet, it is in language that the self is addressed by others and that the self reflects upon itself and understands itself. Especially in order to understand aspects of identity which are of importance for the social situation of the self, such as gender, the way we are addressed by others and address ourselves by means of language need to be taken into account.

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