Kenneth Burke’s Attitude Toward Rhetoric

2017 ◽  
pp. 13-29
Author(s):  
Robert L. Ivie
Keyword(s):  
Social Criticism ◽  
Human Relations ◽  
Symbolic Action ◽  
Extensive Body ◽  
Definition Of

This paper charts a course through Kenneth Burke’s extensive body of works by focusing on his rhetorically inflected theory of social criticism. It progresses from Burke’s ideas about symbolic action and dramatism to a discussion of identification. It features Burke’s definition of man, his treatment of the victimage ritual, and his notion of the comic corrective as three useful heuristics for understanding rhetoric as a vehicle for improving agonistic human relations without sacrificing diversity

Divorce: Consequences for Children

1995 ◽  
Vol 16 (8) ◽  
pp. 306-310
Author(s):  
Robert E. Emery ◽  
Mary Jo Coiro
Keyword(s):  
Family Life ◽  
Psychological Functioning ◽  
Developmental Process ◽  
Physical Separation ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Face ◽  
Extensive Body ◽  
Time Changes ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Divorce Consequences

An extensive body of research exists on the consequences of divorce for children. The conclusions of this research are captured by the concept of resilience, children's ability to "bounce back" in the face of stress. Most children from divorced families cannot be distinguished from children from married families on objective measures of psychological functioning, including assessments of conduct, depression, anxiety, and school performance. Nevertheless, it is clear that divorce often creates many dramatic stressors for children, including involvement in their parents' conflicts, decreased contact with one parent, strained relationships with the other parent, and economic problems. Coping with these substantial changes can tax children's emotional resources and may leave them with lingering feelings of hurt, resentment, and longing for a parental reconciliation. The concept of resilience highlights both children's ability to cope with change and some of the painful consequences of coping with unwanted changes in family life. Definition Despite its familiarity, several considerations should be noted about the definition of divorce. First, divorce is a developmental process that unfolds over time. Changes in family life typically begin long before the physical separation and continue long after the legal divorce. Second, because divorce reaches into many areas of people's lives, theorists often talk about the "legal divorce," the "emotional divorce," the "emotional divorce," the "economic divorce," and the "social divorce."

Diversity Management

2016 ◽  
pp. 335-359
Author(s):  
Rossella Riccò
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Foundation ◽  
Diversity Management ◽  
Human Relations ◽  
Employment Opportunities ◽  
Equal Employment ◽  
Equality Of Opportunities ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Equity And Inclusion ◽  
Equal Employment Opportunities

Despite twenty-five years of debates and researches on how to devise efficient, effective and equitable ways to manage people's diversities in organizations, professionals and academics have produced neither a shared definition of diversity management nor a general accepted assessment on the outcomes that diversity management can deliver for organizations and persons. Very often the concept of diversity management remains unexpressed and unexplained leaving people unsure on its meaning. The aim of this chapter is to expand the understanding of diversity management by systematizing it on the basis of McGregor's new human relations framework. The proposed definition implies to bring equality of opportunities, equity and inclusion in the workplace and allows to revise three causes of criticism ascribed to diversity management, namely, the lack of theoretical foundation, the vagueness of the concept, the reduced anti-discrimination force compared to equal employment opportunities.

James Guy: A Surreal Commentator

Prospects ◽  
1987 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 125-148
Author(s):  
Ilene Susan Fort
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Recent Literature ◽  
Social Criticism ◽  
Art World ◽  
World War ◽  
American Artists ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Definition Of

During the decade prior to World War II, James Guy (1910–1983) achieved a substantial reputation in the New York art world. He was one of the earliest American exponents of surrealism, adopting it years before the abstract expressionists responded to the aesthetic. Guy used surrealism as a vehicle for social criticism, creating some of the most pungent attacks on the societal ills of his day. The Depression was a period when many American artists became socially and politically concerned and viewed their art as an instrument of change. Most of these artists have been labeled social realists. While recent literature on socially conscious artists of the 1930s has expanded the term to include artists who do not exactly fit the definition of social realists, no reference to Guy has been given in any of these surveys.

Towards a theory of grotesque transparency: The case of Hugo Chávez

2015 ◽  
Vol 20 (6) ◽  
pp. 653-668 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isaac Nahon-Serfaty
Keyword(s):  
Political Communication ◽  
Social Criticism ◽  
Public Performance ◽  
Presidential Speech ◽  
Hugo Chavez ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Rhetorical Narrative

The main objective of this article is to lay the foundations of a theory of grotesque transparency that looks into the aesthetics of ‘ocular politics’. Inspired by Ramón del Valle-Inclán’s definition of the esperpento – a grotesque representation of the hero – this interpretative schema uncovers the rhetorical, narrative and iconic mechanisms that constitute a form of political communication that creates the illusion of total affective disclosure. We tested the premises of this theory by studying a public performance of the now-deceased Venezuela President Hugo Chávez where discursive genres overlap (presidential speech, comic soundbites and preacher’s homily), dissolving the ‘truth’ in an ‘excess of transparency’, and also performing a function of social criticism through desecration of institutional formalities.

What is this thing called love? A gender implication of the ontologico-epistemic status of love in an African traditional marriage system

Human Affairs ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Isaac Ukpokolo
Keyword(s):  
Traditional Culture ◽  
Epistemic Status ◽  
Human Relations ◽  
Working Definition ◽  
Actual Nature ◽  
Traditional Marriage ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Epistemological Framework

AbstractThough its actual nature and content remain debatable, the importance of love in human relations is indubitable. This paper attempts an exploration of the phenomenon of love in the institution of marriage in Esan traditional culture. It questions the reality or ontology of love or its epistemic content within the said culture. In other words, the question is, is there love in the Esan traditional marriage system? If there is none, then it is an ontological issue. And if there is, with what epistemological framework can it be accessed? To this end, the paper employs what could be regarded as a working definition of love which could include notions such as commitment, care, intimacy, and self-giving. With this understanding, the paper interrogates the doctrine of love among the Esan people and sets out how gender is implicated in the conception of love and marriage in traditional Esan society.

Art as Kinship: Signs of Life in the Eastern Woodlands

2017 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 643-654 ◽  
Author(s):  
John L. Creese
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Social Theory ◽  
Human Relations ◽  
Eastern Woodlands ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Definition Of

Can archaeology make sense of art ‘after interpretation’? Post-human scholarship suggests that conventional approaches to art, guided by Cartesian ontology, fail to account for the deeper kinship between things and thoughts. But the growing disillusionment with representation leaves art and the semiotic questions it raises in limbo. Can we recover an adequate social theory of art, semiosis and the subject in a post-humanist world? I submit that we can by building on Eduardo Kohn's thesis that life beyond the human is constitutively semiotic. Art, as a semiotic involution of life's animating processes, is form-taking and form-replicating activity. This form-taking is open-ended and prospective, continuously reaching beyond itself to refigure specific cases as general kinds. This occasions a process of emergence through which novel ‘reals’—including societies and selves—are produced. Extending Sahlins’ definition of kinship to include human/non-human relations, I argue that seventeenth-century Iroquoian art was about kinning—the making of relatives—and its power to form and reform relations of all sorts was central to its success.

scholarly journals Kritik Sosial dalam Novel "Anak-Anak Tukang" Karya Baby Ahnan

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 146
Author(s):  
Khoirun Nisak ◽  
Purwati Anggraini
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Social Criticism ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
Infrastructure Development ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Physical Infrastructure ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Descriptive Qualitative

Artikel ini mendiskusikan kritik  sosial dalam novel “Anak-Anak Tukang” karya Baby Ahnan. Novel itu mengisahkan hiruk piruk kehidupan lingkungan sosial yang di dalamnya mengandung kritik sosial seperti soal pemerataan pembangunan pendidikan. Sementara pengertian kritik pada dasarnya merupakan wujud sambutan pembaca yang menghakimi serta menilai karya sastra guna memberi penilaian dan memberi keputusan baik dan buruk tidaknya suatu karya satra yang telah dibaca oleh kritikus. Metode yang digunakan metode deskriptif kualitatif dan pendekatan sosiologi sastra. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa pembangunan fisik yang terjadi di daerah seperti Flores ternyata tidak menjamin terjadinya peningkatan kesejatraan masyarakat. Kemudian, pemanfaatan tenaga kerja lokal di sektor pembangunan menjadi tidak optimal karena pendidikan mereka rendah sebagai akibat pendidikan yang tidak merata.Katakunci: kritik, sosial, lingkungan, pendidikan Abstract:This article discusses social criticism in Baby Ahnan's novel “Anak-Anak Tukang”. The novel tells a story of the hustle and bustle of social life which contains social criticism, such as the issue of equality of education. Meanwhile, the definition of criticism is basically a form of response from readers who judge and judge literary works in order to give judgments and make decisions about whether or not a literary work has been read by critics. The method used was descriptive qualitative method and sociological literary approach. The results show that physical infrastructure development in areas such as Flores did not guarantee an improvement in the welfare of the community. Then, the utilization of local labor in the development sector is not optimal because their education is low as a result of unequal education.Keywords: criticism,  education, environmental, social 

scholarly journals Philosophy of Peace as a Developmental Alternative of Society

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 101
Author(s):  
Ferit Baça
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Complex Nature ◽  
Economic Welfare ◽  
Human Society ◽  
Human Relations ◽  
Political Relations ◽  
The World ◽  
The One ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Practical Level

The knowledge of history, the knowledge for the lives of people of the world and especially the knowledge of our people, the knowledge of the viewpoints of philosophers, politicians and theoreticians about peace, as a spiritual and universal value, even today remains the orientation compass towards it. On the one hand, the aspiration of these people and nations creates the existential condition for a long lasting and a permanent peace. From the other hand, the existence of wars, regional and global conflicts in different times brings in the tables of philosophers, diplomats and statesmen the need of engagement in theoretical, political, juridical and practical level. The idea that “Peace is a concept that refers to the lack of a conflict, but at the same time represents a wider concept that refers to security in social relations or economic welfare, the equality and justice in political relations of a state, in lack of war or in lack of a conflict”, witnesses the complex nature of peace. Another definition of peace even refers to keeping balances in human relations, tolerance and solving problems through dialog and deals. But above all this rationalizing and paradigms, peace is a dominating element in democracy because it is related to honor and guarantee of freedom and basic human rights. The concept of peace, couldn’t escape from different interpretations, varying on the historic-cultural level of society. That’s why the topic “Philosophy of peace – developmental alternative of society” aims to bring into light the role and the importance of peace in the development of human society.

Utilizing a New Human Relations Framework to Leverage Workforce Diversity

2012 ◽  
pp. 440-462 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rossella Riccò
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Organizational Commitment ◽  
Diversity Management ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Workforce Diversity ◽  
Human Relations ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Stakeholder Pressures ◽  
Corporate Social

In a global society, leveraging people’s diversities is one of the major challenges faced by organizations of any size in developed countries. Factors such as demographic changes, international and national anti-discrimination measures, globalization, service-economy shifts, stakeholder pressures on organizational commitment to corporate social responsibility, and technological advances are heightening the international attention paid to the increase in people’s diversities, thereby fostering discussion on their management in organizations. Since the end of the 1980s, professionals and academics have been debating how to devise efficient, effective, and equitable ways to manage workforce diversity in organizations; however, they have produced neither a shared definition of diversity management nor a general accepted assessment on the outcomes that diversity management can deliver for organizations and persons. The aim of this chapter is to expand the understanding of diversity management by systematizing it on the basis of McGregor’s new human relations framework.

Comprehensive Systems: A formal foundation for Multi-Model Consistency Management

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick Stünkel ◽  
Harald König ◽  
Yngve Lamo ◽  
Adrian Rutle
Keyword(s):  
Graph Transformation ◽  
Scientific Activity ◽  
Model Management ◽  
Multiple Models ◽  
Consistency Management ◽  
Body Of Knowledge ◽  
Triple Graph Grammars ◽  
Extensive Body ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Consistency Verification

AbstractModel management is a central activity in Software Engineering. The most challenging aspect of model management is to keep inter-related models consistent with each other while they evolve. As a consequence, there is a lot of scientific activity in this area, which has produced an extensive body of knowledge, methods, results and tools. The majority of these approaches, however, are limited to binary inter-model relations; i.e. the synchronisation of exactly two models. Yet, not every multi-ary relation can be factored into a family of binary relations. In this paper, we propose and investigate a novel comprehensive system construction, which is able to represent multi-ary relations among multiple models in an integrated manner and thus serves as a formal foundation for artefacts used in consistency management activities involving multiple models. The construction is based on the definition of partial commonalities among a set of models using the same language, which is used to denote the (local) models. The main theoretical results of this paper are proofs of the facts that comprehensive systems are an admissible environment for (i) applying formal means of consistency verification (diagrammatic predicate framework), (ii) performing algebraic graph transformation (weak adhesive HLR category), and (iii) that they generalise the underlying setting of graph diagrams and triple graph grammars.

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