scholarly journals The Grotesque World in The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

2022 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 49
Author(s):  
Huimin Liu
Keyword(s):  
Social Relationships ◽  
Social Reality ◽  
Physical Characteristics ◽  
Carson Mccullers ◽  
Physical Problems ◽  
The Social ◽  
Physical Part ◽  
The Way ◽  
The Grotesque

This article is going to explore the reasons leading the figures grotesque and the way out of such world, with the help of Bakhtin’s theory of grotesque realism, via linking the duality of physical part with the grotesque to analyze the three main characters’ physical characteristics, social relationships and mental world. Singer, Mick and Biff are the distinct characters in Carson McCullers’s novel The Heart is a Lonely Hunter. Their lives are shot through with frustration and discouragement and the intense privacy of their inner lives gives the reader the impression that they are isolated, lonely beings. They try to build connections with others but eventually they fail. The following are the reasons: Firstly, they cannot identify themselves with the majority due to their physical problems, which further lead to their mental crisis. Secondly, they are alienated from the majority in society while they communicate with the ones who cannot end their isolation, which enforces their alienation. Finally, loneliness grips them so powerfully that they cannot come out of their grotesque dreaming world centering on the truth or idea or purpose they have created for themselves. Therefore the way out is to experience the social reality, to express ideas, share care and love with others. Through the interpretation of this novel, the point of this article is to explain the reasons and the ways out of alienation, the keyword in the grotesque world.

scholarly journals The Social Coping Experiences of a Female Child with Arthrogryposis Multitplex Congenita Shared by her Parents

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohaned Abed
Keyword(s):  
Social Relationships ◽  
Female Child ◽  
Arthrogryposis Multiplex Congenita ◽  
Physical Problems ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Coping ◽  
The Disabled ◽  
Key Issues

Arthrogryposis Multiplex Congenita, commonly referred to as AMC, is a disorder recognised by multiple contractures of the joints. The symptoms associated with the disorder span across various levels of severity. Regardless of the physical problems, however, intelligence remains undisturbed.The aim of this paper is centred on investigating the social coping experiences of a child living with this condition, adopting a qualitative approach to the research. A case study design was adopted for the research, with the theoretical framework applied known as Phenomenology. One sample was used for the data collection, notably a child diagnosed with Arthrogryposis, with her coping experiences shared by her parents. When examining the data, thematic analysis was applied. This study has significance in the fact it seeks to develop an understanding of children living with this condition, as well as for the disabled child population as a whole. The key issues seen to arise from this study include the role of social relationships, the role of the parent in socialisation, and the perceptions of others concerning AMC.  

Knowing the Place for the First Time

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kai Erikson
Keyword(s):  
Deviant Behavior ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Social Reality ◽  
Social World ◽  
Sociological Perspective ◽  
The Social ◽  
First Time ◽  
As If ◽  
The Way

This chapter considers a third approach to the sociological perspective, which has to do with viewing a wholly familiar social reality in the way a newcomer, a stranger, might. It may be assumed that sociologists know more about the lay of their land than most others do. After all, they spend a significant amount of time investigating various corners of the social world, and to that extent they can be thought of as seasoned, knowing, and experienced about human life. At the same time, however, sociologists can be viewed as strangers to the lands they study, for it is one of their tasks to look at the social world almost as if they were seeing it for the first time. The chapter explains how sociologists may be newcomers to the locations they study and discusses the ways that they deal with deviant behavior.

scholarly journals Social drama of independence

2021 ◽  
Vol - (3) ◽  
pp. 64-78
Author(s):  
Sergii Proleiev
Keyword(s):  
Social Order ◽  
Social Dynamics ◽  
Social Reality ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
Soviet Society ◽  
Leading Role ◽  
The People ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Way

The article analyzes the problem of Ukraine's development since independence. A comparison of the way of organizing social reality in modern Ukraine and in the Soviet period is carried out. The main regulatory factor in the life of Soviet society was the principle of domination. Ukraine has inherited the principle of domination and retains its leading role in the current social order. Its various manifestations that determine the structure of Ukrainian society, in particular the growth of the bureaucratic class and bureaucratic pressure on all spheres and sections of life, are analyzed. The dominance of bureaucracy contains latent violence, feeds corruption and minimizes social dynamics. It is also a phenomenon of power rent, which finds its expression in a kind of "privatization of the state." Another universal effect of the principle of domination is the doubling of social reality into apparent and hidden. The apparent reality becomes a space for the existence of ordinary citizens and the implementation of legal procedures, while the hidden one contains a system of real circulation of power, which is not regulated by any legal regulations, instead, controls all movements of the social body. The systemic role in the hidden society is played by cliques — informal groups of influential people who really control the course of events. The con- sequence of the principle of domination is the passivity and marginalization of the Ukrainian citizen, associated with the defect of political participation. Such non-participation in power is embodied in such forms of consciousness as hope, liking, and despair. Today, independence is not a given, but a chance that must be realized. The way to this is through the restoration of the role of the people as a sovereign power and the development of non-dominant regulatory factors of sociality.

Testy rzeczywistości. Narracje o zbrodniach w powieściach Jane Austen

2019 ◽  
Vol 63 (2 (465)) ◽  
pp. 47-61
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Karlińska
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Jane Austen ◽  
Social Reality ◽  
Social World ◽  
Social Experience ◽  
Reality Testing ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Way

The aim of the article is the consideration of the way in which Jane Austen asks in her novels about the status of reality. The subject of the interest are the narrations about “crime” understood as the events breaching the normal social experience and revealing how fragile the reality is. The significant context of the consideration is the classical detective literature. The author proves that the work of Jane Austen can be characterized by the similar reflection on societies in which the project of social reality is entangled. Referring to the conception of Luc Boltanski, she shows that, in the novels of the British writer, crime is a form of “reality testing”. Austen casts in doubt the frames of reality and reveals the conventional dimension of the social life. Her purpose, however, is not to disclose the social world – she sees the possibility of its integration.

scholarly journals O corpo como imaginário da cidade

2011 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 657
Author(s):  
Euler David de Siqueira ◽  
Denise Da Costa Oliveira Siqueira
Keyword(s):  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
Social Reality ◽  
The Body ◽  
Anthropological Perspective ◽  
Photographic Images ◽  
Urban Imaginary ◽  
The Social ◽  
The City ◽  
The Way

Na constituição dos imaginários urbanos, cidade e corpo se comunicam, veiculam mensagens e jogam um importante papel. Neste artigo, nos dedicamos a estudar o corpo que aparece como uma das imagens de uma cidade. Ao realizar esse exercício através da análise de uma série de cartões-postais das praias do Rio de Janeiro, buscamos romper com a naturalização desse corpo, do modo como aparece e dos locais onde é mostrado. Partindo de uma perspectiva semiológica e antropológica, lançamos mão de uma metodologia qualitativa para analisar imagens fotográficas reproduzidas nos postais e a realidade social que elas (re)constroem. Palavras-chave: Corpo; Imaginário; Cidade. Body as imaginary of the city Abstract: In the constitution of urban imaginary, city and body communicate, transmit messages and play an important role. In this article, we study the body that appears as one of the images of a city. When doing this exercise by examining a series of postcards from the beaches of Rio de Janeiro, we try to break with the naturalization this body, the way it is shown and where it appears. Starting from a semiological and an anthropological perspective, we use a qualitative methodology to analyze photographic images reproduced on postcards and the social reality that they (re)construct. Keywords: Body; Imaginary; City.

Border-crossing and the narrative of the minor: Midi Z’s The Road to Mandalay

Asian Cinema ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chialan Sharon Wang
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Social Reality ◽  
Interstitial Space ◽  
Border Crossing ◽  
Global Capitalism ◽  
Bare Life ◽  
Minor Literature ◽  
The Road ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Way

This article studies Midi Z’s The Road to Mandalay (2016) as a cinematic representation of Deleuze’s ‘minor literature’. I argue that the film gives rise to collective utterances against social and economic hegemony, particularly in its portrayal of Burmese immigrant characters who, as Agamben’s ‘bare life’, are subject to the violence underlying the biopower of neo-liberalism. A diasporic Burmese Chinese, Midi Z adopts the convention of cinema verité and fictionalizes the social reality of the migrant Burmese community. The Road to Mandalay articulates the pathos of those who are deprived of civil rights and who, in their negotiation with the exploitation of global capitalism, manage to survive in an interstitial space. The article unpacks the way the film allegorizes such a struggle in moments of surrealist and transcendental visions.

Travail, salaire et pauvreté au moyen âge

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laurent Feller
Keyword(s):  
Economic System ◽  
Social Reality ◽  
Construction Sites ◽  
The Social ◽  
Considerable Confusion ◽  
Economic Reality ◽  
Moyen Age ◽  
Urban Working ◽  
Material Organization ◽  
The Way

Hired working is a topic rarely dealt with by medievalists. It is nevertheless a central matter: beside the corvée and the range of constraints that goes with the seigniorial system, wages play an important part in the organization of rural or urban working. In the first place, every kind of work, even constrained work, has a cost. This ranges from the material organization of the tasks to the offering of a meal or to the payment of a monetary counterpart in exchange for the work. These features are compensations for the time passed in the fields or in the workshop and for the strength and skill used to satisfy the demands of the master. The fact that this cost is not necessarily, and never entirely, monetized is a barrier to thinking that between tenth and fifteenth centuries work could be considered a mere commodity whose wage is a price. The existence of counterparts in working means that there are reciprocal obligations: this fits well with an economic system in which acts and things can be valued according to social or political circumstances. Hired working appears to have been part of the seigniorial system from its very beginnings, as a marginal but useful way to obtain work from free workers. The way in which the different tasks are remunerated, and not only the amounts concerned, reveal the hierarchies in working: there is a gap between the gold given once a year to an architect (or to a professor at a university) and the bullion used to pay workers once a week on construction sites. The ways of remunerating work can be very complicated, mixing payments in cash and in kind. These payments show a considerable confusion in the conception of what the remuneration consists of: different words are used, even in the same contexts, to indicate the same economic reality, especially in rural contexts where the remuneration can involve clothes, cash, food, and accommodation. In the end, salary and poverty appear to be closely linked in the mentalities as well as in the social and economic reality. Hired working, salary, and misery are clearly three interrelated features of the medieval economic and social reality.

scholarly journals GURU: ANTARA PENDIDIK, PROFESI, DAN AKTOR SOSIAL

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Warsono Warsono
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Educator ◽  
Social Reality ◽  
Teaching Profession ◽  
Human Consciousness ◽  
Social Actor ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Social Expectation ◽  
The Social ◽  
Departments Of Education ◽  
The Way

AbstrakMenjadi guru berarti menyandang dua status sekaligus pada dirinya. Yakni, profesional dan pendidik. Tetapi, kedua status ini tidak hanya didasarkan kompetensi dedaktif-metodik saja. Sebab, ada ekspektasi sosial yang menjadi cita-cita ideal masyarakat. Sehingga, guru profesional bukan semata-mata berorientasi mendapatkan pekerjaan dan pendapatan yang layak, melainkan juga memiliki panggilan jiwa dan kesadaran humanis. Meskipun banyak pelatihan peningkatan profesi guru di berbagai jurusan kependidikan, tetapi prosesnya tidak banyak bermakna. Hal ini disebabkan cara berpikir guru yang materislistik. Oleh sebab itu, makna guru sebagai pekerjaan harus digeser pada posisinya sebagai aktor sosial yang saling berdialog dengan realitas sosialnya untuk menemukan berbagai solusi akan persoalan pendidikan.Kata kunci: guru, pendidik, profesi, dan aktor sosialAbstractBeing teacher means having double status namely professionals and educators. However, both of status are not only based on didaktic-methodical competence. There are social expectation coming from the society to be ideal people. Thus, professional teachers are not solely oriented to get a job and a decent income, but also has a soul and human consciousness. Although there are lot of training to improve the teaching profession in the various departments of education, most of them are meaningless. This is due to the way of teachers’ thought which is materislistic. Therefore, the meaning of the teacher as the workers should be shifted in position as social actors who always engage in mutual dialogue with the social reality to formulate solutions toward issue of education.Keywords: teacher, educator, profession, social actor 

scholarly journals CASASSA: A RELEVÂNCIA DE UM CENTRO DE ACOLHIMENTO PARA JOVENS LGBT MARGINALIZADOS NA CIDADE DE PRESIDENTE PRUDENTE-SP

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Felipe Gasquez de Morais ◽  
Maria Gabriela Salvino Contre ◽  
Moisés Henrique dos Santos Leonel ◽  
Yeda Ruiz Maria ◽  
Victor Martins de Aguiar
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Social Vulnerability ◽  
Physical Characteristics ◽  
Social Characteristics ◽  
Marginalized Populations ◽  
The Social ◽  
Implantation Process ◽  
The City ◽  
The Way

This article aims to understand how the physical and social characteristics of the urban space contributes to the existence of marginalized populations in the city of Presidente Prudente -SP, focusing in the social vulnerability that the LGBT population (Lesbian, Gay,Bisexual, Transgender) are subjected to. This social panorama seeks to analyze and emphasize the importance of a space that functions as a shelter for this population, as is the case of LGBT Reception Houses, which are gradually emerging in Brazil. The importance and contribution of these spaces will be emphasized with the analysis of the CASASSA implantation process, the first project of this character in Presidente Prudente –SP, accentuating the history, the physical characteristics and the way the place is organized and related to the neighborhood in which it is inserted.

Our Most Troubling Madness

2016 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Defeat ◽  
Social World ◽  
Epidemiological Evidence ◽  
The West ◽  
Social Settings ◽  
The Social ◽  
Brain Alteration ◽  
Benign Course ◽  
Cultural Features ◽  
The Way

This book examines the way schizophrenia is shaped by its social context: how life is lived with this madness in different settings, and what it is about those settings that alters the course of the illness, its outcome, and even the structure of its symptoms. Until recently, schizophrenia was perhaps our best example—our poster child—for the “bio-bio-bio” model of psychiatric illness: genetic cause, brain alteration, pharmacologic treatment. We now have direct epidemiological evidence that people are more likely to fall ill with schizophrenia in some social settings than in others, and more likely to recover in some social settings than in others. Something about the social world gets under the skin. This book presents twelve case studies written by psychiatric anthropologists that help to illustrate some of the variability in the social experience of schizophrenia and that illustrate the main hypotheses about the different experience of schizophrenia in the west and outside the west--and in particular, why schizophrenia seems to have a more benign course and outcome in India. We argue that above all it is the experience of “social defeat” that increases the risk and burden of schizophrenia, and that opportunities for social defeat are more abundant in the modern west. There is a new role for anthropology in the science of schizophrenia. Psychiatric science has learned—epidemiologically, empirically, quantitatively—that our social world makes a difference. But the highly structured, specific-variable analytic methods of standard psychiatric science cannot tell us what it is about culture that has that impact. The careful observation enabled by rich ethnography allows us to see in more detail what kinds of social and cultural features may make a difference to a life lived with schizophrenia. And if we understand culture’s impact more deeply, we believe that we may improve the way we reach out to help those who struggle with our most troubling madness.

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