Conflict Between Efficiency and Sense of “Ludus”

1998 ◽  
pp. 31-36
Author(s):  
Anna Maria Moog Rodrigues
Keyword(s):  
Technological Progress ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Business Administration ◽  
Technological Advance ◽  
Technological Society ◽  
Brazilian Culture ◽  
Different Cultures ◽  
Apparent Conflict

Efficiency is a highly considered virtue, especially in our contemporary technological society. It appears to be opposed to the sense of ludus (playfulness) that is greatly valued in Brazilian culture. Is this conflict real? Is it a definite impediment to modernization? This paper deals with this apparent conflict of values, trying to find a way toward a harmonious integration of them. Efficiency is shown as the virtue of a culture turned toward modernity. It is therefore highly prized in contemporary business administration theories. It is also shown that the whole of modern society is oriented toward technological advance and it consequently tends to value efficiency above all other values. Considering other values found in different cultures, there needs to be a better knowledge of them. This study establishes ludus as a typical value of Brazilian culture. An analogy is drawn between the sense of playfulness described and praised by Brazilian authors, and the sense of detachment from technology proposed by Jacques Ellus as a condition for creating a real civilization with technological progress.

Cross-cultural Piagetian Research: An Experimental Perspective

1975 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 475-506 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Teague Ashton
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Development ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cognitive Tasks ◽  
Stage Theory ◽  
Cognitive Growth ◽  
Genetic Epistemology ◽  
Basic Assumptions ◽  
The World ◽  
Different Cultures ◽  
Apparent Conflict

Over the last twenty-five years children around the world have observed and responded to researchers who pour water from beaker to beaker, roll plasticene into snake-like figures, and arrange matchsticks into a potpourri of shapes. These cross-cultural experiments have been undertaken to test Piaget's theory of genetic epistemology, which posits a hierarchical, universal, and invariant sequence of stages of cognitive development. Piagetian research in varying cultures has revealed both striking similarities and marked differences in performance on cognitive tasks, some in apparent conflict with the basic assumptions of Piagetian stage theory. In this article Professor Ashton reviews a range of cross-cultural Piagetian research, analyzes the sometimes divergent findings from this research, and suggests methodological improvements which may help to resolve past dilemmas and to further future understanding of cognitive growth in different cultures.

scholarly journals Uma abordagem sistêmica da atual crise ambiental

2001 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eduardo L. KRÜGER
Keyword(s):  
Technological Progress ◽  
Systemic Approach ◽  
Global System ◽  
Technological Society

Neste artigo, é traçado inicialmente um quadro histórico acerca do surgimento da sociedade tecnológica. Em seguida, aponta-se para alguns problemas criados por essa sociedade, à luz do conflito existente entre os avanços tecnológicos e os prejuízos causados ao meio ambiente. As seções seguintes discutem o enfoque ambientalista e a abordagem sistêmica para essa questão, para que se possa, por fim, esboçar algumas estratégias no sentido de propor melhorias para o sistema global. A systemic approach of present environmental crises Abstract In this article, we first present a brief historical picture from the beginnings of the technological society. Then, we point out some problems created by this society in the light of the existing conflict between technological progress and the damages brought to the environment. The following sections discuss the environmentalist vision and the systemic approach to this issue, in order to outline some strategies to improve the global system.

scholarly journals Life and Family Values Similarity in Inter-Ethnic and Inter-Faith Couples

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 38
Author(s):  
Elena Yu. Chebotareva ◽  
Marina I. Volk
Keyword(s):  
Mutual Influence ◽  
Religious Affiliation ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Family Values ◽  
Role Expectations ◽  
Identity Transformation ◽  
Family Attitudes ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Life Values ◽  
Different Cultures

Inter-cultural families are an integral part of modern society, the institution of mutual influence of different cultures, of a person’s identity transformation. The studies of marital adjustment, values, and attitudes consistency in inter-cultural couples provide contradictory results. To resolve contradictions in this area, comparative studies of inter-cultural families of different types are important. The aim of the study is the comparative analysis of life and family values in inter-cultural couples, differing by the ethnic and religious affiliation of spouses. The participants: 69 couples: 20 mono-ethnic Russian, 30—inter-ethnic, inter-faith (Russians/Arabs); 19—inter-ethnic, with a common religion (Russian/Transcaucasian, Christians). The methods: Value Survey (Schwartz), Marital Role Expectations and Aspirations (Volkova), Marital Satisfaction Test (Stolin et al.), Mann–Whitney U-test, paired T-test. In inter-cultural couples, the spouses’ life-values coincidence is significantly less strong than in mono-cultural ones. However, in couples with common religious differences, their life values reflect not so much the contradictions, but the complementarity of traditional gender values. In general, the different cultures of spouses (both ethnic and religious) optimizes the process of comparing values and family attitudes. Despite a number of difficulties, spouses from inter-cultural couples generally have more consistent ideas about their family life.

scholarly journals The apparatus theory: ‘Religion in the city’

2018 ◽  
Vol 74 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Leon Geel ◽  
Jaco Beyers
Keyword(s):  
Urban Environment ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Theoretical Background ◽  
Diverse Backgrounds ◽  
The One ◽  
Urban Conditions ◽  
Different Cultures ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City ◽  
The Way

The apparatus theory is used to challenge the interpretation of religion and also to determine whether religion is a factor to contend with in modern society. Religion could be the element that keeps the city intact or could be the one element that is busy ruining our understanding of reality and the way this interacts with society in the urban environment. Paradigms determine our relationships. In this case, the apparatus theory would be a more precise way of describing not only our relationship towards the city but also the way in which we try to perceive our relationship with religion and the urban conditions we live in. This article gives theoretical background to the interpretation and understanding of the relationship between various entities within the city. The apparatus of the city creates space for religion to function as a binding form. Religion could bind different cultures, diverse backgrounds and create space for growth.

scholarly journals Mobilność edukacyjna jako punkt zwrotny w biografii jednostki

1970 ◽  
pp. 289-306
Author(s):  
Marta Łuczak
Keyword(s):  
Personal Identity ◽  
Country Of Origin ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Educational Mobility ◽  
Single Action ◽  
The Status ◽  
Personal Process ◽  
Different Cultures

The increasing number of migrations is the main quality of modern society. Formerly, migration was a single action of leaving one’s country of origin, aimed at settling in a new place. Nowadays, migration should be described as a mobility that is a repeated change of the country of residence and a temporary stay in a new place. The status of mobility has a huge influence on modifying personal identity through the experience of life in different cultures. The article indicates the reasons for educational mobility and its consequences for personal biography. The change of self-definitions influences the further personal process of life.

scholarly journals Features of the modern post-capitalist era

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 291-297
Author(s):  
Andrey Petrovich Garnov ◽  
Andrey Yuryevich Belyaninov ◽  
Elena Vadimovna Zakharova ◽  
Natalia Alekseevna Prodanova ◽  
Irina Alekseevna Batueva ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Technological Progress ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
The State ◽  
Necessary Condition ◽  
Traditional Society ◽  
Dirty Work ◽  
Religious System ◽  
Modern Capitalism ◽  
The World

Modern society can be identified as a capitalist civilization, rapidly developing through the accumulation of capital in the process of entrepreneurial (primarily innovative scientific and technical) activities, which radically transformed the world around us and ensured the progress of mankind. Fighting against the closed elite-hierarchical religious system of the Premodern (traditional society), Modern (capitalism) raised the slogan: Freedom, Equality, Fraternity, which, according to its ideologists, could be realized on the basis of the secular democratic structure of society and scientific and technological progress. The article says that ultraeconomics is an economy that is not justified by anything (labor, capital, innovation etc.). The necessary condition for the victory of ultraeconomics was the destruction of scientific and rational reason, morality and conscience. This dirty work was done by countermodernism and ultra-liberalism. The victory of countermodernism, ultra-liberalism and ultra-economism led to the state of Postmodernism, and then to the global financial and economic crisis, the way out of which is impossible in the Postmodern paradigm.

scholarly journals The impact of technological progress on everyday social communications in modern society

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 240-251
Author(s):  
M. A. Yuzhanin
Keyword(s):  
Technological Progress ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Human Interaction ◽  
Critical Approach ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
Communication Processes ◽  
Social Communications ◽  
Characteristic Features ◽  
The Impact

In the presented article, the author examines the problems of the impact of technological progress on everyday social communications in society of the XXI century. The author analyzes the positive and negative aspects of the influence of the latest technologies on communication processes in modern society, and also touches on the topic of human interaction with artificial intelligence in the digital era. Particular attention is paid to the characteristic features of variable interactions and communications carried out through the Internet, social networks and instant messengers. As a result, it is concluded that it is necessary to form in modern generations of people a balanced, rational and critical approach to using the achievements of scientific and technological progress, not to the detriment of their intellect, independence, moral merit and the quality of communication with others, but for the good.

scholarly journals TECHNOLOGICAL ALIENATION OF A PERSON AND MORAL DILEMMAS AS ITS CONSEQUENCES

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 334-345
Author(s):  
D V Prokofyeva
Keyword(s):  
Social Problem ◽  
Technological Progress ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Moral Dilemmas ◽  
Direct Collision ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Existential Issues

This article aims to identify new moral dilemmas generated by technological progress and its consequence - the phenomenon of technological alienation in modern society. It examines the relationship between the phenomenon of alienation, technological progress and moral dilemmas they cause in modern society. In addition to the emergence of new moral and existential issues that arises as the consequence of the direct “collision” of a person and technologies as a result of their widespread introduction into our lives, we consider moral dilemmas arising from technological progress in such areas of life as politics, economics and education. Each of them poses a deeper problem for the person - an alienation from other people, from the species essence and from oneself, which allows us to designate this question not only as social problem, but also affecting existential questions.

scholarly journals REPRESENTASI PEMASARAN MELALUI MAJALAH MINI MENGGUNAKAN MEDIA SOSIAL INSTAGRAM

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-75
Author(s):  
Muhamad Yusup ◽  
Nurlaila Suci Rahayu Rais ◽  
Yunita Kartika Sari
Keyword(s):  
Technological Progress ◽  
Electronic Devices ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Easy Access ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Public Offering

Writing this article made to modern society who want program market products easier, efficient, effective and practical, in search for a information and obtained a products, the community generally maximize a means of communication equipped the internet, with the progress communications device equipped internet facilities, the community spoiled by forms application supported under the internet, through technological progress media instagram so provided facilities in the form of display visualizations interesting, easy to remember and easy to use. The method in use very simple, using just electronic devices such as pc computer, smartphone, and tablet ordinary use a day in day by modern society, because the device easy access it with visualization display features a feature provided. Through the instagram, held in public offering find the kind of product products, get reference style fashion, kinds of food, locations to visited tourism, forms of information actual and factual can be found.

scholarly journals Suffering in world religions within paradigm of modern information

2021 ◽  
Vol 109 ◽  
pp. 01010
Author(s):  
Ekaterina Bobyreva ◽  
Olga Dmitrieva ◽  
Tatyana Gonnova ◽  
Anna Oganesyan
Keyword(s):  
Interpersonal Communication ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Religious Discourse ◽  
Religious Values ◽  
World Religions ◽  
Public Recognition ◽  
Universal Values ◽  
Institutional Communication ◽  
Religious Systems ◽  
Different Cultures

Any type of discourse, along with its characteristic concepts, operates with its own values. The basis of religious discourse form universal values providing moral guidelines that represent a standard for people of different cultures and eras, which are associated with the ideals of justice and are timeless. Among the universal are cultural, social and moral values. The bulk of religious values form cultural ones in any modern society. Religious beliefs form inner culture of a person. Some religious values can be referred as social and include: meaningful (meaning of life, happiness), universal (life, health), values of interpersonal communication (benevolence), values of public recognition (hard work), democratic values (freedom of speech). In modern society among religious, social and moral (mercy, compassion) values can be distinguished. Religious values can be found within each subgroup of universal human values. The article interprets phenomenon of suffering in modern society, which is an integral component of any world religion and forms the category of value in Christianity. The analysis of suffering in the article was carried out along with the analysis of religious discourse - a special type of institutional communication that combines features of institutional-oriented and personal-oriented phenomenon. The article shows reasons for the occurrence and existence of suffering in any modern society, as well as approaches that exist in various religious systems (Christianity, Islam and Buddhism) to interpreting suffering, attitude to it, need and possibility to overcome it as well as linguistic means to express phenomenon of suffering in world religions.

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