scholarly journals Translation as Social Action: Brecht’s ‘Political Texts’ in Greek

2008 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 113-140
Author(s):  
Dimitris Asimakoulas
Keyword(s):  
Social Action ◽  
Physical Violence ◽  
Pierre Bourdieu ◽  
Social Art ◽  
Sociological Work ◽  
Politically Active

Abstract This paper places an influential anthology of Brecht’s texts in the context of the Greek junta (1967-1974). Drawing on the sociological work of Pierre Bourdieu, it shows how the text constitutes an euphemisation of the power of a politically active publisher who opposed the regime with what came to be seen as ‘social art’ by various agents of the publishing field at the time. It also demonstrates how the tactical presentation of the material in the anthology helps map the oppression of the Nazi rule onto the junta while identifying a ‘plural-self’ that opposes symbolic and physical violence.

Pierre Bourdieu and the Unthought Colonial State

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Franck Poupeau
Keyword(s):  
Physical Violence ◽  
Pierre Bourdieu ◽  
The State ◽  
Symbolic Violence ◽  
French Army ◽  
Colonial State ◽  
Early Experiences ◽  
Northern Algeria

Chapter abstract This chapter considers how Bourdieu’s early experiences in French-occupied Algeria influenced his later development of a theory of the state. Bourdieu was conscripted into the French army, but stayed for many years to do advocacy and research on behalf of the Algerian people. In particular, he lived and studied among the Kabyle, a Berber people in northern Algeria. Poupeau argues that no understanding of Bourdieu’s theory of the state is complete without considering Bourdieu’s research during France’s occupation of Algeria. This “unthought colonial state,” grounded as it was in physical violence, shaped Bourdieu’s later elaboration of a state whose power derives from its monopoly of symbolic violence.

Physical Violence

2020 ◽  
pp. 127-138
Author(s):  
Mona Lena Krook
Keyword(s):  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Physical Violence ◽  
Women In Politics ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
State Actors ◽  
Forms Of Violence ◽  
Politically Active

Chapter 12 provides an overview of physical forms of violence against women in politics. Physical violence encompasses a wide range of bodily harms involving unwanted contact and confinement resulting in death or injury. The tangible nature of these acts makes them the most widely recognized and least contested forms of violence against women. They tend to be relatively rare, however, with offenders opting for “less costly” means of violence before escalating to physical attacks. While legal redress may be a solution for at least some forms of physical violence, politically active women have developed a number of grassroots strategies to respond to and anticipate physical violence. At the same time, individual women and state actors have devised new preventive security arrangements, seeking to avert or mitigate the effects of physical attacks.

scholarly journals Violence against elderly people: characterization of the data reported by the Notification of Injury Information System (SINAN)

10.3823/2387 ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cynthia Santos de Araújo ◽  
Édina Barreira Campos ◽  
Grazielly Mendes de Sousa ◽  
Anna Nunes Pereira Neta Farias ◽  
Leila Rute Oliveira Gurgel Do Amaral ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Social Action ◽  
Physical Violence ◽  
Elderly Person ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Study Population ◽  
Victims Of Violence ◽  
Forms Of Violence

Introduction: Violence against the elderly person can be any act, single or repetitive, or omission, that causes harm or discomfort and reduces the quality of life of the elderly. Objective: To identify the demographic characteristics of elderly victims of violence, notified by the Notification of Injury Information System (SINAN) in the municipality of Porto Nacional - TO in the year 2014, to characterize the most reported forms of violence, the place of occurrence, the means of aggression and the relationship with the victim. Method: This is an epidemiological, descriptive and exploratory study with a quantitative approach. The survey was conducted through reports issued by SINAN in Porto Nacional. The study population consisted of 130 reports of violence. Data collection took place in April. The data were released with the help of Excel tables and analyzed through BioEstat 5.0. Result: It was possible to identify that the majority of the elderly were males, with a mean age of 78.3 years, of brown color, who had schooling, married/stable union, retired and had no physical or mental disabilities. In relation to the type of violence suffered by the elderly, physical violence had more notifications. The place of occurrence was in the elderly’s own houses and the relation between aggressor and victim was unknown. Conclusion: The results found in this study evidenced the importance of notifying all the cases and it is suggested a protocol of attendance to people in situation of violence for all the professionals that compose the networks of care, among these, primary care, hospitals, social action department and public prosecutor's office, which could facilitate the identification of signs of violence.

Habitus and Beyond

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudio E. Benzecry
Keyword(s):  
Social Action ◽  
Pierre Bourdieu ◽  
Main Section ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Many

Chapter abstract Pierre Bourdieu coined the concept of habitus to capture the connection between embodiment, cognition, processes of singularization and temporalization, and the collective. This chapter discusses the aporias that result from this semantic ambition. It starts with a presentation of the many uses of habitus in Bourdieu’s own work; what follows is how the concept has been deployed in research by US sociologists; the third and main section of the chapter looks at the aporias provoked by the concept’s extension and the many critical avenues pursued by other scholars after it. This last section focuses less on criticisms to Bourdieu’s oeuvre and more on scholarship produced in tension with dispositional accounts of social action. The author presents six conversations that point at conceptual or semantic connections that are taken for granted in habitus and that have been examined by scholars such as Lahire, Steinmetz, Wacquant, Auyero, Elias, and Boltanski.

Social Art/Social Action

1988 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 61
Author(s):  
Diane Rothenberg
Keyword(s):  
Social Action ◽  
Social Art

scholarly journals Organisation of Social Art in Performance Art Organisations

2021 ◽  
pp. 55-60
Author(s):  
Irena Kyguolytė-Kataržė ◽  
Virginija Jurėnienė
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Performance Art ◽  
Social Action ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Public ◽  
Digital Space ◽  
Social Art ◽  
Global Events ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Impact

Art as a social action in the public space is becoming more popular in various forms, especially in the digital space, and especially after the recent events that have had an effect on the whole world. However, theatre as art is changing its forms of accessibility not only due to global events but also due to the changing society from various aspects, i.e., psychological, social, economic, political, etc. The article provides a comparative analysis of the concepts of social art actions and performance art, presents the features of social art actions organisation in performance art organisations in Lithuania and abroad, determines the impact of social art action on human health from the psychosocial and spiritual point of view as well as in a community; it also provides a discussion of similarities and differences of performance as not only theatre but also performance art and social art, social art actions as performance art. Moreover, the article analyses how performance is compared to social art performance, how spectator and participant audiences manifest, what inclusion of performance art as a social art action into human spiritual-psychological space provides. The article provides an analysis of how performance art cooperates with performance art organisations.

scholarly journals Coupling career fairy tale “Fascinating Sociology Class”. How to teach sociology? The sociology of sociology

2009 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 26-35
Author(s):  
Izabela Wagner
Keyword(s):  
Grounded Theory ◽  
Qualitative Methods ◽  
Fairy Tale ◽  
Pierre Bourdieu ◽  
Active Participation ◽  
Labeling Theory ◽  
American Sociology ◽  
Life Context ◽  
Sociological Work ◽  
Sociology Of Sociology

This paper is a simple account of my teaching experience1, the aim of which is to answer the question: “How can we successfully teach interactionism, labeling theory, grounded theory and other sociological bases related to qualitative methods with the active participation of students?”. Through the examples of sociologists working in the Chicago Tradition, French sociologists working with Pierre Bourdieu, and other examples from American sociology, I show that sociological work is group activity. It is argued in this paper, that to make sociological thinking understandable to students teachers may do well to contextualize key theorists in their narrative/biographical context. The students learn, that sociologists are not magicians or genius individuals who produce attractive theories. Rather, they work in collaboration with other humans to generate knowledge. Moreoever, I demonstrate that sociologists’ contributions are often strongly related to and influenced by their broader life context.

scholarly journals Transforming Bourdieu's "perfect" economy of symbolic goods into an imperfect one – The moral grounding of water transfers in Khartoum

2014 ◽  
Vol 69 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-36
Author(s):  
S. Zug
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Moral Philosophy ◽  
Social Action ◽  
Pierre Bourdieu ◽  
Economic Exchange ◽  
Water Transfers ◽  
Kantian Philosophy ◽  
Moral Grounding ◽  
Practical Logic

Abstract. Pierre Bourdieu conceptualizes social action as "instrumental rational". Disinterestedness is only possible as part of an actor's practical logic when the said actor actively or passively misrecognizes underlying interests. In the "logic of logic", this perceived disinterestedness can and must be scientifically reconstructed as a pure economic exchange. Reason-based morality, such as can be found in Kantian philosophy, becomes impossible, and morality becomes an ignored category in Bourdieu's theoretical endeavour. This article's first goal is to locate Bourdieu's approach within moral philosophy, through parallels to Gauthier's Morals by Agreement. An empirical case on water transfers between neighbours in Khartoum reveals the limits of such an approach. This leads to the second goal. By translating Bourdieu's perfect "economy of symbolic goods" into an imperfect one, reason-based morality is integrated into his project, and the relevance of interest for social interaction is curbed, but not denied.

scholarly journals Competencias Docentes: De La Práctica Reflexiva Al Cambio Del Habitus Académico

Xihmai ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Karina Rodrí­guez Cortés
Keyword(s):  
Reflective Practice ◽  
Critical Points ◽  
Social Action ◽  
Pierre Bourdieu ◽  
Educational Practice ◽  
Educación Superior ◽  
Educacion Superior ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Social

RESUMEN En la ponencia se analizan las competencias docentes desde la mirada teórica de Phillippe Perrenoud, quien comparte con Pierre Bourdieu, la explicación proposi- cional de lo social y lo educativo.  El trabajo está dividido en tres apartados: en el primero, presentamos el significado de la acción social; en el segundo, la práctica educativa como campo reproductor de significados; y en el tercero, la práctica reflexiva como base del desarrollo de las competencias docentes. Para concluir se integra un conjunto de reflexiones que pretenden ubicar uno de los puntos crí­ticos relacionados con el tema, esto es la modificación del habitus del homo academicus.   ABSTRAT In the conference, educational competences are analyzed from the theoretical glance of Phillippe Perrenoud, who shares with Pierre Bourdieu, the propositional explanation of the social and the educational. The paper is divided into three sections: in the first, we presented the meaning of social action; in the second, the educational practice as reproductive field of meanings; and in the third sec- tion, the reflective practice as base of the development of the educational compe- tences. In conclusion, a set of reflections is integrated which try to locate one of the critical points related to the topic, this is the modification of habitus of homo academicus     * Candidata a Doctora en Ciencias Sociales, con especialidad en Educación y Sociedad por la UAM-Xochimilco. Maestra en Investigación y Desarrollo de la Educación por la Univer- sidad Iberoamericana. Licenciada en Pedagogí­a por la Universidad Pedagógica Nacional. Ha sido docente en licenciaturas, diplomados y maestrí­as en diferentes instituciones de educación superior en México. ad0 [email protected]

scholarly journals Hand-ling ‘road rage’

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mike Lloyd ◽  
Jakub Mlynář
Keyword(s):  
Social Action ◽  
Physical Violence ◽  
A Priori ◽  
Road Rage ◽  
Video Clips ◽  
Charged Interaction

Although mobility and movement has recently gained importance within interactionist studies of social action, not much is known about the consequentiality of being on the move for the particular unfolding of interactional episodes. Utilising two publicly accessible video clips of ‘road rage’ situations, we describe and analyse the centrality of hand-work in the escalation and decline of an emotionally charged interaction between members of traffic. Avoiding an a priori cognitivist stance, we show in detail how the work of hands can be constitutive of anger itself, and that it can lead to open conflict on the boundary of physical violence.

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