Conclusion

2019 ◽  
pp. 213-216
Author(s):  
Paul Robinson
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
National Identity ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Social Stability ◽  
Abstract Theory ◽  
The Past ◽  
Over Time

This concluding chapter argues that Russian conservatism is a response to the pressures of modernization and Westernization and, more recently, globalization. For the past two centuries, conservatives have sought to adapt to these pressures while preserving national identity and political and social stability. Although the specific policies being proposed have changed over time, conservatism's approach to change has remained consistent. In this way, Russian conservatism today evinces a clear continuity with Russian conservatism of the past. In particular, Russian conservatives have continually proposed forms of cultural, political, and economic development that are seen as building on existing traditions, identity, and forms of government and economic and social life, rather than being imposed on the basis of abstract theory and foreign models.

Russian Conservatism

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Robinson
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
National Identity ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Social Stability ◽  
Abstract Theory ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of ◽  
To Come ◽  
Social Economic Development

This book examines the history of Russian conservative thought from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the present. As it shows, conservatism has made an underappreciated contribution to Russian national identity, to the ideology of Russian statehood, and to Russia's social-economic development. The book charts the contributions made by philosophers, politicians, and others during the Imperial, Soviet, and post-Soviet periods. Looking at cultural, political, and social-economic conservatism in Russia, it discusses ideas and issues of more than historical interest. It demonstrates that such ideas are helpful in interpreting Russia's present as well as its past and will be influential in shaping Russia's future, for better or for worse, in the years to come. For the past two centuries Russian conservatives have sought to adapt to the pressures of modernization and westernization and, more recently, globalization, while preserving national identity and political and social stability. We can now understand how Russian conservatives have continually proposed forms of cultural, political, and economic development seen as building on existing traditions, identity, forms of government, and economic and social life, rather than being imposed on the basis of abstract theory and foreign models.

Fear of Islam in Greece: migration, terrorism, and “ghosts” from the past

2017 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 511-523 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandros Sakellariou
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Political Parties ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
State Policies ◽  
Greek Orthodox ◽  
The Past ◽  
Political Debates ◽  
Rhetorical Tropes ◽  
Over Time

The article explores the “fear of Islam” through a specific series of political debates about Islam and the future of the Greek-Orthodox national identity. The analysis is based on the method of qualitative content analysis, which makes use of thematic categories and draws on the proceedings of the Greek parliament. The main questions the article will try to address are: How have Greek political parties reacted to public demand for the construction of a mosque? What have been the rhetorical tropes they use? How have they capitalized on current and old fears about Islam? What have been the implications of this discourse on state policies toward Islam? Have there been any differences in this discourse over time? The analysis highlights the role of historical interpretations of Greek national identity and contemporary problems related to new waves of migration due to Greece's place on the border with Turkey and with the broader Islamic world.

Coming Home to a New America

Worldview ◽  
1970 ◽  
Vol 13 (5) ◽  
pp. 9-11
Author(s):  
Thomas Molnar
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Far East ◽  
Social Stability ◽  
Rapid Progress ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Far East ◽  
The World ◽  
The Indian Ocean ◽  
People’S Attitudes

I returned only recently from an eight-month round the-world trip which took me to large parts of Africa, some islands in the Indian Ocean, Australia and New Zealand, all of Southeast Asia, and the Far East. One can observe these parts of the world with an inexhausted curiosity, the more so if one has seen them several times in the past. While at first it is amply noticeable that many of these lands are still below the threshold of economic development, a second Or third visit also reveals hitherto unsuspected signs of social stability—acting, to be sure, as a brake on rapid progress, but also helping to maintain a kind of steadiness in people's attitudes and worldviews.

Critiquing the Bank: 60 Years of BNDES in the Academy

2016 ◽  
Vol 48 (4) ◽  
pp. 823-850 ◽  
Author(s):  
ANNE G. HANLEY ◽  
JULIO MANUEL PIRES ◽  
MAURÍCIO JORGE PINTO DE SOUZA ◽  
RENATO LEITE MARCONDES ◽  
ROSANE NUNES DE FARIA ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Social Development ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Independent Evidence ◽  
The Past ◽  
Scholarly Impact ◽  
Over Time

AbstractThis article offers a critical analysis of scholarship produced about Brazil's Banco Nacional de Desenvolvimento Econômico e Social (BNDES) since its founding, in 1952, to 2013. BNDES has performed an important, if changing and sometimes controversial, role in Brazil's economic development over the past 60 years, especially as provider of long-term finance. This analysis of almost 1,000 texts highlights discussions about its initial organisation and mission and how the role and activities of the bank changed over time, guided by turbulent national political and economic contexts. In spite of the bank's institutional importance, however, the literature is more narrative than analytical and of limited scholarly impact, dominated as it is by the bank's authorship. We argue for independent, evidence-driven, critical analyses of the effectiveness of this important institution in promoting Brazil's economic and social development.

Happiness in BRICS

2020 ◽  
pp. 803-823
Author(s):  
Tadashi Hirai
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Emerging Economies ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The Past ◽  
Subjective Assessments ◽  
Good Living ◽  
Developed Nations ◽  
Similar Stage ◽  
Over Time

Happiness has gained prominence worldwide in assessing well-being. In this context, the investigation of happiness seems particularly relevant to BRICS not only because economic growth tends to be underscored at the risk of other important aspects of our living as with developed nations, but also because its impact on happiness would be represented more revealingly in its transition. As much as economic growth does not move together with happiness, it is essential to examine how happiness has been affected in the emerging economies. This chapter will as a result review the past publications on happiness in BRICS comprehensively and elicit some lessons. Although each country has unique features and determinants of happiness, some commonality will be found in the similar stage of economic development. More broadly, some convergence will be also found between the determinants of happiness over time (subjective assessments) and the requirements typically set for a good living (objective assessments).

scholarly journals TRANSFORMASI VISUALISASI GAMBAR ILUSTRASI : pada Naskah Jawa Periode 1800-1920, Sebagai Refleksi Gejala Sosial-Budaya Masyarakat Jawa

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 74-83
Author(s):  
Nuning Damayanti Adisasmito
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Visual Image ◽  
Visual Language ◽  
Colonial Period ◽  
Visual Object ◽  
Two Dimensional ◽  
The Past ◽  
Local Characteristics ◽  
Varied Range ◽  
Over Time

The tradition of writing and drawing illustrations found in old manuscripts in various ethnic In- donesia, especially on Java community. Most Old Javanese manuscript contains illustrations that unique and local characteristics of Javanese art. Illustration of the ancient Javanese manuscripts are well documented and have a varied range of visual form, unique in styling, how to draw, the theme, as well as a visual object. Visual image is an illustration concept frameworks Java community, as well as a reflection of social life - Javanese culture Colonial period.   Illustration on Java Script period 1800-1920 as an aesthetic concept attainment the expression symbol of the Java community. The illustrations in old Javanese manuscripts in 1800-1920 showed a correlation sustainability of such visual language in the era of the past to the present and into the characteristics of Java illustration style, which is the development over time. Illustration of the old Javanese manuscript in the year 1800-1920 has changed and developed its visual state as the interaction between the animism in the Pre-Hinduism era, cultural of Hinduism-Budhism, Islamic and Colonialism paradigms.   Of  all these characteristics into the connecting thread is narrative, symbolic and simplification form of the nature (stylized), two-dimensional shapes and stylized concepts wayang.   Keywords: illustration, illustration tradition, colonialism 1800-1920, Java script, stylized

Sports and Religion in America

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arthur Remillard
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Progressive Era ◽  
Religious Discourse ◽  
Social Stability ◽  
Material Production ◽  
The Past ◽  
Football Team ◽  
Playing Fields

Athletic events occur in discrete locations, played by individuals following a prescribed set of rules, leaving behind metrics like wins and losses, final scores, and overall records. So on the surface, the empirical facts of sports are rather mundane. And yet, for devoted participants and observers, physical movements and calculated numbers feed into carefully constructed worlds of mythic stories, potent symbols, and exuberant rituals. The story of religion and sports in America, then, starts with bodies in motion. It continues as these bodies become inscribed with sacred meaning, each mark bearing the traces of a given population’s most cherished values. Institutional religions have been part of this story. From the “muscular Christians” of the Progressive Era to a contemporary Muslim football team observing the Ramadan fast during a playoff run, Americans have habitually turned playing fields into praying fields. Sports have also figured into the making of America’s civil religious discourse, as athletic expressions of national identity. In these instances, bodies in motion have reinforced or disrupted the boundaries that separate “real” Americans from those perceived to threaten social stability. Beyond institutional and civil religions, though, religious themes and ideas continue to attach themselves to sports in new and innovative ways. Understanding this process requires an unbraiding of the category of “religion” from notions of “God” and “belief.” Instead, we profit from an understanding of religion that starts with embodied movements, and continues into the material production of the sacred. From here, sports become locations to experiment with, and experience, what it means to be human. And this is where the attraction to sports originates, both in the past and in the present.

Feeling American in America, Not Feeling British in Britain

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Onoso Imoagene
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
National Security ◽  
Second Generation ◽  
Segmented Assimilation ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
The Past ◽  
National Myths ◽  
American Case ◽  
British Case ◽  
Over Time

In chapter 6, I show how the specific history an immigrant group has with the receiving country is an important aspect of the context of reception which does not receive sufficient attention in segmented assimilation theory’s discussion of the black second generation. I show how national contexts—specifically how national identity and legacies of the past, from slavery, to colonialism, to color segregation—influence identificational assimilation among the second generation. The chapter analyzes respondents’ responses to two questions: What does being British or American mean to you, and do you feel British or American? It explains why, in the American case, most of the second generation articulate shared national myths and sentiments, but in the British case the second generation had narratives that, though widely shared, were not the national myths. Engaging the multiculturalism literature, the chapter discusses how legacies of the past and national identity are two rarely-considered factors affecting immigrants’ integration over time. Given the increased linkages between immigration and national security in discourse and policy, these findings add to our knowledge of the factors impacting the degree of national identification among immigrants.

scholarly journals Death over time: brief notes about death and dying in the West

2014 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 437-449
Author(s):  
Rosangela Werlang ◽  
Jussara Maria Rosa Mendes
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Death And Dying ◽  
Necessary Condition ◽  
The West ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
The Past ◽  
The People ◽  
The Social ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Human Finitude

This literature review deals with death and the changes in its concept and meanings over time, aiming to relate this to the different social organizations and issues that involve individuality and human finitude. It intends to arouse the reflection about this theme respected by all of us, and related to our own contingency. In this sense, the article provides several perspectives through different authors' voices, seeking to understand how we arrived at this contemporary stage where death must be forgotten at any cost. It is a forbidden subject even inevitably being part of our daily lives, and its guardians must increasingly insure the non-participation and non-involvement of the people. Therefore, understanding the past stages of death, from its proximity to its banishment from the social life, is a necessary condition to analyzing our own end, and the end of our own individuality.

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