scholarly journals SELECTED THEORETICAL CONCEPTS OF THE SOCIAL ELITE

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beata PETRECKA
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Concepts ◽  
Social Elite ◽  
The Social

Pro linhvistychni pokaznyky vzayemodiyi mova – kulʹtura na prykladi analizu polʹsʹko- ukrayinsʹkoho pohranychchya XV-XIXst.

2020 ◽  
pp. 129-148
Author(s):  
Halyna Маtsyuk
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Native Speakers ◽  
Historical Memory ◽  
Linguistic Knowledge ◽  
Social Functions ◽  
Subject Field ◽  
Theoretical Concepts ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
The Social ◽  
Polish Language

The article is devoted to the formation of a linguistic interpretation of the interaction of language and culture of the Polish-Ukrainian border territories. The material for the analysis includes nomic systems of Ukrainian and Polish languages, which are considered as a cultural product of interpersonal and interethnic communication and an element of the language system, as well as invariant scientific theory created in the works of Polish onomastics (according to key theoretical concepts, tradition of analysis, and continuity in linguistic knowledge). The analysis performed in the article allows us to single out the linguistic indicators of the interaction of language and culture typical for the subject field of sociolinguistics. These are connections and concepts: language-territory, language-social strata, language-gender, language-ethnicity, social functions of the Polish language, and non-standardized spelling systems. Linguistic indicators reveal the peculiar mechanisms of the border in the historical memory and collective consciousness, marking the role of languages in these areas as a factor of space and cultural marker and bringing us closer to understanding the social relations of native speakers in the fifteenth-nineteenth centuries.

Wilde and the Emergence of Literary Drama, 1880–1895

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clare L. E. Foster
Keyword(s):  
Greek Drama ◽  
Social Elite ◽  
The Social ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Made In ◽  
Performance Text

This chapter examines Wilde’s championship of serious theatre and the authentic performance text by analysing his reviews of the first so-called ‘archaeological’ productions of Greek plays and Shakespeare. It offers a wider context in which to understand the rapidity of his disaffection with Greek plays, as practised among the social elite; and it suggests some ways in which his early enthusiasm for authentic Greek drama and Shakespeare is related to his own later classically informed playwriting, which combines old ideas of theatre as about and for its audiences with new ideas of drama as the appreciation of a literary object. Wilde’s own work as a dramatist straddled that change, prefigured by a comment he made in 1885: ‘An audience looks at a tragedian, but a comedian looks at his audience.’ He combines both these directions of gaze in his 1895 play The Importance of Being Earnest.

scholarly journals FUNCTIONING FEATURES OF THE GERMAN PROFESSIONAL SOCIAL AND PEDAGOGICAL VOCABULARY IN SCIENTIFIC AND PRACTICAL SPHERES

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (9(77)) ◽  
pp. 147-150
Author(s):  
Myroslava Duzha-Zadorozhna ◽  
Volodymyr Zadorozhnyy
Keyword(s):  
German Language ◽  
Partial Loss ◽  
Scientific Content ◽  
Theoretical Concepts ◽  
Social Pedagogy ◽  
Scientific Schools ◽  
The Social ◽  
Specific Meaning ◽  
And Control

The article analyzes the use of German professional social and pedagogical vocabulary in scientific, academic and practical spheres of activity in order to clarify the functioning of terminological units in these spheres. Due to the peculiarities of tasks facing different spheres of social pedagogy specialists’ activity, there was a certain linguistic differentiation in them. Terminological changes in the language of social pedagogy signal the phenomenon of certain concepts euphemisation and indicate the use of parallel paradigmatically different lexical meanings. Professional concepts define the process of narrow-branch terminology perception by the recipients and control their actions. Due to some arbitrary use of terms within the social and pedagogical professional language, there is sometimes a partial loss of the meaning of the concept caused by the lack of clear and formalized theoretical concepts in social pedagogy. Terminological units in the professional language of social pedagogy constantly correlate with theoretical concepts, in the pragmatic context of which they reveal their specific meaning. The issue of the scientific content of terminological units is connected with the dominance of certain social and pedagogical scientific schools and the imposition of their terminological apparatus on the whole field of knowledge. In recent decades, there has been a significant impact of economic processes on the German language of the social and pedagogical field, which leads to the active use of economic vocabulary in it.

‘To condole with me on the Commonwealth’s loss’: the widows and orphans of Parliament’s military commanders

2018 ◽  
pp. 192-210
Author(s):  
Andrew Hopper
Keyword(s):  
Social Elite ◽  
The Social ◽  
Military Commanders ◽  
Compare And Contrast

This chapter will examine how the Long Parliament and interregnum regimes treated the widows and orphans of their fallen military commanders. It will draw upon the petitions of the widows of the social elite, along with correspondence written by them or on their behalf. It will explore how elite war widows were able to mobilise networks of interest in their favour and the strategies they adopted to safeguard their families, livelihoods and estates. It will also analyse the conduct and deportment expected of elite war widows and the ways in which their self-fashioning sought to elicit favourable responses from authority. The chapter will compare and contrast the treatment of elite widows with those of the rank and file, as well as the widows of royalist officers petitioning for relief after 1660. It will conclude with an appreciation of how their involvement and sacrifice in a cause made some of these widows significant political figures.

The Geography of Peace Movements

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guntram H. Herb
Keyword(s):  
Historical Perspective ◽  
The United States ◽  
Peace Movement ◽  
Theoretical Concepts ◽  
Peace Movements ◽  
Philosophical Foundations ◽  
The Social ◽  
Just Society ◽  
Movement Mobilization

Geographers have not been prominent in studying peace movements. This is not surprising, given the strong foundations of the discipline in warfare and imperialism. To date, the only general geographic survey of peace movements appears to be Brunn’s 1985 study, a catalog of peace organizations and their activities that covered mainly the United States. Other studies by geographers are few and focus on individual antiwar campaigns or disarmament strategies. However, more recently, geographers have made significant contributions to the analysis of the broader theoretical context of peace movements. These works offer spatial conceptualizations of social movement mobilization. A general appraisal of the geographic dimensions of peace movements is still missing. This chapter represents a tentative step in this direction. The examination is conducted in four steps. The first section deals with general characteristics of peace movements. It discusses problems of definition and presents the intellectual and philosophical foundations of peace activities. The second section approaches the geography of peace movements from a historical perspective. It examines the development of organized peace groups from their origins in the nineteenth century to the present. Different scales of the changing geopolitical and societal contexts will frame the discussion. Such a geohistory will allow us to identify and interpret changing intensities of activism. The third section addresses the geography of contemporary peace movements from a conceptual viewpoint. Armed with theoretical concepts from the recent literature on social movements, it examines the places and spaces of mobilization. The 1980s peace movement against nuclear armaments will serve as a case study to illustrate the insights that can be gained from a geographic approach. Finally, I will present the major implications that stem from the geohistorical and conceptual discussions in the conclusion. Peace is more than the absence of war. Though it is traditionally defined as the opposite of war, peace scholars and activists now embrace a notion of peace that includes the conditions necessary to bring about a nonviolent and just society at all levels of human activity. Contemporary peace movements not only seek to abolish the overt violence of war, but also struggle to transform the social structures responsible for death and human suffering.

Cultural Life

2020 ◽  
pp. 168-200
Author(s):  
Anna Hájková
Keyword(s):  
Symbolic Capital ◽  
Social Hierarchy ◽  
Sporting Events ◽  
Secondary Importance ◽  
High Culture ◽  
Artistic Production ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
Social Elite ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
The Social

Theresienstadt is famous as the “cultural ghetto.” Rather than following the traditional interpretation of cultural activities as resistance, this chapter explores how in Theresienstadt, as in other camps, artistic production and consumption were prestigious activities linked to symbolic capital. The social elite in the ghetto redefined “high culture” and marked as particularly valuable those works that were considered the most Czech. Inmates’ positions in the social hierarchy dictated who had access to which productions, and “wealthy” prisoners such as cooks acted as patrons for artists or could play soccer, a much-loved sport in Theresienstadt. The enthusiasm for the key cultural and sporting events demonstrates that the ideological divisions among Czech prisoners, Zionists, and Czecho-Jews were of secondary importance to Czech belonging.

The Socio-Pragmatics of IT Artefacts

2007 ◽  
pp. 194-212
Author(s):  
Göran Goldkuhl ◽  
Par J. Agerfalk
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Information Systems ◽  
Action Research ◽  
Participatory Design ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Design Approach ◽  
Theoretical Concepts ◽  
Alternative Approach ◽  
The Social ◽  
Action Research Study

There are many attempts to explain success and failure in information systems. Many of these refer to a purported socio-technical gap. In this paper we develop an alternative approach that does not impose such a strong dichotomy, but regards social and technical rather as dimensions along which to study workpractices. The developed theory involves not only the “social” and “technical” constructs but also other generic ones, namely “instrumental”, “semiotic” and “pragmatic”. We call this theory socio-instrumental pragmatism. To illustrate the theoretical concepts introduced, we use an example brought from an extensive action research study including the development of an information system in eldercare, developed through a participatory design approach.

scholarly journals ‘It’s not about disability, I want to win as many medals as possible’: The social construction of disability in high-performance coaching

2018 ◽  
Vol 55 (3) ◽  
pp. 344-360 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert C Townsend ◽  
Tabo Huntley ◽  
Christopher J Cushion ◽  
Hayley Fitzgerald
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Symbolic Capital ◽  
Theoretical Concepts ◽  
Disability Sport ◽  
Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽  
Performance Coaching ◽  
The Social ◽  
Construction Of Disability ◽  
Social Construction Of Disability

This article draws on the theoretical concepts of Pierre Bourdieu to provide a critical analysis of the social construction of disability in high-performance sport coaching. Data were generated using a qualitative cross-case comparative methodology, comprising 18 months of ethnographic fieldwork in high-performance disability sport, and interviews with coaches and athletes from a cross-section of Paralympic sports. We discuss how in both cases ‘disability’ was assimilated into the ‘performance logic’ of the sporting field as a means of maximising symbolic capital. Furthermore, coaches were socialised into a prevailing legitimate culture in elite disability sport that was reflective of ableist, performance-focused and normative ideologies about disability. In this article we unpack the assumptions that underpin coaching in disability sport, and by extension use sport as a lens to problematise the construction of disability in specific social formations across coaching cultures. In so doing, we raise critical questions about the interrelation of disability and sport.

scholarly journals At Play in the Space: The concept of 'the social practice approach' in the Scottish adult literacies field

2013 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aileen Ackland
Keyword(s):  
Critical Pedagogy ◽  
Adult Literacy ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Personal Construct ◽  
Literacy Studies ◽  
New Literacy ◽  
New Literacy Studies ◽  
Theoretical Concepts ◽  
The Social ◽  
Practice Approach

This paper focuses on Scotland’s policy response to the International Adult Literacy Survey (1994-1998) and the ‘grand experiment’ (Merrifield 2005) to implement a social practices perspective of literacies.This radical perspective, derived from the New Literacy Studies (NLS), has profound implications for pedagogy and is promoted in Scotland as ‘the social practice approach’.The paper begins with a discussion of the distinctive developments in Scottish policy in the context of the international interest in Adult Literacy. The rhetorical claims made in Scotland are then examined through a study which used a methodology drawn from Personal Construct Theory (PCT) to explore how practitioners understand ‘the social practice approach’. This research found little connection between the theoretical concepts of the New Literacy Studies and practitioners’ interpretations. Dissonances in the data highlighted power issues between policy and practice.In the latter part of the paper, Bernstein’s (2000) ideas about how theoretical knowledge is translated into pedagogical knowledge are used to explore the dissonances further.The paper concludes that there is an ideological conflict of purpose within the discourses of adult literacies in Scotland and that the critical pedagogy implied by the New Literacy Studies is also necessary within teacher education if practice is to be transformed in response to the radical social theory.

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