My performance is my world. Queer and normativity in the practices of New York’s ballroom culture

The central concept of the article is performance as a form of expression specific to non-normative people. In confrontation with the oppressive discourse of dominant groups, the body of an excluded individual and its metamorphoses in themselves appear to be an alternative way of non-alienated expression. This phenomenon is discussed via the example of the practices of New York’s ballroom culture — primarily via the example of the film Paris is Burning from 1990, directed by Jennie Livingston. In the ballroom community, black and non-heteronormative Americans found a safe space for experiments with their identity, thanks to which they could experience a form of capitalistic success through an ephemeral performance. However, these practices, despite their apparent subversiveness and emancipatory potential, did not have the ambition to change the status quo. They only allowed experiencing the feeling of social advancement within the existing system. The story that ballroom culture members in the 1980s told about themselves through their own performances was part of a unique, non-verbal discourse of excluded groups, which developed a specific communication code based on the human body, its ways of moving and its aesthetic metamorphoses.

Food Waste Valorization to Green Energy Vehicles: Sustainability Assessment

Increases in food waste (FW) and green vehicle (GV) due to population growth and social advancement can hinder realizing a sustainable society. This study propose a systematic sustainable feasibility assessment...

French elites and the rule of Emmanuel Macron: Change within continuity?

The article examines Emmanuel Macron’s attempts to respond to the request of the French society to reduce the distance between the country’s elites and the rest of the population, to make them more open and transparent, which included the purpose to fight corruption. In this regard, the authоr analyzes the particularities of the French elites in the previous era, the accumulation of problems giving rise to anti-elites sentiments among the French. Special attention is paid to the meritocratic system of social advancement, based on the criteria of the highest competency, as the main mechanisme of the reproduction of the elite stratum and preservation of its caste character. Emmanuel Macron, before his election to the presidency in May 2017, assured that he did not belong to the «caste» and promissed to take measures to reduce social inequality and renew elites. The article considers a certain reformatting of the party-political elite stratum after the victory of his «Republic on the Move!» party in the 2017 parliamentary elections, as well as steps aimed at improving school and university education in order to increase the effectiveness of «social lifts». At the same time, it is noted that a number of elements of the meritocratic system were preserved and even strengthened. The results of most of the reforms undertaken by the president have been half-hearted. Meanwhile, social unrest in the country, the movement of the «yellow vests» confirmed the growth of the anti-elites sentiments and the urgency to combat social discrimination. The coronavirus pandemic temporarily changed the priorities of the population, however sooner of later, these problems will get top on the agenda again.

Españoles, mulatos y filipinos en la Real Universidad de México. Debates y disputas por el acceso a las aulas en el siglo xvii

The social change in New Spain was also reflected in the students of the Royal University of Mexico. Although this was originally planned for the Spanish, mainly, in the seventeenth century other groups were present. Mulattoes, Indians and Filipinos demanded major studies and degrees, in the search to improve their living conditions and the social advancement of their families. This aspiration was rejected by intolerant sectors of Spaniards, causing rejections from students and various controversies that the university leaders had to resolve

Relationship between Players Involvement in Games and Societal Progressive Growth at High Level

The point of this study to investigate the impact of sports support on social improvement at an optional level in the region Muzaffarabad. The goals of the investigation were to discover the effect of sports interest on social improvement of the understudies (enrolled students) at the auxiliary level in District Muzaffarabad, Azad Jammu and Kashmir and to look at the social improvement of male and female understudies partaking in sports. The population of the study was all competitors while 444 of them were taken as a sample. The test of the examination comprised of 444 competitor understudies from chosen public area auxiliary schools of region Muzaffarabad through purposive inspecting. A self-created poll comprised of 35 shut finished inquiries was utilized as information Honesty estimated on a five-point Likert scale. The study was delimited to auxiliary schools of Muzaffarabad. The outcome demonstrated that there is no contrast between the social advancement of male and female competitor understudies at auxiliary school level in area Muzaffarabad. Noteworthy effect of sports support was found on social advancement in athletes' i.e. Self-conduct, friendship, social-conduct, building certainty and honesty at auxiliary level in region Muzaffarabad

Journey to Shanghai: The Effects of Rural-to-urban Migration and Social Class on Perceptions of Home

The present article centers on the home, the perceptions of which are challenged, and modified by rural-to-urban migration dynamics and outcomes. The core research interest hereby presented pertains to the effects of migration and social advancement on individuals’ perceptions of home: whereas some identify their original rural home as their “home,” others manage to achieve a “shift” of the home after migration, by relocating their “home” from their original home in the village to their created home in the city. These two opposite perceptions about where the home of primary reference is located are not coincidental. Rather, the article presents a pattern that connects home shifting to upward mobility and social advancement: in fact, the shift in the location of the home owes to three major driving forces that are key in social mobility processes: career development, locus, and networks. The findings of this research, reached through the analysis of empirical qualitative data, provide practical insights to post-migratory class formation as well as upward mobility dynamics.

Fraternizing Women and Men

This chapter describes the sociocultural characterization of fraternizing women. The majority opinion in Polish society was that women who socialized with German men did so for two clear reasons: money and social advancement. In fact, many of the relationships entered into during the occupation should be considered instances of survival sex. While historians and sociologists have long used the term “survival sex”, the more neutral parallel term “sexual barter” has been established in recent years as it concedes the women more agency. Indeed, many wartime relationships can be seen as complicated systems of interaction, into which the German and Polish partners brought different articles of exchange. The Germans were not always solely interested in the physical; they also sought human warmth. Other motivating factors, besides material advantages and romantic emotions, included protection and the need for human connection. Women sometimes also befriended the Germans for reasons of political sympathy, while some women thoroughly enjoyed the proximity to power. The chapter then considers the range of motives of the Reich German men in embarking on banned sexual and intimate relationships with Poles.