Minority Language Learning and Use: Can Self-Determination Counter Social Determinism?

To what extent is minority language use in society imposed by social determinism, a force acting on individuals based on the language group's relative vitality in terms of demography, institutional support, and status? Can social determinism be countered by the force of self-determination sustained by group members’ personal autonomy, critical consciousness, and strong engaged integrated identity? These questions are addressed by testing a revised Self-determination and ethnolinguistic development (SED) model, using structural equation modeling. This model specifies how three categories of language socialization (enculturation, personal autonomization, critical consciousness-raising) mediate between objective ethnolinguistic vitality (EV) and four psycholinguistic constructs (engaged integrated identity, community engagement, linguistic competencies, subjective EV) in the prediction of minority language use. Results on a large sample of French Canadian students in different EV settings strongly support the SED model and show that social determinism can be at least moderately countered by psycholinguistic constructs that increase individual self-determination.

To the problem of formation of sence-of-life orientations of mature personality

The article is devoted to the research of the problem of formation of sence-of-life orientations of a mature personality: the theoretical analysis of the concept of personal maturity, the essence of sence-of-life orientations in the life of an adult personality is presented; the relevance and motivation of research in the direction of humanistic-existential paradigm are substantiated; processes of understanding the life experience of the individual, his role in the formation of a mature personality, the activation of its internal resource are emphasized. An empirical study and analysis of its results on the formation of sence-of-life orientations of the individual in adulthood are presented; the principles of psychological influences in the process of psychological support are presented: social determinism, freedom of choice, personal congruence, responsibility, individual approach, empathy, invaluable attitude to the client. In the course of the research hypotheses were put: the deepening crisis of the existence of a mature personality is mediated by personal experience of living out difficult life situations and overcoming them. The main purpose of crisis counseling as a special help of the individual, is to promote an in-depth understanding that only person is able to make choices, to take responsibility for their life. In the course of research and implementation of psychological influence, the methodological principles of humanistic and existential orientation, which determined professional interaction, were reflected. The essence of psychological care, which we see in the integration of the experience of psychotherapeutic meetings in the real life of the client, is determined. In the perspective of research, the formation of a stable resistance of the individual to stress, adaptation to the situation of frustration and, in particular, the search for new meanings of existence, improving the quality of life.

Professionalism in interethnic relations in the internal affairs bodies

The article is devoted to one of the urgent problems of ethnopsychology-the prerequisites for achieving professionalism in the management of a multinational team in the internal affairs bodies. Based on the materials of theoretical analysis and empirical research, ethnopsychological phenomena are analyzed in the context of management psychology, the mechanisms of their functioning are studied. The study of the problems of ethnic psychology, in particular, the psychology of management, is currently important for achieving the effectiveness of the practical activities of employees. In turn, the study of the ethnopsychological characteristics of employees expands the scientific understanding of the individual, allows us to reveal the characteristic patterns of social determinism and historical variability of the human psyche. In the conditions of a complexly changing modern society, the problem of the ability to professionally manage a multinational team in the Department of Internal Affairs is particularly acute. Achieving a high level of performance.

SARTRE, BOURDIEU, AND GUSTAVE FLAUBERT: FROM INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM AND SOCIAL DETERMINISM IN THE FIELD OF LITERARY CREATION

Drawing from the analysis of Sartre’s monumental biography of the French writer Gustave Flaubert and Bourdieu’s critical response to it, this article explores anew the dialectics of agency and coercion through the lenses of sartrian philosophy and bourdieusian sociology. From his birth to his childhood and his death in 1880, the biographical elements of the life of Madame Bovary’s author and the contents of his literary works were depicted by Sartre and Bourdieu in a dialogue questioning the writer’s individual goals, strategies, limits and fate. Put in a historical perspective, this socio-philosophical confrontation between the theoretical aims and methods of existentialist psychoanalysis and structuralist socio-analysis reopens the oldest of debates between actor-centered philosophy of action and socio-centered logic of practice, between the transcendence of ego and the transcendence of social, or freedom and determinism. <p> </p><p><strong> Article visualizations:</strong></p><p><img src="/-counters-/edu_01/0875/a.php" alt="Hit counter" /></p>

Ethical Issues in Transhumanism

Transhumanism seems to be inevitable. There seems to be no way to stop the developments leading humanity to transhumanism. As Heidegger puts, technological determinism rules, rather than social determinism. In other words, the technology controls the society, not the other way around. Therefore, in a short time period, people will be forced to face the challenges of transhumanism. It is therefore the right time to prepare for those challenges before they became mainstream. Tomorrow, it will be too late. Academicians, educators, politicians, philosophers, intellectuals, psychologists … etc. all should concentrate on the issue. This chapter will try to answer such questions and many others. A philosophical approach is used. After all, ethics is a branch of philosophy. Since, this is a futuristic topic, it is hard to find first-hand data and conduct survey analysis etc. Therefore, this is a theoretical chapter.

LA GENÈSE DE L’HORREUR. REPRÉSENTATION DE L’ACTE TERRORISTE ET TRAVAIL DE MÉMOIRE DANS LA LITTÉRATURE MAROCAINE D’EXPRESSION FRANÇAISE / THE GENESIS OF HORROR: REPRESENTATION OF THE TERRORIST ACT AND MEMORY WORK IN MOROCCAN LITERATURE OF FRENCH EXPRESSION

In the aftermath of the May 2003 attacks, Moroccans were paralyzed by the magnitude of the event. Political scientists, sociologists, journalists took turns on television sets to try to comprehend the incomprehensible, to label the unspeakable. The trauma was such that society took refuge in denial, arguing the age-old tolerance of Moroccans and their legendary pacifism. Years later, young novelists seize the event; put it in fiction, initiating a work of memory likely to reconcile the community with its painful past. In order to get out of denial, suggest these novelists, one must have the courage to face reality in the front. The terrorist is here. Instead of pretending to ignore him, it would be more judicious, to approach him, to give him the floor, to access the intimacy of his conscience. Hence, amazingly we will discover the limits of our ability to interpret. In the terrorist act, there is nothing to understand. Above all, we must not go back to the usual thought patterns and easy causalities conveyed by the media. This crisis of meaning is expressed aesthetically by challenging the reading grids of the realistic novel. We must not believe that the genesis of horror can be explained by a kind of social determinism. Certainly, information about real allow us to understand, in part, the fact of acting out, of falling into barbarism. But, let's recognize that our understanding emains incomplete. The deep motivations of the terrorist will always escape us. Shifted in his habits, the reader is invited to approach the problem differently and manages to grasp the real dangers of the situation. Basically, the economic and social crisis of Moroccan society is only the tip of the iceberg. Above all, our society suffers from a crisis of the imagination since young people from outlying districts are deprived of the possibility of building their relationship with the world other than through mechanical tasks, which are often degrading. Fragilized by the symbolic misery, they become easy victims of jihadist rhetoric. Other facets of the terrorist emerge then and with them narrative possibilities never updated, including that of a love story endearing in its depth and simplicity. Morality: the story of terrorism could have been different if we had known how to negotiate the education of the imagination of a lost youth; this education is also inexpensive if we know how to go about it. In short, for Moroccan novelists, this reinvigoration of the meaning to which the reader is cornered is the, sine qua non, of any salutary memory work.

A New World of Communications in Higher Education and Its Implications

This chapter explores the implications of rapid, seemingly continuous change in information and communications technologies (ICTs) for HE institutions and their education missions. The chapter begins by touching on long-standing debates around technological and social determinism, and technological optimism and pessimism, before exploring ways in which ICTs are deeply and increasingly tightly woven into HE institutions and practices. The review is centred on a series of overlapping and intersecting key questions, including (i) the influence of ICTs on educational access and equity, (ii) the opportunities and limitations of autopedagogy, (iii) tightly intertwined technical, pedagogical, and industrial matters, (iv) the evolving role of ICTs in surveillance, support, safety, and pedagogy, and (v) the potential for ICTs to accelerate the push for open access to research scholarship and data. The chapter will be of interest to scholars, policy makers, and practitioners with interests at the intersection of HE and ICTs.

Axiosphere of folk art culture as a factor of Ukrainians’ ethnocultural identity-saving

The article analyzes the issue of understanding the influence of axiosphere on saving ethnocultural identity. Traditional identity is considered as an integrity of a human formation general social determinism to become an individual, and self-consciousness and all the roles of a human in the society – as a product of social development. Ukrainian traditional folk culture with continuous dialectical processes taking place in a society is shown to be modern as long as it perfectly reproduces significant changes in a modern life, history, life of the people, conveys people’s aspirations and attitudes to reality, identifies Ukrainians and their culture among other cultures.