The ‘Boomer remover’: Intergenerational discounting, the coronavirus and climate change

Based on an analysis of Twitter data, this article examines the appearance of generational ideas in the ways that people have defined the experience and significance of the coronavirus and climate change, as well as related them to each other. I characterize the narrative frame as one of intergenerational discounting: a description of breakdown in reciprocal obligations of care, giving rise to accusations of hypocrisy, expressions of resentment and rage, and the description of the virus as the ‘Boomer remover’. This frame normatively licenses withdrawal from intergenerational action in pursuit of collective objectives, as well as erases the disproportionate negative effects of crisis conditions on those facing intersecting intragenerational disadvantages. In addition to analysing a strategic but thus far unexplored data source for social problems theory and the sociology of generations – tweets – the article contributes to this scholarship by demonstrating how generational ideas work to morally link different conditions to each other.

Social Problems and the Contextual Compromise: Subjectivity, Objectivity, and Knowledge in Everyday Life

This article builds on recent sociological debates about the explanatory importance of claims-making contexts and the continuing challenges associated with subjectivism and objectivism in social problems research. The sociology of knowledge is used to illustrate how the contextual compromise that has sustained social problems theory and method for at least two decades is based on a number of erroneous assumptions about subjectivity and objectivity in the tradition of phenomenological analysis. To strengthen recent discussions about the contextual dimensions of claims-making activities and framing techniques, the article critically assesses the curious neglect and continuing misrepresentation of the sociology of knowledge in constructionist analyses of social problems.

Gambaran Kemiskinan dalam Novel Dawuk: Kisah Kelabu dari Rumbuk Randu Karya Mahfud Ikhwan

AbstrakTulisan ini membahas permasalahan sosial yang terjadi pada masyarakatRumbuk Randu dalam novel Dawuk: Kisah Kelabu dari Rumbuk Randu karyaMahfud Ikhwan. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode deskriptif analisis denganteori sosiologi sastra. Untuk dapat mengetahui gambaran permasalahan sosialyang terjadi dalam Dawuk, penelitian ini menggunakan teori permasalahan sosialyang dikemukakan oleh Soerdjono Soekanto. Dari Sembilan permasalahan sosialyang disebutkan oleh Soerdjono Soekanto, hasil penelitian ini mengindikasikanterdapat empat permasalahan sosial yang terjadi pada masyarakat Rumbuk Randudalam novel. Empat permasalahan sosial tersebut yaitu kemiskinan, kejahatan,disorganisasi keluarga, dan pelanggaran norma-norma masyarakat yang disebabkanoleh faktor ekonomis, faktor biologis, faktor psikologis, dan faktor kebudayaan. Darikeempat permasalahan sosial tersebut, dapat diindikasikan bahwa Dawuk berusahamenampilkan permasalahan sosial yang terjadi dalam novel, baik penyebab maupundampaknya, lewat peristiwa yang melibatkan para tokohnya.Kata kunci: Dawuk, kemiskinan, permasalahan sosial, masyarakatAbstractThis article examines social problems which happened to Rumbuk Randu’s society inthe novel Dawuk: Kisah Kelabu dari Rumbuk Randu by Mahfud Ikhwan. This research usesanalytical description method and literature sociology theory. In order to know the reflectionof social problems that happened in Dawuk, this research applies social problems theory bySoerdjono Soekanto. From nine of social problems that mentioned by Soerdjono Soekanto, thisresearch indicates there are four social problems that happened to Rumbuk Randu’s society:poverty, wickedness, family disorganization, and social norms deviation which are causedby economic factor, biological factor, psychological factor, and cultural factor. From the foursocial problems, it can be identified that Dawuk reveals the social problems in the novel, eitherthe causes or the impacts through the stories involving the characters.Keywords: Dawuk, poverty, social problems, and society

Gambaran Kemiskinan dalam Novel Dawuk: Kisah Kelabu dari Rumbuk Randu Karya Mahfud Ikhwan

AbstrakTulisan ini membahas permasalahan sosial yang terjadi pada masyarakatRumbuk Randu dalam novel Dawuk: Kisah Kelabu dari Rumbuk Randu karyaMahfud Ikhwan. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode deskriptif analisis denganteori sosiologi sastra. Untuk dapat mengetahui gambaran permasalahan sosialyang terjadi dalam Dawuk, penelitian ini menggunakan teori permasalahan sosialyang dikemukakan oleh Soerdjono Soekanto. Dari Sembilan permasalahan sosialyang disebutkan oleh Soerdjono Soekanto, hasil penelitian ini mengindikasikanterdapat empat permasalahan sosial yang terjadi pada masyarakat Rumbuk Randudalam novel. Empat permasalahan sosial tersebut yaitu kemiskinan, kejahatan,disorganisasi keluarga, dan pelanggaran norma-norma masyarakat yang disebabkanoleh faktor ekonomis, faktor biologis, faktor psikologis, dan faktor kebudayaan. Darikeempat permasalahan sosial tersebut, dapat diindikasikan bahwa Dawuk berusahamenampilkan permasalahan sosial yang terjadi dalam novel, baik penyebab maupundampaknya, lewat peristiwa yang melibatkan para tokohnya.Kata kunci: Dawuk, kemiskinan, permasalahan sosial, masyarakatAbstractThis article examines social problems which happened to Rumbuk Randu’s society inthe novel Dawuk: Kisah Kelabu dari Rumbuk Randu by Mahfud Ikhwan. This research usesanalytical description method and literature sociology theory. In order to know the reflectionof social problems that happened in Dawuk, this research applies social problems theory bySoerdjono Soekanto. From nine of social problems that mentioned by Soerdjono Soekanto, thisresearch indicates there are four social problems that happened to Rumbuk Randu’s society:poverty, wickedness, family disorganization, and social norms deviation which are causedby economic factor, biological factor, psychological factor, and cultural factor. From the foursocial problems, it can be identified that Dawuk reveals the social problems in the novel, eitherthe causes or the impacts through the stories involving the characters.Keywords: Dawuk, poverty, social problems, and society