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Periodization, or the division of perceived time, pervades organizational life. While scholars have explored many ways in which actors relate to the past, present, and future for various purposes, periodization as an expression of temporality is often taken for granted. With a fundamental capacity to inform cognition and action, periodization carries high stakes for involved actors and groups, which necessitates addressing this lacuna. Specifically, we investigate the intersubjective instances of periodization that foreground human agency, which lends itself to developing a critical perspective on periodization with emphasis on its relation to power and agency and theorizing its often-covert presence and use in organizational life. Periodization, we contend, centralizes some organizational actors or events while marginalizing others. This insight is amenable to two theoretical contributions. First, we offer a new lens for understanding, theorizing, and leveraging the power of temporality and the temporality of power. Second, we set the stage for examining periodi-zation as an actionable yet often overlooked temporal tool at the disposition of organizational actors. By systematically unearthing and challenging the underlying assumptions of periodization, we invite scholars and practitioners to scrutinize and challenge why and how organizational actors can temporally interpret, frame, and contest the social reality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In Aesthetic Theory, Adorno argues that, in modernity, art and philosophy are reciprocally dependent upon each other for legitimation and critical force. This claim has puzzled scholars and provoked controversy. I argue that Adorno's thesis may be comprehended in the following manner: art requires philosophy because, without the latter, art would lack the power to critique social and historical reality (in particular, the ideological elements that often remain invisible as second nature), and to rationally interpret the material particularity expressed by such reality; and, conversely, philosophy requires art because the latter expresses historical experience to reason. Such material historical experience is necessary in order to prevent philosophy from falling into ideological convention; idle speculation; or abstract and reified instrumentality. Thus, the constellation of history, art, and philosophy is essential to Adorno's aesthetics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The initial reaction to the introduction of Big Brother Naija (BBN) is a moral panic, which is symptomatic of the belief that the show challenges social, moral, religious, and cultural standards, thereby negotiating existing boundaries. Although there is a moral panic about the show, while some studies have established that the attitude towards it is justifiable, little is known about the strategies (deliberate or not) used in negotiating existing boundaries, and how the show influences youth culture in Nigeria. This study, therefore, examines the strategies and communicative modes participants employ to negotiate existing boundaries in BBN. The data for the study were harvested from selected videos of Big Brother Naija’s second and third editions, and we analysed the data using Sigrid Norris’ Multimodal Interaction Analysis (MIA). The study affirms the status of Big Brother Naija as a boundary breaker in Nigeria. Gender, social, and ethnic boundaries are deliberately stretched to the limits through different discursive strategies and communicative modes in the show. It is found out that the show has the potential to serve as a unifying forum for different ethnic groups in Nigeria, although not much is committed to that at present. The study recommends that the show producers should introduce tasks and activities that can help reduce ethnic tension and engender peaceful co-existence in the country. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The rise of Asian roles has sparked a heated debate and opened a critical dialogue about the reception of global Asian representation in propagandizing multiculturalism. Given the cultural and ideological effects, this PoD recommends a pedagogical perspective of teaching critique. By navigating the idea of critique in courses related to critical discourse studies, my proposal is to critique media perspectives on Asia representation with teaching strategies, learning materials, and parallel activities. The instructional design helps to provide a nuanced critique of how Asian representation is perceived. Three steps are proposed: rethink the idea of critique and the principles of teaching critique; leverage a comprehensive study of Asian representation integral to social critique; challenge the propaganda via contrasting media narratives. The pedagogical activities are designed to help learners decode what they learn and enhance their interactions with social reality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Suicidality is among the most controversial concepts in multi-disciplinary studies worldwide, regardless of the form and approach. The etiopathological variability in suicidal ideation correlates with the heterogeneity of the clinical and behavioural patterns of self-harm attempts, which significantly impact the prognosis and quality of life of patients. The main objective of the present study was to identify and outline the spectrum of factors predisposing to suicide, with the whole suite of consequences and manifestations in ideation and behaviour. In this regard, the research literature of the last decade contains numerous articles dealing with the theoretical premises pertaining to both the statistical and the profoundly psychological and philosophical dimensions of suicide. The micro-environment favouring the clinical evolution of self-harm/self-destructive thoughts and attempts to the terminal, final act integrates individual medical-biological and psychological factors into the overall social reality. Knowledge of the whole etiopathogenic amalgam with clinical-evolutionary implications allows for the development of methods and tools for the early assessment and prevention of suicidal risk. At the same time, the present study aims to qualitatively focus on the subjective motivation declared by patients regarding the internal, individual catalyst of suicidal ideation and attempts on a predominantly psycho-social coordination. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Given the challenges of teaching Sociology in Basic Education, this article discusses the Research-Intervention method and presents an experience of pedagogical intervention. The aim was to participate in the process of recontextualizing content, promoting the assimilation of theoretical concepts and categories in reflection about social reality. Using a qualitative approach, the study reviewed the literature on Intervention-Research and applied the method to educational practices of the "Cinema and Society" project, implemented in a public school in the state of Espírito Santo. By mobilizing audiovisual resources, the intervention aimed to recontextualize content, making teaching more dynamic and meaningful for students. The results demonstrate that audiovisual resources, as mediation tools, can enrich the debate, stimulate interest, and contribute to a critical-reflective education of students. This allows the work of different contents and theoretical-analytical concepts connected to reflection on social reality and the experience of the subjects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Chinese migrant workers have contributed greatly to the industrialization and urbanization of China and have thus long been a popular topic in news reports. Most previous studies on the news about this group have been qualitative or quantitative analyses based on small-scale datasets, with few based on large-scale corpus data. This study combined topic modeling and critical discourse analysis (CDA) to analyze 186,180 reports of migrant workers published by 906 Chinese newspapers between 2001 and 2021. We identified seventeen topics in the news that fell into five categories: "work and labor," "support and care," "rights and interests," "homecoming," and "social emergencies." Overall, news reports on the group have become increasingly diverse, with various diachronic changes in the proportions of topic categories and specific topics. In addition, we found three major types of representation of migrant workers: as a disadvantaged group, as outsiders, and as a group vulnerable to risks. These negative representations might be closely related to government policies, ideology, media stance, and social reality (the broader societal context in which these individuals are situated). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Take a deep breath. Although nothing is more natural or essential to human bodies than breathing, this simple yet vital act is the critical result of complex organizational, material, and political processes. We suggest that breathing can be thought of as a political model of organizing insofar as it shapes questions of life and death while rooting these "operationally" in immediate, urgent, collective and more-than-human intra-action. Breathing is also a social act because the self is bound up with others in a fabric of relations upon which each person depends, and so breathing can serve as a trope for regenerating and rethinking social structures, institutions and organizing blueprints. We take the act of breathing—its literal and metaphorical (im)possibility and collective organization—as the focus of a reflection on relations among humans and between other living beings, humans, and their ecological surroundings. Re-thinking the question of whose breathing we care about and whose breathing counts, we offer a political model that embraces the mutuality principle for post-humanistic and post-anthropocentric organizing and community building. We thereby hope to "inspire" and materialize new social and political realities for organizing our shared future, conceptualized as building a (scholarly) community of breathers who breathe and let breathe. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This contribution explores the nexus between Discourse Theory and Strategic Communication. Traditional positivist and rationalist approaches to business, economics, politics, and management often marginalize strategic communication as merely instrumental; whereas discursive approaches, and Discourse Theory in particular, recognize its constitutive role in shaping social realities. This contribution therefore argues for the development of a discourse-theoretical approach to Strategic Communication, highlighting its potential to offer new insights and understandings. It first examines existing uses of the notion of discourse in Strategic Communication, before discussing Discourse Theory's potential added value to its study. Next, it emphasizes the importance of Discourse Theory scholars engaging with Strategic Communication topics. Finally, two examples contrasting non-discursive and discourse-theoretical approaches are presented, focusing respectively on populism and authenticity in corporate marketing campaigns. Overall, this paper advocates for a deeper integration of Discourse Theory within the study of Strategic Communication. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Tak Cheong Lane Vegetarian Cooperative has operated a restaurant in a converted art space in Hong Kong’s working-class neighbourhood since 2012. In this unique space, food and arts are essential elements of everyday life, and it’s known for its collective management and its free-pricing policy. By examining the practices of the Tak Cheong Lane Vegetarian Cooperative from the perspective of ‘commoning art’, we analyse how they elicit a dissensual aesthetic politics. Specifically, they reconfigure the fabric of sensory experience through their social economy practices; food production and provision; and expressions of alternative values. We argue that commoning art, through engaging with everyday realities and social issues, and pursuing social relations that promote justice and embrace otherness, is dynamic and adaptable. By practising dissensual aesthetics, commoning art offers a sustainable and transformative approach to counteract society’s social, economic and environmental challenges. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Introduction to this Special Issue, themed 'Navigating Hurdles and Reconfiguring (Im)mobilities in Times of Corona' departs from a reflection over what constitutes a 'crisis', and accordingly reflects over the notions 'essential' and 'existential' that have been devised extensively in research, as well as in official and colloquial discourses, to describe diverse types of mobilities. The Introduction engages with the concepts of 'crisis' and 'emergency' that set the tone of the social reality during the COVID-19 pandemic. In doing so, it aims to conceptualize the paradigm shift of (im)mobilities reinforced at the outbreak of the pandemic within the wider debates around 'crisis' and 'emergency', further scrutinizing the official and colloquial discourses assumed during the pandemic. Accordingly, the Introduction discusses the concepts of essential, non-essential, and existential mobilities as understood amidst and outside of the critical times of the pandemic. In doing so, it offers a theoretical basis from which the discussion of the Special Issue departs. Finally, the Introduction engages with the concept of 'pace' as a theoretical lens to understand (im)mobilities, and proposes the concept of 'reconfiguration', as a tool that enables us to focus on the agentive actors' discourses and practices to reconstitute a meaningful life, and navigate the (im)mobility regimes forged amidst the critical times of corona. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper draws attention to the meaning of data, politics and reality in social psychology. Since social psychological data matters, critical reflection on data handling and interpretations expands the horizon of social psychology beyond the cause-effect nexus. Social psychological enterprise is a political field where the role of structure and power give meaning to the data, and hence construct the reality. This can be further situated in the institutions and the dominant paradigm which regulates the structuring of data and interpretations. The current paper debates the politics of data, human agency, and the way data in social psychology has the potential to be liberating and change-oriented. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The term "white working-class" has emerged as a focal point in recent discourse, igniting fervent debates around its usage and purpose. Critics like Gillborn have contended that the term, often wielded by right-leaning academics and commentators, artificially segregates the working-class. In this article I seek to understand this, and other criticisms raised in relation to the rise of populism, which have been aimed at the usage and purpose of the term "white working-class". By weighing these criticisms against one another and acknowledging the intersectionality inherent in class formation, I propose a more specific and limited application of the term that I think better aligns with scholarly pursuits and helps to mitigate some of these critics core concerns around the term's overgeneralisation in-particular. Thus, while I also acknowledge that the term "white working-class" ignites debate, it can also unveil intricate social realities, as evidence from Skeggs and Reay suggest. It must ultimately be employed judiciously to avoid sidelining the struggles of other marginalised groups within the class. Balancing its use with caution is essential to harness its potential without undermining the broader context of class-based issues that affect individuals from all backgrounds. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In recent decades, the long-standing debate about the scientific status of the social sciences and their explanatory nature has been rearticulated through perspectivist, interpretivist, and mechanistic approaches. Whereas mechanistic approaches advocate for realism in sociological models, perspectivist and interpretivist perspectives challenge this by emphasizing the multiple interpretations and meaningful nature of social reality, as opposed to the natural sciences. Currently, the metatheoretical discussion centers on competing views regarding the relationship between theories and the objects they address. In contrast to this focus on theories, I propose a rearticulation of Hacking's interventionist argument. I argue that all sciences share a common epistemic activity—the construction of chains of reference—which points to shared notions of success. This paves the way for realism through a practice-based argument that does not originate from ontological disputes, suggesting that our best theories are those literally embedded in scientific practice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The subject of this study is related to the social change processes of the Abdal communities living in Antalya after the transition from nomadic life to settled life. In this qualitative research with ethnography (cultural analysis) research pattern, it is aimed to understand and interpret the daily lives, social behaviors and attitudes of the Abdals living in Antalya. How has the transition from nomadic life to a settled life led to a change in the social lives of the Abdals? This question constitutes the basic problem of the study. In the research, social reality has been searched for in the lifestyle of individuals and in the worlds of meaning. The data collection methods of the research are in-depth interviews, observations and document review. The data collected with these tools were analyzed in a descriptive manner and interpreted in a sociological context. In this research design, which is based on the understanding and interpretive paradigm in general, the aim is to reach the social reality, to be able to analyze the daily life practices, nature, norms and sociological structures of the investigated community. In this study, the aim is to understand and interpret the changes that occurred in the social lives of the Abdal community living in the Serik, Manavgat, Finike and Muratpasa districts of Antalya after the transition from nomadic life to a settled life with the ethnography (cultural analysis) pattern. The Abdals are a community with a rich sociological structure with beliefs, professional activities, lifestyles and cultural characteristics. The Abdals, who are estimated to have migrated from Khorasan, which is located on the territory of Iran today, to the Anatolia, are a community with Bektashism beliefs. Abdals can be confused with Gypsies due to their physical appearance, lifestyle and cultural characteristics' similarities. As a result, it is seen that the Abdals identify themselves as Turkish, Bektashi Muslims. It is found that the Abdals live in a total of nine neighborhoods, including three in Serik, four in Manavgat, one in Muratpasa and one in Finike. In addition, the change in lifestyle has caused a number of changes and transformations in the institutions of the Abdals such as family, religion, marriage and the economy. Abdals started to be employed in different professional branches such as subcontracting, small craftsmanship, real estate agency, taxi driving, temporary agricultural labor, greenhouse and municipal labor. The ethics committee certificate required for the field research was obtained and the interviews were conducted in Antalya between June 2022 and February 2023. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Social Virtual Reality (VR) is growing in popularity and has drawn the attention of HCI academics. Social VR experiences harassment just like other online environments. The Trust System (TS) in VRChat, one of the most prominent social VR platforms, is designed to measure and indicate users' trustworthiness in order to reduce toxicity in the platform. In this research, we analyzed data from "r/VRChat," to understand how users perceive the system. We found that users interpret the system differently. Problems in its implementation cause distrust. The trust ranks, while intended to promote positive interactions, can actually lead to stereotyping and discourage communication between users of different ranks. The hierarchical structure within the ranks exacerbates discrimination and conflicts, particularly against the low-ranked users. We further discuss that trust ranks present challenges to newcomers and contribute to a competitive atmosphere that hinders the formation of less toxic norms. Finally, we provide implications for the future design of similar systems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Written by a geographer, but in close connection with other fields such as political philosophy, psichoanalysis, and political science, this essay is part of my project of analysing the bolsonarism and its ideological effects on Brazil. To do so, I realized that a critique of neoliberalism enhanced by the concept of necropolitics will shed some light on three intertwined aspects of the Brazilian reality: the social aftermaths of neoliberalism, the re-emergency of the far-right in Brazil, and the tragedy of modernity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this article is to give an example of how an exercise in post-critical educational research might be conceptualized. The example refers to an enquiry into building a public sphere around education in Poland. First, a post-critical approach in educational research is defined with reference to the two dominant perspectives of social research, namely the (neo)positivistic and the critical paradigm. Next, and following insights of Hannah Arendt and Jacques Rancière, the idea of building is presented in terms of the persistent introduction of a new beginning into a social reality through acting in line with an assumption (an axiom) that, from the point of view of critical knowledge about the current status quo, seems fictional (or impossible). Such a persistent verification of an impossible axiom aims at establishing a sphere of exception from the dominant social order, offering—through the ideas of Alain Badiou and Giorgio Agamben—a nondialectical logic of social transformation. Finally, in conclusion the article focuses on the phenomenon of condensation as one of the key results of the exemplary research project analysed throughout the text. This points to the kind of knowledge that post-critical research projects are able to bring about. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Economics is a societally influential discipline, but the relationship of its theoretical activity to social reality and practical policy is chronically puzzling. Its theoretical models appear to involve a lot of falsehood, and modellers seem unconcerned about this and about any possible future uses of the models, while sticking to the same unifying theoretical framework. Gilboa et al. (2014, 2022) aspire to resolve the puzzle in terms of varying interpretations of models. I offer critical comments on their ideas while expanding and refining my own account of what I call model commentary whose task is to help understand and evaluate the process of modelling. I point out the rich complexity of adequate commentaries and discuss the issue of whose responsibility it is to construe and communicate them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Research indicates that high‐immersion virtual reality (VR) has several unique affordances for language learning that contribute to learning outcomes, such as boosting learners' confidence, engagement, and motivation. However, little is known about the extent to which VR promotes language skills, in particular learners' verbal interaction using a second language (L2). The present study uses an intervention design to examine the impact of high‐immersion VR on L2 Spanish learners' interactional development and perceptions of VR experience. Twenty‐six beginning‐level Spanish learners engaged in four social VR sessions over a 2‐week period. Learners' perceptions of social VR were assessed through surveys and focus group interviews, and their changes in interaction‐involved language performance were evaluated. The results reinforce previous research in showing that learners felt a heightened sense of presence in VR and that interacting in Spanish in the immersive virtual space was more enjoyable and less nerve‐wracking than face‐to‐face conversation, albeit equally beneficial to learning. Quantitative analyses of learners' interaction revealed significant improvement in terms of their engagement, clarity, and content appropriateness. However, participants reported that technical issues could at times limit the pedagogical usefulness of VR. These findings reinforce the use of social VR in L2 instruction and provide novel insights about performance gains and Spanish L2 pedagogy in a virtual space. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article aims to address the contributions of the Chilean economist Carlos Matus to the field of Latin American Thought in Science, Technology and Development, considered the pioneering STS field in the region. To this end, it focuses on the affinities between Matus' early writings (1970–1980) and various exponents of the first generation of STS scholars. Two key dimensions are analyzed: the link between dependency, human creativity, and technology as defined by a certain style of development, and strategic calculation as a method of rationalizing political decisions. While the former is an aspect shared by Matus and other PLACTED members, the latter is his specific contribution. Two aspects are considered: the "strategic procedure" as a non-mathematical formalization to estimate political feasibility, and the "quasi-structured" problems as a theorization that attempts to account for social and political reality. The paper concludes that Matus' significant contribution to the field is strategic calculation, a means of rationalizing decisions and enabling profound social transformations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Publishing the written word is a mode of communicating social knowledge. Publications contribute to social reality when that knowledge is used to educate and make social change. But, not every manuscript will be published; organizations such as the American Psychology Association (APA) set cultural norms that determine which manuscripts become part of social reality. The APA has published seven editions, reflecting how the cultural norms of publishing have shifted over time. This article summarizes guidelines and processes that will help readers from many disciplines publish APA-style works. This article discusses the three major stages of the writing process: preparing to write, writing, and editing. Each section describes the writing norms set by APA as described in the manual and other published sources. By following these cultural norms described here, readers can publish and become part of the cultural and societal process of publishing. In this way, authors using APA writing style contribute to social knowledge. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article seeks to model the socio-political influences of media use in diaspora. Participant observation and semi-structured interviews were used to collect data from Tunisian diaspora members residing in France, Denmark and Sweden. The article proposes 'mediatized diaspora' as a new model explaining the transnational intertwining between media and politics in the diaspora. Four sets of influences enabled by multimodal communication were defined and discussed as components of the model: (1) aspirations for the country of origin; (2) political meaning-making; (3) engaging in political actions; and (4) perceptions of social reality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Chinese migrant workers have contributed greatly to the industrialization and urbanization of China and have thus long been a popular topic in news reports. Most previous studies on the news about this group have been qualitative or quantitative analyses based on small-scale datasets, with few based on large-scale corpus data. This study combined topic modeling and critical discourse analysis (CDA) to analyze 186,180 reports of migrant workers published by 906 Chinese newspapers between 2001 and 2021. We identified seventeen topics in the news that fell into five categories: "work and labor," "support and care," "rights and interests," "homecoming," and "social emergencies." Overall, news reports on the group have become increasingly diverse, with various diachronic changes in the proportions of topic categories and specific topics. In addition, we found three major types of representation of migrant workers: as a disadvantaged group, as outsiders, and as a group vulnerable to risks. These negative representations might be closely related to government policies, ideology, media stance, and social reality (the broader societal context in which these individuals are situated). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This essay explores the nature of the phantom touch experienced on social VR platforms through social interactions. The phantom touch has the potential to induce happiness in users. The study outlines how VR has emerged as both a technology and an imaginative concept. It examines how social virtual reality platforms can facilitate socialization and connection with friends. It highlights that some users experience phantom touch during simulated faceto-face interactions. The conclusion posits that this type of touch, while highly speculative, may contribute to a greater sense of fulfillment in users’ otherwise less stimulating virtual lives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Modern China's acceptance of Dewey's legacy of aesthetic thought is divided into three main periods. In 1906–49, Dewey's Art as Experience was noticed, but due to the fact that China was more concerned with the social realities and national crisis at that time, its aesthetic thought appeared as an accessory to Dewey's social philosophy and educational thought, and its rich significance was properly realized only within the practice of aesthetic education. From 1949 to 1978, Dewey's aesthetics was effectively suppressed through China's ideological storms. From 1978 to the present, benefitting through China's policies of reform and opening, Dewey's aesthetics gradually gained the attention of Chinese academics and found expression in considerable research that develops the book's legacy in distinctive forms of contemporary Chinese aesthetics: life aesthetics, somaesthetics, and ecological aesthetics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Charles Dickens often satirised and sharply criticised the unfortunate social realities of nineteenth-century England through his works such as Oliver Twist (1838), David Copperfield (1850), A Christmas Carol (1843) and Hard Times (1854). In my paper, I will be putting forward the argument that Dickens’s novels advocate for social change by exemplifying the theoretical doctrine of methodological individualism. As a social science doctrine, methodological individualism was first introduced by Max Weber in his work Economy and Society (1922). The central precept of Methodological Individualism, according to Weber, is that individual actions and motivations rather than social and cultural realities should be considered as the chief drivers of social change. However, it should be precisely noted that methodological individualism as a doctrine is not a reckless celebration of individualism, but, more importantly, a careful analysis of how the intentional states of individuals contribute to the unfolding of social changes in a given society. In other words, the doctrine of Methodological Individualism proposes that social structures are influential but they are not superstructures whose influence exceeds the agency of individual members of a society. In order to illustrate the argument, I will be specifically focusing on the novel Oliver Twist. The historical and social context of the novel consists of 1834 Poor Law Reforms and widespread economic and social inequalities in nineteenth century England. Within these contexts the characters of Fagin, Mr Bumble. Nancy, Harry Maylie and Mr Brownlow make highly individualistic choices that shape the narrative of the novel, challenge the established code of social relations and finally restores Oliver Twist to his rightful place in the society of nineteenth century England. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The absence of female writing forms a particularly striking gap in the historiography of German-language literature in the Czech Lands during the decades around 1900. Women participated significantly in the literary scene of the period but were largely forgotten. Our article will discuss the conditions and discourses that enabled women to be active in the public space but later led to their absence in literary history. Approaches are sought that make future inclusion possible again. The first step for (re-)establishing a female presence in this area is to reconstruct biographies with a focus on female-specific social realities at the time and on the interaction of cultural, social and historical factors. In the next step, attention is brought to the "minor" or "simple", rather non-canonical literary genres that were often used by women authors at the fin de siècle. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Social interactions in the youth environment are regulated not only on the basis of generally accepted models, but also on the basis of goals-principles that are formed among young people themselves as a response to changes in social and cultural conditions of life. From the point of view of the institutionally approved norm, these principles are socio-cultural deviations. At the level of consciousness, they are represented in the form of various configurations of meanings-judgments that are realised by different groups of young people in the process of interactions. One of the manifestations of deviation is the regulatory meanings orienting to separation and self-assertion at the expense of others. The data obtained in the course of a nationwide survey conducted by the Centre for Sociology of Youth of ISPR FCTAS RAS in 2021 are analysed. The links between labour, education and interpersonal interactions with sociocultural deviations of young people in social reality are considered. The incorporation of sociocultural deviations into the process of regulating interactions in the youth environment is reflected in young people's justification of the practices of bullying, provocation, evil pranks and disrespect for teachers as acceptable ways of interaction in important spheres of life. Their use is accompanied by the assignment of certain semantic characteristics to labour, communication and education in youth groups. In the course of data analysis, it was found that judgments about bullying and trolling differentiate young people by the meaning of labour "feeling of their usefulness". In addition, the judgement of bullying differentiates youth on the meaning of "forced necessity". The links of respondents' approval of judgements about bullying, trolling and teacher with the meaning of communication "joy, happiness" and "inner need" were revealed. It was also found that judgements about prank and teacher differentiate young people according to the meanings of education "opportunity to make a career" and "development of abilities".

Introduction. In the age of the digital economy and hyper-competition, self-presentation communication as a type of self-promotion, as the ability to present oneself to a communication partner, employer, business partner or target audience, is considered by experts as a key skill of the 21st century. It is also considered as one of the significant factors of competition both in the modern highly competitive labor market and in the consumer market, both global and local. The article discusses the theoretical foundations of self-presentational communication in its historical retrospective, traditions, innovations and development trends in the conditions of new realities.Methodology and sources. The methodology of philosophical, sociological and interdisciplinary approaches is used. The article uses the following sources: specialized literature from domestic and foreign authors, scientific research, publications and websites that allow one to explore the specifics of digital self-presentation, its new formats and current practices.Results and discussion. Digital society is a society whose distinctive feature is the electronic-digital method of receiving, storing and distributing information, as well as the electronic-digital mediation of social relations and communicative interaction. One of the ways of such interaction is digital self-presentation, which combines the traditions of this content and innovations caused by the development of new technologies.Conclusion. Self-presentational communication, like the entire communicative component of modern society, including the «human-AI» interface, is carried out in three spatial dimensions: real/offline/Physics, virtual/online/Digital, as well as in their interaction offline online/Phygital. In each dimension, self-presentational communication has its own specifics and could can be considered both as a separate phenomenon and in the process of continuity and development.

BackgroundMethodResultsDiscussionThis study explores the impact on Hearing Voices Group (HVG) facilitators on the rapid shift to using video-teleconferencing communication (VTC) to host HVGs triggered by the COVID-19 global pandemic.A qualitative, interview-based design was implemented, adopting a Grounded Theory approach. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with seven HVG facilitators from across the UK using VTC.Nine major themes were identified with four overarching thematic categories; (1) Societal reality & change; (2) Increased reliance on technology; (3) Impact on groups; (4) Impact on facilitator role.A preliminary theory is presented which discusses the inter-relating impact on facilitators and HVGs, in the context of increased reliance on technology, social reality and social change. The recurring themes of limited understanding of and access to IT, and the lack of support structures for HVG facilitators need addressing to support the future efficacy of VTC-mediated HVGs. Limitations are discussed alongside suggestions for future practice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

ABSTRACT This study explores the applicability of local grammar in critical discourse analysis, which is demonstrated by an investigation into the discursive representation of climate change. Using UN climate change news as the data, the study shows that climate change was typically construed as ‘Problem’, ‘Cause’, ‘Definiendum’ and ‘Effect’, and a close examination of the semantic roles of climate change reveals how the UN conceptualised the changing climate and urged the public to act on climate change. Overall, the study shows that local grammar can facilitate the identification of semantic roles of discourse phenomena, which in turn contributes to exploring the association between discourse practice and social reality. It is thus concluded that local grammar could be a viable approach to critical discourse studies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

ABSTRACT Contemporary ontological constructivism often rests on the belief that social reality emerges from tacit agreements, underpinning mutual expectations and trust. In social theory, the concept of agreement has evolved from explicit social contracts to normative consensus and the idea of tacit knowledge that subtly binds social actors. This article challenges this prevailing approach by dissecting various constructivist positions and exposing the implications of agreement‐based ontological constructivism on our understanding of culture, norms, and society. The author revisits an alternative perspective, claiming that human society is equally a structure of disagreement. Emphasizing disagreement advocates for a realistic social theory and highlights the vital role of fiction in shaping social life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Writing qualitatively is an immersive experience divergent to other forms of research writing. It is an active construction of reality characterized by integration of the socio-cultural context and in-depth analysis of data viewed through the lens of the writer's own experience of the phenomenon. However, these characteristics prove challenging and qualitative researchers are often at a loss on how to document their findings. Most studies provide a broad sweep of qualitative writing with few explicit examples in practice which further confounds researchers. Consequently, researchers find qualitative writing exacting and intimidating and tend to present their findings objectively with either scarce or excessive reference to the research paradigm, thwarting the full transformative potential of qualitative research. Drawing on my experience as an interpretive phenomenologist, I present the writing cul-de-sacs and alleys I navigated to illustrate my becoming as a qualitative writer. Specifically, I highlight three distinct strategies to write it right, qualitatively. To maximize findings, the writing style should conceptually align with the research philosophy. Textual cohesion and a multi-dimensional view of social reality can be generated through a mixed-genre writing approach. Finally, making the "I" meaningful by incorporating the researcher's experiences into the text affords a deepened understanding of the phenomenon. Tenaciously navigating cul-de-sacs in writing and finding solutions to exit no through roads, and walking those shadowy alleys of theoretical constraints, stylistic impositions, and tight word space endow a concrete visibility to the otherwise blurry aspects of life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Social enterprises are primarily seen as entities that further neoliberal hegemony based on dominant Western idioms of the economy and development. Consequentially, the layers of meanings emerging from the varied publics and rationalities that entrepreneurial approaches must reckon with and negotiate within postcolonial economies are obscured in theorizing the field. In responding to the call for a public-centered economic geography, in this article, I argue that the realities of social enterprise practice in postcolonial economies show relationalities between neoliberal and non-neoliberal rationalities. Spotlighting vignettes from my research on mediating social enterprises in India and South Africa, the article aims to initiate discussions on how neoliberalism can be serviced for diverse, reformist, and possibly progressive ends. When understood through concrete tensions and contradictions of practice, the varied ends of neoliberal rationalities challenge established conceptualizations of social enterprises, development, and, subsequently, the economy. Specifically, it enables us to reinscribe the economy as a relational, embedded, and context-dependent category with individualized and collective experiences, opening the possibilities to engage with public experiences of development interventions such as social enterprises instead of relying on dominant universalized conceptualizations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

While comics studies are now a fully recognised field within academic debate in the humanities, it wasn't until around ten years ago, when the medium really began to flourish, that they began to be accepted as an object of study in universities and research centres, including the field of Italian studies. This collective volume brings together an international group of scholars who were invited to reflect on one of the most fruitful genres in the Italian graphic novel: life narratives. This vitality is not surprising: at a time of socio-political crisis and instability, such as the one Italy is currently experiencing, the possibility to narrate and/or represent real-life experience, whether openly or metaphorically, stands out as a powerful tool for intellectuals and artists to analyse socially relevant questions of the day and, possibly, take a stance on these issues. Cutting across genres, editorial formats, targets, and markets, graphic novels closely mirror the historical complexity of their times, problematising issues and negotiating pressing questions of our social reality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In 2022, Shanghai-based photographer Zhang Qi, commonly known as Weiqi created several series of works related to Shanghai's epidemic containment, such as Shanghai in Emptiness (2022), which were disseminated through WeChat video and other channels, which gained great social repercussions. This interview covers three aspects of the artist's upbringing, creative process and religious beliefs. From his narration, we can not only understand his sincere feelings when he created his works, but also see the observation and thinking from an artist's personal perspective about Shanghai's urban history and the experience of closure and control. The transcendental reality brought to him by the epidemic is not the same as surrealism as a literary and artistic style, but there is some kind of essential connection between the two. This connection lies in the realization of social reality and truth that may be inspired by an individual's genuine life experience at a specific historical moment. Especially as he is a devout Buddhist, his belief in 'awakening art' allows us to see the revelatory significance that art may have for individuals and society today. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The study aimed to identify the role of social media in the Ministry of Health and community protection in the United Arab Emirates in confronting the Covid 19 pandemic . The study adopted the sample survey method, and the questionnaire was used as a tool to collect data. The study sample consisted of workers and students at Umm Al Quwain University. Among the most important results of the study were the following: The reality of social media came with a degree of approval (very large), and the mechanisms of communication with citizens and their awareness came to a degree Approval (large), and the mechanisms of communication with the relevant sectors and institutions came with a degree of approval (very large), and the obstacles came with a degree of approval (medium), and there were no statistically significant differences due to the personal variable: “academic employee, administrative employee, and university student .” The study recommended the existence of a professional media cadre in managing social media, engaging the public and relevant institutions in awareness and education, diversifying the communication and awareness mechanisms, and paying attention to awareness for all community groups. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study distinguishes between two performances of solidarity—a performer–audience structure and a network structure—illustrated through a review of two case studies from the field of sport: a cross‐national survey of football fans and a historical study of French cycling clubs. Research on nationhood, sport and performance has centred mainly on public events and how they generate focused attention to foster mass solidarity. Scholars have overlooked an alternative model of performance situated in horizontal networks and interpersonal interactions staged in front of a third party, such as found in clubs. Distinguishing between these performance models in sport and beyond can further our understanding of the relations between identity and solidarity in studies of nationhood. Whereas in the former model, expressions of solidarity mainly reaffirm pre‐existing feelings of national identity; in the latter model, solidarity is performative: it does not simply represent social reality but serves to create it. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Recent migration research suggests using “displaced persons” as a broader, more inclusive term than “refugees”, affording us an opportunity to recall the historical genesis and transformation of the concept of “displaced persons”. The concept emerged in the 1940s in the context of the control of forced migration. This article traces the evolution of the term “displaced person”, arguing it was created as a “category of action” for bureaucratic and political purposes, rather than to describe social realities. Understanding this historical context reveals more broadly how such categories have always been tools for political control, underscoring the need for reflexivity in migration studies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Many social processes are characterized by multi-layered spatiotemporal dynamics. These dynamics cannot be visualized in the traditional cartographic way of locating social realities within the Cartesian coordinate system. Drawing on the insights from critical cartography and the debates on diagrammatic reasoning in the arts, this article discusses different ways of visualizing qualitative research. In qualitative research, there has been reluctance to engage in visualization practices. While visualizations provide evidence for research and serve as visual proof, they also reify social relations, naturalize certain perspectives on research objects, and thereby establish and legitimize specific ways of interpreting field data. Despite this important critique, visualizations can also serve as epistemic instruments that help us to think about, illustrate, represent, and assert research findings in different ways. Understanding visualizations as epistemic instruments allows us to shift our focus from visualizing as a technique of representation to visualizing as a research technique and a medium to reflect on and articulate ambiguous and nuanced field experience. Drawing on our auto-ethnographically documented experimental visualization practices, we suggest that visualization should be considered more systematically as a method that bears self-reflexive and epistemic potential within qualitative research processes. Visualizations can inspire and complement qualitative research processes in three ways. First, depicting research results in graphic formats, such as diagrams, forces us to think about qualitative research in more-abstract terms and requires us to formulate arguments in more-straightforward ways. Second, visualization practices challenge us to reflexively question and re-engage with our findings and to revisit pre-formulated interpretations and representations from a visual perspective. Third, by offering a different perspective, visual representations inspire further insights and allow for a multidimensional creative and self-reflexive (re-)engagement with qualitative data. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article focuses on the relationship between the professional and biographical trajectories of university professors, and the specific work of teaching in an institution founded with a clear mandate of social inclusion: the National University of José C. Paz. Initially, aspects of the career of a professor at said university are reconstructed. In a second moment, the ways in which the baggage built in their formative journey is expressed in the deployment of their classes are documented. Subsequently, the ways in which the teacher produces - in dialogue with the students - the relevance of the contents of the subject in the professional training of those who study, and its relationship with the construction of teaching knowledge are analyzed. The production and analysis of the data presented in the article is oriented from a biographical approach, conceived as a theoretical-methodological approach that allows understanding different dimensions of social reality. The corpus of primary sources was built between mid-2021 and the end of 2023, based on the priority development of interviews and class observations. The relevance of this analytical proposal lies in the possibility of knowing aspects of the social and daily production of a suburban university and the right to higher education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article explores how early Victorian social reformers deployed lists as sanitation devices to organize messy social and material realities into representative categories. Dickens's own notable reliance on lists has been interpreted as dovetailing with a reformist politics of realist representation. But through a reading of Oliver Twist I argue that Dickens transforms lists from a neutral technology of organization to a more anarchic form in which parts multiply without respect to a larger whole. Dickens's lists mingle various and often mutually incompatible categorical systems and flashily attend to grammatical parts over the regulating whole of the sentence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article provides a way to think through the division between religious and secular approaches to contemporary society through the use of rival myths. Myths are narrative structures that invite the interplay of language and the imagination, resulting in the creation of virtual realities and social imaginaries. Strong virtual realities were once premised on myths that guided the imagination to embrace an openness to mystery and the unknowable; however, current technological culture is predicated on a closed imagination that has led to worldwide despair. Religion was originally grounded in the virtual reality inspired by language and the capacity of language to distill and extract the "virtual" from the real. The ability of language to create a virtual reality created the capacity to think of a soul, as well as destinations for the soul. In the twentieth century, Freud found that the notion of "God" that was created had become problematic for humans and so created a modern myth that would provide a secular substitute. After providing a close reading of Freud's governing myth for modern culture, showing how it inspires the imagination and the ways in which it falls short, this article concludes with an alternative myth—that of the Invisible City—proposed to inspire faith, hope, and love in our modern world. My approach relies on a depth psychological framework, which was formed to interrogate the nature of reality (relative to individuals and culture) at the intersection of myth, religion, language, and imagination. Throughout, I use a hermeneutic methodology, which is consistent with the initial mode of depth psychological exploration as well as the central role language plays in revealing the truth of a reality. This orientation enables an exploration of a deeper sense of virtual realities than what is deployed through current technology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The background to this research is that ADHD (Attetention Defic Hyperactifity Disorder) children are very dependent on their environment, because they have difficulty focusing and are hyperactive. This will relate to the social and achievement of ADHD children. The aim of this research is to explain the influence of an inclusive school environment on the learning achievement of ADHD children in third grade of elementary school. The method used in this research is descriptive qualitative, which allows researchers to clearly explain social reality through observations and interviews at the research site. A qualitative approach is useful for explaining the influence of an inclusive school environment on the achievement of ADHD children in third grade of elementary school. Qualitative research is an inquiry strategy that plays a role in searching for meaning, understanding, concepts, characteristics, symptoms, symbols and descriptions of an event; focused and multimethod, natural and holistic; prioritizes quality, uses several methods, and is presented narratively. An inclusive school environment has an important role in forming social relationships between students who have obstacles and those who do not have obstacles, so that educational goals can be realized optimally. All school members must be able to carry out their respective obligations, as well as students who have obstacles. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article analyzes violence against women in the novel "Páradais" by Fernanda Melchor. It examines physical and sexual violence against female characters, as well as sexist cognitive schemas and socialization agents that contribute to these behaviors. The objective is to understand how macho violence is represented in the work and compare it to Mexican social reality. The importance of the feminist perspective in understanding these manifestations of violence and power is highlighted. Additionally, the objectification of women in sexual relationships and the influence of culture and pornography on the perception of rape are mentioned. [Extracted from the article]