The Social Relations of Physics, Mysticism, and Mathematics: Studies in Social Structure, Interests and Ideas. Sal Restivo

Isis ◽  
1984 ◽  
Vol 75 (4) ◽  
pp. 730-732
Author(s):  
Daniel Segal
Author(s):  
Shaji Anirudhan

Among the various factors that contributed for the transformation of Kerala into a modern democratic society the role played by Sree Narayana movement was most significant. Realising that the political power was the master key to social progress, the leaders of the movement came into tacit understanding with non Hindus, made permutations and combinations with them to maintain and strengthen their position in the society. Through their protests, incessant conflicts and assertions, they succeeded in transforming the pyramidal social structure of Kerala into pillar structure. From the position of caste victims they could elevate themselves to the makers of their own destinies. They also succeeded in politicising the social relations. The philosophies and pragmatic approaches propounded by Narayana Guru for the material and spiritual advancement of the backward caste people of Kerala was found successful that contributed for the social transformation from structural relations to human relations and from caste hierarchical structure to inter-personal relations.


1969 ◽  
pp. 107-124
Author(s):  
Wataru Kikuchi

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the bases of social relations in the Japanese society. Along the text, several theoretical perspectives about the social structure are reviewed. It concludes by synthetizing that the essential categories of social relations in Japanese society are: “superior-inside” “inferior-inside” “superior-outside” and “inferior-outside”.


Author(s):  
Arkadyi L. Marshak ◽  

The article analyses the present state of culture in Russia, its multilevel content. It shows the influence of different layers of society on the state and development of the present social structure. Based on perennial research data collected with participation of the author, sociocultural models of social relations and their influence on the cultural potential of the social structure are described. The article emphasizes the necessity of multilevel social research of the cultural potential of Russian society. The main directions of theoretical, methodological and empirical program of such research are formulated.


2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 94-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian von Scheve

The present contribution provides a constructive criticism of Brian Parkinson’s “Heart to Heart: A Relation-Alignment Approach to Emotion’s Social Effects.” I outline a number of points in Parkinson’s approach that I find particularly useful from a sociological perspective on emotions and provide suggestions for further extending his account. In doing so, I concentrate on issues regarding the social ontology of emotion, the proposition of emotional adjacency pairs in verbal and facial communication, the importance of social appraisals in intergroup contexts, and the relevance of social institutions for understanding how some emotions come to dominate certain social relations.


Author(s):  
Sava Zivanov

The paper presents several basic arguments which corroborate the researches of the Russian sociologist Zinaida Golenkova aabout transformational processes in postsoviet Russia, specially about the processes which led to the changes in the social structure of the Russian society. The author believes, relying also on the researches of other Russian scientists, that the transformation of the post-soviet Russian society occurs within the historical type which is called "the social engineering". Unlike the other two types of historical transformation ("modification" within a specific type of social relations and the changes created in "the bourgeois-democratic revolutions"), "the social engineering" implies a specific violation of the historical reality of a society. In author's opinion, "the social engineering" is characteristic both for the revolutionary transformation of Russia in 1917 and for its transformation in the last decade of the 20th century. Namely, the transformations realized in Russia in the last decade of the 20th century to a great degree represent "social engineering", because they are realized with the help of the instruments of political power, by the forceful reforms from the top, in order to form the social-economic structure according to the models which were historically created in significantly different social environments. In that sense, the post-soviet transformation of the Russian society could be designated as a state of social chaos. Such a state to a great degree created a specific social system, which is argu-mentatively discussed in the research studies of Z. Golenkova.


Revista LEVS ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 21 (21) ◽  
Author(s):  
Joaquim Miranda MALOA

Resumo: O objetivo deste artigo é identificar os fatores socioeconômicos e políticos que direta ou indiretamente estão atrelados às mudanças da criminalidade urbana moçambicana. As transformações políticas, sociais e econômicas operadas a partir da década de 1990, influenciaram, ao menos nos anos iniciais da década, mudanças na estrutura social da sociedade moçambicana, nas relações sociais; padrões convencionais de juventude, infância, cujo resultado provocou impactos na mudança da criminalidade urbana moçambicana de “criminalidade de formigueiro” para a “criminalidade urbana violenta”.Palavras-chave: Criminalidade, Mudanças sociais, Relações sociais, Criança e juventude.Abstract: The objective of this article is to identify the facts politics and socioeconomics that directly or indirectly are related to the changes of Mozambican urban crime. The political, social and economic transformations o fthe 1990s influenced, atleast in the early years of the decade, changes in the social structure of Mozambican society, in social relations; conventional patterns of youth, childhood, the result of which has caused impacts on the change of Mozambican urban crime from “tingling crime” to “violent urban crime”.Keywords: Crime, Social changes, Social relations,Child and youth.


2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 65-75
Author(s):  
Khan S. Khan

Drawing from psychological and sociological fields, this study examines how teachers transform subject con-tent for student learning in a classroom situation. Research on understanding teaching has downplayed the framing of macro-regulative contexts in shaping teachers’ thinking and thereby pedagogy. Vygotsky [75; 76] brought to focus the teacher’s role in mediating learning in classrooms through the use of psychological tools but could not fully, in his lifespan, attend to the sociocultural contexts that impact those who work within them. To address this gap, the study draws on the educational sociologist Bernstein’s social theory [9; 10] which states that the ways in which institutions regulate the social relations within them impact the pedagogic practices in these contexts. A qualitative multicase study was applied and involved several English and mathematics secondary school teach-ers from Oxfordshire, England. The cross-case analysis reveals a connection between the micro-processes of teach-ing and learning and macro regulative discourse; demonstrates that teachers’ pedagogic decisions are influenced by their reflections on their institutional culture within which and using which they work; and reveals an interplay of several processes in the ways in which teachers mediate and shape the quality of their students’ learning.


2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 513-535
Author(s):  
Rafael Franco Coelho

Abstract In this article, I analyze the social organization of Xavante media production during the Digital Village Project, and explore how student involvement in the latter reflects the social characteristics and specificities of the Xavante community. To explain how project participants organized themselves into groups, I connect these groupings to the Xavante social structure and political system. My hypothesis is that the formation of the groups making up the project and the interaction of their members were established through categories already present in Xavante social structure. In this sense, we can conclude that the introduction to media production in the community is not enough to change the social relations prevailing in Sangradouro village.


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