The Problems of Mexico: An Analysis of a Sociological Discourse

2013 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-75
Author(s):  
DIMITRI DELLA FAILLE
Keyword(s):  
Sociological Discourse

Sociological Discourse and the Body

1986 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 155-164 ◽  
Author(s):  
J M Berthelot
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Sociological Discourse

scholarly journals Labour Socialization of Young People in Today’s Russia: The Specificity of Sociological Discourse

2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Vladimirovna Vereshchagina ◽  
Yuri Grigorievich Volkov ◽  
Dmitry Valeryevich Krotov ◽  
Roman Aleksandrovich Ukolov
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Sociological Discourse

scholarly journals PECULIARITIES OF USING SOCIOLOGICAL DISCOURSE BY LOCAL AUTHORITIES

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (5(74)) ◽  
pp. 68-70
Author(s):  
G.A. Siyaeva
Keyword(s):  
Active Participation ◽  
The State ◽  
Economic Life ◽  
Local Authorities ◽  
Sociological Discourse

This article analyzes the role of sociological discourse in the development of the socio-economic life of the country and emphasizes the need for the active participation of citizens in the management of society and the state in carrying out reformsin updating process

scholarly journals From being there to being aware: Confronting geographical and sociological imaginations of copresence

2017 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 245-255 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gernot Grabher ◽  
Alice Melchior ◽  
Benjamin Schiemer ◽  
Elke Schüßler ◽  
Jörg Sydow
Keyword(s):  
Economic Geography ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Physical Proximity ◽  
Systematic Fashion ◽  
Being There ◽  
Sociological Discourse ◽  
The Relationship

In economic geography, the notion of copresence has been at the very center of the research agenda for decades. The elaboration of the benefits of colocation and physical proximity was (and still is) a chief aim of the disciplinary project to demonstrate that “geography matters”. The geographical concern with colocation, proximity and distance, in fact, resonates with the sociological discourse on copresence. And yet, the relationship between copresence and its (distant) geographical relatives has rarely been explicated in a systematic fashion. By drawing on the seminal contributions by Goffman, Giddens and Knorr Cetina, amongst others, this account confronts the geographical conceptions of colocation, proximity and distance with sociological perceptions of copresence. By advancing from copresence as “being there” to copresence as “being aware” we seek to push beyond the prevailing physical perceptions of copresence towards a more socially constructivist understanding that accounts for the simultaneity and mutual conditioning of diverse modes of copresence and absence.

Are You Really a Child?

2018 ◽  
pp. 65-95
Author(s):  
Natalia Dmitruk
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Human Nature ◽  
Comic Books ◽  
Sociological Discourse ◽  
Child Figure

A multitude of genres and types of characters, in Japanese comics and animated series, suggests many thought-provoking themes; i.e., questions about human nature. Many artists can see the answers to these questions in artificial humans – both cyborgs and androids. In this research, the author analyzes Japanese texts of popular culture in which artificial children are the protagonists of the stories. The author aims to compare a child figure in sociological discourse, considered there as vulnerable, to the representations in manga and anime, in which characters are created as children or technologically-modified prepubescents. In this chapter, the author presents ideas and culture associations for the concepts of android and cyborg. The chapter focuses also on analysis of the characters from Japanese comic books and animations – both androids and then cyborgs – according to transhumanistic and posthumanistic theories. The analysis results in a conclusion that a child figure is dehumanized in the context of cyborg and android child protagonists.

“So We Die before Our Own Eyes”: Willful Sterility in The Country of the Pointed Firs

2009 ◽  
Vol 82 (2) ◽  
pp. 264-284 ◽  
Author(s):  
Holly Jackson
Keyword(s):  
Conflicting Demands ◽  
White Nationalism ◽  
National Decline ◽  
Sociological Discourse

This essay locates Sarah Orne Jewett's The Country of the Pointed Firs in relation to contemporaneous sociological discourse decrying New England's diminished birthrate as a harbinger of national decline. Jewett's pairing of nativist nostalgia with a progressive vision of women's independence illuminates the conflicting demands of white nationalism and feminism in Roosevelt's America.

Sociology in Place of Socialism: On West German Cultural Radio

2014 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-42
Author(s):  
Monika Boll
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Federal Republic ◽  
Free Space ◽  
The West ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
Sociological Discourse ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
East West

This article delves into the relationship between cultural radio and the Cold War. After 1945, culural radio took on a central role in the intellectual self-understanding of the early Federal Republic. From the very beginning, there was much less censorship than with political editorial departments. Thus, it was possible for cultrual radio to offer an intellectual forum in which socialism was not simply dismissed due to the official anticommunist political doctrine. This article shows the ways in which the East-West conflict was present in the cultrual departments of radio broadcasters. It argues that socialism appeared less as an ideological restraint or taboo, but rather as a productive challenge, which in the end was part of the modernization of West Germany's intellectual self-understanding. Two prominent examples buttress this argument: the free space that cultrual radio conquered in a kind of leftist integration with the West, and the rapid advancement of sociological discourse.

scholarly journals Lending Voices to the Marginalised: The Power of Narratives as Alternative Sociological Discourse

2020 ◽  
Vol 69 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-16
Author(s):  
R. Indira
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Life Stories ◽  
Research Experiences ◽  
Strong Basis ◽  
The Core ◽  
Change Perceptions ◽  
The World ◽  
Narrative Model ◽  
Sociological Discourse ◽  
The Western Ghats

The preoccupation with theorising and esoteric epistemology tends to shift attention from the lived experiences of many groups that are on the margins. Looking at the world from their perspectives and chronicling their life stories can lead to a radical scholarship of praxis that challenges many established notions of the ‘core’ and the ‘periphery’. There has been a kind of overemphasis on ‘consistency’ in many sociological discourses in the process of ignoring what may be termed as ‘commonality’. I argue that the narrative model humanises knowledge and takes sociological discourse closer to reality. One of the critiques of the narrative model is that it is ‘subjective’ because it tends to focus on lived experiences which cannot really be reported or studied with a sense of detachment, an attribute that is considered critical for sound research. This position needs to be questioned. In fact, narrative-based discourses open new vistas for understanding, questioning and resisting inequality. Narratives are often rejected as storytelling and without a sound methodological and theoretical base, but my premise is that narratives can provide a strong basis for reconstructing and revisiting our theories and methods. Sociological discourse on issues of subaltern identities and the challenges of those living on the margins is incomplete without using the narrative method. By taking cues from my research experiences with forest dwelling communities in the Western Ghats region of Karnataka, I have tried to show how research can change perceptions and practices and lead to transformation.

Quasi-states, dual regimes, and neoclassical theory: International jurisprudence and the Third World

1987 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 519-549 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert H. Jackson
Keyword(s):  
Third World ◽  
Neoclassical Theory ◽  
International History ◽  
The Third ◽  
The North ◽  
International Theory ◽  
The Third World ◽  
Sociological Discourse ◽  
First Time ◽  
Empirical Standard

Decolonization in parts of the Third World and particularly Africa has resulted in the emergence of numerous “quasi-states,” which are independent largely by international courtesy. They exist by virtue of an external right of self-determination— negative sovereignty—without yet demonstrating much internal capacity for effective and civil government—positive sovereignty. They therefore disclose a new dual international civil regime in which two standards of statehood now coexist: the traditional empirical standard of the North and a new juridical standard of the South. The biases in the constitutive rules of the sovereignty game today and for the first time in modern international history arguably favor the weak. If international theory is to account for this novel situation it must acknowledge the possibility that morality and legality can, in certain circumstances, be independent of power in international relations. This suggests that contemporary international theory must accommodate not only Machiavellian realism and the sociological discourse of power but also Grotian rationalism and the jurisprudential idiom of law.

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