scholarly journals Site of Resistance or Apparatus of Acquiescence? Tactics at the Bakery

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 160-184 ◽  
Author(s):  
José Ciro Martínez
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Public Policies ◽  
Political Agency ◽  
The Social ◽  
Resistance State ◽  
Laws And Regulations

This article explores the importance and impact of a set of actions through which bakers manipulate laws and regulations that seek to organize and regulate how they do business. It builds on eighteen months of fieldwork conducted in Jordan, twelve of which were spent working in three different bakeries in the capital, Amman. Moving away from the idea that public policies are simply imposed, the article looks in detail at the social relations through which they are enacted. By honing in on the bakery, and examining arrangements between bakery owners, workers, consumers and ministerial employees, it illuminates modes of political agency that escape conventional binaries of domination/resistance, state/society and legality/illegality. I argue against seeing these practices as easily categorized forms of resistance or frivolous acts of corruption. Nor are they simply reinforcements of hegemonic control. Instead, ‘tactics’ at the bakery subvert the order of things to serve other ends. Foregrounding them in this analysis seeks not only to challenge views of power relations as strictly binary but to elucidate some of the ways in which citizens inhabit and engage with the neoliberal and authoritarian logics that pervade everyday life in Jordan.

scholarly journals Avaliação do Índice de Gestão Social no território do Cariri Oriental Paraibano

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 128
Author(s):  
João Vitor Fonseca Feitoza ◽  
Raiza Madje Tavares da Silva ◽  
Rosa Maria dos Santos Pessoa ◽  
Mônica Tejo Cavalcanti ◽  
Daniel Casimiro da Silveira ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Technical Assistance ◽  
Public Policies ◽  
Territorial Development ◽  
Specific Questionnaire ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Management ◽  
Geographical Space

<p>O território é mais do que um simples espaço geográfico, resulta de relações sociais desenvolvidas entre os diferentes agentes, mediadas pelo poder e projetadas numa dada porção do espaço geográfico que se torna território e predomina a ideia de relações de poder entre os distintos agentes envolvidos no processo. A implantação de um Núcleo de Extensão em Desenvolvimento Territorial (NEDET) buscou assessorar e apoiar as ações no território nas suas diferentes atuações, além de realizar assistência técnica, capacitação e extensão universitária. Este trabalho objetiva verificar no território do Cariri Oriental Paraibano questões relacionadas ao Índice de Gestão Social (IGS), através de aplicação de questionário especifico de forma quantitativa e, majoritariamente, qualitativa, assim como verificar a atuação do NEDET no seu período de atuação no referido território. Foram aplicados 49 questionários com representantes dos 15 municípios componentes do território do Cariri Oriental Paraibano. Os resultados demonstraram que o Colegiado apresenta um empoderamento nas ações desenvolvidas como território com agentes cada vez mais entendidos do processo podendo auxiliar no desenvolvimento de políticas públicas especificas e eficazes. Foi observado também que o NEDET melhorou as atividades do Colegiado Territorial sendo avaliado como excelente.</p><pre><strong>Abstract:</strong> Territory is more than a simple geographical space, resulting from social relations developed between the different agents, mediated by power and projected in a given portion of the geographical space that becomes territory and the idea of power relations between the different agents involved in the process. The implementation of an Extension Nucleus in Territorial Development (NEDET) sought to advise and support the actions in the territory in its different activities, in addition to providing technical assistance, training and university extension. The objective of this study is to verify in the territory of Cariri Oriental Paraibano questions related to the Social Management Index (IGS), through the application of a specific questionnaire in a quantitative and, mainly, qualitative way, as well as verify the performance of NEDET in its period of performance in said territory. A total of 49 questionnaires were applied with representatives of the 15 municipalities in the territory of Cariri Oriental Paraibano. The results showed that the Collegiate presents an empowerment in the actions developed as territory with increasingly understood agents of the process and can help in the development of specific and effective public policies. It was also observed that the NEDET improved the activities of the Territorial Collegiate being evaluated as excellent.</pre>

The main causes of social anxiety in the context of social action

2020 ◽  
Vol 72 (4) ◽  
pp. 112-117
Author(s):  
I.S. Duisenova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Anxiety ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Action ◽  
Social Activity ◽  
Important Place ◽  
Social Actions ◽  
The Social

The article deals with the problems of social anxiety in the context of social activity. Social action is one of the phenomena of everyday life, so the study of anxiety that suddenly occurs in familiar conditions for a person, and its manifestations in social relations occupies an important place in sociological science today. Attempts to explain this were made using the works of T. Parsons, Y. Habermas, and G. Garfinkel. Various manifestations and forms of social anxiety affect the social actions of society.

The Family as Project

1988 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 273-296 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaber F. Gubrium
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Public Project ◽  
Social Form ◽  
Collective Representation ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
Domestic Affairs

Based on data gathered in settings where the family side of personal troubles is a regular concern, it is argued that the family enters into social relations as a collective representation. Adapting Durkheim's usage to everyday life, the family is analyzed as a ‘public’ project of those whose domestic affairs are challenged for consideration of family order. Three features of the family project are considered: (1) the awareness of the social form, (2) family conduct in the large, (3) family usage. As an object of experience, the family presents itself in a category separate and distinct from its members, while at the same time being a practical, discursive construct built out of, as well as reflecting concrete domestic affairs.

Queering social reproduction: Sex, care and activism in San Francisco

Urban Studies ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 004209802094787
Author(s):  
Max J Andrucki
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Reproduction ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Urban Activism ◽  
The Social ◽  
Sex Practices

In this paper I ask what is at stake when we move past static ontologies of the ‘gayborhood’ as a form of commercial and residential concentration in decline to theorise gay urban activism as a mode of queer social reproduction, through which queer caring labour ‘redeems’ the dislocations of the neoliberal city structured by oedipalised and capitalist social relations. Through well-documented formal and informal collective action, queers in the urban West have organised in response to health crises, exclusion and systemic threats of violence. Returning to socialist feminist imaginaries of care beyond the ‘social’, and to Guy Hocquenghem’s often-overlooked theory of the sociality of the anus, this paper draws on excerpts from the film Milk, the poetry of Thom Gunn and a discussion of gay men’s volunteering to examine San Francisco as a queer urban space constituted through a network of encounters, crossings, intimacies and labours enacted through the mundane caring practices of everyday life. I ask in what ways we can think of gay urban space as continuously made and remade through non-monogamous sex practices that perform the messy marrying of public and private, and erotic and platonic.

Property and Social Relations in Mughal India: Litigations and Disputes at the Qazi’s Court in Urban Localities, 17th-18th Centuries

2018 ◽  
Vol 61 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 851-877 ◽  
Author(s):  
Farhat Hasan
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Frames Of Reference ◽  
Local Power ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
The Social ◽  
Caste Groups

AbstractCritiquing the commodity-centered frames of reference, this paper looks at property not within an economic logic, but as a set of practices that served to structure and reconfigure social relations. Based on a study of property documents and court papers, the essay argues that property was not simply an index of wealth, but a medium through which social relations were affirmed, reproduced and contested. Owing to the identification of property with the honor of families and caste groups, transactions in property were socially regulated activities that bore the imprint of local power relations. Property documents were imbued with a plethora of meanings, and this was because the scribal-literate tradition in Mughal India co-existed with an oral-performative culture. Writing was used by social actors in a wide variety of ways, and for different sets of objectives, sometimes to reinforce the social order, on other occasions to disrupt it.

scholarly journals NARRATIVES OF DEATH IN RURAL MALAWI IN THE TIME OF AIDS

Africa ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 85 (2) ◽  
pp. 245-268 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam Ashforth ◽  
Susan Watkins
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Central Feature ◽  
Ordinary People ◽  
The Social ◽  
Retributive Punishment ◽  
Online Archive

ABSTRACTThe key to understanding the experience of AIDS mortality lies in the stories that people tell each other about those they know who are suspected to have died from AIDS. We use a unique set of texts produced by rural Malawians reporting everyday conversations in their communities. These texts, drawn from the online archive of the Malawi Journals Project, consist of several thousand instances of ordinary people telling each other stories in the ordinary course of their lives. They are a form of insider ethnography, accounts of everyday life written by people immersed in the lives of their communities. Through analysis of these texts, we show that narratives of death are predicated upon the question ‘Who is to blame?’ We argue that a micropolitics of blame arises from practices of narrating death and shapes individual and collective responses to the epidemic. When we pay attention to the details of the production and exchange of these stories, we can see how the fact that narratives of death are predicated upon the question of blame both expresses and produces a desire for justice, both for the righting of wrongs through retributive punishment and for the restoration of harmonious social relations among the living. This desire for justice, we argue, is a central feature of the social impact of AIDS.

scholarly journals O “corpo-migrante” e Bourdieu: corpo e incorporação no contexto migratório / Bourdieu and the ‘migrant-body’: embodiment in the migratory context

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (19) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcelo Alario Ennes
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Pierre Bourdieu ◽  
The Body ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
Socially Constructed ◽  
The Social

O presente artigo tem como objetivo central a análise de algumas obras de Pierre Bourdieu tendo em vista sua contribuição para o desenvolvimento de uma agenda de pesquisa em torno da ideia do “corpo-migrante”. Esta agenda visa compreender como o corpo é socialmente produzido no contexto migratório e como isto resulta nas relações sociais e de poder das quais o imigrante é parte. O artigo foi elaborado com base em (re)leituras de obras de Bourdieu com foco na ideia de incorporação e corpo e a partir de um levantamento bibliográfico por meio do qual foram identificados alguns artigos que já fazem o diálogo entre conceitos bourdieusianos e a questão migratória, e outros que tratam do corpo no contexto migratório mas sem problematizá-lo teoricamente. Como resultado, sugiro que Bourdieu nos oferece elementos suficientes para apreender e compreender o “corpo-migrante” como resultado de relações de força e poder que geram a inserção, o posicionamento e o reposicionamento de imigrantes em campos específicos em que atuam. This article sets out to analyse a number of works by Pierre Bourdieu, focusing specifically on his contribution to the development of a research agenda surrounding the ‘migrant-body.’ This agenda aims to understand how the body is socially constructed in the context of migration, and how this results in the social and power relations in which the migrant becomes embedded. The article is based on (re)reading Bourdieu’s books with a focus on his ideas of embodiment and the body. Additionally, a review of the literature enabled two groups of articles to be identified, the first comprising texts that already develop a dialogue between Bourdieu’s concepts and the topic of immigration, while the second group studies the body in the migration context without problematizing the issue theoretically. In the conclusion, I suggest that Bourdieu offers us enough elements to understand the ‘migrant-body’ as an outcome of power and social relations that generate the insertion, positioning and re-positioning of migrants within the specific fields in which they act.

scholarly journals RELASI SOSIAL PEDAGANG ETNIS CINA DAN ETNIS JAWA DI PASAR TRADISIONAL

2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Puji Riyanti
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Ethnic Stereotypes ◽  
Ethnic Chinese ◽  
Traditional Markets ◽  
The Social ◽  
Market Relations

Tujuan penelitian ini adalah menjelaskan relasi sosial pedagang etnis Cina dan etnis Jawa di pasar tradisional. Penelitian dilakukan di Pasar Tradisional Klampok Purwaja. Relasi sosial antara pedagang etnis Cina dan pedagang etnis Jawa di pasar Purwareja Klampok tercermin dalam beberapa aktivitas yang dilakukan yaitu “relasi sosial di pasar” dan “diluar pasar”. Relasi diluar pasar masih terlihat adanya jarak sosial yang lebih banyak dipengaruhi oleh etnisitas, tetapi relasi dalam pasar tampak lebih egalitarian. Pelayanan kepada para pelanggan tidak memperdulikan adanya perbedaan etnis. Secara umum, mereka dapat hidup berdampingan dengan baik, keduanya saling diuntungkan secara ekonomis. Namun stereotype etnis diantara keduanya masih tetap ada dan berkembang dalam masyarakat yang cukup mempengaruhi hubungan sosial kedua etnis dalam kehidupan sehari-hari. The objective of this study is to describe the social relations between ethnic Chinese merchants and the Java community in traditional markets. The research was conducted in Klampok market, Purwareja. Social relations between ethnic Chinese merchants and traders in the market of ethnic Javanese Purwareja Klampok reflected in two forms: ”relations inside the market” and ”relations outside the market”. Relations outside the market is characterized with stereotypes, shaped by ethnicity. In contrast, relations inside the market is more egalitarian. Service to the customer is not influenced by ethnicity difference. In general, these two groups can coexist, and economically they are mutually advantaged. However, ethnic stereotypes still exist and thrive in a society and affect both ethnic social relations in everyday life.

scholarly journals Jin Worship, Founders’ Cults, and Social Relations in Tidore, Indonesia

Religions ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (9) ◽  
pp. 788
Author(s):  
Seung-Won Song
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
The Public ◽  
Historical Texts ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Stranger

This article examines perceptions of jin rituals in Tidore in order to explore how Austronesian perceptions of founders’ cults, arrival-order precedence, and stranger-kingship operate in determining social relations. Tidore origin narratives are significant historical texts that encode the social order and its power relations and so must be explored in greater depth. I analyzed rituals, origin narratives, and public discourse through interviews conducted with locals and particularly with four sowohi, the ritual specialists of jin worship. Additionally, I observed the public aspects of the jin ritual of inauguration of the sultan. The jin are the ancestral spirits and “true owners” of Tidore. Both the jin and sowohi are associated with the land and thus are the autochthonous leaders on the island. The sultan belongs to the stranger-king category, which was formed by later immigrant groups. During jin rituals of worship, the jin bless the sultan through the sowohi, who serve as mediums; this symbolizes the autochthonous flow of blessings to later immigrant groups. The rituals are also a recollection of a more primordial social order of heterogenous groups, which is based on the arrival-order precedence on Tidore.

scholarly journals Telefon komórkowy — narzędzie komunikacji, narzędzie zmiany społecznej

2010 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 111-140
Author(s):  
Ilona Szymańska
Keyword(s):  
Social Norms ◽  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Bonds ◽  
Social Process ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Mobile Telephone ◽  
The Social

The mobile telephone is an invention which has extremely quickly become an integral part of everyday life and has definitively changed the habits of individuals. It became an obvious context of interaction and the observation of the methods of its use in different social groups allow the following of the process of the formation of new patterns of behaviour and social norms which have been created around this tool. The topic of discussion is in what manner the contacts maintained by the mobile telephone has influenced the shaping of social relations and the maintenance of social bonds in the conditions observed by theoreticians of the social process of individualisation. The possibilities of overcoming the spatial limitations which the mobile phone creates and above all the multiplicity of its functions and uses mean that it has a powerful potential for creating change.

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