Symbols as Means of Creating Cultural Communication and Identity. The Estonian Case

2011 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 419-440
Author(s):  
Rein Veidemann
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Internal Communication ◽  
The Self ◽  
Cultural Communication ◽  
Main Interest

In the present article my main interest is to find out which kind of role symbols play in the self-description of Estonian culture and in the internal communication and how the “cultural formatting” of the society has occurred.

scholarly journals SERVQUAL, SELF-ASSESSMENT THE USE OF THE SERVQUAL MODEL FOR THE COMPOSITION OF SELF-ASSESSMENT IN HEI, CASE STUDY: FACULDADE DO LITORAL PARANAENSE - ISEPE

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (7) ◽  
pp. 382-389
Author(s):  
Sebastião Cavalcanti Neto ◽  
Ivan Travassos ◽  
Cleverson Molinari Mello
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
The Self ◽  
Assessment Process ◽  
Self Assessment ◽  
Direct Communication ◽  
Five Dimensions ◽  
Structured Questionnaire

The present article intends to identify the levels of satisfaction of the Faculdade do Litoral Paranaense ISEPE, in order to assess the results in relation to the five Dimensions structured in the Self-assessment being the Tangible Dimensions of Confidence, Responsibility, Security and Empathy. With that it adapted the model SERVQUAL developed by Parasuraman, Zeithaml and Berry (2006) and with the scale of Likert establishing a structured questionnaire in order to establish a direct communication with the academics and users. The general objective of this work is to adapt this model to be used in the Institutional Self-Assessment process of the Faculdade do Litoral Paranaense - ISEPE Guaratuba, seeking to verify the feasibility of the use of these models. After the results obtained and analyzed during the research, it is necessary to appreciate the management of the Institution with the objective of improving the quality of the services provided by the Institution, which are included in the dimensions surveyed.

scholarly journals Vanishing Selves under Hong Kong’s Unified Screening Mechanism

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pui Yan Flora Lau ◽  
Iulia Gheorghiu
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Identity Construction ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
The Self ◽  
Political Asylum ◽  
Slow Pace ◽  
The Social ◽  
Total Institutions ◽  
Refugees And Asylum Seekers

Abstract Drawing on Erving Goffman’s analysis of total institutions and his concept of mortification of the self, the present article deals with the process of identity construction and identity loss among refugees and asylum seekers in Hong Kong. We argue that the slow pace of processing of political asylum applications as well as the harsh restrictions imposed on rights to work and the minimal welfare provisions for refugees and asylum seekers in Hong Kong operate as means of isolating them from the broader society. Another consequence of these restrictive conditions becomes manifest in the loss of identity experienced by those who have been stuck in Hong Kong for many years waiting for their applications to be processed. Being unable to preserve the sense of identity they had in their countries of origin, they find themselves deprived of the social and institutional resorts necessary to forge a new one.

scholarly journals The Concept of the Self in Come Walk with Me: A Memoir by Beatrice Mosionier

2015 ◽  
Vol 50 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 81-94
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Rzepa
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Social Group ◽  
Life Story ◽  
The Self ◽  
Native Canadian ◽  
Beatrice Culleton ◽  
Core Identity ◽  
Self Discovery ◽  
Beatrice Culleton Mosionier ◽  
Static Core

Abstract Beatrice (Culleton) Mosionier is a Canadian Métis writer, whose first strongly autobiographical novel In Search of April Raintree (1983) has been recognized as a classic of contemporary Native Canadian literatures. Her memoir, Come Walk with Me (2009), describes her life story from 1949 till 1987, covering also the period between 1987 and 2001 in a brief epilogue. In the memoir, Mosionier uses fragments of the transcript of an interview conducted with her mother in 1984 by Alanis Obomsawin to preface the three parts of her book. Apart from constructing the two lives as parallel and in dialogue with one another, Mosionier frames and dialogises her story also through references to the process of writing, publication and the success of her novel; and reaches out to readers to induce them to “walk” with her. The aim of the present article is to examine the narrative presentation of the process of self-discovery focusing in particular on the relational aspects of the life story. Mosionier’s memoir demonstrates her growing into the realisation of the fact that her identity is relational-she recognizes herself as part of a larger ethnic and social group, and later also as shaped by familial relations. While depicting “the self [that] is dynamic, changing, and plural” (Eakin 1999: 98), she conceptualises it in reference to what she believes to be an essentially static core identity, and as “channelled” through a life that largely follows a predetermined pattern.

Conceptions of Happiness and Human Destiny in the Late Thirteenth Century

Vivarium ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 276-304 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Thirteenth Century ◽  
Human Life ◽  
The Self ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Union With God ◽  
Henry Of Ghent ◽  
Self Transcendence ◽  
Coming To Know ◽  
Human Destiny

AbstractMedieval theories of ethics tended on the whole to regard self-perfection as the goal of human life. However there was profound disagreement, particularly in the late thirteenth century, over how exactly this was to be understood. Intellectualists such as Aquinas famously argued that human perfection lay primarily in coming to know the essence of God in the next life. Voluntarists such as the Franciscan John Peckham, by contrast, argued that ultimate perfection was to be achieved in patria through the act of loving God. The present article argues that Giles of Rome and Henry of Ghent defended a different sort of voluntarism with respect to the final destiny of human beings. Rather than claiming that the goal of human life lay in the perfection of the self, they argued instead that ultimate union with God was to be achieved mystically through an act of self-transcendence, which occurred through ecstasy or quasi-deification.

scholarly journals A JANGADA DO SELF: USOS SOTERIOLÓGICOS DO EU E DO NÃO-EU NO BUDDHISMO ANTIGO

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (24) ◽  
pp. 279
Author(s):  
Felipe Nogueira de Carvalho
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
Pali Canon ◽  
De Se ◽  
The Buddha ◽  
Pāli Canon

O objetivo deste artigo é sugerir que os ensinamentos Buddhistas sobreanattā(não-eu) não devem ser entendidos como uma negação categórica do eu, mas fazem parte de uma estratégia soteriológica comumente empregada pelo Buddha, de utilizar algo como ferramenta para o seu próprio fim. Tomando o kamma(ação) como o elemento central que estrutura todos os ensinamentos, podemos pensar na identificação do eu como um tipo de ação. Algumas instâncias desta ação serão hábeis e condutoras à libertação, e outras inábeis e condutoras ao sofrimento. Com isso em mente, este artigo irá analisar algumas ações inábeis do eu e do não-eu em suttasselecionados do Cânone Pali, mostrando como se encaixam na estratégia do Buddha de se utilizar de elementos como ferramentas para o abandono desses próprios elementos. Nessa perspectiva, o eu não é negado em absoluto desde o início do caminho, mas aprende-se a usa-lo de forma hábil como um meio de abandoná-lo.THE RAFT OF THE SELF: SOTERIOLOGICAL USES OF SELF AND NOT-SELF IN ANCIENT BUDDHISM ABSTRACTThe purpose of this article is to suggest that the Buddhist teachings on anattā (not-self) should not be understood as a categorical denial of the self, but constitute a soteriological strategy commonly employed by the Buddha, of using something as tool for its own demise.Taking kamma (action) as the main framework that structure all the other teachings, we can think of self-identification as a kind of action. Some instances of this action will be skillful and will lead to liberation, while others will be unskillful and will lead to suffering.With this in mind, the present article will analyze some skillful actions of self and not-self in selected suttas of the Pali canon, showing how they fit into the Buddha’s overall strategy of using elements as tools for their own demise. In this perspective, the self is not denied from the beginning of the path, but one learns how to use it skillfully in order to let go of it.

scholarly journals A Translation into English of Khalil I. Al-Fuzai’s1 “A Lot of Hands”2

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. e10410312061
Author(s):  
Gassim H. Dohal
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
The Self ◽  
Cultural Communication ◽  
Good Sample ◽  
Close Relatives

Translating Khalil I. Al-Fuzai’s “A Lot of Hands” aims at what Bhabha calls “cultural communication” (228).  In this way, translation reconstructs and introduces the self to other people and nations. In this sense, translation contributes to the concept of identity. Khalil I. Al-Fuzai (1940-today) is a writer from Saudi Arabia who wrote a few collections of stories. In his stories he tries to present his Arabian community in a direct, simple way (Dohal 2013). One of his stories is “A Lot of Hands.” Methodology is a document translation of a story for it is a good sample of what Al-Fuzai has written (Dohal, 2018 & 2019). In addition, it addresses a side of the Arabian culture; this story depicts the abuse and oppression that some children face from their close relatives. Indeed it is about a universal concern.

scholarly journals The Difficult Connection between Theory and Practice in Social Pedagogy

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Storø
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Main Interest ◽  
Social Pedagogy ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Development Network ◽  
Pedagogy Development

My main interest in the field of social pedagogy is investigating the link between theory and practice. I will address this topic in the present article, which is a revised version of my presentation at the Social Pedagogy Development Network conference in Sligo, Ireland in May of 2012. That presentation as well as this article draws from my book Sosialpedagogisk praksis (trans. Social Pedagogy Practice), currently being translated into English scheduled for publication March 2013 in the UK by Policy Press ( Storø, 2013 ).

Die selfidentifikasie van Christus in die Boodskap aan Smirna

1992 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
A. H. Grové ◽  
F. J. Van Rensburg
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
The Self

As a specific way of interpreting the seven Messages of Revelation 2 and 3, scholars accept the importance of the self-identifications of Christ in these Messages. Little or (in the case of some of the self-identifications) no research has, however, been done on the coherence of the self - identification with the rest of the pericope. In the present article an attempt is made to define this coherence in the Message to Smyma (Revelation 2:8-11). In the article it is argued that coherence exists on three levels, namely coherence of thought structure, coherence of theme, and coherence of content. The conclusion arrived at points to the fact that a valid interpretation of the Messages cannot be made without taking this coherence into consideration.

Understanding Genealogy: History, Power, and the Self

2008 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 295-314 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Saar
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Subject Formation ◽  
Main Interest ◽  
Critical Practice ◽  
Self Reflection ◽  
Specific Mode ◽  
Textual Practice ◽  
Historical Processes ◽  
Textual Form ◽  
Genealogy Of Morals

AbstractThe aim of this article is to clarify the relation between genealogy and history and to suggest a methodological reading of Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morals. I try to determine genealogy's specific range of objects, specific mode of explication, and specific textual form. Genealogies in general can be thought of as drastic narratives of the emergence and transformations of forms of subjectivity related to power, told with the intention to induce doubt and self-reflection in exactly those readers whose (collective) history is narrated. The main interest in understanding the concept of genealogy and revisiting Nietzsche's introduction of it into philosophy lies in understanding how a certain way of writing and a certain textual practice function that successfully call into question current judgments, institutions and practices. Nietzsche's example, I argue, can provide a paradigm for a critical practice that accounts for historical processes of subject formation in terms of power and turns them against given forms of subjectivity.

scholarly journals Effective interactions of knotted ring polymers

2013 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 630-634 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arturo Narros ◽  
Angel J. Moreno ◽  
Christos N. Likos
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Effective Potential ◽  
Coarse Graining ◽  
The Self ◽  
Relative Importance ◽  
Effective Interactions ◽  
Polymeric Systems ◽  
Ring Polymers

In the present article, we review recent computational investigations on the properties of ring polymers in solution. In particular, we focus on effective interactions obtained by means of coarse-graining techniques. We discuss the relative importance of the self-avoidance and the topological contributions in the qualitative features of the effective potential. We extend our previous results on identical rings and determine the effective potential between dissimilar ring polymers of distinct topology and size. The results obtained reveal the dramatic effects of the specific topology on the effective interactions, and hence in the structural correlations, of polymeric systems.

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