scholarly journals Królewna Śnieżka i płeć kulturowa (Lustereczko powiedz przecie, kto jest najpiękniejszy w świecie?)

1970 ◽  
pp. 69-79
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Gromkowska-Melosik
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Contemporary Culture ◽  
Women's Identity ◽  
Snow White ◽  
Feminist Interpretation ◽  
Femininity And Masculinity ◽  
Patriarchal Power

The article is devoted to the reconstruction of Snow White myth in contemporary culture in the relation to the changing concepts of femininity and masculinity. The Author takes into account several contexts of this issue. First, it can be understood in the terms of patriarchal power over women’s identity and body. Also, the author analyses the Snow White in a light of girl’s socialization into passive roles. In the article feminist interpretation of Snow White are also reconstructed. The different versions of Snow White fable are confronted with the various kinds of relations between women and men in contemporary society.

scholarly journals “Body orientation” of the contemporary culture and it’s influence on the children’s, adolescents’ and youth’s health

2015 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 36-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
O.V. Shalygina ◽  
A.B. Kholmogorova
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Affective Disorders ◽  
Social Model ◽  
Early Age ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Contemporary Culture ◽  
Social Standards ◽  
Spectrum Disorders ◽  
Mental And Physical Health

This article continues the theme of social standards assimilation and values relating to the visual appeal, starting from a very early age. The authors use the multifactor psycho-social model of affective spectrum disorders. They consider the risk factors for the formation of girls’ dissatisfaction by their bodies. In contemporary society this kind of dissatisfaction is an important factor of affective disorders and of the narcissistic attitudes formation. The role of fashion dolls in the internalization of extreme physical ideals is researched. The resources that support the fashion dolls (entertainment magazines for girls, ad sites, special channels’ reviews on the dolls’ younger schoolgirls posted in You Tube) are analyzed. These resources’ contribution to the promotion of dangerous to young generation’s mental and physical health is also analyzed in the article.

scholarly journals The presence of women in Leïla Slimani’s work

2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 173-189
Author(s):  
Irati Fernández Erquicia
Keyword(s):  
Family Violence ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Sex Addiction ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Women's Identity

This article aims to study the presence of women in Leïla Slimani’s work, and to analyze the subjects that are related to women’s identity in her work. In her two first novels and in her latest testimony book, Leïla Slimani seems to be very interested in the image of women and in the role that they play in our society. The sex addiction of Adèle in Dans le jardin de l’ogre (2014), the image of the mother and the babysitter in Chanson douce (2016), and the testimony of women in Sexe et mensonges: la vie sexuelle au Maroc (2017c), show the point of view of Slimani about contemporary women in her work. This will study different subjects such as sexuality, maternity, family, violence, power and religion, emphasising the importance of the construction of women’s identity in the contemporary society.

Claiming Luther as a Religious Resource: Civil Religion in Conflict?

2011 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 300-327
Author(s):  
Marie Vejrup Nielsen
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Empirical Data ◽  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Civil Religion ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Contemporary Culture ◽  
Strong Connection ◽  
The Public ◽  
Northern European ◽  
Muslim Immigrants

AbstractThe article examines references to a specific religious heritage (Lutheran Christianity) within the debate sections of two national Danish newspapers. The aim of the analysis is to provide empirical data as a background for a discussion of conflicts concerning the connection between religious heritage and contemporary society. The themes of the public debate surveyed are identified as related to changes in the religious and cultural landscape in Denmark, such as the presence of Muslim immigrants. Three main discourse packages are identified in relation to the connection between religious heritage and contemporary culture: (1) strong connection; (2) no connection/disconnection; (3) negotiated connection. The conclusions of this analysis provide the foundation for a discussion of civil religion in zones of conflict over religious and cultural identity in a contemporary northern European context.

scholarly journals Kopciuszek: zagubiony szklany pantofelek i metamorfozy kobiecości

2020 ◽  
pp. 63-72
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Gromkowska-Melosik
Keyword(s):  
Sociological Theory ◽  
Contemporary Culture ◽  
Feminist Interpretation ◽  
Commercial Advertising

The article is devoted to the reconstruction of Cinderella myth in contemporary culture in the relation to the changing concepts of femininity. The Author takes into account several contexts of this issue. First, it can be understood in the terms of life as a lottery thanks to which in one moment a person is famous or rich (e.g. thanks to television success). Also, the author analyses the Cinderella in a light of sociological theory of competitive mobility. Besides sociotherapeutic Cinderella complex is analysed as well as feminist interpretation of Cinderella are reconstructed. The different versions of Cinderella fable are confronted with the various kinds of relations between women and men in contemporary. The Author shows also the examples of using the Cinderella myth in commercial advertising as well as politics and economy (Cinderella industry).

scholarly journals Fairy Tale Femininities: A Discourse Analysis of Snow White Films 1916-2012

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Lisbet Rosa Dam
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Fairy Tales ◽  
Fairy Tale ◽  
Young Female ◽  
The Body ◽  
Snow White ◽  
Femininity And Masculinity ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Feminist Poststructuralist ◽  
Traditional Femininity

<p>Fairy tales are enduring cultural texts that have enjoyed wide appeal and the continuing popularity of the fairy tale can be seen in the recent proliferation of media employing fairy tale narratives. Fairy tales provide a site of meaning about femininity and masculinity and examining them over time identifies versions of gender that are prized or denigrated within specific social, historical moments. This project was interested in the continuities and divergences in these gendered discourses across time. Although there has been considerable academic interest in fairy tales and gender, few studies have approached the topic from a genealogical perspective. This research extends the current literature through a genealogical analysis of five Snow White films from 1916 to 2012 in addition to incorporating an analysis in relation to a contemporary postfeminist, neoliberal social climate. The research employed a feminist poststructuralist framework and utilised thematic and genealogical Foucauldian discourse analysis to analyse the data. Discursive analyses found enduring discourses of traditional femininity across the films which centrally organised around a binary construction of femininity as ‘good’ or ‘bad.’ A moral discourse worked to construct ‘good’ femininity as prized and bad femininity as punished. Alongside persistent discourses of femininity, however, a newer postfeminist femininity was evident in recent versions of the fairy tale. Consistent with a postfeminist, neoliberal discourse that highlights the importance of the body, analyses found an increased emphasis on beauty and the vast effort required to maintain it. Another postfeminist shift in the tale was the invoking of a girl power discourse to construct Snow as a competent fighter and leader. However, the complex entanglement of discourses of femininity in contemporary society is highlighted by the co-existence of these newer versions of femininity with traditional goals such as achieving a ‘happily ever after.’ From the perspective of possibilities for subjectivity, these shifts in representation appear to offer a young female audience more empowered possibilities of femininity but such power is simultaneously constrained by a complex amalgamation with traditional ‘niceness’ and beauty.</p>

Seeing ‘the unseen hand’: Celebrity, promotion and public relations

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 157-169 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kate Fitch
Keyword(s):  
Public Relations ◽  
Media Production ◽  
Societal Impact ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Contemporary Culture ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
Intermediary Role ◽  
Cultural Intermediary

Public relations scholars have largely neglected celebrity public relations. The aim of this article is to explore public relations activity associated with celebrity, in order to better understand day-to-day public relations work and its influence on contemporary culture. Positioning public relations in terms of its cultural intermediary role, this article considers the work of celebrity publicists and public relations agencies that work closely with celebrities. It identifies the increased visibility of public relations in contemporary society, the links between public relations and promotional culture, and public relations’ role in media production and consumption. The findings point to the need to reconceptualise public relations as a promotional practice and call for a renewed focus on the societal impact of public relations activity.

scholarly journals Fairy Tale Femininities: A Discourse Analysis of Snow White Films 1916-2012

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Lisbet Rosa Dam
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Fairy Tales ◽  
Fairy Tale ◽  
Young Female ◽  
The Body ◽  
Snow White ◽  
Femininity And Masculinity ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Feminist Poststructuralist ◽  
Traditional Femininity

<p>Fairy tales are enduring cultural texts that have enjoyed wide appeal and the continuing popularity of the fairy tale can be seen in the recent proliferation of media employing fairy tale narratives. Fairy tales provide a site of meaning about femininity and masculinity and examining them over time identifies versions of gender that are prized or denigrated within specific social, historical moments. This project was interested in the continuities and divergences in these gendered discourses across time. Although there has been considerable academic interest in fairy tales and gender, few studies have approached the topic from a genealogical perspective. This research extends the current literature through a genealogical analysis of five Snow White films from 1916 to 2012 in addition to incorporating an analysis in relation to a contemporary postfeminist, neoliberal social climate. The research employed a feminist poststructuralist framework and utilised thematic and genealogical Foucauldian discourse analysis to analyse the data. Discursive analyses found enduring discourses of traditional femininity across the films which centrally organised around a binary construction of femininity as ‘good’ or ‘bad.’ A moral discourse worked to construct ‘good’ femininity as prized and bad femininity as punished. Alongside persistent discourses of femininity, however, a newer postfeminist femininity was evident in recent versions of the fairy tale. Consistent with a postfeminist, neoliberal discourse that highlights the importance of the body, analyses found an increased emphasis on beauty and the vast effort required to maintain it. Another postfeminist shift in the tale was the invoking of a girl power discourse to construct Snow as a competent fighter and leader. However, the complex entanglement of discourses of femininity in contemporary society is highlighted by the co-existence of these newer versions of femininity with traditional goals such as achieving a ‘happily ever after.’ From the perspective of possibilities for subjectivity, these shifts in representation appear to offer a young female audience more empowered possibilities of femininity but such power is simultaneously constrained by a complex amalgamation with traditional ‘niceness’ and beauty.</p>

scholarly journals The Image of Femininity and Masculinity as a Result of the Socialization Process in Contemporary World

2018 ◽  
pp. 425-440
Author(s):  
Alicja Ławiak
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Gender Stereotypes ◽  
Contemporary Culture ◽  
Socialization Process ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
Social Pedagogy ◽  
Femininity And Masculinity

The main purpose of this paper are gender stereotypes, which determine an image of femininity and masculinity in contemporary culture. The paper considers the consequences of compartmentalization. The author presents her own research about the stereotypes which create an image of femininity and masculinity in contemporary culture. The text concerns the problem of specific developmental limitations, which are hidden behind the aforementioned compartmentalization. The author based her research and theoretical inspiration on social psychology and social pedagogy (interconnected via socialization).

scholarly journals Prawda baśni, czyli trudne tematy Agnieszki Suchowierskiej

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 63-73
Author(s):  
Grażyna Lasoń-Kochańska
Keyword(s):  
Gender Stereotypes ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Contemporary Culture ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
The Third ◽  
Snow White ◽  
Social Inequities ◽  
The World ◽  
Different Cultures ◽  
Difficult Subjects

The Truth of the Fairytale – Agnieszka Suchowierska’s Tough IssuesAgnieszka Suchowierska made her debut in 2008 and has published three books so far. Two of them: ‘The fairytale is life or, which fairytale are you from?’ or‘Prince the Snow-White. Gender stereotypes in fairytales’ were written collectively with the well-known psychologist Wojciech Eichelberger. They are tales with appended commentaries in the form of conversations between the authoress and the therapist. Already in her debut novel ‘The fairytale is life’, Suchowierska tackles several difficult subjects and poses important questions such as : how can one see the world?; how to be free?; how to find the essence of things? In ‘Prince the Snow-White”, written a few years later, those questions take on the form of reflection on the woman’s cultural condition. The volume contains new versions of traditional fairytales in which men and women switch their roles. This simple gambit lays bare the power of gender stereotypes and manifests the degree to which contemporary culture allows (or disallows) women to do attractive/enjoyable things traditionally reserved for men only. The third book penned by Suchowierska ‘Mat and the world’ was published in 2015. In as much as the potential target readers of her tales are either young people or adults, the last book is dedicated to still younger readers. It tells the story of a plush teddy-bear, manufactured in China, which, due to a curious twist of circumstances, travels around the world. The bear’s journey becomes a pretext for revealing social inequities as well as presenting different cultures and religions. Mat, the bear, is characterized by optimism, activity and self-control in times of crisis. The propagated attitudes and models of upbringing presented in the story are no truisms. The little volume was awarded The Book of 2015 Literary Prize of the Polish section of IBBY.

THE PRAGMATIC ORIENTATIONS OF PARASCIENCE IN CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Артём Андреевич Андреев
Keyword(s):  
Social Conditions ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Contemporary Culture ◽  
Mass Consciousness ◽  
The Social ◽  
Close Relationship ◽  
Different Characteristics ◽  
Relationship Of

В статье осуществляется анализ прагматических ориентаций паранауки в современном обществе. Выявляется тесная взаимосвязь паранауки с различными особенностями, интересами, потребностями и ценностями массового сознания. Определяются социальные условия, влияющие на развитие паранауки в современной культуре. This article presents the analysis of the pragmatic orientations of parascience in contemporary society. Revealed the close relationship of parascience with different characteristics, interests, needs and values of mass consciousness. Determined the social conditions that influence the development of parascience in contemporary culture.

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