scholarly journals Viral apocalypse: Discourses of spreading and stopping epidemic through the example of zombie film narrative

2021 ◽  
Vol 69 (3) ◽  
pp. 675-687
Author(s):  
Marina Mandic
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Infectious Diseases ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Infectious Agents ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Anxieties

Based on the point of view that popular culture performs metaphorical narration of the contemporary society, this paper analyses the ways in which elements of zombie film narratives are used as a representation of infectious diseases, that is, representation of the social and institutional discourses associated with the occurrence, spreading and stopping of epidemics. The narratives of zombie films feature social anxieties regarding infectious agents through the discourse of epidemiological apocalypse, due to occurrence of an incurable virus, whose development results in the potential ending of the civilization.

scholarly journals Ageing process and policosanol effects

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 273-283
Author(s):  
José Illnait-Ferrer ◽  
Julio César Fernández-Travieso ◽  
Yenney Reyes-Nuñez ◽  
Alicia de la Caridad Duquesne-Chávez
Keyword(s):  
Aging Process ◽  
Healthy Aging ◽  
Normal Development ◽  
Experimental Models ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Ampk Activation ◽  
Biochemical Processes ◽  
The Social

The fundamental concepts of the aging process are exposed: Its dimension as a health problem, aspects related to its repercussion from the social point of view, and Its influence on aspects that can affect the normal development of contemporary society. The roles of genetics, cellular and biochemical processes that concur in the development of aging is analyzed, making special reference to the role of Adenosine Mono Phosphate Kinase [AMPK]. activation in the regulation of the aging process and the participation of mechanisms for its activation. It is concluded that Policosanol is a medicament of natural origin that could be proposed as candidate to be used for a healthy aging, based on the results of various investigations in experimental models and data obtained from different clinical trials.

scholarly journals Supersystemy rozrywkowe w perspektywie lektury „niefilologicznej”. Propozycja metodologiczna

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 ◽  
pp. 57-80
Author(s):  
Adam Mazurkiewicz
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Multidisciplinary Approach ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Specific Character ◽  
Market Mechanisms ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Social ◽  
Cultural Texts ◽  
Market Driven ◽  
Scientific Fields

The influence of market mechanisms on cultural texts and their function in society is more and more often stressed, especially by supporters of cultural studies and representatives of various stud-ies from outside the humanities. This shifting of attention from text onto possible contexts results from seeking the possibility of looking at the text through the prism of one’s own domain.A completely different aspect is to what extent the economy (or more widely — social science) can really be a starting point for consideration over cultural texts, instead of being a mechanism regulating their function in society. These mechanisms can undoubtedly — especially in popular circulation — be considered through the prism of market conditions. Undeniably, considering thework aesthetically from the social perspective (therefore indirectly and economically), should sig-nificantly enrich the reading of the cultural text, which would be impossible to achieve only by means of aesthetic instrumentation. What is more, researching entertainment super systems (but also more widely: popular culture) from the non-philological perspective shows how complex a phenom-enon it is and that it demands a multidisciplinary approach. What is important is that this specific character of studies results not from the choice of methodology which stresses the socially-ideo-logical and market-driven implication of the cultural text, but more from the very character of the phenomenon itself. However, to make such research possible, giving consideration to the following issues is vital:— instance of the perspective from which the entertainment super system will be analysed;— extent of the researcher’s jurisdiction, which is essential to a correct, from the scientific point of view, interpretation of the observed phenomena;— possibilities and extent of adjusting the terminology of different scientific fields to the cul-tural phenomenon.

scholarly journals Aristophanes and de Ste. Croix: The Value of Old Comedy as Evidence for Athenian Popular Culture

Antichthon ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 46 ◽  
pp. 14-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
David M. Pritchard
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Fourth Century ◽  
Lower Class ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Social Classes ◽  
Political Leaders ◽  
Old Comedy ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Rich

AbstractDe Ste. Croix famously argued that Aristophanes had a conservative political outlook and attempted to use his comedies to win over lower-class audiences to this minority point of view. The ongoing influence of his interpretation has meant that Old Comedy has been largely ignored in the historiography of Athenian popular culture. This article extends earlier critiques of de Ste. Croix by systematically comparing how Aristophanes and the indisputably popular genre of fourth-century oratory represented the social classes of the Athenians and political leaders. The striking parallels between the two suggest that Aristophanes, far from advocating a minority position, exploited the rich and, at times, contradictory views of lower-class citizens for comic and ultimately competitive ends. As a consequence his plays are valuable evidence for Athenian popular culture and help to correct the markedly fourth-century bias in the writing of Athenian cultural history.

scholarly journals Contemporary society and its normative systems

2012 ◽  
Vol 60 (2) ◽  
pp. 539-546
Author(s):  
Dana Zapletalová ◽  
Jiří Tuza
Keyword(s):  
Human Behavior ◽  
Legal Aspects ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Value Systems ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Current Period ◽  
Regulatory Systems ◽  
The Social ◽  
Characteristic Features

Every human behavior is under the influence of many factors, for example, personal preconditions, ambitions, education, in addition to certain time and the enviroment in which human beings live and work. From the social point of view, the first place in the regulation of behaviour is occupied by the normative regulátory systems. The contemporary time and society are often denominated as postmodern or postindustrial. Among others, there are crisis of various kind, first of all the crisis of traditional value systems reflected in the crisis of moral and law, which is connected with the current period. In this article, we analyse contemporary society, its characteristic features, in addition to comparison with the earlier period called modern or industrial. Both these periods have some characteristic elements which are mutually antagonistic. However, they have something in common at the same time. Apart from that, both societies have met a crisis. Moreover, there were changes in values and regulatory systems during these periods. With respect to the value systems, it is obvious that they have undergone fundamental changes which society has to settle up. Furthermore, it is necessary to assume a certain position when considering moral and legal aspects.

scholarly journals Despsiquiatrizar la cultura como necesidad ineludible para un cambio social emancipatorio. / Depsychiatrice culture as an inescaple need for an emancipatory social change.

2017 ◽  
pp. 407
Author(s):  
José García-Valdecasas Campelo ◽  
Amaia Vispe Astola
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Pharmaceutical Industry ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Psychotherapeutic Treatment ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
The Social ◽  
Cultura Popular ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Medios De Comunicacion

Resumen: La psiquiatría actual contribuye a configurar una cultura donde muchos malestares que podrían explicarse desde el punto de vista social son entendidos como problemas individuales subsidiarios de tratamiento farmacológico o psicoterapéutico. Esta situación se sostiene claramente por los beneficios obtenidos por diversos agentes que participan en ella: beneficio en términos económicos para la industria farmacéutica, beneficios en términos de prestigio para los profesionales, beneficios en términos de desresponsabilización para pacientes o familias, etc. Sin embargo, consideramos que los perjuicios, tanto para los sujetos individuales atrapados en esta red, como para la sociedad en su conjunto, son terribles. Señalaremos ejemplos de cómo aparece la psiquiatría en medios de comunicación y obras de la cultura popular y nos plantearemos que algo deberíamos intentar hacer en busca de un cambio emancipatorio, tanto desde un punto de vista individual como social. Palabras clave: psiquiatría, cultura, industria farmacéutica, psicoterapia, cambio social. Abstract: Current psychiatry helps to shape a culture where many discomforts that could be explained from the social point of view are understood as individual problems that need pharmacological or psychotherapeutic treatment. This situation is clearly supported by the benefits obtained by various agents involved in it: economic benefit for the pharmaceutical industry, benefits in terms of prestige for professionals, benefits in terms of patients or familias rejecting all responsibility, etc. However, we consider that the damages, both for the individual subjects caught in this network, and for society as a whole, are terrible. We will point out examples of how psychiatry appears in the mass media and works of popular culture and we will consider that something we should try to do in search of an emancipatory change, both from an individual and social point of view. Keywords: psychiatry, culture, pharmaceutical industry, psychotherapy, social change.

KONSEP DIRI “ I “ DAN “ME” TOKOH HIROKO DALAM NOVEL NAMAKU HIROKO KARYA NH.DINI

2012 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 109
Author(s):  
Besin Gaspar
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
The Other ◽  
Self Concept ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Fictional Character ◽  
Social Customs ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Village ◽  
The City

This research deals with the development of  self concept of Hiroko as the main character in Namaku Hiroko by Nh. Dini and tries to identify how Hiroko is portrayed in the story, how she interacts with other characters and whether she is portrayed as a character dominated by ”I” element or  ”Me”  element seen  from sociological and cultural point of view. As a qualitative research in nature, the source of data in this research is the novel Namaku Hiroko (1967) and the data ara analyzed and presented deductively. The result of this analysis shows that in the novel, Hiroko as a fictional character is  portrayed as a girl whose personality  develops and changes drastically from ”Me”  to ”I”. When she was still in the village  l iving with her parents, she was portrayed as a obedient girl who was loyal to the parents, polite and acted in accordance with the social customs. In short, her personality was dominated by ”Me”  self concept. On the other hand, when she moved to the city (Kyoto), she was portrayed as a wild girl  no longer controlled by the social customs. She was  firm and determined totake decisions of  her won  for her future without considering what other people would say about her. She did not want to be treated as object. To put it in another way, her personality is more dominated by the ”I” self concept.

A Futures Study on the Quality Of Life from the Point Of View of Iranian Youth

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Sina Saeedy ◽  
Mojtaba Amiri ◽  
Mohammad Mahdi Zolfagharzadeh ◽  
Mohammad Rahim Eyvazi
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Mixed Model ◽  
Satisfaction With Life ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Human Society ◽  
Futures Studies ◽  
The Social ◽  
The University

Quality of life and satisfaction with life as tightly interconnected concepts have become of much importance in the urbanism era. No doubt, it is one of the most important goals of every human society to enhance a citizen’s quality of life and to increase their satisfaction with life. However, there are many signs which demonstrate the low level of life satisfaction of Iranian citizens especially among the youth. Thus, considering the temporal concept of life satisfaction, this research aims to make a futures study in this field. Therefore, using a mixed model and employing research methods from futures studies, life satisfaction among the students of the University of Tehran were measured and their views on this subject investigated. Both quantitative and qualitative data were analysed together in order to test the hypotheses and to address the research questions on the youth discontentment with quality of life. Findings showed that the level of life satisfaction among students is relatively low and their image of the future is not positive and not optimistic. These views were elicited and discussed in the social, economic, political, environmental and technological perspectives. Keywords:  futures studies, quality of life, satisfaction with life, youth

POLIVARIABILITY OF THE BASTARD MOTIF IN THE SHORT STORIES BY GUY DE MAUPASSANT: CHARACTER IN SEARCH OF SELF-IDENTIFICATION

2018 ◽  
pp. 20-27
Author(s):  
Oksana Galchuk
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Guy De Maupassant ◽  
Traditional Values ◽  
The Social ◽  
Role Of It ◽  
Structural Methods

The theme of illegitimacy Guy de Maupassant evolved in his works this article perceives as one of the factors of the author’s concept of a person and the plane of intersection of the most typical motifs of his short stories. The study of the author’s concept of a person through the prism of polivariability of the motif of a bastard is relevant in today’s revision of traditional values, transformation of the usual social institutions and search for identities, etc. The purpose of the study is to give a definition to the existence specifics of the bastard motif in the Maupassant’s short stories by using historical and literary, comparative, structural methods of analysis as dominant. To do this, I analyze the content, variability and the role of this motive in the formation of the Maupassant’s concept of a person, the author’s innovations in its interpretation from the point of view of literary diachrony. Maupassant interprets the bastard motif in the social, psychological and metaphorical-symbolic sense. For the short stories with the presentation of this motif, I suggest the typology based on the role of it in the structure of the work and the ideological and thematic content: the short stories with a motif-fragment, the ones with the bastard’s leitmotif and the group where the bastard motif becomes a central theme. The Maupassant’s interpretation of the bastard motif combines the general tendencies of its existence in the world’s literary tradition and individual reading. The latter is the result of the author’s understanding of the relevant for the era issues: the transformation of the family model, the interest in the theory of heredity, the strengthening of atheistic sentiments, the growth of frustration in the system of traditional social and moral values etc. This study sets the ground for a prospective analysis of the evolution the bastard motif in the short-story collections of different years or a comparative study of the motif in short stories and novels by Maupassant.

Drinking-Water Quality and Intestinal Infectious Diseases in a Colombian Department, 2010-2016

2020 ◽  
pp. 21-29
Author(s):  
Dora Cardona Rivas ◽  
Militza Yulain Cardona Guzmán ◽  
Olga Lucía Ocampo López
Keyword(s):  
Water Quality ◽  
Drinking Water ◽  
Infectious Diseases ◽  
Disease Burden ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Drinking Water Quality ◽  
World Health ◽  
The Social ◽  
Etiological Agents ◽  
Health Organization

Objective: To characterize the burden of intestinal infectious diseases attributable to drinking-water quality in 27 municipalities in the central region of Colombia. Materials and methods: A time-trend ecological study. The drinking-water quality of the National Institute of Health and the Institute of Hydrology, Meteorology and Environmental Studies was identified. The disease burden was calculated based on the mortality registered in the National Department of Statistics and the records of morbidity attended by the Social Protection Integrated Information System. The etiological agents reported in morbidity records and the observation of environmental conditions in the municipalities of the study were included. The disease burden was determined according to the methodology recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO).

THE USE OF THE TRANSLATION METHOD IN MASTERING THE TERMS

2019 ◽  
pp. 87-95
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
English Language ◽  
Structural Features ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
General Classification ◽  
Optimal Methods ◽  
Foreign Companies ◽  
The Social ◽  
Problems Of Translation

The article is devoted to the role of Tourism terminology in linguistics and the issue of general classification, peculiarities in the expression and translation of terms related to tourism in English into Uzbek and Russian, as well as the choice of the most optimal methods for translating terms in accordance with the requirements of this professional sphere. The terminology of the English language tourism is distinguished by its brightness, versatility. Tourism terms are formed under the influence of a generalized lexical layer of language and perform a specific functional function.Tourism terms are formed through the affixation method (prefixation, suffixation, circumphixation) and get rich through the process.The terminology of English Tourism is distinguished by its content and structural features, forming a part of the language vocabulary from the linguistic point of view. Texts in the field of Tourism take into their composition concepts of Tourism and interpret them in their content. They will be mainly in the form of advertising, as well as enlighten information about a particular region or place, create informational precedents and ensure their manifestation in the social cultural presence. The relevance of the study of the problems of translation of terms in the field of tourism has been investigated, mainly due to the development of international relations, expansion of cooperation between local and foreign companies, as well as the increase in this area of communication.

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