The Politics of Dickens' Novels

PMLA ◽  
1956 ◽  
Vol 71 (5) ◽  
pp. 945-974
Author(s):  
Monroe Engel
Keyword(s):  
Social World ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Brute Fact ◽  
Social Situations

In Dickens' novels, characters are cast in detailed and purposeful social situations, and an evaluated social world is created. Yet even those critics who agree roughly that this is so, and agree further on the stature of these novels, disagree markedly as to Dickens' own politics or view of society—disagree in fundamental respects, that is, on what disposition of mind lies behind and shapes these novels. Sometimes the disagreement has in part to do with personal conviction. G. K. Chesterton, a Catholic with mixed politics of his own, bolsters as he can Dickens' orthodoxy. T. A. Jackson, a naive Marxist with insufficient respect for brute fact, attempts to show that Dickens was a Communist in all but name, and “that the really fundamental incompatibility between Dickens and his wife lay in the complete antithesis of their convictions about contemporary society as a whole.”

Responsibilities

2020 ◽  
pp. 126-156
Author(s):  
Rosie Lavan
Keyword(s):  
Social World ◽  
Seamus Heaney ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Raymond Williams ◽  
Conor Cruise ◽  
University Setting

Rooted in the poetry and prose of the late 1980s and early 1990s, and drawing heavily on unpublished material, this final chapter, Chapter 5, finds Seamus Heaney in another university setting, this time in Oxford. Taking its cue from Heaney’s own interest, in The Redress of Poetry, in the question of responsibility, it examines the complex intersections of the imagination with the challenges of contemporary society and the burden of history. It brings Heaney into dialogue with figures as diverse as Coleridge, Conor Cruise O’Brien, and Raymond Williams, and it charts the development of two key poems, ‘The Diviner’ and ‘Markings’, in order to illuminate his various expressions of the fraught but necessary interactions between the private artist and their social world.

scholarly journals Resilience Among Dementia Family Caregivers in a Changing Social World

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 9-9
Author(s):  
Brandy McCann ◽  
Karen Roberto ◽  
Tina Savla ◽  
Rosemary Blieszner ◽  
Emily Hoyt
Keyword(s):  
Family Caregivers ◽  
Care Setting ◽  
Social World ◽  
Social Connections ◽  
Social Worlds ◽  
Social Situations ◽  
Dementia Caregivers ◽  
The Social ◽  
Early Phases ◽  
Roll Out

Abstract Dementia caregivers must manage the social worlds of their loved ones as well as their own. In a mixed methods study, we interviewed 50 family caregivers prior to the pandemic, twice during early phases of the pandemic, and again during the vaccine roll-out phase. Findings revealed how implementation of stay-at-home orders altered reliance on informal support as well as social ties and interactions. Using content analysis, we identified three ways in which caregivers’ managed changes in their social world: rethinking family visits (fewer people, higher quality); reinventing public spaces (church services, exercise venues); and reconsidering self-care (setting boundaries, solace in nature). Caregivers showed varying degrees of resilience in the ways they managed adverse social situations and cared for themselves. Findings reinforce the need for inclusive programs and services to help caregivers learn to maintain supportive social connections that reinforce their care decisions and routines, particularly during times of duress.

SOCIABILITY, POLITENESS, AND ARISTOCRATIC SELF-FORMATION IN THE LIFE AND CAREER OF THE SECOND EARL OF SHELBURNE

2012 ◽  
Vol 55 (3) ◽  
pp. 653-677 ◽  
Author(s):  
LAWRENCE E. KLEIN
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Social Situations ◽  
Reform Initiatives ◽  
Noteworthy Feature ◽  
Self Formation

ABSTRACTThe second earl of Shelburne is well known for his association with reform initiatives in the second half of the eighteenth century. However, he also put conspicuous effort into strengthening his aristocratic credentials and status. One noteworthy feature of this was his politeness: he aimed at personal cultivation, a goal in itself and a foundation for leadership in society; he also had a reputation for politeness in everyday social situations. One context for Shelburne's conspicuous politeness was his personal need to overcome a number of impediments to asserting aristocratic status. However, another context was his effort to articulate a vocation for the modern aristocrat. For Shelburne, polite sociability was a way for the aristocrat to gather, organize, and deploy creative energies in society for the sake of improvement and reform. Though a particular example, Shelburne illustrates the energy that asserting aristocratic status could demand and the sort of modernity that could be claimed on behalf of aristocracy. Finally, Shelburne demonstrates the role of politeness in aristocratic formation: in particular, he shows how aristocratic engagement in contemporary society entailed a range of social relations which polite competence helped to manage.

scholarly journals INTERAKSIONISME SIMBOLIK SANTRI TERHADAP KIAI MELALUI KOMUNIKASI DI PONDOK PESANTREN AL MUNAWWIR KLRAPYAK YOGYAKARTA

INFORMASI ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 169
Author(s):  
Muhammad Hamam Alfajari
Keyword(s):  
Symbolic Interactionism ◽  
Data Retrieval ◽  
Boarding School ◽  
Social World ◽  
Communication Process ◽  
Symbolic Language ◽  
Social Situations ◽  
School Students ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
Observation Results

This research aims to determine the perspective of symbolic interactionism students to kiai in the communication process in Al Munawwir Islamic Boarding School Krapyak Yogyakarta. To achieve the objectives of the study, researchers used a qualitative approach, with qualitative descriptive type. The subjects in this study were students at Al Munawwir Boarding School Krapyak Yogyakarta. Data retrieval is done through interviews and observation. Results found is that symbolic interactionism students are not deterministic. That is, what is done by the students of the kiai is a subjective awareness of students who interpret certain symbols through interaction. The fact then that creates a social world for students. Social world that includes an appearance, gestures and symbolic language emerged in social situations, so in this context, the social world at the boarding school students can be said is a product of individuals as actors who are active

scholarly journals Development And Motivation In/For Critical Thinking

2014 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Larry W. Riggs ◽  
Sandra Hellyer-Riggs
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Social World ◽  
Stage Theory ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Crucial Point ◽  
Content Areas ◽  
Course Content ◽  
Actual Role ◽  
The Social

An explicit link between the issues of development and critical thinking is provided by Elder and Paul (1996). In their stage theory of critical thinking, Elder and Paul argued that the first stage beyond unreflective thinking is that of the challenged thinker. The challenged thinker is one who has become aware of the actual role of thinking in life and of significant problems caused by unreflective thinking. This is in accord with our experience, which we will describe and analyze in this article. History and contemporary society are saturated with and driven by thinking, much of which is developmentally immature and disastrous. Scriven and Paul (1987) made the crucial point that shoddy thinking is costly. Our approach to fostering critical thinking deals with the issue of motivation to think critically by focusing on the costs of not doing so. We agree with McPeck (1994) that some course content areas are more suitable than others for fostering critical thinking. In the courses we will describe here, we are able to challenge students to think about issues that have significant impact in the social world. Our goal is to move students to recognize that they can, and should, become critical thinkers and that recognizing meaningful challenges is the first developmental step.

scholarly journals Identifying at-risk states beyond positive symptoms: a brief task assessing how neurocognitive impairments impact on misrepresentation of the social world through blunted emotional appraisal

2011 ◽  
Vol 33 (suppl 2) ◽  
pp. s175-s196 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mariana Galdos ◽  
Claudia J.P. Simons ◽  
Marieke Wichers ◽  
Aranzazu Fernandez-Rivas ◽  
Oscar Martinez-Azumendi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Recognition ◽  
Psychotic Disorder ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Social World ◽  
Case Control ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Social Situations ◽  
Neurocognitive Impairments ◽  
The Social ◽  
Emotional Appraisal

OBJECTIVE: Neurocognitive impairments observed in psychotic disorder may impact on emotion recognition and theory of mind, resulting in altered understanding of the social world. Early intervention efforts would be served by further elucidation of this mechanism. METHOD: Patients with a psychotic disorder (n=30) and a reference control group (n=310) were asked to offer emotional appraisals of images of social situations (EASS task). The degree to which case-control differences in appraisals were mediated by neurocognitive alterations was analyzed. RESULTS: The EASS task displayed convergent and discriminant validity. Compared to controls, patients displayed blunted emotional appraisal of social situations (B=0.52, 95% CI: 0.30, 0.74, P<0.001; adjusted for age, sex and number of years of education: B=0.44, 95% CI: 0.20, 0.68, P<0.001), a difference of 0.88 (adjusted: 0.75) standard deviation. After adjustment for neurocognitive variables, the case-control difference was reduced by nearly 75% and was non-significant (B=0.12, 95% CI: -0.14, 0.39, P=0.37). CONCLUSIONS: Neurocognitive impairments observed in patients with psychotic disorder may underlie misrepresentation of the social world, mediated by altered emotion recognition. A task assessing the social impact of cognitive alterations in clinical practice may be useful in detecting key alterations very early in the course of psychotic illness.

scholarly journals Looking laterally: The literary utopia and the task of critical social theory

2020 ◽  
pp. 001139212096975
Author(s):  
Joe PL Davidson
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Social Theory ◽  
Social World ◽  
Critical Social Theory ◽  
Social Critique ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Social Worlds ◽  
Thomas More ◽  
The Social ◽  
Better Than

This article is focused on exploring the value of literary utopias for social theory. The literary utopia, at first glance, appears irrelevant to sociology, its imaginative descriptions of social worlds both radically different and substantively better than our own seeming to skip over the central task of sociological enquiry: the diagnosis of society as it exists. In this article, the author aims to demonstrate that this is mistaken: the tradition of literary utopianising has much to contribute to sociology. Utopian authors, from Thomas More in the sixteenth century to Ursula K Le Guin in the twentieth, have developed a sophisticated and original mode of social critique. The utopian text, in bricolating and remixing aspects of actually existing society, creates something both new and astonishing. In looking laterally at the world from the perspective of utopia, consciousness of the contradictions and repressions of the dominant relations in contemporary society is sharpened. The literary utopia achieves this in two ways: first, it demonstrates how the not yet realised norms of the author’s society can be fulfilled and, second, it discloses the hidden possibilities for new ways of living that are present but denied in the social world.

Keselamatan di Balik Penghukuman: Menelisik Situasi Sosial Kitab Mikha

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 48
Author(s):  
Melvin Malau
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
Social World ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
Social Situations ◽  
History Analysis ◽  
The Social ◽  
Ancient Israel ◽  
Political Economic

The texts in the Book of Micah give rise to several interpretations. From several interpretations, it was written that there was a period of background in different social situations and that influenced the writing, reconstruction of the text, and message of theology. First, there is a shift in the social, political, economic, and religious situation. Second, these texts consist of several ideas, contents, and combinations. This paper presents a reading of Micah chapters 1-7 in a social-historical setting by considering its theological consequences. The research in this paper uses the social history analysis method to discuss texts as a form of meaningful language to communicate between writers, editors, composers, and listeners. The sources found are available to reconstruct the social world of ancient Israel. The results of the study emphasize that the themes of salvation after the condemnation of Micah chapters 1-7 are combined, edited during the three periods of social history namely the period pre-exile, in-exile and post-exile. Abstrak Teks-teks dalam Kitab Mikha menimbulkan beberapa penafsiran. Dari beberapa penafsiran dituliskan adanya periode latar belakang situasi sosial yang berbeda dan mempengaruhi kepenulisan, rekonstruksi peredaksian teks dan pesan teologi. Pertama, adanya pergeseran situasi sosial, politik, ekonomi, dan agama. Kedua, teks-teks ini terdiri dari beberapa ide, isi dan pengabungan-penggabungan. Tulisan ini memperlihatkan sebuah pembacaan Mikha pasal 1-7 dalam setting sejarah sosial dengan mempertimbangkan kon-sekuensi teologisnya. Penelitian dalam tulisan ini menggunakan metode analisis sejarah sosial membahas teks-teks sebagai bentuk bahasa yang bermakna untuk berkomunikasi antara penulis, redaktur, komposer dan pendengar. Sumber-sumber yang ditemukan terse-dia untuk merekonstruksi dunia sosial Israel kuno. Hasil dari penelitian menekankan bahwa tema-tema keselamatan setelah penghukuman Mikha pasal 1-7 digabungkan, diredaksi selama tiga periode sejarah sosial yaitu masa sebelum pembuangan, pembuangan dan setelah pembuangan.

scholarly journals Business Ethics from the Standpoint of Redemption: Adorno on the Possibility of Good Work

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
Craig Reeves ◽  
Matthew Sinnicks
Keyword(s):  
Business Ethics ◽  
Meaningful Work ◽  
Social World ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Good Work ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Theodor Adorno

Given his view that the modern world is “radically evil,” Theodor Adorno is an unlikely contributor to business ethics. Despite this, we argue that his work has a number of provocative implications for the field that warrant wider attention. Adorno regards our social world as damaged, unfree, and false, and we draw on this critique to outline why the achievement of good work is so rare in contemporary society, focusing in particular on the ethical demands of roles and the ideological nature of management’s self-understanding. Nevertheless, we show that Adorno’s comments on activities such as art and philosophy mean that it is possible to draw on his work in a way that contributes constructively to the conversation about good and meaningful work within business ethics.

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