scholarly journals No mercy no dignity: Refleksjoner over et kunstnerisk utviklingsarbeid i Ål kyrkje

2019 ◽  
pp. 169-189
Author(s):  
Tollef Thorsnes
Keyword(s):  
Art Installation ◽  
Mass Migration ◽  
Different Cultures ◽  
Semiotic Theory

This chapter discusses questions of dignity and mass migration addressed during the process of the making of a temporary art installation. The installation is located at “Ål kyrkje”, a church in Hallingdal in Norway. As the writer of this chapter I am both an artist making the installation and a researcher on my own art work. The chapter starts with an introduction to the concept “dignity” and a presentation of my understanding of the concept as open, dynamic and living. Different cultures and organizations assign different meanings to the concept of dignity. In my opinion, it is important to be aware of these different sunderstanding, and to try to find ways to communicate them openly and through dialog. Social semiotic theory is based on an understanding that all communication is social. This theory acknowledges the importance of roles that both the context and all the participants have in the communication. The main purpose of this chapter is to explore how I can make an art installation that does not give specific answers, but initiate visitors’ experiences, dialogues, reflections and new questions about mass migration and dignity.

scholarly journals Depiction of Raden Joko Kaiman as a Superhero Using Barthes’ Semiotics

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Chusni Hadiati ◽  
Nadia Gitya Yulianita
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Reliable Data ◽  
Founding Father ◽  
Connotative Meaning ◽  
Physical Form ◽  
Great Sense ◽  
Semiotic Perspective ◽  
Different Cultures ◽  
Semiotic Theory

This research tried to reveal the denotative and connotative meaning of Raden Joko Kaiman in Banyumas culture. Historically, Banyumas regency was founded by Raden Joko Kaiman in 1582. As the founding father of Banyumas regency, Raden Joko Kaiman could be semiotically interpreted as a superhero in the context of Banyumas. Based on Barthes, anything could be a sign. Raden Joko Kaiman in Barthes’ semiotic perspective could function as a sign since this figure could have both denotative and connotative meanings. Barthes’ semiotic theory investigated the process of reading signs and their interpretation by different cultures or societies. Barthes considered sign as both signifier the physical form of the sign as people perceived it through their sense and signified the interpreted meaning. This research was conducted using qualitative research since it collected reliable data and information through reading, comparing, and analyzing text by relating them to Banyumas context. There are four denotative meanings carried by this sign, namely, the son of Raden Harya Banyak Sosro, the godson of Kiai Mranggi, the son-in-law of Adipati Wargautama, and being Adipati Mrapat. Connotatively, Raden Joko Kaiman is interpreted as courage, strong moral codes, tolerance towards pain, and a great sense of responsibility.

Is Information Ethics Culturally Relative?

2010 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Philip Brey
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Intellectual Property Rights ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Information Ethics ◽  
Freedom Of Information ◽  
Intercultural Understanding ◽  
Different Cultures ◽  
Moral Absolutism

In this chapter, I examine whether information ethics is culturally relative. If it is, different approaches to information ethics are required in different cultures and societies. This would have major implications for the current, predominantly Western approach to information ethics. If it is not, there must be concepts and principles of information ethics that have universal validity. What would they be? I will begin the chapter by an examination of cultural differences in ethical attitudes towards privacy, freedom of information, and intellectual property rights in Western and nonwestern cultures. I then analyze the normative implications of these findings for doing information ethics in a cross-cultural context. I will argue for a position between moral absolutism and relativism that is based on intercultural understanding and mutual criticism. Such a position could be helpful in overcoming differences and misunderstandings between cultures in their approach to information and information technologies.

scholarly journals SEARCHING FOR WAYS OF IMPROVING TEENAGERS’ TOLERANCE: DETERMINATION BY MULTIETHNIC ENVIRONMENT

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 367-371
Author(s):  
Tatiana Voronchenko ◽  
Nina Vinogradova
Keyword(s):  
Social Relationships ◽  
Cultural Awareness ◽  
Systematic Approach ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Pedagogical Strategies ◽  
Research Survey ◽  
Mass Migration ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Different Cultures ◽  
Research Show

The coexistence of people of different cultures within a state, as a consequence of mass migration, has created an urgent need to identify ways to promote effective interethnic dialogue and harmonic social relationships. This study examines the problem exemplified in the multiethnic Transbaikal region of the Russian Federation, where more than one hundred nationalities cohabit. The paper illuminates the notion of tolerance, and interprets an array of sociological data to analyze the level of teenagers’ tolerance in a multiethnic environment. Methods of study include a research survey, correlation analysis, and a systematic approach to interpreting results. Modern education systems require institutions to be competent in providing conditions for the formation of tolerance as a quality in a teenager’s personality. The results of this research show that a multiethnic environment provides an effective context for a teenager to form and improve tolerance through interethnic dialogue, and that special pedagogical strategies in educational institutions could contribute to improving cultural awareness and peaceful coexistence.

scholarly journals Direito e Sociedade: as Estruturas e Funções da Lei no Direito Inglês

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (12) ◽  
pp. 99-122
Author(s):  
Maria Celeste Cordeiro Leite dos Santos ◽  
Marilene Araujo
Keyword(s):  
Common Law ◽  
Primary Objective ◽  
Political Society ◽  
Niklas Luhmann ◽  
First Semester ◽  
Legal Rules ◽  
Catholic University ◽  
Theory Of Law ◽  
Different Cultures

The article “Law and Society: the structures and functions of the Law in English Law”, is the result of teaching aimed at students of the Master’s Degree in Law at the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo, in the first semester of 2020 – Discipline General Theory of Law I – “Law, Power and Justice: the Hyper-cycle and the Legal Order”. Its primary objective is to understand how legal rules are made and used in Common Law in its similarities and distinctions from Civil Law. Civil society (societas civilis) is opposed to “natural society” (societas naturalis), being synonymous with “Political society” (in correspondence, respectively with the derivation of civitas and polis). The study of society as a social system, its structures and macro and micro functions in the legal subsystem (according to Niklas Luhmann) is current, predominant, and will be the object of this study in Chapter I. Chapter II, aims to investigate the sources and models Common Law. Chapter III, analyzes the Hypercycle of Law and makes conjectures about Common Law. Since law is a multifaceted phenomenon and difficult to define rigorously, due to its ambiguity and syntactic imprecision in its current use in different cultures, the methodology used was Aristotelian Topic, in the focus of zetetic investigation, with constant opening for constant questioning. The Conclusions and Bibliography follow.

scholarly journals Making Contact in an exhibition zone: Displaying contemporary cultural diversity in Donegal, Ireland, through an installation of visual and material portraits

2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-67 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harriet Purkis
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
Contact Zone ◽  
Main Argument ◽  
Art Installation ◽  
Communication Techniques ◽  
Different Cultures

The ‘museum as contact zone’ (Clifford 1997: 192) has been a concept that has theoretically framed the inclusion of different cultures in museums. The contact zone concept has been revisited, for example by Boast 2011. Further, the idea of the ‘dialogic contact zone’ (Witcomb 2003; Bennett 2006) is used in relation to exhibition communication techniques that aim to establish a dialogue on cultural diversity between visitors, exhibitions and curators. This paper sets out to reframe the contact zone concept, by considering both the nature and form of contact in an exhibition. The method used is the practical curation of one exhibition by the author in Ireland called Destination Donegal. The main argument is that a curatorial production focused on individual people can create an empathetic contact zone between individual subjects and visitors, achieved through the non-verbal display language of art installation using multimedia portraits.

scholarly journals Interkulturalni odgoj i obrazovanje kao čimbenik suživota u multikulturalnom društvu

2014 ◽  
Vol 9 (1.) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vesna Bedeković ◽  
Smiljana Zrilić
Keyword(s):  
Curriculum Design ◽  
Intercultural Competence ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Educational Systems ◽  
Multicultural Society ◽  
Mass Migration ◽  
Key Factor ◽  
European Values ◽  
Different Cultures

The meetings of different cultures in the modern world are taking place almost every moment in the various forms of communication. Development of attitudes towards culturally different people becomes a key factor in dealing with the inevitable changes caused by the transition of unique monocultures in the cultural pluralistic community. Mutual contacts of members of different cultures thereby imply the necessity of quality interrelations based on the idea of interculturalism that occurs as a possible solution for quality coexistence in a multicultural society. Faced with the consequences of mass migration at the global level, educational institutions become the meeting point of different cultures, resulting in a need of installing of intercultural principles in the educational systems of European countries. Intercultural education education, viewed in the the context of promoting European values and support the European dimension of education as the dominant guideline of educational policies in European countries, implies the need for a new approach to curriculum design while development of intercultural competence of teachers, as moderators of intercultural relations, is an important component of their lifelong learning adapted to the needs and requirements of modern multicultural society.

Is Information Ethics Culture-Relative?

2011 ◽  
pp. 259-272
Author(s):  
Philip Brey
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Intellectual Property Rights ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Information Ethics ◽  
Freedom Of Information ◽  
Cultural Relativity ◽  
Moral Claims ◽  
Different Cultures

In this chapter, I examine whether information ethics is culture relative. If it is, different approaches to information ethics are required in different cultures and societies. This would have major implications for the current, predominantly Western approach to information ethics. If it is not, there must be concepts and principles of information ethics that have universal validity. What would they be? The descriptive evidence is for the cultural relativity of information ethics will be studied by examining cultural differences between ethical attitudes towards privacy, freedom of information, and intellectual property rights in Western and non-Western cultures. I then analyze what the implications of these findings are for the metaethical question of whether moral claims must be justified differently in different cultures. Finally, I evaluate what the implications are for the practice of information ethics in a cross-cultural context.

Understanding the Communication Needs of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students Who Are Deafblind

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (12) ◽  
pp. 81-88
Author(s):  
Sandy K. Bowen ◽  
Silvia M. Correa-Torres
Keyword(s):  
Sign Language ◽  
Augmentative And Alternative Communication ◽  
Linguistically Diverse ◽  
Spoken Language ◽  
Culturally And Linguistically Diverse ◽  
Alternative Communication ◽  
Linguistically Diverse Students ◽  
The Past ◽  
Communication Needs ◽  
Different Cultures

America's population is more diverse than ever before. The prevalence of students who are culturally and/or linguistically diverse (CLD) has been steadily increasing over the past decade. The changes in America's demographics require teachers who provide services to students with deafblindness to have an increased awareness of different cultures and diversity in today's classrooms, particularly regarding communication choices. Children who are deafblind may use spoken language with appropriate amplification, sign language or modified sign language, and/or some form of augmentative and alternative communication (AAC).

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