Nepotism and Social Solidarity in Old Kingdom Correspondence: A Case Study on Facework and Discernment Politeness in P. Boulaq 8

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 ◽  
pp. 1-25
Author(s):  
M. Victoria Almansa-Villatoro
Keyword(s):  
Social Study ◽  
Ancient Egypt ◽  
Social Solidarity ◽  
Old Kingdom ◽  
Communicative Strategies ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Suitable Framework ◽  
High Degree

This article re-examines the Old Kingdom letter P. Boulaq 8 using the methodology of Facework and Discernment Politeness. It will be demonstrated that Facework, namely the analysis of communicative strategies used to redress face-threatening-acts, such as requests, can be successfully applied to the study of Old Kingdom letters and it is a suitable framework of explanation for unclear linguistic and content-related questions. The results show that the language of P. Boulaq 8 contains a high degree of community emphasis and solidary appeals to kin help. Discernment, or socially and culturally imposed communicative rules, regulates the choice of honorifics as replacement of address terms, and indexes expectations of reciprocal social service. Language is an unexplored tool for approaching the social study of the Old Kingdom, and it is argued that it can be used to confirm and enhance the current understanding of the individual and their role within the community in ancient Egypt.

scholarly journals A case study on the public knowledge and awareness of the Philippine Pangolin Manis culionensis (Mammalia: Pholidota: Manidae)

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (12) ◽  
pp. 14484-14489
Author(s):  
Frances Mae Tenorio ◽  
Joselito Baril
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Public Knowledge ◽  
High Demand ◽  
The Public ◽  
Illegal Market ◽  
Medicinal Value ◽  
The Social ◽  
High Degree

Pangolins are poorly known species despite their high demand in the illegal international trade.  This study has been conducted to analyze the awareness of Filipinos towards the endemic Philippine Pangolin Manis culionensis and how much they would be willing to contribute to its conservation.  The respondents were selected from the social media reach of the researchers.  The results showed that most of the respondents know about the pangolin from mass media such as news from television.  Social media is also a factor in their awareness of the animal.  They unanimously agreed that pangolins are important ecologically rather than its medicinal value in the illegal market trade.  Overall, the respondents showed a high degree of knowledge of pangolins and have favorable attitudes towards its conservation.

Sources of Stability and Instability in Rural Thai Society

1968 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 777-790 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven Piker
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
Complete Reduction ◽  
External Pressures ◽  
Stability And Instability ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Face ◽  
Social Arrangements ◽  
The Individual ◽  
High Degree ◽  
Social Level

Ongoing cultures, by virtue of the personalities they produce and the social arrangements they embody, create tensions or strains for their individual members; and they provide as well for the institutionalized expression and alleviation, if not complete reduction, of these tensions in culturally approved channels. In this view, cultural stability refers not to the absence of persisting conflict on the individual or social level; but rather to a high degree of complementarity between institutionalized sources of strain or conflict for the individual, and institutionalized arrangements for tension reduction or expression. This conception of stability does not assume that all relatively stable cultures are equally productive of psychological well-being, even assuming this nebulous condition could be specified. Nor does it assert that all stable cultures are equally adaptive in the face of external pressures. It does imply, however, that sources of conflict and channels for its expression will be sufficiently balanced to insure perpetuation of culturally standardized social arrangements and beliefs over many generations.

The Role of the Individual in ICT Standardisation

2015 ◽  
pp. 244-261
Author(s):  
Kai Jakobs
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Social Shaping Of Technology ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Shaping ◽  
Technical Factors ◽  
Standards Development ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Impact

This chapter discusses the influence individuals have in the ICT standards development process. The chapter draws upon ideas underlying the theory of the Social Shaping of Technology (SST). Looking through the SST lens, a number of non-technical factors that influence ICT standards development are identified. A literature review on the role of the individual in ICT standards setting and a case study of the IEEE 802.11 Working Group (WG) show that in a standards body's WG, the backgrounds, skills, attitudes, and behaviour of the individual WG members are crucially important factors. Yet, the case study also shows that in most cases employees tend to represent the ideas and goals of their respective employer. The chapter observes that the non-technical factors are ignored all too often in the literature. It argues that a better understanding of the impact and interplay of these factors, specifically including the skills and attitudes of the WG members, will have significant implications both theoretical and managerial.

Letters

2020 ◽  
pp. 1054-1071
Author(s):  
Deborah Sweeney
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
Computer Technology ◽  
Linguistic Analysis ◽  
Social Setting ◽  
Historical Events ◽  
Old Kingdom ◽  
Ancient Egyptian ◽  
Communicative Strategies ◽  
The Social ◽  
Special Cases

This article provides a chronological survey of ancient Egyptian letters from the Old Kingdom to the Coptic period, including discussions of writing materials, literary and model letters, the social setting of correspondence, and special cases such as letters to the gods and to the dead. Letters have often been studied for their content as sources for ancient Egyptian social history and historical events, or as a source for the Egyptian language. Socio-linguistic analysis enhances existing research by providing new insights into the correspondents’ communicative strategies, while computer technology now enables us to recover erased and faded texts.

The Quest for “Magnalux”

2011 ◽  
Vol 31 (6) ◽  
pp. 435-447 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin Gross
Keyword(s):  
Technological Innovation ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Social Study ◽  
Electronics Industry ◽  
Research Staff ◽  
The Social ◽  
Fundamental Research ◽  
Light Amplifier ◽  
Radio Corporation Of America

In September 1951, Radio Corporation of America chairman David Sarnoff celebrated his 45th year in the electronics industry by publicly challenging his research staff to develop three new technologies in time for his golden anniversary dinner 5 years later. This article considers the fate of one of these items, the “Magnalux” light amplifier, to explore how scientists, manufacturing personnel, and managers viewed the significance of fundamental research to technological innovation. Following a discussion of the content and context of Sarnoff’s request, the article focuses on the creation of two prototype light amplifiers to emphasize the contingency of technological success and failure and the centrality of commercial considerations in defining those categories. This case study reaffirms the value of historical methodologies to the social study of corporate science.

scholarly journals Persona and Rebellion in Trickster Narratives. Case Study: Fleabag (BBC 2016-2019)

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-42
Author(s):  
Helena Bassil-Morozow
Keyword(s):  
Social Structure ◽  
Social Rejection ◽  
Artificial Vision ◽  
Presentation Of Self ◽  
Moving Image ◽  
Television Shows ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Unrealistic Expectations

This paper brings together the concept of persona and the figure of the trickster to examine the dynamic between social norms and creative noncompliance, between the social mask and human authenticity, in moving image narratives. In particular, it looks at the female trickster challenging the female persona in recent television shows, primarily BBC’s Fleabag (2016-2019), using the previously outlined framework of trickster attributes (Bassil-Morozow 2012; Bassil-Morozow 2015). The concept of persona is examined using a combination of Erving Goffman’s presentation of self theory and Jung’s persona concept. It is argued that the female persona – the artificial vision of socially acceptable femininity – is a particularly rigid psycho-social structure, comprising repressive and unrealistic expectations for women’s looks, bodies, and conduct in public situations. Using the nameless protagonist of Fleabag as a case study, the paper shows how the female trickster can challenge these prescribed attributes and expectations while defying the individual-controlling techniques: shame, social embarrassment, social rejection and ostracism.

scholarly journals THE INFLUENCE OF SOCIAL SCIENCES ON THE PROFESSIONALIZATION OF SOCIAL WORK A CASE STUDY IN A TREATMENT TEAM WITH CONSUMERS OF PSYCHOACTIVE SUBSTANCES

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (9) ◽  
pp. 24-31
Author(s):  
Joana Brinca ◽  
Nídia Morais
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Treatment Team ◽  
Psychoactive Substances ◽  
Social Situations ◽  
Security Culture ◽  
Intervention Method ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Individual

Speaking in social services implies talking about the social concept, which is an indissociable social issue and social problems arising from industrialization, urbanization and proletarization.According to ander-egg (1995b, pp. 152-153) "by the influence of sociology [and other social sciences], the term" social came to be used with two meanings: a generic and broad, referring to the global society [and the collective characteristics of a particular population] (...); and another restricted, alluding to particular questions of sociological analyses, such as social structure, social change, stratification, mobility and social participation ", that is, the individual in and in society. In the decade of 60 the "social" integrated as a partner the economic issue and improvement of the quality of life/social welfare. It was within this logic of thought that was associated with the concept "social sectors" (1995b, pp. 152-153) such as: education, housing, health, social security, culture, politics, employment. In turn, in the decade of 70, there is a change in the current paradigm. We witnessed a progressive passage/attempt to pass a tripartite intervention method to an integrated intervention method. That is, the positivism applied to the social sciences is questioned giving place to the emergence of other more integrated and more flexible paradigms highlighting the importance and influence of the social sciences in the analysis of contextual variables of social situations/ problem presented, as can be seen by the case study on the professional practice of the social worker in a treatment team of portugal, with consumers of psychoactive substances, under the opioid substitution program.

Transient international groups (TIGs): exploring the group and development dimension of ELF

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marie-Luise Pitzl
Keyword(s):  
Language Contact ◽  
Social Dynamics ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Social Dimension ◽  
Speech Community ◽  
The Social ◽  
Diachronic Analysis ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Social Clusters

AbstractIn the past years, it has become generally accepted that the social dynamics of ELF cannot be captured by the notion of a speech community. Instead, the concept Community of Practice (CoP) has gained widespread currency in ELF research. While applications of the CoP framework have given rise to valuable insights, even ELF scholars who work with the concept often acknowledge its limitations. Since factors like situationality and ad hoc negotiation are seen as particularly important in ELF interactions, many ELF researchers have recently emphasized the transient and dynamic nature of the social clusters in which ELF communication typically takes place, especially in light of the multilingualism and language contact. This paper offers a first sketch of how the social dimension of ELF might on many occasions be conceptualized as involving Transient International Groups (TIGs) rather than more stable CoPs. Building on the idea that the Individual Multilingual Repertoires (IMRs) of ELF speakers make up a Multilingual Resource Pool (MRP) in each ELF interaction, the paper argues that ELF theory-building and descriptive work would benefit from exploring the group and the development dimension of ELF more thoroughly than has been done so far. In support, the paper provides a qualitative case study of a TIG in the leisure domain of VOICE. This case study illustrates how an in-depth micro-diachronic analysis of multilingual practices and instances of explicit reference to languages, countries, places, etc., can make visible the group’s development of shared translingual and transcultural territory.

scholarly journals Faktor Penentu Keputusan Konsumen dalam Mengkonsumsi Teh Celup Sariwangi (Studi Kasus pada Konsumen Tiara Dewata Group di Kota Denpasar)

2017 ◽  
pp. 543
Author(s):  
EVA YUNITA ◽  
I MADE SUDARMA ◽  
IDA AYU LISTIA DEWI
Keyword(s):  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Decisive Role ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
Social Variable ◽  
Consumer Decisions ◽  
The Social ◽  
Secondary Factor ◽  
Quantitative Analysis Method ◽  
The Individual

Determinants of Consumer Decisions in Consuming Sariwangi Dye Tea(Case Study on Tiara Dewata Consumer Group in Denpasar City) The consumers’ decision in purchasing Sariwangi tea bag products is affected byconsumer characteristics and marketing mix elements. These variables affect thebuying decision processes so as to produce a buying decision. This research wasconducted at supermarkets in Denpasar City with the aim to identify the factors thatplay a role in consumer decision to buy Sariwangi tea bags and analyze decisionprocesses of purchasing Sariwangi tea bags by consumers in Denpasar City. In thisresearch, the method used was descriptive-quantitative analysis method andqualitative-descriptive analysis. The results showed that all variables had a role to theconsumer's decision to consume Sariwangi tea, the variable that had the greatest roleto the secondary factor was the social variable with the communality value of17.29%, while the individual variable with the communality value of 10.49% had thelowest role to the consumer's decision to consume Sariwangi tea bags. Consideringthat the seven variables truly have a role to consumer decisions consuming Sariwangitea, then the producer should still pay attention to matters relating to these variables,especially social factors that have the most decisive role.

scholarly journals Structuration of Natural Resource-Based Innovations in Universities: How Do They Get Institutionalized?

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 1834
Author(s):  
Ridvan Cinar
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resource ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Single Case ◽  
Public University ◽  
Full Potential ◽  
Single Case Study ◽  
The Social ◽  
Internal And External Factors ◽  
High Degree

Natural resource-based innovations (NRBIs), especially through the valorization of waste and side streams, have recently become a significant element of the bioeconomy agenda in several countries across the world. Accordingly, a variety of institutions, including universities, have been expected to contribute to such innovations. While there have been serious efforts within universities to play a key role in NRBIs, questions of the extent of institutional continuity of these efforts over time and how this can be achieved remain unanswered in the literature. This paper, therefore, seeks to identify the determinants of a highly institutionalized structure that is supportive of NRBIs in universities. By mobilizing a literature in which the level of structuration is conceptualized as the degree of institutionalization and by using a single case study of a Portuguese public university, it was found that several internal and external factors have contributed to the institutionalization process, which has led to the emergence of a sedimented structure. Despite a high degree of institutionalization, several challenges that have either impeded the harnessing of the full potential of NRBIs or that have posed a threat to the university’s highly institutionalized structure were also found. The paper concludes that the institutionalization of NRBIs within universities not only requires orchestrated organizational efforts but also more consideration of the social, economic, and political dynamics that have recently engulfed universities.

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