scholarly journals SEREIAS DISTÓPICAS. UM ENSAIO SOBRE A RELEVÂNCIA DA DISTOPIA NAS CRIAÇÕES ARTÍSTICAS CONTEMPORÂNEAS PORTUGUESAS / Dystopian mermaids: an essay on the relevance of dystopia in contemporary Portuguese artistic creations

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (40) ◽  
pp. 393-407
Author(s):  
Paula Guerra
Keyword(s):  
Social Problems ◽  
Social Intervention ◽  
Heuristic Principle ◽  
The Moment

No seu ensaio intitulado Amanhã chegam as águas (2005), Rui Zink declara que o “mar avança, alagando territórios da Europa, onde já não há países. As decisões são tomadas pela Nova Bruxelas”. Portugal é - no momento da narração - apenas uma estreita “fímbria de terra”. Ora, inspirados por esta incisão distópica, iremos abordar as canções integrantes do álbum cognominado O país a arder lançado em 2019 pela banda Sereias. Ao trabalho que aqui apresentamos esteve subjacente uma finalidade assente num princípio heurístico primordial: o de demonstrar de que forma as manifestações artísticas – neste caso, em particular, estas canções – constituem, elas próprias, matéria e objeto de intervenção social, demarcando um espaço próprio, definido e específico na revelação de problemáticas sociais e na reprodução dos problemas que atravessam a realidade social.Palavras-Chave: Canção; Identidades; Distopia; Pop-rock; Portugal.AbstractIn his essay entitled Tomorrow the waters arrive (2005), Rui Zink declares that the “sea advances, flooding territories in Europe, where there are no countries anymore. Decisions are made by New Brussels”. Portugal is - at the moment of the narration - just a narrow “land border”. Now, inspired by this dystopian incision, we will approach the songs that are part of the album known as O País a arder (The country on fire) released in 2019 by the band Sereias. The work presented here was based on a primordial heuristic principle: to demonstrate how artistic manifestations - in this case, in particular, these songs - constitute themselves, matter and object of social intervention, demarcating their own space, defined in the revelation of social problems and in the reproduction of the problems that cross social reality.Keywords: Song; Identities; Dystopia; Pop-rock; Portugal.

The Song Is Still a ‘Weapon’: The Portuguese Identity in Times of Crises

Young ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-31
Author(s):  
Paula Guerra
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Popular Music ◽  
Collective Identity ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Social Reality ◽  
Social Intervention ◽  
Heuristic Principle

This article examines a set of Portuguese songs that ‘sing’ the economic, financial and social crises in Portugal in the post-2008 period. This work underlies a heuristic principle: to demonstrate how artistic manifestations—in this case, the songs in several (sub-)genres of popular music—are themselves a means and an object of social intervention, demarcating a specific, defined space in the acknowledgment and revelation of social problems, and in the contestation, deconstruction and accusation of problems that deal with social reality. We demonstrate that these songs seek to denounce and sometimes incite social change with the aim of creating transformation. They are therefore signs of a specific space—identity producers—and not just an echo of social reality. Insurgent songs instigate readings, narratives and deconstructions of reality, and they are simultaneously significant elements of a collective identity.

scholarly journals The Impacts of Socioeconomic Crisis in Portugal on Social Protection and Social Work Practices

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (23) ◽  
pp. 13198
Author(s):  
Inês Casquilho-Martins
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Social Inequalities ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Fundamental Rights ◽  
Social Intervention ◽  
Vulnerable Groups ◽  
Structured Interviews

The effects of the international crisis brought economic and financial risks, as well as consequences for human, social and sustainable development. This study aims to analyse the effects of social intervention with families since the 2008 crisis in Portugal. Through a qualitative approach, we conducted semi-structured interviews with social workers (23), to identify the main impacts of the crisis and the adopted social intervention practices. We highlight a new increase in social problems and the growth of vulnerable groups facing an unprepared social protection system. The Portuguese case reveals that the effects of austerity have shown a decline in the welfare and benefits system, leading to worsened social problems, such as increased poverty and unemployment, as well as social inequalities. Social Work was required to respond to these consequences, although organisational contexts and austerity measures constrained practitioners’ autonomy. By reflecting on this critical period, we seek to contribute to better social protection and assistance models in the face of the current and future crisis. In this sense, Social Work practice ensures a means to guarantee fundamental rights and social justice, preparing social workers and social intervention for new challenges in crisis contexts.

Site Unseen

Site Reading ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 149-156
Author(s):  
David J. Alworth
Keyword(s):  
Social Order ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Climate Model ◽  
Thought Experiment ◽  
Narrative Form ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The Road ◽  
Sociological Thought ◽  
The Moment ◽  
A Site

This chapter argues that to perform a site reading of Cormac McCarthy's The Road is to appreciate how the text functions as a novel of purpose that aims to vivify the planet as what Latour would call a “matter of concern.” Still, The Road reads less as a critique of contemporary social problems than as a “thought-experiment,” a sort of literary climate model, forecasting a chillingly plausible correlation between a ruined site and a grisly social order. By imagining this correlation through narrative form, McCarthy offers his own striking contribution to environmental and sociological thought, a contribution that starts to become apparent the moment we ask how his setting functions as an actant, both in the novel itself and beyond.

scholarly journals Risks associated with the ethical aspects of conducting clinical trials

2020 ◽  
pp. 61-68
Author(s):  
A. L. Khokhlov ◽  
E. A. Polozova ◽  
V. A. Komissarova ◽  
N. V. Chudova ◽  
L. G. Tsyzman
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Trials ◽  
Clinical Research ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Reliable Data ◽  
New Drugs ◽  
Ethical Aspects ◽  
Ethical Justification ◽  
Conducting Research ◽  
The Moment ◽  
New Research

Conducting of clinical trials is closely associated with the ethical justification, with ensuring the rights and safety of the subjects participating in them. Only through trials, it becomes possible to obtain reliable data for the inclusion of new drugs in practice, which are designed to save millions of lives. In the constantly developing field of clinical research, science does not stand still and it becomes necessary to conduct more and more new research: pediatric, geriatric, biomedical products and research involving acute social problems, and of course they all involve certain risks during their implementation. The question of the ethics of conducting research in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic is very relevant at the moment, when it is necessary to make quick decisions in the interests of all mankind, assessing all possible risks that they may entail.

Soziale Aspekte des Leidens

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roland Mierzwa
Keyword(s):  
Mortality Rate ◽  
Medical Ethics ◽  
Social Exclusion ◽  
High Mortality ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Social Ethics ◽  
Psychological Therapy ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Soziale Aspekte

Several unresolved social and political challenges have engendered suffering and illness. Social problems have become an issue in medical ethics. Medication is being prescribed or psychological therapy recommended in cases where sociopolitical intervention is necessary. What we are dealing with is a high mortality rate as a consequence of social exclusion and discrimination plus an imperial way of life. This book explains the phenomenology of suffering as the foundations of empathetic ethics and reveals ways for social ethics to intervene to prevent illness, suffering and death on a huge scale, which are needed particularly urgently at the moment as a result of the coronavirus crisis. The book also highlights courses of action that Christians and their milieus can take in this respect.

scholarly journals Empowerment Community: Pembentukan Komunitas Peduli Lingkungan Sebagai Upaya Peningkatan Kesadaran Bencana & Kesehatan Pada Warga Bantar Kali Di Kampung Payung Kertas, Malang

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 159-181
Author(s):  
Lusy Asa Akhrani ◽  
◽  
Ika Herani ◽  
Alfrina Hany ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Community Service ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Social Intervention ◽  
Environmentally Conscious ◽  
Environmental Care ◽  
Three Stages ◽  
Awareness Raising ◽  
Preliminary Research ◽  
Care Behavior ◽  
Active Citizen

Payung Kertas Village located at Pandanwangi Village, on the bank of the Bango river. The preliminary research showed that the environmental care behavior of residents of the riverbank area is to be low considering. Many residents choose to throw garbage directly in the river, construction residential houses in the Kali Sari watershed, and several indicator of the lack of environmental awareness of watershed residents. Awareness-raising will be easier to do when activities are started, designed, and carried out by communities with social problems. The aims of this community service is to empower communities to solve social problems. The formation of environmentally conscious communities is carried out through a tiered process by encouraging active citizen involvement. The method used in the fomation rof environmental care communities is carried out with a social intervention approach that utilizes action research. Social change is carried out by emphasizing three stages namely the planning, implementation, and evaluation stages. As a result of this community service, a community caring for the environment was formed with the first movement in the form of sorting waste from inside the house, synergizing with waste transport officers, and periodically monitoring and evaluating the implementation of the environmental care movement.

LITERARY BOGEMIA IN RUSSIA AND IN THE USSR. REVOLUTION AND BOHEMIA

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-77
Author(s):  
O. M. Kirillina ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Problems ◽  
Art Market ◽  
Socialist Realism ◽  
The State ◽  
Art World ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Acceptable Method ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Moment

Bohemia arose in opposition to the values and to the way of life of bourgeoisie at the moment when bourgeoisie became the largest customer in the art market. In Russia bohemia was more respectable, far from social problems and less revolutionary than in Europe, that is why representatives of the Russian avant-garde did not feel very comfortable in the restrictive bohemian environment. In the first years after the Revolution, the intense struggle of various art groups stimulated creative search and bohemia could find quite a comfortable niche. However the abolition of all art groups except the Union of Soviet Writers as well as the approval of the only acceptable method, socialist realism, in the early 30s eliminated the existence of such a free and asocial community as bohemia. Many poets and writers were repressed. These were not only critics of the government, but also totally apolitical or too revolutionary nonconformists, such as members of the OBERIU. Writers were destroyed not only by the state, but also by the deep disappointment due to the return of the spirit of Academism, Philistinism and bureaucratization, which penetrated the art world. At the same time loyal poets and writers generously endowed by the state turned into an elite.

ON THE THERMODYNAMIC FORMALISM FOR MULTIFRACTAL FUNCTIONS

1994 ◽  
Vol 06 (05a) ◽  
pp. 1033-1070 ◽  
Author(s):  
INGRID DAUBECHIES ◽  
JEFFREY C. LAGARIAS
Keyword(s):  
Hausdorff Dimension ◽  
Power Law ◽  
Thermodynamic Formalism ◽  
Legendre Transform ◽  
Scaling Exponent ◽  
Singularity Spectrum ◽  
Hölder Exponent ◽  
Refinement Equations ◽  
Heuristic Principle ◽  
The Moment

The thermodynamic formalism for "multifractal" functions φ(x) is a heuristic principle that states that the singularity spectrum f(α) (defined as the Hausdorff dimension of the set Sα of points where φ has Hölder exponent α) and the moment scaling exponent τ(q) (giving the power law behavior of ∫ |φ(x + t) – φ (x)|q dx for small |t|) should be related by the Legendre transform, [Formula: see text]. The range of validity of this heuristic principle is unknown. Here this principle is rigorously verified for a family of "toy examples" that are solutions of refinement equations. These example functions exhibit oscillations on all scales, and correspond to multifractal signed measures rather than multifractal measures; moreover, their singularity spectra f(α) are not concave.

scholarly journals Football for Inclusion: Examining the Pedagogic Rationalities and the Technologies of Solidarity of a Sports-Based Intervention in Sweden

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 232-240 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Ekholm ◽  
Magnus Dahlstedt
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Social Solidarity ◽  
Social Intervention ◽  
The Social ◽  
Problems And Solutions ◽  
Cultural Skills ◽  
The City ◽  
Social Collective

Sports practices have been emphasised in social policy as a means of responding to social problems. In this article we analyse a sports-based social intervention performed in a “socially vulnerable” area in Sweden. We examine the formation of includable citizens in this project, based on interviews with representatives involved in the project. The material is analysed from a governmentality perspective, focusing on how problems and solutions are constructed as being constitutive of each other. The focus of the analysis is on social solidarity and inclusion as contemporary challenges, and how sport, specifically football, is highlighted as a way of creating social solidarity through a pedagogic rationality—football as a means of fostering citizens according to specific ideals of solidarity and inclusion. The formation of solidarity appears not as a mutual process whereby an integrated social collective is created, but rather as a process whereby those affected by exclusion are given the opportunity to individually adapt to a set of Swedish norms, and to linguistic and cultural skills, as a means of reaching the “inside”. Inclusion seems to be possible as long as the “excluded” adapt to the “inside”, which is made possible by the sports-based pedagogy. In conclusion, social problems and social tensions are spatially located in “the Area” of “the City”, whose social policy, of which this sports-based intervention is a part, maintains rather than reforms the social order that creates these very tensions.

From Illustration to Social Intervention: Three Nineteenth-century | Xam Myths and their Implications for Understanding San Rock Art

2013 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 241-262 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.D. Lewis-Williams
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Social Role ◽  
Rock Art ◽  
Social Intervention ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Moment ◽  
The Relationship

This article addresses the relationship between southern African San myth and rock art. Three nineteenth-century | Xam San narratives, recorded verbatim, are shown to contain specifiable entities of meaning, here dubbed ‘nuggets’, that are easily misunderstood or missed entirely. Each performance of a myth developed or abbreviated the significances of these ‘nuggets’ as the narrator tailored the story to suit the social, political and economic circumstances of the moment. Similarly, San rock art contains painted ‘nuggets’ that, for the San, situated the panels in one way or another at the interface between existential realms. Each in its own way, certain tales and images both played a social role by emphasizing the functions of ritual specialists who were believed to move between realms as they healed the community of physical, economic and social ills, especially tension between affines.

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