The Age of Grief in the Time of Talk

2009 ◽  
Vol 14 (5) ◽  
pp. 259-271 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julie Brownlie
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Life Stage ◽  
Social Process ◽  
Mixed Methods Study ◽  
Cohort Effects ◽  
Historical Time ◽  
En Bloc ◽  
The Social ◽  
Local Contexts

Responding to Charles Tilly's call to map how individuals and groups encounter big structures or large processes, this article is concerned with experiences of one particular social process: the move towards emotional openess. Drawing on a mixed methods study of emotions talk, the article questions this ‘en bloc’ narrative of social change ‘in our own time’ (Tilly, 1984). In particular, through analysis of survey data, it highlights the life-stage and cohort effects shaping the experiences of those in their middle years, ‘the age of grief’; and through indepth analysis of qualitative interviews, it embeds these effects in particular local contexts and relationships and within a particular historical time, the time of talk. In doing so, it concludes that while Tilly is right to suggest stories about social change do social work, he underestimates the extent to which they also offer crucial insight in to the nature of the social, particularly through the reckoning of relationships and their emotional legacies.

scholarly journals KOMUNIKASI ISLAM DAN PERUBAHAN SOSIAL

TASAMUH ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-96
Author(s):  
Muhammad Zakaria Al Anshori
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Social Process ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Traditional Values ◽  
Cultural Economic ◽  
The People ◽  
The Social ◽  
Alternative Solutions

Social change is a social process experienced by members of society and all elements of culture and social systems, where all levels of people's lives are voluntary or influenced by external elements by abandoning the patterns of life, culture, and social systems long after adjust or use new patterns of life, culture, and social systems. With the existence of social change, of course, Islamic communication has challenges that must be passed and decomposed holistically, by finding and finding alternative solutions for the effectiveness and accuracy of contemporary Islamic communication. Among the concrete problems in the behaviour of social change, for example, modern society today abandons traditional values, has a hedonistic lifestyle and acts spree and so on. Therefore, Islamic communication must lead to handling real problems. This means that Islamic communication activities are efforts to solve or solve the problems of the life of the people and society in the socio-cultural, economic and political fields within the framework of modern society. The form of Islamic communication can be done formally in the activities of individuals in academia, social education institutions and da'wah institutions, and can also be done non-formally by individuals in the social life of the community.

scholarly journals DINAMIKA HUKUM ISLAM DAN PERUBAHAN SOSIAL

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Titin Samsudin
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Social Interaction ◽  
Islamic Law ◽  
Social Process ◽  
Social Community ◽  
Concrete Form ◽  
The Social ◽  
Way Of Thinking ◽  
The Way

Abstract The dynamism of Islamic law must have an effect on the process of social interaction. In vice versa, social status that absorbed through interaction between religion and society will have an implication to the social process. social change in society always demands changes in the law, so legal change can lead to social change. Sociologically, the society always changes. The change of a society can be influenced by the way of thinking and the value of existing in society. The more advanced the way of thinking of a society will be more open problematika that happened, The more problematic faced by society hence the settlement demand also getting harder. So it takes a serious effort in solving it. Thus the role of Islamic law in answering all issues that are increasingly growing in the social community is very urgent done. As an illustration and concrete and concrete form of the dynamic of Islamic law.  Abstrak Dinamisasi hukum Islam pastilah berpengaruh terhadap proses interaksi sosial. demikian pula sebaliknya status sosial yang terserap melalui interaksi antara agama dan masyarakat akan berimplikasi terhadap proses sosial. perubahan sosial dalam masyarakat selalu menuntut adanya perubahan hukum, demikian pula perubahan hukum dapat menimbulkan perubahan sosial. Secara sosiologis masyarakat senantiasa mengalami perubahan. Perubahan suatu masyarakat dapat dipengaruhi oleh polapikir dan tata nilai yang ada dalam masyarakat. Semakin maju cara berpikir suatu masyarakat maka akan semakin terbuka problematika yang terjadi, Semakin banyak problematika yang dihadapi oleh masyarakat maka tuntutan penyelesaiannya juga semakin berat. Sehingga membutuhkan upaya yang sungguh-sungguh dalam menyelesaikannya. Dengan demikian peranan hukum Islam dalam menjawab semua persoalan yang semakin hari semakin berkembang dalam sosial masyarakat sangatlah urgen dilakukan. Sebagai gambaran dan bentuk konkrit serta nyata dari dinamisnya hukum Islam.

scholarly journals Physical Distancing and Social Connectedness Among Older Adults

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 37-37
Author(s):  
Julie Lutz ◽  
Emily Bower ◽  
Ellen Beckwith ◽  
Julie Choi ◽  
Kim Van Orden
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Older Adults ◽  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Social Interactions ◽  
Social Connectedness ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Elevated Risk ◽  
Mixed Methods Study ◽  
Functional Impairments ◽  
The Social

Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly impacted older adults; due to elevated risk, many older adults have followed physical distancing guidelines. These efforts, while critical to public health, have also impacted the social interactions and connectedness of older adults. In this mixed-methods study, we conducted qualitative interviews and administered questionnaires to 23 adults age 60 and older to examine how physical distancing has affected their social connectedness; what strategies and supports they have utilized to maintain or improve social connectedness despite physical distancing; and what types of supports, programs, and interventions they feel could promote and foster social connectedness among older adults during physical distancing. The results may have implications not only for the pandemic, but also for older adults who cannot leave their homes or experience barriers to typical social activities for any reason (e.g., being homebound, having functional impairments).

scholarly journals Idade Cronológica: mera questão referencial no processo de envelhecimento

1999 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lúcia Regina Severo Duarte
Keyword(s):  
Old Age ◽  
Life Stage ◽  
Social Process ◽  
Regular Point ◽  
Biological Age ◽  
Chronological Age ◽  
The People ◽  
The Social ◽  
Evolution Of Aging ◽  
The Given

Resumo: O presente trabalho propõe uma breve revisão bibliográfica sobre alguns aspectos da velhice, tendo em vista que hoje em dia o tema terceira idade-senectude está se convertendo numa realidade social com a qual a cada dia mais vamos conviver. Destacamos alguns aspectos que consideramos relevantes como: evolução histórica da velhice, os mitos, a saúde/enfermidade e em especial a questão IDADE, não somente idade cronológica, do ponto de vista referencial, mas sim as idades dentro de um processo dinâmico; idade social, biológica e psicológica. Palavras-chave: Mitos. Idade cronológica. Idade social. Idade biológica. Idade psicológica. Abstract: In this research we propose a bibliographic review of the diferent aspects that make reference to old age. This subject is considered very important because it is a social reality that sometimes is relegated to a lower level. During the research we face a sort historicak evolution of aging with its myths and stereotypes. If we talk about aging its worth making reference to the concepts of health/illness. We will find as a first question the ideas about “health” and “illnes” like opposite phenomena. However, the problem is not that simple. Later on, we will arrive to our principal objetive in wich we will make reference to old age as a differential process and not as a life stage. It is impossible that the majority of the people would generalize but, we will be always in frot of differential and social process that has permittes to enhance a sort of characteristics that make easy its comprehencion; where the given value to the chronological age is just use as a regular point of reference. We will continue with a study of ages: the social age, the biological age and the psychological age, each on with own advantages and its own limits; they are still complementary being the origin of dynamic process. Keywords: Myths. Chronological age. Social age. Biological age. Psychological age.

Mediatization from Within: A Plea for Emic Approaches to Media-Related Social Change

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
André Jansson ◽  
Stina Bengtsson ◽  
Karin Fast ◽  
Johan Lindell
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Representative Survey ◽  
Research Strategies ◽  
The Social ◽  
Objective Structures ◽  
Over Time

Abstract Based on a literature review, this article shows that current mediatization scholarship is characterized by what Pike (1967) refers to as etic accounts. These accounts forward theoretical categories on media-related social change to conclude that our age is characterized by deepened and expanded media reliance. However, such theoretical extrapolation takes place not from, but at the expense of, people’s lived experiences, that is, emic accounts of mediatization in everyday life. This article is an attempt to insert the etic/emic distinction to mediatization research in order to develop more reflexive and composite accounts. Drawing on examples from a representative survey and qualitative interviews conducted over twenty years, the article problematizes etic-oriented conceptions of mediatization. Emic analyses expose how perceptions of media reliance shift over time and thus underscore the need to develop research strategies that simultaneously consider the objective structures of the social (mediatized) world and subjective meaning-making structures.

Conclusion

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan Winter
Keyword(s):  
Middle Eastern ◽  
Rich Diversity ◽  
The Social ◽  
Local Contexts ◽  
History Of ◽  
Religious Oppression ◽  
The Rich ◽  
To Come

This concluding chapter summarizes key themes and presents some final thoughts. The book has shown that the multiplicity of lived ʻAlawi experiences cannot be reduced to the sole question of religion or framed within a monolithic narrative of persecution; that the very attempt to outline a single coherent history of “the ʻAlawis” may indeed be misguided. The sources on which this study has drawn are considerably more accessible, and the social and administrative realities they reflect consistently more mundane and disjointed, than the discourse of the ʻAlawis' supposed exceptionalism would lead one to believe. Therefore, the challenge for historians of ʻAlawi society in Syria and elsewhere is not to use the specific events and structures these sources detail to merely add to the already existing metanarratives of religious oppression, Ottoman misrule, and national resistance but rather to come to a newer and more intricate understanding of that community, and its place in wider Middle Eastern society, by investigating the lives of individual ʻAlawi (and other) actors within the rich diversity of local contexts these sources reveal.

Ralph Ellison, Temporal Technologist

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Germana
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Friedrich Nietzsche ◽  
Gilles Deleuze ◽  
Ralph Ellison ◽  
Racial Formation ◽  
Henri Bergson ◽  
Dynamic Processes ◽  
The Social ◽  
Racial History ◽  
The Face

Ralph Ellison, Temporal Technologist examines Ralph Ellison’s body of work as an extended and ever-evolving expression of the author’s philosophy of temporality—a philosophy synthesized from the writings of Henri Bergson and Friedrich Nietzsche that anticipates the work of Gilles Deleuze. Taking the view that time is a multiplicity of dynamic processes, rather than a static container for the events of our lives, and an integral force of becoming, rather than a linear groove in which events take place, Ellison articulates a theory of temporality and social change throughout his corpus that flies in the face of all forms of linear causality and historical determinism. Integral to this theory is Ellison’s observation that the social, cultural, and legal processes constitutive of racial formation are embedded in static temporalities reiterated by historians and sociologists. In other words, Ellison’s critique of US racial history is, at bottom, a matter of time. This book reveals how, in his fiction, criticism, and photography, Ellison reclaims technologies through which static time and linear history are formalized in order to reveal intensities implicit in the present that, if actualized, could help us achieve Nietzsche’s goal of acting un-historically. The result is a wholesale reinterpretation of Ellison’s oeuvre, as well as an extension of Ellison’s ideas about the dynamism of becoming and the open-endedness of the future. It, like Ellison’s texts, affirms the chaos of possibility lurking beneath the patterns of living we mistake for enduring certainties.

Introduction

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan E. Whyman
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Political Participation ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Economic Change ◽  
History Of The Book ◽  
Formal Schooling ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
Literate Society

The introduction shows the convergence and intertwining of the Industrial Revolution and the provincial Enlightenment. At the centre of this industrial universe lay Birmingham; and at its centre was Hutton. England’s second city is described in the mid-eighteenth century, and Hutton is used as a lens to explore the book’s themes: the importance of a literate society shared by non-elites; the social category of ‘rough diamonds’; how individuals responded to economic change; political participation in industrial towns; shifts in the modes of authorship; and an analysis of social change. The strategy of using microhistory, biography, and the history of the book is discussed, and exciting new sources are introduced. The discovery that self-education allowed unschooled people to participate in literate society renders visible people who were assumed to be illiterate. This suggests that eighteenth-century literacy was greater than statistics based on formal schooling indicate.

Archaeology and the Letters of Paul

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Salah Nasrallah
Keyword(s):  
Judith Butler ◽  
First Century ◽  
Giorgio Agamben ◽  
Apostle Paul ◽  
The Social ◽  
Local Contexts ◽  
Archaeological Materials ◽  
Feminist Historiography ◽  
The Many ◽  
Political Economic

Through case studies of archaeological materials from local contexts, Archaeology and the Letters of Paul illuminates the social, political, economic, and religious lives of those whom the apostle Paul addressed. Roman Ephesos, a likely setting for the household of Philemon, provides evidence of the slave trade. An inscription from Galatia seeks to restrain traveling Roman officials, illuminating how the travels of Paul, Cephas, and others may have disrupted communities. At Philippi, a donation list from a Silvanus cult provides evidence of abundant giving amid economic limitations, paralleling practices of local Christ followers. In Corinth, a landscape of grief includes monuments and bones, a context that illumines Corinthian practices of baptism on behalf of the dead and the provocative idea that one could live “as if not” mourning. Rome and the Letter to the Romans are the grounds to investigate ideas of time and race not only in the first century, when we find an Egyptian obelisk inserted as a timepiece into Augustus’s mausoleum complex, but also of Mussolini’s new Rome. Thessalonikē demonstrates how letters, legend, and cult are invented out of a love for Paul, after his death. The book articulates a method for bringing together biblical texts with archaeological remains in order to reconstruct the lives of the many adelphoi—brothers and sisters—whom Paul and his co-writers address. It is informed by feminist historiography and gains inspiration from thinkers like Claudia Rankine, Judith Butler, Giorgio Agamben, Wendy Brown, and Katie Lofton.

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