The purpose of the article is to compare worldview, philosophical and scientific approaches to the definition of the concepts of celebration and event. To suggest your own definition of the event. ...Methodology. The author uses general scientific research methods (analysis, synthesis, systematization, comparison, opposition, description, specification). The article also based on semantic, functional research methods. The scientific novelty. The concept of down" is the closest in meaning to the event In the socio-cultural context, since it has the organizational aspect (the stage of preparation, conduct) that dominates the event. Conclusions. An event is a set of steps/actions aimed at creating family, corporate or official mass meetings. It has always been aimed at the development and implementation of a service.
The purpose of the article is to carry out the reception of M. Weber's concept in the genesis context of the cultural researches field. The methodology of the research consists of using analysis, ...synthesis, comparison, generalization, as well as hermeneutical and historical approaches. Scientific novelty. Defining the role of the theoretical M. Weber's heritage and the attempt to classify the concepts of Weberianism in the context of the transformation of the cultural researches field. Conclusions. The article analyses the historical context of the German Humanities at the transition from the 19th century to the 20th century as a background of Weber's interest in the cultural sciences and his focus on methodological individualism in the differentiation logic of the social and the cultural. A classification of the basic representative’s works of Weberian studies (M. McKinon, F. Reis, W. Schlützer) and Weberianism (M. Walzer, J. Pitts), who studied and developed M. Weber's ideas about cultural understanding, is provided. In particular, the meaning and basic interpreting strategies of the Modern particularity and the role of his version of cultural autonomy are explained.
Interview with an Egyptian historian, Dr. Ahmed Zakaria al-Shalaq, about the situation of Egypt under the occupation of the Ottoman Empire, its negative im-pact on the civilizational development of ...the country and about modernization initi-ated by the Muhammad Ali dynasty. The scholar emphasizes the importance of culture created in the period of monarchy until the outbreak of 1952 Revolution for revival of Egypt. He argues that its identity is a product of various cultural influences and should not be appropriated by anyone.
The paper discusses the phenomenon of Americanization of European universities in a historical perspective, referring to the critical comparison of higher education in Germany and the United States, ...conceived by Max Weber after the experience of his stay at American universities in 1904. In accordance with the subject and goal, the paper is divided into several thematic units that include the historical context of European university development, defining the research question, the historical and theoretical context (his trip to the International Congress of Arts and Sciences in St. Louis and defining two of Weber's key theoretical concepts (rationalization and bureaucratization) which are necessary for understanding his analysis of higher education), consideration of Weber's most important work on this topic (Wissenschaft als Beruf), and presentation of the conclusions of our analysis. The paper provides an overview of Weber's comparison of two university models: (a) the American model, which he sees as market-oriented, democratized and meritocratic, and (b) the German model, which he sees as critical, holistic and humanistic. Despite the prevailing opinion in modern Weberology that Weber was an apologist of the way in which American higher education works, in this paper we try to show that Weber in his deliberations offered a far more balanced view of the situation at universities in the two countries (United States and Germany), and that he managed to show different aspects, i.e. the advantages and disadvantages of these two, in many respects different, models of higher education and academic communities derived from them. Although the paper deals with a part of Max Weber's legacy and in that sense with a discussion that is part of the history of sociological ideas, the basic ideas that Weber argues in it have not lost their relevance in contemporary discussions on higher education reform in Europe.
Pop culture has its significant place in education. It is also a space within which social processes take place and experiences, beliefs and cultural archetypes are presented and discussed. This text ...is a kind of revisiting of thoughts collected during workshops for young people focusing on various creative processes, particularly writing texts, expression through words and body, introducing elements of theatrical exercises, discussions of popular culture and everyday experiences of workshop participants. The purpose of the text is not just to offer conclusions and reflections after conducting such workshops, but also to critically look at processes like socialization, education and upbringing.
A burgeoning literature spanning sociologies of culture and social network methods has for the past several decades sought to explicate the relationships between culture and connectivity. A number of ...promising recent moves toward integration are worthy of review, comparison, critique, and synthesis. Network thinking provides powerful techniques for specifying cultural concepts ranging from narrative networks to classification systems, tastes, and cultural repertoires. At the same time, we see theoretical advances by sociologists of culture as providing a corrective to network analysis as it is often portrayed, as a mere collection of methods. Cultural thinking complements and sets a new agenda for moving beyond predominant forms of structural analysis that ignore action, agency, and intersubjective meaning. The notion of "cultural holes" that we use to organize our review points both to the cultural contingency of network structure and to the increasingly permeable boundary between studies of culture and research on social networks.
Incivility in public discussions has received increasing attention from academic and popular commentators in recent years. In an effort to better understand the nature and determinants of such ...incivility, this study examined a 3‐week census of articles and comments posted to a local newspaper's website—totaling more than 300 articles and 6,400 comments. The results of the content analysis show that incivility occurs frequently and is associated with key contextual factors, such as the topic of the article and the sources quoted within the article. We also find that, contrary to popular perceptions, frequent commenters are more civil than are infrequent commenters, and uncivil commenters are no less likely than civil commenters to use evidence in support of their claims.
New Keywords: Migration and Borders Casas-Cortes, Maribel; Cobarrubias, Sebastian; De Genova, Nicholas ...
Cultural studies (London, England),
01/2015, Volume:
29, Issue:
1
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
Open access
"New Keywords: Migration and Borders" is a collaborative writing project aimed at developing a nexus of terms and concepts that fill-out the contemporary problematic of migration. It moves beyond ...traditional and critical migration studies by building on cultural studies and post-colonial analyses, and by drawing on a diverse set of longstanding author engagements with migrant movements. The paper is organized in four parts (i) Introduction, (ii) Migration, Knowledge, Politics, (iii) Bordering, and (iv) Migrant Space/Times. The keywords on which we focus are: Migration/Migration Studies; Militant Investigation; Counter-mapping; Border Spectacle; Border Regime; Politics of Protection; Externalization; Migrant Labour; Differential inclusion/exclusion; Migrant struggles; and Subjectivity.
In this theoretical article, we introduce the Differential Susceptibility to Media Effects Model (DSMM), a new, integrative model to improve our understanding of media effects. The DSMM organizes, ...integrates, and extends the insights developed in earlier microlevel media‐effects theories. It distinguishes 3 types of susceptibility to media effects: dispositional, developmental, and social susceptibility. Using the analogy of a mixing console, the DSMM proposes 3 media response states that mediate media effects: cognitive, emotional, and excitative. The assumptions on which the DSMM is based together explain (a) why some individuals are more highly susceptible to media effects than others, (b) how and why media influence those individuals, and (c) how media effects can be enhanced or counteracted.
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