Civic Competence in the Logic of Openness: A Phenomenological Approach

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 66-79
Author(s):  
Igor V. Gibelev
Keyword(s):  
New Technologies ◽  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Subject Knowledge ◽  
Pedagogical Design ◽  
The Social ◽  
Phenomenological Perspective ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Civic Mindedness

The article offers a phenomenological view on civic competency, openness of education, and values as type of competencies. The need for such a comparison is dictated by the discrepancy between the humanistic meanings of education and the social reality in which they are supposed to be implemented. It is assumed that a phenomenological perspective can present civic competency as a borderline connecting both the areas. This study is methodically supported by explication of the philosophical (transcendental-phenomenological) logic of the concept of openness.The appeal to openness, which is the essence of human subjectivity (autonomy), clarifies the substantive character of civic competency structure.Firstly, the study underlines the connection between openness and universalism as cultural principle (that is, in culture and through culture) of self-determination of the mind, constituting civic mindedness as a universal moral and legal modus of subjectivity. Bringing the civic idea to the competency range is the own task of education, which can be accomplished only in continuous actualization of the concept of openness.Secondly, the article proposes to consider the concept of value in the meaning of “type of competencies” according to the Council of Europe’s “Reference Framework of Competence for Democratic Culture” as a tool for crystallizing the self-determining mind into civic competency. Attention to this document is drawn by the coherence of openness and universalism with educational policies and practices, which is formalized in the pedagogical design of values as a type of competence. The study’s argumentation confirms this connection and ascertains that an open edu­cational system is defined in its essence not by a set of accessible educational environment technologies, but by the depth of its rooting in the logic of openness.Thirdly, the actualization of values as a type of competence in the logic of openness provides an opportunity for phenomenological designing of pedagogical technologies. The essential idea of this approach is that civic competency can be constituted as a semantic determination of different types of subject knowledge and, through their correction, can transform broad social contexts. As an example of that sort of transformative participation, the article presents the values’ influence on the strengthening of human capital in aggregation of new technologies and inequality.

Embodiment of emotion and its situated nature

2018 ◽  
pp. 528-552
Author(s):  
Evan W. Carr ◽  
Anne Kever ◽  
Piotr Winkielman
Keyword(s):  
Social Contexts ◽  
Cognitive Networks ◽  
Grounded Cognition ◽  
Affective Processing ◽  
Emotional Information ◽  
Situational Cues ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Emotional Concepts ◽  
Emotion Concepts

Social functioning requires emotion. We must be able to recognize, interpret, and generate emotions across a variety of social contexts. But how are emotions conceptually represented in the mind? Embodiment (or grounded cognition) theories propose that processing of emotional concepts is partly based in one’s own perceptual, motor, and somatosensory systems. We review evidence for this account across a variety of domains, including facial expression perception, interpretation of emotional language, somatic involvement in affective processing, and “mirroring” of others’ actions. We also contrast embodiment theories with more traditional “amodal” frameworks, which represent emotional information as abstract language-like symbols in cognitive networks. Overall, we argue that a comprehensive account of emotion concepts requires considering their embodiment. Simultaneously, we highlight that embodiment is flexible and dynamic, especially within the social environment. This means that when and how emotion concepts are embodied critically depends on situational cues and current representational needs.

scholarly journals Social representations and ideology: Theories of common sense about COVID-19 among middle-class Brazilians and their ideological implications

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 105-122
Author(s):  
Luiz Gustavo Silva Souza ◽  
Emma O’Dwyer ◽  
Sabrine Mantuan dos Santos Coutinho ◽  
Sharmistha Chaudhuri ◽  
Laila Lilargem Rocha ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Common Sense ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Social Representations ◽  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
Social Psychological ◽  
Psychological Analysis ◽  
Related Risk ◽  
The Social

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected the lives of billions of people worldwide. Individuals and groups were compelled to construct theories of common sense about the disease to communicate and guide practices. The theory of social representations provides powerful concepts to analyse the psychosocial construction of COVID-19. This study aimed to understand the social representations of COVID-19 constructed by middle-class Brazilian adults and their ideological implications, providing a social-psychological analysis of these phenomena while the pandemic is still ongoing. We adopted a qualitative approach based on semi-structured in-depth interviews conducted online in April-May 2020. Participants were 13 middle-class Brazilians living in urban areas. We analysed the interviews with thematic analysis and a phenomenological approach. The social representations were organised around three themes: 1) a virus originated in human actions and with anthropocentric meanings (e.g., a punishment for the human-led destruction of the environment); 2) a dramatic disease that attacks the lungs and kills people perceived to have “low immunity”; and 3) a disturbing pandemic that was also conceived as a correction event with positive consequences. The social representations included beliefs about the individualistic determination of immunity, the attribution of divine causes to the pandemic, and the need for the moral reformation of humankind. The discussion highlights the ideological implications of these theories of common sense. Socially underprivileged groups are at greater COVID-19-related risk, which the investigated social representations may contribute to conceal and naturalise.

Metaphors of Inscription: Discipline, Plasticity and the Rhetoric of Choice

1998 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pippa Brush
Keyword(s):  
Cosmetic Surgery ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
The Body ◽  
Recent Theory ◽  
Male Body ◽  
Cultural Meanings ◽  
The Social ◽  
Cultural Standards ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Economic Constraints

The metaphor of inscription on the body and the constitution of the body through those inscriptions have been widely used in recent attempts to theorize the body. Michel Foucault calls the body the ‘inscribed surface of events’ (Foucault, 1984: 83) and Elizabeth Grosz argues that the ‘female (or male) body can no longer be regarded as a fixed, concrete substance, a pre-cultural given. It has a determinate form only by being socially inscribed’ (Grosz, 1987: 2). The body becomes plastic, inscribed with gender and cultural standards. While Foucault assumes the existence of a pre-inscriptive body, many theorists reject that idea and argue that ‘there is no recourse to a body that has not always already been interpreted by cultural meanings’ (Butler, 1990: 8). The constitution of the body rests in its inscription; the body becomes the text which is written upon it and from which it is indistinguishable. Starting from Catherine Belsey's suggestion that to ‘give the metaphor literal significance … is to … isolate it for contemplation’ (Belsey, 1988: 100), I discuss this metaphor of inscription, using cosmetic surgery as one literal example. While some theorists reject the pre-inscriptive body, the popular discourses advocating changing one's body assume unproblematically the existence of a body prior to these ‘elective’ procedures and reinforce the mind/body dualism which recent theory has sought so insistently to reject. I examine how popular discourses of body modification enforce a disciplinary regime (in Foucault's sense) and impose degrees of both literal and figurative inscription. Juxtaposing these two perspectives, I explore how both discourses efface the materiality of the body and the social contexts within which bodies are experienced and constructed. While the rhetoric surrounding cosmetic surgery denies the physical process and the economic constraints, so theories of the body which stress the body's plasticity also deny the materiality of that process and the cultural and social contexts within which the body is always placed.

scholarly journals Nilai yang Terkandung dalam Gaguritan Mituturin Angga

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 165
Author(s):  
Ida Bagus Putu Eka Suadnyana
Keyword(s):  
Filial Piety ◽  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
Value Theory ◽  
Social Value ◽  
Application Process ◽  
Classical Text ◽  
The Social ◽  
Research Problems ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
The Mind

<p><em>There is an inheritance of classical texts written in lontar leaves in the form of poetry and untold. Classical texts in the form of classified prose such as parwa, babad, speech, wariga and usadha. While the classical text in the form of poetry is classified as a form of script that uses songs such as: kakawin, kidung and gaguritan. Gaguritan Mituturin Angga is an essay that contains advice for yourself. The theory used to solve research problems is the theory of functional structure, and value theory. This research takes the form of a qualitative design with a phenomenological approach. Data is collected by using, literature studies, and text studies. After the data is collected, the data is analyzed with qualitative descriptive methods.</em></p><p><em>Based on this analysis, the ethical value of Gaguritan Mituturin Angga emphasizes the importance of children showing an attitude of filial piety to parents and other creatures as an application process / practice of the teachings of Tri Kaya Parisudha. Social value Gaguritan Mituturin Angga emphasizes good behavior in life, especially when faced with complicated problems involving the social field, the value of yoga education emphasizes the control of the mind of all temptations both temptations of destiny and outward temptations of others, the value of wiweka emphasizes the ability to distinguish -different, weighing, and finally choosing between good and bad, and divine value emphasizing the importance of understanding and mastery of characters that build the human body as a form of identity, especially Hindus.</em></p>

scholarly journals Hayek's "Scientism" essay: the social aspects of objectivity and the mind

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 123 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diogo Lourenço
Keyword(s):  
Central Nervous System ◽  
External World ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
Social Aspects ◽  
Ordinary Experience ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Central Nervous System ◽  
Behavioral Evidence ◽  
The Mind

In his essay "Scientism and the study of society" Hayek argues that attitudes are central to the moral sciences. Since the natural sciences show that "ordinary experience" often does not reproduce the relations between things in the external world, the understanding of attitudes is possible due to the similarity between the mind of the moral scientist and that of the agent. I argue that Hayek’s arguments for the differentiation between the natural sciences and what he calls "ordinary experience" are problematic. I offer an alternative justification by appealing to the manifold goals and social contexts of inquiry. I also elucidate his claim that minds are similar, and how this relates to our understanding of others—both as ordinary agents and as economists. In so doing, I discuss two alternative accounts found in Hayek's work: the first account suggests that understanding is a projection of mental categories from behavioral evidence; the second account—which is found in The sensory order—suggests that understanding is the result of a functional correspondence between structures in the central nervous system.

scholarly journals Desire for the other and the Iterable Identity in the Social Context: A Postmodern Reading of Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire

2014 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 86-97
Author(s):  
Noorbakhsh Hooti ◽  
Ali Salehi
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
Tennessee Williams ◽  
Multiple Features ◽  
The Social ◽  
Streetcar Named Desire ◽  
A Streetcar Named Desire ◽  
The Mind

Abstract In postmodern outlook, the boundary between the different divisions made inside the mind is blurred. It is the Other of one’s self that indirectly defines the identity of a character or makes it abject. The purpose of this study is to recognize the adjustment identity of Blanche in “The Streetcar Named Desire” in diverse social contexts. The identity of Blanche is under surveillance through some key elements in the postmodern bedrock. The chains of signifiers that are produced by the considered character distinguish the mayhem of the mind that is trying to find a new identity in the altered social context. The study aims to unravel the desire for the Other or the hidden alter that is trying to adapt itself to the new environment while the character is unraveled as abject for the others in the special context. The dangling state of Blanche’s mind is exposed through multiple features of the concepts to embody the blurring border between the Other and the self.

scholarly journals The Human Self: the Illusion of a Riddle

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-27
Author(s):  
G.V. Lobastov
Keyword(s):  
Difficult Problem ◽  
The Self ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Theoretical Research ◽  
Internal Logic ◽  
The Social ◽  
Potential Basis ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Mind

The paper is an attempt to give an inner outline of F.T. Mikhailov’s logic in the study of the human Self. The principles of analysis and the meaningful path of becoming the Self are analyzed, from the problem of the emergence of the mind to the developed, creative and free personality. Reflection of logical categories and their formal and substantive connection with the problems and methods of theoretical research in psychology is carried out. The paper shows the dialectic of the concept of the Self — both in the objective reality and in the self-consciousness of the individual. The subjectness of the Self is presented as an expression of the social whole and the internal logic of its development. This logic of the whole is the potential basis of the creative ability of the Self. The creativity arises in the contradiction between the universal and the specific, the distinction of which is, according to F.T. Mikhailov, the most difficult problem. But it is precisely in the solution of this problem that the solution to the phenomenon of the Self lies. And thus of freedom as the objective self-determination of man in being and in thinking. The reproduction of the logic of thought of F.T. Mikhailov is carried out by the author in his own synthesis of problems that highlight the main line in understanding the problem of the Self.

scholarly journals Registro De Bienes Culturales Muebles Para El Análisis Arqueológico De Grupos Sociales Precolombinos. Estudio De Caso: Puñay, Cantón Chunchi, Provincia De Chimborazo, Ecuador

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 440
Author(s):  
Carlos Arturo Jara Santillán ◽  
Christiam Paúl Aguirre Merino ◽  
Catalina Margarita Verdugo Bernal ◽  
Paulina Beatriz Díaz Moyota ◽  
Sandra Patricia Miranda Salazar ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Contexts ◽  
Cultural Property ◽  
Archaeological Sites ◽  
Archaeological Record ◽  
The Core ◽  
Integration Period ◽  
The Social ◽  
Cultural Styles

The aim of this study is to present the results of the identification of the cultural styles, social occupations, and cultural affiliates of archaeological sites such as Paccha, Piñancay, Puñay, and Joyaczhi that conforms to the archaeological area, Puñay. The objective of this study is to keep an archaeological record of the movable cultural property of tourist sites. This is done through the cataloging and characterization of movable property. In cataloging, the records of the archaeological assets of the INPC are applied. Also, in characterization, the methodology was considered as the Crockery for the determination of the Ceramic Cultural styles and the color of the external and internal pulp. In addition, the core of the Munsell tables was considered. The research allows the identification of 10 ceramic cultural styles in Paccha, 8 in Piñancay, 10 in Puñay sector, and 3 in Joyaczhi through typology and decorative techniques. Also, they are visualized chronologies which are related to the social contexts in which these archeological properties are materialized. The ceramic styles established for the archaeological area belongs to the Integration Period of the pre-Columbian culture Cañari 800- 1530d.C.

The Social Contexts of Racial Discrimination in Sentencing

1986 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 236-251 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martha A. Myers ◽  
Susette M. Talarico
Keyword(s):  
Racial Discrimination ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
The Social

Entanglements between Agency and Vulnerability in the Phenomenon of Birth. Reflections on Children’s Expressions about ‘Being Born’

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (2-2020) ◽  
pp. 135-146
Author(s):  
Catrin Heite ◽  
Veronika Magyar-Haas
Keyword(s):  
Social Studies ◽  
Social Construction ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Living Environment ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
Cultural Embeddedness

Analogously to the works in the field of new social studies of childhood, this contribution deals with the concept of childhood as a social construction, in which children are considered as social actors in their own living environment, engaged in interpretive reproduction of the social. In this perspective the concept of agency is strongly stressed, and the vulnerability of children is not sufficiently taken into account. But in combining vulnerability and agency lies the possibility to consider the perspective of the subjects in the context of their social, political and cultural embeddedness. In this paper we show that what children say, what is important to them in general and for their well-being, is shaped by the care experiences within the family and by their social contexts. The argumentation for the intertwining of vulnerability and agency is exemplified by the expressions of an interviewed girl about her birth and by reference to philosophical concepts about birth and natality.

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