The Contemplatives (1979–)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaime Kucinskas
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Personal Development ◽  
Contemplative Practices ◽  
Cognitive Patterns ◽  
And Behavior

This chapter provides an overview of what the contemplative founders stood for and why they sought to spread meditation into professional sectors. From the beginning, contemplative leaders sought to legitimize and popularize Buddhist-inspired meditation by institutionalizing their programs in powerful organizations and institutional fields in order to initiate progressive social change. The contemplative movement is an alterative one, operating on the theory that partial change in individuals’ cognitive patterns and behavior will gradually lead them to fully transform. The movement leaders hoped that spreading contemplative practices would promote and increase personal development and awareness of interdependence with others. They thought that this, in turn, would aid democratic processes and counter materialism and greed.

scholarly journals Unruly Women and Carnivalesque Countercontrol: Offensive Humor in Mediated Social Protest

2018 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 171-193
Author(s):  
Anne Graefer ◽  
Allaina Kilby ◽  
Inger-Lise Kalviknes Bore
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Social Protest ◽  
Close Analysis ◽  
And Behavior

At the Women’s March in January 2018, many protest posters featured offensive jokes at the expense of Trump’s body and behavior. Such posters were shared widely online, much to the amusement of the movement’s supporters. Through a close analysis of posts on Instagram and Twitter, we explore the role of “vulgar” and “offensive” humor in mediated social protest. By highlighting its radical and conservative tendencies, we demonstrate how we can understand these practices of offensive humor as a contemporary expression of “the carnivalesque” that is complexly intertwined with social change.

scholarly journals The Role of Values in Social Change: An Analysis from The Qur’ānic Perspective

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anis Ahmad
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Industrial Society ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Social Construct ◽  
Set Up ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
Post Industrial ◽  
Means Of Production

In the post-industrial revolution world, social change is often studied and understood in the context of change in means of production, mobility, urbanization and change in the constitution of workforce. Role of ethical values is generally confined to personal conduct and manners. Industrial society is supposed to have its own work ethics which may or may not agree with personal ethics and morality. Ethics and morality are generally considered, in the Western thought, as a social construct. Therefore, with the change in means of production or political system, values and morality are also expected to be re-adjusted in order to cope with the changed environment. Sometimes a totally new set of values emerges as a consequence of the change in economic, political, or legal set up. The present research tries to understand the meaning and place of these values in a global socio-cultural framework. Relying essentially on the divine principles of the Qur'ān it makes an effort to understand relevance of these universal and ultimate principles with human conduct and behavior in society.  It indicates that essentially it is the core values, principles, or norms which guide human beings in their interpersonal, social, economic and political matters. Islam being a major civilizing force, culture, and the way of life, provides values which guide both in individual and social matters. The values given by the Qur’ān and the Sunnah are not monopoly of the Muslim. These values are universal and are relevant in a technological society.

scholarly journals Public Health, Systems Change, Justice and the Work of the Kingdom

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-19
Author(s):  
Robert E Aronson
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Church And State ◽  
Public Health Systems ◽  
New Jerusalem ◽  
Book Of Isaiah ◽  
The Face ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
Personal Decision ◽  
The Church

Disparities in population health statuses are tied to inequities in society, and not just differences in personal decision-making and behavior.  Christians should (and must) play a role in confronting these inequities, based upon three biblical themes: 1) the instructions in the book of Leviticus regarding the Sabbath year and the Year of Jubilee as a way to protect the economic system from producing insurmountable inequities and degrading the environment; 2) the eschatological image of the New Jerusalem in the book of Isaiah, with its focus on Shalom in contrast to a religion focused on personal piety in the face of oppression and social injustice; and 3) Jesus’ teachings about the kingdom, which include its imminence and the counter-cultural nature of its ethic.  The notion of the kingdom can be applied in the lives of Christians (particularly those involved in public health) through individual acts, corporate acts in the context of the church, and state-led actions to bring about social change to achieve social justice. Social change can be described as an act of reconciliation in which systems of society are redeemed by the power of kingdom principles.  

The Buddhist Style in Consumer Culture: From Aesthetics to Emotional Patterns

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 28-54
Author(s):  
Zuzana Bártová
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Consumer Culture ◽  
Personal Development ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Identity Style ◽  
And Behavior

Abstract This paper contributes to the sociological theorization of religious lifestyles in consumer culture, analyzing one of its most important identity markers: style. Based on a three-year comparative ethnographic research project into five convert Buddhist organizations in France and the Czech Republic, it finds that style is expressed through aesthetics with its adornment practices apparent in everyday life materializations of Buddhist symbols. The stylistic dimension is also found in practitioners’ attitudes towards Buddhism, as they may use the discourse of taste. Moreover, Buddhist style stands for the collective, coherent, and systematic emotional patterns expressed in Buddhist symbols, individual and collective experiences, and the ethics and behavior they display in everyday life. The paper also explores how this style is adapted to the educated, middle-class, city-dweller practitioners and how it respects dynamics of consumer culture with its emphasis on identity, style, and values of well-being, authenticity, and personal development.

A Model for the Development of Anti-Racist Culturally Humble Educational Practitioners

2022 ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Veronica Keiffer-Lewis
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Personal Development ◽  
Diversity Training ◽  
Identity Negotiation ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Conflict Transformation ◽  
Cultural Humility ◽  
Full Extent ◽  
Self Reflection

Although diversity training has become an institutional norm for businesses, schools, and organizations, the full extent of its impact remains unclear. This chapter reports on research aimed as more fully understanding the transformational journeys of diversity practitioners and discovering how they deepen their sense of cultural humility. Following a review of the evolution of diversity training, the chapter presents a theoretical framework featuring five interrelated transformational processes: dialogue, inquiry, self-reflection, conflict transformation, and identity negotiation. The chapter concludes with a discussion about how these processes can be applied to enhance the development of cultural humility and consequently better achieve the desired outcomes of diversity training. It argues for a multi-year model for the training of diversity practitioners and others committed to personal development and social change as well as a lifelong approach that supports the process of moving more deeply into a culturally humble way of being.

scholarly journals Benefiting From Authentic Education To A Sustainable Social Development

2013 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 171-176 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chandana Watagodakumbura
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Human Resources ◽  
Social Development ◽  
Career Paths ◽  
Personal Development ◽  
Higher Order ◽  
Multiple Perspectives ◽  
Authentic Education ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Higher Order Learning

Authentic education provides a unique learning experience to individual learners, specifically by addressing their psychological and neurological needs. The assessment of learners is done through generic attributes that have more validity and relates to intrinsic learner characteristics that could last throughout the life span of the learner. Authentic education looks at the general term education more broadly and deeply, and from multiple perspectives. As the individual learners are identified uniquely through authentic education, it embraces diversity within the human species more broadly and meaningfully. Learners are encouraged to pursue higher-order learning sending them through a complete learning cycle; this engages learners deeply to the task and provides a lasting experience, enabling individuals to reach their full potential. Authentic education aims at providing personal development for individuals broadly, not merely a career development, while still paving a better way to map individual preferences to more suitable career paths. Through authentic education, we get to value human resources much more than related economic aspects, making a significant difference to our current approaches and focus; it has the promise to effect a significant positive social change towards a sustainable development. The purpose of this study is to discuss conceptualising authentic education, multiple perspectives, better educational outcomes, learners embracing diversity, higher order learning, individual characteristics to related career paths, holistic personal development, social change valuing human resources, and consistent and predictable social development.

scholarly journals The Role of Conscious Self-Regulation in Realization of Cognitive and Personal Resources in a Child with Developmental Delay

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 40-55
Author(s):  
N.V. Babkina
Keyword(s):  
Developmental Delay ◽  
Personal Development ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Cognitive Activity ◽  
First Grade ◽  
Federal State ◽  
Educational Standard ◽  
Regulation Of Activity ◽  
State Educational ◽  
And Behavior

The article is devoted to a problem of cognitive and personal development of children with developmental delay. Investigation aimed on exploration of self-regulation in first-grade children with developmental delay in comparison with normally developing peers is presented. Disorders in conscious regulation of cognitive activity, which hamper their assimilation of learning materials and adaptation to school, where identified. A complex curriculum on forming regulatory sphere, which includes psychological support and special organization of the educational environment, has been developed and tested. Efficiency of the described curriculum is confirmed by fixed improvements of data on randomness in children of experimental group and their forthcoming towards normally developing peers. The results of the experimental data found their reflection in Federal state educational standard for children with disabilities where work on developing random regulation of activity and behavior has been included into contents of teaching for the first time as obligatory approach.

scholarly journals REGULATORY COMPONENT OF ACTIVITY WITHIN THE CRITERIA OF COMPREHENSIVE ASSESSMENT OF A CHILD’S READYNESS FOR SCHOOL LIFE

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (36) ◽  
pp. 99-104
Author(s):  
L. Soloviova
Keyword(s):  
Personal Development ◽  
Comprehensive Assessment ◽  
Preschool Age ◽  
School Life ◽  
Voluntary Attention ◽  
Verbal Instructions ◽  
Real Picture ◽  
Attention And Perception ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
Rules Of The Game

The article considers the problem of a child’s readiness for school in the conditions of modern educational changes. Works of scientists are presented, in which the role of arbitrary regulation of the behavior of a preschool child in the formation of readiness for school is determined. Methods of studying the development of children’s ability to arbitrary regulation proposed by psychologists are analyzed. They determine the ability of children to subordinate their actions to verbal instructions, patterns, rules of the game and build these actions accordingly; identify the level of development of voluntary attention and perception, the ability to purposefully find a solution; establish opportunities for preschoolers to focus on goals, actively achieve meaningful goals, overcome difficulties. It is emphasized that the best results of the development of arbitrary regulation of behavior children demonstrate during the diagnosis, organized in the form of story-role play, play with rules or game task. Regulatory component of activity is singled out as criterion of comprehensive assessment of child’s readiness for school life. Essence of the concept is revealed and indicators of its manifestation in children’s activity are determined. The mechanism of conscious regulation is based on the ability to control psychical activities and behavior — to direct actions in accordance with the task or requirement, to subordinate them to specific goals. The regulatory component of the activity as a criterion of the child’s readiness for school life characterizes the child’s ability to actively implement the acquired experience in the activity, to manage behavior. Following achievements in the volitional sphere will be considered as indicators of manifestation of a regulatory component of activity of the child of senior preschool age: — ability to perform actions according to the sample; — ability to perform actions according to the verbal instructions (follow rules of the game and relationships, your own design); — ability to show purposefulness, activity in achieving the goal, willingness to overcome difficulties. These indicators have their characteristic manifestations in each of the specific children’s activities, organized by children independently and with the support of an adult: play, communication, speech, health, household, artistic and creative, cognitive and research. It is noted, that a comprehensive assessment of child’s readiness for school life will reflect the results of studying regulatory, emotional, cognitive, creative content components of activities, which together will create a real picture of the child’s personal development, bases of the formed key competencies of senior preschoolers.

Women Work Together: My Unforeseen Transition from Academic to Feminist Change Agent

2017 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-43
Author(s):  
Tracy Bachrach Ehlers
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Local Government ◽  
Dynamic Process ◽  
Gender Relations ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Change Agent ◽  
Development Studies ◽  
Ivory Tower ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
Attitudes And Behavior

Whether as professional endeavor or intimate personal experience, anthropologists are going beyond the ivory tower to work on projects where intervention and social change are the norm. This paper traces the journey of one academic as she ventures out of the classroom to become a social change agent late in her career. Discussion focuses on the dynamic process of applying twenty-five years of women and development studies to the creation of a campaign for girls' education in a Guatemalan town. Based on her considerable knowledge of gender relations in the community, the author is able to work collaboratively with women's groups and local government to dramatically influence attitudes and behavior about the value of sending girls to school.

Features of the Relationship between the Mother аnd Girl in the Family

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (118) ◽  
pp. 127-139
Author(s):  
P.K. Iskakova ◽  
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L.M. Atahanova ◽  
J. Ábdіlákіm ◽  
H. Akıol ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Personal Development ◽  
Educational Value ◽  
Internal Position ◽  
The Family ◽  
Pedagogical Competence ◽  
Role Of Parents ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

This article discusses the features of the relationship between the mother and girl in the family. This is expressed by the following characteristics: characteristics of parents and their behavior; psychological-pedagogical competence of parents, their educational level; emotional and moral climate in the family; means of education; level of integration into family life; consideration of the actual needs of the child and the degree of their satisfaction. The relationship with the mother is the strongest bond that every child has. No matter what happens, the relationship with my mother remains strong for life. The authors of the article emphasize the role of parents in the emotional and personal development of a child in the family. The main part of the article consists of the features inherent in the family principles of parents, the mood and behavior of parents, the educational value of the internal position in relation to girls and parents. In addition, the article presents the experience and psychological advice of professional family psychologists on solving problems related to the relationship of parents with girls.

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