The Ocean Run: Stage, Cast, and Performance in a Public Park Basketball Scene

2016 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael DeLand
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Practical Work ◽  
Personal Relationships ◽  
Team Formation ◽  
Public Park ◽  
Personal Meanings ◽  
Basketball Game ◽  
Santa Monica ◽  
And Performance

This article investigates the production and re-production of a recurring pickup basketball game at a public park in Santa Monica, California. I argue that it is best understood as a recurring “scene”—an ecologically shaped, biographically significant, interactionally accomplished, and narratively organized pattern of social life—colloquially known as the “Ocean Run.” Drawing on Kenneth Burke’s dramatism, I suggest that the scene is constituted by the interrelation of the park’s socioecological landscape (“stage”), the diverse personal meanings that players construct through their participation (“cast”), and the practical work of re-creating the scene through situated interactions (“performance”). The park stage facilitates a sense of intimacy for players with very different personal relationships to each other and to the scene. Those players then actively mix themselves up, re-creating the scene through an “improvisational” style of team formation. Place, people, and action are dialectically related in the patterning of public life. This method of analysis is replicable in a wide variety of public scenes and sets up concrete grounds for comparison and theoretical generalizability.

scholarly journals Carnival forms of suggestion in Ukrainian information space in the context of aconsciousness war

2019 ◽  
pp. 77-93
Author(s):  
Olena Snytko
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Dissonance ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Self Organization ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Information Protection ◽  
Modern Culture ◽  
Political Situation ◽  
Close Study ◽  
Characteristic Features

The article examines the carnival forms of suggestion – a widely observed phenomenon on the Internet in Ukraine – in the context of the consciousness war. The carnivalization of consciousness and human existence are considered characteristic features of modern culture, which is also defined by transitivity. Carnivalization is found in various forms of modern culture, in particular, in elite (postmodern), mass and in (youth) counterculture, as well as in all spheres of public life. A systematic, consistent use of the so-called carnival forms of suggestive influence appears a popular phenomenon of the Ukrainian culture of the last several decades. The main carnival mechanism is laughter. This tool plays an important role in self-organization of social life and facilitates the perception of truth. A close study into the countersuggestion means actively used on the Internet in Ukraine during the violent informational and psychological confrontation in 2014-2018 has proven a high effectiveness of the so-called carnival forms. These forms of suggestion, which emerged spontaneously on the Internet during the most difficult months and years of the Russian aggression, played a key role in information protection ensuring and information countermeasures in Ukraine. Having the creolized character and all the signs of a suggestion, these texts have had and continue having a stabilizing effect on the consciousness of individuals improving their emotional intelligence. The carnival forms actualizing these therapeutic countersuggestive texts are organic and effective in the era of crucial worldview changes taking place in the present-day Ukraine. Moreover, the laughter is claimed an effective tool exposing the current political situation, relieving from fear, approving new thoughts and ideas and debunking negative narratives. Furthermore, the suggestive nature of verbal texts organically interacts with audiovisual means of influence and is supported by micro-rhythms of all levels, primarily by lexical, grammatical, and phonetic repetitions, which help to consolidate the primary meanings. Finally, the methods of randomizing ideas, breaking patterns, and creating cognitive dissonance are widely used in the creolized political texts.

The principles of feminist dramaturgical thinking in dance and performance

Maska ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 36 (203-204) ◽  
pp. 56-63
Author(s):  
Ana Dubljević
Keyword(s):  
Performance Practice ◽  
Practical Work ◽  
Artistic Practice ◽  
Bell Hooks ◽  
Negative Capability ◽  
To Come ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Way

This text is offering an overview of principles of feminist dramaturgical thinking, that have been identified and used in research on feminist dramaturgy through theoretical and practical work on the performance Still to Come, a Feminist Pornscape. Some of the principles are: the principle of bell hooks, the principle of relationality, the principle of significant otherness, the principle of negative capability, the principle of critters, and they can be related to a variety of aspects of politics and ethics in artistic practice. The text is an ending chapter of The Feminist Pornscapes, on Feminist Dramaturgical Thinking in Dance and Performance Practice book and is intentionally only sketching the current reach of the proposed principles with the wish to welcome the reader into a conversation, to pave the way for more thorough elaborations that are still to come.

Границы советского традиционализма (из опыта русского народа в XX веке). Этнологическое исследование

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Олег Кириченко ◽  
◽  
Наталья Шляхтина ◽  
Татьяна Листова ◽  
Светлана Крюкова ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Scientific Study ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
Russian People ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Post Soviet Period

Научное исследование советского традиционализма – тема достаточно новая, но перспективная, поскольку в ней затрагивается целый ряд вопросов, позволяющих приблизиться к пониманию причин возвращения сегодня в общественную жизнь советских реалий, от которых, казалось бы, страна отказалась в 1990-е годы. Авторы монографии обращаются к разным пластам этнической, правовой, религиозной, бытовой и социальной жизни русского народа, делают экскурсы в дореволюционную Россию, прослеживают идейные пути традиционализма, получившего советскую прививку, в постсоветское время. Книга рассчитана не только на специалистов, но и на широкий круг читателей The scientific study of Soviet traditionalism is a fairly new topic, but promising, since it touches on a number of issues that make it possible to get closer to understanding the reasons for the return of Soviet realities to public life today, which, it would seem, the country abandoned in the 1990s. The authors of the monograph turn to different layers of the ethnic, legal, religious, everyday and social life of the Russian people, make excursions into pre-revolutionary Russia, trace the ideological paths of traditionalism, which received a Soviet inoculation, in the post-Soviet period. The book is intended not only for specialists, but also for a wide range of readers.

ПРЕЗЕНТАЦИЯ МОНОГРАФИИ: ГРАНИЦЫ СОВЕТСКОГО ТРАДИЦИОНАЛИЗМА (ИЗ ОПЫТА РУССКОГО НАРОДА В XX ВЕКЕ). ЭТНОЛОГИЧЕСКОЕ ИССЛЕДОВАНИЕ / О. В. КИРИЧЕНКО, Т. А. ЛИСТОВА, С. С. КРЮКОВА, Т. А. ВОРОНИНА, Н. В. ШЛЯХТИНА; ОТВ. РЕД. И СОСТ. О. В. КИРИЧЕНКО. – СПб.: АЛЕТЕЙЯ, 2021. – 688 С.: ИЛ.

2021 ◽  
pp. 134-136
Author(s):  
Олег Викторович Кириченко
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Scientific Study ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
Russian People ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Post Soviet Period

Научное исследование советского традиционализма - тема достаточно новая, но перспективная, поскольку в ней затрагивается целый ряд вопросов, позволяющих приблизиться к пониманию причин возвращения сегодня в общественную жизнь советских реалий, от которых, казалось бы, страна отказалась в 1990-е годы. Авторы монографии обращаются к разным пластам этнической, правовой, религиозной, бытовой и социальной жизни русского народа, делают экскурсы в дореволюционную Россию, прослеживают идейные пути традиционализма, получившего советскую прививку, в постсоветское время. Книга рассчитана не только на специалистов, но и на широкий круг читателей. The scientific study of Soviet traditionalism is a fairly new topic, but promising, since it touches on a number of issues that make it possible to get closer to understanding the reasons for the return of Soviet realities to public life today, which, it would seem, the country abandoned in the 1990s. The authors of the monograph turn to different layers of the ethnic, legal, religious, everyday and social life of the Russian people, make excursions into pre-revolutionary Russia, trace the ideological paths of traditionalism, which received a Soviet inoculation, in the post-Soviet period. The book is intended not only for specialists, but also for a wide range of readers.

scholarly journals Timescapes of urban change: The temporalities of regenerated streets

2018 ◽  
Vol 66 (5) ◽  
pp. 1074-1092 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mónica Degen
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Urban Regeneration ◽  
Urban Change ◽  
Place Making ◽  
Spatial Transformations ◽  
Temporal Dimensions ◽  
Interaction Research ◽  
Exclusive Focus

Urban regeneration strategies since the 1980s have been framed around a recovery and extension of the urban realm by focusing on the redevelopment of streets as loci for public life and social interaction. Research has tended to analyse these changes through an exclusive focus on the effect spatial transformations have in reshaping social life. This article seeks to extend engagement with the concept of the regenerated street by examining its temporal dimensions. Bringing together Lefebvre’s trialectic of the conceived, the perceived and the lived with Adam’s notion of timescapes, the article argues that we need to attend more closely to the multiple temporalities that underpin interventions of urban change. In particular, this article explores how temporalities of planning, the environment and everyday life interact to create unique timescapes of urban change. By drawing on a longitudinal study of the regeneration of the Rambla del Raval in Barcelona, the article explores the multiple, at times interdependent, at times divergent temporalities that are tangled up in the making and experiencing of this street. The article suggests to approach urban regeneration as a long-term process and place making as a temporal practice where a diversity of temporal modalities interact to produce a diverse and dynamic sense of place.

scholarly journals The Practical Sociologist: Role and Performance of Pastoral Sociologists in the West German Catholic Church, 1945–1970

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 133-156
Author(s):  
Benjamin Ziemann
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Practical Work ◽  
The West ◽  
Sociological Work ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Church

The article is discussing the practical work of pastoral sociologists in the West German Catholic Church from 1945 to 1970. In this context the distinction between “consultant,” “practitioner,” and “researcher in a practical setting,” can be used to highlight different sets of values, forms of engagement, and conceptual approaches to sociological work in the church. Using one specific example for each of the three types, this article argues that pastoral sociology during the 1960s was increasingly self-reflexive, and that different notions of “sociological enlightenment” were an important part of pastoral sociology, in the wake of the contestation of “1968”.

Next year, if grain is dear, I shall be a Sayyid: Sayyid Ahmad Khan, colonial constructions, and Muslim self-definitions

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 433-448 ◽  
Author(s):  
DAVID LELYVELD
Keyword(s):  
Voluntary Associations ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Personal Relationships ◽  
High Status ◽  
Representative Government ◽  
Muslim Community ◽  
Muslim Population ◽  
Social Surveys ◽  
Educational Project ◽  
Egalitarian Ethos

AbstractBritish social surveys and census statistics defined ‘Sayyid’ as a caste identity, while often casting a sceptical eye on the authenticity of genealogical claims associated with the concept. The article examines how Muslims, especially Sayyid Ahmad Khan, participated in the formulation of the concept of Sayyid identity and status. Islamic ideology and practice have long wrestled with conflicting claims of religious equality and hierarchical status, often based on concepts of sacred lineage. From his earliest writings Sayyid Ahmad Khan (1817–98) emphasised his descent from the Prophet Muhammad on his father's side alongside his somewhat less exalted relationship with his Kashmiri grandfather. In later years he tried to balance universalistic ideals with claims to status based on supposedly ‘foreign’ ancestry, which he cited as parallel to the supposed Aryan ancestry of high-status Hindus. His British allies used his Sayyid ancestry as reinforcement of his leadership of an India-wide Muslim ‘community’ and evidence that India was not prepared to develop into a national polity based on representative government. But the Aligarh movement's claim to represent the wider Muslim population and in particular its educational project at Aligarh struggled with a more egalitarian ethos, defining students and the members of voluntary associations as ‘brothers’, and quite prepared to cross ascriptive boundaries both in public life and personal relationships.

scholarly journals Team Formation and Performance: Evidence from Healthcare Referral Networks

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leila Agha ◽  
Keith Marzilli Ericson ◽  
Kimberley Geissler ◽  
James Rebitzer
Keyword(s):  
Team Formation ◽  
Referral Networks ◽  
And Performance

Social Traditions of Entertainment and Communication of Ukrainian Peasants in the SECOND HALF OF THE 20th – early 21th centuries (ON EXPEDITIONARY MATERIALS)

2020 ◽  
pp. 7-16
Author(s):  
Vitalina Gorova
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Rural Population ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Interpersonal Relations ◽  
Industrial Relations ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Common Belief ◽  
Mutual Assistance ◽  
Social Forms ◽  
The Village

Socio-normative life of Ukrainians of the 20th – the beginning of the 21th centuries, that covers aspects of management, self-organization and formation of public institutions, mutual assistance and leisure, regulation of behavior, is a poorly studied topic in ethnological science. During the establishment of the Soviet system, which completely changed the traditional way of life of Ukrainian peasants, a major transformation of the customs of public life took place. Following Ukraine’s independence, modern social normative practices were developing according to the requirements of the new legislation. As the result, nowadays there is a considerable urgency to investigate the specifics and changes that have taken place in public life in the Ukrainian villages in the second half of the 20th – early 21th centuries. In the new socio-economic and national-religious contexts, despite the changes in industrial relations and socio-professional composition of the rural population, the system of traditional social life in Ukraine was able to maintain positive and well-considered skills of social coexistence, forms of daily and festive leisure, as well as the moral and ethical standards of people’s coexistence. The article on the materials of expeditions to Chernivtsi, Ternopil, Zakarpattya, Odessa, Kharkiv regions analyzes the preservation and peculiarities of transformation of traditional social forms of leisure and communication of peasants during the second half of the 20th – early 21th centuries. The types and places of daily (customs of «calling for freshness», «going for liver», mutual assistance, evening meetings) and festive (during the temple holiday, mutual guests, youth entertainment, celebration of the village holiday) leisure of the village community are revealed. Most of the information was recorded on evening meetings. They are a socio-everyday entity that organically combines entertainment and work elements. Usually, the main guideline for their conducting was hand work (spinning, embroidery, sewing), accompanied by songs and entertainment. The made records give a certain idea of the contemporary collective customs and traditions of Ukrainians in rural areas, especially of interpersonal relations in the Ukrainian peasant environment of today. The common belief among the respondents is that some changes in people’s behavior are manifested by a decrease in interest in communication than before (reciprocal guest-houses between the villagers have become a rarity – they only gather on holidays). Today, the customs of collective mutual assistance (in case of distress or distress in one of the villagers) are still preserved among the rural population.

“English as corporate language” in the multilingual reality of multinational companies

Multilingua ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 331-351 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Kankaanranta ◽  
Päivi Karhunen ◽  
Leena Louhiala-Salminen
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Performance Appraisal ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Multinational Companies ◽  
Presentation Of Self ◽  
Plain Language ◽  
Language Competence ◽  
And Performance ◽  
English As Lingua Franca ◽  
Corporate Language

AbstractThis conceptual paper advances the notion of “English as corporate language” in the multilingual reality of multinational companies (MNC) with novel insights from the English as lingua franca (ELF) paradigm of sociolinguistics. Inspired by Goffman, Erving. 1959.The presentation of self in everyday life. New York: Doubleday. dramaturgical metaphor of social life, we develop the notion of English as corporate language by making a distinction between the frontstage official language used in corporate communication and backstage working language used in interactions among MNC employees. We argue that the former approaches the notion of English as a native language and the latter represents ELF in the business domain (BELF); they are different in terms of understanding language competence, multilingualism and role of language in building legitimacy. Our conclusions imply first, that the frontstage English may not always be accessible to the backstage BELF users, due to which employees may feel disadvantaged or disempowered. Second, the use of formal language testing in recruitment and performance appraisal may transform into a gate-keeping mechanism that leads to power inequalities. In our recommendations, we call for an emancipatory language policy accepting different standards of English for different positions and adopting ideas of the Plain Language initiative to better reach all MNC employees.

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