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Morrow, Ruth, Peter Mutschler, and Timothy Waddell. "Spaces of rehearsal: theorising socio-spatial practices in a postconflict context." Architectural Research Quarterly 24, no. 2 (June 2020): 183–203. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1359135520000251.
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This paper sets out the socio-spatial practices of PS2 and Street Society in territorialised, post conflict Northern Ireland – whose work combines pedagogical and improvisation theory to prototype distinctive social models. These practices were formed by a continual process of practical involvement and reflection (through writing) and evaluation (funding permitting), alongside the author-practitioners' search for theoretical concepts that would bring clarity and an alternative perspective to the processes and outcomes. Concepts and approaches taken from pedagogical theory and, uniquely in the case of architecture, improvisational theory, will be used to explore critical aspects of the specific practices, and more generally assert that such socio-spatial ‘street pedagogy’ offers a space of rehearsal and ultimately, a site for the development of socially-just aesthetics. The paper thus proposes a theoretical scaffolding for practices which increase diversity and diminish resource consumption in the contexts of climate emergency and a politics of precarity.
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Rajendran, Lakshmi, Fariba Molki, Sara Mahdizadeh, and Asma Mehan. "(RE)FRAMING SPATIALITY AS A SOCIO-CULTURAL PARADIGM: EXAMINING THE IRANIAN HOUSING CULTURE AND PROCESSES." JOURNAL OF ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM 45, no. 1 (June 14, 2021): 95–105. http://dx.doi.org/10.3846/jau.2021.14032.
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With rapid changes in urban living today, peoples’ behavioural patterns and spatial practices undergo a constant process of adaptation and negotiation. Using “house” as a laboratory and everyday life and spatial relations of residents as a framework of analysis, the paper examines the spatial planning concepts in traditional and contemporary Iranian architecture and the associated socio-cultural practices. Discussions are drawn upon from a pilot study conducted in the city of Kerman, to investigate ways in which contemporary housing solutions can better cater to the continually changing socio-cultural lifestyles of residents. Data collection for the study involved a series of participatory workshops and employed creative visual research methods, participant observation and semi structured interviews to examine the interlacing of everyday socio-spatial relations and changing perception of identity, belonging, socio-cultural and religious values and conflict. The inferences from the study showcases the emerging social and cultural needs and practices of people manifested through the complex relationship between residents, the places in which they live, and its spatial planning and organisation. For a better understanding of this complex relationship, the paper argues the need for resituating spatiality as a socio-cultural paradigm.
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Lozynskyi, Roman. "Suburb as a socio-spatial phenomenon and post-socialist city." Human Geography Journal, no. 32 (June 8, 2022): 24–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.26565/2076-1333-2022-32-03.
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The article analyzes the history of the emergence of the socio-spatial phenomenon of the suburbs in the Western world and in Ukraine. A comparison of suburbs in the Soviet Union (with regard to suburban villages, dachas and microraiony) and suburbs in the United States and Canada is presented. An understanding of the suburbs and its architectural / urban planning environment from the perspective of social theory is presented. It was found that the suburbs and their architectural environment were used in the propaganda of the United States and the Soviet Union to produce certain cultural meanings with economic and political consequences. The subtleties of using the concept of the suburbs in the post-socialist context were considered. Based on the main socio-geographical characteristics of suburban areas of Ukrainian cities, it was found that the use of the concept of suburbs requires theoretical analysis in the post-socialist context and its distinction with the concepts of suburbia (direct imitation, written in Ukrainian as “субурбія”) and suburban space (“prymiskyi prostir”). It is argued that the spatial criterion and the criterion of connection with the city (suitable for the allocation of suburban space and suburban area) are insufficient to define the suburbs and do not reflect the complexity of this phenomenon. Important criteria for the allocation of suburbs are also the social status of residents, their daily practices, place and type of employment and leisure activities, which can be summarized as the identity of residents, as well as the type of residential architecture and character of everyday landscapes. It was found that because Ukrainian suburban spaces are eclectic with a mixture of different social classes and housing, retain their rural face with the presence of farming, the concept of peri-urban or rural-urban fringe is a better term to describe the suburban area of post-socialist cities than the suburbs. Only certain parts of the suburban spaces tend to become American style suburbs with a predominance of single-family houses, one social class and car use. The theoretical features of understanding the phenomenon of the suburbs and more successful concepts for its definition in post-socialist conditions are important for the creation of more socially thought-out urban planning documentation and strategy for their development taking into account local characteristics.
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Kessler, Oliver, and Marc Lenglet. "Between concepts and thought: digital technologies and temporal relationality." International Relations 34, no. 3 (September 2020): 413–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0047117820948199.
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This article advances the argument that the acceleration of practices introduced by digital technologies also impact key concepts of social theory. Digital technologies not only give rise to new concepts, but they also reconfigure our entire socio-political conceptual vocabulary. In particular, this acceleration reorganises the relationship between the spatial and temporal dimensions of political concepts. As a consequence, our spatially defined understanding of authority, hierarchy or relation underestimates the repercussions of shifting temporalities. This article pursues this shift from space to time and outlines how temporal relationality is gradually impacting the representations and images we live by.
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Kutyreva, Vera, and Julia Lavoshnyk. "Maternal Practices and Identities: Temporal-Spatial Distribution." Visnyk V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University. Series "Sociological studies of contemporary society: methodology, theory, methods", no. 45 (December 1, 2020): 69–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.26565/2227-6521-2020-45-07.
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The article presents the analysis of maternal identities through the prism of the temporal-spatial distribution of everyday maternal practices. Markers are described by which women determine maternal identities, factors of their construction, patterns of the «ideal mother» and the spatio-temporal distribution of everyday motherhood practices in the context of women's determination of their maternal role. Theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of motherhood are analyzed, in particular, the possibilities of applying the activity-structural approach to the analysis of maternal identities and the relevance of the concepts of «care landscape», «ghettoization of motherhood», «temporal poverty» in the context of modern everyday motherhood practices. The application of the structural-activity concept allowed to analyze the daily practices of motherhood in time and space, and, accordingly, to identify the basic conditions for structuring the practices of motherhood of women with different family and work statuses. The paper emphasizes that maternal identities are not rigidly defined and provide opportunities to choose from a fairly wide range of cultural patterns, acting as a result of individual life projects. One of the main contradictions today is the contradiction between, on the one hand, the requirements of the labor market, the processes of individualization that lead to active involvement of mothers in employment and, on the other hand, the spread of «intensive» and «responsible» child-centered motherhood in modern parental culture. These practices are becoming more intense in terms of the time, attention, and effort that mothers put into caring for their children. The article concludes that such «intensive motherhood» acts as a substitute, compensatory mechanism for the functioning of the institution of fatherhood in an unsatisfactory (imperfect) socio-economic environment, as well as traditional for our society gender bias in favor of women in family responsibilities and parental functions.
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Bernyukevich, Т. "Modern Urban Practices: Socio-Political Aspects." TRANSBAIKAL STATE UNIVERSITY JOURNAL 28, no. 6 (2022): 37–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.21209/2227-9245-2022-28-6-37-44.
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Universal category characterizing the processes of the modern city is the concept of «modern urban practices». The object of the study is modern urban practices, which include activities and processes that determine the development of urban space and ecosphere of the city, improvement of the urban environment, realization of the «right to the city». The subject of the study is the political aspects of modern urban practices, which have a number of areas for the urban space development, preservation and improvement of the urban environment, and enhancement of the citizens’ life quality. In particular, it includes the preservation of cultural heritage, revival of small towns, development of the city’s ecosphere and solution of environmental problems, as well as the solution of issues related to the adaptation of migrants and intercultural interaction, etc. The purpose of this study is to conceptualize the understanding of «modern urban practices», to determine the socio-political aspects of modern urban practices formation, the role of political factors in their development. The methodology for analyzing these challenges is based on a systematic approach that makes it possible to identify connections and relationships between the phenomena of urban practices, their functions in the general urban space, and the political status of these social practices. The result of the study is a typology of modern urban practices in terms of their determination by socio-political factors, the detection of their essence and focus. The application of the study results is based on the fact that they complement the modern concepts of urbanism; allow us to consider the heterogeneous phenomena of the city development within the framework of social life, determining the influence of political factors. As a result of the study the following conclusion can be drawn: the definition and analysis of the socio-political aspects of modern urban practices make it possible to identify their social essence, the possibility of implementing specific models for the development of the urban environment, creating conditions for its safety and comfort, and improving the quality of human life.
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Saide, Anondah R., and Rebekah A. Richert. "Socio-Cognitive and Cultural Influences on Children’s Concepts of God." Journal of Cognition and Culture 20, no. 1-2 (May 4, 2020): 22–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685373-12340072.
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Abstract The current study examined (a) the impact of religious socialization practices and parents’ concepts on the development of an abstract religious concept (i.e., God) in young children, and (b) whether or not children’s socio-cognitive ability moderates the relationship between their religious concept and sources of information about the concept. 215 parent-child dyads from diverse religious backgrounds (Protestant Christian, Roman Catholic, Muslim, non-affiliated) participated. Children were between the ages of 3.52 and 6.98 years of age (M = 4.770, SD = .767). Four main findings emerged from this study. First, children conceptualized God as more humanlike than their parents did. Second, younger children were more likely to have a humanlike conception of God than older children. Third, parents’ concept of God and children’s concept of God had a stronger relationship when the child’s mental-state reasoning was more accurate. Fourth, the frequency of children’s engagement in religious practices was unrelated to children’s concept of God after controlling for child’s age. Taken together, these findings lend support for the view that social cognition is an important factor in young children’s acquisition of cultural information about abstract entities.
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Skogland, Mari Anna Chatarina, and Geir Karsten Hansen. "Change your space, change your culture: exploring spatial change management strategies." Journal of Corporate Real Estate 19, no. 2 (May 8, 2017): 95–110. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jcre-07-2016-0024.
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Purpose The purpose of the paper is to explore the use of, and challenges associated with, spatial change management strategies. This is done through a discussion on how spatial environments may be utilised to effect organisational change. The intention is to provoke new thinking on physical change initiatives and to challenge the often highly deterministic view on the effects of contemporary workspace concepts. Design/methodology/approach The paper is structured as a case study-based literature review, drawing on literature from the fields of environmental psychology, organisational branding, corporate real estate and facility management, as well as organisational change management. Findings The study indicates that space management strategies may fail because of the lack of understanding of how organisational events and other contextually specific aspects correlate with the physical change initiative. Succeeding with the spatial strategy requires a strong focus on socio-material relationships and the employee meaning-making process during the spatial change process. Originality/value Contrary to the traditional and rational focus on functional space management strategies, the paper takes a socio-material approach suggesting that there is a need for more empirically based research into the employee meaning-making process and the role of human and organisational practices in the development of new workplace concepts. Focusing on how organisational members understand and “make use of” spatial environments may substantially improve organisations and building consultants’ abilities to strategically manage the physical change initiative and achieve the intended ends.
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Raschetina, Svetlana. "SYNERGETIC APPROACH TO ANALYSIS AND IMPLEMENTATION OF SOCIO-PEDAGOGICAL PRACTICES." Man and Education, no. 2 (75) (2023): 59. http://dx.doi.org/10.54884/s181570410026346-5.
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The article is devoted to the urgent problem of identifying potential possibilities of synergetic methodology for the study of socio-pedagogical activity as a special system that is transformed under the influence of unstable conditions of society. It is emphasized that the subject area of socio-pedagogical activity is currently being transformed, characterized by an increasing trend of spontaneous socialization of children, that its spatial and temporal characteristics are changing, as the space of children's problems is expanding, the time required for scientific understanding of problems and the search for solutions to them is decreasing. The appeal to the synergetic approach is due to the fact that it is focused on the analysis of system processes that are in a nonlinear, non-equilibrium state, in the "order – chaos - order" movement. The article uses the following concepts to describe the process of organization and self-organization of socio-pedagogical activity: "attractor" (an ordered process), "fluctuation" (the presence of potential opportunities in the process both to maintain the system and to destroy it), "bifurcation" (a chaotic state of the process). At the institutional level, the movement of socio-pedagogical activity through the stages of "order - chaos - order" is determined by the value orientations of its subjects. They are the center of attraction for specialists of helping professions and keep the system in a state of stable attractor. Violation of the value bases of socio-pedagogical activity disorganizes the system, leads it into a state of chaos (bifurcation). At the individual level of teacher–child interaction, a sense of stability (attractor) is formed if the practices used to solve the child's problems give a positive result. Otherwise, the teacher plunges into reflection, looking for ways of self-organization that contributes to solving problems.
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Ratamäki, Outi, and Pekka Salmi. "The most contested in Finland: Large carnivores and the Saimaa ringed seal – challenges of socio-ecological rhythms and their practical implications." European Countryside 7, no. 1 (March 1, 2015): 1–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/euco-2015-0001.
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Abstract This article illustrates two Finnish case studies: one about large carnivores and the other about the protection of the Saimaa ringed seal. These cases are analysed by using the concept of life-mode introduced by Thomas Højrup and rhythm analysis developed by Henry Lefebvre. The objective of the paper is to show how the connection between life-modes and spatial and temporal rhythms of humananimal interactions help to better understand the contradictions and conservation challenges of these species. The introduction of new practices, e.g. a new enterprise or conservation of an endangered species, creates arrhythmias to more traditional practices which can be very resistant to change. This resistance is because maintaining rhythms is also to uphold one’s life-modes and associated identities. Life-modes are expressed and regenerated by different practices, symbols and concepts in time and space
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Meng, Meng, Marcin Dabrowski, and Dominic Stead. "Enhancing Flood Resilience and Climate Adaptation: The State of the Art and New Directions for Spatial Planning." Sustainability 12, no. 19 (September 23, 2020): 7864. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12197864.
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The need to respond to increasing flood risk, climate change, and rapid urban development has shaped innovative policies and practices of spatial planning in many countries over recent decades. As an instrumental–technical intervention, planning is mainly used to improve the physical environment (through concepts such as regulating waterproof facades of architecture, setting buffering zones, and designing green–blue corridors). However, the implementation of the proposed physical interventions is often challenging and necessitates assistance from practices such as climate assessment, policy disciplines, civil societies, and economic resources. These extensive perspectives have spawned many new research domains in the realm of spatial planning. This paper provides a review of the recent developments in flood resilience, risk management, and climate adaptation; based on this, it positions planning research and practice within these works of literature. Four clusters of thought are identified, mainly in the European and American scholarship of the last two decades. They are environmental concerns, disaster management concerns, socio-economic concerns, and institutional concerns. Current planning research concentrates on disaster management in the underlying belief that planning is functionally efficient. The attention to environmental concerns, socio-economic concerns, and institutional concerns of planning research remains insufficient but has been growing. This, in turn, enlarges the scope of planning research and indicates future directions for study. These new concerns relate to spatial planning’s ability to operate effectively in a multi-sectoral setting, despite limited resources and in the face of uncertain risk.
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Rummler, Klaus. "Foundations of Socio-Cultural Ecology: Consequences for Media Education and Mobile Learning in Schools." MedienPädagogik: Zeitschrift für Theorie und Praxis der Medienbildung 24, Educational Media Ecologies (July 10, 2014): 1–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.21240/mpaed/24/2014.07.10.x.
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This conceptual paper offers insights to the foundations of Socio-Cultural Ecology and relates this concept to traditional concepts of Ecology e.g. media ecology or Bronfenbrenner’s ecological model of child development. It will further discuss the term «ecology» as a relation between learners and their surrounding physical and structural world, e. g. an ecology of resources or the classroom as an ecological system. Thirdly more recent concepts in ecology will be considered e. g. Digital Media Ecology including media ecology (German: Medienökologie) from a German perspective. This contribution tries to describe common principles of (media) ecologies and will ask after their meaning and relation to media education and mobile learning. One of the main results is the realisation that cultural practices of school learning and cultural practices of media acquisition take place in different worlds or in different ecological spheres. The question is thus again of how to bridge these ecological spheres, and how «agency» developed outside school, can be nourished inside school. In other words: how can we bridge socio-cultural and technological structures within these cultural practices.
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Roland, Stephanie, Quentin Stevens, and Katrina Simon. "Young Residents’ Perceptions of Windhoek’s Streetscapes." Journal of Public Space 7, no. 1 (December 31, 2022): 251–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.32891/jps.v7i1.1520.
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Urban streets are public spaces that can gather residents and create vibrant and diverse experiences contributing to the positive qualities of an urban landscape. Windhoek’s suburban model, which has evolved from colonial and apartheid planning, relies heavily on private motorcars, which most residents cannot afford. The city’s various neighbourhoods have historically been segregated by race, ethnic group, and wealth. The city lacks public spaces where different residents can easily and freely interact. Windhoek presents a particularly unsettling disconnect between the formal systems governing and producing the city and residents' socio-cultural backgrounds and everyday spatial practices. Windhoek presents a particularly unsettling disconnect between the formal systems governing and producing the city and residents' socio-cultural backgrounds and everyday spatial practices. This paper develops a methodology that combines non-expert participatory methods and tools to investigate perceptions of young residents of Windhoek’s streetscape, extending beyond objective spatial descriptions and generalised socio-political critiques to address individual subjective perceptions, recollections, and experiences of specific urban spaces within Windhoek. The conceptual lens of the uncanny is employed as an organising concept to consider how the spatial and social legacies of colonialism and apartheid continue to affect Windhoek residents’ perceptions and behaviours in publicly-accessible spaces. The paper examines residents’ objective topological understandings of the city’s spatial structure, their movement through it, and their subjective, qualitative social perceptions about place, value and belonging connected to that spatial understanding.
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Zhou, Kaichun, Anzhou Fu, Can Xiao, Ping Tang, Junyi Zhang, and Binggeng Xie. "Understanding Idle Land Using Local Environmental Characteristics: A Case Study of Liuyang, China." Sustainability 15, no. 8 (April 14, 2023): 6663. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su15086663.
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Idle land represents a major challenge to sustainable land management and the effective utilization of land resources. Achieving a comprehensive understanding of idle land is crucial to reduce land waste and promoting sustainable socio-economic development. While previous research has mainly focused on the concepts and governance of idle land, limited attention has been paid to its local environmental characteristics (LECs), this study aims to research idle land in Liuyang City to better understand its spatial distribution pattern and association with LESc for sustainable land use practices. The research employs various techniques, including testing the validity of Zipf’s law in relation to idle land, using spatial autocorrelation methods to determine its spatial distribution at the town/subdistrict level, and employing spatial-semantic clustering to identify spatio-LEC patterns of idle land. The results show that the areal distribution of idle land at the town/subdistrict level is close to the ideal state. Additionally, the study identifies non-randomness in the spatial patterns of idle land and observes links among different types of idle land with varying uses.
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Ali, Md Maksud. "Revisiting the orality-literacy relationship and its implications for English language teaching in Bangladesh." IIUC Studies 14, no. 2 (December 20, 2017): 99–110. http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/iiucs.v14i2.39883.
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This paper focuses on different concepts of literacy and their implications for TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages). Taking a critical perspective, the study examines the traditional concept of literacy and illuminates how a narrow approach to literacy may lead to a conflict between national policy text and the actual pedagogic practices. Therefore, the author advocates for situating contemporary TESOL pedagogy within a broader concept. In addition, the study examines how literacy is embedded with orality, and whether the link between them has any implications for English language education in Bangladesh. It is argued here that since different cultures and societies do not adhere to a single set of literacy practices, an awareness of learners’ and other stakeholders’ socio-cultural concepts of literacy in a society is essential for TESOL practitioners in order for their materials and methods to be socio-culturally responsive. The study has implications for policy makers, materials writers and TESOL practitioners.
IIUC Studies Vol.14(2) December 2017: 99-110
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Assmuth, Timo, Xianwen Chen, Christopher Degeling, Tari Haahtela, Katherine N. Irvine, Hans Keune, Richard Kock, Salla Rantala, Simon Rüegg, and Suvi Vikström. "Integrative concepts and practices of health in transdisciplinary social ecology." Socio-Ecological Practice Research 2, no. 1 (November 20, 2019): 71–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s42532-019-00038-y.
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AbstractIncreasing recognition of interdependencies of the health of humans, other organisms and ecosystems, and of their importance to socio-ecological systems, necessitates application of integrative concepts such as One Health and EcoHealth. These concepts open new perspectives for research and practice but also generate confusion and divergent opinion, prompting new theories, and call for empirical clarification and evaluation. Through a semi-systematic evaluation of knowledge generation in scientific publications (comprised of literature reviews, conceptual models and analyses of communities of practice), we show how integrative concepts and approaches to health evolve and are adopted. Our findings indicate that while their contexts, goals and rationales vary, integrative concepts of health essentially arise from shared interests in living systems. Despite recent increased attention to ecological and societal aspects of health including broader sustainability issues, the focus remains anthropocentric and oriented towards biomedicine. Practices reflect and in turn transform these concepts, which together with practices also influence ways of integration. Overarching narratives vary between optimism and pessimism towards integrated health and knowledge. We conclude that there is an urgent need for better, coherent and more deeply integrative health concepts, approaches and practices to foster the well-being of humans, other animals and ecosystems. Consideration of these concepts and practices has methodological and political importance, as it will transform thinking and action on both society and nature and specifically can enrich science and practice, expanding their scope and linking them better. Transdisciplinary efforts are crucial to developing such concepts and practices to properly address the multiple facets of health and to achieve their appropriate integration for the socio-ecological systems at stake. We propose the term “transdisciplinary health” to denote the new approaches needed.
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Shelegina, О. N. "Environmental museums of Siberia socio-cultural practices of the development of etnocultural heritage." Ethnography of Altai and Adjacent Territories 10 (2020): 364–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.37386/2687-0592-2020-10-364-369.
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The historical dynamics reflects the actual process of spatial museification of the Siberian region. For the first time, the concept is introduced — the development of ethnographic heritage. On its basis, an analysis of socio-cultural practices of environmental museums based on ethnocultural heritage — “Shushenskoye”, “Old Siberian”, Ethnographic Museum of the Peoples of Transbaikalia. The significance of the ethnographic component is reflected in the museums-reserves on Lake Andreevskoye, “Friendship”, “Tomskaya Pisanitsa”. Identified innovative approaches to the development of ethnocultural heritage, the role of environmental museums in branding the territories of Siberia.
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Marinic, Gregory, Rebekah Radtke, and Gregory Luhan. "Critical Spatial Practices: A Trans-scalar Study of Chinese Hutongs and American Alleyways." Interiority 4, no. 1 (January 29, 2021): 27–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.7454/in.v4i1.79.
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Across time and cultures, the built environment has been fundamentally shaped by forces of occupancy, obsolescence, and change. In an era of increasing political uncertainty and ecological decline, contemporary design practices must respond with critical actions that envision more collaborative and sustainable futures. The concept of critical spatial practice, introduced by architectural historian Jane Rendell, builds on Walter Benjamin and the late 20th century theories of Henri Lefebvre and Michel de Certeau to propose multi-disciplinary design practices that more effectively address contemporary spatial complexities. These theoretical frameworks operate through trans-scalar means to resituate the built environment as a nexus of flows, atmospheres, and narratives (Rendell, 2010). Assuming an analogous relationship to the contemporary city, critical spatial practices traverse space and time to engage issues of migration, informality, globalisation, heterotopia, and ecology. This essay documents an interdisciplinary academic design studio that employed critical spatial practices to study correspondences between Chinese and American cities. Here, the notions of urban and interior are relational. Urbanism and interior spaces are viewed as intertwined aspects in the historical development of Beijing hutongs and Cincinnati alleyways. These hybrid exterior-interior civic spaces create sheltered public worlds and socio-spatial conditions that nurture people and culture.
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Murrani, Sana. "Contingency and plasticity: The dialectical re-construction of the concept of home in forced displacement." Culture & Psychology 26, no. 2 (September 2, 2019): 173–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1354067x19871203.
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The loss of home as a consequence of war, conflict and displacement urges us to question the concept’s very construction. Although existing spatial and cultural studies on the subject have explored the immaterial characteristics of the construct, they have overlooked its connection to the consciousness and agency of the displaced, which are quintessentially contingent. This article presents a theoretical inquiry into the influence of the processual ambiguity of our cognitive system on the positioning of the concept of home between the temporality of its construct and the plasticity of its agency. Using connections between cognitive plasticity (based on Catherine Malabou’s concept of the freedom of the brain) and spatial plasticity (influenced by Vilém Flusser’s notion of the freedom of the migrant and the construction of the concepts of home), it establishes that the plasticity of migrants’ agency in displacement is an instrumental process in encoding new spatial practices of home-making.
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Pitt, Benjamin, Stephen Ferrigno, Jessica F. Cantlon, Daniel Casasanto, Edward Gibson, and Steven T. Piantadosi. "Spatial concepts of number, size, and time in an indigenous culture." Science Advances 7, no. 33 (August 2021): eabg4141. http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abg4141.
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In industrialized groups, adults implicitly map numbers, time, and size onto space according to cultural practices like reading and counting (e.g., from left to right). Here, we tested the mental mappings of the Tsimane’, an indigenous population with few such cultural practices. Tsimane’ adults spatially arranged number, size, and time stimuli according to their relative magnitudes but showed no directional bias for any domain on any spatial axis; different mappings went in different directions, even in the same participant. These findings challenge claims that people have an innate left-to-right mapping of numbers and that these mappings arise from a domain-general magnitude system. Rather, the direction-specific mappings found in industrialized cultures may originate from direction-agnostic mappings that reflect the correlational structure of the natural world.
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Wieszaczewska, Agnieszka. "Spatial turn and animation practices inspired by cultural anthropology." Journal of Education Culture and Society 7, no. 2 (September 10, 2016): 262–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.15503/jecs20162.262.273.
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Spatial turn is one of the cultural turns, which have recently occurred in the humanities. It stresses the importance of issues such as space and place and can be successfully used as a theoretical perspective gaining use in thought over issues such as globalisation, transnationality, mapping but also education. In the discourses of pedagogical science space and place are considered through their multidimensional impact on education and learning. As significant concepts rooting pedagogy or pedagogy of borderland. The pedagogical reflection on space could be also used in the field of animation practices, especially in activities, which are related to place somehow colonised.
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Bishop, Elizabeth. "Concepts of Space." International Journal of Middle East Studies 52, no. 4 (November 2020): 771–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0020743820001099.
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Space, in the dictionary, is “a continuous area or expanse which is free, available, or unoccupied” and “the dimensions of height, depth, and width within which all things exist and move.” Those of us who are social scientists may recognize Henri Lefebvre's unitary theory of space in the dictionary definition, which seeks to capture physical, mental, and social “fields” constituting space: spatial practices, representations of space, and representational space (such as the opening and closing of airports, requiring that people queue for temperature scans, constructing stadiums and choosing names for them). If anything, the spread of coronavirus disease at the present moment draws the significance of space and tensions between different concepts of space to our immediate attention.
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Michalska-Żyła, Agnieszka. "Benefits of implementing the 15-minute city concept in stimulating the potential of social urban resurgence." Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Sociologica, no. 87 (November 30, 2023): 45–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.18778/0208-600x.87.04.
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The issue presented in the article is a proposal to look at a specific vision of the sociospatial organization of the city, namely the concept of the 15-minute city. In this proposed approach, this concept can become a source of inspiration for urban development, as well as a stimulating factor for the social potential of the urban community, which form the basis for the resurgence of cities after the crisis. In the theoretical realm, the basis for the considerations presented in this text is a socio-spatial perspective, according to which the city is perceived as a socio-spatial structure that is reproduced through daily social practices, reflecting both institutionalized patterns and the material organization of space. This text contributes to the discussion about the potential benefits of applying the 15-minute city concept for the development and resurgence of cities in line with the idea of livable cities, ensuring a high quality of life for their residents.
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Lyubivaya, M. M. "MEDICAL PRACTICES IN THE CONTEXT OF SOCIO-CULTURAL TRANSFORMATIONS." UKRAINIAN CULTURAL STUDIES, no. 2(9) (2021): 60–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.17721/ucs.2021.2(9).11.
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The article is devoted to revealing the place and significance of therapeutic practices, which are a significant component of cultural practices and undergo transformation in accordance with the changing picture of the world and the dominant narrative of culture. Regardless of the level of development of society, the problem of Health is a priority, and a set of practices and ideas designed to preserve it is a sustainable element of any culture. Socio-cultural conditions of the present make clear the relevance of the concepts of "Health" and "disease", demonstrate the influence of medical practices and ideas about them on all spheres of human existence, but at the same time there is an insufficient level of scientific under- standing of the formation and translation of narratives related to the purpose and participants of therapeutic communication, the principles of its functioning, which determines the importance of research on this topic within the framework of cultural discourse. The scientific novelty of the work consists in determining the mutual influence of medical practices and various forms of cultural text, identifying the experience of treating the disease in its specific historical and cultural existence, as well as its projections in linguistic and mythological systems. In the study of the above- mentioned issues, the method of cultural and historical reconstruction is applied, which reveals the formation and development of medical dis- course and communication and attempts to rationalize and legitimize them in the cultural space.
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Manfio, Vanessa. "O O ENSINO DE GEOGRAFIA E O APRENDIZADO SOBRE O CONCEITO DE ESPAÇO GEOGRÁFICO: NOTAS SOBRE PRÁTICAS PEDAGÓGICAS." REVISTA GEONORTE 11, no. 38 (December 18, 2020): 18–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.21170/geonorte.2020.v.11.n.38.18.34.
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The study of space in the school discipline of Geography is very important for the development of a clear interpretation of the various spatial nuances. With this in mind, this article had the research initiative to address the concept of geographic space in geographic education, going beyond the student's everyday reality and going beyond other spatial analyzes, and also to demonstrate didactic practices for teaching this concept with students. This study is based on a literature review, qualitative approach and dialogue on practical interventions applied in the school context. In this expectation, the work intends to contribute with a richer and more geographic thinking, teaching and learning. Since the teaching of geographic space brings the dimension of other themes and concepts, the expression accurately the relationship between society and nature and establishes a vision of the lived, conceived and represented, allowing the georeferenced vision of the student.
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Dewi, Novita. "Postcolonial Hermeneutics: Concepts and Contribution to Understanding Socio-Religious Problems in Southeast Asia." IKAT : The Indonesian Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 2, no. 1 (July 24, 2018): 47. http://dx.doi.org/10.22146/ikat.v2i1.37392.
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Scrutiny of unequal power-relations between the “East” and the “West” in politics, culture, economy, and various aspects of life is the concern of postcolonial studies. Foucault's concept of power is central in postcolonial theory with which Edward Said is celebrated for his dismantling of Orientalist views. Postcolonial literature, likewise, has contributed to the growth and development of postcolonial criticism. The first objective of this article is to give a brief overview of different terms attached to the word “postcolonial”, i.e. postcolonial literary criticism, postcolonial literature and postcolonial theory, since these terms enrich one another theoretically. The second objective is to discuss postcolonial hermeneutics as a reading tool to examine various mundane practices in Southeast Asian postcolonial society. The purpose is to achieve a balanced, reciprocal exchange of perspectives while providing legitimacy for alternative interpretations to the hegemony shown in “Western” discourse. Citing traditional ways of conflict resolution and eco-friendly land management as examples, this article concludes that postcolonial reading may shed light on how socio-religious conflicts, hybrid experiences of faiths, and other social practices operate and get their respective meanings in postcolonial countries across Southeast Asia.
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Pokrovskaia, N. N., T. V. Smetanina, and S. I. Shelonaev. "Social Interactions within Participative Models of Distributed Networking: Updating Concepts in the Context of Digital Transformation." Sociology and Law, no. 3 (October 19, 2021): 6–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.35854/2219-6242-2021-3-6-18.
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Sociological analysis of up-to-date social practices, communication and interaction forms among community members, local and virtual groups is based on a number of methodological approaches that need to be reconceived today in connection with the digital transformations of social processes and structures. Socio-managerial approaches used in the era of traditional and modern society (modernity) do not cover the total social reality and do not reply to the tasks and social practices of the post-modern information society (“meta-modernity”). In these conditions, the rethinking is required for the implementation of the basic concepts such as democratic instruments of state regulation, once rejected by Plato and Aristotle and then again proposed at a new round of social development by K. Popper. The concept of participation, which returned to sociological, socio-anthropological and socio-economic discourse in the middle of the twentieth century, needs to be developed in the era of total digitalization, additionally accelerated by measures of social isolation in connection with the pandemic (the transition to remote work, the expansion of online services, etc.). The article attempts to present new aspects of the concept of participation in relation to understanding the models of distributed networks of economic relations (sharing) and, in general, to digital forms of social communications in society.
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Nurdiyana, Tutung, and Yusuf Hidayat. "Women’s Ethnobeauty: Exploring Socio-Cultural Practices in Women’s Body Care." Revista de Gestão Social e Ambiental 18, no. 7 (June 12, 2024): e05083. http://dx.doi.org/10.24857/rgsa.v18n7-121.
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Objective: This research explores the ethnobeauty of Banjar women, particularly delving into their perceptions of beauty within the context of Banjar culture, and how these perceptions influence their practices of body care. Theoretical Framework: Study of ethnobeauty among Banjar women as part of ethnoscience is an exploration of Banjar women's knowledge about beauty concepts and beauty care, which includes various categories in beauty care, Banjar women’s classification systems in beauty care, and various factors that shape their knowledge about beauty such as beliefs, myths, beauty care behaviors, and the dynamics accompanying their knowledge about beauty. Method: The study adopts qualitative research methods with a feminist ethnographic approach. Informants for this study were selected purposively, focusing on individuals knowledgeable about beauty, history, and culture within the Banjar community. Results and Discussion: The findings of the research reveal that Banjar women's perspectives on beauty can be categorized into two main themes: physical or external beauty, and inner beauty. Physical beauty pertains to the outward appearance of women, emphasizing attributes such as cleanliness, fragrance, and radiance of the skin. In the Banjar language, beauty (bungas) is synonymous with a woman possessing immaculate, fragrant, and luminous skin. Hence, maintaining cleanliness and fragrance to achieve a radiant and fresh appearance is the primary objective of their body care practices. To attain physical beauty, Banjar women engage in various beauty treatments aligned with their beauty ideals. These treatments aim to achieve clean, smooth, and radiant skin. Research Implications: From the presentation of the research results above, several conclusions can be drawn as follows: First, Banjar women's views on beauty are generally divided into two meanings: physical or outer beauty and inner beauty. The first meaning, physical or outer beauty, refers to a woman’s beauty directed towards her physical form. Beauty (known as “bungas” in Banjar language) for Banjar women is interpreted as having clean, fragrant, and radiant skin. Cleanliness and fragrance of the body, making the body appear radiant and glowing, are their main goals in performing body beauty care to look beautiful and fresh. Second, to achieve physical (outer) beauty, Banjar women engage in beauty care with various forms of beauty treatments according to their conception of beauty, which is to obtain clean, smooth, and radiant skin. The practices performed by Banjar women are related to their beliefs or faith. Originality/Value: As part of ethnoscience, the study of ethnobeauty, which combines the words “ethno” and “beauty,” literally means the beauty of a particular society or ethnic group. Thus, ethnobeauty research can be defined as an effort to describe a society’s knowledge system regarding beauty and beauty care practices, including myths, beliefs, culture, and beauty care practices along with their dynamics. As an ethnobeauty study of the Banjar community, this research provides a comprehensive depiction of the Banjar society's knowledge of beauty and body beauty care practices. Generally, this ethnobeauty study delves deeply into the phenomenon of Banjar women's beauty, covering several aspects including beauty concepts, values embedded in beauty care, myths and beliefs associated with beauty care practices, various forms of beauty care along with their benefits for the body such as balulur, batimung, bapupur, and other beauty treatments commonly practiced by Banjar women.
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Liedtke, Christa, Marco Hasselkuß, Melanie Speck, and Carolin Baedeker. "Transition and Social Practices." Journal of Sustainable Development 10, no. 5 (September 8, 2017): 25. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/jsd.v10n5p25.
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Against the background of environmental problems arising from the growing extraction of natural resources and resource depletion, achieving a sustainable development is an indispensable challenge in the twenty-first century. In this article we want to show how socio-technical and product-service innovations can change social practices – the routine doings in everyday life – and, thus, support transition of socio-technical systems. We introduce theoretical considerations on how social practice theories and the framework of the Multi-Level Perspective in transition research can be linked to better understand transition processes from a micro-macro-link perspective. We then present cases based on desk research in the field of practices in bathing, heating and nutrition to show how these have changed over the past decades. Building on this, examples of concepts for sustainable product-service-design in these areas are introduced as leverage points to change social practices in everyday life. These have been developed in research projects or design student seminar works, respectively. We argue that this implies sustainable product-service-systems should be developed in a user- and actor-integrated framework, such as Sustainable LivingLabs. The integration of users and other stakeholders into participatory co-creation processes enables tailored solutions that take actual routines and dependencies seriously into account.
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Goodwin, Yölande, and Kenneth David Strang. "Socio-Cultural and Multi-Disciplinary Perceptions of Risk." International Journal of Risk and Contingency Management 1, no. 1 (January 2012): 1–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijrcm.2012010101.
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This is a review of the extant risk theory literature that hypothesizes new cross-cultural perceptions and multi-disciplinary techniques have emerged in risk management practice. Basic concepts in risk theory are introduced and then the generally accepted risk management framework is explained (identification, assessment, planning, and control). Global macro-environment factors and contemporary risk assessment practices are briefly explored. A multi-disciplinary socio-cultural meta-model of risk theory is developed. The paper concludes with ideas and proposes research questions for future studies.
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Van Marrewijk, Alfons, and Leonore Van den Ende. "Changing academic work places: the introduction of open-plan offices in universities." Journal of Organizational Change Management 31, no. 5 (August 13, 2018): 1119–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jocm-02-2017-0039.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relation between the spatial intervention of open-plan offices in a university, the consequential change in work practices of faculty members and how these practices appropriate the designed space. Design/methodology/approach The authors executed a two-year longitudinal ethnographic study following the case of the science faculty, which moved from a traditional office setting to open-plan offices. The authors studied the space and interviewed staff before, during and after the introduction of open-plan offices. Findings Findings show that the new spatial setting triggered staff members to attribute certain meanings and practices of adaptation which were, partly, unintended by the design of the open-plan offices. Research limitations/implications This paper contributes empirically grounded insights into the (un)intended consequences of a spatial intervention in terms of how staff members, far from being passive, attribute meaning and alter their work practices leading to unprecedented organizational changes. Practical implications For change consultants, facility managers and university managers the outcomes of this paper are highly relevant. Social implications Large budgets are spent on new office concepts at universities but the authors do know little about the relation between spatial (re)design and organizational change. Originality/value The introduction of new office concepts, spatial redesign and co-location is for many academics highly emotional.
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Bnatov, Danila Alekseevich. "Consumer society and consumer behavior: The evolution of concepts and modern understanding." Социодинамика, no. 8 (August 2023): 1–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.25136/2409-7144.2023.8.43986.
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The article presents the results of a theoretical analysis of significant sociological, economic, psychological and related concepts of consumer society and consumer behavior. It is shown that the evolution of these concepts has a pronounced division into stages corresponding to the historical trends of the emergence and development of consumer society as a socio-economic phenomenon. Organically interconnected with the formation of consumer society was the formation of typed consumer behavior practices, which today is characterized by a complex structure, and its specific forms depend on a significant number of factors of the most diverse nature. These forms need to be comprehensively studied in order to use the acquired knowledge in the activities of both commercial enterprises and public administration. Consumption within the framework of this stage was considered most often as a derivative of class or estate, and its most prominent representatives were K.Marx (consumption as belonging to a class), M.Weber, T.Geiger, T.Veblen (theory of prestigious consumption), G.Simmel (theory of fashion), V. Sombart (theory of luxury). Further studies of consumer behavior began to be conducted mainly within the framework of economic theory, behavioral economics and marketing at the beginning of the XX century. The Marxist idea of "commodity fetishism" was continued in the writings of J.Baudrillard (criticism of consumer society), and the concept of M. Weber – in the so-called "class factions" of P. Bourdieu, and the ideas and J.Baudrillard and P. Bourdieu (habitus as an "acquired system of generative schemes") are quite popular today in sociological, socio-cultural and socio-philosophical concepts of human behavior in general and consumer behavior in particular. The "new" theory of consumption was proposed by G. Becker, K. Lancaster and J.Stigler, and M. Friedman and J.Dusenberry formulated the concepts of permanent income and sustainable consumer practices, respectively, to explain "advanced consumption".
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LEONOVA, O. V. "SOCIO-ECONOMIC POLICY IN POST-SOVIET RUSSIA: STRATEGIC PRIORITIES AND POLITICAL MECHANISMS OF IMPLEMENTATION." Central Russian Journal of Social Sciences 19, no. 1 (2024): 57–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.22394/2071-2367-2024-19-1-57-85.
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In the context of modernization practices of Russian society and growing demands on human capital, socio-economic policy acts as an integral tool for the development and transformation of the state. The purpose of the article is to analyze the political mechanisms and strategic priorities for the implementation of socio-economic policy. The research uses methods of analysis, comparison and description, grouping, modeling, structural-functional, comparative-legal and factual analysis, and the method of expert assessments. The principles of a systematic and comprehensive study of socio-economic phenomena and processes, recognition of man as an actor (agent) in the development of society and its main value were also applied. The basis of the research is the concepts of the social state (welfare state), spatial development, human capital, and social justice. The article focuses on the political mechanisms for implementing the EPA and the results of its implementation at the federal and regional levels. The author comes to the conclusion that in conditions of geopolitical turbulence and modernization of various spheres of life, active socio-economic policy becomes a kind of effective core of state regulation, an instrument of transition to an innovative-reproductive type of development. As a result, the value and state identification components of the EPA are highlighted. A decision-making model based on historical experience and criteria-based assessment of socio-economic development should serve as a trigger for the timely development (adjustment) of strategic goals (national priorities).
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Araújo Neto, Luiz Alves. "Cancer Prevention in Brazil." Contributions to the History of Concepts 17, no. 2 (December 1, 2022): 1–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/choc.2022.170201.
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This article discusses possible dialogues between medical history and the history of concepts, suggesting that a “socio-conceptual-moral” history of medicine offers insightful elements for the historical analysis of conceptual change. Drawing mainly from Reinhart Koselleck’s Begriffsgeschichte and Ludwik Fleck’s theory of knowledge, I focus on three points of the “socio-conceptual-moral” perspective: the approach to medical statements as part of a semantic field, the interaction between a formulated concept and its practice, and negotiations about the meanings of medical concepts between different social arenas. I take the history of cancer prevention in Brazil as a case study to discuss these three aspects and emphasize the situated character of conceptual change. The article analyzes the period between the 1960s and the 1990s when substantial changes in the conceptual framework of cancer prevention confronted continuities in public health and medicine practices, policies, and institutions.
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Rubić, Tihana, and Ana-Marija Vukušić. "Managing the Aging Present and Perceiving the Aging Futures: (In)Formal Systems of Care in (Pre-)Pandemic Croatia." Genealogy 6, no. 3 (August 1, 2022): 66. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/genealogy6030066.
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The article is an ethnographic account of recent and contemporary narratives and practices of care and aging in Croatia in the pre-pandemic and COVID-19 pandemic period, within the framework of formal, informal, and “hybrid” systems of care. Its theoretical basis lies in the fields of the anthropology of family, and the anthropology of aging and care, as well as in the concepts of dignity and the conceptions of futures. The ethnographic data were gathered from 2018–2021, in four locations/regions, both in rural and urban settings. The aim of the paper is to initiate a discussion about the qualitative, socio-cultural aspects of aging and everyday life of the elderly, of its transformations and continuities, both in the spatial and temporal dimension, in urban and rural contexts, in crisis, and in “times of peace”.
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Kartomi, Margaret. "On Metaphor and Analogy in the Concepts and Classification of Musical Instruments in Aceh." Yearbook for Traditional Music 37 (2005): 25–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0740155800011218.
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Artists, scholars and audiences in Aceh, the northernmost province of Sumatra, conceive of their percussive, wind and string instruments as symbolising Aceh's “glorious past” and attach a variety of metaphorical and analogous meanings to them. Implicit in the culture, and formulated explicitly by Acehnese scholars, is a classification that divides the instruments at the most general level into three main categories, or metaphorical socio-historical streams: those associated primarily with (i) the pre-Islamic ancestral and nature venerating (animist-Hindu) stream, practices, or presumed origins (ii) the Sunni and/or Syiah Islamic stream (including borderline cases of instruments that straddle both Islamic and animist practices), and (iii) the European or Western socio-historical stream. Organological sub-categories at the second level of categorical thinking are based on an instrument's manner of exciting sound, while the third level comprises the instrumental types with their local names. The instruments are also attributed with broader, changing sociocultural meanings, including gender and class divisions.
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Wright, Samuel. "The practice and theory of property in seventeenth-century Bengal." Indian Economic & Social History Review 54, no. 2 (April 2017): 147–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0019464617695604.
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This study reconstructs the connected history of socio-economic and intellectual practices related to property in seventeenth-century Bengal. From the perspective of socio-economic practices, this study is concerned with the legal transfer of immovable property between individuals. From the perspective of intellectual practice, this study is concerned with how property was understood as an analytical category that stood in a particular relation to an individual. Their connected history is examined by analysing socio-economic practices exemplified in a number of documents detailing the sale and donation of land and then situating these practices within the scholarly analysis of property undertaken by authors within the discipline of nyāya—the Sanskrit discipline dealing primarily with ontology and epistemology. In the first section of the essay, I undertake a detailed examination of available land documents in order to highlight particular conceptions of property. In the second section of the essay, I draw out theoretical issues examined in nyāya texts that relate directly to the concepts expressed in the land documents. In the third and final section of the essay, I discuss the shared language and shared concepts between the documents and nyāya texts. This last section also addresses how the nyāya analysis of property facilitates a better understanding of claims in the documents and what nyāya authors may have been doing in writing about property.
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Golubitsky, Yuri A. "Social Dominant of the Time Concept in the Process of Cardinal Transformations of Society." Economic Strategies 189, no. 3 (June 30, 2023): 86–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.33917/es-3.189.2023.86-93.
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The author examines a number of topical aspects of socio-political practice and futurology of the ongoing process of cardinal transformations in post-Soviet Russia. It is shown that this process constitutes the essence of global trends of permanent renewal of state-public institutions, socio-political and production practices; it is associated with abandoning outdated ideologemes, economic concepts, with the elites change in the ongoing struggle for dominance in power structures.
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Noizet, Hélène. "Fabrique urbaine: a new concept in urban history and morphology." Urban Morphology 13, no. 1 (August 1, 2008): 55–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.51347/jum.v13i1.3947.
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The concept of fabrique urbaine can be described as a socio-spatial process of development of ordinary towns and cities. Practices and representations of the residents and other users of urban areas must be first analysed as a series of historical moments, which may be termed ‘social temporalities’. Then the spatial structure of the town, especially its plots, the aggregation of plots into street blocks, and the street system, can be precisely described, but with its own temporalities, and only as the final result of the history of the inhabitants. The link between social history and urban morphology is in important respects indirect: social temporalities are not conscious steps in the process of the development of the urban fabric. Nevertheless, there is a dialectical interaction between these two orders of facts. This method of articulating the historical development of urban areas is illustrated by studies of French cities.
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Moo, Keng Hao, and Chang Da Wan. "Graduate Employability in Malaysia: Unpacking the Concept, Policy and Practices." IIUM Journal of Educational Studies 11, no. 2 (December 30, 2023): 3–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.31436/ijes.v11i2.471.
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This paper examined the issue of graduate employability in Malaysia by exploring its theoretical underpinnings, defining key concepts, analysing the levels of employability, and investigating the underlying socio-political-economic aspects of the issue. Other than the Malaysian context, the study also drew insights from international perspectives on the employed theoretical framework, comprising the theories of job market signalling, human capital, and neoliberalism, in order to provide a comprehensive understanding of graduate employability. Then, the study highlights the distinction between employability and employment, while emphasizing the long-term ability of graduates to obtain jobs aligned with their skill sets. It critically analysed the current Graduate Tracer Study (GTS) framework in Malaysia, which primarily focuses on employment status and unable to capture the broader concept of employability, particularly long-term employability. Suggestions were put forward to expand the GTS framework by including industrial insights, addressing the horizontal mismatch of employment and long-term employability. Socio-political-economic issues related to graduate employability, such as minimum wages, income inequalities, and gig work arrangements, were also examined. This was followed by the discussions on the role of the state governments in managing employment and employability issues, along with policy initiatives that are aimed at enhancing job quality and long-term employability. Overall, this paper presents a way forward for improving graduate employability in Malaysia. From the perspective of socio-political-economics, this paper has highlighted the challenges faced by gig workers, including job security and unstable income. In line with these, necessary recommendations were proposed, including graduates' learning skills development, the expansion of existing employability programs, the enhancement of the GTS, improvements in the gig-worker sector, collaboration between academia and industries, as well as promotions of entrepreneurship and innovation.
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Ilyina, O. V., and E. V. Kablukov. "Practices of Constructing Regional Identity in the Media Discourse of Tatarstan." Nauchnyi dialog, no. 3 (March 30, 2020): 52–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.24224/2227-1295-2020-3-52-66.
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The authors consider identity as a conditional discursive construct, the result of subjects of discourse identifications and offer their own methodology for its analysis. It is shown that regional identity can be represented in the form of a model based on spatial and temporal identifications that specify the coordinate system of reality in which there are residents of the region in question. The concept of space-time is complemented by a set of diverse thematic identifications, including economic, political, cultural, ethnic, religious, linguistic, etc. For the first time in the framework of the socio-constructionist paradigm, a discursive model of the regional identity of the inhabitants of Tatarstan is constructed in the article. The empirical material of the study is the corpus of texts of Tatarstan media for 2017-2019. It is shown that the spatial identification of Tatarstan people includes the practice of selecting, nominating and describing significant geographical objects, the practice of constructing relations of Tatarstan with other geographical objects. Particular attention is paid to the practice of constructing the capital status of a regional center, as well as the relationship of spatial and political identifications. Analyzing the practices of ethnic, religious, linguistic and cultural identification, the authors come to the conclusion that the identity of the Tatarstan people is ethnocentric: despite the declared multinationality and multi-confessionality of the region, Tatars as an ethnic group, Tatar language, Tatar culture and Islam as a traditional religion of the Tatars are of particular importance.
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Mosselson, Aidan. "Habitus, spatial capital and making place: Housing developers and the spatial praxis of Johannesburg’s inner-city regeneration." Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 52, no. 2 (February 18, 2019): 277–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0308518x19830970.
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This paper presents a sociology of housing developers, stressing the contingent, socially and spatially embedded nature of their practices. It complicates prevailing views of developers and demonstrates how urban development is, in fact, a spatial praxis requiring adaptability and capacities to adjust dispositions and practices to suit the particular environments in which it takes place. A growing body of work tries to understand the motivations and practices of property developers. While this has contributed to understandings of developers’ networks, the ways they understand their roles and the ways different national or regional contexts shape approaches, it largely lacks a spatial perspective, and does not account for the contingency, fluidity and adaptability of developers’ actions. Most importantly, it does not theorize how experiences in space shape practices. Developers are still largely presented as powerful actors who are able to exercise domination over space in relatively straight-forward, linear ways. In contrast, in this paper I demonstrate that developers are influenced by competing dynamics and agendas, and actively adapt their strategies and activities in accordance with the demands and realities of particular places. Building on the work of Centner (2008) and Marom (2014), the paper further develops the concepts ‘spatial capital’ and ‘spatial habitus’ and attempts to use them to make sense of the practices of property developers and affordable housing providers working in inner-city Johannesburg
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Bonnin, Juan Eduardo, and Virginia Unamuno. "Debating translanguaging." Language, Culture and Society 3, no. 2 (November 5, 2021): 231–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/lcs.20016.bon.
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Abstract In this article, we discuss the concept of translanguaging by showing how theoretically unhelpful it is to account for language dynamics among Indigenous speakers leading revitalization projects in the Southern Cone of Latin America. We show how clear-cut distinctions between Spanish and Indigenous languages are crucial for minority speakers’ socio-political struggles against Spanish cultural, political, and social hegemony. We open our discussion by reviewing the different definitions of translanguaging in sociolinguistics and applied linguistics. We examine how the term sometimes overlaps with other previously established concepts such as code-switching and code-mixing and show the importance of inscribing any concepts in the historical and socio-political context in which they are used. We illustrate how Indigenous peoples’ understanding of multilingualism challenges linguists’ discourse on translanguaging. Our analysis aims at prompting scholars to reflect on the ideologies and practices we describe here to understand and attend more responsibly to Indigenous peoples’ political concerns.
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Drobysheva, Elena E., and Anna V. Russkih. "The Phenomenon of Creative Heritage in Socio-Humanitarian Discourse." Observatory of Culture 21, no. 2 (April 19, 2024): 116–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.25281/2072-3156-2024-21-2-116-123.
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The main idea of the article is to address the phenomenon of creative heritage as an independent basic concept of modern socio-humanitarian research. Having analyzed a certain corpus of works in the field of memorial cultural practices, the authors came to the conclusion that there is no instrumental distinction of the concepts “cultural memory”, “artistic heritage”, “creative heritage” in this discursive field. The novelty of the study lies in analyzing the specificity of the concept “creative heritage”, as well as its role in contemporary socio-humanitarianism in general and art history in particular. Since the field of applied interest of the authors lies in the sphere of a specific art form — dance, practical conclusions are drawn in relation to it. It is emphasized that along with the generally accepted methods of research in a given discursive space — typological, structural, functional, biographical — the method of humanitarian blockchain and the concept of “artistic code of the epoch” proposed earlier by one of the co-authors can be used to study the creative heritage of a person (creative group) in the history of art. Emphasis is placed on the relevance of this research policy in connection with the current geopolitical agenda, the practices of “culture of cancellation” being implemented before our eyes, and, accordingly, the need to develop effective projects in the sphere of state cultural policy, forming the working contours of cultural memory and national identity. The problem of identifying, studying and preserving the creative heritage as part of the cultural heritage acquires special relevance in the realities of the modern historical stage — the “early digital era”, accompanied by the rapid development of digital technologies, including destructive ones such as deepfake. The practical potential of the development of this concept is particularly noted, which allows for the consistent preservation of traditions and innovations in artistic activities, to use both the formed array of cultural heritage of different levels and the potential of creative cultural industries.
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Latysheva, Zh V. "Social transcending as a conceptual basis for understanding culture and society." Concept: philosophy, religion, culture 4, no. 2 (July 31, 2020): 25–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.24833/2541-8831-2020-2-14-25-32.
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Modern problems of the socio-humanistic sciences, including the interaction of structure/ agency, the ways and forms of both personal development and socio-cultural changes, the transformation of the value status of a social ego, the reinterpretation of its contribution to the creativeness of society require substantial amendments to the definitions and methodology of socio-humanistic research. In order to achieve this goal, the article considers one of the basic concepts of European philosophy, transcending from the point of view which differs from generally accepted. The singularity of the author’s approach is the social notion of this concept and the identification of its integrating capabilities regarding to semantically close concepts and terms of social theory of the 20th – 21st centuries. To reach these objectives, a comparative analysis of the concepts of social transcending and the concepts of action creativity (H. Joas), fabulation (A.-T. Tymieniecka), signification (P. Berger, T. Luckmann), noting (J. Alexander), metalanguage (R. Barthes), agency (E. Giddens et al.) was treated. Social transcending is as intentional and creative as human action. However, the first concept, besides, is intersubjective, communicative and teleological. As a fabulation, social transcending raises a person by means of functioning of many sociocultural practices, above the world of mundanity. However, in fabulation the mechanism of such exaltation is a artistic and aesthetic experience, while in social transcending all the interests peculiar to human beings are used: cognitive, ethical, religious, etc. Signification involves the individually-personal and sign-symbolic aspects of social transcending, its everyday and non-everyday levels, being one of the significant ways of social transcending. Noting and metalanguage also embody the options of signifying of social transcending; by means of agensy its dynamism is revealed. The author comes to the conclusion that the generic conceptual-substantive basis of the analyzed concepts is social transcending, which «incorporates» the most important processes of social creativity.
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Monteiro, Caren Cristine Rodrigues Gil, Fernanda Urbano Ferreira Rodrigues, and Flávio Augusto Picchi. "ESG Practices In Publicly Capital Construction Companies." Revista de Gestão Social e Ambiental 18, no. 3 (April 2, 2024): e05894. http://dx.doi.org/10.24857/rgsa.v18n3-076.
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Objective: The study aimed to qualitatively evaluate the use of ESG concepts by publicly traded Brazilian companies in the construction and development sector.
Theoretical Framework: The discussion about the socio-environmental responsibility of companies has gained prominence in recent years with ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance). Considering the relevance of the construction and civil development sector to the economy, it is not exempt from the aforementioned socio-environmental responsibilities.
Method: It was necessary to identify, among all the aspects involved in the concept of corporate sustainability, which were most relevant for companies in the respective segment, and then a survey was carried out to identify which practices companies adopt on a daily basis to minimize negative impacts. From the case study of the three companies chosen for the analysis, multiple examples of ESG initiatives were collected and it was possible to make a comparison between them.
Results and Discussion: Company A stands out in the environmental pillar as it already offsets part of its GHG emissions. While on the social side, Companies A and B have initiatives that support projects in the education area. And in relation to governance, the three companies have positive indicators regarding independent members on the board.
Research Implications: The limitations of the study are based on the superficiality of data from other companies studied during the company selection process, which do not allow for a broader analysis of the sector.
Originality/Value: This study contributes to the literature by providing support for construction companies and developers to improve their ESG practices.
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Rabinowitz, Or, and Yehonatan Abramson. "Imagining a ‘Jewish atom bomb’, constructing a scientific diaspora." Social Studies of Science 52, no. 2 (February 8, 2022): 253–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/03063127221077313.
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The nexus between transnational mobilization and Science and Technology Studies (STS) offers a productive platform for studying the formation of scientific activism, the influence of mobilization on scientific developments, and the ways science is used to achieve government goals. Integrating concepts from both sets of literature – particularly national sociotechnical imaginaries and socio-spatial positionality – this article explores how Dr Chaim Weizmann, a prominent chemist and a Zionist leader, attempted to construct and mobilize a ‘scientific diaspora’. Empirically, the article draws on new archival evidence, revealing the hitherto unknown early efforts of the Zionist movement to acquire nuclear reactor and utilize the Jewish involvement in the American nuclear project for political leverage abroad. Theoretically, rather than beginning the analysis with a scientific-diasporic network that was ready to be mobilized, we trace the selective and tailored practices employed by Weizmann to animate the Jewish connection among nuclear scientists and professionals.
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Ravochkin, Nikita Nikolaevich, and Evgeniy Aleksandrovich Popov. "Informal practices in intellectual networks." Социодинамика, no. 3 (March 2024): 45–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.25136/2409-7144.2024.3.70168.
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The functioning of society and its institutions is manifested in various practices that embody both officially established and a wide variety of socio-cultural norms. The subject of the study of this work includes systems of interactions and relationships in networks of intellectuals, which are formed in the process of habitualization of mechanisms of informal practices in the context of modern social development. The formal normative foundations of modern societies that ensure their stability and development prospects are studied. Guided by the concept of R. Merton, the authors emphasize the recognition of the permissibility of deviations from ideal normative designs. The object of the study is the processes of institutionalization of informal practices in the current conditions of social existence. The specifics of the design of intersubjective interactions between participants in networks of intellectuals in various informal institutions are presented, according to which their elements become generally accepted practice and in fact confirm their importance in the emerging relations, directing the development of modern social systems. The methodological foundations of the research are works on social philosophy, sociology, history and political science. The authors also addressed the methods and principles of the institutional, praxiological, network and system approach, as well as the theory of social interaction. The scientific novelty of the conducted research consists in identifying the ultimate foundations of informal practices, substantiating their heuristic advantages for modern social development in the theoretical and applied aspect, analyzing the regulatory capabilities of intelligent networks in relation to the normative foundations of specific spheres of social existence. The main conclusions drawn by the authors allow us to see that informal practices, including such socio-cultural concepts as activity orientations and attitudes, values and expectations, along with officially fixed and socially approved behavioral patterns, determine the effectiveness of intersubjective interactions and the attraction of additional resources. It is emphasized that in the realities of modern society on a global scale, the spheres of life are regulated by both formal norms and ideas introduced by intellectual networks, which contain informal rules.
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Manfredini, Manfredo. "The Augmented Meta-Public Space. Interpreting emerging transductive territories in enhanced centres of consumption." Journal of Public Space 2, no. 3 (December 9, 2017): 111. http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/jps.v2i3.120.
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<p>Recent socioeconomic and technological advancements are transforming the routines of consumption into post-consumerist practices. From a socio-spatial perspective, this is primarily driven by the augmentation of two main processes: prosumption and transduction. Addressing the condition of public space in rapidly developing cities in East Asia and Australasia, this paper discusses how these two forces have contributed to a novel spatial dimension: meta-publicness. The discussion is theoretically framed by two main streams of the research on public space: the one that approaches it as the irreducible realm of agonistic pluralism and the one which sees it as crucial to socio-spatial ontogenetic processes. The major recent concept adopted in the new civic mall planning and management, experientiality, is discussed considering two main aspects: the role of eventful spectacularised environments in these hyper-mediated depoliticised spaces, and the re-politicising agency of their hyper-mediated connectedness. This paper concludes that if a democratisation of the spectacle has introduced relevant antagonistic decommodification forces, there is an internal weakness of the system that exposes these places to an even higher hegemonic dominance.</p>
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Ngowi, Lucas, Ellen Kalinga, and Nerey Mvungi. "Socio-Technical Perspective for Electronic Tax Information System in Tanzania." Tanzania Journal of Engineering and Technology 40, no. 1 (July 31, 2021): 62–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.52339/tjet.v40i1.714.
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Socio-technical systems theory has rarely been used by system architects in setting up computing systems. However, the role of socio-technical concepts in computing, which is becoming social in nature, has made the concepts more relevant and commercial. Tax information systems are examples of such systems because they are influenced by external variables such as the political environment, technological trends, and social environment, introducing complexity in their deployment and determining the type of e-services and their delivery to a diverse group of people. It was observed that in Tanzania there is resistance, reluctance and minimal use of electronic tax system because of insufficient end-user support and their involvement in constructing the system. Therefore, there is need to develop an electronic tax information system using socio-technical systems perspectives to ensure design of an efficient user-friendly tax administration system. The research used the qualitative approach, featuring case studies in Korea, Chile, Tanzania, and Denmark. The study used best practices from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) to benchmark Tanzania Revenue Authority current practices. It was found that tax models implemented are techno-centric push models, which don’t attract its use by tax payers and requiring human intervention in its operation, hence not cost-effective. As the first and relevant phase in socio-technical system development, this paper presents the problem definition and analysis of e-Tax collection system in Tanzania.