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Universals and particulars of affect -- Embodying affect -- Political economies of affect -- Affect, power and justice

Johannes Krause untersucht, welche Maßnahmen Menschen aufgrund bestehender sozialer Dimensionen, Medienkonsum und Werteinstellungen unternehmen, um ihre eigene körperliche Darstellung nach außen zu kontrollieren und zu determinieren. Mit Hilfe einer Online-Erhebung wird aufgezeigt, welche Rolle diese Faktoren spielen, und anhand von Strukturgleichungsmodellen werden diese Einflussfaktoren quantifiziert. Der interdisziplinäre theoretische Rahmen integriert soziologische Konzepte wie das Habitus-Konzept von Pierre Bourdieu, medienwissenschaftliche Wirkungsansätze in Form der Kultivierungsthese von George Gerbner und die Schwartz-Werte als Persönlichkeitsmerkmale in einem gemeinsamen empirischen Modell. Der Inhalt • Was ist Schönheitshandeln und welchen Einfluss hat der Habitus? • Schönheitshandeln und physische Attraktivität • Der Habitus, seine Entstehung und seine Auswirkungen auf den Alltag • Medienkonsum als Einflussfaktor des Schönheitshandelns Die Zielgruppen • Dozierende und Studierende der Soziologie, der Empirischen Sozialforschung und der Kommunikationswissenschaften • Lehrerinnen und Lehrer, Erzieherinnen und Erzieher Der Autor Johannes Krause ist wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Lehrstuhl Soziologie II des Sozialwissenschaftlichen Instituts der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf. Seine Forschungsschwerpunkte sind Schönheitshandeln, Attraktivitätsforschung, Methoden der empirischen Sozialforschung und Altersforschung

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While the importance of religious and magical healing practices in the Late Middle Ages is well established, the ritual aspects of veterinary medicine have so far not been thoroughly explored. This article addresses this lacuna through analysis of a corpus of charms, prayers, and other rituals that were used to cure a group of devastating contagious diseases that afflicted horses: animals that were often afforded complex, professional medical care in this period. It considers the semantic aspects and common features of this group of disease rituals alongside discussions of contagious illness in veterinary treatises, identifying a distinctive set of healing rituals and explaining why they were such a common response to enzootic disease. It argues that magical and religious healing were significant elements of medieval horse-care and that veterinary medicine has been overlooked as one of the key manifestations of ritual healing.

To many young people, the term sport has an exhilarating ring; to many older persons, it signifies recreation and leisure. From colonial times, it has been viewed as a means of social control. Increasingly, it is being touted by governments and donor agencies as a self-evident tool of Africaís development. How accurate are these individual, romantic and moral notions of sport? In this volume, eleven African scholars offer insightful analyses of the complex ideological and structural dimensions of modern sport as a cultural institution. Drawing on various theories and cross-cultural data, the c

"This book provides a theoretical framework for understanding the micropolitics of speed; a rich, nuanced, and embodied account of life in an accelerating world. What does it feel like to live in an era of profound social acceleration? What kinds of affects, perceptions, and identities does an accelerating world produce? The answers to these questions mean more than simply understanding the psychology of speed; they also mean understanding issues in contemporary politics as diverse as xenophobia and anti-immigration policies, patterns of trans-national identification and solidarity, social isolation and alienation, and the ability of new media to coordinate social movements. While drawing extensively on the work of contemporary theorists, Simon Glezos recognizes that social acceleration is not a purely recent phenomenon. He therefore turns to thinkers such as Nietzsche, Spinoza, Bergson, and Merleau-Ponty, to ask how they sought to understand, and respond to, the rapid changes and unsettling temporalities of their eras, and how their insights can be applied to our own. Advancing theoretical understanding and offering a useful way to analytically conceptualize the nature of time, Speed and Micropolitics will be of interest to students and scholars studying affect theory, theories of the body, new materialism, phenomenology, as well as the history of political thought"--

"Pandemic Response and the Cost of Lockdowns brings the vast analytical apparatus of the humanities and social sciences to the task of critically analysing the political decisions taken in 2020-21. The global response to the Covid-19 pandemic left little time for critical debate about the impact of lockdowns. Across the world, governments claimed to 'follow the science', but they rarely paid attention to the humanities and social sciences. Indeed, the absence of these perspectives is symptomatic of a longer-term trend in the marginalisation of the humanities and social sciences in policy-making and public debate. This book exposes the tragic consequences of this omission in 2020-21 and demonstrates the potential for a different path in the future - a path in which we pay attention to power, complexity, and our biases. The authors establish what these disciplines have to offer in a global emergency and how we can ensure they help us avoid the mistakes of 2020-21 in the future. This original and interdisciplinary book will be of great interest to students, scholars, and researchers throughout the humanities and social sciences, including the fields of philosophy, sociology, anthropology, law, political science, and history, as well as relevant policy-makers"--

The vital needs of man are a system that functions in a stationary mode and is sufficiently stable. At the same time, the cultural forms of satisfaction are dynamic, improving and changing in accordance with economic opportunities, ethnic culture and the cultural era. To a large extent, the energy saturation of these cultural forms (means, conditions, methods) to meet the vital needs of individuals that make up society depends on social differentiation and the specifics of demographic dynamics. On the other hand, the historical stages of economic growth and state of the economy have an impact on socio-demographic processes and the natural movement of the population. All together is in a dense correlation and functional connection, the modelling of which is an important scientific task of practical importance. The examples given in the article illustrate the performance of this model, showing the congruence of the calculated and actual values of the demographic indices. The result of theoretical constructions, which are the basis for the formation of a unified economic and demographic theory, is the established connection between the growth of gross domestic product and the natural movement of the population with an increase in the totality of consumed values and with their distribution in the direction of population growth or energy saturation of cultural forms, in which satisfy the vital needs of social individuals.

Purpose
This paper aims to examine how the fields of social enterprise, social entrepreneurship and social innovation have theorised and applied the concepts of narrative and storytelling.


Design/methodology/approach
A literature review and subsequent thematic analysis were used. A keyword search of three databases identified 93 relevant articles that were subsequently reviewed for this paper.


Findings
Four main roles for storytelling and narrative were found in the literature: to gain support for social innovation, to inspire social change, to build a social-entrepreneurial identity and to debate the meaning and direction of social innovation itself.


Practical implications
Following the literature review, capacities and applications of storytelling and narrative in other, related fields are discussed to highlight practical use cases of storytelling that might currently be underdeveloped in the social enterprise and innovation sectors.


Originality/value
The paper argues that the social innovation and enterprise literature predominantly views storytelling as a form of mass communication, while often overlooking its ability to foster communal debate and organise intrapersonal dialogue as possible aspects of strategic thinking and innovation management in social enterprise, social entrepreneurship and social innovation.

"The book shows how emerging ICT adoption by society stakeholders, e.g., enterprises, public administration, local and national governments, healthcare and social organizations, universities, schools, and households can help enhance environmental, economic, social, cultural, and political sustainability. It offers a multidisciplinary analysis of the synergy between ICT adoption and sustainability, both from the perspective of theory and business practice. Including experts from different scientific disciplines, various countries and across different generations makes an interesting contribution to the debate on making sustainability by emerging ICT"--

Information activity of the bodies of the Federal Tax Service of Russia is being improved from year to year on the basis of ICT and modern digital technologies. This article discusses some practical aspects of the legal support of information activities of the territorial bodies of the Federal Tax Service of Russia.

AbstractSustainability and the concept of circular economy are two of the most prominent approaches in the fashion industry to meet global challenges. Advocated by different interest groups, these concepts primarily follow an environmental and economic perspective on sustainability. In turn, the social dimension of sustainability has not been extensively explored. Performing a comparative discourse analysis, this study triangulates data from three different perspectives and unveils social sustainability-related aspects in documents related to two specific companies as well as in academic and stakeholder publications in the fashion context. We use LeximancerTM to reveal and visualize the scope and frequency of socially relevant concepts in more than 550 publications. Based on this, results show that the two fashion companies have gradually been communicating more about social sustainability-related aspects as opposed to academic and stakeholder publications. Overall, single social sustainability-related values exclusively appear in each of the publication groups, whereas others seem to reflect a mutual influence among the different players. Yet, pivotal social sustainability-related issues are missing. This corroborates scholars assuming a neglected role of the social dimension of sustainability in general and calling for a greater elaboration on social aspects in the conceptualization of a circular economy. Our results also call for a deeper follow-up analysis of communications, practices and strategies of different actors in their respective social contexts.