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"The Digital Discourse of Romanian Social Media Prosumers during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Social media platforms provide the digital playground for users to manifest a strong form of clicktivism and, at the same time, a deep sense of belonging. In this digital space, users produce discourses with in-built ideologies which have a strong impact on society. Through digitized practices (following, sharing, commenting, posting), users become social actors who design and redesign their behaviour and life choices in relation to the individuals and groups which they follow online on a regular basis. In the context of the Covid-19 pandemic, through the use of social media, various users have become movers and shakers in Romania. This study aims to analyse the new media discourse showing the Romanian people's attitude towards the Covid-19 pandemic in the time span of September-October 2021. As such, the linguistic manifestation of users (including micro-celebrities and public figures) was reflected in the polarization of Romanian society, resulting in people mistrusting authorities, and medical experts and giving voice to users who would not normally have a voice in the matter of a global pandemic. Keywords: clicktivism, digital discourse, digitized practices, prosumers, debunking "

Social scientists' attempts to classify nationalism have concurred in the belief that it involves a unique depth of human feeling surpassing ideological considerations. Nationalism is viewed as one of the four most powerful forces of collective loyalty & identity in human history, along with kinship, ethnicity, & religion. In Nationalism and Other Bases of Large-Scale Organization and Identity, Wendell Bell (Yale U, New Haven, Conn) adds SC & corporatism to Symmons-Symonolewicz's categories as principles of large-scale collectivization, notes the on-going conflict among them in the processes of history & society, & discusses nationalism in the Caribbean context as a means to legitimate the quest for social equality. In Nationalism: Competitors and Allies, Walker Connor finds that the omission of a discussion of the state makes the meaning of nationalism confusing, & emphasizes the interaction & complementarity between patriotism & nationalism, as well as between all group loyalties. In Comments on Symmons-Symonolewicz's "Collective Sentiments and Their Social Hierarchies," Joshua A. Fishman (Yeshiva U, New York, NY) is concerned with collective loyalties & actions from the perspective of the SofK. Nationalism is seen as the activization of ethnic-kinship ties that are given spiritual legitimacy through religion. The relative importance of values of kinship, religion, & nationalism at a given historical time is assessed as an indication of social change. In Comments on Konstantin Symmons-Symonolewicz's "Collective Sentiments and Their Social Hierarchies," Louis L. Snyder (City U of New York, NY) criticizes recent research on the implications of ethnic identification for nationalism, & considers the sociolinguistic aspects of the recent term "ethnicity." In Response to the Discussants, Konstantin Symmons-Symonolewicz distinguishes among the comments on the original analogy between loyalty to nation & older types of large-group loyalty (eg, kinship & religious groups) & summarizes views on the main ideas discussed, including the notion of a hierarchy among collective loyalties. He reasserts his view that SC consciousness has not been historically one of the major human loyalties. D. Dunseath.

The purpose of the current study was to investigate the social and educational status and mobility in ward no 3 of Nagaon Municipal area, Assam. The study aimed to find out generation wise educational attainment level, the educational status of male and female citizens and the occupational pattern of the male and female citizens residing in ward no-3 of Nagaon municipal area in 3 generations. The target population was the citizen of ward no-3 of Nagaon Municipal Area, Assam. 300 people were taken from the target population through random sampling. The result showed us that there is no any remarkable change between the 3 generations in regard to educational attainment infect people are found aware about the importance of education in life. The percentage of female worker was lesser than male and the educational status of male was higher than the female citizen. It was recommended that private sector job guarantee scheme should be given by the government and girls should motivate by home, school and society to access the opportunity to take vocational courses and be a responsible citizen towards the society as equal to boys.

ObjectiveThis study examined whether community attachment leads to population changes through in‐ and out‐migration (such as migration rates), based on the concepts posited by the social capital, linear‐development, and systemic approaches.MethodsUsing the data of the 2014 Iowa Small Towns Project combined with information from the 2016 American Community Survey, we conducted structural equation modeling to examine the associations between community attachment with respect to its predictors (e.g., population size, median age, length of residence, and social capital) and migration.ResultsThe results showed that the model effectively explained community attachment, and in particular, longer length of residence and higher social capital increased the level of community attachment. However, community attachment did not predict migration rates.ConclusionWhile previous studies found that community attachment is a determinant factor of migration intention, and essentially identical to actual migration, the findings implied that using migration intention or actual migration might yield conflicting results and thus yield different conclusions.

The purpose of the article is to deepen, on the basis of historical and pedagogical analysis, understanding of the idea that in the choice of the languages that function in the society as a second or a foreign language, the socio-political context is crucial. The methodology of the research is based on the use of such methods as the analysis and synthesis of literary sources, published and archival documents, scientific investigations and dissertations of other authors; comparison, systematization and generalization of facts and ideas; retrospective analysis of the problem raised in the periods of the Russian Empire, the USSR, and independent Ukraine. The scientific novelty of the material and ideas presented in the article lies in a purposeful actualization of the essential role of socio-political factors in the construction and implementation of the state policy in the field of language education. The article deals with the problem of unambiguous definition of the terms «first language», «second language», «foreign language» in the countries where more than one language is used. The arguments in favor of the assumptions of the role of socio-political context of public language education are presented. A retrospective analysis of the discourse of Ukrainian and Russian as the first and second languages in Ukraine is presented. The interaction between socio-political background and national practice in the state policy of foreign language learning is illustrated and analyzed. It is concluded that the choice of a second or foreign language for study is strongly intertwined with politics and ideology, interstate relations, and aspirations of national self-identification, both at the state and individual levels. Historical experience shows that the attempts to replace the mother tongue with another language, such as an artificial concept of a «second mother tongue», under a totalitarian state regime, may for some time cause serious dissonance in the national identity of the whole nation. However, the democratic way ...

Originally published in 1988, the purpose of this book was to explore the interrelations among communication, social cognition and affect. The contributors, selected by the editors, were some of the best known in their fields and they significantly added to the knowledge of this interdisciplinary domain at the time. In late April 1986 the authors met at a conference centre at the University of Kentucky. They presented first drafts of their chapters and exchanged ideas. Out of these interactions came this book, which has a broad interest across several areas of psychology and communication. Whi

Argues that once the modern world accepted ideologically the normality of change, it became relevant to study it. A number of so-called disciplines came into being, and eventually there appeared to be 5 generally accepted branches of the study of social processes. (SJO)

What drives some people to "perpetrate violence"? Why do others, by contrast, not perpetrate violence, even under the same conditions? Do all violent acts involve a radicalization or a dehumanization and degradation of civil relations between subjects, sometimes even between neighbors or even within the same family or community, be it ethnic or national? This special theme gathers contributions from many different geographical areas (mainly Morocco, Syria, Germany, and Rwanda) and from several disciplines (literature, political science, sociology, history) in order to offer keys to understanding the factors that trigger or accelerate the perpetration of violence, but also those that curb or limit it. The reader will also find exhaustive states of the art and case studies on different types of violence (riot, political, paramilitary, genocidal), leading to transversal theorizations that go well beyond dichotomies and old debates. For example, the authors discuss the "old" opposition between a situational and a procedural approach, embodied—not without artifice—by Browning and Goldhagen, or the necessary dehumanization of the enemy generally associated with the study of genocides. Another methodological choice with a strong epistemological implication consisted in not contrasting the recent theories on radicalization with those on extreme violence, and rejecting any obvious determinism between both moments, in order to avoid explaining the perpetration of violence in too facile a way.