Roman Port Societies

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In this book, an international team of experts draws upon a rich range of Latin and Greek texts to explore the roles played by individuals at ports in activities and institutions that were central to the maritime commerce of the Roman Mediterranean. In particular, they focus upon some of the interpretative issues that arise in dealing with this kind of epigraphic evidence, the archaeological contexts of the texts, social institutions and social groups in ports, legal issues relating to harbours, case studies relating to specific ports, and mercantile connections and shippers. While much attention is inevitably focused upon the richer epigraphic collections of Ostia and Ephesos, the papers draw upon inscriptions from a very wide range of ports across the Mediterranean. The volume will be invaluable for all scholars and students of Roman history.

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  • Retno Iswati + 2 more

The Brotherhood of SH Terate (PSHT) and Brotherhood of SH Tunas Muda Winongo(PSHTW) is a martial art with noble teaching values ​​derived from the heritage of the Indonesian people that we must develop and we preserve to produce qualified cadres, who can be a good example in organizing, behaving, behaving in the life of the nation and state. So the community of identity conflicts claim each other the truth of the most original ideology SH carrier that often occurs in the Faithful Heart of Terate brotherhood and the Faithful Brotherhood of Tunas Muda Winongo will not happen again. As the results of the research that we have done, to prevent the problem from spreading, through the hard work of the Government, Security Apparatus, Religious Leaders, Community Leaders, Leaders of the Brotherhood of Terate and Brotherhood SH Winongo has formed a social institution which is a pattern that emerges as a consequence of individuals living together. When an individual faces a shared problem, a standard and guideline is made on how to behave, Horton and Hunt state that an institution is a norm system to achieve a goal or activity that is seen as important, or formally, a set of habits and behavior revolves around a basic human activity (Horton, Paul B., Chester L. Hunt, 1996: 244). Soerjono Soekanto then gave the closest understanding of social institutionsas a social institution. As conveyed by Koentjaraningrat regarding social institutions, social institutions are expected to be more responsive and able to anticipate various social problems. In particular, social institutions with the strength of their social capital will encourage the development of the response of the local community to the problems that arise from the development of increasingly complex social changes. This was also stated by Nuryana that social capital was able to provide a variety of positive outcomes for the interests of institutions and social groups (Nuryana, 2002: 23). Subsequently through solidarity and socialization in the formation of personalities and optimization of monitoring and communication with PSH social groups Winongo's Terate and PSHT are expected to aim to strengthen social resilience of the community through the coaching of SHs to create harmony and commitment together in harmony, safe, comfortable, peaceful and peaceful in HARKATIBMAS. Specific objectives of this study Describe the process of socialization in personality formation, describe the mechanism of monitoring and evaluation and describe the development of the application of the teaching values ​​of PSH Terate and PSHT Winongo to social groups. This research was conducted in Magetan Regency, Madiun Regency and Madiun City while the sampling was taken by purposive sampling method. The data obtained is analyzed using Interactive methods through data reduction, data presentation and data verification. In line with the Merdeka Madiun University Strategic Plan in producing findings / methods / theories / policies, especially in the field of Applied University Research based on findings-based strategic plans to produce invasions, both methods, new theories or new policies that have never existed before, then targeted outcomes are, Journal Publications, National Seminars, ISBN and Copyright Textbooks. Keywords : social groups, socialization, solidarity, communication, social security DOI : 10.7176/PPAR/9-6-11 Publication date :June 30 th 2019

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The process of socialization associated with the development of the social nature of an individual or social group is gaining importance for modern society. The main direction of socialization within sociology is the person as the main element of society. However, given that the socialization of the individual is determined by the nature of society itself, its characteristics and needs, we can say that the process of socialization is inherent not only personal but also other spheres of society. Although we will not deny that the anthropologization of social relations brings to the fore the sociologization of the individual as the main element of social communication. In this regard, the study of the peculiarities of the process of socialization of social interaction, factors, conditions and differences that accompany socialization is becoming increasingly important. Since the process of socialization is associated with a system of information exchange between members of society, the need to reflect and consolidate various social interests, the importance of finding social compromise, it is fair to say that socialization encompasses socio-political communication, in which law plays an important role. The study of the legal aspect of socialization is the theoretical basis for increasing the social role of law, the effectiveness of its regulatory action and ensuring public order. In our opinion, important aspects of socialization of compromise are its characteristics as a means of communication, features of manifestation within social institutions of different levels and substantiation of ways to increase the effectiveness of social functions of legal compromise and means of socialization in law. Compromise at the categorical level can be considered within the three directions of research related to its relationship with the category of conflict. We are talking about organic-structural, conflict-radical and anthropological-communicative directions. The first direction of research reflects society and the forms of its organization as coherently functioning systems. Here the category of "compromise" dominates over the category of "conflict". The second direction of research is characterized by the fact that the category of "compromise" is considered as a special manifestation of the category of "conflict", the latter is dominant in the field of public relations. Regarding the third area of ​​research, the problem of compromise and conflict within this concept is considered at the level of relationships between people, whether macro (state) or micro (group of people). At the same time, compromise and conflict are studied as equivalent interacting categories of public life. A legal compromise has legal consequences, as the result of the agreement of the wills of the parties is the imposition on them of obligations to exercise mutual will. Moreover, the violation of a legal compromise is the basis for the legal liability of the parties. Legal compromise, due to its mediation by legal norms, acquires the attribute of binding and enforced measures. Characteristic of the social action of law is the reflection of its existence at different levels of social interaction, ranging from the individual, social groups, society as a whole. A legal compromise is no exception. Social institutions create an objective reality for a person, that is, it is his social world, in which the appropriate social order is established. At the same time, social institutions are both subjectively and objectively a reality. In view of this, compromise in the behavior of subjects is manifested differently depending on the level of social institution. In simple social institutions (interpersonal, intragroup), the conflict and compromise of the behavior of subjects usually depends on subjective factors that are influenced by objective reality by operating in a single space of other social institutions. In turn, in social institutions of a complex level (intergroup and state, world system) compromise is necessarily "tied" to the order objectively established in such institutions. Thus, compromises always arise between two subjects and are carried out in the corresponding interaction. At the same time, compromises at the state level, in addition to the relationship between its subjects, are necessarily characterized by a constant connection with society through the functioning of legal requirements enshrined in the relevant sources of law.

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The paper presents an overview of the main tendencies in modern discourse studies in German-speaking circles, further referring to the problem of communicative self-presentation strategies used by the participants in virtual conflict discourse and their usage in certain conflict situations. The linguistic, sociological and psychological aspects of conflict communication play an important role in the research of discourse in German-language discourse studies. The research groups such as the Vienna circle and the Duisburg school of discourse analysis integrated theories on conflict discourse, inter alia the hegemony theory developed by E. Laclau and Ch. Mouffe or the theory of conflict discourse of J. Habermas into their research, focusing mainly on the problem of racism and right extremist discourse in the German-speaking public sphere. The modern research includes also sociolinguistic and psycholinguistic aspects of racist discourse research. Scientific works published in the last ten years focus mainly on problems of hidden racism within public and social institutions and racist discourse within teenager groups. The study of different sociological and psychological factors of communicative behavior are aimed at reconstructing social crises and forecast of future tendencies in order to avoid further cases of discrimination in society. With the growing importance of media as source of knowledge and instrument of influence, virtual communication becomes an integral part of discourse formation and articulation. On the one hand, such special features of the Internet, as spontaneity of communication, anonymity of the users, as well as the unlimited number of potential participants, provide a free choice of instruments of self-presentation. On the other hand, however, they involve certain limitations of the communication process itself: such features as social status, social or physical power can no longer be source of influence on the opponent. Thus, participants of conflict discourse have to defend their own and their social group's positive image by choosing suitable communicative strategies of self-presentation and presentation of the opponent. Positive self-presentation in conflict discourse includes a strong division of communicative space into oppositional categories, such as ME (US)-YOU (THEY), GOOD-BAD or RIGHT-WRONG, where the ME (US) group is credited with positive qualities such as good, intelligent, experienced, rightful etc, whereas such negative qualities, as bad, stupid, inexperienced, wrong are attributed to the opponent group. The analysis of such self-presentation strategies and categorization processes allows making conclusions about the mental aspects of discourse practices in separate social and ethnocultural groups basing on psycholinguistic features of intercultural and interpersonal conflict discourse.

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