The new global public: Surveillance and the risks to the civil sphere

Classical music as a special form of culture has been widely defined within an ideological and social sphere in people’s everyday life. A particular form of power structure has encouraged individual musicians or music events organisers to re-think the relationship between the governmental structure and individual agencies within the local music sphere. It has become clear that musical exercise is not simply invented by individual musicians or individual music organisations, but through their political cultural sphere and through society. This paper discusses the nature of democracy over classical music and explores classical music in the context of cultural public sphere by theoretically reflecting the notion of public sphere by Habermas, and argues that the policy for classical music is all about bringing democracy to the local public, but, on the other hand, the local public still have concerns on whether local government really takes the necessary steps to make democracy widely available for all forms of music organisations and for everybody in the cultural sphere. The papers also discusses how the culture democracy exercise at a local music level, and explores that music education policy system together with an effective musical education curriculum should also play a positive role in addressing such concerns.

Through a comparison of Wenn wir sterben (When We Die, 2002) by Ernst-Wilhelm Händler and wir schlafen nicht (We Never Sleep 2004) by Kathrin Röggla I intend to prove the thesis that both writers reveal the symptoms of a crisis in today's society, as determined by the deepening globalization in the economic, social, and cultural spheres where flexibility (as characterized by Richard Sennett in The Corrosion of Character, 1998) is an essential feature enabling an individual to adapt to a fast-changing world and to the employment conditions of neoliberal states. Influenced by Richard Sennett, they illustrate the negative consequences of the new economy on German society: the insecure situation of individuals is determined by unpredictable fluctuations of the free market and by the virtual economy (c.f. Jean Baudrillard), mechanisms of which appear to common people as a sphere of “hyperreality,” deepening the alienation of individuals. Both writers portray interesting female characters, impressed by the success propaganda in the media, trying to use the opportunities of the free market to gain independence. However, at the end of the works, they become disillusioned when confronted with intrigues followed by their bankruptcy or dismissal. Both writers argue that the main crisis in today's global society is the financialization of all spheres of life and the subordination of the individual to the dictates of mass culture, which popularizes idealized pictures of success and a fashionable lifestyle while avoiding responsibility for the losers in globalization, that is, the weakest members of society. Contemporary authors also have been developing a critical interpretation of the achievements of women's emancipation, pointing not only to woman-hostile work conditions, but also to the loss of family bonds in general and to the automatization of all aspects of life, where personal contact is replaced by phone calls and the Internet. Under the influence of the media's images of globalization, women try to fit the expectations of the male-dominated corporate world, while a focus on profit results in the loss of moral values. Both authors come to the conclusion that materialistic-oriented civilization is nearing its end. According to Ernst-Wilhelm Händler and Kathrin Röggla, literature must be engaged more in societal questions and should shed light on the negative results of globalization in the cultural, economic, and social spheres in order to assist readers in rethinking their own life priorities.

The defining feature of the 2016 election is the extent to which noncivil criteria and anticivil symbolism flooded back into the civil sphere. In democratic elections, political campaigns take place in the civil sphere. The civil sphere is one independent sphere within a greater arena of social spheres. It differs from noncivil spheres in that its ideals are derived not from the particularities (identities or interests) that define membership in the other spheres, but from collective imaginings of abstract, universalistic characteristics, and utopian representations of capacities for democratic participation. In democratic elections, political campaigns crystallize shared expressions of the good life and imaginaries of an ideal community of citizens. Elections move the victor and their vision from the civil sphere into the state, centrally.

In culturally diverse countries, such as Indonesia, the cultural sphere often poses significant challenges. Unfortunately, this topic has not received adequate attention, especially when compared to the public sphere. This research investigates the contribution of local television to Indonesia’s cultural sphere. Data were collected through in-depth interviews, observations, and document analysis. The study finds that while local television serves as an important medium for local cultural expression, its contribution to the cultural sphere in Indonesia remains limited. The commercial nature of local television has constrained its contribution to the cultural sphere, as cultural programs must ultimately be marketable. Moreover, the way local television defines and represents culture constrains the role of local television in fostering a diverse cultural sphere. In general, local television managers adopt a cultural essentialist perspective, which leads them to prioritize dominant culture’s representation while marginalizing or rejecting other cultures, perceiving them as a threat. The cultural sphere is ultimately unable to build a cultural democracy because it is not inclusive. Cultural access and participation are only open to the dominant culture.

The relevance of the problem raised in this article is explained by the significant changes that have been recorded in almost all human society life aspectsover the past decades fact. The galloping progresspace in science, technology, economics, cultural and social spheres necessitates the existing school education systemin-depth modernization. This applies, among other things, to the field of methodology. The expansion of theinnovative methods use will allow the Russian school to train young people who are able to successfully carry out professional and other socially significant activities in such conditions. An importantportrait part of such a graduate is his/her ability to resist negative (often purposeful) influence in the cultural sphere. This can be achieved, among other things, by modernizing themusic education methodology. In view of the above, thestudy purpose is to highlight the innovative teaching methods in music lessonsrole and place. To achieve this, methods such as the study of scientific and methodological literature affecting relevant issues, as well as the author's own pedagogical experience, were used. Firstly, the article reveals the meaning of such concepts as «method» and «innovative method» in relation to the currentpedagogical science and practice state. Next, the concept of activities for themodern methods introduction into theschoolchildren musical training is deciphered. The necessity of its implementation is proved. The article considers those innovative methods that, in the author's opinion, can be used in the work of a music teacher today. Based on the conducted research, the conclusion proves that their correct application will allow in the near future to optimize the course and results of this educational institutions functioning segment. It is all the more possible and necessary because, in addition to methods implying the expansion of theICT benefits, such methods can and should be introduced into educational practice that do not require appropriate changes in thepedagogical activity organization.

This article introduces a theory of societalized politics to investigate crisis events in the German civil sphere between 2015 and 2024, and to proffer an answer to the disputed question of the preconditions that facilitated the rapid rise of right-wing populism in the German context. Drawing on civil sphere and societalization theory, the article specifies the foundational cultural elements, or binary cultural codes (BCCs), upon which German political elites crafted meso-level narratives to contest and manage strains in the civil sphere. Through an analysis of communicative and regulative institutions’ responses to the arrival of refugees in 2015, and the publication of the Correctiv.org report and the backlash protests it inspired in 2024, the article charts the rise of the far-right party Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), and explains its success as due in part to its leaders’ capacities to represent themselves and their supporters as embodying the BCC’s civil democratic signifiers. Introducing a theory of societalized politics, the analysis demonstrates a processual approach to the construction and contesting of crisis events that emerge within the civil sphere itself. The article also introduces a civil sphere theory of right-wing populism, which frames the phenomenon as the elevation of nativist, primordial signifiers born foremost of the noncivil spheres of ethnicity and religion. It concludes by arguing that while the German civil sphere is in flux, the post-Potsdam civil protests indicate a significant portion of the nation’s publics remain committed to universalistic, civil democratic principles.

This paper will seek to relate political participation and public policies in the sport. The category of political participation will be crafted from the work of Social Change in the Public Sphere by Jürgen Habermas, this concept - the public sphere - is understood as a structure that mediates between the State, Power System and on the other, the private sectors of world relations spontaneous - Civil Sphere. The sport, in turn, is understood as a social phenomenon that has different dimensions and high impact on public policy. This paper has tried to outline a summary of the relationship between sport and the public sphere, from the perspective of integration policies in the field, looking for help to develop and deepen a comprehensive reflection about the different dimensions that influence the conditions of sports practices and their preoccupation with social participation. Civil Sphere; Political Participation; Public Policies; Sport.

Scholarship on Chinese civil society suffers from a weak theorization of the concept, in which civil society is generally defined as NGOs (non-governmental organizations) that exists in the third sector. This article examines the dimension between state and society known as ‘civil sphere’, a concept that is broader and more mysterious than the conventional notion of ‘civil society’. Civil sphere can be understood as a discursive structure that defines what is civil and what is uncivil in a society. Taking the Chinese intellectual debate between the New Lefts and the Liberals as an example, this article shows that in a society that is rapidly changing, the existence of such a public sphere represents a vital source of individual freedom. Even though the civil sphere in China has been contracting lately, there are still intellectual debates on fundamental ideological issues that merit academic attention.

Digitalization affects all spheres and processes including socialization of personality, which were out of influence of digital technologies decades ago. At the same time, the science community analyses primarily the impact of digitalization on economy and IT sphere. There are less investigations of the new technologies’ influence on social and cultural sphere. Moreover, the scientists that research the spiritual life of our society leave it by the wayside. The prevailing opinion is that the digital technologies will be an impulse to the cultural Renaissance of Humankind.The article reports that the development of the social and cultural sphere is a critical part of the further technological development of the society. The wave development of the economy including the digital economy, depends on not only technologies, but on the cultural values. The success of the forth industrial revolution and its impact on the development of humankind are totally determined by the development of the culture, science and education.

The aim of the work is to generalize the historical and theoretical results of the contemporary studies such as dynamic of the historical phenomenon “tradition” in the structure of the social and cultural sphere. Research methodology is based on the heuristic method of systematizing the synergy of Ukrainian and foreign historiography, which opens the process of forming social, legal, philosophical, cultural thought of the substantial concept as “tradition” in general and the process, which socializes the results of the common social and cultural activity of humanity, in particular. The results may be the theoretical justification of the European experience of culturological process of forming the scientific view of the emergence and transformation of social and cultural traditions as multi-purpose knowledge for research; in culturological research the authors use the comparative methods, mutual influences, and interpenetration of cultures and cultural innovations of ethno-futurism problems. The novelty consists in systematizing the theoretical studies of the concept as “tradition” and its role in preserving, accumulation, transformation results of the human activities in the field of spiritual, material, social and cultural heritage of the mankind from the standpoint of cultural studies. In the conclusion on the basis of the stated historiography the paper determines the theoretical conception of “social and cultural tradition” of the nation; the historical process of the inheritance which carries the accumulated European, national, spiritual and material values that make up the scientific knowledge of the results of the common human activities in general and each nation, in particular. Keywords: social and cultural sphere, tradition, concepts, transformation.

The paper defines the main approaches to understanding the strategic partnership between states in the international arena, identifies the main features of such a partnership. The author substantiates the thesis that at present the strategic partnership between states in the social, spiritual and cultural sphere is no longer of a secondary nature. The article defines the main directions of strategic partnership between states in the social, spiritual and cultural sphere at the present stage. The concept of changing the vector of Russia in the social, spiritual and cultural sphere at the present stage is substantiated.

The core idea of Jurgen Habermas public sphere has to do with forming a public made of private individuals who participate in civic dialogue on issues of common interest. A public so formed generates public opinion through the formation of a communicative network. This essay argues that the communicative network of the public sphere which is known to be strengthened by its cultural connects through press and mass media can also be shaped by popular music culture like hip-hop, rock or electronic dance music. A cultural public sphere is comprised of numerous networks of mass and popular culture which help in shaping the participants’ articulations of politics, both public and personal. Cultural public sphere marks the entry of affective modes of communication as effectual participation in the politics of everyday life. In this article, the author tries to position the role of popular music cultures in the formation of a public sphere by studying three distinct forms of popular music- hip-hop, rock and electronic dance music. The idea is to understand the role of the communities formed due the affective mode of popular music and the efficacies granted to these social groups in the larger context of a public sphere. Another important dimension of studying these forms of popular music is to understand music festivals as active sites for the realisation of a public sphere. Drawing from Durkheim’s idea of how festivals harness within them a ‘collective effervescence’ which he found to be an integral element to aid in instilling feelings of solidarity in a community, this essays tries to locate the popular music festival sites within the framework of a cultural public sphere by conducting an in depth literature review on how the traditional public sphere is critiqued from the vantage point of a cultural public sphere; how popular culture texts and practices inform these critiques and finally how music festival sites act as public spheres.

The article discusses the functioning of organizations and the increasing social and economic significance of the
 results of activity of economic entities in the sphere of culture. In this case, the orientation of the management
 of cultural institutions is in the direction of higher levels of economic activity, utility and profitability. In this
 regard, there is the question about the effectiveness of the institutions of culture not only in economic but also
 in social sphere. The need for the implementation of the project “national centre of restoration of musical
 instruments” as a scientific-educational center is proved by the fact that the budgetary allocation for its creation
 and development will support the unique mission of the center for the broadcast world tradition of preserving
 material heritage of musical culture. On the other hand, it will contribute to a social result, which is expressed
 in the effectiveness of the protection events of the musical objects of cultural heritage. A separate issue is the
 preservation of cultural heritage, including tangible objects and music culture through a series of government
 support measures. However, in recent years, there is a tendency to stagnation in the share of expenditure on
 culture. The article presents the planned expenditures of the budgetary system, which is planned spending on
 culture be left at 0.5% of GDP. On the other hand, financing of applied scientific research in the field of culture
 has increased. This decision is connected with the growing social and economic significance of the results of
 activity of economic entities in the sphere of culture in the direction of higher levels of economic activity, utility
 and profitability. The feasibility of the implementation of the project “national centre of restoration of musical
 instruments” as a scientific-educational center is to broadcast the world’s traditions of preservation of material
 heritage of musical culture and assist in attracting private investment in projects and activities for restoration
 and examination of objects of musical culture.

Topicality.Modern society is very dynamic, rapid scientific and technological progress is taking place, the possibilities of mankind are increasing, and at the same time there is an increase in uncertainty, instability, inequality and social exclusion. A necessary condition for solving these problems is the growth of social cohesion, which is an imperative for the development of society. Aim and tasks. To carry out an analysis of the essence of the concept of "cohesion", to propose a system of imperatives for increasing the cohesion of Ukrainian society, to determine the imperatives for increasing cohesion in the sphere of public administration and economy, in the social and cultural spheres. Materials and Methods. The work uses general scientific and special research methods: analysis, comparison, generalization and synthesis, system analysis, comparative analysis. The information base of the research is monographs, special literature, informational and analytical bulletins, periodical scientific domestic and foreign publications, legislative and regulatory acts, data of the State Committee of Statistics of Ukraine and Internet resources. Research results. The essence of the concept of "cohesion" is considered in the context of the system paradigm "thing-property-relation", namely as a property of a group of subjects, as relations between subjects of the group and as relations with external subjects, attitude to the external environment. An idea has been formed about the system of imperatives to increase cohesion in the spheres of public administration, economy and culture, and the social sphere. Specific imperatives for increasing cohesion in these areas have been identified. Conclusion. The unsatisfactory state of cohesion in Ukraine throughout the entire period of independence looks paradoxical against the background of Ukraine's inherited significant potential (labor, scientific, cultural, natural resources), which could have been realized in another, adequate institutional model of society. A system of imperatives for increasing the cohesion of Ukrainian society is proposed, in particular in the sphere of public administration, economy, social and cultural spheres. This provides the basis for the development of programs, mechanisms and tools for improving the cohesion of communities and society in Ukraine.

This article discusses the idea of a ‘cultural public sphere’ together with related notions of ‘the’ public sphere, ‘counterpublics’ and ‘discourse publics’. It argues that the cultural public sphere emerges from cultural sources (e.g. ethnic identity) rather than political ones and is organized through private pursuits such as music, domestic life and leisure or entertainment venues. The article investigates the formation of a cultural public sphere by using the December 2005 ‘race riots’ on Australian beaches as a case study. It argues that culture interacts with politics as ‘new’ media interact with mainstream news; and that counterpublic spheres interact with the cultural public sphere as ‘internal’ communication coexists with ‘external’. The role of mainstream media in reporting and commenting on extreme displays is in part to stage conflict so that the general public can think through cultural-political issues via the theatrics.