Aspects Of Worldview Research Articles

Свобода воли в синкретизме тувинской культуры

The article analyzes the problem of free will in the Tuvan culture, characterized by syncretism and traditionalism. It uncovers the worldview aspects of the Tuvan people, which reveal an organic unity with nature, thereby determining the range of alternative actions available. It is emphasized that individuals in traditional Tuvan culture operate through syncretic thinking, which occurs in the inseparable relationship not only between humans and nature but also between subject and object. The absence of metaphysical thinking in Tuvan culture is noted as a consequence of operating within a localized cognitive framework and the lack of necessity for supra-natural concepts within the cultural context. The dissolution of the individual in the surrounding space emerges as a natural phenomenon in the context of their livelihood within a specific culture that has arisen under certain conditions. Furthermore, the article delineates a unique understanding of human responsibility and the concept of personal freedom. This understanding does not create contradictions in the realization of one’s free will and the necessity for the development of nature. Additionally, the contours of the transformation of Tuvan culture and the formation of personality concepts influenced by European models are outlined. This analysis contributes to the broader discourse on the interplay between cultural context and the conception of free will, highlighting how deeply embedded traditional beliefs and practices shape the Tuvan understanding of individual agency within the world.

THE WORLDVIEW SENSE OF GENDER INEQUALITY: PHILOSOPHICAL–LEGAL DIMENSION

The worldview aspects of gender inequality are analyzed. The content of gender myths, gender stereotypes, and gender identification as the foundation of gender inequality is determined. Legal mechanisms for overcoming gender inequality are elucidated. Using foundational legislative acts of the EU as examples, the orientation of the Western community towards overcoming gender inequality in political, economic, and social life is demonstrated.

Conservative Worldviews and the Climate Publics of New Zealand and Australia

Abstract Public opinion on climate change is complex, comprising aspects such as belief, support for policies, and issue salience. This multidimensional nature of climate opinion can be accounted for by identifying “publics,” each comprising people with similar climate attitudes. Climate opinion has also been found to relate strongly to political worldviews, with people holding conservative attitudes tending to have low levels of engagement with climate change. However, few studies have investigated how political worldviews relate to membership of climate publics. The current study therefore identifies climate publics in New Zealand and Australia and investigates how they relate to economic and social aspects of conservative worldviews. Using an original online survey, I find no clear link between economic conservatism and membership of climate publics. Social conservatives, however, are more likely to be members of publics with low levels of climate engagement and of “middle” publics, which accept the science of climate change but are “lukewarm” on climate action. Climate opinion appears to be more polarized in Australia than New Zealand. These results provide insight into the worldviews of people in the “mainstream” of climate opinion and suggest that only a minority of the public are demanding ambitious climate action.

Environmental stewardship: A systematic scoping review.

Environmental stewardship is a term describing both the philosophy and the actions required to protect, restore, and sustainably use natural resources for the future benefit of the environment and society. In this paper, we review the environmental science literature to map the types of practical actions that are identified as 'environmental stewardship' using the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses guidelines for scoping reviews. We specifically mapped: 1) the type of actions and outcomes targeting the natural environment that have been categorized as environmental stewardship, 2) the main actors, and the underlying factors influencing their environmental stewardship actions, and 3) the methods used to mobilize environmental stewardship actions once these factors are known. From the 77 selected articles, we found the term environmental stewardship encompassed a multitude of different actions, undertaken by a range of actors and addressing an array of issues that impact biodiversity on the land and in the water. These stewardship actions were conducted on both privately-owned and publicly managed lands and waterways, and across rural and urban landscapes. Despite many studies identifying characteristics and underlying behavioral factors that predicted actors' participation in stewardship actions, there were few studies formally evaluating interventions to increase stewardship. Our review highlighted the term environmental stewardship is not embraced by all and is viewed by some as being inconsistent with aspects of indigenous worldviews. A better understanding of the concept of environmental stewardship and continued practical research into its practice is fundamental to empowering people to demand and enact environmental stewardship as well as for evaluating the success of their actions.

Decolonialization of Contemporary Science According to Professor Syed M. Naquib al-Attas as the Aufklarung Movement in Islam

Through education, science is expected to be able to provide good and significant changes to human life. In realizing this, Muslim scholars are trying to develop established scientific theories in various fields based on the Islamic worldview. However, in the era of modernization and post-modernization, the Islamic scientific tradition is slowly losing the fundamental aspects of science, worldview and empistemology. In practice, epistemology is separate from theology, this separation is the impact of the secularization of science. Syed Naquib al-Attas is one of the contemporary Muslim scholars who initiated the Islamization of science as a response to the secularization of science, where he returned science to the Islamic scientific tradition. By using library research methods, furthermore, it is hoped that this research can elaborate on the concept of Islamization of science as an era of enlightenment (Aufklarung) developed by al-Attas became the basis of Islamic knowledge. This research finds that decolonialization of secular science is an important step in elaborating al-Attas towards the Islamization of contemporary science.

The Influence of Soviet Ideology on the Worldview of the Orthodox Clergy and Laity of the Ukrainian SSR (the Second Half of the 1980s)

This study examines concrete examples of the formation of a utilitarian view of Orthodoxy among the Orthodox clergy of the Ukrainian SSR in the second half of the 1980s under the influence of Soviet atheistic ideology. Three aspects of the church's worldview are considered: comprehension of history, patriotism and attitude to the union and uniates. The publications in the central periodical of the Ukrainian Exarchate «Orthodox Bulletin» are taken as a source. The conclusions about the significant influence of the Soviet atheistic ideology on the format of interaction of the Orthodox clergy of the Ukrainian SSR with society are substantiated.

Influence of the Digital Environment on the Contemporary Worldview: Pro et Contra

Global technological transformations of key areas of life of contemporary society, the formation and active functioning of global and national digital institutions that influence current socio-political processes, and the digitalization of social relations form a demand for comprehensive scientific research on the processes of digital influence on the development and functioning of modern social systems. This article is aimed at considering the problem of the relationship between digital and worldview aspects of the functioning of modern societies. In connection with this, the research issue was to determine the degree and nature of the influence of digitalization processes, as well as directly the digital environment and institutions on the content aspects of the individual’s worldview. This research question is directly related to the study of the phenomenon of public consent in the context of the formation of digital polymentality. To answer the research question posed in the paper, the authors conducted a discourse analysis of the existing scientific literature on the relationship between digitalization and worldview in the pro et contra logic. An international expert study was also conducted, which made it possible to identify the main expert positions on the study, as well as the key risks, threats, and challenges in the field of preserving the traditional worldview and achieving public consent based on the unity of value-semantic and worldview ideas of individuals. The main conclusion of the paper is the fundamental ambiguity of the positions of scientists and experts, justified by the results of the study, in assessing the degree and nature of the influence of digitalization, the digital environment and institutions on the content parameters of the worldview of a modern person, as well as the ambiguity of the value-semantic attitudes formed and maintained in the digital environment.

Worldview Communication by Ritual Counsellors. An Explorative Multiple Case Study on Funeral Rituals

This contribution explores the question how ritual counsellors shape their hermeneutical-communicative role and how they use worldview communication in the preparation and performance of a funeral. Data were collected from a group of six ritual counsellors with a questionnaire and a group interview. The data were interpreted through the lens of three hermeneutical models. I come to the conclusion that respondents are aware of worldview aspects of their work, while they differ in the role they take. Some are more guides, others more witnesses. The role of priestess which some of the counsellors adopt deviates from the available professional theory. More reflection is needed to develop such a theory about worldview communication outside the church.

Библейская сцена «Ревекка» в контексте творческой биографии Сезара Франка

The article examines a large work composed by César Franck in 1881 and practically unexplored in Russian musicology — Rébecca (1881, world premiere in 1883), subtitled by the composer as “a biblical scene for soloists, chorus and orchestra”. The publication conveys a particular polemical pathos, because references to Rébecca in musicological literature in Russia and in other countries, until recently, had always been accompanied by factual inaccuracies. According to Vincent d’Indy’s periodization, the large-scale compositions of his teacher pertaining to the genre of cantata and oratorio (Ruth, Rédemption, and Les Béatitudes) mark the beginning of a new stage in the composer’s artistic biography. The early 1880s — the time of the creation of Rébecca — undoubtedly presents a turning point in Franck’s life: during the last decade of his life he would create masterpieces in almost all the genres to which he will turn to (these include symphonic poems, large chamber ensembles, piano, organ cycles, finally the Symphony in D minor). The creation of Rébecca was accompanied by biographical circumstances, interpreted by some researchers as a “passionate episode” in Franck’s life. This problem is illuminated in the article with the support of evidence provided by French-speaking musicologists. Posing the question of why the biblical plot about Rebecca has attracted the composer at that time, the author touches upon the composer’s personal and worldview aspects. The characterization of the cultural situation of the era in which Franck lived and composed his music provides evidence that the aforementioned factors determined not only the choice of the plot, but also the peculiarities of the genre, composition and intonation drama of the analyzed composition.

A Sociolinguistic Analysis of Ogba Proverbs as Tools for Cohesion

Sociolinguistics means many things to different people. It is a field that studies the relationship between the users of language and the social structures in which they live. “A sociolinguistic analysis of Ogba proverbs” focuses on the study of Ogba proverbs, exploring the sociolinguistic aspects. Its aim is to explore and analyse Ogba proverbs from the sociolinguistic perspective in the context of English as a second language in Nigeria. This will go a long way to offer a sociolinguistic insight to the contributions of Ogba language, culture and way of life. The data for the study were collected orally through interviews of competent Ogba first language speakers and translated to the English language for analysis. The qualitative and descriptive research designs were adopted for the analysis. In all, twenty (20) proverbs were analysed using Dell Hyme’s Ethnography of Communication Theory as the major analytical framework with insights from Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis. This is because of the relevance of Dell Hyme’s Speaking which accounts for such sociolinguistic variables as setting, scene, participants, act sequence, instrumentality and genre as is evidenced in the data, and how the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis allows this paper to relate its data to aspects of Ogba worldview and culture. This paper establishes that Ogba proverbs are relevant to both oral and written communications within and outside the Ogba environment. They are employed to embellish, spice and beautify oral and written communications commonly but proudly exploited in Ogba people’s interpersonal relations through conversations. On typology, Adedimeji’s (2003) typological classification is applied for the classification of the data into types. It was discovered that Speaking allows for the comprehensive understanding of the data for this paper which is as a result of its explicit and analytic potential, while Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis shows aspects of Ogba Culture that manifest in Ogba proverbs.

Philosophy of mass culture and consumer society: worldview emphasis

The formation of new realities of mass culture and consumer society led to a number of crisis phenomena of an ontological and worldview nature. The purpose of the article is to analyze the worldview accents of modernity from the philosophical point of view of mass culture and consumer society, to outline social transformations inherent in social categories of thinking. General scientific methods of analysis of synthesis, deduction, and induction were used to write the article. The results highlighted the main characteristics of mass culture, it was established that it has a specific influence on worldview aspects. Mass production replicated mass things, chimeras of characters, values, etc., which became obsessive in society. Consumer society has turned consumption into the meaning of life. Consumption received leading roles in creating a new type of relations in society, transforming them according to its own development scheme. Consumption has become the dominant socio-cultural aspect in people's consciousness, which has pushed the economic effect into the background. This has led to the formation of a crisis of identities throughout the world, as traditional national ways of demarcation are replaced by social. The conclusions suggest turning to the ideas of the Post-Enlightenment, which contain elements of consumerism.

Sociocultural representations of Tuvan youth with unconventional religiosity (sociological experience)

The article analyzes the results of the sociological study "How Tuva Lives" conducted in 2022 by the Department of Ethnodemographic, Religious, and Integration Processes of the Institute for Demographic Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The article focuses on religious youth, followers of Buddhism. Among them, we identified typological groups of "practitioners" and "non-practitioners", which were selected according to indicators of religious self-identification; self-identification by confessional affiliation; interest in eastern, non-traditional religions and teachings; motivation of interest in these beliefs; and incorporation of the practices of these religions and teachings into life activities. Note that the "practitioners" group has all the indicators of non-traditional religiosity, while the "non-practitioners" group does not include the practice of non-traditional beliefs in their life activities. A comparative analysis of the typological groups in terms of the degree of impact of the worldview aspects of non-traditional religiosity on national, ethno-confessional and migration orientations and attitudes was conducted. The results of the sociological search recorded in both typological groups a high level of tolerance toward representatives of other ethnicities and religions. At the same time among the "practitioners" there are two times more positive attitude to marriages with representatives of other ethnicity and three times fewer respondents who have a negative attitude to marriages with a person of another religion. Due to the difficult socio-economic situation in the region, more than half of the young people in the groups studied plan to move to other regions and megacities. Among the "practitioners" almost a third do not plan to return after moving, in the group of "non-practitioners" such respondents are almost half as many. The motivation to move in the typological group "practitioners" is more related to social and domestic orientations (improving housing conditions, getting better education and medical services, the opportunity to travel), and the group "non-practitioners" - to socio-professional difficulties (finding work in the specialty, increasing wages, career growth).

Идеологические аспекты мировоззрения: методология исследования в политической науке

The focus of the work is one of the types of worldview – political ideology, more specifically, methodological problems of its research. Several classical theoretical approaches of political philosophy are analyzed by the criterion of two main elements of the scientific paradigm – the origin of the phenomenon of ideology and the methodology of the study of its political aspects. The scientific problem is to find an answer to the question: how can political science, which practically does not have its own research methods, study ideology as its object. The purpose of the work is to identify the main interdisciplinary methodological approaches to the study of ideological aspects of the worldview that political science uses in its subject field. To achieve it, the following tasks are solved: analysis of ideological concepts and theories of the political and philosophical direction; identification and systematization of those that are intended for the study of the political aspect of the ideological worldview; comparative analysis of the concepts of "worldview" and "ideology" based on the criterion of common and special elements of the structure; characteristics of the features of the study of ideology in the paradigm of political science and assessment of the prospects for the development of the methodology of its research. The main method is a comparative analysis of concepts and theories. The results reflecting a certain theoretical and practical contribution of the work are presented in a generalization of the most significant approaches of political science and in recommendations on the use of a combination of methods as a theoretical and methodological construct for the study of ideology as a worldview phenomenon.

Worldview literacy as a part of teacher professionalism

ABSTRACT This article, based on a mixed-method study, examines which dimensions of worldview are addressed by a group (N = 134) of Finnish students and in-service educators when interpreting a written imaginary case from everyday school life. The findings are interpreted in the framework of worldview literacy, derived from the concept of religious literacy and defined as an ability to decipher situations with aspects of worldview diversity. Data from open responses to a survey were approached in two ways, quantitatively, where worldview literacy was seen as an ability to recognise the impact of worldview in the case and argue for it, and qualitatively, where the different aspects of worldview mentioned by the participants were analysed. In terms of the quantitative analysis, the survey revealed a tendency to avoid explaining situations through worldview. From a qualitative point of view, the participants most often mentioned worldview as beliefs and something deeply significant and emotional. Furthermore, the data raised questions about essentialist attitudes towards worldviews and cultures, and recognising power issues. The case-based open question yielded multifaceted data, pointing to the fact that this method could be developed to measure worldview literacy.

Interest in non-traditional religions among Moscow youth and migrants (regional sociological experience 2021)

The article analyzes the results of the monitoring study "How Moscow Lives" 2021, conducted by the Department of Ethnodemographic, Religious, and Integration Processes of ISPI FNIC RAS and the Center for Sociology of Religion and Socio-Cultural Processes of ISPI FNIC RAS. The article focuses on the typological subgroups of Moscow youth and newcomers’ "practitioners" and "non-practitioners" in a comparative analysis. These subgroups are selected according to their interest in Eastern and non-traditional religions and teachings, their motivation for interest in these beliefs, and their involvement in the everyday practices of these religions and teachings. To date, new methodological and methodological developments in the study of non-traditional religiosity in connection with the constantly changing religious landscape are needed. With the intensification of migration flows from post-Soviet countries and other regions of Russia, it is necessary to study not only Moscow youths, but also newcomers. The typological subgroups "practicing" and "non-practicing" analyzed the degree of influence of worldview aspects of non-traditional religious identity on some national, religious, ethno-confessional orientations and attitudes of young people (native and newcomer Muscovites). All of the indicators of non-traditional religiosity were found to be present in the subgroup of visitors "practicing". Despite the fact that the results of the study recorded in the group of indigenous Muscovites greater interest in Eastern religions and non-traditional religious teachings than the migrant Muscovites, nevertheless on all major indicators the non-indigenous Muscovites have a deeper motivation of interest and involvement in the practices of these beliefs. As the results of the research show, the level of trust in traditional confessions and the institution of the Church is higher in the "non-practicing" groups than in the "practicing" ones. At the same time, "practitioners" are more tolerant of representatives of other ethnic groups and confessions.

PRAGMATICS OF THE INITIATION NOVEL

A type of literature that is intended for teenagers and young adults is the novel of initiation, which is a narrative about maturation, the process of growing up, the loss of innocence and the entry into the stage adulthood. These texts form a separate phenomenon of literature, which acts as a kind of “bridge” from children’s to adult reading and is characterized by a number of psychological characteristics, worldview aspects, a peculiar system of images and motives, themes, aimed at readers of adolescence.
 Modern literature turns to the ritual, borrowing certain elements of its structure and aesthetically interpreting them in a literary text. Initiation rites are intended to transfer an individual to another social and spiritual status, i.e. socialization, and therefore they are directly related to various rites of passage. Through the prism of cultural experience, an individual searches for his own outlook and value orientations, which will help him understand himself, the world around him, and his place in it. It is the initiation rite that is the tool for a young person helping to become a full-fledged member of society, performs certain roles.
 “Fusion of horizons” (term of H.R. Jauss) of the reading audience with the artistic content of modern literature implies that during reading the reader’s life situations are identified with the circumstances of the initiation rite of the heroes in initiation novels. This process makes possible a kind of initiation of the recipients of the texts, the result of which is an understanding of the modern social cultural situation, finding answers to questions about the meaning of human existence, gaining experience. In this sense, the reading process has an anthropological meaning, as it satisfies young people’s psychological needs for self-awareness, self-affirmation and self-realization in modern world. This is what defines the pragmatics of initiation novels.

Awful Archives: Conspiracy Theory, Rhetoric, and Acts of Evidence

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An Introduction to A Framework for Sustainability Thinking

Van Antwerp, Jeremy and Matthew Kuperus Heun. 2022. A Framework for Sustainability Thinking: A Student’s Introduction to Global Sustainability Challenges; (Springer, Cham) 275 pp. ISBN 978-3-0317-9184-0. A Framework for Sustainability Thinking: A Student’s Introduction to Global Sustainability Challenges presents basic information related to sustainability challenges in the context of a cognitive framework that allows students to evaluate problems and potential solutions from a quantitative perspective. Moreover, numerous end-of-chapter discussion questions and project ideas examine moral, ethical, and worldview aspects of sustainability choices and tradeoffs between different approaches to sustainability.

Measuring Environmental Worldviews: Investigating the Dimensionality of the New Environmental Paradigm Scale for Children in a Large Central European Sample

A complex research program linked to the national Sustainability Thematic Week (STW) educational program was launched in 2020 to examine Hungarian primary and secondary school students’ environmental attitudes, behaviors, and awareness. The Hungarian newly developed version of the New Ecological Paradigm Scale for Children was used in a large sample (N = 9396). The results of a set of factor analyses suggested that the NEP Scale for Children cannot be considered unidimensional. We found three distinct and valid factors (Questioning of Human Intervention, Rights of Nature, and Eco-Crisis) with significant associations, having partially different directions, with gender, age, pro-environmental behavior, and economic-technical aspects of environmental worldviews, providing thus new evidence for the highly complex structural characteristics of pro-environmental attitudes and worldviews. Our results might contribute to solving the issues, misunderstandings, and challenges that are related to the dimensionality of the NEP Scale and, even after decades of use, make the comparison of international research difficult.

Color terms and phraseological units of sports jargon

The study discusses some aspects of sports communication and linguistic worldview with due regard to national and cultural parameters. In particular, the authors of the article study sport phraseological units with coloronim-components in Russian and French. They describe various components of sports worldview in two linguistic cultures, whose key element is the linguistic personality of a common native speaker. Empirical data are analyzed and interpreted on the basis of the linguo-semiotic approach, i.e., within the framework of a discourse statement and at the level of the nominative fund of Russian and French. Sports terms are considered at the level of general linguistic and ethno-cultural dominants of national jargons. The hypothesis is that the structure of any discourse is based on the use of professional and jargon (in particular sports) terms. Their semantics correlates with the linguistic self-identification of each nation.