Bearers Of Value Research Articles

Studi Deskriptif: Analisis Tematik pada Nilai-nilai Adat dan Budaya dalam Sosialisasi Orang Tua yang Berasal dari Suku Minangkabau kepada Anak

Value socialization is a process by which individuals learn the values, norms, and behaviors accepted in the society in which they live. The family as the child's first environment, plays an important role as a media channel in disseminating the values that exist in society to children this study uses a qualitative approach design conducted with the use of open ended questionnaire that is a questionnaire that can capture varied responses from various participants.Socialization of Indigenous values of Minangkabau culture is a very important process in maintaining and passing down cultural wealth from one generation to the next. Minangkabau people, which is a tribe that inhabits the territory of West Sumatra. As the largest matrilineal tribe in the world, the Minangkabau have a strong Indigenous value system that reflects their close relationship with nature, tradition, and local wisdom. The Minangkabau people pass on cultural heritage through the maternal line, and this socialization process generally occurs in families, communities, and indigenous institutions. Values such as adab, the value of mutual assistance, mutual respect, and active involvement in the lives of large families and communities become the main focus of the family has a central role in the socialization of the Indigenous values of Minangkabau culture. Researchers highlight the importance of the role of parents as value bearers and primary teachers in Minangkabau families, especially mothers. Mothers are not only responsible for educating children in terms of daily habits, but also for passing on cultural heritage through stories and practices that may be of a more traditional nature. Socialization of Indigenous values of Minangkabau culture is not limited to the family sphere, socialization of Indigenous values of Minangkabau culture is not only informational, but also involves direct experience that deepens understanding and appreciation of their cultural wealth.

The (new) Democratic Party: ideology, values and strategies of sympathizers, members and delegates

ABSTRACT The PD has always been a composite and complex party, where different and sometimes opposing political cultures converge. The 2023 primary elections overturned the predictions by handing over the party leadership to Elly Schlein, interpreted by many as the beginning of a renewal process. However, it is precisely the logic of open primaries that brings into play different actors, bearers of values and strategies that are not always congruent. Will the PD be able to build a more homogeneous political culture and a coalition capable of facing the centre-right in the upcoming internal challenges? Does the change in the PD’s internal balances complicate or facilitate the formation of a competitive political offer? To answer these questions, we will investigate the differences between members, sympathisers and delegates to the National Assembly according to three analytical dimensions - self-placement on the left-right axis, value positioning with respect to some relevant issues, and the party’s coalitional perspectives - on the basis of the data collected during the 26 February 2023 primaries and in the context of the National Assembly on 12 March. First, we will deal with the process of selecting the PD leadership, discussing the rules of competition, the specificities of the two main candidates, and reconstructing the results obtained at the regional level during the phase of the democratic militants’ vote and that of the open primaries. The analysis of the data will provide us with solid elements on which we can then offer an overall discussion of the main results that emerged to understand, in terms of ideological orientations, values, and expectations on the party’s coalitional strategies, whether and to what extent Schlein’s election might be the prelude to an internal renewal or whether it might prefigure a new season of divisions.

Two Kantian Issues within Wittgenstein’s Tractatus: Autonomy of the Will and Duty

The aim of the article is to analyze Wittgenstein’s Tractatus starting from proposition 6.422, which deals with the question of moral duty in the form of the categorical imperative, “Thou shalt”, in the light of Kant’s doctrine of the autonomy of the will. It focuses especially on three Kantian assumptions: the idea of the will as the only foundation of obligation, the idea of a non-empirical subject of the will, and the inseparability between the idea of freedom and the concept of autonomy. These assumptions will be considered in comparison with Wittgenstein’s treatment of the problem of causality within the frame of the picture theory and the idea of a metaphysical subject as bearer of values.

Exploring the social power of Christmas: a prospective qualitative study of assigning meaning to Christmas along the life course.

This article relies on a prospective qualitative study, that provides valuable insight into the mechanism through which the meaning of holidays is built over time. Following a life course perspective, the article analyses the continuities as well as the twists and turns of the meaning of Christmas in relation to significant turning points that occur along the paths of individual lives in transition to adulthood. Grounded on an inductive approach, the study draws on longitudinal qualitative data collected through solicited diaries, kept by 14 young Romanian adults, around Christmas time, along four panel waves (2004, 2010, 2016, 2020). Results show that there is no universal configuration of the meaning of Christmas, but rather a diversity of personalised dynamic configurations, in line with individuals' subjective realities, which are sensitive to family traditions passed down during socialisation, and constantly updated with each generation that assumes them, but also to significant life events that occurred on their early adult life course trajectories, determining a re-evaluation of attitudes about self, life, religion and others. The article concludes that Christmas, as a social construct, is a malleable bearer of values, which acts both as a 'sword' and as a 'shield' that diarists use according to the needs, wishes and challenges that arise in their transition from adolescence to enhanced adulthood.

ON THE QUESTION OF THE GENDER AUDIT OF UNIVERSITIES

The relevance of gender studies for democratic transformations in Ukraine is determined by theoretical and practical approaches, appropriate tools that allow to assess the real situation in the country, the quality of life in relation to the priority problems, needs and interests of women and men, to determine the causes and consequences of such problems for the future, and also to propose ways out of difficult situations to ensure gender balance, social justice and sustainable development. The purpose of the article is to display objective information about the gender situation in Uman State Pedagogical University named after Pavlo Tychyna. One of the first tasks of the scientists of the Gender Center of Pavlo Tychyna State Pedagogical University of Uman determined the monitoring of the gender situation at the university, the result of which was the concluded «Gender Passport of the Pavlo Tychyna UDPU».The gender audit contains objective information about the gender situation at the university, reflects the educational work carried out by the Center of the Pavel Tychyna UDPU, outlines promising research directions in this area and provides recommendations for the further implementation of the principles of gender equality and justice in the educational environment.«Gender passport of the Pavlo Tychyna UDPU» was created with the involvement of a wide range of participants, team members who studied, acquired new knowledge and skills, noticed the manifestations and causes of gender disparity, that is, became bearers of values with a deep social meaning.The Faculty of Social and Psychological Education is a center for the development of gender cultureand education at the university.The audit confirmed the presence of significant gender disparities. A number of seminars and trainings were held, which helped to clarify the existing gender stereotypes, as well as to determine the peculiarities of their manifestation in the current activities of universities and to assess the level of development of the principles of gender equality.

FRG MASS MEDIA AS A FACTOR FOR FORMING THE IDENTITY OF "RUSSIAN GERMANS"

Aim. The purpose of this article is to assess the impact on the identity of the "Russian Germans" of this community positioning in the German media.Methodology. The work’s methodology is based on a combination of classical content analysis with elements of comparative and structural analysis. The empirical base of the study was a pool of 232 publications from 6 national media of Germany (Deutsche Welle, Spiegel, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Frankfurter Rundschau, Handelsblat and Bild) for 2021, formed in random sample order.Results. The author comes to the conclusion that there is a trend towards the stigmatization of "Russian Germans” in the German mass media. The latter are labeled as bearers of values and behaviors labeled as alien to the majority of the population. They are simultaneously trying to position this diaspora as a "fifth column" acting in the interests of Russia within the framework of the European Union and the Russian Federation. At the same time, the distance between the “Russian Germans” and the bulk of the German population is estimated to be smaller than in the case of the Albanian, Turkish, Afghan and Syrian diasporas. "Russians" are less frequently present in media materials as a source of an everyday threat (in the role of criminals or terrorists). Also, they are distinguished from the "Asian" and Albanian diasporas by the presence of a greater similarity with the native population in terms of appearance and behavior patterns. The distance is also shortened by the similarity of "Russian Germans" with the traditional "internal dissidents" – immigrants from the GDR who failed to fully integrate into the new society. Due to this, the German media contribute to the preservation of the separate identity of the "Russian Germans". But the image of the phantom threat from the "Russian Germans" formed by the mass media is not as bright as in the case of other "dangerous diasporas". This prevents the allocation of Germans who came from the former Soviet republics into an independent category in the form of "important others".Research implications. The results obtained became the basis for the development of practical recommendations for the Russian authorities on building communication with the "Russian Germans” community in Germany. It was emphasized that a dialogue with it should be built within the framework of the implementation of a comprehensive program covering both migrants from the post-Soviet space and people from the former GDR. The stigmatization of “Russian Germans” and immigrants from East Germany in the German media should be widely reported in the Russian-language mass media of Germany and niche communities in social networks. This will help consolidate these groups and turn them into a social base for opposition to anti-Russian forces in the German elites. The negative image of the "Russian Germans" as the "fifth column of Moscow" can be destroyed by a large-scale promotion of depoliticized elements of "soft power", and move all, by products of popular culture.

BRAND MANAGEMENT IN MODERN CONDITIONS: WARTIME CHALLENGES AND PERSPECTIVES

The situation in which Ukrainian society currently finds itself due to the aggression of the Russian Federation requires quick and effective solutions from all participants in the economic process. Powerful Ukrainian brands are also forced to respond to an unprecedented situation. This article considers how brands respond to the challenges of wartime, what are the prospects for their development in this context. The purpose of the research is to identify effective branding strategies implemented in practice by 10 leading Ukrainian brands during the war period to determine the vector of their further development. Ten leading Ukrainian brands according to the 2021 rating were involved in the analysis of activities in wartime conditions. As a result of the analysis, it was found that not all brands respond to the challenges dictated by the situation and adjust their own brand strategies accordingly. Given the fact that each brand is the bearer of certain values that the company creates and affirms during its existence, the main task of the brand as the bearer of these values is to maintain and, if possible, increase customer loyalty. The analysis of the activities of leading Ukrainian brands during hostilities on the territory of Ukraine proves that the main brand strategy defined by the management was a reflection on military operations in Ukraine. It is actually about active reflection, i.e. direct participation in assistance, assistance to citizens, implementation of charitable projects that directly provide assistance to those who need it, etc. The second, no less important, brand strategy is the maximum digitization of the brand in order to provide services or deliver goods as quickly as possible. In wartime conditions, minimum clicks, simple interface, informative content to get any product or service becomes urgent, because the situation in which the customer is, and may find himself in, can suddenly change, so the sooner the customer gets the desired result, the better for all process participants. We see the promising development of brands in the maximum digitalization of offers, if not now, then in the post-war period, otherwise the brand will be lost among more promising competitors with digitalized offers. Further research should present the analysis of certain industries activities and their leading brands during the wartime in Ukraine.

Astroethics and the Non-Fungibility Thesis

This paper approaches the question of terraforming—the changing of extraterrestrial environments to be capable of harboring earth-based life—by arguing for a novel conception of moral status that accounts for extraterrestrial bodies like Mars. The paper begins by addressing pro-terraforming arguments offered by James S. J. Schwartz before offering the novel account of moral status. The account offered builds on and modifies Keekok Lee’s No External Teleology Thesis (NETT), while defending a proposed Non-Fungibility Thesis (NFT). The NETT is modified and defended with specific reference to Lee’s work on artifactuality and transgenic organisms. The NFT builds on work around objectification and irreplaceability, offering an account that recognizes the importance of bearers of value above and beyond the mere value they purportedly possess. Finally, the plausibility of the account is established by an overview of its applicability to other possible candidates for moral status.

Prince Charming and the problem of morality from a pragmatic point of view. A reflection on the imaginary born of truth

Abstract Fairy tale characters have a special status for children, as they become the bearers of values and emotions with a major impact on the development of the young viewer in whose universe anything is possible. Children often place the action at a subordinate level of their brain and the text loses its value to the character construction, which they remember at the expense of the actions the characters perform. Young audiences’ conclusions about a character can boil down to two simple characterizations: GOOD or BAD, but their subconscious picks up complex information that can affect the core values and influence future decisions or actions. This assessment of the moral character that a fairy tale character has is only valid because the fairy tale is used for an educational purpose and is supposed to contribute to the development of cognitive and affective processes in the formation of fundamental character traits. The aim of the critical approach of this research is to identify the real values of a character through behavioural analysis in order to render it scenically.

Käsitused kasvatusest eesti vanasõnades ja kasvatusteaduses

Käsitused kasvatusest eesti vanasõnades ja kasvatusteaduses

Conservatisms about the Valuable

ABSTRACT Sometimes it seems that an existing bearer of value should be preserved even though it could be destroyed and replaced with something of equal or greater value. How can this conservative intuition be explained and justified? This paper distinguishes three answers, which I call existential, attitudinal, and object-affecting conservatism. I raise some problems for existential and attitudinal conservatism, and suggest how they can be solved by object-affecting conservatism.

Учитель як носій цінностей виховання в сучасному закладі загальної середньої освіти

У статті визначено мету професійної діяльності вчителя як вихователя і носія цінностей у сучасних закладах загальної середньої освіти, його прагнення до самовдосконалення, вивчення кращого педагогічного досвіду, інновацій в освіті, комунікації зі своїми колегами, активна громадянська позиція, патріотизм. Розглянуто умови для всебічного гармонійного розвитку особистості учня, його самореалізації, розкриття індивідуальності, творчого потенціалу. Закцентовано увагу на превентивних заходах у роботі з дітьми, що визначаються приділенням особливої уваги формуванню ідентичності, основ духовності особистості, культури мислення і культури поведінки, профілактиці шкідливих звичок, ризикованої девіантної поведінки, жорстокості і насилля в учнівському середовищі.

Representation of Islam and Muslims in the Australian Press: Exploring the “Securitization” Discourse

There is a plethora of research conducted in the UK, US, and in few other European countries that has revealed a prominent discourse of securitization in the news coverage of Islam and Muslims. Researchers have evidenced that the media have portrayed Islam and Muslims as a security threat to the West. This paper sets out to explore whether the editorial coverage of Islam and Muslims in the Australian press reflects the securitization discourse from August 1, 2016 to October 31, 2016. Employing Van Dijk’s ideological square and lexicalisation approaches within the CDA paradigm, this study examined editorials from two leading Australian newspapers. The findings validate the existence of the securitization discourse in the editorial contents of the selected newspapers during the period under study. The Australian portrayed Islam and Muslims as a security threat to Australia, Europe, and to the West more explicitly than The Age. This study confirms that there is a clear transformation in the Muslims’ construction in the Australian press from an exotic presence to the bearers of values, culture, and political inclination considered violent, radical, and threatening to the Australian values and life style.

Феномен доверия в философии Адама Селигмена

The article analyzes the picture of historical changes in perceptions of the phenomenon of trust, which was proposed by the American philosopher and sociologist Adam Seligman. For a long time thinkers perceived trust as something identical to “faith”. However, under the in­fluence of the works of Niklas Luhmann, this understanding began to be reconsidered. Trust began to be seen as an integral element of daily interactions and was explored not only as a part of interpersonal communication, but also as a part of an individual’s interaction with social institutions and systems. Luhmann showed that the phenomenon of trust plays a much important role in our lives than it was thought before, and this gave impetus to further re­search into trust. It was on this wave that Seligman’s concept of trust arose. In his opinion, the phenomenon of trust in its proper sense appeared only in the Modern Times and it was connected with the formation of individualism, increasing social differentiation and deepen­ing the division of labor. The individual becomes an autonomous bearer of values, and this changes the previous balance between social prescriptions and individual acts of will. Under the new conditions, people, according to Seligman, began to express themselves much more through actions that transcended social roles and reflected the uniqueness of the individual. The individual actualizes himself as an individual by moving from one social role to another in a space where there are no clear prescriptions and norms, thus deserving or losing the trust of others. For more complete comprehension of the phenomenon of trust the article compares trust with confidence, faith and spiritual closeness.

On Capital's Watch: Derivative Ecology and the Temporal Logic of Biodiversity Credits

How is it possible to profit from protecting the environment, rather than through deepening its terminal crisis? In recent years, a growing group of investors, economists and governments have answered this question with a range of market-based instruments designed to facilitate the commodification and trade of everything from carbon to wetlands. A popular approach has been to establish ecological credit schemes that allow businesses to destroy a discrete ecosystem in return for the restoration of an ecological site elsewhere. Numerous scholars have already emphasised the questionable spatial politics inherent to such initiatives. Focusing on the UK's emergent biodiversity credit policy regime, this article, by contrast, considers what effect credit schemes have on the temporal dynamics of the ecosystems they capture. Drawing on discussions of financialisation in the social sciences, we show how biodiversity credits rearticulate ecosystems as units of 'derivative ecology', which makes the future of these ecosystems actionable in the present, at the same time as it restricts their capacity to adapt to anthropogenic climate change. When discussed alongside recent currents in ecological theory that emphasise novelty, futurity and resilience through change, the gap widens between ecological and financial approaches to restoration. Consequently, we argue that market-based instruments such as biodiversity credits are constitutively unable to embrace the futurity of ecology on its own terms, because they have their own temporal logic that cannot help but petrify their bearers of value.

Educating in the Seventh Fire: Debwewin, Mino‐bimaadiziwin, and Ecological Justice

AbstractThe Anishinaabe Seven Fires Creation Story can be read as a theory on which all human beings share a fundamental love of reflecting reality in what they think and do. In this article, Marc Kruse, Nicolas Tanchuk, and Robert Hamilton argue that this ethical theory is correct but that the colonial ideology taught in our schools can obscure our knowledge of this fact. Specifically, the authors claim that decolonizing education requires teaching students and teachers alike to see the presence of value whenever they encounter other beings animated by a responsiveness to reality. All living things strive to perceive and respond to reality — to live and continue to learn — even if epistemic faculties differ. All living things, then, the authors conclude, are rightly seen as our relatives and kin, as bearers of value to whom we owe moral respect, as Anishinaabe elders have long taught.

Ethical Identity as a Task of Education. In Search of Modern Tools of Pedagogical Discourse

The article presents a philosophical analysis of the ethical identity of man as an exercise for today’s education. It consists of four parts. The first part focuses on the definition of ethical identity and its comparison with cultural identities. The other parts deal with the problem of cultural identities as a bearer of values, relevant to the consumer culture, such as change, visibility and predictability. Discussing these three values in the context of human moral actions allows a formulation of a conclusion about the need to focus education on ethical identity and to support these activities with humanistic education (in the field of philosophy, in particular). Furthermore, the article justifies that the very term “ethical identity”, if interpreted on the basis of classical metaphysics, can be an effective tool for pedagogical discourse. Therefore, attention is paid to the following key philosophical concepts: substantial unity of human being, man as the subject of human acts and freedom as a moral force.

“A More Permanent Familiarity”: Value and the Paternal Image on United States Currency

When in April 2016, the United States Department of the Treasury officially announced the redesign of the $20 bill, the plan provided that the portrait of an “exemplary American woman” would replace Andrew Jackson’s. This article explores whether such a portrait would make any substantive difference to women’s marginalization in public life. It interprets the exclusive presence of portraits of “Presidents” on the nation’s currency as tantamount to the real power of men in society and, as well, to a metaphorical understanding of the nation in family terms. Indeed, from the beginning of the republic the president has been seen at one and the same time as an older male authority figure and a privileged bearer of value. All the evidence suggests, therefore, that the appearance of a portrait of a woman on the currency is more than simply a matter of time, just as there is little evidence that a woman leading the United States is simply a matter of time.

Points on a Field: Gentile da Fabriano and Gold Ground

Abstract This essay considers gold grounds in early Renaissance panel painting as sites of the possible, here understood in the word’s double meaning as artistic power and mimetic potential. After examining how gold ground in art historiography is depicted as a zone oscillating between worldliness and otherworldliness, the discussion focuses on the process and meaning of gold ground in Cennino Cennini’s Libro dell’arte (c. 1390) and Gentile da Fabriano’s Virgin and Child (c. 1405, Perugia, Galleria Nazionale dell’umbria), with focus placed on the technique of granulation (opus punctorium). Also explored is how gold money and gold pictures exist in a relationship of exchange and mutual reinforcement, both depending on the faculty of sight to recognize them as bearers of value. Gold ground unfolds a spectrum of material, medial, perceptual, and devotional possibilities, which facilitates continuous passage between worlds, artisanal and climatic, pictorial and metallurgical, physical and ethereal.

Symbolic Values

AbstractWhen a symbol is a marker of a primary bearer of value and, secondarily, a bearer of value itself, then it has symbolic value. Philosophers have long been suspicious of symbolic values, often regarding them as illusory or irrelevant. I suggest that arguments against symbolic values either overgeneralize or else require premises that can only be supported if the normative significance of some symbolic considerations is presupposed. Humans need symbols to represent identity facts to themselves and others. Symbolic values thereby contribute to individuals’ control over their own agency.