Culture In Contemporary Society Research Articles

Innovative Application of Traditional Chinese Opera Elements in Modern Dramatic Costume Design

In the field of drama, especially in clothing design, designers are actively exploring how to combine traditional opera elements with modern drama to create clothing images that are both rich in traditional charm and in line with contemporary audience aesthetics. This innovation not only inherits traditional culture, but also challenges and extends modern aesthetics. Traditional Chinese opera elements, as an important component of Chinese culture, provide rich inspiration and materials for modern drama costume design with their unique symbolic meanings and aesthetic characteristics. The article conducts research on the innovative application of traditional Chinese opera elements in modern theatrical costume design, in order to enrich theatrical images and provide new paths and possibilities for the dissemination and inheritance of traditional culture in contemporary society.

Budaya Thrifting dalam Membentuk Daya Konsumsi Remaja

Thrifting has become a popular culture in contemporary society because it contains branded goods that are the favorite of teenagers. Branded goods available in thrifting are offered at low prices, making many people target them. However, their interest in branded goods is not only to fulfill their body needs, but is more inclined to self-image in social life. With many people wanting to image themselves through branded goods, thrifting has become a popular culture today, especially among teenagers. Without realizing it, they are playing with the signs and symbols in the clothes, so that teenagers' consumption is shaped by the desire for sign value. The purpose of this research is to describe the symbol games that occur in thrifting culture and lead to their desire to get it, so that the original reality is replaced with a fake reality. This research uses a qualitative method, the approach used is phenomenology which is used to understand the symbol games in individuals involved in thrifting culture.

Understanding digital consumer culture in Indonesia: a case study on youth community in Jakarta using an actor-network theory approach

Purpose This study aims to examine digital consumer culture and behavior in the community, namely, 180° Movement Digital Training Center (DTC), in Jakarta, Indonesia. It aims to describe the dynamics of digital consumer culture in contemporary society, particularly as experienced by the youth community in Jakarta in the context of socio-technology relations and incorporates it into the diagram of digital consumer culture network. Design/methodology/approach This research uses a constructivist qualitative approach and socio-technical relation analysis through actor-network theory and digital consumer culture. Findings The study finds that the individual model of digital consumption is constructed through the process of problematization, interessement, enrollment and mobilization of individuals. It generates a culture in which consumers are constantly up to date with high-intensity information, but within increasingly shorter timeframes, while also considering principles of affordability, needs, desires and satisfaction. The network of digital consumer culture construction among informants is peculiar and unstable. Research limitations/implications The study of digital consumer culture within the 180° Movement DTC community highlights how consumer behaviors of its members are facilitated and interconnected within a digital cultural network. However, this research is constrained by the dialectical interplay between Christian principles and the emerging values of consumer culture, a result of the scarcity of theoretical resources and information. This study also provides a specific contribution as a foundation for mapping the volatile digital consumer culture for researchers. Practical implications Understanding the socio-technological relationships and consumption behavior of the youth community could help digital platforms tailor their services more effectively. It could also guide the 180° Movement DTC in developing programs that resonate with the youth, bridging the gap between the physical and virtual realms. Ultimately, this could lead to a more engaged and digitally literate society. Social implications This study contributes to a broader societal understanding of how digital technology is shaping consumer behavior and identity within youth communities, which can influence social dynamics and interactions. It provides insights into the potential social impacts of digital technology, such as changes in relationships, communication patterns and self-perception, informing societal discourse on digital culture. Originality/value In addition to presenting socio-technological analysis on Indonesian consumer culture using actor-network theory, some also show that studies on digital connectivity ambivalence that concern the relationship between humans as actors and non-humans as actors have become one of the popular sociology studies at present.

Tea culture carries the message: Analysis on creative product design and promotion based on Guangdong tea culture

As a precious gem of Chinese traditional culture, tea culture carries thousands of years of history and rich cultural connotations, but also faces challenges in international dissemination. This study takes the student innovation and entrepreneurship project Tea culture carries the message from Guangdong University of Education as a case to explore the inheritance and innovation of Chinese tea culture. By analyzing the practice of the this project, this paper focuses on studying the strategies and implementation process of promoting creative products, aiming to provide experience and insights for the dissemination of Chinese tea culture in contemporary society with an academic perspective.

CONSUMER SOCIETY IN UMAR KAYAM’S JALAN MENIKUNG A STUDY OF JEAN BAUDRILLARD’S POSTMODERNISM

Abstract: The research aims to reveal the consumer society in Jalan Menikung, a novel written by Umar Kayam. The theoretical framework used is the postmodern theory of Jean Baudrillard. Baudrillard reveals the characteristics change of culture in contemporary society and introduces the characteristics of Western society as a simulation society. The method used in this study is qualitative. The material was obtained from literature and analyzed using the conception of Baudrillard. The important concept used is the change in value, simulation, simulacra, hyperreality, and consumer society. The results of the study show that in the novel Jalan Menikung, there is a change in value that occurs in the form of consumerism. This consumerism is in the form of consuming clothes, consuming food, or drinks, consuming certain buildings, consuming certain luxury goods, consuming in orgies, consuming in the use of power, and consuming in high-class associations. Simulation processes of consumption in Jalan Menikung happen on the development of technology, especially information technology and language signs. In Jalan Menikung Umar Kayam describes the consumer society as a complicated culture intertwined.

Reproductive Fiqh: The Phenomenon of Egg Freezing Among Muslim Societies

This study was intended as a response to the egg freezing phenomenon, a growing issue among contemporary society, through the formulation of fiqh of reproduction. As seen in the culture of contemporary society, technological advancement affecting the culture of people is an inevitability. Along with the advancement of technology in today's contemporary era, the phenomenon of egg freezing and its impacts cannot be ignored. As in the study of Islamic law (fiqh), every action is always considered to have an impact caused by the act, both positive and negative. This study used a literature review with data on the phenomenon of egg freezing as a new reproductive phenomenon in contemporary society. The data then became the basis for interpreting the concept of the principle of maqashid sharia in the study of ushul fiqh as the basis for the formulation of fiqh of reproduction. The findings in this study show that egg freezing according to the study of fiqh of reproduction may be performed with the right reasoning of benefit for women.

Ethnic Costume and Custom Interaction in Uzemchin Mongolian of China：A Folkloric Perspective

Costume carries the traditional ethnic culture, and expresses the significance of cultural representation and the collective memory of ethnic groups. Participating in traditional ritual activities and producing cultural practices has become a considerable part of maintaining social relations and inheriting conventional culture in contemporary society. People wear ethnic costumes to participate in the process of social interaction and inherit their cultural traditions. At present, the myriad academic studies pay attention to the historical changes and the category of shaping technology of traditional clothing of Uzemchin Tribe by describing folk customs and sorting historical documents, and analyzing the cultural connotation of clothing by means of patterns and symbols. Folk custom constitutes an important element of life, and also weaves the social order network. This article explicates the cultural integration functioning and representation of ethnic costumes from the perspective of custom interaction of Chinese Mongolian Uzemchin Tribe, and grasps the cultural and social functions of ethnic costumes in modern society. In this research the specific practice of Mongolian costumes in social interaction, the role played by folk events and the expression of costume feelings are presented in the form of ethnography of qualitative research to analyze the content of maintaining social relations of costumes. It involves the traditional reproduction and preservation caused by modernization and globalization. The results manifest that the participation of ethnic costumes can better maintain local folk traditions and regulate local social relations.

Информатизация и персонализация как тенденции культуры современного общества

Informatization and personalization as tendencies in the culture of contemporary society In this article attempt is made to generalize some data about the informatization process. The author considers it in the context of such stages of development of the information culture of society as the forming of the human language, the elaboration of writing system, the development of printing and, finally, the creation of universal computers. Then the information sector of the economy of modern society is being studied and conclusion is made that taking into account the individual tastes of people leads to the development of personalization mechanisms in the industry of informational products and services.

Medijska kultura u savremenom društvu

The importance of media culture in contemporary society is extremely large because it shapes a modern man life, the creation of political attitudes and social behavior of individuals. The products of media culture, paintings, sounds and performances are increasingly organizing free time of a contemporary man, shaping his thinking and identity. Based on the content of radio, television, film, and new media technologies, a person creates an image of himself, his own potentials, values, success, as well as his own affiliation, a certain class, race, nationality, and thus media culture has a remarkable social significance. A number of relevant authors state that media culture shapes people's perceptions of the world, the value system, morality, good and evil. Worldwide, the contents of the media culture today constitute a general culture and are seen as the basis for new forms of global culture. A complex spectrum of actions that make media, primarily radio television, film, and media of modern technologies, creates the need for a more precise definition of the term media culture, bearing in mind its breadth and complexity. In this context, the main goal of this paper is to define the concept of media culture, in order to better understand all aspects, as well as the complexity of the whole that this term implies. Media culture is determined by the terms which provide an insight into a better understanding of this term, and in this paper they are given considerable attention. D. Kelner in the Media Culture section points to the following important determinants: a wide range of media resources that form an integral part of the media culture; performances created by the combination of picture and sound; creation of features and symbols of contemporary social life; media culture as a high technology culture (techno-culture); the relation between media culture and society; theory of media and cultures.

L.P. Karsavin’s dialogue metaphysics

In the introduction, the topicality of formation of dialogue culture in contemporary society is substantiated. Dialogue is regarded as a way of overcoming aggressive-conflictual forms of «social communication» (L. Karsavin’s term). The aim of the research is to present L. Karsavin’s metaphysics as a philosophy of dialogue. The research tasks are to point out both peculiarities of L. Karsavin’s philosophical thinking and the ways he interprets the problem of dialogue. There were employed the following research methods: biographical, hermeneutical, cultural-semantic analysis. Research result was a conceptual assessment of L. Karsavin’s philosophical study as a «philosophy of dialogue». Traditionally, the thinker’s body of work is referred to as either «metaphysics of unitotality» or Christian-Orthodox rationalism (according to P. Gaidenko, V. Zenkovsky, N. Motroshilova, S. Khoruzhiy, B. Yakovenko and others). Nevertheless, the article argues that it makes sense to determine L. Karsavin’s philosophical path as a search for opportunities and conditions for evolving the culture of dialogue. The metaphysics of the Other is represented by Karsavin: as a link between personality and the «Other» (Absolute); as a cosmic mission of a human being; as a human destiny as it is («intermutual unity with the beloved»); as a communicative nature of «social personalities» that determine each other’s lives. Within the framework of the research discussion, the works of the following scientists were particularly interesting: E. Kovaleva, Yu. Melikh, O. Nazarova, S. Khoruzhiy and others, who draw attention to the issues like those: the role of consistency in the development of cultural traditions; the link between the philosopher’s personalism and European philosophy; understanding intercultural philosophical communication as a dialogue of cultures; introducing the concept of «ontological drama», which underlies an appropriate interpretation of Karsavin’s study etc. Author’s reflections on the problem posed in the article were constructed according to «complementarity principle». Conclusions: the dialogue is presented in L. Karsavin’s works as a fundamental principle of philosophizing, a metaphysical problem, a philosophical genre. The following categories of Karsavin’s discourse – multi-unity, symphonic personalities, culture as a symphonic personality, the world of the other people, etc. – enables us to reveal the meaning of the dialogue as a way of overcoming the antagonisms of the being.

Is Emerging Adulthood a New Developmental Phase?

In 2000, Jeffrey Arnett, a developmental research psychologist, proposed a new phase of development that he called "emerging adulthood." He delineated developmental challenges centered on identity, role exploration, and subjective experience and linked his observations to changes in the demographics and culture of contemporary society. This proposal elicited an extraordinary response in the research community, but the reaction among psychoanalysts has been tepid at best: developmental phases have not been amended for almost a century, and in some schools the very notion of such phases has been discredited. Adult development has historically attracted mostly lifespan psychoanalysts, and the concept of identity has never achieved full psychoanalytic status. But both adulthood and identity merit psychoanalytic legitimacy: adulthood because it looms in the mind as a meaningful endpoint that shapes earlier stages, and identity because it is a complex, organizing aspect of self-representation. The concept of emerging adulthood, too, has sufficient validity and heuristic value to be considered a developmental phase, provided we loosen our fixed ideas about what constitutes "developmental" and take a fresh look at the sweep of human development as it is shaping up in a transformed world.

Culture and its Creators – Challenges and Financial Issues

Culture and its creators are the driving force of social development. The paper presents the history of financing the culture over the last three hundred years and looks at the cultural policy adopted in Poland. Traditional and modern forms of supporting cultural activities are also discussed therein, also the situation of artists on the labour market in Poland and the possibilities of future change. The fundamental questions asked by the authors are: what is the future of financing cultural activities in Poland?; how important is culture in contemporary society?; will systemic changes be introduced? The aim of the paper is to provide answers to these questions through analysis of sociological sources and reports on the current situation of artists in Poland, and to highlight the dynamics of financing culture and its creators.

Schools, Work and Consumption: Education and the Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism

This paper examines several contemporary social theorists and commentators who have focused on conflicts in contemporary social values and beliefs and have pointed to what has been called the 'cultural contradiction of capitalism.' These contradictions, it is argued, tum on the conflict between traditional notions of bourgeois morality and attitudes, and those that have been spawned by a consumption-oriented capitalism. The paper suggests that it is within this context that many of the problems and predicaments presently faced by schools become comprehensible. School may now constitute the final bulwark for the socialization of the young into the work-oriented, instrumentally-motivated values of traditional bourgeois society. In so doing it has become the public battleground for the struggle to resolve the contradictory nature of culture in contemporary society.

What Can and Cannot Be Felt: The Paradox of Affectivity in Post-Internet Art

Focusing on the paradox of embodiment/ disembodiment in virtual space, and on the recent history of Net Art, this article proposes to go back to Roy Ascott’s metaphor of the ‘telematic embrace’ in order to examine different artistic and theoretical approaches to online affectivity. While the first generation of artists who founded the net.art movement was openly fascinated by the novelty of cyberspace as a medium, currently artists are adopting online tools to produce also offline works, revealing the presence of Internet culture in contemporary society instead of focusing on the nature of the medium in itself. In this scenario, marked by the current Post-Internet discourse, real and virtual worlds overlap, and hybrid artistic forms emerge. But are Net artists still reinterpreting the idea of virtual embrace? Or have they moved away from a romantic stance, highlighting the perils of the digital revolution in the so-called Post-Digital age? Adopting a phenomenological perspective, this essay aims to address these questions, exploring the paradox of affectivity in contemporary networked cultures through the analysis of emblematic artworks.

Built Form Properties as Sign and Symbols of Patron Political Ideology

This paper discusses on the study of architecture as a sign system by analyzing its generic elements-form making based on the Western philosophers. In addition, this study investigates how built form act as a sign and contribute to major symbolic content which gives concrete expression to the socio cultural and political phenomenon. In this case, prominent buildings found in the modern context are used as examples to explain how they are capable of communicating the intentions of patrons to users as well as transmitting messages when users invest the building with meaning. This is important as built form do not only symbolize norms of society and social structure as well that relative to world view, hierarchies and the like. This paper is significant as it develops a systematic approach to understand the relationship between sign symbols and material culture. This understanding makes substantive contribution to elucidate the production of meaning in relation to the built environment across different cultural settings. Furthermore, it provides an insight that the meaning of the built environment is dependent on human intentions and purposes as conceived in a particular cultural context like Malaysia and the global scene. Therefore, it provides a clear framework to lead architectural scholars, designers and researchers, who are interested in analysing the themed environments, towards a better understanding of the structural relationship that exists between the built environment and social culture in contemporary society.

Los esclavos negros en el Perú y América colonial y republicana: su contribución a la economía y la cultura

En el presente ensayo, reflexionamos sobre la vida y existencia social de los negros esclavos africanos en el Perú y América colonial y republicana, su contribución al fortalecimiento de la economía y la configuración de la cultura en la sociedad contemporánea. Por otra parte, queremos abonar a la discusión crítica sobre la esclavitud de los negros africanos, para entender este fenómeno social, como parte de una dinámica que se inició y desarrolló en América/Nuevo Mundo, en los siglos XV, XVI y en adelante, en el marco de la globalización occidental, bajo sus formas más crueles y despiadadas de opresión y explotación, por acción de la aristocracia colonial y la plutocracia oligárquica republicana. Asimismo, valoramos la acción social que desarrollaron los esclavos negros africanos, para vencer las condiciones inhumanas y adversas de discriminación y segregación a la que fueron sometidos; y por ende, su épica lucha por conquistar su libertad y emancipación, en un contexto de globocolonización.

Discurso versus Ação no Comportamento Ambientalmente Responsável

The need of rethinking the consumption culture in contemporary society brings up the interest in researching how consumption habits are related to environmental preservation. Even though sustainable practices are valuable, the comparison amid how people act as consumers and their assumed ethical stance raises questions. Consumers advocate a concern for environmental issues but research shows that their consumption habits are still old fashioned. This study target the convergence and divergence between environmentally responsible speech and consumption behavior under the perspective of theories of action (Argyris, Putnam & Smith, 1985). Research utilized in-depth interviews and self-reports, using a logbook, to collect information about environmentally responsible discourse and consumption behavior of 11 participants. Data collection and analysis explore dimensions of environmentally responsible behavior (Stern, 1999, 2000): personal domain; behavioral domain; contextual domain; personal capabilities; and habits & routines. Results suggest that environmentally responsible behavior is not always consistent with the discourse due to influence of motivational issues (impotence, lack of interest, sacrifice, and convenience) and contextual issues (financial situation, lack of public policies, time constraints, and culture).

Posibilidades y amenazas para que las actuales sociedades de la información se conviertan en verdaderas sociedades del aprendizaje y el conocimiento

Este artículo pretende describir las principales tendencias sociales y rasgos culturales que predominan hoy día, buscar el fundamento filosófico de este modo de pensar, sentir y vivir y dar una respuesta educativa seria y adaptada a la realidad axiológica y cultural presente. En las sociedades occidentales actuales conviven grandes paradojas y contradicciones: crecimiento económico, desarrollo tecnológico y mayores cotas de libertad, pero también gran consumismo, deterioro cultural, dependencia tecnológica y pensamiento único. De ahí que hablemos de las grandes posibilidades y, al mismo tiempo, de las terribles amenazas que existen para que las actuales sociedades de la información se conviertan en verdaderas sociedades del aprendizaje. Para conocer esta realidad hemos centrado nuestro análisis en tres aspectos clave: el impacto de la revolución digital, el estado de la cultura en la sociedad contemporánea y la necesidad de una “nueva educación” que parta de presupuestos diferentes.

Reassembling the ambiguity of the sacred: A neglected inconsistency in readings of Durkheim

The ambiguity of the sacred combines two opposite modes, the pure and the impure, as its fundamental feature. Present in the work of Durkheim and most scholars of the sacred, as well as in actual social practice, the impure sacred is not the profane, the sphere that opposes the sacred. However, in most interpretations of Durkheim, and even in aspects of his own argument, the ambiguity of the sacred is neglected and, in several important cases, treated as if it were profane: this has negative consequences for cultural sociology and the study of culture in contemporary society. In certain cases, the impure sacred and the profane can be hard to tell apart. Yet, if the boundaries between the sacred (pure and impure) and the profane are not clearly distinguished, the overall approach to culture in terms of distinctions and boundaries loses its logical and theoretical coherence. This article elucidates the ambiguity of the sacred and reintegrates that ambiguity into cultural sociology. The model proposed here treats the impure as a transient result of violation of the sacred/profane border with no independent status of its own.

Inscribing Universal Values into the Urban Landscape: New York, Jerusalem, and Winnipeg as Case Studies

The growing importance of culture in contemporary society and the rising importance of tourism in the economic base of postindustrial cities have, in recent years, led to the construction of new "flagship-museums" characterized by their size and spectacular architecture. Their purpose is to capture the public imagination, to attract tourists, and to promote the notion that those cities have successfully transformed themselves from centers of manufacturing into centers of culture. These trends have also given rise to a new breed of museums: institutions established by foundations with value-laden educational agendas such as freedom, tolerance, and human rights. This phenomenon is also characterized by gigantic public and private investment in the structures that host the "collections," and by the use of signature architecture. This article, based on three case studies, will examine the emergence of this new extension to the "flagshipmuseum paradigm" of urban development.