Dialectical Theory Research Articles

Money laundering in a CBDC World: A Game of Cats and Mice

The purpose of this study is to describe the present taxonomy of money, summarize potential CBDC regimes that central banks worldwide could adopt, and explore the implications of the introduction of each of these central bank digital currency (CDBC) regimes for money laundering through the lens of the Regulatory Dialectic Theory.

ВЗАЄМОЗВ’ЯЗОК ЕКОНОМІЧНОГО АНАЛІЗУ Й ОБЛІКОВО-ІНФОРМАЦІЙНОГО ЗАБЕЗПЕЧЕННЯ ДІЯЛЬНОСТІ ПІДПРИЄМСТВА

The article is devoted to determining the relationship between economic analysis and accounting and information support of an enterprise's activities and justifying further directions of its development. The relevance of the research lies in the fact that the development of Information Technologies has led to the transformation of many processes, including in the methodology of economic science. It is necessary to assess the importance of traditional economic analysis for the company's activities against the background of expanding sources and types of information. The theoretical and methodological basis of the research is the fundamental provisions of Science in the field of Economic Analysis and accounting and information support, which are considered in the works of domestic and foreign scientists. The research was conducted using the methodological apparatus of modern science, in particular the dialectical theory of cognition, methods of deduction and induction. The monographic method was used to generalize the complex economic analysis. The stages and main functions of economic analysis are highlighted., among which accounting and information support of management, assessment of economic activity, Planning, Organization of production and management structures, control, etc. are highlighted. The role of planning in economic analysis is revealed. The concept of complex economic analysis is systematized and the model of its implementation at the enterprise is generalized. Information support for analysis based on data from primary accounting, financial and statistical reporting, and other sources is considered. It is noted that the source of information for economic analysis remains accounting data, but continuous Informatization has led to the fact that other sources have appeared. However, there is still a close relationship between accounting and analysis. In practical application, the results of Economic Analysis serve to provide information support for the activities of enterprises. The analysis serves as the basis for making informed management decisions and increases the efficiency of the enterprise as a whole.

Old Frauds with a New Sauce: Digital Coins and Behavioral Paradigms

In this paper, we explore the conversion of market frauds from stocks to virtual assets. We investigate the transition from traditional to digital for six schemes: ransomware, price manipulations, “pumps and dumps”, misrepresentation, “spoofing” and Ponzi schemes to find that the advent of cryptocurrencies may facilitate pseudonymous criminal behavior in the present regulatory environment. Furthermore, apply the Regulatory Dialectic Theory and use the behavioral finance literature to explain the persistence of the relationship between scammers and their victims, as fraudsters innovate in the digital realm, but but investors fail to adapt.

Analysis of Symbols Authority through the Perspective of Islamic Holistic Study

The fundamental dialectical theory of the Berger model claims that humans are a product of society and society is a human product, so both require interaction and dialectics to influence each other in social life. Until the scope of the rite, each human is a judge to have a specific social function, if he has the influence to regulate, maintain, and transmit sentiments from one generation to another. In other words, humans will always express their existence through artificial things and a sign for each human being to have connectivity with each other. Even if it reviewed historically, it is not necessarily born from the Islamic body ideologically. How much authorization of tangible symbols on religious practices in the Islamic paradigm? Are material symbols in spiritual practices limited to the manifestation of human creativity or sacred things that cannot contest? This scroll will continue until there is a discussion about it.

Questions of dialectics in the heritage of Engels and Lenin. (On the 200th anniversary of the birth of F. Engels and the 150th anniversary from the birsday of V.I. Ulyanov (Lenin))

The article analyzes the contribution to the development of the theory of dialectics of two Marxists – F. Engels and V. I. Ulyanov (Lenin). It is noted that K. Marx, who materialistically rethought the dialectics of G.V.F. Hegel, applied it only to sociocultural reality and was not interested in ontological problems. Engels first turned to the development of the theory of dialectics in 1859 in his review of the book by Marx, «On the Critique of Political Economy». He began to work more thoroughly on the development of dialectics since 1873. He decided to compensate for the absence of ontological aspects of dialectics from Marx and apply dialectics to natural science, and indirectly to nature. Lenin thoroughly studied the theory of dialectics in the fall of 1914, studying Hegel’s Science of Logic. He managed to see in this work much that the Marxists had not noticed before him. The ideas formulated by him during this period served as a powerful incentive and help for the development of the theory of dialectics in Soviet philosophy, which, however, began only in the first half of the 1950s.

What is an interpersonal ostracism message?: bringing the construct of ostracism into communication studies

ABSTRACT Research on ostracism overwhelmingly suggests that being ostracized is a painful experience. Much of this research comes from the field of psychology and uses various adaptations of the Cyberball experiment to specifically examine the effects of being ostracized through the Temporal Model of ostracism. As a result, there is much less understanding about how ostracism is communicated interpersonally, the interpretive process of receiving an ostracism message, or the antecedent communication conditions that allow someone to recognize various cues as ostracism. Thus, the purpose of this manuscript was twofold. The first goal was to conduct an extensive review of literature to reveal the discrepancies, variations, and disunity of the operationalization and conceptualization of ostracism related terminology across disciplines and to show how such a landscape has made it difficult for communication scholars to study ostracism as communication. The second goal was to propose a new terminology, interpersonal ostracism messages (IOMs), and to define it in order to fill this gap. By using Expectancy Violations Theory and Relational Dialectics Theory, we further shape the definition of IOMs so that communication researchers can begin focusing on ostracism as an interpersonal communication phenomenon and begin looking beyond the psychological effects of being ostracized.

Adorno's negative psychology

AbstractFollowing the Second World War, Adorno et al.’s The Authoritarian Personality (1950/2019) became the most influential engagement between Frankfurt School critical theorists and the field of psychology. The recent publication of Adorno's retracted “Remarks on The Authoritarian Personality” (2019) provides a timely impetus to reexamine and challenge certain long‐held ideas about Adorno's contribution to psychology—for instance that The Authoritarian Personality reduces complex social phenomena to individual motivation and personality. Adorno's Remarks provide an alternative approach to the usual reading of The Authoritarian Personality, where the psychology of authoritarianism points to a contradiction at the very core of the concept of psychology, aligning the study with Adorno's more critical and dialectical works. In this article, I challenge how Adorno and The Authoritarian Personality are commonly taken up in critical psychology and introduce “negative psychology” as Adorno's central contribution to the field modeled in his reading of psychoanalysis and his theory of negative dialectics. Reframed in this way, Adorno can continue to serve as a crucial site of critical engagement for psychologists.

A Dialectical Inquest into the Boko Haram Insurgency in Nigeria: Exploring the Neoliberal State Thesis

Scholarly opinions have clearly identified governance deficits, Islamization agenda, power contestations among the elite class, heterogeneous character of African states, dysfunctional socio-economic system and external conspiracy as factors fueling and sustaining the recent wave of terrorism in Northeast Nigeria. Although these varied perspectives have been relied on by most scholars to explain the phenomenon of Boko Haram insurgency in Nigeria, they have increasingly appeared insufficient in understanding the evolution, dynamics and seemingly intractable character of the conflict. The present study therefore explores the neoliberal economic link which provides the grand perspective and heuristically excellent foundation for explaining the intensification and seeming intractability of Boko Haram insurgency in Nigeria. Using the theory of dialectics, the study argues that the neoliberal economy foisted a failed system which could not provide social safety nets, qualitative education and affordable healthcare delivery to the people. Indeed, the ensuing condition of hopelessness generated by the withdrawal of the state in providing essential services to the citizens undoubtedly provided a fertile ground for the birth of Boko Haram insurgency. The study among other things, recommends an economic reform that prioritizes the development of the productive forces in consonance with the autochthonous development conditions of the polity.

Living Hadis as A Lifestyle (A portrait of the Dialectics of Hadis and Culture in Indonesia)

<p><em>The intersection between religion and culture is one of the characteristics of Islam in Nusantara, especially in Indonesia, including a people understanding of the Hadis. In the fact, until now, the traditions of Indonesia is contain of qur’anic and hadis spirit. The result of this paper, the author considers that living sunnah is not only a learning or researching, but it has become a model of understanding of Indonesian people towards it or it’s become a lifestyle of moslem in Indonesia </em><em>that is always make ‘hadis is live’ or ‘live on the sunnah.’The forms of living hadis can not be separated from the connection of hadis with the culture. This can be seen from the tradition in Indonesia such as praying for people who have died, mauludan, haul, halal bi halal, and berkatan. Some of these tradition are the character of Islam in Indonesia. As stated by dialectical theory, the hadis and the culture are two opposites thing. However, both of them can be reconciled. For example, the tradition of berkatan/ tumpengan, this tradition is an implementation of the advise of giving in Islam. So, the consequnce of the implementation of this understanding are different because it has connected with culture in Indonesia</em></p>

Making meaning of parenting from the perspective of alienated parents

AbstractMore than 13% of parents identify as being alienated by at least one of their children. Parental alienation often occurs after divorce when one parent (un)intentionally persuades his or her children to distance themselves from or reject the other parent. This study, couched in relational dialectics theory, explores the meaning of parenting from the perspective of 40 alienated parents. This analysis yielded two competing discourses: the culturally dominant discourse of parental norms (DPN) and the culturally marginalized discourse of parental victimization (DPV). Throughout the narrative interviews, the DPV resisted the DPN in four ways (diachronic separation, entertaining, countering, and negating). This study's findings provide insights into the perspective of the alienated parents, advance what we know about family distancing, and provide practical implications.

Engels's Emergentist Dialectics

In grasping emergent qualities and laws on various levels of organization of matter, dialectical theory employs its own conceptual structure, scientific language, and investigation method, and takes a categorially open-ended shape. In this context, Engels provides a remarkable illustration that not only argues for the interconnection and interpenetration of distinct spheres such as chemistry and biology, but also draws on a generative feature of self-organizing systems.

Minding Marx’s Mind: A Philosophical Reflection on the ‘Mind’ Question—Part I

The ‘mind’, one could say, is a dangerous thing, dangerous not only in terms of Kant’s ‘unknowable thing-in-itself’, but a dangerous ‘thing’ as in Marx’s concept of reification. According to the concept of reification, there is a personification of things with the consequent depersonification of human life. Apply this theory of reification to the ‘mind’ and what we get is the theory of the ‘mind’, where the ‘mind’ is depicted as having some sort of uncanny life of its own, doing magical things. Consequently, the ‘mind’ could mean everything and yet mean nothing. This essay keeps the mind in two forms: in inverted commas and not in inverted commas. Thus we have the ‘mind’ and the mind. One must understand this radical difference. This essay further claims that while there are idealistic conceptions of the mind, so too does one have biologist ideas of the mind developed by what is now called ‘brain sciences’, generously funded by the corporate world. In contrast to idealism, biologism and the brain sciences, contemporary studies that interface philosophy, psychoanalysis and neuroscience offer newer possibilities on what the human mind means. Here the ‘mind’ has not to be understood as either in the form of ‘spirit’ or ‘thing-matter’, but in the form of historicism and humanism, where humanity as a species being is defined by labor. This essay analyzes whether there can be a real dialectical materialist theory of the mind, and how this new theory needs a critical humanist and naturalist grounding. It claims that there is a radical difference between this critical and humanist Marxism and the Marxism of post-Marx Marxism.

The Tensions of Strategic Communication Decision-Making: An Exploratory Examination of Theory and Practice

The Tensions of Strategic Communication Decision-Making (TSCD) is introduced as an applied theory describing the way decision-makers experience a risk or crisis and prioritize their strategic communication responses to maintain positive relationships with their publics. Relational Dialectics Theory is applied to illustrate how tensions between organizations and publics influence communication decisions. The strategic messages used by the World Health Organization regarding the Zika virus mega-crisis provide a backdrop illustrating how TSCD is enacted. Theoretical and practical implications for decision-making suggest that TSCD contributes to a more robust understanding of how the changing context in a crisis prompts the prioritization of strategic messages.

The more the better? A comparative study of the relationships among multimodal connectedness, online communication, and relational outcomes in China and the United States

Based on samples of students in China and the United States (US), this research drew on concepts in relational dialectical theory and media multiplexity theory to examine relationships among multimodal connectedness, relational communication on media, the interdependence–entrapment dialectic, and relationship satisfaction. The results indicated that multimodal connectedness had an overall negative effect on romantic relationships because it increased the feeling of entrapment and reduced relationship satisfaction. This pattern was especially evident in the Chinese sample because multimodal connectedness reduced interpersonal communication and increased conflict management online. However, social sharing on media positively mediated the effect of multimodal connectedness on satisfaction in romantic relationships. These findings suggest that media modalities and use patterns are imperative factors in examining the influence of mediated relational communication on relational outcomes.

The Discursive Struggles of the Client–Worker Relationship in the Social Services

This study examines how disability service workers identify the discourses of the client-worker relationships. We studied the clientworker relationship from the perspective of the relational dialectics theory with a focus on relational contradictions and the meanings created within discursive struggles. We analyzed the interview data from 22 social workers using contrapuntal analysis. According to the social workers’ perceptions, two discursive struggles exist in client-worker relationships: i) the struggle of integration, consisting of the contradiction of the ideal and the real and the contradiction of closeness and reservedness and ii) the struggle of certainty, consisting of the contradiction of predictability and novelty and the contradiction of openness and closedness. These struggles and contradictions arranges on the societal and relational frames to fully depict the nature of social work. Overall, our analysis shows that the client-worker relationship is both bound to the norms of a professional and a close interpersonal relationship, making its study particularly interesting.

The Dark Side of High-Quality LMX: Relational Tensions and Their Impacts on Members

As one of the most popular approaches to study leadership, the leader-member exchange (LMX) theory focuses on the dyadic relationship between a leader and a member (Gerstner & Day, 1997; Graen & Uhl-Bien, 1995). Characterized by trust, support, loyalty, and commitment (Uhl-Bien & Maslyn, 2003), high quality has been documented to produce many positive outcomes, such as higher job satisfaction, organizational commitment, in-role and extra-role performance, and lower levels of stress (Dulebohn et al., 2012; Gerstner & Day, 1997). The beneficial aspects of high-quality LMX to high-quality LMX members dominate the LMX literature. Though it is intriguing to believe that high-quality LMX does only good to members, there may be more to the story. Drawing on Relational Dialectics Theory (DRT), which posits that interpersonal relationships are by nature paradoxical (Baxter, 1990, 2004; Montgomery & Baxter, 1998), this research investigated relational tensions members experience in high-quality LMX and their effects on members across three studies. We identified six types of relational tensions high-quality LMX members experience using grounded theory approach, developed a scale to measure them, and examined how they influence members’ relationship attitudes using survey data. Our research illuminates the potential costs for members in high quality LMX, providing a more comprehensive understanding of LMX.

Secularization, Symbolic Reality Sacred in The Menoreh Hills Madrasa, Yogyakarta

This paper aims to analyze madrasa efforts to maintain the sacred of the symbolic meaning of religious values as a response to the emergence of secularization in the Menoreh Hills community in Yogyakarta. Data were collected through observation and in-depth interviews. This study utilized Peter L Berger's theory of the fundamental dialectics which consisted of community-externalization, objectivation and internalization. It was in line with Thomas Lickona's theory of the configuration of strengthening the values of moral knowing, moral feeling, and moral behavior. The results showed that madrasa efforts to transform religious symbols into symbolic universe were carried out by enculturating the religious symbols with traditional Javanese values to find symbolic realities that had sacred meaning and degrees in the context of tolerance, social care, respect and courtesy values. The symbolic meaning of religion as a symbolic universe for the society can be used as an ethical guide for a human to have a meaningful life and to avoid alienation experience from this modern world. When the madrasa teachers possess high tolerance intelligence to avoid sectarian thoughts, madrasas can be the people's preference to guard religious value against secularization. يهدف هذا البحث العلمي إلى تحليل جهود المدارس لحفظ قدسية القيم الدينية بمعانىها الرمزية، استجابة لظهور العلمانية في مجتمع بوكيت مينوريه في يوجياكارتا. تمت جمع البيانات عن طريق الملاحظة والمقابلات المتعمقة. تستخدم هذه الدراسة نظرية بيتر ل بيرغر (Peter L Berger) عن الديالكتيك الأساسي للمجتمع -الخارجية والموضوعية والداخلية، فكاملتها نظرية توماس ليكونا (ThomasLickona) عن تقوية القيم الأخلاق المعرفي و الشعوري والتصرفي.أوضحت نتائج هذا البحث أنها قد تمت جهود المدرسة لتحويل الرموز الدينية إلى رموز عالمية من خلالالتثقف مع قيم تقليدية جاوية. وهذا لإيجاد حقائقها المعنوية الرمزية في درجات مقدسة في سياق التسامح والرعاية والاحترام والمجاملة الاجتماعية.يمكن استخدام المعاني الرمزية الدينية كمبادئ توجيهية أخلاقية للمجتمع، بحيث يتمتع بها البشر حياة ذات معنى من غير الاغتراب. لهاذا تكون المدرسة مرجعا رئيسيا للمجتمع باعتبارها معقلًا يحمي القيم الدينية من هجمة العلمنة، واستوفى كل هذا إذا كانت المدرسة لها معلمين الذين لهم الذكاء التسامحي لتجنب التفكير الطائفي.

#AbortionChangesYou: A Case Study to Understand the Communicative Tensions in Women’s Medication Abortion Narratives

ABSTRACT One out of four women in the United States will have an abortion by age 45. While abortion rates are steadily declining in the United States, the rate of medication abortions continues to increase, with 39% of all abortions being medication abortions. Our study is one of the first to analyze women’s narratives after having had a medication abortion. Using relational dialectics theory, we conducted a case study of the nonpartisan website, Abortion Changes You. Our contrapuntal analysis rendered four sites of dialectical tension found across women’s blog posts: only choice vs. other alternatives, unprepared vs. knowledgeable, relief vs. regret, and silence vs. openness. Each site of struggle characterized a different noteworthy moment within a woman’s medication abortion experience: the decision, the medication abortion process, identity after abortion, and managing the stigmatizing silence before and after the abortion. We discuss theoretical and practical implications about how the larger politicized discourses prevalent within the abortion debate impact the liminality of women who are contemplating a medication abortion and affect their own narrative construction about the medication abortion experience.

Zur Aktualität von Geisteswissenschaftlicher Pädagogik als dialektische Theorie der Praxis

Abstract Topicality of ›Geisteswissenschaftliche Pädagogik‹ as a Dialectical Theory of Practice. A Contribution in the Context of (Early) Educational Quality Research This contribution focuses on ›Geisteswissenschaftliche Pädagogik‹ as a suitable basis for a theoretical and empirical analysis of educational processes, if understood as a dialectical theory of practice following Friedrich Schleiermacher and Erich Weniger. With reference to the discourse on quality in early education, it is shown how dialectics of education and training can be used in two ways: as a superordinate criterion for the systematic examination of quality concepts and for the specification of empirical quality research.

Agent Banking And Poverty Reduction In Benue State, Nigeria

The study investigated the impact of agent banking on poverty reduction in Benue State, Nigeria. The study is hinged on the agency theory, risk management theory, the regulatory dialectic theory and the basic needs theory. Focusing on the agent banking activities of the First bank PLC, the study used the Taro Yammene’s formula to select 199 agents for investigation. Questionnaire was used for data collection but only 185 copies of the questionnaire were retrieved for analysis. The study employed descriptive tools such as tables and percentages and paired t-test as well as Foster, Greer and Thornbecke (FGT) index. Also, a logit regression model was employed to ascertain whether or not agent bank has the probability of reducing poverty in Benue State. The study found that engaging in agent banking has the probability of reducing poverty in Benue State which is typically an agrarian state with high poverty incidence among highly unbanked population. Agent banking in this unbanked State where only 11 local government areas out of 23 local government areas have the presence of banks has the potential of increasing financial inclusion and enhancing financial literacy. With the presence of agent banking in the state, it will enhance business sustainability and facilitate financial transactions. These will increase economic activities and increase employments and reduce poverty. Given the potentials of agent banking for socio-economic development in the state, it is recommended that financial literacy awareness should be created so that rural population who have long lived unbanked to accept banking services via the agent banking. Also, banks operating in the state should leverage on the opportunity of agent banking to penetrate the rural population with a view to achieving financial inclusion in line with the CBN’s revived National Financial Inclusion Strategy (NFIS) which places implementation focus on women, rural areas, youth, Northern Nigeria and MSMEs to achieve 95% financial inclusion rate by 2024.