Existential Events Research Articles

Study on the Event Framework with the Headlines of Local English News Reports on COVID-19 Vaccine -Taking the WeChat official account DongguanToday as an example

The digitization of news media is greatly accelerated due to the impact of COVID-19. The dissemination of local English news on vaccination makes a great contribution to the effective implementation of national epidemic prevention and control for foreign nationals. As a practical means, it is necessary to study the English news of local WeChat official accounts during the epidemic period. News headlines are an important application of event framework in semantics. Through sorting out and analyzing event types, event elements, and event structures, this paper tries to understand the event framework of news headlines of the COVID-19 vaccine and how they convey media views, attitudes, and values. In sum, the event types under this theme are mainly existential events and relational events, and the most important event element is the participant. The event structure presents a progressive structure of the scene.

Специфика топоса рефлексии в контексте трансцендентальной и экзистенциальной моделей рассмотрения

The paper is focused on the examination of the topological problematics of the reflexion phenomenon in the context of understanding the transcendental and existential models of its consideration. Some features of the reflexion topos are highlighted based on the historical-philosophical and hermeneutic analysis. It is shown that in the development of the classical tradition of understanding reflection, the ideas of metaphysics as a special sphere of knowledge of the absolute are born, which determines the primacy of reflection in relation to sensory cognition. The reflexion topos is located in the sphere of the subject's speculation. In the tradition of forming ideas about transcendental reflection, the idea of the significance of the transcendental Other comes to the fore, moving the reflection topos beyond the limits of consciousness. The property of “mirroring” and transcen-dentality emphasizes the dualistic nature of reflection, the actualization of the spiritual and rational principles in the subject’s reflective experience. The intersubjective character of the reflexion topos in I. Kant’s philosophical ideas is outlined. Based on the philosophical views of M. Bakhtin, the specifics of the topos of the existential model of reflexion are revealed, where the Other is a multivalued subject for whom the reflexive-communicative act is an existential event. The existential reflexion topos is not initially set, is mobile, unstable, and is conditioned by the intensity of value interaction between personal principles. In conclusion, a vector for a deeper understanding of the topological problems of reflection in the context of existential consideration is giv-en.

A FOLKLORE EVENT AS AN EXISTENTIAL PERSPECTIVE OF A NON-RITUAL LYRO-EPIC WORK

The article examines the peculiarities of the representation of an existential event in a folklore work, primarily, the function of the existential word. It emphasizes that the category of freedom in the perception of the natural characteristics of a person and their spiritual integrity correlates in lyric-epic works with the understanding of a moral act as an individual decision and an axiom of the entire life path.
 The work focuses on the peculiarities of the existential consciousness of the author-performer, which are revealed in the folklore work through the understanding of the uniqueness of each person, the moments of entering their life world into the world of other people. This can be traced on the example of ballads, chronicle songs, emigrant, rebel, prison songs, etc. The plot modeling of a non-ritual folklore work makes it possible to present each individual act of a person in the aspect of meaning-making of the whole life. So, the folklore event represents such an ethical-philosophical paradigm that makes it possible to understand the act as a fact of unique, unrepeatable being and the moral-ethical dimension of this fact.
 The work focuses on how a poetic word in a folklore work stands out in the field of perception of an important episode of a person's life, which in an artistic interpretation becomes a significant folklore event. The author-performer presents their own vision of the causes of life's drama, and this assessment becomes a kind of invective for understanding important moral imperatives.
 On the basis of examples of lyrical-epic folklore, one can understand the true dimension of the ontological values of the ethnos, in which all events, realities of reality, human actions are shown not in some chosen hierarchy, but in the constant flow of complex and contradictory human existence. The author-performer presents all subjects and objects in a single plane, giving each of them an important meaning.

하이데거의 시간 이해

This paper discusses Heidegger's understanding of time. His theory of time is entirely connected to the question of being. Time is not a physical sub-stance or a natural reality as duration, but a ground where the meaning of existence is revealed. From this point of view, Heidegger first conducts an existential analysis to understand time. The reason for this analysis is that the question of existence is made in Dasein, the ground of the openness of existence. After introducing this point of view, this thesis clarifies the understanding of time shown in Heidegger's major work, Existence and Time.
 For this purpose, the whole history of Existence and Time is briefly summarized first. Here, after referring to the previous lecture notes The Concept of Time and von Hermann's Being and Time explanations, I briefly explain the understanding of time shown in Volume 11 of Augustine's Confessions, which provided insight into Heidegger's theory of time. After that, the understanding of time shown in Being and Time is analyzed. Here is the time of existence and the meaning of existence. The analysis proceeds with the terms of the moment and the time of decision, the transcendence of time and de-self, and the deliberative thought of time explanation. After explaining Heidegger's understanding of time in this way, the last chapter 4 discusses how the theory of time in Being and Time corresponds to the understanding of time in contemporary physics.
 Through this analysis, it is revealed that time is real, and that without time, there is no existential event for human beings, and all reality does not exist. It also concludes Heidegger's argument that time cannot be understood as a physical reality and must be understood ontologically in temporality. Along with him, he emphasized the need for a philosophical shift to newly explained reality through a new understanding of time beyond traditional realism.

PRÁTICAS ASSISTENCIAIS DE EQUIPES MÉDICAS E DE ENFERMAGEM ÀS PESSOAS EM CUIDADOS PALIATIVOS HOSPITALIZADAS

ABSTRACT Objective: to analyze the practices of Medical and Nursing teams for hospitalized people in Palliative Care. Method: a qualitative research study linked to the post-critical perspective, carried out between November 2020 and April 2021 in a teaching hospital from southern Brazil. The participants were three physicians, four nurses, three nursing technicians and four hospitalized adults monitored by a Palliative Care consulting team. Vignette and data extraction from medical records were used as data production techniques. The Atlas.ti program, cloud version for students, was used for data management. The data were submitted to content thematic content analysis and interpreted with theoretical notions of life technologies, therapeutic economics and biopolitics. Results: the practices were directed towards physical distress. The technologies, represented by devices and medications, were the main ways of approaching this. Even if controversial, some practices tend to be used with a view to prolonging the days of life, if that should be the family's wish. The family tends to be used as a link between the hospital and the home; however, it needs to be cared for. Conclusion: the practices of Medical and Nursing teams partially converge with Palliative Care recommendations and principles. Even under the monitoring of a specialized team, the behaviors prescribed by care teams are supported, above all, on moral values and empirical judgment. Such stance has repercussions on the resistance to accepting death as an existential event and inherent to life, keeping it still medicalized, even from different perspectives, such as Palliative Care.

Путь в Сибирь как опыт «пороговой» ситуации в мемуарах православного духовенства XVII-XIX веков

The article considers the idea of the liminal status of Siberia in the Russian cultural consciousness, which remains relevant today and affects the understanding of the essence and boundaries of the Siberian text of Russian literature. The aim is to expand the source base of this aspect of the Siberian text by referring to the Siberian spiritual literature. The paper analyzes the “Life of Archpriest Avvakum”, associated, according to V. I. Tyupa, with the beginning of the “conceptualization of Siberia as a liminal chronotope” Also, the texts of the 19th century are investigated: “Tales of the Pilgrimage” of Monk Parfeny and “Travel Notes” of Archbishop Nil (Isakovich). The significance of the liminal situation for the Siberian clergy is determined by the circumstances of its ministry: most of them were not natives of the region and had their personal experience of transition. Of importance is also a high level of self-reflection, contributing to a deep understanding of that event and its fixation in memoir-autobiographical form. The works offer two versions of depicting this situation: as a mystical experience, often reinforced by visionary practice and the motive of the miraculous, referring to the hagiographic tradition, and as a time-consuming and dialogical psycho-emotional process. Whatever the case, a holistic image of the transition to Siberia is created as an existential event, the transition purpose being interpreted as the realization of the apostolic mission or as a personal “сhristological initiation”.

Protest Demonstrations in 2020: A Viewpoint From the Field on Social Justice, Multiculturalism, and Death

The author of this viewpoint article, who is both a counseling professional and a police officer, was in extremely close proximity to multiple social justice themed demonstrations in their entirety during the spring, summer, and fall of 2020. In this viewpoint, he shares these experiences; discusses themes which emerged related to social justice/multicultural counseling and counselor education, decolonization, and the existential event of death; and draws connections with the extant human services literature. Implications are suggested for professional human services practice as well as further research into the phenomena of social justice demonstrations and counseling.

Антропологическая практика как невозможная возможность

A contemporary man is now more and more recognizing the necessity of the anthropological practice of the art of being himself. The main sphere of the research conducted in social science and the humanities in the second half of the 20th – the beginning of the 21st centuries was dedicated to problematization, apology, assertion and exercises related to practices of the self. The topic of the anthropological practices (social, spiritual, psychological, somatic, and art practices) permeates the works by E. Fromm, L. Binswanger, P. Ricoeur, P. Hadot, M. de Certeau, M. Foucault, V. Bibikhin, Yu. Lotman, S. Averintsev, and S. Khoruzhy. Reaching the level of the anthropological practices is seen in this article as salvation from alienation, loneliness, and violence as a “second breath” for a better and more dignified life. However, together with the expansion of the topic of the anthropological practices, the comprehension of their multiplicity and multidimensionality we are faced with the arising problem of the impossibility of these practices, their fragility and excessiveness. The originality of this paper lies in the research of the problem of the impossible possibility of the anthropological practices, their fragility and excessiveness. Consequently, we can acknowledge that the problematics of the anthropological practices has an antinomic character and the “resolution” of the problems is possible within the bounds of an existential event on the edge between its possibility and impossibility. It’s also important to consider that the anthropological practices facilitate the self-renewal of the social, the transcendence of alienation, and the transformation of everything that is impersonal towards a man and fallen away from him. The social as the human can begin, be initiated, and realized but it cannot last forever, it is temporary, event-bound and situation-bound, and principally heteronomous.

Women’s experiences of cultural and traditional health beliefs about pregnancy and childbirth in Zambia: An ethnographic study

Zambian women's pregnancy and childbirth are linked to a variety of cultural and traditional practices, activities and beliefs. These existential events affect the women's health and the newborn's care. In this study we used an interpretative ethnographic design. Individual deep interviews with eight Zambian women were carried out. The formation of family, pregnancy and childbirth are important for strengthening generational traditions and preserving culture. Having many children is especially important for Zambian men as it increases their status in the society. Family continuity is related to the legacy of generations through the spirits of the ancestors.

How Giving Birth Makes Sense: A Questionnaire Study on Existential Meaning-Making Among Mothers Giving Birth Preterm or at Term.

Women's reflections on existential meaning-making in relation to giving birth may seem indistinct in maternity services and have not been thoroughly explored in secular contexts. However, research suggests that childbirth accentuates spiritual and existential considerations and needs even in secular contexts highlighting the importance of care for such needs in maternity care practices. The objectives of this study were two-fold: Firstly, to explore how first-time mothers, living in a secular context, experience their first birth in relation to existential meaning-making. Secondly, to describe the relationship between existential meaning-making reflections and gestational week at birth. A nationwide cross-sectional study in Denmark based on the questionnaire "Faith, existence and motherhood" was conducted in 2011. Eight core items related to birth experience informed this study. The cohort was sampled from the Danish Medical Birth Registry and consisted of 913 mothers having given birth 6-18months previously. Twenty-eight per cent had given birth preterm (PT) and 72% had given birth at full-term (FT). A total of 517 mothers responded. In relation to the birth of their first child, both FT and PT mothers answered, that they had existential meaning-making reflections. The consent to the 8 items ranged from 17 to 73% among FT mothers and from 19 to 58% among PT mothers. Mothers who gave birth preterm mainly identified the negative aspects of birth, whereas mothers, who gave birth at full-term, to a higher degree identified positive aspects. Findings suggest that not only traumatic birth events accentuate existential reflections, but that even normal childbirth to most mothers is an existential event. However, the quality of existential reflections differs when comparing normal and traumatic birth. The study points towards change in education and organization of maternity care to better care for existential needs and reflections specific to every new mother and birthing woman.

Hospice Care: Between Existential and Medical Hope

ABSTRACT Medicalisation of hospice care has been discussed simultaneously with the development of palliative care into a medical speciality. However empirical knowledge of the role of medicalisation in hospice practice is underexplored. This paper considers hospice managers’ perspectives on hospice care in the complex between values related to hospice philosophy and a specialised medical approach to hospice care. Focus groups and small group interviews were conducted with hospice managers from 16 out of the 19 Danish hospices. Drawing on hope as a theoretical framework, the study contributes to further understanding of the complexity of navigating hospice care in the impasse between an existential hope focused on meaning at the end of life and a medical hope for control of the dying body. Hospice care appeared as pulled between these dimensions of hope. The hospice managers took a pragmatic approach to medicalisation but their emphasis on dying as an existential event also points to a role for hospices as a critical voice against over-medicalisation of dying.

Turnover prevention: The direct and indirect association between organizational job stressors, negative emotions and professional commitment in novice nurses.

AimsGetting insight in the most crucial organizational job stressors for novice nurses' professional commitment and whether the job stressors are mediated through negative emotions.DesignThe study used an observational cohort design.MethodsOrganizational job stressors were derived from 580 diary entries by 18 novice nurses combined with measures on emotions and commitment. The diaries were collected from September 2013–September 2014.ResultsPath modelling revealed that lack of support from colleagues, negative experiences with patients and confrontations with existential events were most strongly negatively related to professional commitment through negative emotions. Other indirectly and negatively related organizational job stressors to commitment were complexity of care, lack of control and work‐life imbalance; only conflicting job demands, and lack of control related to professional commitment directly.Conclusion(s)To enhance professional commitment, it is important to reduce negative emotions in novice nurses by collegial support in dealing with negative experiences with patients, complexity of care and existential events and to prevent lack of control and an imbalance between private life and work. Nurse supervisors and managers can encourage nurses to share negative patient experiences, issues related to complexity of care and existential events.ImpactConsidering the worldwide nursing shortage and early turnover, more understanding is needed about how negative emotions mediate the relationship between organizational negative job stressors and professional commitment and the relative impact of organizational job stressors to professional commitment. The study stresses the importance of a supportive role of supervisors and nurse managers to improve the work environment and hence increase novice nurses' commitment and retention.

The importance of contextual, relational and cognitive factors for novice nurses' emotional state and affective commitment to the profession. A multilevel study.

This study explored the effects of contextual, relational and cognitive factors derived from novice nurses' work experiences on emotions and affective commitment to the profession. With an increasing demand for well-trained nurses, it is imperative to investigate which work-related factors most affect their commitment to develop effective strategies to improve work conditions, work satisfaction and emotional attachment. A repeated measures within subjects design. From September 2013-September 2014 eighteen novice nurses described work-related experiences in unstructured diaries and scored their emotional state and affective commitment on a scale. The themes that emerged from the 18 diaries (with 580 diary entries) were quantified as contextual, relational and cognitive factors. Contextual factors refer to complexity of care and existential events; relational factors to experiences with patients, support from colleagues, supervisors and physicians; cognitive factors to nurses' perceived competence. The first multilevel regression analysis, based on the 18 diaries with 580 entries, showed that complexity of care, lack of support and lack of competence were negatively related to novice nurses' affective commitment, whereas received support was positively related. The next multilevel regression analyses showed that all contextual, relational and cognitive factors were either related to negative or positive emotions. To retain novice nurses in the profession, it is important to provide support and feedback. This enables novice nurses to deal with the complexity of care and feelings of incompetence and to develop a professional commitment.

The voice of nurses: Novice nurses' first experiences in a clinical setting. A longitudinal diary study.

To gain greater understanding of which personal and professional demands novice nurses are confronted with and what can be done to improve the transition from novice to professional staff nurse. Novice nurses are confronted with a lot of physical, emotional and intellectual changes in the role-transition process from student nurse to professional staff nurse, which are often related to feelings of confusion, uncertainty and stress. Few studies have investigated, on a longitudinal basis, the lived experiences of novice nurses in the clinical setting. The study adopted a qualitative longitudinal approach to investigate the described experiences of novice nurses during their first 2years after graduation. Written diaries were selected for optimal data collection. A sample of eighteen novice nurses was recruited from several wards at a University Medical Center in the Netherlands. The inclusion criteria were a Bachelor's degree in nursing, aged under 30, and no more than 1year's work experience. Data were collected from weekly measurements from September 2013-September 2014. Eight major themes emerged from the diaries (n=580): relatedness, competence, development, organisational context, existential events, goals, autonomy and fit. This study revealed that the need for relatedness was by far the most reported theme. Support and positive feedback from colleagues appeared to be crucial for novices starting work in a highly complex environment. This study showed that one of the strategies novice nurses use to deal with challenging and existential situations is to share their experiences with colleagues. Therefore, novice nurses should always work in a safe environment which enables this. Identification of key issues around understanding novice nurses' first clinical experiences may help to improve their transition from novice to professional staff nurse. The presence and support from supervisors and mentors are inevitable to keep novice nurses motivated for the profession.

Percorsi esistenziali e dinamiche educative nella senescenza. L’autobiografia come ermeneutica formativa

Human formation is a pivotal category of pedagogical thought: the educational process - understood in a broad sense as both intentional educational actions and spontaneous existential events - activates the dialectic of training in order to lead the subject to the conquest of a proper human dimension of existence. Each season of life has its own peculiarities and characteristics. The last age, the senes-cence, represents the end of the entire path, in which the elderly can complete with the last brushstrokes the symbolically canvas (perhaps a chef d’oeuvre) repre-senting the whole course of his existence.

The Meaning of Meeting as an Existential Event in the Perspective of the Unity Paradigm

Abstract The article discusses the key meaning of meeting, understood as an existential event and considered in the perspective of the paradigm of unity. The two mentioned categories: meeting and paradigm of unity are not presented in the literature in the context of their direct relation to each other. Therefore, the main problem presented in the paper is: how far they are cognitively relevant. The starting point for reflections is the recognition of a meeting situation in the perspective of human spiritual development which happens through turning towards the other. This development is experienced in overcoming the tension between the declarative attitude towards the mutual love and the real act expressing the actual openness to this gift. According to Chiara Lubich, the gift of love is the central category of the paradigm of unity. If we follow Thomas Kuhn and define the paradigm as a worldview that unites a community in their holistic vision of the world, then it is the meeting that is an integral and necessary element of this paradigm. Experiencing a meeting, in this context, is the condition for reaching the spiritual unity in a community of people who are led by mutual love and out of that love bear with one another in their otherness.

Unus Mundus: A New Approach to The Reading of Complexity

In the last decades of the twentieth century, there was quite a change in the scientific approaches as far as humankind and nature are concerned. The recent discoveries of quantum physics with the phenomenon of entanglement and of the neurosciences with the holographic theory of mind have furthermore amplified the epistemological perspectives of complexity, introducing completely new and amazing hypotheses concerning the human­–universe relationship. Therefore, on the basis of these quantum specifications by Bohm, we can postulate the hypothesis that if all the matter of the universe is also entangled, living matter and the cognition entangled to it, which are at the basis of the network of life, do not represent but a giant living hologram provided with specific information prerogative which, generally speaking, can flow by means of the continuous interaction of the corporeal matter of humankind together with the wider network of the whole. This interaction of humankind with the universe is studied by Ecobiopsychology, which qualifies in the “panorama” of complexity like a new discipline, which relates the informative codes of the living world and their specific languages (the ecological aspect) to the analogous languages of the human body, which sediments in itself the phylogenesis of the world (the biological aspect), to then recover the relationship between the “world” and the human “bios” in its psychological and cultural aspects expressed in myths, in the history of religions, and in the collective images of humanity (the psychological aspects). Ecobiopsychology, referring to the most recent developments of complexity, considers humankind as an organized totality provided with a meaning that can be justified only if contextualized in the relationships with its body, its mind, and its social and cultural dynamics without any of these aspects being privileged the human being, the human unit is to be seen as a node within a broader network. The human­-unity is provided with a specific organization, schema, structure, and process, the outcome of that manifestation of strength and information flowing in a continuous dynamism. The ecobiopsychological model focusing on the constant relationship between the unconscious and the body, in referring to the information “physicality” of the archetype and in evaluating the importance of the synchronicity as a rule able to bind among themselves the information of existential events together with the categories of the different forms of the universe, by means of the vital analogies and the symbols, proposes a holistic Weltanschauung of humankind. This is similar to the most modern conceptions of quantum physics.

Au nom de la raison neurobiologique

ProblemNeurobiology, adorned with the most recent discoveries of the molecular biology, the genetics and the cognitive sciences, is present everywhere: In the report of the man with his body, with his intellectual faculties, with his perception of others and himself. Our social conducts, morality and our affects would be governed by neuronal substrata. Are things so simple? MethodologyTo try to answer this question, the author is going to use the opposition “to explain” and “understand”, in a long-standing and often passionate debate which concerns the epistemology and the ontology, two modalities to be inflexible. Different thus of methods: In the mind of Dilthey, we explain the nature (submitted to the principle of the causality) but we understand the psychic life (which sends back to the sphere of the sense). ResultsIf the debate to explain and understand is further and far from being simple, the author adduces to draw from it some conclusions by questioning the speech of the promising of a reductionist neurobiology which believe to explain everything including all our actions in the name of the neurobiological reason: (1) if this is the case, we would be slaves of a history which already has its fate: The neurobiological-shaped man is neurobiological, (2) this speech is based on the mechanism of the tautology, that is it goes round in circles, teaches us absolutely nothing, (3) if the same neurobiologist asserts the opposite, why while reporting me what I say, I have no precise and localizable perception of my consciousness? (4) if the consciousness has no appropriate place or, to say it differently, if there is no intellectual topic appropriate to the consciousness, then what takes place in me will remain forever untranslatable and will be condemned to the silence. To go out of one, exist thus, I need the immediate and permanent help of an other one (or of contradiction), (5) if this process is purely an event of the brain then all our actions, all our gestures, in brief all that it is allowed us to live has to take place as it takes place, (6) finally to assert it brings us nothing more because the explanation always leaves something aside: the phenomenon of the life in which he is imperceptible. The example of the alcoholic is significant: if a change of the intellectual mechanisms is responsible of his alcohol addiction, why the alcoholic, by wanting to drink “how everybody”, makes as if written history beforehand was of not much importance? If the alcoholic began thinking of his own cerebral dysfunction while he lives, his life would have no shape. Indeed, if he receives the message and knows the felling about which it is a question. Indeed, if he receives the message and knows the feeling about which it is a question, he cannot, by force of circumstance, feel what his brain passes on to him: he does not witness what appears in its brain. On the other and he witnesses the world in which he lives but also on his condition of mortal. So, without objects to be cultivated, that is without the world of the presence which is the one of the existence and not the understanding, the neurobiological explanation of his alcohol addiction will concern a knowledge but will ignore any life. It means that there is well a gap to live and theorize and that the alcoholic is not reduced to a cerebral dysfunction: he is in the life of relation, that is it is capable of taking up himself by using its real-life experience. The psychopathology implications are going to show themselves here of a very big importance: any reduction comes to truncate the understanding of the man sick coach in reality we constantly have to deal with the “global and complete” man, with the anthropology of the human fate. ConclusionIf the science brings us news discovered in this domain, it has to keep always in mind that the life remains imperceptible and deeply moving. Without this existential event which allows us “to live”, the air will become unbreathable in our more and more technical-scientific world: it would like being sentenced to asphyxiation.

Abstract and Individualizing Strategy of Thematisation Child Figure

There is exposed some comprehension strategies of child image in the article: an abstract, associated with psychological knowledge strategy of thematisation child figure, determinacy, monosemy, normalization, averaging become the sings. Individualizes implemented in the cinematic text I. Bergman; it is characterized by multiple, semantic openness, event. Peculiarities of the psychological theory of development are analyzed, influenced the understanding and structuring of the child's life. Artistic perspective of comprehension of child image is demonstrated that was realized in the cinematography as an extension of and an alternative to the traditional psycho-pedagogical approach, centered mainly on the issues of socialization and optimization of the growing subject, the child as an agent of instrumental effects, and a kind of "simulator" for optimizing skills in the childhood. Appeal to the different ways of theming corresponds to the complexity of the inner reality of the modern man, which inevitably turns into the search for a stable base, whose presence can be achieved by building a personal history. Complication reflection of child figure, strengthen of his comprehension become a conjugate existential event. DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2015.v6n6s3p78

The Base Articulations of the Liminality Concept

This study aims to clarify the meanings and the semantic articulations of the concept of liminality. The method used in the study is meta-analytic. a) There is first achieved a historical reconstruction of the concept. The semantic nucleus of the concept is represented by the action of spiritual configuration of events by which individuals are introduced in a transition state from separation to incorporation. This existential event is theoretically approached by Arnold Van Gennep through the syntagm “rites of passage”. Subsequently, Victor Turner subsumes the meanings of the spiritual event of passage to a single-word concept “liminality” and talks about “liminoid” events. b) Afterwards, there is carried out a logical-semantic reconstruction of the concept and there is concluded that the practical articulations of liminality consist in going over three stages of the process of liminality: the ambiguous state, the adaptation to new norms, rules and values and the pre-integration. As illustration of liminal transition, there is presented the current mass media case in which there is mobilized the idea of persuading the consumers of media messages to adopt a behavior which represents a passage from lack of involvement to social, economic and political involvement/engagement. The conclusion is that a) the world and people in general, are in a constant process of passage, of change, b) that liminality constitutes an important factor of individual and social development, c) and that society is marked by liminality.