Form Of Social Criticism Research Articles

Style and Function of Humor in the Animation Series 'Tekotok' as a Form of Social Criticism

Our lives cannot be separated from the existence of humor. Humor developed into several theories. This research aims to describe and classify Tekotok animated humor based on Aaker and Bagdonas' theory. There are 4 styles of humor in Tekotok animation, namely the standup, sweetheart, the magnet, and the sniper humor styles. The dominant humor style still uses the Stand-Up humor style. The function of humor is to relieve tension, as a ritual, as social control, and as a social bond. This research used descriptive-qualitative methods. The rest is additional data such as documents and others. The theory used is content analysis theory. Data collection was carried out using random purposive sampling. Sampling was carried out in accordance with the requirements, that the research object must contain the phenomenon of social issues.

Kritik Sosial Natsume Soseki dalam Novel Bocchan

This research aims to reveal Natsume Soseki's attitudes and views in the form of social criticism regarding the phenomenon of social deviation in Japanese society due to the Meiji Restoration (1868-1912) in his novel, Bocchan. Social problems often arise in modern societies, including what happened in Japan during modernization from 1868-1912, called the Meiji Restoration. These social problems include social and cultural dislocation due to the penetration of dominant Western culture and the marginal position of traditional elements, especially in the second decade of the early Meiji era, when Japan aggressively adopted Western culture on a large scale. This social phenomenon can be seen from the decline in Japanese society's appreciation for traditional social and cultural values while simultaneously placing Western culture in a superior position. The theory used in this research is Alan Swingewood's Literary Sociology theory. Through this theory, we will analyze the influence of Natsume Soseki's social background as the author of the novel Bocchan, as well as his ideological tendencies in responding to the symptoms of social deviation in Japanese society (1868-1912), which became the background for the creation of the novel Bocchan. After that, it will be analyzed to what extent the novel Bocchan can reflect social phenomena. The analysis was done by connecting the social aspects of the novel with the historical, social reality that was the background for its creation, namely Japanese society during the Meiji Era (1868-1912). Next, the author will see what social criticism is depicted in the novel. The results of the research show that the novel Bocchan describes Natsume Soseki's social criticism of the phenomenon of socio-cultural dislocation in Japanese society due to Westernization during the Meiji era, as well as the problems of a group of people who persist with old habits in the condition of the Japanese nation which is changing towards a developed and modern country.

Subalternitas Penganut Ahmadiyah dalam Novel Maryam Karya Okky Madasari

<p><em>The issuance of the Indonesian Ulema Council (Indonesia: Majelis Ulama Indonesia or MUI) fatwa declaring Ahmadiyya as a deviant sect and its followers as having departed from Islamic teachings has impacted the stereotypes surrounding the majority community. The novel "Maryam" is a work of fiction based on the experiences of Okky Madasari's best friend as an Ahmadiyya adherents. The novel narrates the discrimination and injustice faced by Ahmadiyya adherents and serves as a form of social criticism by the author towards the subaltern discourse surrounding Ahmadiyya adherents. This research aims to identify the various forms of subalternity experienced by Ahmadiyya adherents in the novel "Maryam". The research specifically examines the different forms of subalternity imposed by the majority group against Ahmadiyya adherents based on the concept of subalternity, which refers to the oppressed who lack access to voice their concerns developed by Spivak. The utilization of critical discourse analysis in this research helps identify and categorize the various forms of subalternity through the predetermined data corpus. The compiled data corpus is the primary source for the researcher to describe, interpret, and analyze the text, context, and discourse in the novel "Maryam". The data corpus will be analyzed through three stages: 1. Description, 2. Interpretation, and 3. Explanation. The research results indicate that the forms of subalternity depicted by the author in the novel "Maryam" include marginalization and silencing. </em></p>

KRITIK SOSIAL PADA NASKAH DRAMA MONOLOG “TOLONG” KARYA NANO RIANTIARNO

Using a literary sociology approach, this study aims to describe the various forms of social criticism contained in Nano Riantiarno's monologue Please. Descriptive method is used in this qualitative research. Swingewood's sociology of literature is used in the study of social criticism in the research conducted. Data analysis methods used include content analysis and descriptive analysis. The data source for this research is the manuscript of the monologue Please by Nano Riantiarno, and the data is in the form of excerpts from the text. According to the results and discussion of this study, there are four social criticisms in Nano Riantiarno's monologue drama script Please: 1) Social Criticism of Poverty Issues; 2) Social Criticism of Crime Problems; 3) Social Criticism of Family Disorganization Issues; and 4) Social Criticism of Bureaucratic Problems.

Gig workers, critical visuality and humour in a digital context: The graphic representation of riders as a form of social criticism

This article studies social perceptions of gig work and its conditions through the lenses of visual humour created and shared in digital environments. Food delivery services have thrived in cities, and riders – gig workers associated with such services – have become popular urban figures, easily recognisable through light means of transport and backpacks. These iconic elements have spread to forms of visual humour like memes and cartoons in social media. We aim to analyse the depiction of food delivery services and riders through graphic humour in digital environments, and its role as critical stances of gig work conditions. We draw from the literature on gig work, as well as critical humour in the workplace, approaching the phenomenon from the perspective of critical visualities and the memetic qualities of digital visual humour. Thus, we have conducted an analysis of rider memes, and carried out a focus group with Spanish cartoonists to better understand each form. From our analysis, we have observed that a) memes showcase less explicit critical stances but reflect a shared understanding of the hurdles associated to rider work; b) cartoons place riders in a contextualised, wider critique of platform economy and capitalism; c) while most graphic humour on riders takes an external, observational position, there is also an ‘inner look’ to the rider work, emphasising the promises and deceptions associated with the gig economy.

Afterword: Beyond Opportunistic Blackness: Reclaiming Victor Anderson’s Religious Criticism Against the Spiritual Evacuation of Blackness

ABSTRACT After nearly thirty years, Beyond Ontological Blackness can and should be used to think about contemporary challenges and avoidable futures in which (racial) representations could further ensnare us due to its inherent entanglement with racial capitalism. In this afterword, I argue that Victor Anderson offers an ethics of representation/blackness through the figure of the religious critic. It reclaims Anderson’s religious critic and shows how such a critic models better forms of social criticism that can be both descriptive and constructive, enlightening and emancipatory, and iconoclastic and utopian, without sacrificing either identity or difference, the individual or the group to oppressive values, norms and structures.

Активизация содержания стереотипов в тексте как средство и способ социальной критики

The article outlines current features of generation of texts of various types containing various forms of social criticism. Attention is drawn to the active and increasingly intensive use of secondary means by communicants who aim at solving the task of nomination. The heterogeneous secondary nominative means that the authors of texts need are listed and briefly characterized. The reasons and conditions that encourage the producer to give preference to secondary nominative means for solving the mentioned communicative and cognitive task are revealed. A detailed analysis of one of the most popular techniques of generating texts aimed at social criticism is given on the example of culturally significant phenomena as secondary semiotic products. The nominative potential of culturally significant phenomena as means of activating the content of stereotypes of consciousness is revealed. The article also outlines cognitive grounds that allow the authors to influence the recipients of texts as efficiently, predictably and economically as possible with the help of culturally significant phenomena. The article describes the interdependence of cognitive, nominative and discursive strategies which require reference to culturally significant phenomena whose advantage as a means of nomination that ensure the success of solving the communicative task of social criticism in various discursive conditions we highlighted. We also described the reasons for functioning of nominative means in various communicative situations and the dominance of these means in the complex of isofunctional ones, and characterized the conditions that favour the activation of the knowledge of culturally significant phenomena in the minds of recipients of texts. The article offers an explanation of the current trend in the use of language tools, according to which the speaker prefers secondary nominative means to primary ones.

Plato’s Ion: An Interpretation with a Sociopolitical Perspective

Ion is probably the most underappreciated dialogue of Plato. Its conventional interpretation focuses on his criticism of artistic creation, that is viewed as the result of divine inspiration and occurs outside the artist’s awareness. I propose that Ion possesses an additional important value, as a form of social criticism: By disengaging the poet from the reciter, Plato targets specifically the latter, and his position in the society, but not the former that is spared from the philosopher’s criticism. Poet’s divine inspiration is just a metaphor for exceptional creativity which is used by the reciter for his personal benefits.

Manajemen Produksi Variety Show dan Sinetron dalam Memenuhi Kepentingan Publik

Television stations compete in packaging an event through creativity in order to win the competition and attract the attention of the audience. In the implementation of broadcasting activities, a broadcasting institution requires expertise in the field of management, namely broadcasting management. Variety Show programs that air on television provide entertainment and are able to attract the hearts of viewers. Soap operas form an amalgamation and shortening of cinema and electronics. Television soap opera packages are one form of educating people to behave in harmony with the order of cultural norms and values. Automatically, the message content that is seen symbolically in the soap opera package is in the form of social criticism and social control about deviations that are currently in the community. The purpose of this study was to determine the production management process of variety shows and soap operas on television. This research uses media management theory. This research method is qualitative and this type of research is descriptive. Research data collection techniques using interview techniques. The result is that the two informants gave their opinions and assessments regarding the current variety shows and soap operas on television. They said that there were several variety shows and soap operas that did not actually fulfill the public's interest. Keywords: Media Management, Broadcast Media

EKOKRITIKISME KOREOGRAFI SATU MILIAR TOKEK KARYA AYU TITIS RUKMANA SARI

Satu Miliar Tokek by Ayu Titis Rukmana Sari, was inspired by the phenomenon of the Kedung Monggo community towards the price of a billion geckos. This phenomenon has an impact on the burning of the banyan tree where the gecko resides. This research has the problem of how to choreograph one billion geckos and how to ecocriticism in the work of one billion geckos. To answer the problem of choreography, Slamet Md's concept of dance formation consists of motion, rhythm, expression, or feeling, costumes, stage, and dancers. To explore ecocriticism, the opinion of F.X. Widaryanto. The manifestation of eco-criticism in performing arts products of past creative traditions is heavily influenced by natural phenomena. This shows that the works of art in the past gave direction to the audience to protect the environment. The method used in this research is a qualitative research method with a choreographic approach. The results of this study indicate that the work of one billion geckos is a work of art as a form of social criticism, especially in the Kedung Monggo community, which is manifested in the flow of dance choreography.Keywords: Satu Miliar Tokek, Choreography, and Ecocriticism

KRITIK SOSIAL DALAM NOVEL ORANG-ORANG BIASA KARYA ANDREA HIRATA

The purpose of this study is to find out the forms of social criticism contained in the novel Orang-Orang Biasa by Andrea Hirata. The problem in this research is how the forms of social criticism contained in the novel Orang-Orang Biasa by Andrea Hirata. This research uses a descriptive qualitative method by using the sociology of literature approach. Based on the results of the analysis it can be seen that the forms of social criticism contained in this novel are: 1. economic criticism; 2. criticism of the rise of crime; and 3. criticism of education.

The Historical Fact Bissu South Sulawesi in the Novel Tiba Sebelum Berangkat (Study Literature Mimetic)

The purpose of this study describes historical fact background character of bissu and describes historical fact of the life character of bissu. The historical aspect in question is how history is rewritten in the novel Tiba Sebelum Berangkat. This study is a qualitative descriptive study, using a mimetic approach is based on Plato's perspective. The validity of the data used to observe the semantic validity of the data units of words, sentences, discourse, dialogue, which is found in the novel. Reliability data using interrater and interrater. Reliability interrater used reading and reviewing repeatedly to find the consistency of the data while interrater had discussions with people who can appreciate literature. Analysis of the data used is content analysis to determine the content and meaning contained in the novel Tiba Sebelum Berangkat. Results in this study, first, historical fact background character of bissu includes: bissu as the traditional ceremonial leader indigenous; stage becomes bissu; the hierarchy of community bissu. Second, historical fact of the life character of bissu includes: bissu becomes the center of Operation Tobat DI/TII; syncretism of bissu and Islamic religion; bissu title pilgrim to Mecca; government intervention against bissu; now bissu as beauty salon worker; novel Tiba Sebelum Berangkat as a form of social criticism. The findings based on that novel have a relationship with bissu real life. Thus, the novel Tiba Sebelum Berangkat contains historical narrative bissu life in South Sulawesi. The impacts resulting from this research can reveal the historical facts that occur in the content of the novel.

Cold War, Personal Autonomy and Coherence of Self in the Theories of Communication: A Popular Culture Perspective

The aim of this essay is to recognise similarities between Cold War Hollywood movies and major sources of the US communication theory. By analysing works by Erving Goffman, David Riesman and Paul Lazarsfeld from the 1940s and 1950s and films by Don Siegel and John Frankenheimer it is argued that both science and fiction shared a concern about potential fragility of the human self. Although the sources of fragmentation that were identified in these works were different, ranging from an extra-terrestrial life form and parent–child relationship to fundamentals of human interaction and dependence on others’ opinions, it appears that they all addressed the same problem of the constitution of the self. The films and academic works are situated in the Cold War context of the United States. The claim is made that they can be understood as reactions to Cold War anxieties and the generalised fear of cultural deterioration by uncontrollable forces. Occasionally these works use the theme of fragmented self as a form of social criticism besides making it a central element in social analysis.

The politics of female adolescent sexuality in music: a social semiotic analysis of Liz Phair's “Glory”

ABSTRACTReleased in the summer of 1993, Liz Phair's Exile in Guyville was hailed by music critics as a landmark indie rock album by a female musician for its depiction of a sexually explicit and subversive feminine persona traversing misogynistic terrain. This article focuses on one song in particular from the album called “Glory” about a teenage girl's sexual experience. Three key semiotic resources in the sound and lyrics (vocal quality, pitch quality and instrumentation) effectively convey her sexual subjectivity, which is regulated by gendered discourses. “Glory” provides specific insights into the emotional, social and political realities confronted by adolescent girls, particularly the subject of their sexual pleasure as a conflicting experience, fluctuating between enjoyment and pleasure versus shame and danger. The song functions as a form of social criticism aimed at the long-standing effects of formal polices regarding adolescent sexual and reproductive health during the Regan era that silences adolescent girls from exploring sexual pleasure and desire.

Concetti socio-materiali e critica sociale

The development of ICT has important consequences on social experience and on the processes of subjectivation. These changes have contributed to undermining some assumptions of sociological theory, such as the status of subject and object of knowledge, the concepts of actor, action and the social, the conditions of possibility of social criticism. The paper reconstructs some of the main logic of transformation of these assumptions, moving from a discussion of L. Gallino’s theses on the relationship between subjectivity, socio-technical change of the web, changes in the elaboration of knowledge and new forms of social criticism. It shows how the epistemic shift generated by these changes leads to an anti-essentialist critique of sociological categories. In this line some critical potentialities of the Actor-Network Theory concepts, of the Goffmanian category of frame and of the infra-empirical perspective proposed by the socio-analysis are shown.

Challenging Gender and Genre: Women in Contemporary Indian Crime Fiction in English

Abstract This paper looks at three Indian crime fiction series by women writers who employ different types of female detectives in contemporary India. The series will be discussed in the context of India’s economic growth and the emergence of a new middle class, which has an impact on India’s complex publishing market. I argue that the authors offer new identification figures while depicting a wide spectrum of female experiences within India’s contemporary urban middle class. In accordance with the characteristics of popular fiction, crime fiction offers the possibility to assume new roles within the familiar framework of a specific genre. Writers also partly modify the genre as a form of social criticism and use strategies such as the avoidance of closure. I conclude that the genre is of particular suitability for women in modern India as a testing-ground for new roles and a space that helps to depict and accommodate recent transformations that connect to processes of globalization.

KRITIK SOSIAL PERANG DALAM LIRIK LAGU IWAN FALS DAN BOB DYLAN

This thesis aims to describe the form of social criticism of war in song lyric of Iwan Fals and Bob Dylan and the comparation of them. This thesis belongs to qualitative research. Subject of this research is song lyric of Iwan Fals from www.iwanfals.co.id and song lyric of Bob Dylan from www.bobdylan.com. The research focused to songlyricthat contains social criticism of war theme and applied to comparative literature theory. The method to analyze this data is descriptive analysis. Validity of data obtained by triangulation technique. Based on the results of the study concluded the following points. First, social criticism of war in song lyric of Iwan Fals described by persuade form. Second, social criticism of war in song lyric of Bob Dylan described by curse form. Third, sosial criticism of war in song lyric of Iwan Fals and Bob Dylan described by different form because different orientation: Iwan Fals tendents to push foward persuade form because war is only an useless, meanwhile Bob Dylan tendents to push foward curse form because war is very cruel.Keywords: song lyric, social criticism, comparative literature

Social critique and engagement between universalism, anti-authoritarianism and diagnosis of domination

The paper discusses a particular ?isomorphy? between two forms of social criticism: the ?holistic? theoretical social critique represented by such authors as J?rgen Habermas and Axel Honneth and ?collective social engagement? represented by such civic movements as the ?We Won?t Let Belgrade D(r)own? initiative in contemporary Serbia, which the paper tries to distinguish from more conventional forms of popular protest. This ?isomorphy?, the paper argues, consists in a tension between three distinct imperatives of the justification of critique - those of normative universalism, epistemological anti-authoritarianism, and diagnosis of social domination - produced by the attempts of both the ?holistic? social critics and the collectively engaged actors to simultaneously respond to all three imperatives. After presenting the three types of theoretical critique that crystallize around each imperative, the paper discusses the internal tension that arises in the works of ?holistic? theoretical critics and then identifies the same kind of tension in the ?We Won?t Let Belgrade D(r)own? initiative. The tension in the movement?s critique is outlined through a brief analysis of the activists? discourse as articulated in the bulletin We Won?t Let Belgrade D(r)own issued in March 2015. Since the examples also suggest that collective engagement is better than theoretical critique at keeping this tension ?productive?, the paper finally offers some tentative thoughts on the possible reasons for this difference.

PERAN MEDIA IKLAN TELEVISI SEBAGAI MEDIA KRITIK SOSIAL KASUS KORUPSI (STUDI KASUS PADA IKLAN DJARUM 76 VERSI “KONTES JIN”)

Corruption should be viewed as an extraordinary crime, are therefore also require tremendous efforts to eradicate it. Efforts to combat corruption which is composed of two major parts, namely (1) the prosecution, and (2) prevention -not will never work optimally if it is only done by government alone without involving the participation to people's media industry. Therefore, advertising media can be used as an important part that can act as a medium of social criticism on the issue of corruption in Indonesia. Djarum 76 for example, ads Djarum 76 as we know it often featured social themes which then can be understood as a form of social criticism. By generating genie figure in each advertisement, Djarum 76 trying to tell its products as manufacturers concentrated on social issues. Image that emerges from these ads is Djarum 76 care social problems that exist, which is then displayed in the form of parody, but full of meaning and social criticism. The method used in this study is case study method which is a research method that uses a variety of data sources that can be used to examine, comprehensively describe and explain the various aspects of individual, group, program, organization or event systematically. The conclusion shows that overall this ad is a form of social criticism that talks about corruption. The elimination of corruption cases were warmly welcomed by everyone who is represented by the audience. However, there is an allusion encountered, which is waiting for the appearance of the genie to resolve corruption cases. Satire is focused on the relevant parties are in fact not able to investigate all cases of corruption. One case took a long time to be completed, while a genie completed all in the blink of an eye .

Serbia in the Mirror: Parodying Political and Media Discourses

This article analyzes the Serbian fake news site Njuz.net, exploring the dynamics of its production, consumption, and appropriation in Serbian postsocialist, pre-EU-accession society. The increasing presence and importance of parodic media genres and the embrace of satire as a viable way to interpret and deal with social and political reality are explained in terms of both Serbia's historical trajectory and its media landscape as well as the global neo-liberal condition. Njuz.net's parody sheds critical light on various political, public, and social subjects simultaneously. Its satire communicates with multiple audiences and enables identification and detachment on several levels, a fact that makes the effects of this parody difficult to judge. The dilemmas that its writers face regarding their social activism are, I argue, a symptom of wider social anxieties and structural adversities caused by the difficulty of clearly identifying and detaching from “the enemy.” Because of how labor, consumption, and everyday practices are organized, we all inevitably contribute to the maintenance of that enemy's well-being. Seen in this light, parody is not only a form of social criticism but also a self-reflective practice.