Ideal Aspirations Research Articles

Exploring Careers for a Clearer Future Work-Self: The Influence of Proactive Personality as a Moderator

Middle school serves as a pivotal juncture in career development, where adolescents grapple with adaptability challenges during transitional phases such as entrance exams and the selection of elective majors. Simultaneously, they embark on integrating their ongoing learning tasks with their ideal aspirations to lay the groundwork for future career development. Against this backdrop, the significance of career exploration and understanding future developmental directions becomes particularly pronounced. To investigate the intricate relationship between career exploration and the clarity of one’s future work-self, along with the moderating role of proactive personality, this study employed the career exploration scale, proactive personality scale, and clarity of future work-self scale. Data from 457 high school students were collected, revealing a substantial positive correlation between career exploration and both future work self-clarity and proactive personality. Adjusting for gender and age highlighted proactive personality as a regulatory factor influencing the relationship between career exploration and future work self-clarity. Furthermore, the results underscored the crucial moderating role of proactive personality in shaping the connection between career exploration and the clarity of future work-self. In-depth analysis revealed noteworthy interactions, particularly with the environmental exploration dimension (standard coefficient of 0.849, p < 0.001). Similarly, interactions with self-exploration, goal-system exploration, and information quantity dimensions were also significant, featuring standard coefficients of 0.905 (p = 0.002), 0.935 (p < 0.001), and 0.854 (p < 0.001), respectively. In essence, these findings illuminate the nuanced dynamics at play, emphasizing the amplified connection between career exploration and the clarity of future work-self in the presence of higher proactive personality levels. This insight holds implications for educators, counselors, and researchers invested in fostering comprehensive career development strategies for adolescents.

EXCESSIVE CONSUPTION AND THE CAPITALIST MODUS VIVENDI

Based on the understanding that human beings have diverse interests and aspirations, liberal ideals preach the coexistence and harmonization of different conceptions of a good life, assuming that each person seeks the one that best suits their particular utopia. Contemporary society, however, encourages a specific model of existence focused on consumption, presenting it as the ideal aspiration for individuals and a means to induce economic development. New needs are constantly created through the exhortation to dissatisfaction and desire, generating an endless cycle of demand, discard, and replacement. The damage resulting from excessive consumption is demonstrated, emphasizing, in closing, that a lifestyle based on conscious consumption is fully compatible with development and must be encouraged, based on an ethics of consumption that is adequate to modern conceptions of human development, promoting a sustainable society. The methodology used in this article is qualitative, based on the analysis of documents and specialized bibliography.

Piano Concert by Y.N. Hummel No. 2 in a Minor Op. 85 in the Context of Biedermeier's Art of "Light" Pianism of the First Half of the 19th Century

The purpose of this study is the analysis of Y.H. Hummel's Second Piano Concerto from the perspective of Biedermeier's positions of "light" ("diamond") pianism of the Restoration era, which deployed saving the spiritual foundations of Rococo in the conditions of secularised art of the post-Vienna school. The methodological basis of the research is the intonation approach of the school of B. Asafyev in Ukraine, which is embodied in the works of D. Androsova, O. Markova, O. Muravska, L. Shevchenko and has direct implications for the institutions of Chinese musicology (see the works of Ma Wei, Wu Golin, others). The specifics of the methods of historical-descriptive, musicological analytical, cultural, stylistic comparative, interdisciplinary approach make up the specifics of the research apparatus of the author of the essay. The scientific novelty of the work is revealed in the fact that, for the first time in Ukrainian and Chinese musicology, the so-called Concerto of Y.H. Hummel is analysed in the light of the positions of Biedermeier's "diamond" pianism of "light play" in the continuation of Mozartianism in piano works (based on the works of D. Androsova and L. Shevchenko) and in the development of the concept of neo-symbolism of post-avant-garde modernity according to O. Markova in relation to the performing revival of Hummel's heritage. Conclusions. Piano concert by Y.N. Hummel's A-moll op. 85 is marked by the advantages of pianistic lyrical flourishes over the manifestations of theatrical drama. The predominance of the lyricism of piano flourishes feeds the positions of romanticism against the background of Biedermeier's ideal expressive instructions, inspired by religious sobriety and, like Rococo art, addressed to the ideal aspirations of the soul and a harmonious worldview. In the Concerto, we rely on Mozartian tectonics (the theme of the soloist in the second exposition, mainly a compensatory function of the orchestra), the structure is dominated by exposition, which "washes away" the sonata relations. The predominant position of "piano lyricism" of ultra-fast finger "small technique", the presence of genres (signs of march, nocturne, anthem) in the expressiveness of themes, "obliteration" of tempo-textural contrasts between the extreme and middle parts of the cycle are evident. The features of crescendoing drama with increasing movement intensity from the beginning to the end of the concert cycle in a two-phase (Parts I-II-III) presentation of energy accumulation are revealed, which corresponds to the two-phase nature of the early Christian liturgy honoured by the Biedermeier culture.
 Keywords: piano Mozartianism, pianism, "easy", "diamond" playing style, musical genre, style in music, concert.

Shia Clerics, Holy Sites, and the Online Visual Culture of the Revolutionary Youth in Iran

Since the supreme leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) called on the clergy to embark on an online jihad to rescue youngsters trapped in the “killing field” of the internet, a vast number of clerics and state-sponsored religious organizations and actors have expanded their online activities. The growing body of Islamic online contents produced by the IRI’s promoters and the proliferation of social media-related practices in religious places and events have shaped the online visual culture of the Iranian revolutionary youths. To explore this under-researched area, this study concentrates on three sets of visual tropes: (1) selfies with martyrs, (2) selfies taken by revolutionary clerics in disaster-stricken areas, and (3) shared images of the holy shrine of Imam Reza on Instagram. In addition to online documents (including posters, photographs, and reports), the data includes selectively chosen Instagram postings retrieved by searching pertinent accounts, hashtags, and locations on the platform. The investigation inquires the ways in which online image-making has been incorporated in the construction of holy sites and the culture of sacrifice and martyrdom propagated by the IRI as ideal youth aspirations. The findings demonstrate the extensive appropriation of social media and intensive integration of online image-making in this field. The study contributes to understanding of the online spaces and practices aimed at extending the influence over the online youth culture in Iran in line with the IRI’s cultural plans and policies.

Environmental Justice in Greater Los Angeles: Impacts of Spatial and Ethnic Factors on Residents' Socioeconomic and Health Status.

Environmental justice advocates that all people are protected from disproportionate impacts of environmental hazards. Despite this ideal aspiration, social and environmental inequalities exist throughout greater Los Angeles. Previous research has identified and mapped pollutant levels, demographic information, and the population’s socioeconomic status and health issues. Nevertheless, the complex interrelationships between these factors remain unclear. To close this knowledge gap, we first measured the spatial centrality using sDNA software. These data were then integrated with other socioeconomic and health data collected from CalEnvironScreen, with census tract as the unit of analysis. Finally, structural equation modeling (SEM) was executed to explore direct, indirect, and total effects among variables. The results show that the White population tends to reside in the more segregated areas and lives closer to green space, contributing to higher housing stability, financial security, and more education attainment. In contrast, people of color, especially Latinx, experience the opposite of the environmental benefits. Spatial centrality exhibits a significant indirect effect on environmental justice by influencing ethnicity composition and pollution levels. Moreover, green space accessibility significantly influences environmental justice via pollution. These findings can assist decision-makers to create a more inclusive society and curtail social segregation for all individuals.

Research on the Path of Strengthening the Ideological and Political Education of Art College Students under the Strategy of Rural Revitalization

As one of the national strategies to solve the major contradictions in the new era of China, the rural revitalization strategy has gradually taken a solid step after the comprehensive victory of the cause of poverty alleviation. Colleges and universities shoulder the responsibility of the times to cultivate talents for the rural revitalization strategy, and can meet the demand of a large number of talents for the rural revitalization strategy, while art colleges and universities are the cradle of colleges and universities to export special professional and technical talents, it also has an important mission that other universities cannot achieve. At present, the rural revitalization strategy is in a period of vigorous development, and there is a lack of art talents. However, art college students do not have a deep understanding of rural revitalization, and the graduates' willingness to serve and develop in rural areas is low. In the context of the rural revitalization strategy, this paper proposes the path choice of the art colleges in the ideological and political education, integrates the rural revitalization strategy into all aspects of the art colleges, realizes the results of the rural revitalization strategy, meets the ideal aspirations of art college students to serve the countryside, and achieves the goal of rural revitalization and the respective development of art colleges and art college students.

Sustainable Viability for Restoration and Adaptive Reuse of Sikh Era Havelis in Lahore, Pakistan

This research is concept based investigation of assessing the practical viability in terms of sustainability, for restoration and adaptive reuse of Sikh Era historic Havelis in Lahore. The timeless history, architecture and unique features of interior built environment of Sikh Era havelis are considered to be as an ideal aspiration for conservation and adaptive reuse in the recent times. History reveals that there are several examples of reused historic buildings that illustrate the practicality of the concept in terms of sustainability; economic impact, vitality of social life, and usability of existing urban resources including energy saving. A heritage survey of Sikh Havelis in Lahore, expert interviews and a review of literature concerning adaptive reuse of historic buildings is used as a tool of conducting qualitative and comparative research. The research recommends key implications for local governments in Lahore and eventually provide a theoretical research framework that can be incorporated in the decision-making processes for adaptive reuse projects. The expert opinion directs that adaptive reuse is important for quality enhancement, practicing sustainability principles, renew the old resource with future demands. The experts were agreed that adaptive reuse increases the age of building, provides safe and healthy environment and feasibility stage of adaptive reuse give direction to decision process.

“Whate’er These Words Cannot Express”: In Memory of Michael O’Neill

“Whate’er These Words Cannot Express”: In Memory of Michael O’Neill

Character Image of Battle Hero in Mnong Epic of Vietnam

The Mnong epic is one of the cultural heritage that still exists in the Central Highlands cultural region of Vietnam until today. With the image of the hero expressed in the epic, where the highest concentration of aspirations and dreams of the community is highest, helping readers and listeners to understand more about the life of the soul, cultural and social activities of people here. The hero in the Mnong epic with beauty, talent, strength and bravery is the generalization of the ideal aspirations of the entire community of the Central Highlands of Vietnam. In the Mnong epic, the social differentiation is very primitive, there is no concentration of community power on an individual, the personal monopoly role is unclear, and the collective nature is clearly revealed. The social power is divided equally for everyone, without the appearance of the model of military leader and heroes in the epic that really make the soul of the battle. The heroic characters of the battle are recognized and praised for the victories of the talented heroes, but the decisive harmony of the work is always the magnanimous and reverberating mettle of a whole group. The strength of victory in the Mnong epic is the strength of the collective, the community. In the epic, the hero may not be the head of the tribe but their strength, talent, bravery contribute to the general of the community, they represent the strength, aspiration of community and preserve the survival of the community before the enemy.

Misplaced idealism and incoherent realism in the philosophy of the refugee crisis

ABSTRACTMany contributions to the philosophical debate about conceptual and normative issues raised by the refugee crisis fail to take properly account of the difference between ideal and nonideal theory. This makes several otherwise interesting and apparently plausible contributions to the philosophy of the refugee crisis problematic. They are problematic in the sense that they mix up ideal and nonideal aspirations and assumptions in an incoherent way undermining the proposed views. Two examples of this problem are discussed. The first example is David Miller’s contribution to the conceptual debate about how we should understand refugeehood. The second example is a common argument from the normative debate about how states should discharge their duties to help refugees, namely the claim that states should help in neighboring countries rather than by taking in more asylum seekers. Both are examples of arguments about how we should understand or respond to the refugee crisis, which appear to offer coherent principles for the moral guidance of political actors but which are actually incoherent as principles of practical reasoning for the context they aim to address.

RHETORIC VERSUS REALITY IN SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE: POLITICAL, NEOLIBERAL AND NEW MANAGERIAL INFLUENCES

This article is based on a study of the experiences of social workers employed in a public service organisation in the Ethekwini Municipality in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. The Constitution of the Republic of South Africa and the profession of social work commit to the pursuit of human rights, social justice and a better life for all. However, an increasing shift towards neoliberalism and new managerialism impacts on the functions and levels of satisfaction of social workers as they deal with the ideal aspirations of the profession and the realities of their day-to-day practice. Informed by critical theory, the research was inspired by the desire for social workers to use the research process to engage in ethical political resistance.

Social policy of EU countries: Ideal aspirations and actual challenges

The article is devoted to the deformation of the European social model in the areas of employment and education under the impact of crisis phenomena in the economy, growth in social tension, and protest movements.

Inhabiting No-Man's Land

This article is a translation of the Editor's Introduction to the new Italian edition of The Elementary Forms of Religious Life. In it, the author maintains that though The Elementary Forms does not suggest how the experience of the sacred could be publicly recovered by citizens of modern democracies, it nonetheless recommends that modernity must remain open, with both courage and humility, to radical self-assessment in light of the centrality of ritual and the sacred to social life. The tentative suggestions to this end in Durkheim's work — the cult of the individual, loyalty towards democratic political values — are the best solutions available to us, though they are part of a way of life that cannot be satisfied either with its present or with its desired state, even when the latter appears fully consistent with its own ideal aspirations. Thus, The Elementary Forms points to the continued need for a more substantial reconsideration of modern Western identity.

Ukrainian Religious Missionary Mission in its Research Interpretations

It is well known that all peoples, without exception, have for centuries formed their own ideas about the world, the cosmos, man, his otherworldly and other dimensions. Associated with factors of different vital values, they accumulate the energy of an ethno-national spirit, attest to the reflections of an individual, as well as the tribe, nation, nation over the ideal aspirations that are usually united around consecrated, close and native ethnic groups. On the other hand, being a subject of admiration and reflection, holiness and inspiration, sacred importance inevitably influences the formation of the culture and art of a particular ethnic group, its life and behavior, aptitude and character, and thus determine the originality of its thinking, worldview and experience. To put it another way, for centuries and still largely, despite the loss of the world of theocentricity as a determining factor in civilizational development, religious imperatives acted and acted as the axis of history, one of the fundamental principles with which humanity binds the past and now comprehends the future. "Every nation," Gustave LeBon notes in his work, "Psychology of Nations and Masses," has a mental structure as stable as its anatomical features, and it is from him that his feelings, his thoughts, his institutions, his beliefs and his art »

Fluid dynamics in three 25‐gauge vitrectomy systems: principles for use in vitreoretinal surgery

To compare infusion and extrusion fluid volumes with three 25-gauge vitrectomy systems. The infusion and aspiration rates of 25-gauge systems from Alcon (Fort Worth, TX, USA), Bausch & Lomb (St Louis, MO, USA), and the Dutch Ophthalmic Research Centre (DORC, Zuidland, the Netherlands) were measured in vitro using balanced saline solution with different heights (40, 60, 80, 100, 120 cm) of infusion bottle, cutter velocities (800, 1100, 1500 cuts/ min) and aspiration powers (100, 200, 300, 400, 500 mmHg). The infusion flow velocities differed among the systems (p < 0.001 for all comparisons [p-values 0.0009-0.0001]). The aspiration rates of the Alcon and Bausch & Lomb systems were lower than that of the DORC system (p < 0.02 for all comparisons [p-values 0.018-0.002]). Infusion and extrusion fluid rates differ among 25-gauge vitrectomy systems. These results may help to optimize ideal aspiration and infusion parameters among 25-gauge vitrectomy systems used to treat vitreoretinal diseases.

Konsepsi Hak Menguasai Oleh Negara Atas Sumberdaya Agraria

The ideal aspiration which exists in the Authority Rights of a State conception is to place the State as a party who has the authority to regulate the use of the State property to the welfare of the society. The Aspiration requires a neutral State which is free from the interest of others, except the interest of social welfare. However, In the reality, State is not neutral from intervention of individual Interest or a group of people Interest on behalf of the public interest. Thus, the promise of the State to grant welfare to the society is merelyn on the normative level.

The Party of Humanity: Writing Moral Psychology in Eighteenth-Century Britain by Blakey Vermeule (review)

MLRy 99.1, 2004 169 new ground. The book proceeds from a simple, suggestive idea: that argument is as intrinsic to the dramatist's practice as it is to Renaissance culture. Knowles reminds us that Shakespeare's plays derive from a world replete with controversy and that much of its audience would have had formal training in rhetorical disputation. The plays dramatize arguments, they engage in arguments with their sources, and, by extension, they provoke disagreements among their audiences. In particular, Knowles stresses 'the argument of action', the proof made manifest by an action or appearance; this requires us to judge its relationship to verbal contentions. Shakespeare's method of historical argument is presented as fundamentally scepti? cal. Each play is seen as puttinga key value or ideal to question. In Knowles's account of 1 & 2 Henry IV, Falstaff's scepticism towards honour is seen as embodying the plays' quizzical sense of the gap between words and things. Unlike McAlindon, Knowles sees Hal's preoccupation with debt and redemption, not as testimony to his sense of responsibility, but as one of many calculated strategies in the play. We are also invited to hear a reductive language of commercial and material calculation in Hal's rhetoric. This is one of many examples in the history plays where seemingly ideal aspirations are placed in the service of interests and ambitions and a contradiction is explored between actions and the arguments that justify them. So, the ambivalence surrounding the rejection of Falstaff is seen as typical of the plays' consistent duality of perspective, Shakespeare's 'humanist revision ofthe actual' (p. 86). For Knowles, the dramatist is engaged in a profound rejection of the values that he saw prescribed in the historiography around him. His dramas re-create the experience of history, rather than formulate an evaluation of it; it is the process of argument that counts, not its resolution. Shakespeare's humanism continues, therefore, to be as debatable as his historicism, even for those who celebrate rather than debunk it. University of Northumbria Dermot Cavanagh The Party ofHumanity: WritingMoral Psychology in Eighteenth-Century Britain. By Blakey Vermeule. Baltimore, MD, and London: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2001. xii + 250pp. ?32.50. ISBN 0-80186-459-3. 'The premise of this book is that Pope, Johnson, and Hume?the three moralists?are practical psychologists whose moral impulses are inseparable from their social aims, projects, and networks. A furtherpremise is that moral psychology in general presents us with the following paradox. Moral psychology is closely connected to reasoning about social life. Reasoning about social life is closely connected to reasoning forpersonal or collective advantage. Moral psychology is therefore closely connected to self-interest. Yet the lifeblood ofmoral ideals is the fictionthattheycan transcend the social' (pp. 2-3). Thus Blakey Vermeule sets out on his obliquely focused discussion of the tensions between private interest and public benefit, between moralism and cynicism, and even, when it comes to Johnson's 'Life of Savage', between compassion and its curiously framed 'opposite' prudence (p. 119) in British writing of the eighteenth century. Vermeule's method is one that shiftsbetween stating the not quite obvious and reformulating the obvious so that an unsuspected and untroublesome paradox is exposed, albeit one that continues not to be troublesome. At its best, this can make us realign our relation, ifonly briefly,to a series of familar texts, including Pope's Dunciad and Johnson's biography. At its worst, it subjects us to loose informalities, for example about friends confirming one another's delusions (pp. 57-58), or to the loose digres? sion on the teaching of critical theory in universities (pp. 34-40), which concludes with an account ofthe author's own trip to St Mary's Church in Twickenham, where, 170 Reviews unsurprisingly, 'Signs of Pope are nowhere' (p. 40). At its most worrying, we find a sequence of neat misreadings of eighteenth-century texts, enabled by a sequence of subtle misquotations. This process begins with Vermeule's account ofJoseph Wright of Derby's painting Three Persons Viewing 'The Gladiator' by Candlelight, where it simply strains the evidence of our own eyes to claim that 'the rationalist elder statesman or merchant [. . .] has arranged...

Bringing alive a paradisal novel or the never‐ending wedding of art and consumption: the case of the “Ami Fritz” in Alsace over the last century

In 1864 two famous novelists: Erckmann and Chatrian co‐edited a fiction called L’Ami Fritz. Very quickly this work had a tremendous success. It was the story of a fellow named “Fritz Kobus” who was living in Alsace. He could be seen as the stereotype of how the “collective unconscious” in France was imagining a prosperous Alsatian fellow. In a very short period of time this fiction became a significant link between the Alsace region and the whole French nation. We will use this example in order to show that the links with consumption and art are very peculiar. It is not only companies that are interested in the appropriation of art, but also consumers. This will help us to show that for example in postmodern times the distinction between high and low culture is not as clear as it may first appear. High and low culture are blending together in interesting ways. What we would like to show here, is that the novel sometimes gives a landmark to the consumers, telling them what their ideal aspirations should be and then the society tries to reflect the novel.

Self-Perceptions of Ability of Mathematically Talented Female Adolescents

Despite their ability, many mathematically talented female adolescents do not aspire to nontraditional careers in mathematics and the sciences. According to the model proposed by Meece, Parsons, Kaczala, Goff, and Futterman (1982), self-concept of math ability is a central mediating variable in predicting long range goals and ultimate achievement in mathematics. The present study tested the hypothesis that, for a sample of 123 mathematically talented female adolescents, consideration of self-perceptions of multiple career-relevant abilities, as measured by Holland's (1977) Self Directed Search, rather than self-concept of math ability alone, is essential to understanding the ideal career aspirations of mathematically talented young women. The results indicate that it is the combined influence of self-perceptions of several career-relevant abilities that differentiates the nontraditional math and nontraditional science career aspirants from more traditional math/science and non-math career aspiration group members. Implications for professionals working with the mathematically talented female adolescent are discussed.

The Place beyond the Heavens: True Being, Transcendence, and the Symbolic Indication of Wholeness

Artistic activity seems almost synonymous with culture itself. It is, furthermore, largely exempt from the kind of adverse criticism that accretes to scientific activity. Science, in both its theoretical and its applied functions, is greeted with fear and revulsion in virtually the same ratio as it is accorded respect and considered a necessity for the improvement of the human condition (we think immediately of such ambiguous aspects of scientific progress as nuclear fission, genetic manipulation, and industrial pollution). Art, on the other hand, is almost universally and unequivocally considered a good. One has only to witness the hordes descending on the museums of Europe and America, or to call to mind the willingness of the more affluent to support opera, ballet, theatre, or still again to think of the cachet accorded the decision on the part of the young to be creative whether in painting, sculpture, music, dance, theatre, or literature to realize that art draws to it much of the ideal aspiration of our civilization. At forty she was still ambitious to become a painter, muses Bellow's Tommy Wilhelm in sombre reflection on his sister: She worked very hard, but there were fifty thousand people in New York with paints and brushes, each practically a law unto himself. It was the Tower of Babel in paint. And though art deals with and utters