Proper Order Of Things Research Articles

Heather L. Ferguson. The Proper Order of Things: Language, Power, and Law in Ottoman Administrative Discourses.

Heather L. Ferguson. The Proper Order of Things: Language, Power, and Law in Ottoman Administrative Discourses.

Pedagogical aspects of physical therapy for children living in therapeutic foster families

Relevance of research: personalistic philosophy proclaimed the supremacy of the human person over socio-economic and historical conditions. There is no doubt that a family is the first provider for their children, as a natural community of everyday life is a peculiar institution created to educate their children (younger generation). Children, surrounded by love easier accustom to the proper order of things, though naturally excreted in their souls over the youthful years, tested forms of human culture. When procreation is not possible, married life does not lose its value for this reason. Moreover, this infertility may provide an opportunity for spouses in other important service for the life of the human, for example, adoption, foster care, various forms of educational work, and assistance to other families, whether with poor or handicapped children. John Paul II stated that the family “is the first place” for »humanizing« “the person and society” and stressed that “the future of humanity is through the family.” The Pope always underlined that a humane person cannot be treated as an object of use, as it is in fact a great good. Goal of research: to present problems of modern society concerning social orphanhood and social diseases. The basis of these “social diseases” in the “lost community” – is a personality disorder with the symptoms of disorientation and confusion, alienation, acquired helplessness, and the development of disharmony and disintegration. Social disintegration may also cause such cultural imponderables as habits, resentments, frustrations, widespread disappointment, apathy and others. Research methods: among optimal forms of family care for an orphaned child, there is a foster family, which is a specific care and educational institution, right after adoption, the closest to the family environment. In terms of sociology and pedagogy, placing a child in a foster family is treated as an opportunity to overcome the negative effects of social orphanhood (deprivation of needs) and to ensure the proper child development and socialization. Results: foster families should get psychological and pedagogical care to acquire communicative competence, contributing to the growth of the individuals' skills in expressing their feelings and boundary control. It would also suggest working on increasing the adaptive mechanisms of the family and its cohesion. Physical therapy is very important for a child living in a foster family but also foster parents need this kind of support.

The Proper Order of Things: Language, Power, and Law in Ottoman Administrative Discourses. By Heather L. Ferguson. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2018. xiv, 426. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Illustrations. Maps. $70.00, hard bound.

The Proper Order of Things: Language, Power, and Law in Ottoman Administrative Discourses. By Heather L. Ferguson. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2018. xiv, 426. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Illustrations. Maps. $70.00, hard bound.

Jonson, Lena Art and Protest in Putin's Russia (review)

SEER, 96, 4, OCTOBER 2018 776 on the otherwise hidden, typical life of a working musician across baroque Europe. Second is Owens’s ability to create this narrative around Cousser with a relatively small amount of surviving music. The former approach helps move the discipline from the ‘popularity contest’ and hagiographic approaches that are still too often found in writing history, while the latter brings a welcome focus on the core thread of the book: musical exchange. This book will be of interest not only to musicologists, but anyone with an interest on social and cultural exchange across Europe in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Canterbury Christ Church University Robert G. Rawson Jonson, Lena. Art and Protest in Putin’s Russia. Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series, 61. Routledge, Abingdon and New York, 2015. xv + 266 pp. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliographies. Index. £95.00. Art and Protest in Putin’s Russia by Lena Jonson is based on an extensive original piece of research and is a skilfully crafted, valuable scholarly contribution to Russian cultural studies. The fate of perhaps the most widely known example of Russian protest art, the feminist group, Pussy Riot, mirrors the restrictions of the existing space for questioning and opposing Putin’s consensus. Even though perfectly reflecting the current situation of protest art and dissent in contemporary Russia, the harsh treatment of Pussy Riot, who dared to speak up about Russia’s soaring issues, such as the authoritarian nature of its government, widespread misogyny and homophobia, was not the only instance of a crackdown on protest art in Russia. Rather, it was yet another reflection of an authoritarian patriotic paranoia that targets anyone who dares to question or oppose Putin’s new consensus, based on a mixture of extreme nationalism and Russian Orthodox dogma. This collection of essays discusses Russian counter-culture, which has been emerging over recent decades and has offered society a critical and dogma-free view on its most important issues. The volume consists of seven topic-based chapters, through which the reader is led ‘closer and closer to politics in art’ ( p. 15). An introduction is followed by the chapter, ‘A history of dissensus, consensus and illusion of a new era’, in which the reader is introduced to the dissensus of Russian art of the twentieth century. It sets the stage by explaining the context of contemporary Russian art and its relation to the dynamics of the regime, in particular the development of Putin’s consensus during his first two presidential terms. Chapter three, ‘An Other gaze in art’, analyses the most subtle form of dissensus in art, which emerged as a contrast to the REVIEWS 777 discourse on identity employed by Putin’s consensus. Despite the expansion of the Russian art scene in the first decade of the twenty-first century, the artists of an Other gaze opposed commercialized mainstream art and questioned the glossy ideology of Russian glamur. Its aim was not to take a political stand, but it was political in the sense that it represented dissensus in opposition to official consensus. Amongst many others, the chapter discusses the work of Anya Zhelud, whose art reflects the chaos and disorder in the environment, Aleksandr Brodskii, whose works depict ‘the frailty and vulnerability of the city and the individual’ (p. 54), as well as the group, ‘Sinii sup’ (Blue Soup) and Andrei Kuzkin, who explored feelings of being stuck. The fourth chapter, ‘Art on trial’, explores the conflict between art and the church, and examines the crackdown on art that represented even the mildest questioning of Orthodox religion and the role of the Orthodox Church in the ongoing construction of Russian identity. The chapter analyses the circumstances of the trial of the exhibition ‘Forbidden Art 2006’, which is considered a critical point in the development of contemporary Russian art counterculture. From here, Jonson invites us to explore the art of open disagreement with the ‘proper order of things’. Dissent in the art of the early 2000s discussed in chapter five contrasts with the more subtle message of an Other gaze. It was aimed at emphasizing the divide between ‘we’ — society — and ‘they’ — those in power — and expressed open...

Tinkering with nature: discourses of ‘nature’ in media coverage of genetics and biotechnology

Concepts of nature and the ‘natural’ order of things form a central anchor in public understanding, public debate and controversy about developments in genetic research and in human, animal and plant biotechnology. ‘Nature’, as Raymond Williams observed, ‘is perhaps the most complex word in the language’ and it is precisely from this complexity that its discursive and ideological power is derived. While it is widely accepted that ‘nature’ is a social construct, it is perhaps the chief appearance of not being so, that makes it such a powerful ideological anchor: ‘nature’ in discourse is used to appeal to what is ontological, God-given, the proper order of things, untainted by man, primordial.This article examines the centrality of concepts of nature in public arena controversies about advances in genetic research and biotechnology. The aim is to show how nature is used or invoked to legitimate particular positions in public debate about genetic research and applications. The article explores the uses of nature in British newspaper coverage of genetics and biotechnology, and it examines changes between 1986/87 and 2002/2003.

The 1978 Truth Criterion Controversy

It is a truism that in politics words often count for as much as deeds. What is surprising about politics in the People's Republic of China, given the Chinese Communist Party's professed commitment to materialism, is how often words count for more than deeds. Disputes concerning the proper order of things are resolved not by reference to what is, but to what ought to be. The right to affect political change is argued first of all on the basis of scriptural authority, and only secondly on the basis of empirical evidence. Acts that cannot be immediately sanctioned on the basis of arguments contained in canonical texts will be kept secret until the obstacles preventing such sanction have been eliminated.