Social Construction Of Reality Research Articles

Эволюция концепта «языковая личность» в процессе конструирования социальной реальности

The article presents the stages of transformation of the concept “linguistic personality” in correlation with the changes of social reality. The reasons for the appearance of the concept “communicative personality” in connection with the formation of the social reality of the information society are substantiated. Comparative analysis of these concepts, involving linguistic, socio-cultural and socio-psychological factors is presented. The “linguistic turn” in socio-humanitarian research contributed to a new content of linguistic personality as a discursive concept. The sociological approaches of M. Weber and P. Bourdieu are given as the theoretical grounds of the connection between the social status of a linguistic personality and its belonging to a certain speech community. The example of the sociolinguistic discourse proves the influence of the level of education, linguistic in particular, on the access of the linguistic/communicative/discursive personality to the social lift (professional career development). Thus, the linguistic personality as a subject of social reality construction creates and maintains social communication, contributes to the enlargement of knowledge, intergenerational connections and, ultimately, to the improvement of the quality of life.

Lay representations of populism: Discursive negotiation of naturalized social representation

AbstractDespite the importance of naturalized representations for explaining, creating and recreating social reality, little empirical research has examined the resistance to and change in naturalized representations in talk. By approaching populism as a naturalized representation, this article examines the dialogical construction of populism in 55 Finnish lay interviews. Our analysis consists of two parts. First, we conduct a reflexive thematic analysis to identify the meanings of the naturalized representation of populism. Additionally, by relying on work in critical discursive psychology, we perform a more fine‐grained analysis to illustrate how the naturalized representation of populism is used in talk to construct social reality and intergroup boundaries. Second, by relying on critical discursive psychology, we illustrate the discursive strategies that allowed some of our interviewees to contest the naturalized representation of populism in talk. This study offers novel contributions to the existing literature on populism and social representations by analysing the meanings and functions of the term ‘populism’ in lay discourse, responding to the call to combine social representations theory and the discursive approach, and offering insights into the changes in naturalized representations. Please refer to the Supplementary Material section to find this article's Community and Social Impact Statement.

Konstruksi Realitas Sosial: Sosial Media Sebagai Sarana Kreasi dan Ekspresi Karya Mahasiswa Universitas Jember

In this modern era, technological developments are increasingly advanced and developing rapidly, especially supported by the existence of social media, which is increasingly progressing. Current technological developments have a big influence on human life in everyday life, where people will interact and establish social ties with the social structures that exist in the surrounding environment. The existence of social media makes it a forum or platform as a form of freedom to express and create works owned by the current generation, from children to adults. This freedom of creativity and expression makes it possible for everyone to share their ideas and works easily and practically without having to be limited by time and space. Apart from that, social media is also said to be a public space and is a form of construction of social reality in society. This is because social media allows everyone to interact and communicate with other people without limits, from various cities, islands, and even countries. So that's where the construction of social reality that occurs on social media, which refers to freedom of creativity and expression in a work, can influence the perspective of each individual and even society at large because later they will create and understand their own social world.

Pesan Anti Rasisme dalam Pertandingan Kualifikasi Euro 2020 Belanda vs Estonia di Mola TV

antagonism towards many forms of racism. Instances of racial discrimination and prejudice are prevalent within the domain of football. A diverse range of individuals, including supporters, coaches, athletes, officials overseeing matches, and media members, are accountable for participating in racist practices. The establishment of the Let's Kick Racism Out of Football program by the Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) was a direct response to the occurrence of racism within the football community. The primary aim of this research is to investigate the potential existence of an anti-racist message inside the live broadcast of the Netherlands vs Estonia match on Mola TV. The research methodology adopted in this study involves using a descriptive qualitative approach. The methodology utilized in this study is the semiotic approach. The methodology adopted for data analysis is grounded in the principles of semiotics as established by Charles S. Peirce. The theoretical framework utilized in this research is the constructivism paradigm. The present study utilizes the theoretical framework of Social Reality Construction in Mass Media. The results of this study unveiled several forms of anti-racism indicators, encompassing gestures involving bodily motions, observable characteristics, spatial clues, and temporal factors. The match's goal celebration sequences effectively convey an anti-racism tone through the presence of such messages.

Ideologi Media pada Pemberitaan Nusantara Sebagai Ibu Kota Baru Indonesia

This article reports the research results on framing three national media portals, namely Detik.com, 
 Kompas.com, and Tempo.Co regarding the decision to name Nusantara for the new capital city of Indonesia 
 (IKN) in East Kalimantan. This research aims to reveal whether the framing reflects each media’s ideology. The 
 paradigm of this research is constructivism with Robert M.Entman’s framing analysis method. This paper adopts 
 the social construction of reality, ideology, and media as the substantive theory and media framing as The text 
 theory. The results showed that the three media frames for naming Nusantara on IKN still contained problems 
 but differed in focus. Detik.com frames it as a power process, while Kompas.com and Tempo.co as a democratic 
 process. The Kompas.com and Tempo.co frames have reflected their media ideology. Meanwhile, Detik.com is 
 more pragmatic from the media business aspect.

The Identity of the Modern Human as a Problem Of Social and Humanitarian Knowledge

The article examines the problem of subjectivity and identity formation, the specifics of individual and collective identity research. It is noted that the study of subjectivity, "I" (self), which is the source of the formation of individual identity, actualizes the study of this problem in many social and humanitarian sciences. It has been established that in a broad interdisciplinary context, it is a search for an effective methodological toolkit for determining the dynamic matrix of subjectivity, which is constantly changing in the modern globalized society. In the context of the study of the phenomenon of subjectivity and identity, the socio-psychological theory - the theory of traits, the theory of roles and the humanistic theory - is briefly considered. It was found that all these theories cannot adequately investigate the subject's identity, the possibility of using E. Erikson's identity theory and the direction of social constructionism, where human subjectivity is constructed here and now in relations with other people using speech practices of discourse, was analyzed . It was determined that the discourse in the understanding of social constructionists is a kind of material basis of the practices of social construction of reality, thanks to which the "I"-construction of subjectivity is constructed.

Representasi Kecantikan Rambut Perempuan Dalam Iklan YouTube Dove Indonesia Versi “Rambutku Mahkotaku”

Women often lose confidence in their appearance. Dove Indonesia, through the "My Hair My Crown" version of the advertisement on YouTube, seeks to support women to be confident by recounting experiences of hair bullying in the form of negative comments. The aim of the research is to understand the construction of social reality and reveal meaning in advertising using Charles Sanders Peirce's semiotics analysis. The method used is content analysis of advertising texts with the unit of analysis in the form of scenes that refer to the research object. The results of the research show that the construction in the Dove Indonesia YouTube advertisement version "my hair is my crown" is contrary to advertisements in general, in this advertisement women are depicted as having self-esteem and confidence in the beauty of their diverse hair by expressing the meaning that the diversity of women's hair will slowly shift the concept beautiful on ideal hair. The existence of advertisements like this will be persuasive and encourage people, especially women, to be themselves and not force themselves to achieve beauty standards. So advertisements in Indonesia must highlight subjective beauty through visual images and the messages conveyed.

Makna Kesetaraan Gender dagi Followers Instagram @wmnlyfe


 The issue of gender equality is one of the issues that still often occurs, especially in Indonesia. One of the things that underlies this gender inequality occurs because of the inherent patriarchal culture which shows that men tend to hold greater power roles so that it indirectly degrades the existence of women. In order to be free from the oppressive patriarchal culture, men's participation is also considered necessary in an effort to increase public awareness about gender equality. The involvement of mass media, namely Instagram, is also able to play a considerable role in efforts to voice issues regarding gender equality. The research method used is a descriptive qualitative method with in-depth interviews with informants who are followers of @wmnlyfe. The results of this study will explain how individuals interpret gender equality contained in the campaign video "Women Can Be Safe Where" by relating it using the theory of social reality construction based on three dialectical stages, namely externalization, objectivation, and internalization. Through the "Women Can Be Safe Where" campaign published by @wmnlyfe's Instagram account, it can be said that the campaign video succeeded in conveying the meaning of gender equality to its followers. By promoting the values of equality, this account provides insight into the importance of respecting and respecting gender differences in society. 
 Keywords: Gender Equality, Social Reality Construction, Meaning of Gender Equality, Instagram

TRANSFORMATION OF THE MODERN EDUCATIONAL PROCESS

The process of digitalization of social reality, including education, is investigated. The active development of electronic and digital technologies, aff ecting all spheres of social existence, has a signifi cant impact on human educational activity, which, in turn, corresponds to the existing model of the world. The diff erence between the two models of the world in which knowledge is formed is shown. The metaphysical model of the world determines the individualistic type of society and highlights the ability of the individual as a cognizing subject to arbitrarily construct social reality, revealing only the consumer properties of the surrounding world. In the metaphysical model of the world, education acts as a tool for constructing social reality. The dialectical model of the world determines the collectivist type of society, revealing the completeness and perfection of the world. The statement of the collectivist type of social relations is based on the universal connection of historical and social experience, revealing the degrees of cognition and self-knowledge. In the dialectical model of the world, education refl ects the viability of a collectivist society, the level of development of the cognizing subject, and the perfection of social relations. It is established that in modern society, education, thanks to the development and active introduction of digital technologies, develops according to the metaphysical model of the world, revealing the consumer properties of objective reality.

Versions of Social Constructivism and Perspectives of Neo-Constructivism in the Theory of International Relations

Social constructivism in the international relations theory (IRT) is the youngest paradigm, which, together with neorealism and neoliberalism, is one of the three most popular theoretical patterns among international specialists. This paradigm explains global transformations and regional noticeable changes by studying the social construction of international reality. Key concepts in constructivism are identity, which shapes the interests of international actors, and intersubjectivity in cross-border relations. Constructivism in IRT considers norms as a factor that constitutes the role and standards of behavior that influence the identity and choice of participants in the global political process. The understanding of norms changes over time, which causes the instability of international relations. However, anarchy in international relations for constructivists is not inevitable; instead it depends on different cultures and practices. The main variants of the classification of social constructivism in IRT are considered. Leading reviewers, as a rule, divide the constructivists into three conditional groups, separately mentioning the Copenhagen School. The first group, “neoclassical constructivism”, according to John Ruggie, included followers of Durkheim and Weber. The second group, “postmodern constructivism”, had roots in Nietzsche’s irrationalism and Foucault’s poststructuralism. The third group, “naturalistic constructivism”, rejected necessity of choosing between internal and external interpretations of social action and social order. Emanuel Adler identified groups of “neoclassicists”, “linguistic modernists” and “supporters of compromise synthesis” among the constructivists. Branching out in several directions, constructivism was very popular in IRT in the first decade of the 20th century, but in the last decade it lost a significant part of its supporters in the struggle with other theories for influence in the discipline. That is why the supporters of the development of the science of international relations at the expense of its further sociologization intensified attempts to renew constructivism. Efforts are being made to develop social constructivism due to the introduction of IRT based on relationalism, practice theory and actor-network theory, which David McCourt tries to use in the book “The New Constructivism in International Relations Theory”. The supporters of a new constructivism in IRT prefer to see the improvements in the appearance of a number of practical constructivist empirical studies tangential to the practice theory, among which the most recent books by Mark Raymond, Mark Shirk and Ayşe Zarakol, working mainly in the genre of historical sociology. The work of neoconstructivist enthusiasts deserves the attention of IRT specialists and the subsequent restrained demand of the public, because it needs the elimination of methodological inconsistencies and reinforcement with serious empirical data from related disciplines.

SINTESA TEORI KONSTRUKSI SOSIAL REALITAS DAN KONSTRUKSI SOSIAL MEDIA MASSA

The theory of the social construction of reality and the theory of the social construction of mass media are still partially discussed. Several previous pieces of research have not yet correlated, elaborated, or synthesized from the theoretical aspect. Even though much has been said about the social construction of reality, media consumers are heavily influenced by media "made" constructions. The research aims to synthesize the Bergerian theory of social reality construction (Berger and Luckmann) with the Bunginan theory of social reality construction (Burhan Bungin). The method used is a literature study. The results showed that the synthesis of the social construction theory of reality and the social construction of mass media reality produced a thesis understanding of an objective and subjective reality which was sufficiently understood through the social construction theory of mass media reality. This is considering the individual phenomenon which, in all durations of daily life, cannot be separated from the role of social media interaction. They externalize, objectify as well as internalize reality based on mass media references. In the hierarchy, the social construction theory of reality can be placed as a grand theory by considering genealogical aspects, while the social construction theory of mass media reality can be placed as a middle-rank theory. This is of course related to the more universal focus on social construction of reality.

Discernment: Blurring and visual evidence

Researchers thinking about visual evidence in the legal system address quite a variety of empirical questions but share an absorption in the ways in which the evidentiary problem is rooted in the blurring of genres. The blurring is plural: between illustration and proof, between interpretation and requiring an interpretation, between knowledge and perception, and between argument and evidence. Because genres are an intimate and essential part of the functioning of legal processes, such blurrings in turn problematize long-standing practices and the design of governance processes. Their findings are important theoretically, as well, in three ways. They show that the model of fact production processes must begin a step earlier than does the Lockean model of the fact upon which “western” and “modern” society and “science” have relied. The model must continue on beyond where Locke and those who think about the social construction of reality, such as Berger and Luckmann, stop. And “contextual” matters such as warranting, provenance, and authority must be incorporated into our model of the information production chain itself. In combination, what we are learning from research on visual evidence is thus not only invaluable for addressing the profound real-world problems identified by the authors assembled by Sandra Ristovska in this special issue of First Monday and others, but for our understanding of challenges being presented to the nature of governance itself both within and beyond the formal legal system.

Indigenous Discourse for Peaceful Coexistence: Engaging in Intercultural Polylogue for Tackling Global Challenges

Many national and multinational interventions have proven toothless in addressing global challenges such as those defined by the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This article addresses SDG 16 ‘Peace, justice and strong institutions’ and elaborates on how indigenous knowledge can contribute to fostering this goal. The theoretical framework relates SDG 16 to the concept of interculturality as promoted by liberation theology. This framework is translated into a methodology by pursuing a sociology-ofknowledge approach to discourse (SKAD), thus comprising a focus on power relations and on the social construction of knowledge and realities. This article analyzes indigenous approaches to conflict transformation across all inhabited continents and provides a systematization of these approaches as well as insight into their shared characteristics, resulting in a theoretic discourse on the subject. While this synthesized discourse is inevitably an expression of Western academia, a decolonialization of the very same is called for, particularly regarding development research. This article therefore concludes on a note of how global goals, such as SDG 16, can be fostered through the collaboration of indigenous peoples, NGOs, academia, politics, and the broader public, thus bringing together the different traditions of thought in an intercultural polylogue.

Tri Hita Karana as a Bali Tourism Communication Strategy in Preserving Tourism Cultural Destinations

Objective:The aim of this research is to point out that Tri Hita Karana as a Bali tourism communication strategy in preserving tourism cultural destinations. The research background is the dilemmatic phenomenon of the development of the Bali tourism industry, which tends to lead to popular tourism, namely a tourism industry that is oriented towards pragmatic profits by building popular facilities, so that sacred areas that actually become increasingly differentiated.
 Methodology: The research paradigm is constructivism, so the main theory used is Berger and Luckmann's social construction of reality. This type of research is descriptive qualitative, completed by Barthes’s concept of semiotics.
 Results:The result shows that Tri Hita Karana is the most strategic message used for Bali tourism communication management. Overcoming the freedom of foreign cultures and the domination of infrastructure development that does not favor aspects of Balinese differentiation and the insight of Tri Hita Karana is a crisis for destinations that rely on profane means. Therefore, so that Bali is not trapped in the pragmatism of populist culture, the philosophy of Tri Hita Karana must be used as a marketing movement and management of the Bali tourism industry. The research findings are: at first, the concept of Balinese tourism communication as a result of the synthesis of message construction that Bali is open, but elements of transcendentalism must still be understood and implemented by any tourist. Second, the transformation of Bali's tourism industry policies that are more in favor of capitalism, so that the commitment to cultural tourism is unable to keep up with the rate of mass tourism. Third, policy implementation, which has not fully accepted the practical aspects of Tri Hita Karana, cultural tourism orientation, rural nuances and the maintenance of sacred areas.
 Implication:The implications of the research are: 1) the role of the Tri Hita Karana insight strategy as a shining culture, must be used as a guideline for the development of tourism infrastructure and superstructure, as well as the harmonization of Balinese people's life patterns. 2) Tourism communication in conveying Tri Hita Karana's insight, the communicators who must be involved are customary stakeholders and the government, using the universal Tri Hita Karana language, while the communicators are tourists and investors, using popular tourism as a cultural crisis message.

Правова ідентичність: структурування смислового простору

The article substantiates the proposition about the expediency of considering legal identity as a special form of social identity and reveals its essence as a legal category. It was determined that legal identity is determined primarily by individual character, because it is an individual quality of a natural person, which consists in mutual understanding between this person and society, provides the possibility of optimal realization of subjective legal rights and contributes to the prompt implementation of subjective legal obligations, is the basis development of individual legal status and serves as a moral and psychological determinant of the nature of legal behavior of the subject of law. It is emphasized that legal identity is a dynamic category that transforms in the process of legal socialization. The identity of a person in the scientific discourse is mostly interpreted as a dynamic, integral cognitive-motivational formation, and therefore it is a system of defining social constructs of the subject, which is constructed (formed) during life as a result of interaction, social comparison and active construction of social reality. Accordingly, legal identity has a dynamic character, contains a motivational component, is a system of social constructions of an individual as a legal subject and is formed in the process of social and legal interaction of similar and different legal subjects, reflects a moral and psychological comparison of oneself with the surrounding legal reality and is a factor that affects the legal matter of a certain society. Legal identity has an unstable nature and is transformed in the process of legal socialization of a person. Social and legal realities of a person cause changes in his personality, and the increase or, conversely, decrease in the value of law at a certain stage of a person's life is reflected in his essence.

Reflecting the Smartphone’s (Imagined) Affordances in Refugee’s Journeys

The paper fosters the extent to which imagined affordances of smartphones help refugees to create meaning and thus maintaining a linearity/ continuity between their present, their past and their expected future. In doing so, the article is based on a social constructionist approach that expand the social construction of reality to include the digital level by reinforcing the necessity to rethink the implications of the digital for its basic concept of the social. In doing so, the article shed light to the importance of smartphones to construct or/and maintain a linearity between refugee’s past, their present and their future. Accordingly the results show, maintaining meaningful relations in the digital space and thus attributing meaning to their past and to their future helps refugees to bear the difficulties of the present. Smartphone thus offers new forms of agency to refugees during their experience of flight in constructing their mediated reality of meaningful relations connecting different temporalities. s.

English in the Slovak glocalized urban space

Over the last few decades English has become an integral part of urban signage while taking different forms and performing a variety of functions. Numerous studies of linguistic landscapes, such as Gorter (2006), Huebner (2006), Cenoz and Gorter (2009), Lanza and Woldemariam (2009), Bolton (2012), and Tupas and Rubdy (2015) have demonstrated that the investigation of linguistic landscapes in multilingual settings can increase our understanding of the close relationship between English and globalization. Slovakia being no exception, the widespread use of English is observed on a large amount of public and private signs in the country's urban environment. Since Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia, frequently becomes a meeting point for diverse languages and cultures, this study focuses on the phenomenon of glocalization and investigates the ways in which the English utilized in the signage mirrors the interaction between the global and the local. The results based on the corpus of 464 signs collected in the city centre indicate not only the substantial extent to which English penetrates the Slovak urban space but also shed some new light on how English, mainly through carrying its symbolic value, contributes to the construction of social reality and participates in the processes of glocalization.

Penggambaran Profesi Trauma Cleaner dalam Web Series “Move to Heaven”

South Korea has an unusual profession. The profession is a trauma cleaner profession that appears in the web series Move to Heaven. This study aims to determine the portrayal of trauma cleaner profession in the web series Move to Heaven. This study uses the theory of Social Reality construction and semiotic analysis using Charles Sanders Peirce through the Triangle meaning of sign, object, and interpretation. The results of this study found that there are nine depictions of the trauma cleaner profession that are divided into two, namely positive and negative. Among them, the trauma cleaner profession is described as a profession that is conscientious in taking care of death, has high integrity and is professional in its work, loves cleanliness and obeys regulations, requires calmness and concentration, has high empathy, has good relationships with other professions, and is a noble profession. In addition, the profession of trauma cleaner is looked down upon by the community and is prone to mental disorders. Thus, web series become a construction tool of social reality, especially regarding the profession.

The Governance of Information Technology and Deliberative Democracy: Study of The Law on Information and Electronic Transactions (ITE)

This study begins from the problems that arise related to the discussion of the ITE Bill in the DPR, as well as the revision and implementation of the ITE Law. Especially issues related to cases that cause polemics and disturb the feeling of justice. This study aims to describe the construction of social reality in the form of thoughts, ideas, and discourses behind the implementation of the ITE Law. This study is also intended to determine the involvement of public participation in influencing the processes of legal formation and public policy in state institutions as described by Habermas (1989). So far, the growing assumption is that the ITE Law has limited freedom of expression and there is a state motivation to demand civil society compliance through repressive state apparatus. The question to be answered in this research is to what extent are the principles of deliberative democracy found in the social processes that occur in the discussion of the ITE Bill, revision and implementation of the ITE Law? Our argument is that the process of discussing the revision of the ITE Law and evaluating this law is not based on the principles of deliberative democracy, thereby strengthening the regime of digital authoritarianism.

The Critical Analysis of the Construction of Teacher-ness Identities in Contemporary Thai Films

This article aimed to analyze the construction of teacher-ness identities in contemporary Thai films. The Thai teacher-ness identities represented in films were a unit of cultural analysis in contemporary popular culture, a methodological approach informed by British Cultural Studies. The researcher analyzed the texts of nine teacher-related films released in cinemas between 1977 and 2017, under the theoretical framework of the construction of social realities. The findings indicated that teacher representations were presented in three ways: 1) the ideal teacher-ness, 2) the negotiation with the ideal teacher-ness, and 3) the non-ideal teacher-ness. In general, teacher characters were created to exhibit consistent and different from the social realities. However, the representations of teacher-ness identities that appear in films have not kept pace with the changes in teacher-ness identities in the real world, due to the political, socio-cultural, and ideological landscape in Thailand, which has undergone enormous changes. The representations of teacher-ness identities thus need to be transformed in accordance with those changes. The influence of changing social realities of teacher-ness as well as competing for hegemonic discourses in the teaching profession, in particular, and teacher education, in general, plays a critical role in shaping the representations of those teachers. In addition, film, as one of the socio-cultural institutions, tend to produce and reproduce teacher-ness identities to be in line with social norms and expectations.