Social Control Functions Research Articles

The sacrificed lives of the caring class: crises of social reproduction, unequal Europe, and modern forms of slavery

AbstractThere have been plenty of interpretations regarding the meaning and function of sacrifice within the discipline of anthropology. Going beyond sacrifice as a ritual and exploring a wide range of its manifestations and functions as contemporary cultural practices, discourses, and underlying logics, we reveal its role in the social organization of social care provision within the framework of neoliberal capitalism. Our analysis supports the theory that sacrifice can have the function of social control, and of preserving hierarchies. The forgoing of a minority of migrant domestic workers to provide intensive social care becomes the (no) solution to the ongoing care crisis. It thus becomes the way to hide structural violence and dilute responsibilities for society, which benefits from the servile conditions under which the labour is performed. The ethnographic material (observations, informal conversations, and interviews) that is part of our analysis originated from fieldwork in Castellón de la Plana, Spain (2018/19). This analysis, however, goes beyond that case, being valid for reflecting on the position of care for elderly and dependent people in our societies, care in general, the current global trend in social care provision, and the new social reproduction regime in which sacrificial logics play an increasing role.

Psychiatry without coercion-Exclude the coercion or the patients?

With reference to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UN CRPD), afundamental change in psychiatric care in Germany was proposed in 2019 by Zinkler and von Peter, supported by alegal perspective from Kammeier, which has since led to controversial debates. Essentially, the aim is not only to reduce coercion in psychiatry to aminimum, but also to fundamentally exclude it in apsychiatry that only provides care. The function as an agent of social control is to be returned from psychiatry to state institutions. Psychiatric hospitals will only admit patients with their consent; patients who refuse therapy will not be admitted regardless of their capacity for self-determination and will remain untreated or, if they have committed acriminal offence or threaten to commit acriminal offence, they will be taken into custody or imprisoned in accordance with the legal regulations applicable to all people. There they will receive psychiatric care if they so wish. The paper outlines the background of this concept, including international sources, traces the discussion in German specialist literature and takes acritical look at it. The criticism is primarily directed against the fact that responsibility for arelevant proportion of psychiatric patients would be handed over to the police and judiciary and that, as aresult, two realities of care would be established that would considerably differ in terms of quality. Arguments are put forward in favor of retaining the function of social control and considerations are suggested as to how caring coercion can be largely minimized.

Метонимия в медиапространстве арабского политического дискурса

The paper presents the results of analysing metonymic transfers selected from the texts of speeches by Arab politicians. The mechanism of using metonymy and its motivation by functions in the speech of a politician are considered in the context of usage, which is a comment on the political reason for the speech. The study aims to propose a typology of metonymic transfers within the framework of analysing linguistic means presented in the texts of oral TV speeches by the leading Arab political figures. The study is novel in that it is the first to propose a typologization of metonymic transfers in connection with their functions in the Arab political discourse. The results showed that the frequency of the frame metonymic transfer, which takes precedence over the propositional and the scenario type of transfer and allows for the implementation of a predominantly agonal function, as well as the functions of power legitimization and social control in public speeches by Arab politicians, is characteristic of the Arab political discourse.

История возникновения и развития российского уголовного законодательства об ответственности за неисполнение приговора суда, решения суда или иного судебного акта

Understanding the legal value of justice as a type of state activity, during which the function of social control is carried out and the proper degree of uniform behavior of citizens is ensured, was achieved only during the evolutionary development of society in the process of improving the legislative mechanism and increasing the value of normative regulation of relations in the field of administration of justice. At the same time, an important guarantee of the effective implementation of judicial power is the principle of universally binding judicial acts. This principle ensures the ordering of social relations through the enforcement of legal norms. In this regard, the current law provides for criminal liability for non-execution of judicial acts (sentences, decisions, etc.). This criminal law prohibition is not an arbitrary act of the legislator; its formation and development are directly related to the process of formation of social relations. At the same time, criminal legal ensured the protection of a judicial act from non-execution means not at all stages of the historical development of society. The emergence of this norm is due to a number of interrelated and interdependent factors, among which the most important are, firstly, the level of organization of the mechanism of state power, and secondly, the complication of the system of state bodies and the separation of justice bodies in it. It is through the prism of these factors that an analysis of legislation on criminal liability for non-execution of judicial acts is necessary. The subject of research within the framework of this article is the historical background of the process of formation and development in the pre-Soviet and Soviet periods of criminal legislation, providing for liability for failure to comply with a court verdict, court decision or other judicial act. It is concluded that the criminal legal protection of relations arising in the sphere of execution of judicial acts largely depended on the mechanism for the implementation of judicial power and the models of execution of court decisions determined by this mechanism. In the process of historical development of Russian statehood and legislation, the nature and methods of exercising judicial and executive (administrative) power underwent changes, the established procedure for the execution of judicial acts in civil and criminal cases, as well as the criminal law mechanism for its (procedure) protection, underwent corresponding changes.

The Role of Social Media in Increasing Political Literacy of Beginning Voters

Social media has been a significant influence in moulding young voters' political knowledge and engagement, hence improving their political literacy. This study aims to determine social media's role in increasing young voters' political literacy. The method used in this study is a literature review. The stages used in the literature review are article collection, reduction, display, organizing and discussing, and drawing conclusions. This study showed that social media has become a new domain for voters, especially first-time voters with competing candidate pairs. First, social media's role in political literacy is as an agent for disseminating information about political processes and development policies. Second, they become agents of accentuating views, opinions and even people's attitudes towards certain political phenomena. Third, social media is a public space for free discussion and political literacy. Fourth, social media has contributed to the promotion of democracy by carrying out the function of social control, for example the E-KTP corruption case.

Who Do We Call “Creepy?”: Sex Workers’ Relationships as Targets of Intimate Intervention

Like other forms of problem-solving justice, prostitution diversion programs (PDPs) are designed to (re)shape thinking and behaviors. The authority to surveil and punish stems from criminalization of sex work, itself an act of control over women and their bodies. The court cues normative behaviors through rewards and punishments based on information gleaned through ongoing surveillance in and out of court. Using a critical feminist lens, we draw on ethnographic and interview data from studies of two court-affiliated PDPs to examine the regulation of women's bodies and intimate relationships. We found that criminal justice professionals explicitly viewed constant discussion and surveillance of all facets of PDP participants’ lives as a tool to cause participants to internalize particular understandings of normative relationships. Such normative understandings involve assumptions about which men are “creepy” that do not always reflect women's lived experiences and decontextualize relationships in ways that are incompatible with women's own assessments of these relationships. This analysis contributes to feminist social work by revealing the social control functions of such programs, which employ “creepy” intrusion to police the boundaries between unacceptable and normative behavior while simultaneously disregarding the systemic forces that shape women's choices and constructions of normativity.

‘A building of shame and disgrace’ or ‘trial by media’? Media framing of KPMG Netherlands’ head office

This paper centers on the role that a material artefact—KPMG Netherlands’ head office—has played in the Dutch media’s attempt to hold the audit profession to account. It employs the literatures on news framing and the media’s social control function, to analyze how the press mobilized the building as a perceived space that epitomized extant professional conduct. Using a strategy of temporal bracketing, the paper traces how an initially weak claim against KPMG amplified and expanded after successive revelations, which ultimately triggered a criminal investigation into charges of fraud, tax evasion, and forgery. The paper shows the media’s ability to construct and enact reporting frames that suppress voices from the audit field and that set a reform agenda for both firm and profession. It also reveals the contrast between the values that audit firm offices seek to convey and those they come to embody in the eyes of the public.

Restriction of the Rights and Coercion of Patients in a Psychiatric Hospital: The Opinion of People With Mental Disorders and Psychiatrists

Objectives: Restriction of the rights of patients in a psychiatric hospital, isolation and fixation, compulsory treatment, and round-the-clock monitoring are negatively perceived by them, contribute to the stigma of a psychiatric hospital, and prevent timely access to psychiatric help We assessed the opinions of patients in psychiatric hospitals and psychiatrists about coercion and violence in the provision of psychiatric care for recommendations on their prevention. Methods: An anonymous survey of psychiatrists and patients was conducted in psychiatric hospitals in three regions. Data were analyzed using descriptive and non-parametric statistical methods. Results: Psychiatrists and patients were positive about the coercive measures in the psychiatric hospital. Physical restraint was considered the prerogative of orderlies by 64.5% of psychiatrists and 35.4% of patients. According to 19.6% of doctors and 28.4% of patients, a psychiatrist can independently apply physical restraint to aggressive patients. Injections of sedative drugs by a psychiatrist personally were considered justified by 81.3% of physicians and 64.6% of patients. Most patients and physicians noted that the psychiatrist needed to be involved in the application of physical restraint to an aggressive patient. Discussion: Psychiatry is currently dominated by an archaic paternalistic model of doctor-patient relations and the delegation of additional functions of social control to psychiatrists. The introduction of a contractual model is required for more effective interaction between the psychiatrist and the patient.

The Urgency of Returning the People's Consultative Assembly Authority in Determining the Outlines of the Nation’s Direction

The role of the MPR after the amendments to the 1945 Constitution carried out in the reform era has reduced most of the power of the MPR which was originally as an implementation of people's sovereignty, as stipulated in Article 1 paragraph (2) of the 1945 Constitution. As a result, the MPR of the Republic of Indonesia showed that as an permanent state high institution, although they continue to function as ad hoc organizations. Furthermore, the government's development became unsure and tended to be chaotic after the Indonesian People's Consultative Assembly abolished the power to define the country's direction, prioritizing only the five-year political program. By placing restrictions on the drafting of these provisions, restoring the People's Consultative Assembly of the Republic of Indonesia's power to make decisions, it is hoped that it will become a function of social control of the Citizen. Based on the description above, the following problems are formulated: 1. The urgency of returning the MPR's role to make decisions as a function of citizen social control. 2 Restore the authority of the MPR to make the outlines of the nation’s direction as a guideline for state development. In order to discuss this, a historical approach, a statutory approach, and a conceptual approach are combined with a normative legal research methodology.

Proses Produksi Program KOLAK di TVMU Dalam Menerapkan Nilai Dakwah Kemuhammadiyahan

TVMu, officially aired on November, 18, 2013, coincided with the 101st anniversary of Muhammadiyah. To fulfill the four functions of Communications, namely educations, information, social control and entertainment, TVMu created program called KOLAK, Actual Opinion Religion and Culture. This program presented by the Secretary General of Muhammadiyah Central Executive, Prof. Dr. Abdul Mu’ti, M.Ed. This program elaborates on Muhammadiyah preaching related to contemporary issues and challenges. Throughout its production until completion, the KOLAK program always strives to ensure that Muhammadyah’s preaching is connected to relevant issue. This research employs a qualitative method and utilizes the theory of Segmentation, Targeting, Positioning, while for the production process, the program utilizes Herbert Zettl’s theory, wich cover everything from pre-production to post-production. The research finding show that the KOLAK program undergoes all stages of broadcast program planning the ensure its acceptance by its target audience, namely the Muhammadiyah Community.

Penggunaan Media Sosial Tik-Tok terhadap Pengungkapan Diri (Self Disclosure) Remaja di Sibuhuan Kecamatan Barumun Kabupaten Padang Lawas

This study examines the use of Tik-Tok social media for adolescent self-disclosure in Sibuhuan, Barumun District, Padang Lawas District, which is focused on adolescent self-disclosure in Sibuhuan, Barumun District, Padang Lawas District. This research uses descriptive method with qualitative analysis. The informants of this study were teenagers around Barumun District, Padang Lawas Regency. The method used is the method of observation, interviews and documentation. The theory used in the discussion is the Johari Window Theory put forward by Joseph Luft and Harry Ingham. There were seven subjects in this study, namely Ningky Aminarti, Sadimah Pulungan, Hery Sahputra Harahap, Nur Sawalidah Piliang, Suryani Harahap, Jamaluddin and Raja Imam Pulungan. The results of this study indicate that there is self-disclosure by adolescents through tick-tock, namely expressively with open self as an enlarged area and implied self-disclosure with hidden self as an enlarged area. The functions of self-disclosure carried out by teenagers through tick-tock are expression functions, self-validation functions, self-clarification functions and social control functions.

Makna Dibalik Cover Majalah Tempo Edisi Aib Anggaran Anies

This research aims to determine the meaning behind the cover of the 11-17 November 2019 issue of Tempo magazine with the main title "Anies' Budget Disgrace", which includes a caricature of one of the national figures, so as not to cause wild opinions and noise in the community. This research uses a qualitative approach method that produces descriptive data, with primary data obtained from the documentation of Tempo magazine and secondary data obtained from relevant literature and journals. The collected data is then analysed using Charles Sanders Pierce's semiotics with its trichotomous concept. The results of this study show that Tempo magazine has fulfilled its function of social control and is directly involved in monitoring issues of public interest. The caricature of Anies, depicted by Tempo as trapped in DKI Jakarta's budgeting system, is depicted as falling into a can of glue. The can is a packet of Aica-Aibon glue, which is believed to be one of the budget items with a fantastic purchase value.Keywords: controversy, cover magazine; semiotics; tempo

Legal Instruments of Social Control in Swiss and Polish Self-Government: A Doctrinal and Legal Study

Abstract One of the basic instruments of direct democracy is the referendum, which is particularly developed in Switzerland. In Poland, due to historical conditions, there is no tradition of using referendums; however, in recent years, the participation of citizens in public co-decision has started to be implemented through the instruments of governance (participatory democracy), i.e. the village council fund and participatory budgeting. Apart from the basic function, i.e. active participation in making public decisions, all the above-mentioned instruments should also fulfill another important role: it is social control in the financial sphere. Therefore, this study attempts to answer the following research question: do the instruments of direct and participatory democracy fulfil the function of social control in the field of public financial decisions, and if so, how? According to the adopted hypothesis, both the forms of direct and participatory democracy also constitute (contain) elements of social control of the activities of public authorities. And by their very nature, these legal instruments of social control are implemented in the form of ex ante external control. To verify this view, the study interprets the content of foreign and domestic acts of universally binding law (cantonal constitutions, statutory provisions).

Somatic multiplicities: The microbiome-gut-brain axis and the neurobiologized educational subject

Therapeutic translations of the microbiome-gut-brain (MGB) axis are reconstructing the educational subject in a manner amenable to Foucauldian analysis. Yet, at the same time, under the sway of MGB research social scientists are taking a biosocial turn that threatens the integrity of Foucault’s historicizing philosophical project. Meeting that challenge head-on, this article argues that the MGB axis augments the neurobiological constitution of the educational subject by means of a dietetic mode of subjectivation. Absent a pedagogical element, there is a hollowness to critical academics’ claims that holobiontic self-conceptions springing from the axis can elicit a resistant subjectivity. Though wild pedagogies might inform a resistant tactics of the self, contemporary self-technologies are – as Foucault has taught us – a pale shadow of the ancient Greek conception of dietetics as an holistic, embodied and ensouled practice. At the intersection between the disciplinary apparatuses of criminology and education, therefore, the MGB-driven biosocial turn unambiguously reinforces the social control function of schooling.

Vyraz ukrainskoi identychnosti v sakralnii kulturi mista Vinnipeh

The expression of Ukrainian identity in the sacral culture of the city of Winnipeg has been studied. It is noted that religious identity became the basis for the preservation of Ukrainian national identity in the diaspora. With the support of the church, Ukrainian emigrants did not fall into despair, did not succumb to assimilation, instead persistently and creatively built a matrix of Ukrainian spiritual identity: professed dogmas of faith, participated in religious rites and rituals; studied their history, preserved the memory of outstanding Ukrainians, cultivated Ukrainian traditions and customs, literary and artistic heritage, traditional crafts, sacred culture, symbols; developed the educational environment, public, social activity. It is established that the church performed the function of social control in the lives of the laity and at the same time nurtured Ukrainian value markers of identity, first of all: a positive, respectful attitude towards the priest, family, and co-religionists. It played an important role in uniting the Ukrainian community. It is emphasized that it is in the sacred culture that the mentality of the people, its worldview, world perception, features of the national character, ideals, aspirations, tastes, and understanding of the beautiful are most fully revealed. The form of sacred buildings not only symbolized the elements of the Christian faith but also served the informative function of recognition and identity. It is noted that the uniqueness of Ukrainian sacred construction in Winnipeg is that the design, construction, interior, and exterior decoration of churches was mainly carried out by highly professional Ukrainian emigrants, who, among other things, faced difficult tasks of implementing not only the generally accepted principle «the church is a symbol of faith, a work of art», but also the consideration and embodiment of Ukrainian tradition in modern style buildings. In practice, when building churches, Ukrainian emigrants, on the one hand, resorted to simplifying the architectural forms of their idealization, on the other hand, their stylistic diversity is impressive. Churches were usually built according to the architecture of the Eastern Christian Church in Ukraine, by imitating and creatively interpreting two versions of the main European styles of church construction: Old Byzantine (X–XI centuries) and Ukrainian Baroque (XVII–XVIII centuries). Key trends of sacred architecture presented in Winnipeg are highlighted. Samples of architectural solutions, sacred buildings, key features, and symbolic meanings are highlighted. Emphasis is placed on the participation of architects and artists from Ukraine in the implementation of the construction of the sacred space of Winnipeg. It is established that the problem is quite deep and involves further scientific understanding of the practical role of the sacred space as centers of cultivation of the national spirit, preservation of traditions, educational, linguistic environment, and historical memory.

The powers of the five functions of the state in Ecuador

The design of the functions of the State, within the framework of the liberal regime characterized by political representation, has been deeply criticized from a legal and political perspective. However, since the current Ecuadorian Constitution, there have been significant changes in the institutional design, which have generated a profound theoretical and normative discussion on the validity of constitutional paradigms as old as the tripartition of powers or the form of democracy. However, this apparent dichotomy between types of democracy, in our case representative and participatory, has not allowed us to examine the progress and setbacks in the implementation of democratic institutions in Ecuador. It is therefore necessary to analyze within the constitutional changes, the new Function of Transparency and Social Control, especially the Council of Citizen Participation and Social Control. Especially the power to appoint the highest authorities of the State. At the end of this study, we will be able to establish whether the new form of designation of the highest authorities, together with the new institutional scheme of the Ecuadorian State, become a contribution to the consolidation of the democratic process in our country. At the end of this study, we will be able to establish if the new form of designation of the highest authorities, together with the new institutional scheme of the Ecuadorian State, becomes a contribution to the consolidation of the democratic process in our country.

Особливості соціально-педагогічної роботи з дітьми-сиротами та дітьми, позбавленими батьківського піклування, в соціальному гуртожитку

The scientific article presents the results of a meaningful analysis of the features of social and pedagogical support of orphans and children deprived of parental care in the conditions of a social dormitory. It was determined that the social hostel belongs to the general system of specialized institutions and formations of the state maintenance of youth of Ukraine, the activities of which allow to ensure the fulfillment of state tasks to overcome the consequences of family troubles – social orphanhood, violence in the family, the spread of deviant and delinquent behavior, alcohol and drug addiction dependencies A social pedagogue in a social hostel is a social work specialist who implements specific functions of social assistance, social support, accompaniment and control of young people living in a social service institution. The most effective and appropriate forms and methods of socio-pedagogical work in a social dormitory are: individual and group conversations, conversations with elements of training, role-playing games, theatrical forms of work, viewing and discussion of social films and videos, modeling and consideration of various life situations, development resolution of conflict situations that are of a personal nature, street work, street actions, street procession.

Развитие высокотехнологичного сельского хозяйства и субъектов сельской локальной экономики в условиях депопуляции сельского населения

Over the past 30 years, Russian agriculture has made a difficult, tortuous and unpredictable path of transition to market relations. In the 1990s, the industry was treated as a «black hole», and in the 20s of the XXI century - already as a driver of the domestic economy. Thus, by the end of 2022, the growth of the national volume of agricultural production amounted to 10.2%. To date, two main forms of agricultural producers have developed in agricultural production: large agribusiness, represented by agricultural holdings and large private farms forming a high-tech sector of the agricultural economy, and small and medium-sized agricultural and non-agricultural business, represented by the most active part of small agricultural entrepreneurship in the face of peasant (farmer) farms, commodity farmsteads (personal subsidiary and other individual family farms), rural cooperatives and consumer societies, horticultural, gardening and dacha partnerships, individual entrepreneurs belonging to the subjects of rural local economy. The article deals with the problems of the influence of these two forms of agricultural producers on the preservation and development of rural lifestyle and rural demography. The role of subjects of rural local economy in performing an important function of social control over rural territories is shown.

Language aggression in virtual professional communities

The study focuses on language aggression as it is enacted in virtual professional communities. With the aim to reveal the dominant forms and mechanisms of aggression in the virtual environment, the authors explore data retrieved from Russian social media. Theoretically, the paper is informed by social identity theory and linguistic pragmatics. Adopting a methodology that draws on an inferential model of communication, the study analyses aggressive utterances and their meanings in situational contexts. The findings distinguish between two principal forms of aggression: insulting aggression and aggression of exclusion. Although both perform the function of social control, they differ in terms of triggering situations, pragmatic mechanisms as well as linguistic resources employed. Insulting aggression makes use of dehumanising, negative evaluation, blaming, social deixis, ‘reductio ad absurdum’ and references to one’s emotional involvement in the situation of conflict. Such mechanisms are enacted through the linguistic tools that convey the semantics of aggression more or less directly. These include pejoratives, depreciative epithets, colloquialisms, informal expressions, lexemes with semantics of emotional state, imperatives, means of deontic modality and a shift in using polite/impolite forms of address. On the contrary, aggression of exclusion involves meanings that require inferential efforts of the recipient. The interplay between literal meanings of speech acts and the underlying intentions results in conversational implicatures. Exclusion is manifested through drawing a boundary between ‘us’ and ‘them’, terminating a conversation, talking about somebody present in the third person. Its linguistic forms comprise lexemes with semantics of exclusion, lexis with negative connotation, interjections, and irony.

The Relationship Between Social Supervision Received by Indonesian Citizens of Chinese Decision and its Integration with the Original Indonesia in Babakan Sub-District Bandung

This study is about the relationship between social supervision of Chinese descent and native Indonesian citizens with the aim of knowing the characteristics of Indonesian citizens of Chinese descent who receive social supervision and who integrate with indigenous Indonesian citizens and the relationship between social supervision received by Indonesian citizens of Chinese descent and integration with citizens of China. indigenous. The research method is a descriptive correlative method, with a stratified random sampling technique. The sample studied was 43 people, to obtain data to prove the hypothesis used documentation study techniques and questionnaires based on an ordinal scale consisting of very high, high, medium, low, and very low. To prove the hypothesis for acceptance of Ho and Hi, statistical test of sperm rank correlation was used at TS 0.05. The results of the study indicate that the integration of Indonesian citizens of Chinese descent is quite good but still needs further guidance and development. The data show that the social integration of the community cannot be separated from the social supervision of the community. The results of statistical analysis prove that there is a relationship between social supervision received by Indonesian citizens of Chinese descent and their integration with native Indonesian citizens. On the other hand, the social control carried out by indigenous people is still weak, such as acceptance of their existence, their involvement in various community activities. To further ensure better integration, in the effort to integrate the community, suggestions are proposed aimed at improving and implementing the informal social control function through neighborhood associations and social organizations.