Cultural Social Change Research Articles

Analisis Faktor-Faktor Sosial Dalam Bullying: Perspektif Pendidikan Anti-Bullying Melalui Lensa Filsafat Ibnu Khaldun

This research aims to analyze social factors in bullying using an anti-bullying education approach through the philosophical lens of Ibn Khaldun. The research method employs literature analysis and a review of existing studies to identify and comprehend the dynamics of social factors related to the phenomenon of bullying. The research objective is to provide a robust conceptual foundation for the development of anti-bullying education strategies. The literature analysis highlights the roles of social solidarity, cultural change, and inequality as key factors in bullying incidents. Ibn Khaldun's contributions to this perspective offer a philosophical insight that enriches prevention and intervention approaches. The implications of these findings support the formulation of policies and educational practices in anti-bullying that are more effective in responding to evolving social dynamics.

Defend and remould–residents’ place identity construction in traditional villages in the rural tourism context: a case study of Cuandixia village, Beijing

This study aims to elucidate the process and internal mechanism of place identity construction in traditional villages under the impact of tourism by taking Cuandixia village as a case. The research methods comprise participatory observation and in-depth interviews with the residents. The main results are as follows: the impact of tourism on traditional villages is mainly reflected in space reconstruction, livelihood change, social relations restructuring and culture change; under the impact of tourism, the representation of residents’ identity construction shows complexity, with positive and negative effects; and the place identity construction of residents affects their perception of and attitudes toward tourism. Moreover, self-esteem and self-efficacy principles play a key role in their perception of tourism. This study provides some reference for further investigation of the tourism development model and the mental mechanism of residents in traditional villages.

Social-cultural Change of Kusle People

Change is a law of nature as nothing is static in this world. No new generation can ever be an exact replica of the old one. Social structure is never static as various internal as well as external social conditions and circumstances change the structure and function of Kusle society and culture. It can be observed that numerous research works have been carried out within Newari ethnic groups. However, the present study provides an ethnographic description and socio-cultural change of the Kusle people of Kirtipur. The study employed quantitative research, with an emphasis on exploratory and descriptive research designs, and purposive sampling from four distinct wards of the municipality. The study demonstrates that due to the cultural contact with other castes people as well as education, modernization and consciousness the Kusle’s social as well as cultural life is changing rapidly.

Does social media usage contribute to cross-border social commerce? An empirical evidence from SEM and fsQCA analysis

Drawing from the S-O-R perspective, this paper proposes a theoretical model explicating the mechanism whereby social media usage functions on customers' engagement in cross-cultural social commerce by employing a mixed-method approach including SEM and fsQCA analysis technique. Analysis of the data collected from 135 countries' 2058 international students indicates that social media usage, either for information or socializing purpose, exerts positive effects on international customers' engagement in social commerce through the conduit of cultural identity change, and social support positively moderates the relationships between two dimensions of social media usage and cultural identity change. The analysis of fsQCA further augmented the robust results reached from SEM and identified four types of configurations that trigger customers' engagement in cross-border social commerce. Research implications and limitations are also discussed.

Creativity and the collective Renaissance: A hermeneutic-imaginary approach

This article builds on a powerful statement by Hans Joas regarding creativity, with which he claims ‘the self escapes its bounds and loses itself in pursuit of the forces of sociality that make it up’. To develop this argument, we propose a hermeneutic approach that centres on myths and rituals that narrate how subjective and collective orders are dissolved within the indeterminate ( apeiron). Although this question has been further explored within theoretical frameworks that discuss the death drive, the body without organs, the inoperative community and so on, these approaches do not refer to the subsequent rebirths, which the logos seems incapable of tackling but which traditional wisdom manages to address. The lesson that this ancient wisdom can pass on to sociology is that the communitas can act as the apeiron of the social from which the self and society itself escape their bounds to be reborn.

Chinese Traditional Theatre and Male Dan: Social Power, Cultural Change and Gender Relations by Chao Guo (review)

Chinese Traditional Theatre and Male Dan: Social Power, Cultural Change and Gender Relations by Chao Guo (review)

Farewell to genre: Plot, meaning, and eudaemonic paths in social narratives

Narratives, it has been argued, serve to represent, explain, transform, and even constitute the social world. However, efforts to apply narrative theory to the social world have become mired in conceptual ambiguity. The culprit of much of this confusion is the notion of genre, which, as a formal property of social narratives, has become hopelessly confused. Instead, when the study of the social world turns to the formal elements of plot structure, I argue that the analysis of how a protagonist’s state of well-being is emplotted is a far more helpful analytic frame. To this end, I delineate a typology of narratives based on what I call their eudaemonic path (the Greek term eudaemonia capturing the concept of ‘well-being’ more fully than the term happiness) and conclude that eudaemonic paths provide explanatory insight regarding the content that is selected for and omitted from particular social narratives. And it is on this more certain foundation – rather than the slippery footing of so-called genre – that the formal elements of narrative can be said to influence social action and cultural change.

PRESERVING SONGKOK RECCAK IN MODERN ERA: IDENTITY OF BUGIS PEOPLE IN BONE REGENCY

This study explored the preservation of a cultural heritage of Bugis community in Bone Regency. The cultural heritage which is named songkok reccak is a skullcap used to cover head, which in the royal period of Bone Kingdom was functioned as a sign of social strata. As the change of royal system to democratic system that terminated the power of the king and the noblemen and the influence of the globalization, the songkok reccak then transformed to adapt to the social cultural change in the society, therefore the songkok now is used as accessories by all class of people to cover the head of men when they perform prayer. The use of songkok reccak for religious performance proved that songkok reccak is still good for the community and at the same time showed the adaptability of Bugis community to the world change.

Social Structure and Cultural Change in Humanities: A Review

Social Structure and Cultural Change in Humanities: A Review

Influences of Customers Nostalgic Proneness on Their Brand Cognition Based on the ABC Model of Attitude

As the economic environment and social culture change dramatically, nowadays there are numerous opportunities for the nostalgic brand in China to regain competitive advantages. Grounded on the affective, behavior, and cognition (ABC) model of attitude, this paper aims to clarify the relationship between customers nostalgic proneness, purchase intention, and brand cognition to explain the mechanism of nostalgic consumption. Taking the big white rabbit brand as an example, a structural equation model was used after the constructs were empirically confirmed by reliability and validity tests. Customers nostalgic proneness is found to be positively correlated with their brand cognition and the nostalgic brand is advised to fully exert its potential.

Peran Pendidikan Islam Sebagai Diseminasi Social Culture

Islamic education is very important for Muslims themselves because they can learn science dan others. Islamic education always has a role in creating an Islamic society that has dimensions of faith dan sharia which encourage humans as individuals to have freedom dan human rights. It is also inseparable that Islamic education also plays a role as cultural socialization. Regarding the method used in this study, the researcher used a qualitative descriptive method, with a type of literature research. Because this research is a qualitative type dan was conducted in a library, the authors discussed content analysis, namely unitizing, sampling, recording, reducing, abductively inferring, dan narrating. The results of this study are that there are 4 (four) roles of Islamic education as social culture dissemination, namely; a) media for disseminating the values of religious teachings, 2) maintaining religious traditions, 3) forming morals dan personality, dan 4) bastion of national morality. Thus, Islamic education is the right method for changing attitudes dan guiding community members to accept dan initiate social cultural change.

THE GOVERNANCE OF MIGRATION AND URBAN WITH MULTILEVEL ACTORS

Cities are centres of attraction where the population increases rapidly through migration. The urban context, in which social differences and cultural change are addressed, is not independent of governance discussions. It is undeniable that cities, being diverse entities, cannot be handled with a unified governmental strategy. In this respect, the host country's urban policymaking, which incorporates immigrants, introduces multilevel governance. To comprehend this, the factors that create the multiple migration governance from a sociological viewpoint will be reviewed first, followed by an in-depth examination of the numerous aspects of this management form. The challenges generated by the present theoretical framework will be reviewed in the last section, which is the most significant difference and contribution of the study. This part opens space to further researches and questions to clarify urban governance and migration. The role of civil society and NGOs, as well as city diplomacy and independence from central authority, will be highlighted.As a result, the study presents the findings that multiple actors have active functions not only at the national level but also at the international level.

Development Interventions: A Factor of Social Structural and Cultural Change in Pratapgarh, Uttar Pradesh

Development is a binary process which brings both positive and negative results. Gradually, the process of development results in the emergence of complexity in all aspects of society. Change in one single aspect holds the potential to bring change in all other aspects of a society. The changes brought about by various development agencies have led to changes in the system of production. The availability, utilization, and accessibility of natural resources as well as the technology required to fully utilise them have a significant impact on the decisions that determine a society's livelihood opportunities. Additionally, it affects social behaviour and social structure. Earlier, when people solely relied on traditional livelihood resources, the socio-structural context of the village was distinct, and this context underwent a transformation as a result of changes in livelihood resources and methods brought on by development initiatives. This paper intends to draw attention to the changes in the village's social, political, and economic structures in Amrai Village of Pratapgarh, Uttar Pradesh, brought about by modifications in the production systems driven by development interventions

Improving Student Learning Outcomes Cooperative Learning Teams Games Tournaments (TGT) SMP Negeri 10 Serang City

The purpose of this study was to improve learning outcomes on social-cultural change materials using cooperative learning of the Teams Games Tournaments (TGT) type for Class IX-H students of SMPN 10 Kota Serang. The method used in this study is Action Research which consists of 2 (two) cycles, and each cycle consists of: Planning, Implementation, Observation, and Reflection. Based on the results of action research that Teams Games Tournaments (TGT) Type Cooperative Learning can Improve Social Studies Learning Outcomes Material on Socio-Cultural Change Class IX-H Students of SMPN 10 Serang City. Furthermore, the researcher recommends: (1) Teachers who have the same difficulties can apply Teams Games Tournaments (TGT) Type Cooperative Learning to improve Learning Outcomes. (2) In order to get maximum results, it is hoped that teachers will make Teams Games Tournaments (TGT) Type Cooperative Learning more interesting and varied.

Cultural difference in ideal affect and its impact

<p id="p00005">Different from actual affect, ideal affect refers to the emotions that people desire to have (Tsai, <xref xml:base="bibr" rid="b43">2007</xref>). For example, while some individuals want to feel calmness, others want to feel enthusiasm. Affect valuation theory (AVT) differentiates two types of affective experiences, namely ideal affect and actual affect (Tsai, <xref xml:base="bibr" rid="b43">2007</xref>). Actual affect is shaped mainly by temperament, whereas ideal affect is shaped mainly by cultural factors. <p id="p00009">Previous cross-cultural research (e.g., Bencharit et al., <xref xml:base="bibr" rid="b6">2019</xref>) found that compared with Americans who want to feel high arousal positive (HAP) affective states (e.g., excitement), Chinese people want to feel low arousal positive (LAP) affective states (e.g., calmness). <p id="p00008">Culture shapes ideal affect mainly through cultural exposure, cultural values, and social cultural changes. Specifically, previous research demonstrated that ideal affect, which is emphasized by culture, can be demonstrated in cultural products (e.g., storybooks). Experiencing these cultural products can therefore shape one’s ideal affect (Tsai et al., <xref xml:base="bibr" rid="b50">2007</xref>). With reference to Schwartz’s (<xref xml:base="bibr" rid="b36">1992</xref>) basic human value system, two cultural values—namely self-enhancement (including achievement and power) and openness to change (including self-direction and stimulation)—can account for Americans’ preference for HAP, whereas conservatism (including tradition and conformity) can account for Chinese people’s preference for LAP. In addition, social cultural change, such as a significant national event (e.g., the 9/11 attack in the U.S.), can explain changes in one’s ideal affect (Tsai, <xref xml:base="bibr" rid="b44">2013</xref>). <p id="p00007">Ideal affect also has culturally diverse influences on one’s preference and choice behaviors, mixed emotional experiences, physical and mental health, and social judgment. Specifically, people tend to make choices based on their ideal affect, which is encouraged by their culture (Sims et al., <xref xml:base="bibr" rid="b39">2017</xref>). Ideal affect can also explain the cultural differences in mixed emotional experiences (Sims et al., <xref xml:base="bibr" rid="b40">2015</xref>). People may attain healthy mental and physical states if their own ideal affect is consistent with the ideal affect that is emphasized in their culture (Tran et al., <xref xml:base="bibr" rid="b42">2017</xref>). In interpersonal interaction, people prefer social partners who display the types of emotions that match their own ideal affect (Tran et al., <xref xml:base="bibr" rid="b42">2017</xref>). <p id="p00006">Four future directions can be drawn for this line of research. First, ideal affect should be investigated from a longitudinal perspective. To further understand how culture shapes ideal affect, it is necessary to use longitudinal research methods to examine the impacts of cultural changes on ideal affect. For example, future research could explore whether changes in Chinese values would influence the types of ideal affect valued by Chinese people. Second, antecedents of ideal affect could be investigated. In addition to the shaping effect of cultural values on ideal affect, another important cultural factor, holistic-analytic cognition (Nisbett et al., <xref xml:base="bibr" rid="b29">2001</xref>), may also account for the cultural variations in ideal affect. The individual-level cultural factors (e.g., gender role or social class) may explain the individual differences in ideal affect. Third, future researchers should develop the criteria for mental health assessment that is suitable for Chinese culture. Future research could further examine the roles of calmness and harmony in Chinese people’s mental health. Fourth, it is necessary to reduce cultural misunderstandings by increasing the awareness of ideal affect. If people are aware of the ideal affect that is emphasized in their culture, then adjust their daily life to match this ideal affect, they may avoid social exclusion or financial losses due to the failure in “ideal affect match”. Moreover, people could reduce their biased choices by realizing the impact of ideal affect on their social cognition judgments.

Open-plan schooling and everyday utopias: Australia and Denmark in the 1970s

ABSTRACT This article explores the take-up and imaginaries of open-plan schooling during the 1970s, drawing on examples from Denmark and Victoria (Australia). As well as expressing new forms of classroom design and pedagogical praxis, open plan classrooms stood for reimagining schooling as a social institution and to possibilities for remaking student and teacher subjectivities. As a thoroughly transnational concept, the open-plan ethos was entwined with broader processes of social-cultural and political change and suffused with a critical optimism in its potential to inaugurate powerful transformations that extended beyond classrooms. We explore these aspects of open-plan schooling through Levitas´s (2013) typology of modes of utopia and Cooper´s (2013) concept of ‘everyday utopias’, arguing for closer attention to the decisive role of mundane practices in navigating what is ‘doable and viable’ in how open-plan classrooms were planned and enacted while also being attuned to a vision of another future. To analyse the interweaving of national, local and transnational processes in the making of open-plan ideas and practices, we draw upon Ingold´s (2011) notion of ‘meshwork’, proposing that local enactments of open-plan schools fold back into and contribute to building up different (transnational) conceptions of the open plan.

On the Shore: Life Inside a Palisade Enclosure and Cultural Change during the Middle Neolithic B in Southern Scandinavia

In 2006 a palisade enclosure dated to the late Middle Neolithic was excavated at Bunkeflostrand, Malmö, Sweden. The excavation of pits and wells containing flints, animal bones and pottery revealed a wide range of activities at the site, which is exceptional in comparison with most other palisade enclosures of southern Scandinavia. Palisade enclosures have emerged as places of great significance to our understanding of cultural relations traditionally associated with the transition from the Funnel Beaker culture to the Battle Axe culture. The results of the excavation at Bunkeflostrand and other palisade enclosures in the region can be used to understand social relations and cultural change in the Middle Neolithic in southern Scandinavia.

Cultural cartography with word embeddings

Using the frequency of keywords is a classic approach in the formal analysis of text, but has the drawback of glossing over the relationality of word meanings. Word embedding models overcome this problem by constructing a standardized and continuous “meaning space” where words are assigned a location based on relations of similarity to other words depending on how they are used in natural language samples. We show how word embeddings are commensurate with prevailing theories of meaning in sociology and can be put to the task of interpretation via two kinds of navigation. First, one can hold terms constant and measure how the embedding space moves around them—much like astronomers measured the changing of celestial bodies with the seasons. Second, one can also hold the embedding space constant and see how documents or authors move relative to it—just as ships use the stars on a given night to determine their location. Using the empirical case of immigration discourse in the United States, we demonstrate the merits of these two broad strategies for advancing important topics in cultural theory, including social marking, media fields, echo chambers, and cultural diffusion and change more broadly.

Second life: Liminal tourism spaces as sites for lifestyle migration, an exploration of Niseko, Japan

Niseko, a small agricultural community in northern Japan has, since the early 2000s, transformed into a ski destination through the development of international tourism. Many Australians have settled in the Niseko area and established tourism-based businesses and holiday homes, transforming local streetscapes. Despite substantial social-cultural change, little is known about the impact on the people who live there. In alignment with the research focus of understanding experiences of living in a tourism space, the study drew upon a narrative method of inquiry and was premised by the idea of stories being windows to understanding subjective human experience. Framed by a social constructivist perspective, the research was specifically designed to illuminate the voices of seventeen Japanese and Australian tourism business owners. The findings revealed Niseko is functioning as a liminal tourism space, shaped by cosmopolitan tourism business owners who relocate there to pursue their ‘second life’ after experiences of living abroad. This paper builds on the emerging research area which explores the link between tourism, leisure, and lifestyle migration and offers new insight into how participation in tourism businesses can facilitate lifestyle migration. It reveals how experiences of living overseas can influence individuals to establish alternative lifestyles in tourism spaces, underpinned by the desire to live in a way that is more congruent with their sense of self. This research contributes to understanding how highly mobile, cosmopolitan individuals in tourism spaces relate to place and are influenced by it.

Seeing China’s social-cultural change through the eyes of tourists

ABSTRACT Our study scrutinises the personal and collective nostalgia that shapes the performativity of tourists, in order to analyse how tourism provides a space through which urban tourists understand rural China. By interrogating the social-cultural arena through which tourists experience the countryside, we examine how toured places are imagined and consumed. Our main purpose is to ponder, through the lens of tourism, the social-cultural change post-China’s economic reform that was started in 1978. We utilise reflexive ethnography to delineate the experiences of urban tourists, in light of their perceptions of the rural places. Our findings suggest that the past is remembered in terms of the grand narratives of a bygone era of socio-political coherence, which the tourists feel has been eroded against the changing urban landscape. Methodologically, we aim to explore the possibility of pushing tourism enquiries further, from a predominantly positivist spatial science that seeks objective facts, to a more humanistic field of research involving existential and phenomenological methods.