Social Ideas Research Articles

Wooden Käpylä - the birth of a garden city

ABSTRACT The Finnish Housing Reform Association was set up in 1910 to promote public housing with new social ideas in housing design. After World War I, the association took the initiative to design affordable housing for the district of Käpylä in Helsinki. Construction was postponed by the years of instability that followed the Civil War of spring 1918. In early 1920, the City of Helsinki organised the subscription of shares in the People's Housing Company Ltd. Four– or two–family houses and even dwellings consisting of a room and a kitchen were a huge improvement to rental barracks. The quality of housing further enhanced by garden plots and communal saunas. Construction of the district resulted in notable stylistic variety. The scale of the area and the new efficient timber construction system that aimed at affordability and short construction times made Wooden Käpylä exceptional. In 1960, a design competition was organised that, had it gone ahead, would have meant the destruction of the Käpylä. The competition drew sharp criticism, and in 1971 Wooden Käpylä became protected in the master plan. Today, the street plan offers surprising views and a sense of freedom relative to previous as well as concurrent enclosed blocks.

The Challenge and Necessity of Talking About Weight at Work

The topic of weight at work is challenging to discuss because of strong cultural, medical, and social ideas about what health means, how body size relates to work capacity, and the malleability of weight. Yet people in larger-sized bodies report economic and interpersonal mistreatment at work at alarming rates. This necessitates that employers begin thinking more deeply about the lived experiences of their larger-bodied workers. To aid their consideration, this article describes how the objectification of body size creates a situation where judgment and punishment of people based on their body size is normalized, and how victims of weight-focused mistreatment rarely speak about their experiences because they feel in some way deserving of their mistreatment. When the objectification process is better understood, employers stand ready to make more precise and meaningful changes to how they approach the problem of weight stigma at work, and entry points for this change are discussed here.

The Social Ideas of Dr. Allama Muhammad Iqbal A Philosophical Exploration

This research paper instigates the profound social ideas of Dr. Allam Iqbal, a poet, philosopher, and thinker whose influence is felt long after his death. Iqbal's work demonstrates that he regarded the capitalist and socialist economic structures as flawed and unsuitable. He supported a social structure founded exclusively on the economic teachings of the Quran. The social ideas of Dr. Iqbal, rooted in the context of the Indian Subcontinent during the early twentieth century, have continued to shape South Asia's intellectual and political landscape. This research provides a comprehensive analysis of the social philosophy of Dr. Iqbal, emphasising its relevance in contemporary society.

Bridging the Gap: Sociological Theory and Empirical Practice

It examines how sociological theory and empirical practice interact, emphasizing the need to combine both to understand social processes. The study examines how theoretical frameworks affect empirical research methods and how empirical findings shape social ideas. The paper examines historical tensions between theory and practice to identify key challenges and opportunities for narrowing this gap. Modern methodologies like mixed methods, multidisciplinary collaborations, and reflexivity are examined to make sociological research more relevant and applicable. This study underlines the need for theoretical-empirical dialogue to advance sociological knowledge and tackle complex social issues.

Роль преподавателя и педагога в трансляции культуры: состояние и задачи

<p style="text-align: justify;">In modern conditions, questions about the transmission of culture, about the factors of socialization of people remain relevant. Social institutions for the transmission of culture and the formation of social ideas of young people are secondary and higher educational institutions, the key persons being teachers and lecturers. Purpose of the study: to study the ideas of teachers and students about the “standard qualities” of a person (man, woman, husband, wife). Hypotheses: 1) ideas about the “standard qualities” of a person are formed through various social mechanisms. 2) the effects of teachers’ direct influence on the formation of students’ ideas about “standard qualities” are limited; The perceptions of teachers and students differ. Sample: 1st and 2nd year students, boys and girls aged 18-20 years: 32 — technical university (RTU MIREA, Moscow), 33 — humanitarian (GAUGN, Moscow), 47 — sports (GTSOLIFK); 37 nurses undergoing retraining, 22-38 years old; 36 teachers of the same universities (men and women); women aged 25-60 years). The working hypotheses are confirmed; the data obtained are consistent with the results of the first studies (Tolochek, 2023), expand and develop them.</p>

The influence of story character realism and theme on protagonists’ internal states and dialogue in children’s retells

Anthropomorphised animals are a prevalent character type in children’s books. However, stories with fantastical protagonists are associated with poorer social learning than those with human protagonists. We explored whether children’s representations of characters’ internal states and dialogue in story retells were related to story character realism (anthropomorphised animal, human), story theme (sharing, busyness), age, and vocabulary. Three- to seven-year-olds (N = 171) listened to one of four versions of an illustrated storybook that manipulated character realism and theme. Developmental trends were evident: Older children included more internal state references and dialogue in their retells than younger children. Of note, children retelling a prosocial story with human protagonists included more socio-relational language than those retelling a busy-themed story featuring humans; the same advantage was not evident for stories with animal protagonists. These findings imply that realistic protagonists may elicit more robust representations of social ideas in the minds of young children.

Bigdata clustering and classification with improved fuzzy based deep architecture under MapReduce framework

The current state of economic, social ideas, and the advancement of cutting-edge technology are determined by the primary subjects of the contemporary information era, big data. People are immersed in a world of information, guided by the abundance of data that penetrates every element of their surroundings. Smart gadgets, the IoT, and other technologies are responsible for the data’s explosive expansion. Organisations have struggled to store data effectively throughout the past few decades. This disadvantage is related to outdated, expensive, and inadequately large storage technology. In the meanwhile, large data demands innovative storage techniques supported by strong technology. This paper proposes the bigdata clustering and classification model with improved fuzzy-based Deep Architecture under the Map Reduce framework. At first, the pre-processing phase involves data partitioning from the big dataset utilizing an improved C-Means clustering procedure. The pre-processed big data is then handled by the Map Reduce framework, which involves the mapper and reducer phases. In the mapper phase. Data normalization takes place, followed by the feature fusion approach that combines the extracted features like entropy-based features and correlation-based features. In the reduction phase, all the mappers are combined to produce an acceptable feature. Finally, a deep hybrid model, which is the combination of a DCNN and Bi-GRU is used for the classification process. The Improved score level fusion procedure is used in this case to obtain the final classification result. Moreover, the analysis of the proposed work has proved to be efficient in terms of classification accuracy, precision, recall, FNR, FPR, and other performance metrics.

Psycho-Social Perspectives in the Educational System at the Level of the Valea Jiului Carboniferous Basin, in the Context of the New Economy

Abstract The research of the reality in the territory of Valea Jiului Carboniferous Basin focuses both on the peculiarities of social ideas regarding the position of education and learning in the value system of individuals in society, as well as on the psychological principles for strengthening values in socially unstable conditions. The conclusions reached in the process of determining the degree of integration of self-confidence in the value system of the adolescent personality, showed that the development of self-confidence at a high level influences the infusion of values and the formation of one’s own system. Changes in the subject’s attitude and tendency to ensure uniformity and consistency of information, attitude and behaviour can be observed.

SOCIO-PSYCHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF SUBMISSION AND OBEDIENCE

The article deals with the foundations of studying the problem of submission and obedience in foreign and Russian literature, social ideas of young people about the concept of subordination and its structural components.

Ethnic model along differentiation between justified death attitude and polls in a cross-cultural generational study

Background: “Justified Death Attitude (JDA) is imminent and likely paradoxical behavior against self threat to keep of self in modification for elimination of the opponent mentally or physically”the first author defined. The former studies have indicated that Justified Death Attitude Scale (JDAS) has both validity and reliability of the young majority society Shia, but we do not know whether or not it is a valid or reliable scale of minority societies Sunni, Assyrian and the old generation. If it has, can the scale discriminate between the JDA and the poll? Objectives: It is a cross-sectional study to evaluate development of JDAS comprehensively because different generations, multi ethnicities, and social variables affect attitude and cognition persistently. Method: 744 participants (368 male and 376 female) were selected through the convenience sampling method in Tehran, Ilam, Khoram Abad, and Sanandaj. The participants were of the following demographic properties: 528 adult and 216 older adult participants; 538 Shia, 108 Sunni, and 98 Assyrian participants; 460 normal and 284 abnormal participants. Participants carried out the General Health Questionnaire-12 (GHQ-12) and JDAS. 115 answer sheets were cancelled (less than 5%). Results: A Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient, binomial tests, Chi square tests, and Jonckheere-Terpstra tests are performed to analyze the data. Multiethnic studies indicate that JDAS is a valid scale for adult and older adult participants and Shia, Sunni, and Assyrian participants (p>0.05). Meanwhile, attitude and polls are two different phenomena in the collision between capital punishment, the kind of death penalties, the agreement of euthanasia, and kind of euthanasia %61, %57, %56, and %61, respectively, because of different propositional and associative processes. The Chi-square indicates that gender, generations, ethnics, and sanity influence polls significantly. In line with the ethnic model of JDA, ethnics influence legal and medical subscales significantly according to Jonckheere-Terpstra tests. Conclusion: The bases of polls and attitude are conformity and self, respectively. So, the poll coefficient of error is very high to assess social ideas. Although you could find some similarities between polls and attitude, they are different phenomena principally.

Racism, epistemic injustice, and ideology critique

Since its 2007 publication, Miranda Fricker’s Epistemic Injustice has sparked a vigorous conversation in analytic philosophy about how social power corrodes individual’s epistemic capacities and distorts collective meaning-making in unjust ways. Yet for all its normative insights into social silencing, I argue that Fricker’s theorization of epistemic dysfunction remains too individualized, cognitivist, and dematerialized to account for racialized imaginaries. Rather than view racisms as normal and normative in racist cultures, Fricker frames identity-driven prejudice as a troubling aberration from otherwise unblemished epistemic and moral norms. This leads her into adopting an overly voluntarist and idealist theory of social change that centres training better knowers rather than unmaking racialized worlds. Ultimately, I contend that we should return to a materialist theory of ideology, following the work of Stuart Hall. Doing so jettisons the narrow focus on individual epistemic failures and instead problematizes how certain social ideas consolidate and reproduce racial hierarchies.

Graffiti revolution and urban environment

The phenomenon of modern graffiti is difficult to theorise due to its complex and comprehensive nature. The article proposes to consider graffiti as a synthetic phenomenon that combines the artistic tasks of transmitting emotional states with the tasks of expressing social ideas (including protest and even revolutionary ones), as well as the tasks of communicating between different cultures – both cultures of different epochs and local cultures and subcultures of city dwellers. This approach is shown through the historical example of Mexican muralism. Based on the proposed approach, contemporary Arab graffiti, which received a strong impetus of development after the events of the Arab Spring, is considered.

Exploring transgender transition and food socialization

ABSTRACT Food and eating habits contribute to gender differentiation. This article aims to empirically explore gender and food-related socialization of transgender individuals. We contemplate food and gender socialization of transgender individuals as an ongoing, productive process across the life course. To investigate food habits of transgender individuals four biographical interviews were conducted with trans persons. The empirical results show that trans persons orient themselves toward the social ideas concerning their lived gender. During primary socialization through the family, the sex assigned at birth initially manifests itself in the adaptation of socially normed sets of rules regarding gender and eating habits. During the transition to the opposite gender, food serves as a means of creating a gendered body that corresponds to the social ideals of a female or male body. Accordingly, food is a means of expressing conformity to societal ideas of gender. With our first insights we explore possible avenues for future research into transgender food cultures. For example, the congruence of inner and outer reality, but also the role of the body in food habits might need more attention. In addition, further food research could consider non-binary gender paradoxes.

Конструирование образа прошлого в кино: кейс сериала «Слово пацана»

The article examines the problem of historical accuracy in cinema on the example of the popular Russian TV series “A hoodlum’s promise – blood on the asphalt”. In the context of the popularity of movies covering real historical events, the author gives a sociological interpretation of the artistic techniques used in the series aimed at constructing the image of the past. Based on their analysis, the authors identify the criteria that allow us to judge the plausibility and correspondence of the image of the past embodied in the film to the historical reality. These include: 1) the degree of authenticity of reconstruction of material culture of a particular time pe-riod; 2) authentic representation of mentality of a particular time period; and 3) filmmaker’s understanding and interpretation of historical processes, events, etc. It is emphasized that the modern trend is to move away from documentary authenticity in historical films, but it is also stressed that the key importance in this regard is the author’s intention, in some cases designed to convey to the viewer a certain social idea expressed by the skill of filmmakers.

The Rule of Law in an Ethnocracy: India's Citizenship Amendment Act and the Will of the Hindu Ethnos

What is the fate of the rule of law in India that is transitioning to an ethnocracy? Drawing on a ‘thin’ conception of the rule of law, this article argues that the controversial Citizenship Amendment Act responds to the emergence of a political ideal that constructs the Hindu ethnos as central to the Indian nation. Drawing on a variety of sources that include pronouncements by leaders of the RSS, the ideological fount of India's ruling BJP, analysis of right-wing periodicals that function as a conveyor belt of social ideas, and the provisions of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), this article highlights the core themes that motivate the will of the Hindu ethnos in respect of the contentious legislation: (i) the persecution of the Hindu minorities in India's Muslim-majority neighbours; (ii) the discrimination faced by Dalits in particular and (iii) the establishment of India as a Hindu Zion. In the first section, I elaborate the concept of ‘ethnocracy’. The second section reflects on the fate of the rule of law in an ethnocratic India by analysing the social justifications for the introduction of the contentious CAA. In the third section, I situate these dynamics within India's broader transition to an ethnocracy, the political ideals that shape this transition, and the shared social norms that emerge from this transition, which feeds back to the rule of law in an ethnocracy.

Republikán a volnomyšlenkář? Složitý život Leopolda Heyrovského mezi státem, rodinou a společností

The article deals with the characterization of Leopold Heyrovský (1852–1924), professor of Roman law at the Law Faculty of the Charles University in Prague, as a “republican” and “freethinker”, as preserved by the memories of his descendants. Using the memories of his daughter Klára Heyrovská and of his colleague Jan Krčmář, the author focuses on religion, political and social ideas and the paternal role of Leopold Heyrovský. On the basis of partial sources, he is trying to reconstruct the political, religious, and social habitus of the hitherto less researched Prague university professor. It turns out that the characterization of Heyrovský as a republican and freethinker basically corresponds to reality, but with the caveat that Heyrovský was well aware of the risks that such opinions would bring him, and therefore expressed them only very carefully. His religious situation – he remained formally Catholic but did not participate in any religious ceremonies – was complicated not only by his position as a university professor, but also by his marriage to a fervent Catholic wife who raised their children in this faith. Nevertheless, he tried to pass on his free-spirited and patriotic views to his children, to whom he devoted a lot of time as a committed father.

Igor Ogurtsov: A Visionary Orthodox Thinker Ahead of His Time

Based on the author’s collected memories of participants in the events described, memoirs, journalistic articles published in Russian and Russian emigrant publications, as well as on the documentary materials of the classified court proceedings that took place in Leningrad in 1967–1968, the article recounts the history and ideology of the underground anti-communist organization — the All-Russian Social Christian Union for the Liberation of the People (VSKhSON). The publication focuses on the fate of the founder of the All-Russian Social Christian Union for the Liberation of the People, the outstanding Russian Orthodox thinker Igor Vyacheslavovich Ogurtsov, who, in the early 1960s, along with a group of his associates, advocated for the synthesis of Christianity, patriotism, and social ideas against the communist system. Particular attention is given to the Program of the All-Russian Social Christian Union for the Liberation of the People. Written by Igor Ogurtsov 60 years ago, it remains relevant today in both scientific and political contexts. The author of the Program, while analyzing the communist system, not only predicted the inevitability of communism’s collapse but also proposed a specific path for the rebirth of Russia after the fall of the “party dictatorship” — a path rejecting the extremities of both socialist and capitalist perspectives and implying the country’s further development based on the principles of sociality and Christian ideals.

The leading stages of the formation of youth's social ideas

У статті проведено теоретико-методологічний аналіз підходів до вивчення соціальних уявлень молоді та розкрито провідні етапи їх формування. Описано як індивідуальний світогляд і соціальні уявлення молоді вбудовуються у суспільну пізнавальну систему, а процес формування уявлень розглянуто як безперервний цикл, де індивідуальні уявлення вбудовуються в колективні (соціальні) уявлення, які, у свою чергу, впливають на структуру індивідуальних переконань, знань, світогляду молодої людини. Соціальні уявлення розглядаються як частина соціального мислення особистості. Наголошується, що вивчення соціального мислення дозволяє розкрити як проблеми свідомості, так і тенденції розвитку особистості і суспільства. У звʼязку з цим розглянуто етапи формування соціальних уявлень молоді. Так, на етапі проблематизації молода людина аналізує та структурує навколишню дійсність, а також виділяє проблему, яку необхідно розглянути, щоб сформувати ставлення до цієї дійсності. На етапі інтерпретації вона формує ставлення до обʼєкта на основі наявного у неї досвіду, а також перевірених гіпотез та висновків, отриманих у ході індивідуального дослідження. Наступний етап, репрезентація, полягає у тому, що соціальні уявлення, які вже сформувалися, транслюються у суспільство. І, виходячи з попередніх етапів відбувається категоризація понять, яка полягає у побудові чітких формулювань, що пояснюють зміст уявлень і формування розуміння співвідношення та звʼязку соціальних уявлень про досліджувану проблему з іншими, раніше сформованими уявленнями.

КУЛЬТУРНОЕ ПРОСТРАНСТВО СОВРЕМЕННОГО ГОРОДА КАК ОБЪЕКТ ПСИХОЛОГИЧЕСКОГО ИССЛЕДОВАНИЯ

The paper examines the phenomenon of urban identity within the context of an individual’s sense of belonging to the urban cultural space. The urban cultural milieu represents a significant factor in shaping an individual’s attachment to their place of residence and an emotional connection with the city. This is an essential aspect of the subjective well-being of the residents. The objective of this study is to provide theoretical justification for the concept of “urban cultural space” and to empirically examine the respondents’ perceptions of urban cultural space. The research methods employed were an associative experiment and a prototypical analysis, as proposed by P. Vergès. The empirical base of the study comprised 354 respondents permanently residing in Krasnodar. The concept of the “cultural space of the city” as a semantic sphere embodied in the urban landscape is substantiated from the perspective of the subjective approach. The core of social ideas of Krasnodar residents about urban culture and the culture of their city is characterized by consistency. This is evidenced by common elements, including city cultural institutions, parks, city customs and traditions, and the culture of everyday. The social representations of urban culture are distinguished by an expanded core, encompassing both material cultural objects and the activity aspect of urban culture. The peripheral zone of social perceptions (SP) of Krasnodar residents about urban culture includes categories that distinguish the urban environment from the rural one (specifically in terms of the visible signs of urbanization.). The same zone of SP about Krasnodar culture encompasses specific urban locations, urban cultural practices, distinctive behaviors, and the everyday culture of citizens. The common element of the peripheral zone of SP is the category “city residents” (“Krasnodar residents”). The social perceptions of a given city, such as Krasnodar, imbue these elements with a specific content that is determined by the specifics of the urban environment.

Privilegios del sector privado y el discurso desarrollista del turismo. Análisis del contexto internacional y colombiano

The growth of tourism at the international level is the highest in history. As a result, the institutional framework of this activity has positioned a discourse that makes tourism be seen as a source of development for the territories, but what is proposed in the study is that in reality this discourse hides a series of economic interests. Thus, the objective of this article is to identify the economic and political interests that are found within tourism policies or in the developmentalist discourse of tourism. To this end, a critical analysis of the discourse of legislation and official information from institutions at different scales of geographic incidence is carried out. The main result is that support for the economic interests of some central actors is disguised through a series of social ideas that in reality are not fulfilled. In this sense, the contribution and originality of the work focuses on the methodological approach applied from the critical analysis of the discourse to official documents of organizations that lead tourism, to show that there are some interests that are being favored there.