Socio-cultural Product Research Articles

Global visions for a metaverse

There is a growing effort to locate metaverse developments within the purview of platform research. However, the majority of English-language studies take Horizon Worlds, Meta's US-centric prototype of a metaverse, as the starting point. This critical reflection argues that since the fate of the metaverse is far from settled, and its building blocks exist in a colorful array of global visions, we need to divorce discourses of the metaverse from Meta's hype cycle and multiply our frames of reference by engaging with international developments. In turn, this article proceeds by scoping out metaverse visions emanating from different parts of the world and drawing out common themes as entry points for future research. This article contributes to a re-orientation of metaverse studies toward critical and embodied global perspectives of socio-cultural production, while simultaneously reconsidering the very notion of the metaverse as a platform.

УРБАНИСТИЧЕСКИЙ КАЛЕЙДОСКОП: МНОГООБРАЗИЕ ОБРАЗОВ ЛУГАНСКОГО КРАЯ В ТВОРЧЕСТВЕ М. М. МАТУСОВСКОГО И СОВЕТСКОМ КИНО

The object of the study is the image of the Luhansk region as a mirror of the epoch, which reflects social and cultural changes. The subject of the analysis was the lyrics of the Soviet songwriter M. M. Matusovsky and the cult Soviet cinema, which vividly presents the urban landscapes of the region, its architecture, the daily life of residents and the leading contradictions of the time. Semiotic, sociocultural approaches, comparative historical and content analysis are chosen as research methods. It is established that when creating the image of the Luhansk region in the Soviet films “Young Guard”, “Light in the Window”, symbols of rebirth, hardwork, faith in the future, the exploits of heroes and workers were used. In the later films “Anthracite” and “Mirror for the Hero”, there is a rethinking of the Soviet past and a fixation of the crisis of public morality. The philosophy of the artistic image, constructed on the archetypes of search, love, loyalty, rebellion, is revealed through mythopoeic symbols, mythologems of the “technical edge” and “industrial edge”, as well as the character of the main characters. The study showed that cinema, as an artistic, aesthetic and socio-cultural product of creativity, fully reveals the visual portrait of the Luhansk region, creates an emotional intensity and reproduces the rapid dynamics of time, emphasized by the changing urban landscapes of the post-war reconstruction of the country.

Analysis of Potentials and Strategies to Empower Sustainable Tourism in Burai Tourism Village, Ogan Ilir Regency

Burai Village has quite potential for tourism, supported by natural resources and human resources. This tourist object is known as the Burai Tourism Village which is a tourist object developed by displaying natural beauty such as flowing rivers, culture, religion, skills products and attractive colorful building forms. It is not impossible that there is potential that can still be developed for the sustainability of the Burai Tourism Village. Therefore, potential mapping is useful for inventory and analysis of tourism potential in Burai Village. The purpose of this study is to see the potential and mapping of development strategies that can be carried out for Burai Village. The method used in this study is a qualitative method with descriptive analysis to identify and explore the tourism potential, development, characteristics, and management of Burai Village. The results of the study show that Burai Tourism Village has enough potential resources, both natural, human resources, religion, skills and socio-cultural products as a tourist attraction. Burai Village in principle does not yet have a permanent sustainable tourism development strategy, it is necessary to structuring existing tourist attractions and uniqueness, as well as strengthening human resources, so that it is necessary to develop aspects of service, promotion, development of creative industries and tourism physical facilities.

Governance of ‘Mothering’ and Motherhood Politics in a Traditional Society

Becoming a mother is a biological fact whereas ‘mothering’ is largely a sociocultural product. Though some psychoanalytic theorists argue that mothers have an instinctual urge to ‘mother’, sociocultural normative principles largely govern mothering. Cultures around the world have different expectations of what motherhood should be in their culture. Historically too there are images of ‘good mother’ and ‘bad mother’ possessing opposite characteristics. Motherhood being romanticized and over glorified throughout ages, puts pressure on the mother of constantly striving towards being a perfect mother. In the psychoanalytic framework, mothers are seen as the ‘object’ of a baby's desire serving transformative function. Becoming a mother, thus, inescapably impose dissonance and tension between the subjective experiences of mothering and normative ideals of motherhood. As an experiential consequence, a mother may feel emotionally tormented with ambivalent reactions towards motherhood and the concept of mothering. In this context the present paper attempts to inquire, with help of psychoanalytic and sociological theories, how a patriarchal society governs motherhood to establish the motherhood politics and its consequential effects on the mothers.

«Экранизация» памяти о советской космонавтике: (вос)производство образов в современном российском космическом кино

This article is devoted to the analysis of the content and pragmatics of the memory of the Soviet space program in contemporary Russian cinema. The relevance of the problem is connected with the fact that in recent years the «cosmos» has again become a stable object of social imagination and an attractive setting for the mass media. Memories of Soviet cosmonautics feature prominently in modern Russian culture. This article, referring to full-length Russian films of the 2010s, considers the cinematographic representations of the Soviet space past as memory practices. Studying them with an emphasis on the semiotic, narrative, and discursive realities of films and images offers interpretations of the past that are relevant in the concrete historical conditions of socio-cultural production. The materials of the study showed that the film history of Soviet cosmonautics has two memory frames. The heroic image of Soviet cosmonautics embodied in a specific formula of historical cinema produces a kind of restoration of the Soviet patriotic canon turning the image into an inspiring symbol of history. The revision of images of the past also leads to the release of symbolic meanings attached to the Soviet space program, which allows film memory to become not a static snapshot of the past, but a dynamic cultural force.

Evaluating the Role of Participation in Different Design Phases for More Inclusive Housing

Urban growth and population increase have been major driving forces for cities, combined with an expanding heterogeneous sociocultural structure. The growing trends in urbanization pose massive challenges of inequalities and exclusions, primarily observed in housing. While housing was initially a sociocultural product involving users, it has transformed into a more standardized and financialized entity in the twentieth century, resulting in the abstraction of users from the production process. Against these exclusionary housing trends, it is the role of designers to redefine the place of users in housing for more inclusive results. So, this paper aims to investigate the potential of participatory approaches in housing to achieve more inclusive outcomes. Accordingly, accumulated knowledge on participation in housing starting in the 1960s is chronologically and interrelatedly discussed and mapped through prominent publications. Then, the benefits of specific participatory approaches in the inclusivity of housing are evaluated regarding three design phases to form a framework for future practices: i) design/predesign, ii) implementation, and iii) (post) occupancy. The study showed that participatory approaches at various phases and levels contribute to creating inclusive housing by increasing users’ representation in decision-making, demystifying professional tools, and allowing alternative and dynamic appropriation of living.

Collectives and Commoning in Small Arts

The analysis is focused on the work and actions of drag artists from Belgrade gathered in collectives, in which the practice of commoning becomes an alternative mode of social relations. Their joint actions provide an opportunity to examine the paths of radical imagination on two levels: firstly, by following the principles of collective creativity, which operate through different forms of artistic and socio-cultural production, systematically targeting the development of social imaginaries; secondly, by creating a collective, aimed at the production of sociability itself which are evolved and tested through practices. In this transposition from the level of artistic production to the level of social production, the tools of (self-)reflection can be crucial. (Self-)reflection is equally a guardian of equality and emergence. Provided that the imagination is not reduced to reactive mental representations, this becomes the drive of practice: the material manifestation of certain relations, their testing, in reality, their growing and simultaneous performing, on the path towards new forms of collectivity, and perhaps collective autonomy.

Assessment of a Socio-Cultural Product Quality

Introduction. Every day, the vast majority of society members are active consumers of various types of socio-cultural products. This gives a significant impetus to the more progressive development of the socio-cultural sphere and the need to improve the quality of its products. The question of how exactly to measure and analyze the consumer's perception of the quality of a certain socio-cultural product is relevant. To understand how a consumer evaluates the quality of a certain socio-cultural product, first of all, it is necessary to discover how he builds his own logical judgments about this product. Purpose and methods. The purpose of the article is to study the characteristics that determine consumers' conclusions about the quality of a socio-cultural product, regardless of whether they do it directly or indirectly. The research methodology consists of the application of system-functional and system-structural analysis as the theoretical basis of this study, which precisely allows the revealing of the relationship between these characteristics. Results. Determining the causal structure of the conceptual representation of a socio-cultural product – a park of culture and recreation, making it possible to reveal a clear relationship between the nature of the property, its causal status, accessibility for understanding, and its significance. The nature of the property determines its place in the system of relationships. Structural properties have the obvious status of a cause, procedural properties determine the obvious status of an effect, and an impression is an impression and a point of convergence of several relationships. Conclusions. The presented research results convincingly prove the applicability of theoretically grounded casual models of socio-cultural analysis both at the level of fundamental research and in applied fields.

Black Scale: Constructing “Haunted” Overpasses as Relational Methodologies

This article introduces Black scale—a theoretical, conceptual, and methodological gathering of Blackness, music, sound, and locationality—that foregrounds the interdependence of scale and racialization. This framework explores how racial capitalist de|restructuring of space and place and intersectional personhood reshapes a Black sense of place through a “Black sense of scale” and its musical and sonic modalities. Through a geomusicological and geosonicological reading of Beyoncé’s “Haunted,” we add sociosonic textures to notions of “sense” and deepen how we think with individual and communal scales of Black poetic and material sociocultural production. This approach stresses how Black people are shaped by, but also produce a multitude of scales through Black auditory placemaking. Next, we present the overpass—a Black scalar methodology—to think with relational geographic articulations of the corporeal and material that analyze how racialized infrastructure divides space, but fosters communal refutations and the reformatting of these imposed places. Empirically, overpasses cannot be comprehended solely from above; they require multifaceted views that recognize lifeworlds in the interstices. By examining the relationality across music, sound, and Blackness, we (re)activate and engage scale as a racialized, evolving, intimately embodied, and subjective interpretation of the world as well as structural, objective descriptions of it.

Documentosophy as the philosophical conceptualization of document entity

The author continues to substantiate the goal set by Arkady Sokolov to conceptualize the document entity. As the initial point, he took Sokolov’s definition of documentosophy as the segment of sociocultural space to build, transfer, preserve and user meaningful communication messages referred to as documents. Sokolov also refers to the sphere of sociocultural production where the documents emerge, circulate and are preserved, as the documentosphere. The author argues that the adequate definition of the document is possible in its dialectic object-subject perception according to the international definition: the document is an object or recorded information provided that in the given documentation process (rather than generally!) it can be considered (by a subject) as a discrete whole. This results in the need to specify restrictions and to formulate narrower definition of the document specifically for each individual documentation process. The fundamental provision of relativity, conformity and conventionality of the concept “document” is explained; the author criticizes the mediaology claiming to replace documentive concepts with medialogical structures. In fact, the subject of documentology coincides with that of mediaology. However, firstly, each science has its own term, and, secondly, these are just their approaches that differ, i. e. the ontological approach is applied in documentology, and the communicative one in mediaology. The mediaology has been diligently though unreasonably avoiding the concepts of “document” and “information”. Thirdly, as opposed to documentology, the mediaology has been still unable to propose any brand-new and valuable insight into the document phenomenon.

Ethics without ideology or a new theory of synderesis

The article analyzes the problem of the correlation of morality and ideology. The author believes that the distinction between morality and ideology can be made only at the level of their genealogy: if ideology is a socio-cultural product, then morality is rooted in human nature, in "moral intuitions", which medieval scholastic philosophy called synderesis. In modern ethics, synderesis can be identified with the neurophysiological prerequisites of morality. Opponents of this approach argue that, firstly, it excludes free will, and secondly, it does not explain the content of moral values and norms in any way. The author of the article criticizes these statements and offers his original theory of synderesis. The article draws an analogy between ethics and intuitionistic mathematics, which considers mathematical objects as the results of intellectual construction based on initial intuitions. Ethical objects should also be considered as constructions based on innate intuitions. Moral intuitions do not exclude free will, since they rely on rationality inherent in our nature, the main property of which is the ability to make decisions regardless of external stimuli and internal states. In addition, these intuitions influence the content of our norms, as they are the "operators" of their construction and are included in the "final product".

THE (DE)CONSTRUCTION OF PATRIARCHAL VALUES IN TEXTBOOKS: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF ITALIAN AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE AND SERBIAN AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEXTBOOKS

In this paper, foreign language textbooks are interpreted from a social constructivist perspective, as sociocultural products that contain not only specific subject knowledge, but also social norms, cultural values and ideologies (Curdt-Christiansen 2). From the point of view of critical discourse analysis ideology is a construct based upon assumptions and beliefs that reinforce, reproduce and legitimate asymmetrical power relations between different social groups. In line with this, we employ CDA to examine the presence of patriarchal ideologies in the depiction of the private sphere in a corpus composed of five textbooks of Italian as a Foreign Language and four textbooks of Serbian as a Foreign Language. Since the issue of patriarchal legacy in FL textbooks in previous research is primarily addressed in relation to English FL textbooks, one of the objectives of the present study is to shed a light on Italian FL textbooks that are insufficiently explored, and to compare them to Serbian FL textbooks, that are especially relevant as they were until now never approached from the perspective of gender. All the textbooks are employed in the specific educational context of foreign language teaching and learning in the post-secondary education in Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The importance of the critical analysis of FL textbooks is emphasized because foreign language acquisition includes not only the development of communicative competence in the target language, but also represents a complex process of acculturation, during which students learn and incorporate the cultural values and customs of other countries. In this vein, we argue that FL textbooks used in class should not contain outdated gender stereotypes that convey the message that Italy and Serbia are places where patriarchal cultural values and inequalities are commonly accepted as undisputed societal norms; instead, it is argued that textbooks should promote a more emancipatory discourse and support the transformation of traditional gender roles that has occurred in the past decades in both Serbian and Italian society.

Судьба «традиции» в современном мире: сравнительный анализ концепций Э. Хобсбаума и Ш. Эйзенштадта

The conflicting assessments of the nature and role of traditions in the modern world stem in part from differences in the use of the term; the specific phenomena that are the focus of each perspective differ in some important respects. This opens up the possibility that seemingly contradictory conclusions about the role of traditions in contemporary societies can be reconciled. The article discusses the role and influence of traditions for the analysis of the modern socio-cultural situation from the point of view of two approaches: the concept of invented tradition by Eric Hobsbawm and the concept of multiple modernities by Shmuel Eisenstadt. The purpose of the article is to give a comparative analysis of the two approaches to tradition, showing that modernity is not a culturally neutral, universal socio-cultural product, but is formed under the influence of many traditions. Based on the method of comparative analysis, it was revealed that the concept of multiple modernities by Shmuel Eisenstadt, as well as the concept of invented tradition by Eric Hobsbawm, contradict the view of the classical theory of modernization on modernity as a break with tradition. At the same time, the meaning that Eisenstadt attaches to tradition differs markedly from that proposed by E. Hobsbawm. It is concluded that from the point of view of the theory of multiple modernities, the invention of new traditions in modernity is better understood as a process of transformation, and that the reconstruction of a tradition is not the same as invention. In both cases, both for the transformation and reconstruction of the tradition, the sociocultural context is important.

L’evoluzione della struttura familiare: il pomo della discordia nel dibattito internazionale. Nuovi contesti in cui crescere

In parallel with the transformation of society, there has been, and continues to be, a deep evolution in the family concept. As an historically defined sociocultural product, the ontological model of the "natural family" should be deconstructed in favor of an inclusive paradigm that considers it in the same way as the many existing types of family aggregations. The construct of generativity itself (Erikson, 1950) considers this tendency of adulthood in a sociological key and not purely, or exclusively, procreative and biological. The metamorphoses that have ousted the hegemony of the nuclear family in favor of the proliferation of new family forms, including homosexual families, fit into such a delicate context. Like any other family type, same-sex ones establish strong ties that turn them into a place of exchange and development: “the domestic space is a natural place of life and essential experience for the harmonious growth of a person” (Pati, 2019), so an active citizen. In fact, in the “liquid modernity” (Bauman, 1999), full of cultural stimuli, new forms of social marginalization and illiteracy arise, including an emotional illiteracy that finds its antidote par excellence in sentimental and emotional education: family should be the primary advocate of this type of education since it’s "relational good itself".

Discurso geográfico, representaciones culturales y publicaciones impresas. El Atlas metódico de Antonio García Cubas y el contexto escolar mexicano, 1867-1880

This research work is a study of Atlas metódico para la enseñanza de la geografía de la República mexicana, prepared by Antonio Garcia Cubas and published in 1874. The work is structured in two lines. The first is about the representations and discourses that the atlas has, based on the premise that all cartographic works are sociocultural products, rather than an objective and faithful portrait of spatial reality. The second line is the link between the content of the atlas and the historical context in which it emerged: that is the emergence of the public instruction system, orchestrated by the liberal state as a result of the affirmation of its nation project. In that tenor, the idea of visualizing and spreading the cartographic image of the Mexican nation acquired a specific meaning. Therefore, I try to give an account of how the atlas (in tune with other school books of period), sought to systematize and visualize an idea of spatial order anchored in the limits of the nation state, as well as in the foundations of a geographical knowledge of that time.

Social Ecofeminism Versus Cultural Ecofeminism: Marsha Norman’s Getting Out and ’night, Mother

The present article analyzes two of Marsha Norman’s groundbreaking plays, Getting Out (1977) and ’night, Mother (1983), in the light of ecofeminism. From the viewpoint of ecological feminism, Western patriarchal culture, which is structured in a hierarchical and dualistic manner, is responsible for the domination of women as well as the destruction of the natural environment. Broadly speaking, ecofeminist studies fall into two main categories: social ecofeminism and cultural ecofeminism. Considering the theories and positions of both groups, the researchers analyze how ‘nature’ and ‘women’ have been historically, socially, and culturally oppressed by hierarchical and dualistic structures of patriarchal capitalism; and discuss how Norman in her selected plays challenges and destabilizes such structures. Accordingly, it is concluded that Norman’s conception of woman-nature connection corresponds more closely to the theories and positions held by social ecofeminists than those of cultural ecofeminists, and that she considers woman-nature affinity as more of a sociocultural product than a biological fact.

PENERAPAN KEBIJAKAN DAERAH TENTANGKEGIATAN JUAL-BELI MAKANAN/MINUMAN DI BULAN RAMADHAN DI KOTA AMUNTAI KABUPATEN HULU SUNGAIUTARA

As a socio-cultural product of Banjar society, Ramadhan seasonal market, which coincided with the month of Ramadhan is a socio-cultural phenomena that reflects the religiosity of society, especially in Amuntai, Hulu Sungai Utara. Along with the globalization influencing Muslim countries, it’s reflecting the cultural change in society of Amuntai, known as Bertakwa City which is the cultural basis of social organization Nahdlatul Ulama and Muhammadiyah. Here, Regulation of Hulu Sungai Utara District No. 32 Year 2013 on the Prevention and Prohibition of Staining Activities in the sacred month of Ramadhan was made to ensure peace and order during the month of Ramadhan.In implementation, it’s constrained by low awareness of the traders / buyers as a target group in addition to the lack of enforcement of sanctions explicitly and the absence of a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) that also affect the level of performance of the Civil Service Police Unit. In addition, limited land for Ramadan Market location in Jalan Basuki Rahmat resulted in the closure of the road and not the concentration of the traders of food / drinks.To improve the effectiveness of the implementation, it should be carried out intensive monitoring and integrated by forces civil service police unit especially with respect to hours of selling food / drinks during the day in Ramadan seasonal market and in other similar locations, the settings related to the traders cake / small snacks in the market daily / weekly complemented by the determination of the location of Ramadan more representative markets in the coming years by the authorities. In the meantime, it takes continuous socialization coupled with enforcement of sanctions explicitly that all of the stages refers to a set of Standard Operating Procedure (SOP).

Stereotyping of the Don Cossacks in the perception of consumers of folklore-ethnographic tourist and socio-cultural products: to the formulation of the problem

Ethnic and social stereotypes are an indicative and multifunctional socio-cultural phenomenon that cannot be considered fully studied either in theoretical or in content-practical terms. The paper compares the results of the analysis of current historical, historiographical and cultural scientific works on Don Cossacks, the study of representations of the culture of Don Cossacks in the tourist and socio-cultural spheres in the Rostov Region (24 objects), a pilot survey (N = 70) of respondents for the reconstruction of ideas about Don Cossacks. In the scientific discourse of recent years about Don Cossacks, there is a tendency to discuss the directed formation of the image of the Cossacks by certain social forces.

Design de Jogos Digitais: análise comparativa de modelos projetuais

O jogo é conceituado como um processo voluntário de atividadeslúdicas, em uma esfera temporária, com orientação própria, dotado de umfim em si mesmo. Na contemporaneidade, os games constituem um campopromissor de aplicações e estudos, por serem produtos socioculturais comgrande impacto no setor econômico e tecnológico. Ao longo da história dodesenvolvimento dessa mídia, diversos modelos projetuais foram difundidospor meio da literatura para o desenvolvimento de jogos digitais. Diante dis-so, este estudo apresenta o tema por meio de revisão de literatura e métodocomparativo para descrever diferentes abordagens projetuais, com o intuitode evidenciar as similitudes e diferenças entre as etapas do processo de de-senvolvimento um game. Os resultados expõem a contribuição por meio dareflexão da análise comparativa de diferentes modelos para projetar jogos edestacam as incidências e as lacunas recorrentes encontradas

"Pedagogija slušanja" vs. "pedagogija slušanja odgojitelja": etnografsko istraživanje o autonomiji djeteta u vrtićima u Crnoj Gori

The paper discusses the phenomenon of child autonomy from the perspective of educators' personal epistemologies and power relations in the adult-child interaction in the practices of institutional education in Montenegro. The construct of child autonomy is approached from the standpoint of critical-constructivist theory and the self- -determination theory, as a socio-cultural product shaped by ethnopedagogies and personal epistemologies of educators. The main goal of the ethnographic study conducted in three preschool educational institutions in Montenegro was to explore the epistemological theories of educators through the analysis of institutional educational practices, given that "the ways of thinking about childhood fuse with institutionalized practices" (Prout & James, 2005, p. 22). We conclude about the existence of an objectivist epistemological theory of educators and the dominance of normative power relations in educator-child interactions, and discuss a special type of epistemological "over-power". The comparability with the results of similar research in the region is stated, and it points to a possible explanatory connection between collectivist culture and the controlling motivational style and authoritarianism in education.