Socio-cultural Community Research Articles

Optimalisasi Pemberdayaan Masyarakat Berbasis Ekonomi Kreatif Sebagai Upaya Realisasi Desa Wisata Berkearifan Lokal

This research is intended to find an accurate of data whether the existence of the Goyor sarong center as a creative economy can create a tourism village with local wisdom for the preservation of Indonesian local culture. This research was conducted at the Goyor Sarong Industrial Center, North Wanarejan Village, Pemalang Regency using qualitative research methods with data collection techniques using interviews, observations and questionnaires. The results showed that the Sarong Goyor Industrial Center can be used as a tourist village with local wisdom. One of the potentials is to have a unique and distinctive tourist attraction from the socio-cultural community, supported by being exported to the international market. However, there are still obstacles faced, namely the inadequate quality of human resources and also supporting infrastructure in terms of production and marketing. With this, it is very necessary to have an active role from various parties, both the local community and the government.

Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Taboo: Interaction and Creativity in Humour.

In this paper we treat humorous situations as a series of events underpinned by topoi, principles of reasoning recognised within a socio-cultural community. We claim that humorous effect in jokes and other discourse is often created by the juxtaposition of topoi evoked. A prerequisite for this is that there is a shift where the interpreter of the discourse updates their information state with regard to a second topos being evoked. This view of humour is consistent with an incremental analysis of dialogue, and we therefore argue that interaction is central both for humour creation and interpretation. We point out some different ways in which topoi are juxtaposed in humorous dialogues as well as in jokes published in social media or in joke books, and take jokes from the coronavirus pandemic as an example because this makes lots of new topoi available and therefore offers the opportunity of creating novel jokes based on the juxtaposition of the new and existing topoi. We explore how the mechanisms of inference in dialogue can be applied to humour through the four elements from our title: old (existing), new (not previously existing), borrowed (associated with a different situation) and taboo (inappropriate in the context).

Політичний дискурс та його дослідження у зарубіжному мовознавстві

Introduction. Political discourse analysis is a field of discourse analysis which focuses on discourse in political forums (such as debates, speeches, and hearings) as the phenomenon of interest. Discourse originating in political institutions can be subdivided into genres that are instrumental in policy-making and thus produced by and addressed to politicians and genres that communicate, explain, and justify political decisions, produced by politicians and addressed to the general public . This article investigates the role of translation and interpreting in political discourse. Purpose of this article is to define and characterize the linguocultural features of the German language in the political discourse and its translation into Ukrainian. Methods. In this study, the following types of research methods were used: descriptive method (by which the use of a certain type of translation was justified), transformation method (using this method, various types of lexical and grammatical transformations (transduction, descriptive translation, tracing) were investigated), statistical method (consists in counting the corresponding linguocultural units by thematic groups and by means of translation of realities). Results. Public speaking is a special form of language activity in terms of direct communication, a language addressed to a specific audience, ie oratory. Oratory is characterized by a number of features that determine its essence (the presence of the reaction of the speaker's speech, oral form of communication, the relationship between literary language and its oral embodiment, the use of various means of communication). Three approaches to the study of political discourse have been explored (descriptive, critical, cognitive). Originality of this study is due to the increased attention of modern linguists and translators to the study of non-equivalent vocabulary and socio-political realities in the political discourse of the German language and the methods of their reproduction in Ukrainian. Conclusion. Political discourse is an essential component of sociocultural communication, the main features of which are interests, goals and the formation of public opinion, which is necessary for the author of political discourse. The functions of political discourse include: information dissemination, agenda setting, projection into the future and the past. The most important function of political discourse is considered the function of political propaganda, persuasion and influence.

The urban neighborhood amid the changing to information society in Indonesia. Case study of the city of Bandung

The influx of information technology to the developing world has increasingly shown its impacts when information technology usage has become a part of daily life. Like its features, online apps have altered the way people interact and do daily activities, especially in urban areas. Conceptually the neighborhood was developed as part of the town planning practice and theory for developed worlds, though it is a universal phenomenon. Therefore, the neighborhood idea requires several adjustments to fit the dynamic third-world country context.The study aims to observe the characteristics of urban socio-spatial changes in correlation with the use of online apps and review the extent to which it will modify the essential elements used in defining a neighborhood. It uses an exploratory approach to explain the relationship between spatial character changes and socio-cultural community in two neighborhoods in Bandung city as case studies. The compiled data’s correlational analysis shows several changes in the neighborhood elements characters, either spatial or social related, but they are responses to the inadequate public facilities. In conclusion, to some degree, it has not been significant enough to indicate the neighborhood changes and requires further research to see the advanced information technological impact on urban life

КОММУНИКАТИВНЫЕ СТРАТЕГИИ КОНСТРУИРОВАНИЯ КОНЦЕПТА «ПОЛИТИЧЕСКОЕ БЛАГОПОЛУЧИЕ»

Актуальность. Установление закономерностей конструирования концепта «политическое благополучие» в плотной сети коммуникаций современной культуры является научной проблемой и позволяет сформировать новое междисциплинарное предметное поле в современных философско-культурологических исследованиях. Цель: выявить коммуникативные стратегии конструирования концепта «политическое благополучие», обусловленные закономерностями протекания процессов стереотипизации в социокультурных коммуникациях и особенностями познаваемости мира посредством его конструирования. В статье использован ряд методов, позволяющих осуществить философский и социально-психологический анализ сущности и взаимообусловленности концептов «благополучие» и «политика». На основе теории общественного мнения У. Липпмана исследуется роль стереотипов в конструировании концепта «политическое благополучие». Результаты: политическое благополучие рассматривается как переживание совокупности объективных обстоятельств, обусловленных системой властных отношений и институтов власти во взаимосвязи с субъективным состоянием. Конструирование концепта «политическое благополучие» напрямую связано с коммуникативными процессами как способами говорения о мире политики, которые характерны для различных социальных групп и влекут за собой различные социальные действия. В процессе конструирования ключевыми становятся две коммуникативные стратегии: в рамках первой формируется «образ для себя» – понимание политического благополучия как собственного блага, которое складывается из комплекса личных традиционных благ. Вторая коммуникативная стратегия – это «образ для других» (политико-культурные и иные реальности, обычаи, национальные мифы, символы, верования, стереотипы). В основе данной стратегии лежат механизмы формирования общественного мнения, особо подчеркивается значение процессов социальной стереотипизации. Выводы: конструирование концепта «политическое благополучие» осуществляется посредством двух коммуникативных стратегий. Парадоксальность ситуации в том, что концепт «политическое благополучие» в формате «образ для себя» в представлениях граждан строится на стереотипах формата «образ для других».

The Discourse Of Informal Education: Developing Children Characters During Covid-19 Pandemic

Parents are the first and foremost educators in the process of child development by positioning the house into a multipurpose building full of meaning. This study aims to explore the discourse of informal education in building children's character during the coronavirus disease-19 (covid-19) pandemic. This study is descriptive-qualitative. Data collection was carried out by studying documents and literature. The results of the study showed that the emergence of Covid-19 was initially responded to normally like other viruses, but the increasing number of victims eventually caused panic which affected the socio-cultural community, Covid-19 forces people to work and stay at home more. Social interaction, face-to-face communication and being replaced online by taking advantage of the sophistication of technology, and the role of parents is important by placing the family as one of the pillars of education to instill the norms, morals, and rules of conduct in consistently carrying out the government programs to prevent and break the chain of covid-19 transmission

Soft Skill Improvement as a Data Update Effort in the Mekarsaluyu Village Development Program

Natural wealth is an enormous gift. Located in northern part of Bandung, in a mountainous area, Mekarsaluyu Village has vast natural potential. The cool air, beautiful scenery, and the existence of rivers and contoured land, and the culture in the form of art and traditional music and culinary make the village has a unique local wealth. However, the local wealth available has not been managed well. The potential referred to has not yet had an optimal positive impact both on the social and economic life of its inhabitants. The background of this problem gives encouragement to empower the people of Mekarsaluyu Village by planning a tourist village development program with the theme of ecotourism. To design the program, it was necessary to collect data on the existing conditions in Mekarsaluyu Village, covering the physical aspects of natural resources and the non-physical aspects of the socio-cultural community. Getting real, accurate, and actual needs necessary to update the data and complete the lack of required data, were important for determining the ecotourism village program's planning. Therefore, the aim of this work was to carry out community service in counseling on updating data for Mekarsaluyu Village residents. The method used was in the form of training and assistance in filling out data. The writing team prepared the necessary database format tools in data variables related to the ecotourism village planning program. Then together with the residents, simulated the form filling. The results obtained from this community service are the ability of villager residents to fill in actual data independently with accuracy and validity related to physical data on the natural geographical conditions and Mekarsaluyu Village's socio-cultural community.
 Keywords: natural resource; training; updating data; village development

Pemberdayaan Mustahiq BAZNAS Kabupaten Sukabumi Melalui Program Bangkit Usaha Mikro Berbasis Masjid Desa Peradaban Zakat (BUMI DPZ)

BAZNAS Sukabumi Regency has a superior program named Micro Enterprise/ Bangkit Usaha Mikro (BUMI) that based on Zakat Civilization’s Village/ Desa Peradaban Zakat (DPZ) of mosque which is carried out following local socio-cultural community factors, by spiritual and material empowerment at the same time in accordance with its motto ngaji (ruhani) or spiritual empowerment and ngejo (rupiah) or material empowerment. This study aims to determine the success level of the mustahiq empowerment program through the BUMI DPZ program in BAZNAS, Sukabumi Regency. The research that will be used is a survey research by conducting interviews and using a questionnaire, with descriptive analysis methods and qualitative approaches, in the form of collecting facts in the field from interviews in the form of questionnaires to respondents. The results show that the success level of the BUMI DPZ BAZNAS program in Sukabumi Regency in terms of rupiah development is still low due to various obstacles, including the mentality of the assisted residents (mustahiq) who are still in consumptive orientation is still quite difficult to changing to be a productive one and already familiar with the usury system coupled with the limited number of assistants who at the same time have to deal with other institutions that offer assistance programs with interest-bearing loans, even though assistants play a major role in changing the people's mindset as well as agents of change to create empowered community conditions, while in terms of ruhiyah development it can be said to be successful with community assistants activeness to follow routine recitation held by a companion and have routinely issued

Navigating sociocultural communication spaces from a gendered perspective: An analysis of the use of new media technologies by Kenyan families

New technologies have challenged the established conceptual understanding of time and physical space as we know it and problematized how cultural values and power dynamics between men and women are viewed. This study sought to examine the time–space distanciation and comprehension in the face of increased access to and use of new communication technologies by families in Kenya. The article addresses the following questions: (1) How have new media technologies in Kenya affected individuals’ use of space at the family level? (2) How do women and men navigate through changes in spaces occasioned by the new media technologies? (3) What influence have new media technologies had on gendered power dynamics between men and women in the family set up? A qualitative study was carried out between October 2018 and October 2019 in Uasin Gishu County in Kenya. Interviews and observation techniques were employed with a total of 42 purposively sampled participants taking part. Qualitative techniques were used to analyse the data. The study generated a number of findings that formed the basis of key recommendations thereof.

СТОРИТЕЛІНГ ЯК СТРАТЕГІЯ РОЗБУДОВИ PR-КОМУНІКАЦІЙ

<p><strong><em>The purpose </em></strong><em>of the article is to determine the functionality of using storytelling in PR communications.</em></p><p><strong><em>Research methodology</em></strong><strong>.</strong> <em>Methods of synthesis and analysis, reception, descriptive method and method of generalization were used during the consideration of the raised issue, in particular studying and systematization of scientific principles of the storytelling phenomenon, its structural elements and material organization, as well as functional capabilities as a means of communication.</em></p><p><strong><em>Results.</em></strong> <em>The format of storytelling as a significant socio-cultural communication phenomenon in the modern information space and a new technology for organizing dialogue with the public are presented. The emphasis is placed on such dominant characteristics of storytelling as emotions, identification, personification.</em> <em>Storytelling is characterized as an actual format of information organization in PR-communications. Storytelling as an important communication tool in the organization of external and internal communications of an organization is revealed. The basic characteristics of storytelling in the formation of communication interaction with different audiences are described.</em> <em>The basic characteristics of storytelling in the formation of communication interaction with different audiences are described. The main directions of its functional application in corporate communication are highlighted. Storytelling is revealed as a significant and operative tool for building trust with consumers.</em> <em>Models of material organization in the story are given. On the example of the well-known brand «Morshynska» and the company «Nova Poshta» the analysis of the implementation of storytelling is carried out, the basic aspects of establishing communication contact with the audience and the criteria of potential effectiveness of storytelling are described.</em></p><p><strong><em>Novelty.</em></strong><em> The aspects of systematization of storytelling implementation in PR-communications are described and systematized. The main directions of embodiment of stories and features of their development are covered. Modern practices of storytelling application in modern public relations are presented.</em></p><p><strong><em>Practical significance.</em></strong><em> The thesis set out in the article can be applied in the organization of PR-communications and image strategies, as well as in further study of communication practices in various fields.</em></p><p><strong><em>Key words:</em></strong><em> storytelling, story, PR-communications, strategy, public relations, trust, audience.</em></p>

ЖАНР КОНЦЕРТА ДЛЯ ДВУХ ФОРТЕПИАНО С ОРКЕСТРОМ КАК ЯВЛЕНИЕ КУЛЬТУРНОЙ КОММУНИКАЦИИ

Interest in ensemble performing is increasing in modern culture, so the study of the double piano concerto, a large ensemble genre, in the context of the modern understanding of culture as a universal informational and communicative space, is relevant. Culture is a means of socio-cultural communication, carried out through the generation and transmission of communicative codes that make up the text of culture. Through the realisation of a person’s creative potential in culture, art contributes to the comprehension of man’s being-in-culture, and his involvement in the cultural-creative process. This article is devoted to an analysis of the specificity of the concerto for two pianos and orchestra, in the context of the theoretical understanding of communicative processes in culture.

Spatial Transformation of Subak in Northern Kuta Tourism Area, Bali: From Agricultural to Cultural-Service

As one of the world cultural heritage designated by UNESCO, Subak in Bali experienced various challenges in the framework of its existence. Subak is recognized as a traditional Balinese agricultural institution based on local water management. The risks that subak must face when in the circle of international tourism practices because Bali is a tourist destination that is very reliable by the Government of Indonesia in order to obtain foreign exchange. The purpose of this article is to reveal the problems faced by as a local genious irrigation system. Especially related to spatial function changes that occur in Northern Kuta tourism area, Bali, by identifying the distribution of subak, composition, and typology of existing actors related to their interest in water, sub-urban development patterns, and subak alienation practices. Spatial approach adopted to determine spatial changes that occur ranging from agriculture to tourism. Data collection based on spatial analysis with GIS application, observation, interview, and focus group discussion. Spatial changes were found to be caused by the penetration of accommodation development, accessibility, and communal facilities. This situation occurs because of the limited tourism space in the center of tourism areas or tourism business areas (TBD) such as Kuta and Legian. There has been a transformation of spatial functions: from agricultural functions to cultural-service functions. The change in spatial planning indicates a tendency to shift the socio-cultural community around Kuta Tourism Area from agrarian to sub-urban characteristics. Thus, it has an impact on the existence of subak as the last bastion of sustainable tourism development in Bali.

ԺԱՄԱՆԱԿԱԿԻՑ ԼԵԶՎԱԲԱՆՈՒԹՅԱՆ ԱՐԺԵԲԱՆԱԿԱՆ ՀԱՐԱՑՈՒՅՑԸ / THE AXIOLOGICAL PARADIGM OF MODERN LINGUISTICS

The article examines the role and significance of values in linguistics proceeding from the fact that language reflects values in culture. Value analysis of language reveals a wide range of possibilities for the study of national linguistic consciousness through the formation of the model of linguistic identity. Language as a cultural phenomenon, directly or indirectly reflects values which are currently preserved in a given society and culture. Moreover, the language is constantly connected with culture and thoughts, which form in the native speaker the system of values, morality and behavior typical of a given socio-cultural community.

Democratic Trends in Foreign and Domestic Policy of Post-Reformation Indonesia: Historical Aspect

Liberal democracy, the theory of a democratic world and a number of other liberal theories today are strongly associated with the Western world and the globalization model of development. Critics of this trend draw attention to the need to take into account objective differences in approaches to the perception of democracy in different countries and sociocultural communities. Indonesia is one of the most striking examples of the distinctive perception of democracy at different socio-political levels, which manifests itself both in national ideology and in the people's consciousness. This article is supposed to consider the Indonesian approaches to the definition of democracy and their impact on the implementation of Indonesia's foreign policy in the world arena based on these basic foundations.

Civilizational heterogeneity of Russia. Property in the field of civilizational development

The article considers the Russian civilization as a socio-cultural community that includes different civilizational formations, the fact that determines its heterogeneous nature. An indicator of the heterogeneity of a society is its social structure, with civilisational rifts present - such an opposition of individual structural elements that has a civilizational character. In modern Russia, three civilizational rifts can be recorded. The first of them is based on the existence in the country of different levels of technical and technological development and, accordingly, of the nature and content of laborur of the population. The second rift is due to the material differentiation of the society: from the standard of living (on the threshold and beyond the poverty threshold) to the possession of multibillion fortunes, that leads to a deep difference in the quality of life of the population, that is an attributive feature of various civilizations. The third rift is related to the historically uneven development of the regions. Along with the regions that have entered or are already at the informational stage of development (they are in minority), most of the regions are at the industrial stage, and in some regions, a pre-industrial agrarian society with stable traditional values ​​still prevails. Accordingly, informational, industrial and traditional subcivilizations coexist in the vastness of Russia. Property relations are considered among the significant factors of civilizational development. Property relations are first of all economic and juridical (legal) relations. Property as a social relation carries the historically stipulated content of the moral norms, justice, individual and social benefit. Property is embodied not only in legal forms, but also in customs, cultural patterns, habits, types of thinking and behavioral models. In Russia, the property right of an individual has always been oriented towards "internal justice", correlated in the public and individual consciousness with the prevailing ideas of the proper. Whereas in Western civilization there has been entrenched the priority of public relations based on the protected by law private interest of an individual. The reorientation of property relations in Russia to the Western model, including in the memory of our contemporaries, has not been a success due to the traditionally strong etacratic influences, the dominance of the “power-property” relationship.

Socio-cultural Relations and Communications in the Post-Pandemic World: Global Reversal or Situational Crisis of Postmodernism

The world of late globalization is distinguished by duality and internal contradictions in socio-cultural relations and communications, which reflects in the crisis of universal models of social behavior. The only area where the principles of social universality remain relevant is the sphere of communications, where active development of new formats and the emergence of new cultural proto-artifacts continues. The coronavirus pandemic has altered the logic of development in this segment of global interaction, since it affected the very foundations of universal social behavior models. Socio-cultural relations, due to a complex of reasons, are becoming a sphere where tendencies interact and compete as well as institutions associated with the period of late globalization, including those that emerged on the wave of its crisis. At the same time, the communication environment becomes extremely important, since new technologies will make it possible to reflect not only macro-trends, but also the evolution of micro-cultures, which, in the context of a systemic (institutional) crisis of globalization, are becoming more important than usual. This symbiotic socio-cultural-communication phenomenon can become one of the most important factors in determining future models of global development. The article analyzes the most important directions of development of the sphere of socio-cultural communications and their transformation in 2020-2021. The article amplifies whether the trends for socio-cultural developments that formed through the pandemic crisis lead towards the formation of a new model of socio-cultural development or such trends remain within the traditional framework. The major conclusion is that the formation of the model has not started yet though the risk of distraction of global socio-cultural – and probably social universality – became obvious. Conclusions are made regarding further transformation of the sphere of socio-cultural development in the current information environment.

Intercultural communication of the peoples of the North Caucasus

Currently, cross-cultural communications actualize the problems of multi-level dialogue, including ethno-cultural, linguistic and psychological aspects. The aim of the study is to study the cultural space of the North Caucasus in the context of the development of intercultural communications. Cross-cultural relations are caused by the interaction of cultures of different ethnic groups, which directly affects the development of social relations. Political, social and economic problems that have emerged in modern Russian society have negatively affected interethnic relations, in particular, in the North Caucasus. Armed conflicts have caused interethnic contradictions and caused great damage to interethnic and intercultural relations. Currently, everything necessary is being done to resolve conflicts. Thus, it is necessary to study modern communication processes, as well as the peculiarities of intercultural interactions in the North Caucasus. Currently, mutual intercultural communication in the dialogue of cultures sometimes leads to conflict situations. Its development leads not only to social peace and harmony, political agreement, but also to the settlement of inter-ethnic relations. Ways to resolve them will be more successful if ethnic groups have a social and national culture, the main task of which will be the settlement of various conflicts, the maintenance of peace and harmony. In the study of cross-cultural communications, the problem of preserving cultural identity is actualized. Among the peoples of the North Caucasus, a special role is played by socio-cultural communication, in particular, at the intercultural, intergroup and interpersonal levels.

Ecolinguistic Types of Traditional House Building at the Southern Border of Central Java as Javanese Sociocultural Equality

People of southern coastal border of Central Java have extraordinary features, not only biological ecology, but also ecolinguistic features that can be seen from the socio-cultural awareness community. Socio-cultural awareness of people the southern coastal border Central Java is reflected in behavior of simplicity and openness with the ecology of their immediate environment. These two things are the reflection of solidarity upheld by the community. Their closeness to nature forms the character of society full of symbolic values. This research examines the philosophical meaning and local wisdom functions of the architecture of traditional house building of people at the southern coastal border of Central Java. The orientation of this research is to interpret the form of ecological acculturation reflected in the traditional house buildings of southern coastal border communities of Central Java. This research constitutes a qualitative type with contextual descriptive method. In answering socio-cultural problems, ecolinguistics and cultural anthropology were used as the basis of this research analysis. The results of this study indicate the unitary environmental orientation of the basic concept for the construction of traditional houses in the southern coastal community of Central Java, spiritual orientation counterweighting the strength of traditional house buildings, and economic orientation as the form of togetherness and openness of the southern coastal communities Central Java.

Common South Asian Identity and Regional Integration in South Asia

This paper explores the avenues to evolve a common identity, in South Asia. This paper has been divided into five parts. In the first part, Identity and Regional Integration, the concepts of identity and regional integration have been defined and the need for a common identity for regional integration has been discussed. The second part, analyses South Asia as a region and the need for developing a common identity there. The third part, explores the different types of identities existing in the political, economic, social and cultural spheres of the South Asian region. In the fourth part, the challenges in evolving a common regional identity in South Asia, a region marked by diversity and myriad number of complex problems in different spheres has been discussed. By way of conclusion, it has been argued that a common identity is much required for furthering the process of regional integration in South Asia, which should be built on the common indicators of human development in the social sector as well as upon the common values, lifestyle and socio-cultural norms of the peoples of this region, like the ASEAN vision of an ASEAN Socio Cultural Community (ASCC).

Bulgarian Builders in the Sociocultural Community of Western Siberia in the 1970s–1980s

This article is devoted to analysing arrival circumstances, population, settlement, work conditions, socio-cultural adaptation, and particularities of relations with the local community of builders from Bulgaria who migrated to Western Siberia within the framework of government contracts. The article refers to unpublished archive materials, data from journals, and field trips recorded in Tyumen Region in 2019–2020. The research reveals that travelling to the USSR in order to earn money played an important part in individual success strategies of Bulgarian youth in the 1970s and became quite widespread. Between the 1970 and late 1980s, Tyumen Region received 4 000 Bulgarians living in it with the biggest groups working in Tyumen, Surgut, Nizhnevartovsk, Urai, and Nadim. Several districts, working villages, and oil extraction facilities in Western Siberia were built by them. Also, both in Tyumen and Surgut, there are squares of Soviet-Bulgarian friendship, and in Surgut there is a monument to Georgi Dimitrov. Upon arrival in the USSR, the Bulgarians had a privileged status. The main adaptation difficulties were associated with the local climate and the language barrier. The life of Bulgarians and the work of the Glavbolgarstroy company in Western Siberia laid a strong foundation for economic activity that gave rise to a large influx of Bulgarian migrants to Russia in the 1990s. As a result, according to All-Russian censuses in 2002 and 2010, Tyumen region had the largest community of Bulgarians registered in Russia. Today Bulgarians in Western Siberia are present as third-generation migrants; they play a significant role in sociocultural and economic spheres of Tyumen Region. Many of them maintain an emotional bond with their motherland and keep in touch with their families and close people in Bulgaria.