Socio-cultural Reproduction Research Articles

情境教学中的社会文化再生产——以英语教学为例促进教育的社会文化再生产能力的提

情境教学中的社会文化再生产——以英语教学为例促进教育的社会文化再生产能力的提

Диаспоры Юга России: основания типологизации и тенденции социокультурного воспроизводства

Диаспоры Юга России: основания типологизации и тенденции социокультурного воспроизводства

Students' Academic Habitus and Its Relation to Family Capital: A Latent Class Approach to Inequalities among Secondary School Students1

Habitus plays a crucial part in Bourdieu's theory of sociocultural reproduction for understanding the persistence of inequalities in the education system. According to Bourdieu, students from homes that are heavily equipped with cultural capital develop a specific kind of habitus, that is, modes of perceiving, thinking, and acting, remarkably well‐adjusted to the expectations of teachers and educational institutions. However, research has rarely tried to measure what we refer to as students' academic habitus to highlight the different types of habitus that students might express toward school. Drawing on data from secondary students in Luxembourg, we employ a latent class approach to operationalize, measure, and explore students' academic habitus. Our investigation comprises three main steps: First, we develop a multifaceted understanding of students' habitus integrating diverse dispositions toward school and learning; second, we identify different academic habitus types: the habitus of excellence, the habitus of goodwill and loyalty, and the habitus of disengagement. Third, we examine how the three habitus types relate to different axes of inequality: socioeconomic status, cultural capital, family employment, gender, and immigrant background. Our typology of habitus bridges the qualitative literature on habitus with existing quantitative operationalizations. The findings show that students with a habitus of excellence are likely to hail from families with favorable parental employment and high cultural involvement.

Українська сім’я в умовах війни

The purpose of this study is to determine the problems and risks for the Ukrainian family, which is the basic institution of society, in the conditions of the Russia’s war against Ukraine, and its role in preserving the human potential of country. The study is based on information from open sources, expert assessments, data from the State Statistics Service of Ukraine, and sample survey materials. The research was carried out using such methods as comparative analysis, generalization and induction, survey, system approach. The family is a primary and main center of society, which ensures the physical (biological) and sociocultural reproduction of generations of the human community. In recent decades, the development of the family in Ukraine took place in the same direction as in other European countries. Russia’s war against Ukraine deformed the natural processes of life and development of the Ukrainian family. Great human losses, the destruction of the environment necessary for life (housing, social and economic infrastructure, natural environment), forced mass migration made it extremely difficult to implement the main specific functions of the family (child-bearing, upbringing, and maintenance of children), but activated its protective function. Family practices in the conditions of war and forced migration testify to powerful family ties and their special importance in the crisis period. In the conditions of war and the socio-economic disorganization caused by the war, family becomes a support: family solidarity, mutual assistance, care, the exchange of activities and material resources between family members allow to sustain living, and sometimes to protect life. A significant part of the forced migrants, who left the dangerous areas, receive assistance, and often move to relatives in safe regions of the country. Socio-psychological functions of the family acquire protective character. At the same time, the war aggravated the problems of Ukrainian family and provoked new risks. The consequence of the full-scale war was the reduction and deformation of the marriage potential and negative changes in the marriage and family structure of the population: an increase in the number of widowed; single-parent families and families where children live without parents with relatives; single people of the oldest age. The increase in the number of orphans and children deprived of parental care (whose parents have died, are in captivity, forcibly deported, their whereabouts are unknown, etc.) is one of the most serious consequences of the war. Weakening of marital relations due to mobilization and large-scale migration with gender disproportions may lead to an increase in divorce rates in the future. An increase in the number of single-child families among families with children is to be expected, although its significant growth was a problem even in the pre-war years. The changes in the Ukrainian family may be fully understood only a few years after the end of the war.

THE FORMATION OF PERSONALITY’S SOCIOCULTURAL COMPETENCE

The article gives a thorough analyzes of the scientific works of scientists, which highlights the problems ofsociocultural development of a person in modern society. The paper concentrates on the problem of socioculturalcompetence as a value aspect of a person's life and a key indicator of individual readiness to perform professionalactivities. This article features sociocultural (life) competence as a multifaceted and multicomponent phenomenon.There the authors also found out the importance of individual’s sociocultural competence formation in the process oftraining and proved the place and role of sociocultural competence in the structure of vocational education. Thispaper establishes some key approaches, principles, forms, methods and means of sociocultural competenceformation of a person. The authors focus on the systemic, activity-oriented, professionally oriented, personalityoriented and cultural aspects of the methodology for the implementation of the sociocultural content of educationalprograms. Special attention is given to the conditions of modern state of the development of Ukraine, which stress asociocultural aspect of its (Ukraine) educational reforms. Sociocultural competence can be considered as a neweducational stratageme. The study revealed that the sociocultural competence formation contributes to thedevelopment of the main goals of education, namely practical, progressive and educational. The authors admits thatthe purpose of modern education is to stimulate personal growth (self-development) and improve the creativepotential of each individual. The conclusion is that education plays a major role in solving the problem, firstly,vocational education, secondly, sociocultural reproduction and, thirdly, personality formation. To sum up theauthors emphasizes that the phenomenon of sociocultural competence is inextricably linked with the process of theformation of a person in modern society, his assimilation of the norms and technologies for performing a certainsocial role.

Understanding regional innovation cultures: Narratives, directionality, and conservative innovation in Bavaria

In recent years, innovation policy has increasingly embraced “situated” perspectives to better account for both how culture matters for innovation in diverse settings and how to deal with growing socio-economic inequalities and conflicts in the global innovation landscape. In this paper, we develop the framework of “regional innovation cultures” to put these perspectives on more solid theoretical footing. Regional innovation cultures refer to unique ways in which regional innovation initiatives and technology developments (their goals, meanings, material organization, and actor constellations) are being brought into alignment with local identities, socio-economic legacies, and unique political cultures. Our framework foregrounds five analytic dimensions: imagined social orders, representations, political cultures, relationship to national and global initiatives, and local controversies. We apply this framework to one in-depth regional case study of the German state of Bavaria, focusing on innovation policy in three sectors: space, agriculture, and automotive. We show how Bavaria enacts what we call a “conservative innovation culture”, where innovation is framed as a way to preserve socio-economic orders rather than disrupt them, and where political and economic incumbents forcefully shape and absorb emerging niche activities. Innovation in Bavaria is performed through a political culture of small state-like corporatism that emphasizes strong coordination of all major actors, grants state bureaucracies a key role in defining directions for innovation in the form of a quasi-technonationalism, and tends to sideline alternative visions and voices for innovation. Across all three sectors, culture serves as a framing device to legitimize innovation primarily as an extension of existing social orders; conversely, innovation serves as a vehicle to reinforce dominant ideas of the public good. Through the lens of culture, innovation ceases to be primarily a source of social change and disruption, but can be understood as a mode of socio-cultural reproduction subject to tentative, constrained experimentation. Innovation initiatives cannot break too radically with existing social norms and orders without risking public support or legitimacy, thus creating a trade-off between proposing novelty and ensuring continuity. Our analysis lends further support for constructivist approaches to innovation studies, emphasizing plural and socially grounded perspectives on the rationalization, implementation, and evaluation of innovation.

Социокультурное воспроизводство коммуникативных компетенций в молодёжной среде

The relevance of the topic of socio-cultural reproduction of communicative compe-tencies among youth is high due to both the dynamic changes in this sphere and the total involvement of young people in communication processes. The article discusses the data of empirical study collected in the period of October 2021 – March 2022. An online survey method (Google Forms) was used. Sample type – quota, representa-tion is provided by gender, age and type of the settlement. The sample size is 2492 respondents. The age of the respondents is from 15 to 29 years old. The concept of self-regulation of youth life activity by V. I. Chuprov and Yu. A. Zubok is imple-mented as methodological basis. An analysis of the conjugations of gender and ha-bitual attitudes (to collectivism and individualism; disinterestedness and prudence), and the meanings of communication (terminal – joy, happiness; pleasure; internal need; and instrumental – duty of politeness; forced necessity; useful connections) in the socio-cultural reproduction of communicative competencies by young people is presented. Based on a multivariate analysis of these indicators, the authors draw the following conclusions. Young people fully realize the reproductive function in com-municative skills. Gender, as a rule, manifests itself in the reproduction of predomi-nantly “male” (“to insist on one’s own) and traditionally “female” skills “to sympa-thize, emotionally empathize with others”, gender solidarity – in the reproduction of “universal” competencies such as “listen and try to understand others”. The differen-tiation of young people within gender groups in connection with the habits and mean-ings of communication empirically confirms that the reproduction of communicative competencies is regulated by unconscious and conscious elements of the socio-cultural mechanism of self-regulation. The habitual attitudes that go back to tradi-tional culture have a greater differentiating effect, on reproduction of communicative competence of youth. Among all of the meanings of communication that young peo-ple create – instrumental meanings correlated with modern culture are stronger. Soci-ocultural reproduction through the meanings of communication reveals a paradox that is not characteristic of other spheres of youth life: in the communicative space, the carriers of instrumental meanings are less equipped with communicative skills than the carriers of terminal ones.

Analysis of life plans and emigration intentions of pupils and students of border regions of the South of Ukraine (experience of empirical sociological research)

Educational emigration of young people is today one of the most pressing topics, taking into account the place and role of this socio-demographic group in the processes of economic and socio-cultural reproduction of society. In order to clarify the scale and nature of migration sentiments in the field of education, the life plans of young people, the authors of the article within the framework of the grant project “Common Language: public dialogue on the Law of Ukraine “On Education” in the Odessa region” conducted two empirical sociological research: 1) a formalized interview of students, students and their parents; 2) in-depth interviews with representatives of local authorities and self-government bodies, heads of schools and other educational institutions, school teachers, pupils, their parents, students, representatives of public organizations, ethnic communities, employers and representatives of local political parties. Despite the prevailing migration sentiments among some of the respondents, most of them associate their future with Ukraine. The mood for educational emigration is most pronounced among student youth, this is due to the fact that getting an education in foreign countries facilitates the possibility of their employment, including on the international labor market. The authors emphasize the importance of further scientific understanding of topical problems associated with the implementation of educational reform in Ukraine, which has hidden the development of transnational curricula.

Материнство та культурно-історичні традиції

The problem of the relationship and interaction of motherhood with the development of culture became very serious and very significant. It requires consistent scientific research and philosophical generalization. The article presents a holistic vision of the phenomenon of motherhood in the context of culture. The motherhood considered from these positions acts as the specific phenomenon of our existence, the unique mechanism of physical and sociocultural reproduction of the person. In a sense, motherhood can be seen as a center that forms culture, because initially the cultural space for the child is concentered around the mother.

Socio-Cultural Reproduction of a Generation through the Eventfulness of Childhood

One of the most important characteristics of generations in the modern humanities is the indication of the recreation of traditional cultural values while producing new cultural practices. The article accumulates data of a sociological study of young people (2018, an online survey of 774 respondents aged 18—21) born at the junction of two conventional generations. As one of the criteria of socio-cultural reproduction, the article suggests using the age of the debut and consolidation of various events related to the field of culture into permanent practice. Based on quantitative data (the age of starting, average age, percentage of coverage or exclusion from the event), the authors prove that traditional practices (reading, organizing additional education, visiting libraries, theater, etc.) are consolidated at an earlier age (preschool and primary school). In the article, new socio-cultural practices are designated as not normative, typical, and ubiquitous for children, but already quite mass events in comparison with the historical and social situation of the 20th century. These are innovative practices (including the practice of mastering the information and communication technologies and the Internet), independent actions of young actors in the field of consumer culture, and some manipulations with the body (tattooing, piercing, etc.) that, according to the study, manifest themselves in adolescence and youth. The article identifies a stable group of young people (from complete urban families of the middle economic level) who undergo the traditional eventfulness and are therefore close to the generation of their parents. The authors substantiate the necessity of working to support the socio-cultural reproduction in adolescence.

Being a Zapatista at 4 years old. Socialization and subjectivity of Tseltal children

Con su proceso político pedagógico y autonómico los zapatistas no sólo contrarrestan la guerra de contrainsurgencia del Gobierno Mexicano, desde 1994, sino que impulsan la reproducción sociocultural y cambio en las nuevas generaciones, configurando las prácticas socioeducativas de los niños. A partir del intercambio de más de 20 años con población zapatista, se revisan en este artículo, los procesos de socialización y subjetivación de los menores de 6 años y las relaciones intersubjetivas que entablan con sus mayores. Los más pequeños nos enseñan con sus palabras, juegos y actitudes lo que significa ser zapatista, vivir en resistencia frente a la guerra, contradiciendo el paradigma hegemónico sobre la primera infancia.

I’m here! Conspicuous geomedia practices and the reproduction of social positions on social media

ABSTRACT ‘Checking in’ at or ‘tagging’ oneself to various places on social media constitute online representations that contribute to the classification, or ‘making’, of places. At the same time, users are also classified based on what they (show that they) do where. In this paper, we deploy Bourdieusian cultural sociology to the realm of place-exposing geomedia practices to understand social reproduction on social media. The study uses multiple correspondence analysis on a national survey deployed in Sweden (n=3,902). Various place-exposing practices are analyzed in relation to the contemporary Swedish class structure. Results reveal a connection between various forms and volumes of capital and the places that people visit and chose to put on display for online audiences. We are thus able to verify how the socio-technological regime of geomedia, with its new arenas for online exposure, extends deep-seated dynamics of socio-cultural reproduction and even reinforces the classificatory linkages between spatial appropriation and social identity work.

Gender Labor Policies in the Franco Dictatorship (1939–75): The Discursive Construction of Normative Femininity

Abstract This article analyzes the labor gender policies and the strategies of “genderization” put forward by the Franco Dictatorship in Spain. The Franco regime understood that women were the touchstone of society and key in both biological and sociocultural reproduction. Legislative regulations and sanctioned discourses accentuated the division between productive-public and reproductive-domestic spheres, relegating women to the latter. Nevertheless, to what extent did women embrace and challenge the regime's idealistic view of gender? This article contemplates female employment within and beyond official discourse. Oral sources used in this article suggest that socioeconomic reality overflowed the narrow limits of normative femininity. Not all women could enjoy the “honor” of embodying the exalted role of “perfect (house) wife” that the Franco regime had entrusted to them. In addition, this article explores changes in the ideal of femininity throughout the dictatorship. The Franco regime underwent crucial transformations during its almost 40 years of existence. This article argues that its adaptation had repercussions on sociocultural patterns and gender policies. Francoism built its early notion of normative femininity on the ideals of domesticity and Catholic morality, but (re)shaped the meanings of womanhood and (re)adjusted the legal system to fit the new circumstances that arose in the Cold War context.

Brahman women as cultured homemakers – unpacking caste, gender roles and cultural capital across three generations

ABSTRACT Caste privilege is invisible in the lives of so-called upper caste, middle-class women. This paper offers critical insight into Brahman women’s lives, mapping evolving gender roles but examining them as sites of caste privilege. Education, marriage and housework are the registers used to map gender roles. The study uses narratives of three generations of Chitpavan Brahman women and individual interviews of Chitpavan women from Pune, a city in western India. The findings confirm that accumulated cultural capital facilitates a smooth educational progression for Chitpavan women. The modernizing impulse of Brahmans necessitates a minimum social norm of educational attainment before marriage for women across generations. There is an increase in women’s agency in marriage negotiations. Brahman women continue to be responsible for domestic management but can choose to identify as pragalbha grihini i.e. cultured housewives. I argue that the pragalbha grihini lies in a contested discursive space, between the tensions of ‘feminist’ and ‘housewife’. It is an important pathway for the socio-cultural reproduction of caste privilege.

Trabajadoras vecinales en el barrio Oro Verde, subjetividades y participación. Estudio de caso entre siglos XX y XXI

This work investigates the Plan Vida implemented in the nineties and its reformulation at the beginning of the 21st century, the Plan Más Vida, and stops to observe the actions of volunteer neighborhood workers in a neighborhood in the town of Virrey del Pino , municipality of La Matanza. The oral history methodology was used for the recovery of testimonies, the main source of this investigation. The subjectivities and modifications of the roles of manzaneras and comadres will be investigated, recognizing them as a historical, active and transforming subject of the sociocultural reproduction model in Virrey del Pino, as well as being a mediating figure in social relations within this community space. The different sections were configured through a chronological sequence, being able to recognize dissimilar periods throughout the three decades observed.

“All That’s Left is Bare Land and Sky”: Palm Oil Culture and Socioenvironmental Impacts on a Tembé Indigenous Territory in the Brazilian Amazon

Abstract The expansion of large-scale oil palm cultivation in the Amazon has exposed indigenous populations to changes around their lands and in their daily activities. Given the lack of studies on the impacts of oil palm on these populations, this study analyzed the socio-environmental impacts perceived by the Tembé, in Tomé-Açu, Pará State. With an interdisciplinary approach, between 2016 and 2017, semi-structured interviews and participant observation were conducted in five villages, inside and adjacent to the Turé-Mariquita Indigenous Land and complemented by remote sensing analyzes. This article describes the pressure vectors and the main socio-environmental impacts through the analysis of the indigenous narrative, and then these are discussed based on the scientific literature and remote sensing data. The findings indicate that the conversion of the surrounding territory to oil palm monoculture generated social and environmental changes that negatively affected the Tembé’s way of life and their capacity of socio-cultural reproduction.

Open spaces in public libraries: from social practices to cultural values

The article considers the practice of creating open spaces in public libraries of foreign countries. Open space is a social phenomenon with a value load. The author emphasizes the role of open spaces in integrating social practices of the local community members, forming the territorial population identity, common values and cultural meanings. The paper highlights that it is necessary to use a wide range of traditional and virtual technologies in open spaces, as well as to strengthen cooperation with other social organizations. The role of open spaces is to socialize different demographic groups living at the same territory, to create conditions for their successful adaptation to the dynamically changing world and the socio-cultural potential reproduction. Open spaces create new opportunities for solving one of the most difficult task: they stimulate social activity of the local community members and form their cultural values. Thus, open spaces contribute to organizing interaction between different social groups living at the territory and strengthening the society sustainable structure.

Środowiskowe zróżnicowanie wyników kształcenia w gimnazjach i szkołach podstawowych

Artykuł jest propozycją weryfikacji stanowisk zajmowanych w ostatnich kilkunastu latach wobec natężenia i kierunku zmian selekcji środowiskowych w polskiej oświacie. W weryfikacji wykorzystane zostały wyniki zewnętrznych egzaminów (sprawdzianu szóstoklasisty i egzaminu gimnazjalnego), od prawie dwudziestu lat przeprowadzanych corocznie na pełnych, ogólnokrajowych populacjach uczniów kończących naukę w szkołach podstawowych i gimnazjach. Dla określenia natężenia i kierunku zmian tych selekcji wykorzystano dane o wynikach uzyskanych przez ogół dzieci uczących się w kilku środowiskach społecznych, wyodrębnionych ze względu na wielkość miejscowości, w której prowadzone jest kształcenie. Przedstawione tu analizy wskazują, że nietrafne są stosunkowo liczne niedawno stwierdzenia o zmniejszającym się i niewielkim zróżnicowaniu wyników osiąganych przez uczniów kształcących się w różnych środowiskach. Szczegółowe dane są tylko częściowo zgodne z klasycznymi już sposobami wyjaśniania tych różnic, odwołującymi się do roli kapitału kulturowego w procesach reprodukcji społeczno-kulturowej. Wykazana w tym opracowaniu duża różnica poziomu uzyskanej wiedzy i umiejętności między uczącymi się w kilkunastu największych miastach a uczącymi się w małych miejscowościach stawia też w nowym świetle znaczenie zasady równego dostępu do wykształcenia w funkcjonowaniu polskiego systemu szkolnictwa.

Tensions in Teaching Character: How the ‘Entrepreneurial Character’ is Reproduced, ‘Refused’, and Negotiated in an English Academy School

This article examines ‘character education’ in a school setting. It does so by drawing on ethnographic data collected at Milltown Community Academy, a secondary school in northern England. In this piece I focus on how character education at Milltown materialises and is enacted within the sites and everyday practices of schooling. By analysing the practices of teachers at the school, I show how, on one hand, the character initiative is embedded and complied with, but, on the other hand, teachers’ practice is also littered with instances of ‘refusal’ and non-compliance. Through recent reforms, Milltown Academy now houses an ‘entrepreneurship specialism’. At the school, ‘entrepreneurship’ is embedded in the school’s core ethos and curriculum and as part of this, the ‘entrepreneurial character’ is sold as necessary and progressive and is regularly deployed in narratives of attachment to and detachment from success and failure, respectively. Therefore, I make a claim that not only is a character agenda at place in the school but an ‘entrepreneurial character’ initiative. The analysis in this article is foregrounded in the idea that the Academy’s attempts to instil an ‘entrepreneurial character’ are part of a problematic policy complex that reproduces class-based inequalities, I argue, however, that those tasked with ‘teaching entrepreneurial character’ are indeed part of the process of the socio-cultural reproduction of inequality and dominance, but importantly, they also engage in plural and contradictory practices when it comes to putting the agenda into action.

Composiciones familiares y configuraciones matrimoniales en redes genealógicas indígenas del oriente jujeño, Siglo XIX

Gregory Bateson propone como objeto y fin de sus reflexiones en Espíritu y Naturaleza la noción de “pauta que conecta”, a través de preguntas tales como ¿cuál es la pauta que conecta a todas las criaturas vivientes? Hemos escogido, como objeto de nuestro análisis, en cambio, una dimensión fractal de aquella propuesta, restringida a los vínculos desarrollados en los campos nucleares de la reproducción sociocultural. Nuestro interés es reconocer y analizar las configuraciones de algunos vínculos de parentesco y la ocupación que hace de una región delimitada espacial y temporalmente un conjunto discreto de familias campesinas indígenas. Esto es, los criterios, regularidades y tendencias que exhiben estos conjuntos en sus aspectos más básicos y primarios: aquellos que estructuran, regulan y distribuyen la reproducción social a través de la organización doméstica y las alianzas matrimoniales. Los materiales escogidos para tal tarea provienen de una genealogía reconstruida de conjuntos parentales indígenas rurales del siglo XIX. Nuestra estrategia analítica se basa en el Análisis de Redes de Parentesco y la Teoría de Grafos.