Structuralist Analysis Research Articles

Investigating instructional influence in teachers' social networks

PurposeThis study investigates the reasons teachers seek instructional assistance from their colleagues. By examining both the reasons why teachers seek assistance and considering which reasons for seeking assistance predict shifts in teaching practice, this analysis provides new insights into how schools can leverage teachers' social networks for organizational change.Design/methodology/approachDrawing on interview and survey data from a sample of 52 schools across seven districts in the United States, we first qualitatively explore the reasons teachers seek instructional assistance, based on patterns in teachers' self-reported descriptions of their instructional advice-seeking. Then, we apply hierarchical linear models to predict which individual characteristics and organizational features influence the reasons' teachers seek assistance and which reasons for seeking assistance influence their subsequent shifts in teaching practice.FindingsTeachers' positions in their social networks, their experience levels and their organizational contexts predict the reasons for which they seek instructional assistance. In addition, teachers seeking advice based on perceptions of their peers' experience or resource access predicts positive shifts in teaching practice; however, fewer than half of teachers' instructional-advice seeking ties reported in our sample were motivated by either of these two reasons.Practical implicationsThe findings highlight the potential for school leaders and policymakers to improve teaching practice by making educators' experience and resources more accessible within schools and creating structures that enable collaboration.Originality/valueThis paper addresses a gap in social network literature by moving beyond a structuralist analysis of teachers' collegial networks to investigate teachers' motivations for pursuing advice-seeking ties.

Autenticazione esperienziale di un’opera di Pirandello attraverso processi di decostruzione e ritestualizzazione. Un’analisi comparativa di Sei personaggi in cerca d’autore e Characters in Search of a Country

This article explores the play Sei personaggi in cerca d’autore ( Six characters in search of an author ) by Luigi Pirandello in a parallel analysis with Characters in search of a country , a reinterpretation staged by the New York’s theatre company Kairos Italy Theatre. The two texts have been read taking into account the Decostructionist theories (Derrida 1978, De Man 1979, Culler 1988), considering Deconstruction as a ‘mode of reading’ (Culler 1988, p. 77). Following a preliminary structuralist analysis, it is clear that it is not simple to apply the Structuralist theories to this text because of its innovative nature. Pirandello’s theatre is not meant to be kept within the framework of Structuralism. For this reason Sei personaggi is particularly appropriate for a deconstructive reading and new interpretation, activating a deferment of meaning called “differance”. An example of reinterpretation and recontextualization is, indeed, Characters in search of a country that represents the experience of the six characters within the current context of the migration of a Syrian family escaping war. Starting from a linguistic study of the experience of displacement, discussed in both texts, the focus is the analysis of the words, images and the metaphors used to express the concepts of loss of identity and displacement of the self which, instead, is conveyed not only through language but also through psychological aspects. The study, therefore, shows how the text by Pirandello is suitable not only for a deconstructive process, but also for being proposed in a current context such as the migration.

Sport and the Covid-19 Pandemic: A Structuralist Analysis of Key Themes in the UK Mass Media.

This paper provides a systematic, detailed analysis of UK mass media online reports and narratives on sport and Covid-19 during the main lockdown period over March-May 2020. A “structuralist thematic” approach is utilized to identify and to map systematically the main themes within the mass media. The research is based on reports and narratives on sport-Covid which featured in five leading online UK mass media outlets. The analysis sets out four underpinning statuses or dimensions of sport: the existential, normative, socio-cultural, and political. These dimensions connect directly and, respectively, to four sets of binary opposite media themes on sport during the Covid-19 lockdown: sport as absence/presence, selfish/altruistic, crisis/escape, and threat/solution. Each theme features several types of media report or commentary (which we term “narrative or substantive strands”) on sport-Covid. The paper examines the four binary opposites, and their various types of media report and narrative, in detail. It concludes by discussing the theoretical contributions and substantive findings from the study, and some areas for future research.

Theory, Method and Application Examples of Structuralism Analysis of Appealing Structure of Narrative

Theory, Method and Application Examples of Structuralism Analysis of Appealing Structure of Narrative

A Structuralist Analysis of Wordsworth’s Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood

Romantic imagination is against any fixation of form and rules and regulations but any creative attempt, however anti-rule it may be, must have some underlying principles governing its structure. This article explores Wordsworth's Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood from a structuralist perspective. Structuralism with its roots in Ferdinand de Saussure’s structural view of language sees cultural phenomena and literary endeavors as structured based on the underlying rules governing the writing of the creative work. This article joins two contradictory ideas: Romantic poetry which glorifies the author's subjectivity and structuralism which beliefs in the death of the author. However, this article analyzes the ode from a structuralist perspective and principles of criticism: parallels and echoes, reflections and repetitions, contrasts, and patterns of language and imagery. It also studies the Ode's relationship with the tradition of the genre and its differences from and similarities to other odes.

O Projeto Iguaçu de cooperativismo e a formação do cooperativismo do agronegócio: o caso da Cooperativa Agroindustrial Lar

O objetivo desse estudo foi analisar a influência do Projeto Iguaçu de Cooperativismo na formação/transformação e desenvolvimento da Cooperativa Agroindustrial Lar no Oeste do Paraná. A metodologia utilizada foi a analise interpretativa, crítica, estruturalista das contradições geradas no sistema cooperativista e as estruturas que se formaram a partir das ações do projeto Iguaçu de cooperativismo no território oestino paranaense. Foram realizados estudos exploratórios e entrevistas para entender como se desenvolveu a implantação desse projeto e seus reflexos na territorialização e na formação da COMASIL atual Cooperativa Agroindustrial Lar. Os resultados apontam que a cooperativa em estudo sob a influência direta do Projeto Iguaçu de Cooperativismo, deixou de ser uma cooperativa mercantil para se transformar em uma cooperativa/ empresa/ comercial/ agroindustrial/ integrada e finalmente formando um Complexo Agroindustrial (CAI) no campo. Isso reforça a ideia de que o cooperativismo do agronegócio no Paraná foi pensado para implantação da modernização da agricultura e consequentemente do CAI no campo. Esse estudo é de grande valia pois ajuda a compreender a complexidade do cooperativismo e sua territorializado no Oeste do Paraná. Apesar de suas limitações, a pesquisa é ponto de partida para outros estudos, além de contribuir para a construção de muitas análises.

Two Case Studies of Linguistic Variation in Mishnaic Hebrew

Abstract Mishnaic Hebrew shows considerable linguistic variation, which may be narrowed down to three phases: the original living language, its literary crystallization, and its written and oral transmission. While scholars of Mishnaic Hebrew are well aware of this fact, they generally do not explore it and neglect to utilize tools of variationist linguistics and historical sociolinguistics in order to enhance their understanding of the language and the motivations of its users. This paper calls for a careful integration of variationist and sociolinguistic methods into the research on Mishnaic Hebrew and offers two case studies that demonstrate the advantages of this approach. The first case study con-cerns the distribution of the two feminine singular demonstrative pronouns and , for which I argue for a variationist rather than structuralist analysis. The second case study concerns a metalinguistic discussion in tractate ‘Eruvin of the Babylonian Talmud, which is claimed here to demonstrate the ideological nature of rabbinic litera-ture and its linguistic implications.

Browning upon Arabia: A Moveable East by Hédi A. Jaouad

 Reviews Browning upon Arabia: A Moveable East. By H A. J. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. . xvii+ pp. £.. ISBN ––––. Hédi A. Jaouad’s Browning upon Arabia is concerned with demonstrating that ‘Browning researched extensively the literature, history, philosophy, and culture of the East, especially the “Arab East,” to produce poetry that is sensitive to its Eastern resources and devoted to confirming the interrelation of Northern and Eastern knowledge’ (p. xii). Browning’s exploration of this ‘interrelation’, Jaouad argues, forgoes ‘traditional binaries’, and contributes to the elaboration of ‘a new form of transcendental humanism’ (p. xii). ‘In Browning’s work’, we learn, ‘the North–East dynamic is a dialogue between equal interlocutors, an intercultural, multilingual conversation’ (p. ). e study collects together a series of perceptive close readings , all of which attempt to discern the influence of Eastern culture in Browning’s writing. Viewing the poet’s works through ‘the metaphor of the arabesque’, Jaouad traces diverse intertextual and interlingual relationships and resonances (p. ). Chapters on the poems ‘rough the Metidja’ and ‘Muléykeh’, and the oen neglected plays e Return of the Druses () and Luria (), form the bulk of the book, and represent its most interesting contributions to a developing critical discussion regarding the complexity of Browning’s engagement with cultural and linguistic difference. e Browning that emerges from Jaouad’s discussion, however, seems ‘more interested in finding cultural commonalities rather than differences’ (p. ). Drawing attention to the many ‘shards and traces of Arab wisdom’ in Browning’s work (p. ), Jaouad adroitly connects the poet’s foregrounding of cultural interaction with the development of a ‘new brand of humanism’ (p. ). e study succeeds in drawing attention to a range of intertextual resonances across Browning’s Eastern poems—including an interesting comparison with Disraeli’s fiction—and is particularly impressive in its demonstration of Browning’s interest in Arabic onomastics . Ultimately, Browning upon Arabia is convincing in its central argument that Browning ‘dissociate[s] himself from the prevailing Orientalist mode of his time’ (p. ), constructing texts motivated, Jaouad suggests, by a desire ‘to give voice and visibility to those misrepresented by the triumphalist North’ (p. ). However, while Jaouad provides a thoughtful, impressively researched, and above all useful survey of Browning’s arabesque, he forgoes exploring in detail the relationship between this aspect of the poet’s intellectual life and the rest of his writing. is could have involved exploring further the relation between Victorian ‘arabesque ’ and ‘grotesque’ literary styles, for example; or even between Browning’s Eastern characters and his general use of historical figures and events to make oblique reference to contemporary politics. e study’s focus has, consequently, the unfortunate and clearly unintended effect of isolating ‘Browning upon Arabia’ from his other writing. Moreover, the study’s use of what Jaouad himself calls ‘structuralist analysis’— most obviously in the reading of ‘rough the Metidja’, ‘à la S/Z’—prevents some of the close readings from fully engaging with more recent theoretical discussions MLR, .,   (p. ). e references to the ‘nagging question of identity and nationality’, for example (p. ); or the suggestion that Browning’s ‘polyphonic, arabesque-like’, and multilingual style anticipates aspects of modernist literary practice (p. ), could have received further elaboration with reference to recent work on Victorian literature’s ‘global’ aesthetics, and translational writing more generally. Jaouad’s book will, however, prove a useful resource to students, scholars, and admirers of Browning’s poetry, and indeed to anyone interested in the manifold networks of cultural affiliation and response evidenced by Victorian literature. Its range of reference and scholarship will undoubtedly lead to the satisfaction of Jaouad’s desire to ‘excite further interest in Browning’s life-long fascination with Eastern religion, culture, and literature’ (p. ). B C, O J H Adulthood and Other Fictions: American Literature and the Unmaking of Age. By S E. Oxford: Oxford University Press. . xii+ pp. £. ISBN ––––. Sari Edelstein’s Adulthood and Other Fictions is a refreshing, thought-provoking excavation of age as an o-overlooked political tool that rose to power in nineteenthcentury US culture. Rather than treating age as a stand-alone discourse, Edelstein shows how age has been instrumental in the enforcement of social hierarchies, including race...

Çizgiyi Aşan Kahramanlar: Türk Destanlarında Düşman Yaratma Eylemi Üzerine Bir D

Bu çalışma, Türk dünyası destanları örnekleminde “düşman yaratma” eyleminin kökenlerini tahlil etmeyi ve bu eylemin gerçek dünya ile ilişkisini belirli örnekler üzerinden ortaya koymayı esas almaktadır. Geniş kapsamlı bir inceleme ortaya koymak için, Türk dünyasının farklı bölgelerinden seçilen 30 destan metninden faydalanılmıştır. Tüm örneklere yer vermek mümkün olmadığı için, makale içerisinde düşman yaratma eyleminin tipik örneklerini içeren Oğuz Kağan Destanı, Anadolu sahası Köroğlu Destanı, Kırgızların Manas ve Kocacaş destanları, Başkurtların Koblan Batır Destanı ve Türk dünyasının ortak destanı olarak görülen Dede Korkut Kitabı’ndan örneklere yer verilmiştir. Diğer pek çok çalışmadan farklı olarak bu makalede destanlardaki düşman tipler kendi sergiledikleri eylemlere bağlı olarak değil, kahramanın eylemleri karşısında takındıkları tavırlar üzerinden tasnif edilmiştir. “Klasik düşman”, “mağdur düşman”, “asi düşman” ve “masum/pasif düşman” kategorileri de böylesi bir tasnif girişimi neticesinde ortaya çıkmıştır. Makalede, ayrıca, destan kahramanın neden her zaman olumlu/iyi olarak tasarlandığı hakkında tartışmalar yürütülmüştür. Çünkü böylesi bir kahraman tasarımı halk anlatılarında “düşmanlaştırma” ya da “ötekileştirme”nin ortaya çıkmasının temel sebebidir ve tutarlı bir düşman tasnifi ortaya koyabilmek için kahramanın sorgulanamaz iyiliğinin nedenleri hakkında fikir sahibi olmamız gerekmektedir. Çalışmada temas edilen bu hususların tamamı aslında, klasik çalışmalardan farklı olarak çatışmanın olumsuz/kötü tarafından olaylara bakıldığında nasıl bir tabloyla karşılaşılacağı sorusuna yanıt arama girişimi olarak kabul edilebilir. Daha öz bir ifadeyle, bu makale; “Düşman neden düşmanlık yapar?” sorusuna tutarlı cevaplar verme iddiasındadır. Bu hususlar temelinde oluşturulan bu çalışmayla; Türk destanlarını farklı bir bakış açısıyla inceleyerek bir düşman tasnifi ortaya koymak, çatışma olgusunun temellerini daha iyi anlamak, kurgusal dünya ve gerçek hayattaki çatışmanın kökenleri hakkında özgün görüşler sunmak ve bu iki farklı dünyanın birbiri üzerindeki etkilerini değerlendirmek amaçlanmıştır.

Into the Clearing: Back to the future of constitutive institutional analysis

In the wake of recent scholarly disquiet regarding organizational institutionalism, we argue for a more focused constitutive approach to institutional analysis that concentrates attention on the socio-cultural sources of actors and their behavior. To do so, we suggest that complementarities between world society institutionalism and the institutional logics perspective provide an opportunity to develop a richer, more critical approach to contemporary transformations in economy and society. Building upon nascent empirical directions in world society scholarship, we argue that bridging these theoretical research programs can seed a generative research agenda on the variegated challenges to the established world society order that underpins the liberal capitalist-democracy model. We argue that this should include research on the multiplicity of logics that undergird liberal as well as illiberal beliefs and practices. Foregrounding issues of power and inequality that are grounded in disparate configurations of logics, we suggest that new analytical tools related to the new structuralism and multimodal analysis can help advance the constitutive institutional project for which we advocate.

정교회 모티프로 본 러시아 회화의 공간분할과 기호 분석

정교회 모티프로 본 러시아 회화의 공간분할과 기호 분석

Social imaginaries and the limits of differential meaning

Elaborating on theories of the social imaginary, this contribution addresses the shortcomings of a differential conception of meaning, which is widespread in the social and cultural sciences. After a brief literature review, a preliminary concept of the social imaginary and its sociological relevance will be outlined drawing on the works of Taylor and others. The theoretical argument of this article, the fundamental difference and complementarity between the differential logic of the symbolic and the fuzzy logic of the imaginary, will be developed in a discussion of structuralism and one of its most fervent critics: Castoriadis. The latter developed his account of the social imaginary as a critique of Marxist reductionism, of the structuralist analysis of language and totemism, and of “ensemblistic-identitarian logic” in general. The implications of Castoriadis’ “imaginary significations”—a “magma” of meaning not exhausted by the differential order of signs—will be demonstrated discussing two contemporary sociological theories informed by structuralism as well as poststructuralism: Luhmann’s system theory and the cultural sociology of Alexander and Smith. The social imaginary, as a reservoir of meaning and condition for the emergence of new meanings, not only illuminates the blind spots in these theories, but also has the potential to transform our thinking about culture and society.

Representation of authors’ worldview in selected poems of Mabala, Summons: poems from Tanzania (A genetic structuralism analysis)

This paper examines the worldview of Tanzanian poetry in English. It focuses on selected poems of Mabala (1980) entitled Summons: Poems from Tanzania. The study places the poems under Lucien Goldmann’s genetic structuralism approach and argues against the historical context and discourse of Tanzania between 1960s and 1980’s. Specifically, the study analyses the author’s social and historical conditions influenced the production of the Summons poetry and showcases how the author’s worldview in particular poems in general are creatively explored in the social realities. The exploration of worldview in selected poems congruence the social and historical realities and the Socialism ideology [society’s worldview or global structure]. In other words, the exploration of the worldview in the selected poems confirms the homology of the global structure. The poems construct the ideal values of socialist state that seemed relevant in the post-independence Tanzania. They, in one or another provide the historical account for the building of Socialism ideology. They are about and against the ideology which confuse the vision people have of themselves and of their lives and the friction that failed the implementation of Socialism ideology. The study appropriates dialectic method to achieve the coherence of meaning of the text as a whole (poem structure and global structure).

Art and the Structuralist Perspective

Introducing Structuralism and theories of Claude Lévi-Strauss to American audiences in a 1970 lecture at the Guggenheim Museum, Annette Michelson stresses the importance of the linguistic mode for structuralist analysis and examines the nature and limits of its consequences for art and aesthetics. Structuralist anthropology, the author argues, is fundamentally rationalist in approach, proposing an intelligibility of the universe through the organization of differences into overarching schema; it is the relationship between signs, rather than the nature of the individual signs themselves, that determines meaning. Michelson concludes that while such a method may seem applicable to contemporary art, the radically rational stance of Structuralism inhibits our understanding of it. Rather than serving a semantic function, one that could be elucidated through structural analysis, art informs us of the nature of consciousness itself.

Music and Narrative in the Eighteenth Century: Gluck’s Iphigénie en Aulide as Dramatic Tableau

This article puts forward a new theory for discussing eighteenth-century music as narrative by combining literary theories of narrative with an analytical and historical exploration of the eighteenth-century opera overture. Through a consideration of how the overture to Iphigenie en Aulide prepares spectators for the ensuing drama and through a reconsideration of the role of (often ignored) devices such as musical repetition, this article shows how theories of theatre, drama, and narrative can inform our understanding of how music can be thought of in narrative terms and how eighteenth-century music was able to express a dramatic argument akin to that of a literary narrative. A hermeneutic approach is taken throughout that combines a (structuralist) analysis of the overture with a (poststructuralist) investigation into the overture’s reception history and of eighteenth-century literary and dramatic theory. By proposing that music has a narrative potential, rather than an explicit structural narrative, the article seeks to provide a theoretical bedrock for future studies that place the ‘reader’ or listener as participant.

Migratory Realities: The Interplay of Landscapes in the Guyanese Emigrant’s Reality in Jan Lowe Shinebourne’s The Godmother and Other Stories

Guyana’s high rate of migration has resulted in a sizeable Guyanese diaspora that continues to negotiate the connection with its homeland. Jan Lowe Shinebourne’s The Godmother and Other Stories opens avenues of understanding the experiences of emigrated Guyanese through the lens of transnational migration. Four protagonists, one each from the stories “The Godmother,” “Hopscotch,” “London and New York” and “Rebirth” act as literary case studies in the mechanisms involved in a Guyanese transnational migrant’s experience. Through a structuralist analysis, I show how the use of literary devices such as titles, layers and paradigms facilitate the presentation of the interplay of landscapes in the transnational migrant’s experience. The significance of the story titles is briefly analysed. Then, how memories of the homeland are layered on the landscape of residence and how this interplay stabilises the migrant are examined. Thirdly, how ambivalence can set in after elements from the homeland come into physical contact with the migrant on the landscape of residence, thereby shifting the nostalgic paradigm into an unstable structure, is highlighted. Finally, it is observed that as a result of the paradigm shift, the migrant must then operate on a shifted interplay that can be confounding. Altogether, the text offers an opportunity to explore migratory realities in the Guyanese emigrant’s experience.

МОДЕЛЮВАННЯ ПРОСТОРУ В УКРАЇНСЬКОМУ ДЕТЕКТИВІ ДРУГОЇ ПОЛОВИНИ ХХ СТ.

The relevance of the study is due to the underestimation of the influence of entertainment literature on the formation of ideas about the world in the reader. Therefore, the purpose of the presented article is to demonstrate how the spatial structures of the Soviet detective determine the creation of values, forming collective strategies. The subject of research is the ratio of the foreign and Soviet spaces, as well as local space and imperial space, which was the Soviet one. The main research method is structuralist analysis, and the interpretation of the results obtained with its help was made in the context of the ideas of postcolonial criticism. It defines the novelty of the study, which is to consider the detective texts of the Soviet period as carriers of not only political ideology but also a colonial view. As a result of the research it is found out that modeling of space in the Ukrainian detective story of the 1950s–1980s is defined by a ratio of world and imperial spaces, provided with ethical estimates as well as imperial and local spaces which create the system of knowledge of the world. At the same time, the space of the Ukrainian detective story of this period is significantly narrowed if compared with the detective of the 1920s or the Russian detective of the 1950s–1980s. The described space is often devoid of national features or they are not focused. Instead, attention is focused on the achievements of the power: construction of new buildings, re-equipment of old ones, industrial facilities. The “entertaining” text fixed the replicated by mass media narrative of the civilization mission of the Soviet power and its successes. The urban space is usually determined by production and trade, often illegal. And it is the trade that becomes the core of the image of Moscow, the capital of the Union. There is a hidden rejection of the metropolis in its representation as a center of stolen things selling to foreigners. But the image of Kyiv as an averaged “regional center demonstrates colonial mimicry and assimilation strategy. The space mystification, characteristic of texts about crimes with ideological mechanics, destroyed the association of responsibility for them with specific cities. Instead, memory places accentuated the losses incurred in the fight against the external enemy, and raised the emotional value of the Ukrainian SSR within the Union. Thus, the analyzed texts demonstrate unambiguous relations between the world and the empire, and complex relations between the empire and the colony. In the prospect of research it is advisable to compare the image of space in Russian detectives (metropolitan and regional authors), as well as in detectives of other republics and countries of the Warsaw Pact.

Structuralism and Literary Analysis

Structuralism and Literary Analysis

Scholasticism for Instagram: On the Digital Anthropology of Modernity

Applying the general view of theories of systems and social action, the article shows how the images and patterns of the digital world revolve around the idea of an individualized subject. Embodying the idea of a unique “self ” - the basis of our cultural model of personality - paradoxically requires replicating, selecting and reproducing the atomistic images of the virtual world. This is a cultural model as well as a psychological one: it is manifested in institutionalized practices, has symbolic structure, imagery, ideology and is entrenched in praxis. However, the logic of operating with the alienated and integrated, replicated and authentic, external and internal - when the source of internal vital forces is assigned from the outside - directs us to anthropology, which reveals a similar pattern in a wide range of ethnographic material. The author therefore favors anthropological models over a more conventional structuralist analysis. The article shows how the basic cultural model of the Western concept of the self is manifested in the modern practice of replicating the virtual. Therefore a contradictio in contrarium is exposed through an illustrative sociological description of the way an impersonal system of social action produces its own environment and structures behavior inside and outside of the online communication as a positive feedback mechanism. However, if an authentic subject is composed entirely of replicated elements, then what position does the subject occupy in it? No answer to the question is available from inside the schema. The author’s solution is that the implementation of the schema itself through a system of actions embodies the basic concepts for locating the source of individual uniqueness outside of the subject itself. Hence, copying and replicating is the logical embodiment of our model of the self, and not at all a dissolution into the virtual and replacement of the authentic version by a digital one.

Pemikiran Majelis Zikir Hasan Ma’shum tentang Tasawuf dan Responsnya terhadap Dunia Postmodern

The article attempts to describe the thought of Hasan Ma’shum’s followers on Sufism along with their responses to the Postmodern world. Employing Bourdieu’s genetic structuralism analysis theory, the author creates a frame work analysis to reveal the phenomenon. This is a part of critical theories in Sociology which has been developed to overcome the problem of dichotomy between individual and society, agent and social structure, and freedom vis a vis determinism. The study finds that the followers of him are able to wisely respond to the Postmodern culture, which massively spread and unstoppably influence many aspects of social realms, without necessarily overreact and behave radically. Cultural capital, which shapes Hasan’s thought and views as the agent of sufism, has been a sort of habituation of their life to live as homo socious (social beings) and religious community. The cultural capital has generated a habitus within their selves and enabled them to gain knowledge of Sufism, and at the same time led them to wisely respond to the Postmodern reality.