{"title":"The Construction of National(ist) Subject: Applying the Ideals of Louis Althusser and Michel Foucault to Nationalism","authors":"I. Zaķe","doi":"10.17161/STR.1808.5195","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17161/STR.1808.5195","url":null,"abstract":"The article proposes a theoretical approach that analyzes nationalist ideologies as forces creating unique subjectivities. Such a perspective develops from combining Louis Althusser's ideas about ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses with Michel Foucault's insights on modern bio-power. It is suggested that the core of any nationalism is its political construction of subjective consciousness and body. With illustrations from mainly European nationalisms, it is reflected that there is a recognizable set of methods that most nationalist ideologies use to form their subjects. They construct, on the one hand, national consciousness by inventing national history, language and culture, and, on the other, national body using modern scientific knowledge about individuals and populations. In the end, the article suggests a new definition of nationalism that could be used in future empirical research.","PeriodicalId":338053,"journal":{"name":"Social thought & research","volume":"81 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133484768","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Theorizing September 11: Social Theory, History, and Globalization","authors":"D. Kellner","doi":"10.17161/STR.1808.5194","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17161/STR.1808.5194","url":null,"abstract":"Dans cet article, l'A fait part de ses reflexions sur les evenements du 11 septembre 2001. L'A remet en question les theories sociales dominantes, et analyse les conditions historiques et politiques qui ont amene a de nouvelles guerres terroristes. L'A evoque les differentes administrations americaines qui ont oeuvre dans l'histoire contemporaine de l'Afghanistan pour s'interroger sur la notion de mondialisation et les possibles consequences democratiques et anti-militaristes de la lutte contre la ligne politique de l'administration Bush","PeriodicalId":338053,"journal":{"name":"Social thought & research","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114760282","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Finding fairness in U.S. family law","authors":"G. Hill","doi":"10.17161/STR.1808.5199","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17161/STR.1808.5199","url":null,"abstract":"Family law's visions of justice within the family regarding familial property are explored in terms of communal, equalitarian and equitable principles. Communal principles emphasize the family unit and implicitly assumes individuals' cooperation and common interests. Equality confers identical rights; family members share and share alike in family property. Equity underlies rules making entitlements dependent upon contributions, such as requiring proof of individuals' efforts toward acquiring family property. In recent years, equality and equity have found greater expression as family law increasingly addresses individual rights, yet communal notions persist, so that the three principles mix and fuse in family law","PeriodicalId":338053,"journal":{"name":"Social thought & research","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133029058","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Powder, Pomp, Power: Toward a Typology and Genealogy of Effeminacies","authors":"P. Hennen","doi":"10.17161/STR.1808.5177","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17161/STR.1808.5177","url":null,"abstract":"An analysis of some of the varying historical and cross-cultural meanings of effeminacy and their relationship to hegemonic masculinity provides a unique perspective on the social construction of the sex/gender system currently operating in most industrialized societies of the West. In this paper I present a brief review of the historical uses of effeminacy in Europe and the US and develop a five point typology. My survey reveals a plethora of meanings, linking effeminacy alternately with deficient citizenship, a general lack of sexual restraint, excessive heterosexual behavior, exclusive connection with passive homosexual activity, and finally as an incorrigible proposition that utilizes a naturalistic narrative to link it with homosexual orientation regardless of sexual role. I then employ the typology introduced here to expand and augment an argument advanced by Randolph Trumbach to explain the emergence of the strong cultural link between effeminacy and homosexuality during the 18 th œntury","PeriodicalId":338053,"journal":{"name":"Social thought & research","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132814194","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Understanding men: Gender sociology and the new international research on masculinities","authors":"R. Connell","doi":"10.17161/STR.1808.5186","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17161/STR.1808.5186","url":null,"abstract":"Partant du constat d'un nombre croissant d'etudes sur les problemes lies a la masculinite, l'A. en degage quelques thematiques recurrentes parmi lesquelles : la multiplicite des masculinites ; les questions de hierarchie et d'hegemonie ; les masculinites collectives. Quelques reflexions critiques et de nouveaux axes de recherches completent cette analyse","PeriodicalId":338053,"journal":{"name":"Social thought & research","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121193590","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Patterns in Family Policy Preferences in the European Union","authors":"April A. Brayfield, Marina A. Alder, Ye Luo","doi":"10.17161/STR.1808.5189","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17161/STR.1808.5189","url":null,"abstract":"This study empirically examines the relationship between national context and individual preferences for national policy priorities related to improving family life within the European Union. Using data from the Eurobarometer survey, logistic regression models indicate that public opinion about nine potential priorities (housing, economic prospects, education, flexible work hours, childcare, tax advantages, child allowances, parental leave, and contraception) parallels an ideological subscription to traditional gender roles, the level of economic prosperity, and the degree and type of state support for families with children. We also field that women are more concerned about policies that enhance the reconciliation of work and family, while men are more concerned about policies that support their traditional breadwinner duties","PeriodicalId":338053,"journal":{"name":"Social thought & research","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125370147","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Self-dialogue as a fundamental process of expression","authors":"V. Shaw","doi":"10.17161/STR.1808.5184","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17161/STR.1808.5184","url":null,"abstract":"Self-dialogue involves a constant process of demarcation and interaction between I and me, between the speakable and the unspeakable, and between what is said and what is meant. This paper studies self-dialogue in its main aspects. First, it reviews relevant contributions in the existing literature. Second, it attempts a working definition of self-dialogue. Third, it examines self-dialogue with regard to its main dimensions and processes. Fourth, it identifies rules that guide self-dialogue. Fifth, it looks into practical applications and implications of self-dialogue in life and personal management. The major findings and arguments are: Self-dialogue is a fundamental process of expression; it mediates between self-image and social experience ; it is regulated by ontological limits, cultural norms, and social rules ; and it serves as an adaptive mechanism for self-presentation, identity acquisition, stress management, health maintenance, and personal integration","PeriodicalId":338053,"journal":{"name":"Social thought & research","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129387177","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"THE STRANGER TRANSFORMED: CONCEPTUALZING ON AND OFFLINE STRANGER DISCLOUSURE","authors":"M. Virnoche","doi":"10.17161/STR.1808.5179","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17161/STR.1808.5179","url":null,"abstract":"Disclosures, secrets, and stranger associations have long intrigued social researchers. In this article I consider the transformation of stranger associations with the use of mediated communication. I consider how non-mediated and mediated forms of stranger associations vary based on characteristics such as synchronicity, distance, ease of break, permanency of break, and stranger shopping. In addition, I propose the concept of strange making technologies-those that create for acquaintances and intimates that particular tension between remoteness and distance that Simmel identified as unique to the form of the stranger. Furthermore, I suggest that this strange making quality that is particularly strong in Internet communications has both the potential to deepen and dismantle already established relationships","PeriodicalId":338053,"journal":{"name":"Social thought & research","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116156719","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Characterizing Gender and Race in the 2000 Summer Olympics: NBC's Coverage of Maurice Greene,MichaelJohnson, Marion Jones, and Cathy Freeman","authors":"David Mayeda","doi":"10.17161/STR.1808.5183","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17161/STR.1808.5183","url":null,"abstract":"Media representations of African Americans and indigenous peoples tend to follow stereotypical notions of both gender and race. Because African American and indigenous peoples are gendered and racialized simultaneously by media forces, this study examines how the television network, NBC, managed portrayals of three (3) celebrated African American athletes and one (1) Aboriginal athlete in Sydney's 2000 Olympic Games. Specifically, the study investigates media descriptions of Maurice Green, Michael Johnson, Marion Jones, and Cathy Freeman. Findings reveal that media presentations of African American men attempt to moderate threatening imagery out of sport while also promoting nationalism, and (for Greene) amplifying threatening imagery in sport. Both African American and Aboriginal women are feminized, and political activism carried out by Aboriginal athletes is heavily mitigated by liberal pursuits of multiculturalism, as well as feminized commentary","PeriodicalId":338053,"journal":{"name":"Social thought & research","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125067847","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Godly Masculinities: Gender Discourse Among the Promise Keepers","authors":"J. Bartkowski","doi":"10.17161/STR.1808.5181","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17161/STR.1808.5181","url":null,"abstract":"At tlxpeak of its prominence, the Promise Keepers had attracted criticism from many quarters. Morerecently, this evangelical men's movement has struggled to retain the visibility it once enjoyed. Using insights from cul tural theory, 1 analyze a select sample of best-selling men s manuals representingmrious advice genres within this movement larguethatPK gender discourses have given rise tofour evangelical archetypes of godly manioood: the Rational Patriarch (traditional masculinity), the Expres sive Egalitarian (men's liberationism), the Tender Warrior (poeticized manhood), and the Multicultural Man (interracial masculinity) 1 explore howPK luminaries utilize two rlxtorical devices—discursive tackingand gendered metaphors—to manage the tensions and contradictions thatsur facewithinandamongthesediscourses. ThesearchetypesenablethePromise Keepers to define themselves with reference to othernewsocial movements. Multiple depictions of godly manhood contributed to therapid riseofthis evangelicalmen'srnavementduringthel990s,andmaybeonesourceofits mcentdedine.","PeriodicalId":338053,"journal":{"name":"Social thought & research","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131316378","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}