The subject of post-modernity has raised interest and also all kinds of criticisms. Concerns relate to politics, market, democracy, communication, traditional social actors, ethnic groups, cultures and multi-culturality, etc. Therefore the scope of the discussion is very broad and demands an academic effort, also an objective and also responsible and critic perspective. Information on Latin-American academic production on the debates about post-modernity provided by this piece aims to be a challenge and an invitation to a responsible criticism. ; El tema de la postmodernidad en América Latina ha despertado interés y, a su vez, reacciones críticas de todo tipo. Las preocupaciones giran en torno a la política, el mercado, la democracia, la comunicación, los actores sociales tradicionales, las etnias, las culturas, la multiculturalidad, etc. Por tanto, el abanico de discusión es amplio y exige esfuerzo investigativo y académico, así como una perspectiva "objetiva", pero responsable y crítica. La información que se da en este escrito sobre la producción académica latinoamericana referente al debate sobre la posmodernidad, busca ser un desafío y una invitación a la crítica responsable.
Il presente lavoro riflette in prospettiva sociologica,sulla riscoperta degli aspetti etici del consumo. I cosiddetti consumi critici, sostenibili e responsabili, che presuppongono un agire sociale dotato di senso, rappresentano una pratica di acquisto tesa al ben-vivere. Il consumo da vicario della produzione -qual' è stato per un lungo periodo- è diventato uno dei principali, se non il principale, punto di snodo della società in cui ci muoviamo. I consum-attori postmoderni, tecnicamente più preparati e in grado di esprimere richieste al mondo della produzione e della distribuzione, sono consapevoli che l'atto di acquisto è diventato uno strumento per esprimere impegno e responsabilità nella sfera pubblica. Tale pratica contribuisce all'affermazione e alla determinazione di nuovi modi di essere e di agire dove confluiscono nuovi valori simbolici legati all'emergere di nuove abitudini di spesa. Partendo da tale ipotesi, la parte empirica del lavoro affronta un'analisi qualitativa prendendo in esame lo sviluppo del farmer's market, il mercato degli agricoltori, forma ed espressione della filiera corta. Si osserva un caso di studio nella Regione Molise allo scopo di comprendere cosa si cela dietro l'atto di acquisto e perché si predilige un atteggiamento alternativo al sistema della grande distribuzione. Il farmer's market è un luogo di convivialità dove è possibile fermarsi, parlare, consumare qualcosa in compagnia. E' un'occasione in cui vengono accorciate le distanze fisiche, economiche e soprattutto sociali, in cui diventa sempre più lontana l'idea della spesa intesa come atto funzionale ed alienante tipico dell'homo consumericus. Concezioni, abitudini e atteggiamenti che propongono il passaggio da un modello di consumi in cui l'elemento fondante è rappresentato dal benessere soggettivo -componente primario della felicità personale anche dal punto di vista identitario ed espressivo - ad un modello in cui i consumi restano fondamentali, ma come ingredienti di una migliore qualità del vivere. La prima parte del lavoro a valenza introduttiva, ripercorre con un excursus sulla letteratura, le teorie dei classici e dei contemporanei del pensiero sociologico, tentando di fornire una definizione di consumatore postmoderno. A questa, seguono i temi della sostenibilità ambientale e responsabilità sociale che mirano ad opporsi alle logiche proprie dello spreco-consumo, radici della crisi ambientale, del degrado e del rischio globale. La questione ecologica diventa, economica e politica, e ancor più una questione sociale, frutto di una nuova logica organizzativa in materia di consumo. La seconda parte affronta la ricerca sul campo riportando tra gli altri, i dati sulle motivazioni alla base di tale pratica di consumo e successivamente esplorando il ruolo del produttore/venditore attraverso l'attribuzione di credibilità che gli viene conferita. Il concetto di comunità, ambito tutt'oggi aperto nel dibattito sociologico, conclude il percorso di ricerca ponendo attenzione alla riscoperta del localismo. ; This thesis focuses on the rediscovery of the ethical aspects of consumption. Principal consumption that is both sustainable and responsible presupposes what Weber termed a rational social action and represents an aspiration to live well. Vicarious consumption - which has existed for a long time – has become one of the principal if not the principal turning point in the society in which we live. Post-modern consumers, technically more prepared and able to express their wishes to the world of production and distribution, are aware that shopping has become an instrument with which to express commitment and responsibility in the public domain. Shopping has contributed to the affirmation and the determination of new ways of being and behaving, which converge with the new symbolic values tied to the emergence of new shopping habits. Using this hypothesis as a starting point, the empirical part of this thesis engages with a qualitative analysis of the development of the farmers' market, the embodiment of a short distribution chain. It examines a case study in the region of Molise, with the aim of understanding what is concealed behind the act of shopping and why there is now a preference for an alternative way of thinking that goes against the model of mass production. The farmers' market is a place of conviviality, where it is possible to stop, talk and consume something in company. It is an occasion in which physical, economic and above all social distances are diminished, where the idea of food shopping as merely an essential and alienating act, typical of the homo consumericus, is remote. Conceptions, habits and attitudes now promote a move away from a model of consumption founded on the principle of subjective well-being – a primary component of personal happiness, even when seen from the point of view of identity and expression – to a model in which consumers remain fundamental, but are now the main players in the quest for a better quality of life. The first part of the thesis, as an introduction, reviews the literature and discusses both classic and contemporary sociological theory, with the aim of producing a definition of the post-modern consumer. This is followed by a discussion of environmental sustainability and social responsibility, two concepts that are set in opposition to the logics of wasteful consumption, something that can be seen at the heart of the global environmental crisis. The ecological debate has become not only economic and political but social; the fruit of a new organisational logic in the field of consumption. The second part of the thesis deals with the field work, presenting amongst other things, data concerning the motivation at the heart of this new model of consumption. This is followed by a detailed exploration of the role of the producer/seller by focusing on the attribution of credibility which has been conferred upon them. A discussion of the concept of community, a concept still wide open in sociological debate, with a particular emphasis on the rediscovery of localism, concludes this research. ; Dottorato di ricerca in Sociologia e Ricerca Sociale (XXIV ciclo)
La elaboración de este trabajo se centra en la revista Zona Erógena editada durante los años 1989 a 2001; la propuesta consiste en rescatar dicha revista como un espacio de debate, reflexión y producción de la mano de una buena cantidad de intelectuales de diversas disciplinas, especialmente la psicología, que se interrogaban acerca del panorama que se estaba gestando en la década del 90 a nivel político, económico y social en una clara avanzada del neoliberalismo sobre Argentina. Dicha revista lanzó 50 números entre sus años de edición, llegando a adquirir verdadera popularidad en el círculo de intelectuales del campo "psi" de la época. Es por ello que se considera esencial la recuperación tanto de los debates que se proponían como de los temas sobre los cuales se reflexionaba en ella ; The preparation of this work focuses on the magazine Erogenous Zone edited during the years 1989 to 2001, the proposal consists in rescuing the magazine as a space for debate, reflection and production by the hand of a good number of intellectuals from various disciplines, especially psychology, who were questioning about the panorama that was brewing in the 90s at the political, economic and social level in a clear advance of neoliberalism about Argentina. This magazine launched 50 issues between its years of edition, reaching true popularity in the circle of intellectuals of the field "psi" of the time. That is why it is considered essential to recover both the proposed debates and the issues on which it was reflected. ; Facultad de Psicología
El mismo mar de todos los veranos is one of the most significant texts of the Spanish postmodern novel. Throughout the novel, Esther Tusquets proposes a representation of the new and complex conscience, which results in a text that is difficult to read. … first a pragmatic approximation of the text and second, a semantic one. This analysis will serve to test the borders between modern and postmodern narratives in what we can call a novel of the Spanish transition to democracy that was produced at the end of the 70´s and the beginning of the 80´s, and will also interpret the representation of the conscience proposed by Tusquets under the consideation of the schizophrenic conscience formulated by Deleuze and Guattari in the book Capitalismo et schizophénie. L'Anti-Œdipe. ; El mismo mar de todos los veranos es uno de los textos señeros de la producción novelística postmoderna española. A lo largo de la novela, Esther Tusquets propone una representación de la conciencia novedosa y compleja, que resulta en un texto de muy difícil lectura. En este artículo me interrogo sobre las características de la representación de la conciencia en esta novela. El análisis de la obra es doble: a partir, primero, de un acercamiento pragmático al texto y, segundo, de un acercamiento semántico. Este análisis servirá a su vez para sondear las fronteras entre la modernidad y la postmodernidad narrativas en lo que podemos denominar novela de la transición española a la democracia que se produjo a finales de los 70 y principios de los 80, e interpretará la representación de la conciencia propuesta por Tusquets a la luz del concepto de conciencia esquizofrénica, formulado por Deleuze y Guattari en su libro Capitalismo et schizophénie. L'Anti-Œdipe.
ARTICLE EXAMINES 3 ASPECTS OF CONTINUITY AND CHANGE IN JAPAN SINCE 1945: THE ROLE OF THE EMPEROR IN JAPANESE POLITICAL LIFE; THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE INDIVIDUAL AND THE GROUP IN JAPANESE SOCIAL STRUCTURE; AND THE NATURE OF POST-WAR JAPANESE NATIONALISM. THE UNDERLYING THEME IS THAT THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TRADITION AND MODERNITY IS ONE OF CONTINUING INTERACTION, AND ONE THAT CAN BE STABILIZING.
Modernity in the West had, among other things, the effect of encouraging people to distance themselves, especially from the more cultivated classes, from ecclesiastical structures, at first, and then from the Christian religion itself. This distancing had incidence on individualism, which also led to a modern vision of man and society. This paper discusses the main philosophical, political and cultural motives that directly influenced, especially after the French Revolution, the accelerated process of secularization. This process led to the skeptical and post-metaphysical attitude of the post-modernity of the 20th century. Unlike previous ones, it was a century in which atheism was not an attitude of few individuals among the intellectuals but it spread also to large groups of citizens. However, since the last two decades of the 20th century and the first decades of the 21st, some changes can be perceived that could indicate a return of interest towards religion in the West.
Abstract This paper aims to demonstrate how the post-modern narratives contributed to the formulation of distortions in the paradigm of efficiency and democracy. Regarding the methodology, the deductive method was applied, with bibliographic analysis, studying the theoretical context of post-modernity, to understand its consequences. We conclude that democracy must rescue constitutionalism as a basis for legitimacy, removing the demand for efficiency in this role, under consequence of weakening democracy itself. Therefore, the innovation of the text lies in establishing the systematization and correlation between postmodernity, efficiency and deliberative democracy.
In the context of Cardinal Wyszyński's personalistic concept, a man understood as a spiritual, as well as corporal being, created by God in His image and likeness, endowed with human dignity from the moment of conception, the subject of rights and duties appears as the focus of the Christian perception of culture. The analysis of contemporary cultural reality, then, carried out in the above article in the light of the Christian tradition allows us to express the discussed issues in terms of a vocation addressed to every human being. Its position to the realities of earthly life emphasizes that in the creative activity of culture, one should see the most appropriate way of realizing the fullness of the human personality not only in the temporal dimension but also in the supernatural one. Moreover, emphasizing such elements as the human person, family, Nation, state, the international community, culture, economy, and politics understood in an integral way, as well as the Church proclaiming the universal message of salvation, the Primate's vision of culture exposes a praxeological character, rooted in particular human existence. It allows not only the direct inclusion of the human person in the current of civilization and cultural changes but also consents the human being to discover the right place in the dynamically changing contexts of the contemporary world. ; Celem powyższego artykułu jest ukazanie chrześcijańskiej tradycji wiary wpisanej we współczesną(post)modernistyczną rzeczywistość kulturową z perspektywy personalistycznej koncepcji kard. Wyszyńskiego. Przeprowadzona w powyższym artykule analiza współczesnej rzeczywistości kulturowej z perspektywy prymasowskiej wizji zaangażowania chrześcijan w kulturę pozwala wyrazić omawianą problematykę w kategoriach powołania skierowanego do każdego człowieka. Usytuowanie jej w odniesieniu do realiów życia doczesnego podkreśla, że w twórczej aktywności na rzecz kultury należy widzieć właściwy sposób realizacji pełni osobowości człowieka nie tylko w wymiarze doczesnym, ale także nadprzyrodzonym.Dzięki uwypukleniu takich elementów, jak: osoba ludzka, rodzina, naród, państwo, społeczność międzynarodowa, integralnie rozumiana kultura, ekonomia i polityka, a także Kościół głoszący powszechne orędzie zbawienia, personalistyczna wizja kultury wykazuje charakter prakseologiczny, zakorzeniony w konkretnej ludzkiej egzystencji i ukierunkowany na wymiar stwórczo-zbawczy. Umożliwia to nie tylko bezpośrednie włączenie się osoby ludzkiej w nurt zachodzących przemian cywilizacyjno-kulturowych, ale równocześnie pozwala człowiekowi odkryć właściwe miejsce w dynamicznie zmieniających się realiachwspółczesnego świata.
The concept of post-democracy, proposed by Colin Crouch, has achieved great success in political and sociological studies. However, the transformation processes undergone by democracy, especially in Europe, have significantly changed the scenario since the central part of the twentieth century. In this situation, the question that arises is whether the concept of post-democracy is still adequate or if it needs to be redefined. Therefore, if democratic processes have evolved technologically, the overall functioning of government systems seems to trace back ancient ways: the technocracy, the elitism of participation, the growth of political proposals which, recalling Max Weber, seem to become less legal and rational than charismatic. In this paper we will try to understand if democracy in Western world is really going through a time of crisis, and if post-democracy is still today adequate to describe it
