The article incorporates the ideas of French sociologist, Alain Touraine, and his philosophy regarding social subjectivity and the self and its pivotal influence on modern life. The author stresses the dramatic impact of psychotherapy on 20th century thinking and cites numerous examples in painting, literature and philosophy. [Reprinted by permission of Sage Publications and Thesis Eleven Co-op Ltd, copyright 2009.]
The article analyzes the implications of social subjectivity in value orientations of large owners of Ukraine. Social subjectivity of large capital owners due to personal characteristics that were formed in the school years. In the value orientations of large owners declared their own self-awareness that they are the social basis of national sovereignty. Geopolitical orientation of Ukrainian capitalists mainly focused on Ukraine's integration with the European Union.
The article analyzes the lifestyles Ukrainian capitalists. Large owners of Ukraine by the symbolic value of the purchased luxury goods or exclusive services strive to strengthen its social subjectivity. Demonstrative consumption of Ukrainian capitalists is encountering strong resistance from society, because in public opinion is dominated by the notion that money is only way to achieve the vital success.
Este artículo cuestiona filosóficamente, a partir de las tesis de Günther Anders, el uso masivo de las redes sociales y la forma en que configuran la subjetividad y la intersubjetividad, particularmente en cuanto a los efectos cognitivos sobre la verdad, las creencias y la objetividad. El uso intensivo y compulsivo de las redes sociales ha permitido una comunicación casi instantánea y una sociedad presta a la observación y vigilancia de todos los aspectos de la vida cotidiana y de la política; pero, al mismo tiempo, ha impulsado una sociedad de la intrusión, el voyerismo, el juicio moral lapidario y el linchamiento público de personajes famosos o de cualquier persona acosada por sus conductas, aunque estas pudieran no ser verdaderas. Manuel Castells observaba en La era de la información (2000), que en nuestra época se ha trastocado el tiempo, se han fundido y confundido lo real y lo virtual, lo público y lo privado, generando nuevos problemas éticos, jurídicos y políticos. Tenemos ahora una subjetividad hipersensibilizada, saturada de información, de verdades y falsedades indistinguibles que complican la comunicación y el sentido compartido de la realidad, así como las responsabilidades y las acciones sociales efectivas para contribuir al bien público. ; This article raises a philosophical questioning, from the thesis of Günther Anders, about the massive use of social networks and the way in which subjectivity and intersubjectivity are configured, particularly in terms of cognitive effects on truth, believes and objectivity. The intensive and compulsive use of social networks, has allowed almost instantaneous communication and has provided to the society observation and vigilance of all aspects of everyday life and politics; but at the same time, they have propelled a society of intrusion, voyeurism, the moral judgment of the stoning and public lynching of famous people or anyone harassed by their behaviors, even if they might not be true. Manuel Castells observed, in La era de la información (2000), that in our translocated time the real and the virtual, the public and the private have been fused and confused, generating new ethical, legal, and political problems. We have now a hypersensitized subjectivity, saturated with information, indistinguishable truths and falsehoods that complicate communication and shared sense of reality, as well as the responsibilities and effective social actions to contribute to the public good. ; Filosofía
The deficiencies of objectivity & detachment in the social sciences are identified in relation to the desirability of subjective & ethically motivated forms of knowledge & research. Drawing on the theory of Max Weber, traditional science is depicted as detached observation that seeks objectivity through the absence of cognitive, moral, or emotional judgment. This goal is deemed both impossible & misleading as social analysts can never completely distance themselves from the objects of analysis, & recognition of the emotional, moral, & subjective dimensions of research can in fact facilitate understanding. Individuals must be seen as a conglomeration of multiple & often contradictory identities & communities, a process inhibited by the traditional scientific method. It is concluded that social analysts synthesize their work with localized & context-specific conceptions of social justice, transformative action, human dignity, & equality. T. Sevier
PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to foreground social relations and inter‐connections as important components in a conceptualisation of social structure. The paper argues that the seeming disconnection between the normative and the social structural is a problem of explanation rather than a novel feature of contemporary social life.Design/methodology/approachData are used from extended interviews conducted on two areas, concerning ethnicity and belonging, and gender, work and care, generated during the ESRC funded "CAVA" project (Research Group for the Study of Care, Values and the Future of Welfare).FindingsIt is argued that more productive analyses of social diversity and social change ensue from better delineating the mutuality of normative and social processes.Originality/valueThrough its cultural turn, sociological research has reaffirmed the importance of normative and evaluative processes in shaping human experience and social life. However, new accounts have faced difficulties in connecting the normative and subjective with social structural processes. This paper confronts that challenge.
Social memory and social creativity are the two processes whereby social systems are reproduced and change without teleology. Social memory, with its ideal features but also its material embodiments, must have the collective dimension brought out, without detriment to the shifting and personalized ways with which individuals deal with it. It provides the patterns for the structuring of social life in the hermeneutic-cognitive and in the material, as well as in the space-time dimension. Social creativity is responsible for the introduction of innovations in daily life and in history. Creativity is to a great extent rooted in the fluid unconscious of individuals, but demands rational thinking to achieve greater impact upon social life. Immersed in undetermined social interactions, individual action is mediated by variably (de)centred collective subjectivities that possess a specific property, namely collective causality. Social creativity thus develops in both the individual and the collective dimensions.
