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TL;DR: The usage of SCTs is instrumentally determined by the interaction between the task and social relationships, and a few particular media and technologies seemed to perform well, however these are influenced by the social aspects.
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TL;DR: The authors argue that the social struggles manifest in critical race theory, queer theory, feminist theory, and various social movements are struggles for recognition, and that the victims of oppression, slavery and torture are not merely seeking visibility and recognition, but they are also seeking witnesses to horrors beyond recognition.
Abstract: Contemporary debates in social theory around issues of multiculturalism have focused on the demand or struggle for recognition by marginalized or oppressed people, groups, and cultures. The work of Charles Taylor and Axel Honneth, in particular, have crystallized issues of multiculturalism and justice around the notion of recognition. In Witnessing: Beyond Recognition, I challenge what has become a fundamental tenet of this trend in debates over multiculturalism, namely, that the social struggles manifest in critical race theory, queer theory, feminist theory, and various social movements are struggles for recognition. Testimonies from the aftermath of the Holocaust and slavery do not merely articulate a demand to be recognized or to be seen. Rather, they witness to pathos beyond recognition. The victims of oppression, slavery, and torture are not merely seeking visibility and recognition, but they are also seeking witnesses to horrors beyond recognition. The demand for recognition manifest in testimonies from those othered by dominant culture is transformed by the accompanying demands for retribution and compassion.
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01 Jan 2001
TL;DR: Fenn and Delaporte as mentioned in this paper discuss the relationship between religion and the Secular view of the individual in the context of the Pentecostal gender paradox and the social process of Secularization.
Abstract: List of Contributors. Acknowledgments. Preface. PART I. CLASSICAL AND CONTEMPORARY THEORY: RECYCLING, CONTINUITY, PROGRESS, OR NEW DEPARTURES?. Editorial Commentary: Religion and the Secular the Sacred and the Profane: The Scope of the Argument. 1. Personal Reflections in the Mirror of Halevy and Weber (David Martin). 2. Salvation, Secularization, and De--moralization (Bryan Wilson). 3. The Pentecostal Gender Paradox: A Cautionary Tale for the Sociology of Religion (Bernice Martin). 4. Feminism and the Sociology of Religion: From Gender--Blindness to Gendered Difference (Linda Woodhead). 5. Melancholia, Utopia, and the Psychoanalysis of Dreams (Donald Capps). 6. Georg Simmel: American Sociology Chooses the Stone the Builders Refused (Victoria Lee Erickson). 7. Transformations of Society and the Sacred in Durkheim's Religious Sociology (Donald A. Nielsen). 8. Classics in the Sociology of Religion: An Ambiguous Legacy (Roger O'Toole). 9. Individualism, the Validation of Faith, and the Social Nature of Religion in Modernity (Daniele Hervieu--Leger). 10. The Origins of Religion (Richard K. Fenn). PART II. CONTEMPORARY TRENDS IN THE RELATION OF RELIGION TO SOCIETY. Editorial Commentary: Whose Problem is it? The Question of Prediction versus Projection. 11. Secularization Extended: From Religious "Myth" to Cultural Commonplace (Nicholas J. Demerath III). 12. Social Movements as Free--floating Religious Phenomena (James A. Beckford). 13. The Social Process of Secularization (Steve Bruce). 14. Patterns of Religion in Western Europe: An Exceptional Case (Grace Davie). 15. The Future of Religious Participation and Belief in Britain and Beyond (Robin Gill). 16. Religion as Diffusion of Values. "Diffused Religion" in the Context of a Dominant Religious Institution: The Italian Case (Roberto Cipriani). 17. Spirituality and Spiritual Practice (Robert Wuthnow). 18. The Renaissance of Community Economic Development Among African--American Churches in the 1990s (Katherine Day). 19. Hell as a Residual Category: Possibilities Excluded from the Social System (Richard K. Fenn and Marianne Delaporte0. PART III. THE SOCIOLOGY OF RELIGION AND RELATED AREAS OF INQUIRY. Editorial Commentary: Looking for the Boundaries of the Field: Social Anthropology, Theology, and Ethnography. 20. Acting Ritually: Evidence from the Social Life of Chinese Rites (Catherine Bell). 21. Moralizing Sermons, Then and Now (Thomas Luckmann). 22. Health, Morality and Sacrifice: The Sociology of Disasters (Douglas J. Davies). 23. Contemporary Social Theory as it Applies to the Understanding of Religion in Cross--Cultural Perspective (Peter Beyer). 24. The Return of Theology: Sociology's Distant Relative (Kieran Flanagan). 25. Epilogue: Toward a Secular View of the Individual (Richard K. Fenn). Index.
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28 Jul 1994
TL;DR: In this paper, the Gendered Division of Labour and Social Reproduction and Socialist Feminist Theory are discussed. But they do not consider the role of women in the division of labour.
Abstract: Introduction. 1. Gender and Modernity: Classical Issues, Contemporary Debates. 2. Rethinking the Gendered Division of Labour. 3. Social Reproduction and Socialist Feminist Theory. 4. Gendered Identities. 5. Gender Politics: Regulation and Resistance. 6. Feminist Theory as Critical Theory. Notes. References. Index.
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