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Cognitive Literary Studies (CLS) and theories of collectivity share the question of how actions and meaning making strategies are coordinated and/or standardized between individuals. In our paper we try to sketch some of the ways in which these seemingly very distant disciplines might mutually complement each other. We argue that questions of social interaction and power have been unduly neglected in CLS, whereas theories of collectivity could profit from a stronger focus on the cognitive and mental dynamics of collectives. Among the theoretical concepts we suggest might provide buildingblocks for a bridge between CLS and theories of collectivity are such timehonored ideas like Link's „interdiscursivity" and Bourdieu's „habitus" but also comparatively new ideas like Barsalou's „situated conceptualization" or Roepstorff et al.'s „patterned practices". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper proposes an intersectional, non-identitarian perspective on epistemic violence, taking academic philosophy, and in particular the reinforcement of a philosophical canon, as a case of analysis. Mainstream philosophy has long been reluctant to confront its history of exclusion and the ongoing practices that marginalise some social groups, languages and regions from the legitimised circuits of philosophical knowledge building. The concept of epistemic violence, alongside a range of tools developed in recent years by social epistemology, shed light on the variety and complexity of the practices of epistemic silencing, exclusion and marginalisation that occur in all social interactions, and allow us to assess the specifically epistemic loss that they entail. In recent decades, various initiatives have sought to counteract the exclusion of certain social groups from philosophy, most notably feminist perspectives that aim to highlight some of the contributions made by women to academic philosophical reflection. However, these approaches seem insufficient when we consider the complexity of the phenomenon of epistemic violence and how various factors of social marginalisation intertwine and reinforce each other. An intersectional view shows the inadequacy of taking a single axis without considering how it is co-constituted by other variables that make it internally heterogeneous and hierarchical. It exposes how epistemic violence, but also the and non-intersectional approaches to it, reduce the questions, answers, strategies and narratives that are allowed to flourish in philosophy. Taken together, the concept of epistemic violence and an intersectional perspective reveal how mere »inclusion« is not enough to transform the philosophical canon and enrich the spectrum of perspectives in our discipline. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In the spring of 1974, the directors of four museums in Baden-Württemberg collaborated in writing a position paper on the restitution of cultural objects in accord with UN Resolution 3187, passed in December 1973. This resolution deplored the »wholesale removal, virtually without payment, of objets d'art from one country to another.« The origins of the directors' paper and its argumentation offer insight into their cultural-policy network and provide some indications of their intentions and their views about the colonial past, the history of their museums' collections, and the newly independent countries demanding the return of cultural objects. Ms article examines this early debate on social intercourse with objects from colonial contexts as part of a still relevant and still developing discourse. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The frequent use of biological metaphors in descriptions of society is well known and has already been investigated. Even the traces of biological theory in sociology have been explored. In this field of science, studies of social insects play an important role, because ants, bees, and termites have been considered to be genuinely political animals and founders of societies. Like men, social insects exist only in collectives; thus, the entomologist's research directs him from the individual insect, its morphology and taxonomy to the analysis of insect societies. Entomologists like Wheeler or Wilson become sociologists and develop methods to deal with a society whose members are dumb, soulless, without reason, rational choice, or motives. Tools invented to describe the evolution of insect societies have been picked up by sociological founders of systems theory like Parsons or Luhmann, who were busy building a theory of a society, which for heuristic reasons is not composed of men (individuals with souls, motives, consciousness and so on) but rather of communications, media, or codes. My paper treats 1.) the genealogy of this discursive mixture of problems, methods, and focuses on 2.) the rhetorical dimension of this entomological-sociological passage. I will sketch certain 'evident' pictures of society, which function as media of a subliminal crossing of entomological and sociological premises, models, and assumptions. Both can be found in novels like Wilson's Anthill, which this paper analyzes with respect to the concepts of society implied by them, that is, concepts whose blueprints are based on models of an ant society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Research on East German racism before and after 1990 continues to focus on the experiences of the white majority. This paper focuses on the oral histories of Mozambican and Angolan worker-trainees who came to the German Democratic Republic (GDR) between 1978-1990 to work, live, and love, and those of the mixed-race children who emerged from their relationships to East German women. The racial knowledge pervading social interactions, state interests, and socialist notions of solidarity, limited the ability of the workers to freely live in mixed-race relationships, but never fully determined their experiences. Instead, Mozambican and Angolan worker-trainees exerted some degree of agency, pursued individual agendas, and resisted their racially constructed positions, in part through engaging in mixed-race relationships. While their children experienced racialised stereotypes much earlier in their biographies, they too were able to challenge and resist East German racist knowledge. Their strategies often took them on journeys searching for their Mozambican parent and of challenging close East German family members. Together, the oral histories of both generations before and after 1990 illuminate the complex ways in which racist knowledge operates and bring up new questions and challenges to existing research on racism in (East) Germany. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents an overview of the present-day system of varieties of German with a focus on linguistic usage in the Federal Republic of Germany. The interaction of social and regional factors underlying these varieties is discussed with special reference to the sociosituational conditions determining their existence and use. On the basis of this analysis, the second part of the paper examines three developmental tendencies and the effect they have on a restructuring of the system of varieties: dialect decay, dialect revival, and regionalization of the standard language. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Summary: Although Hermann Paul's Prinzipien has been extensively studied with regards to its modern linguistic ideas and its influence in the history of linguistics, little attention has been paid to its abundant history of edition and reception. By reconstructing the scholarly interactions between Paul and the recipients of the Prinzipien, this paper intends to shed light on some little noticed aspects concerning the evolution of the book through its five editions and its impact. Under the influence of the contemporary discourse, Paul's statements in the Prinzipien were partly fixed, sharpened and weakened. Describing these interactions helps us understand the context in which modern linguistics has emerged. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The paper takes issue with the idea that an alleged need for employees with a high level of social skills is a result of “job enrichment.” Instead, a parallel is drawn between classic Taylorism and the novel “Taylorism of the soul” based on the psychological and social scientific reconstruction of the techniques of social behaviour. These techniques are taught and internalized in an attempt to create the “well-rounded” and emotionally controlled personality which theoreticians and practitioners of human resource management claim is suited to the new world of working. The paper concludes that what is actually needed is the kind of personality which is docile and shallow enough to maximize its productivity in a working world with increasingly totalitarian demands. Simultaneously, the idea that the kind of self-mastery which is available to the privileged among the employed amounts to a kind of self-deception, is rejected as too simplistic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The paper juxtaposes the Simmel’s Philosophy of Money with Audu Wazirin Ɗanduna’s ballad and emphasizes a point of convergence between them. It shows that the import of Wazirin Ɗanduna’s popular ballad, Tsakanin Ɗan’ adam da Kuɗi, is akin to Simmel’s schematic-philosophical analysis of the nature or character of money in modern society and how it affects human interactions or, generally, social life. The paper demonstrates that both Simmel and Wazirin Danduna see money in a modern society as an object facilitating our understanding of social life. Simmel and Wazirin Ɗanduna describe money as being characterized by reification, growing individual freedom, a blasé attitude and impersonal relationships. They envisage money as a means fast becoming an end, which informs the greed and heightened craving for money characteristic of human society today. The paper also argues that poetry as a creative work enables us to appreciate the complexity and dynamics of human society and, therefore, the contributions of poets should not be ignored by social scientists for simply not conforming to empirical rituals.

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The structures and processes that lead to political news reporting in the mass media are crucial for modern democracies. There has been continuous research concerning the interaction between politicians and journalists at both the national and subnational level, but long term comparisons are still lacking. In this paper we aim to compare survey data about the interactions and mutual perceptions of political and media elites from 1988 and 2008. Our goal was to detect changes and consistencies concerning the role models and social cohesion of these elite groups. The study draws on the theoretical concept of political communication cultures, addressing the empirically observable orientations, norms and values of politicians and journalists that guide their interactions. Findings indicate a shift from a rather informal culture of mutual give and take to a rather formal culture of distinct functional responsibilities. While politicians allow proximity to occur, journalists increasingly assert their professional autonomy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper proposes a conceptual framework for the sociology of the senses in which different forms of interaction and communication can be analyzed. The pragmatics of the senses are structured by a) characteristics of the senses as perceptual systems and therefore as an anthropological condition of action, communication and society, b) a pre-reflexive cultural concept of the senses which guide our experience by a five-part, organological and isolationistic pattern which is related to functional conditions of the coordination of behavior and c) a specific part of the interaction order which makes perception mutually expectable. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Emotions today seem to play a fundamental role. In fact, emotions make social interaction between individuals possible and it is thanks to them that communication processes develop and make dynamics of social integration possible. In this paper, emotions are analysed as transformative resources, whose strength appears almost revolutionary for the subject’s ability to act. Despite the widespread processes of individualization in contemporary society, the individual appears to be looking for new ties and new relationships not only in the emotional sphere but also in other contexts which, although elusive and difficult to identify, are crucial for social life. What are the new scenarios in which emotions manifest themselves? What kind of bonds are generated in the practices of social interaction nowadays? It is in this perspective we intend to investigate emotions such as altruism, solidarity, gratitude, empathy induced thanks to the commitment of the Tuscan Voluntary Association Auser Abitare Solidale.

The article discusses emancipation and old media and the mediation of immediacy between oral and networked society. Topics include the role of electronic and digital media replacing other modes of social interaction, face-to-face interaction, and communicative labor. It also mentions that it has also drawn attention to how much human experience continues, in spite of everything, to take place outside the boundaries of electronic or print media.