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Changing Meaning (changing + meaning)

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Humanities and Social Sciences100%

Selected Abstracts

Honour and duty at sea, 1660,1815

HISTORICAL RESEARCH, Issue 190 2002
N. A. M. Rodger
This article looks at the changing meaning of the concepts of honour and duty among sea officers over the ,long eighteenth century'. As gentlemen and as fighting men, sea officers felt particularly close to the concept of honour; but as members of a skilled, semi,bourgeois profession which was substantially open to talent, they were seen by others as being on the margins of gentility. The rise of the middle,class virtues of duty and service in public esteem at the end of the century, benefited the sea officers by making their long,standing combination of honour and duty fashionable. [source]

Space, Boundaries, and the Problem of Order: A View from Systems Theory

INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL SOCIOLOGY, Issue 3 2007
Jan Helmig
The idea our global polity is chiefly divided by territorially organized nation-states captures contemporary constellations of power and authority only insufficiently. Through a decoupling of power and the state, political spaces no longer match geographical spaces. Instead of simply acknowledging a challenge to the state, there is the need to rethink the changing meaning of space for political processes. The paper identifies three aspects, a reconceptualization of the spatial assumptions that IR needs to address: the production of space, the constitutive role of boundaries, and the problem of order. With this contribution, we argue that one avenue in understanding the production of space and the following questions of order is by converging systems theory and critical geopolitics. While the latter has already developed a conceptual apparatus to analyze the production of space, the former comes with an encompassing theoretical background, which takes "world society" as the starting point of analysis. In this respect, nation states are understood as a form of internal differentiation of a wider system, namely world society. [source]

Redefining the future: Youthful biographical constructions in the 21st century

NEW DIRECTIONS FOR CHILD & ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT, Issue 113 2006
Carmen Leccardi Full Professor of Cultural Sociology
The author connects the changing meanings of youth in contemporary western societies with the transformations in the representation of the future. The new youthful biographical constructions can be considered a central outcome of these parallel changes: they avoid long-term commitments and structure themselves around the idea of changeability. [source]

The aesthetics of absence: Rebuilding Ground Zero

AMERICAN ETHNOLOGIST, Issue 3 2004
Marita Sturken
ABSTRACT In this article, I examine the narratives and meanings that have been projected onto the space of Ground Zero in New York City since September 11, 2001, how they have been deployed for various political agendas, and how they have informed the ways in which the site will be rebuilt and memorialized. I investigate the changing meanings attributed to the dust and the footprints of the World Trade Center buildings and the debates over architectural designs and the proposed memorial. [source]