Kultūra ir visuomenė: socialinių tyrimų žurnalas 2014, nr. 5(3)

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Ko nereikėjo daryti tarpukariu ir kas šiuolaikinėje Lietuvoje padaryta teisingai : [recenzija]
review article
Leonavičius, Vylius
Kultūra ir visuomenė : socialinių tyrimų žurnalas = Culture and society : journal of social research. Kaunas : Vytauto Didžiojo universiteto leidykla, 2014, nr. 5(3), p. 171-178
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Permąstant socialinę atskirtį ir socialinį kentėjimą
[Rethinking social exclusion and social suffering]
research article
Tereškinas, Artūras
Kultūra ir visuomenė : socialinių tyrimų žurnalas = Culture and society : journal of social research. Kaunas; Vilnius : Vytauto Didžiojo universitetas; Versus aureus leidykla, 2014, nr. 5(3), p. 153-169
The article rethinks the concepts of social exclusion and social suffering by discussing them with regard to the categories of power, normativity, subjective wellbeing, livable life and identities based on trauma and vulnerability. Despite a considerable attention to economic dimension of social exclusion, the terms of subjective welfare and social suffering have also been used to describe immaterial misery and poverty of marginalized social groups. The concept of social exclusion itself has been questioned and doubted because its roots in the ideals of social integration and normalization. However, scholars opposing the use of this concept overlook an immense influence of normativity on the lives of socially excluded individuals for whom an attachment of conventional forms of wellbeing often serves as a survival strategy. The article argues that researchers experience the feelings of precarity, insecurity and hopelessness and can be as vulnerable as their researched social groups and individuals. But these feelings should even more inspire them to rethink the phenomena and processes of participation, belonging, division, cohabitation and (in)justice in societies that they analyze.
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Rizikos konstravimas valdysenos teorijos požiūriu
[Risk construction from the point of view of governmentality theory]
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Leonavičius, Vylius
Kultūra ir visuomenė : socialinių tyrimų žurnalas = Culture and society : journal of social research. Kaunas; Vilnius : Vytauto Didžiojo universitetas; Versus aureus leidykla, 2014, nr. 5(3), p. 141-152
The article focuses on the specific conception of the governmentalization of the state and its relation to the contemporary risk society. In other words, the theory of governmentality could be used to analize the construction of risk in the governing of contemporary society. In this case, the risk is used as a means of governing people or as a way of self-governing. M. Foucault presented and discussed this conception in his writings. In late modernity, with the ideal of the welfare state receding, neoliberal principles and objectives became ascendant; they prompted many to take an interest in M. Foucault’s theory on the history of governmentality and emergence of neoliberalism. According to M. Foucault, the term govermentality deals with the ways people think about governing, different rationalities or mentalities of the government. All various ways of the activities employ different mentalities of the government of conduct entailed in related knowledge. The same activities can be regarded as a different form of practice depending on mentalities that invest it. The conceptions of various risks are a part of such knowledge and social actors interiorize them. The contemporary neoliberal governing or, more precisely, governmentality seeks to find adequate reciprocal communication between governors of risk and interest group. The recognition of risk conception and governing must be visible very clearly as a constructive meaning of the theory of risk governmentality.
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Nematomų sienų apsuptyje: religinių mažumų socialinės atskirties raiška šiuolaikinėje Lietuvoje
[Surrounded by invisible boundaries: the manifestation of social exclusion of religious minorities in contemporary Lithuania]
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Ališauskienė, Milda
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Schröder, Ingo W.
Kultūra ir visuomenė : socialinių tyrimų žurnalas = Culture and society : journal of social research. Kaunas; Vilnius : Vytauto Didžiojo universitetas; Versus aureus leidykla, 2014, nr. 5(3), p. 125-139
The article contributes to the theoretical and empirical discussions about the social exclusion of religious minorities in contemporary Lithuania. It is based on the data of the empirical qualitative research – focus group and semi-structured interviews with members of religious minorities in Lithuania. The theoretical part of the article focuses on the relationship between religion and social exclusion and the features of its manifestation; it discusses Pierre Bourdieu and Antonio Gramsci’s theoretical insights. The analysis of empirical data conducted according to the three levels of societal life – macro, meso and micro – that were reflected in the respondents’ narratives demonstrated that social exclusion of religious minorities is manifested at every level of societal life: religious communities and their members are stigmatized and marginalized and their activities in the public sphere are restricted.
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Alkoholio vartojimo priežastys ir būdai Lietuvoje : žalos ir neformalaus drausminimo aspektai
[Causes and patterns of alcohol consumption in Lithuania : aspects of harm and informal control]
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Tamutienė, Ilona
Kultūra ir visuomenė : socialinių tyrimų žurnalas = Culture and society : journal of social research. Kaunas; Vilnius : Vytauto Didžiojo universitetas; Versus aureus leidykla, 2014, nr. 5(3), p. 109-124
According to the World Health Organization (2014), the amount of alcohol consumed in Lithuania per person is one of the highest in the world. The consumed alcohol amount is associated with the harm to the individual and people surrounding him or her. The article analyzes the relation between causes and patterns of alcohol consumption, the harm of alcohol and the informal control of drinkers. It is based on the data of a quantitative survey of adult residents of Lithuania conducted in 2014 as a part of the Social Exclusion and Social Participation in Transitional Lithuania project (VP1-3.1-SMM-07-K). In total, 1000 respondents were surveyed, 628 of whom indicated that they consumed alcoholic beverages in the last 12 months. Every other individual who consumed alcohol was involved in binge drinking. Men consumed alcohol more frequently than women. Using factor analysis, two types of alcohol consumption were identified: frivolous and dependent. The motives of sociability and alcoholinduced emotions were characteristic of frivolous consumption. The second type of alcohol use defined as dependent that displayed the signs of alcohol addiction and was dominated by the motives of “solving” problems and negative emotions produced by alcohol. Both identified types of alcohol use correlated with the indicators of social harm done by alcohol consumption. In the case of dependent alcohol use, the correlation with the harm to the drinker, particularly among men, was stronger but the correlation with the harm to society was lower. In the case of women, the indicator of the harm to society had a stronger correlation in the instance of dependent alcohol consumption, while in the case of men it correlated more with the frivolous kind of drinking.[...]
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