Shifting Paradigms in Public Health

Yadavendu, Vijay Kumar

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“…Так или иначе, на протяжении XX века шла определённая борьба между этими подходами, причём в социологии преобладал холизм, а в экономической науке -индивидуализм [Yadavendu 2013]. Эта борьба привела к тому, что сейчас многие учёные считают, что эти подходы равноправны и могут применяться для различных исследований по соображениям удобства.…”

Section: методологический индивидуализм и методологический социологиз...unclassified

Ideomaterial Polysystems and Politics

Sukharev¹

2023

Политическая Концептология: Журнал Метадисциплинарных Исследований

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The article proposes a theoretical concept of social ideomaterial polysystems (SMPS), considers its applications in the field of political science. The highest type of SMPS are civilizations, the most complex systems in the universe. IMPS is a complex of ideomaterial systems (IMS). SMPS are holistic sociocultural systems that make up a developed society. A feature of such systems is that some of the elements of these systems are material, and some are ideal, many of them do not have clear boundaries, the strength of interactions in these systems and between them varies from weak and unstable to strong and constant. Ideomaterial systems of people, artifacts and, in some cases, animals and plants form an integrity due to the system of ideas that unites them. It gives meaning to social IMPS, unites the community, determines its behavior and direction of development. IMPS are very diverse: they can be scientific communities in which science brings together scientists, scientific instruments, theory, texts, social institutions, buildings; it can be religions in which faith unites priests, parishioners, temples, sacred texts and attributes, there can be simpler communities, like sports fans, there can be large and small non-profit organizations united by some social goals. The complex of ideas on which these systems are based is of a holistic character. Humans and other material elements also form holistic systems. These systems are necessarily self-reproducing, that is they must reproduce the people who carry the ideas, making them, respectively, scientists, believers, chess players, fans, music lovers, and so on. Each of these people can simultaneously be an element of other ideo-material systems, giving them part of the time of their lives. These systems often have fuzzy boundaries, they are also in a network of regular and sporadic, synergistic and antagonistic interactions with each other. They compete for the time of people, their carriers. A huge number of interacting IMSIs create systems of systems: modern civilizations. For the analysis of complexes and conglomerates formed by ideo-material systems located in a network of fuzzy interactions, the concept of polysystems by I. Even-Zohar was used. The largest ideomaterial polysystems include ethnic groups, nations, states, world religions and global ideologies. Based on a few existing scientific approaches, the central of which is the sociology of knowledge, the general principles of organization and self-reproduction of such unifying systems of ideas are analyzed. As a measure of the power of ideomaterial polysystems, it is proposed to use the total time spent by the communities of these systems to maintain their functioning. Possible directions of application of the concept of ideomaterial polysystems in political research are considered.

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Ideomaterial Polysystems and Politics

Sukharev¹

2023

Политическая Концептология: Журнал Метадисциплинарных Исследований

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“…"Positivism relies on a reductionist view in its search for universal mechanistic rules that are not contextually bounded and seeks to verify hypotheses" (Carpiano and Daley, 2006). Positivists view the individual as an essentially biophysiological and neurophysiological system, a reductionist view (Yadavendu, 2013). An offshoot of the positivist school of thought is methodological individualism (MI) which, "emphasises; homo economicus, based on assumptions of individuality, rationality, self-interest; and the doctrine of spontaneous order"(Roberts and Peters, 2019).…”

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Philosophical foundations of research, and the case of the epistemic well, in a least developed nation.

Chakravartty

2021

Preprint

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Inspired by an ancient tale of kupamanduka (Well Frog) that never ventures out of the well and lives to think the well as the world and see nothing beyond it. This article conceptualises the ‘Epistemic Well’ and the native epistemic community that dwells in it remains within the confines of the epistemic well. Philosophical foundations are the core of each individual researcher and all research questions, hypothesis, methodologies, recommendations are shaped by it. Particular modes of governance instil particular modes of philosophies. Under neoliberalism the prevailing philosophical foundations have been identified as, detached, decontextualized, depoliticized, dehistoricized, dissocialized, deproblematized, reductionist/individualist, instrumentalization, separation, marketisation, positivist and objectivist. The combination of these attributes builds the epistemic well. The epistemic well of research is not absolute and is not meant to provide quantification data. The epistemic well is a reflexive tool that can be used to evaluate a research especially for a nation like Nepal. The research funds or the benefits that ensues a researcher are important criteria for research. When thinking of a research topic, the primary determining factor becomes the amount of fund available the gaze of a native researcher can overlook various conditions and processes. The epistemic community that is formed by these researchers maintain and sustain particular epistemes. The NCD’s were selected primarily to stick to a cohort but this does not limit the scope and purpose of the epistemic well.

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“…Good health is underpinned by a series of positive and punitive government and health policies designed to remind all citizens of our responsibility to eat well, exercise regularly, not smoke, not be overweight, and not be poor. [13,65] Such interventions are not in fact celebrating autonomy and as Foucault argued, they are a central tenet of governmentality and are 'technologies of self'. [28,65] Consumers facing multiple intersections of disenfranchisement are seen as forever failing to self-manage and rise to the obligation of good health citizenship.…”

Section: Drawing Primarily On the Work Of Berger And Luckmann26mentioning

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“…[13,65] Such interventions are not in fact celebrating autonomy and as Foucault argued, they are a central tenet of governmentality and are 'technologies of self'. [28,65] Consumers facing multiple intersections of disenfranchisement are seen as forever failing to self-manage and rise to the obligation of good health citizenship.…”

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The social reproduction of difference: Mental illness and the intensive care environment

Corfee¹,

Cox²,

Windsor³

2020

aporia

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This paper uses social constructionism to critically explore the social world of intensive care units, and to consider how the presence of mental health consumers impacts on nursing practice. Following a series of interviews with intensive care nurses, our analysis suggested consumers are disenfranchised through stigma, policing, and inattention to psychosocial needs. We argue that the maintenance of knowledge and power networks are fundamental aspects of reality maintenance in intensive care. The social reproduction of typifi cations among nurses about consumers positioned these patients as disrupting the proper business of intensive care units; a process that we argue is bound up with the imbalanced power relationships. Further, intensive care staff maintain power structures serving intensive care interests, such as physiological rescue and the preservation of biomedical authority. We conclude that the production and reproduction of intensive care nursing knowledge maintains a social-power structure at odds with the needs of consumers.

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Shifting Paradigms in Public Health

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Ideomaterial Polysystems and Politics

Ideomaterial Polysystems and Politics

Philosophical foundations of research, and the case of the epistemic well, in a least developed nation.

The social reproduction of difference: Mental illness and the intensive care environment

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