Cross-Currents: An International Peer-Reviewed Journal on Humanities & Social Sciences
Volume-6 Issue-11
International Harmonization of Human Life and Society
Evgeniy Bryndin
DOI : 10.36344/ccijhss.2020.v06i11.002 | Cross Current Int J Peer Reviewed J Human Soc Sci; 2020, 6(11): 135-137
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Abstract: Development of dialogue of the East and the West can be carried out on the basis of the general values. The general values are values of steady development of all mankind. The mankind can develop only on a way of harmonization of the person and a people. Therefore in development of dialogue of the East and the West in sphere of formation the important role is played with the interdisciplinary formation on harmonization of ability to live of the person and a society. The basic motive power of steady development of a society is the perfect person. The modern arts education should form spiritual sight of the person and direct his on a spiritually and reasonable-true choice. It should give valuable knowledge on determination of harmonious integrity of the person, about a harmonious way of life, about harmonization of ability to live of a society, about the social form of development and an ascension of citizens in a society, about self-organizing and becoming of a harmonious civil society, about ascension of the person and a society in Harmony of the Nature. The valuable interdisciplinary formation will give an impulse to initiatives of the person to development of harmonious ability to live. Development of harmonious ability to live of the person and a civil society is a way to formation of a cultural professional healthy society.
Influence of Different Parenting Styles on Adolescents’ Identity Construction
Shakshi Priya Giri
DOI : 10.36344/ccijhss.2020.v06i11.003 | Cross Current Int J Peer Reviewed J Human Soc Sci; 2020, 6(11): 138-141
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Abstract: Parents have a significant role on adolescent’s way looking for their identity and independence. The successful parents nourish their children with such secure feelings that encourage them to be autonomous going towards their independence. Adolescence is a life period when a person starts to be more oriented inside instead of being psychologically depended upon family, and ideally saying parents wish to help their younger adolescent to develop his identity and let him try different ways to deal with day to day issues, which leads to learn new behavior. In this context the formation of identity and independence are not individual processes but a common and interdependent process where the adolescent and his parent take part. Different parenting styles play different role in identity formation for an adolescent. The present paper attempts to conceptually review the effect of different parenting styles on adolescents’ identity construction and direction for further research.
Do Life Forces Construct Consciousness?: Rethinking Karl Marx’s Theory in Knowledge Economy of Creative Literature
Alfred Ndi
DOI : 10.36344/ccijhss.2020.v06i11.004 | Cross Current Int J Peer Reviewed J Human Soc Sci; 2020, 6(11): 142-154
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Abstract: This paper deployed poststructuralist theory to investigate Marxist historical materialism as a classical paradigm of the knowledge economy. After a probe into the mechanisms of economic determinism in literary narratives, the paper argued that the historicism of knowledge is essentially marked by skepticism in class conflicts and struggles, with alternative models of social democracy and anarchy. The influence of ideas, culture and geography was shown to be even more critical than the basic infrastructure of the economy or technology. Human consciousness drives the progress of technology and social relations of mankind. The transition to socialism did not take place in developed economies as was anticipated but no nation state has attained the status of a communist paradise because they are based on the inefficient infrastructures of state bureaucracies. Particularly poetry has the power to move people emotionally to take actions in unpredictable ways that are inconsistent with rationalist, economic infrastructures. Thus, literature is not merely an economic tool of propaganda for the ruling elites, but it can construct a powerful counter hegemonic order of its own. New issues like rights of people is more critical than the economic model of a nation state. Questions of efficiency and unfalsifiability in the literary narrative can play into the profitability metanarrative of capitalism.
Rethinking the Knowledge Economy of e-Dating in Romance Stories: Hypertexting G. Homans’ Social Exchange Theory
Alfred Ndi
DOI : 10.36344/ccijhss.2020.v06i11.005 | Cross Current Int J Peer Reviewed J Human Soc Sci; 2020, 6(11): 155-171
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Abstract: Millions of single adults use dating websites like eHarmony, Anastasiadate.com, Match.com, Chemistry.com and technologies like the mobile dating app Tinder to seek out online partners. Some daters succeed, but most of them fail in the end and become dissatisfied. The online technology presents with many advantages such as easy access to multitudes of potential dates; however, the problematic is that, as a metanarrative of dating power, ICTs do not function in a virtual vacuum but are constructed by the social experience of people in love and sexuality, for example, in African indigenous and modern societies ǎ la longue durée. The online dating industry often disembeds this social experience from its services and this constitutes, paradoxically, its major flaw. Consequently, the industry is designed narrowly to rationalize romanticism as a scientific algorithm that follows particular rules and regulations instead of proposing the complex character of knowledge about dating to prospective daters and this constitutes a serious menace to its long term sustainability. These technodigital flaws have to do with the paradox of virtual rationalism, lack of commitment in online daters, who do not meet offline; shallowness and fatigue in the mindset of online singles, scamming, lies telling, identity theft and stalking, mismatching from algorithms between singles and so on. Drawing critical insights from the structuralist positionality of George Homans’ social exchange theory and from critiques of romance stories, the paper suggests that, in this age of the knowledge economy, e-dating should become a productive service that minimizes the artificiality of economic rationalism embedded in digital contacts, profile browsing, algorithmic matching, the reading of love by apps and tread lightly on all forms of economic determinism. e-Dating should prioritize tacit knowledge from critical literature narratives that can enable us to suggest new humanistic ...................
