Search results for "debate"

The Role of Professors in the Formation of Finnish Parliamentary Life: The Struggle between Two Conceptions of Parliament

2017

The Frankfurt Parliament (1848–49) was subsequently dismissively referred to as the “Professors’ Parliament” due to its heavy representation of scholars and the academic style of its lengthy discussions. Professors have played a prominent role in the deliberations and development of other European assemblies, too. This article examines the role of professors in the formation of Finnish parliamentary life. It moreover underlines the close relationship between the academia and national politics in late nineteenth-century Finland, starting from the European revolutions of 1848. The article highlights how politically active professors, together with the newspaper press, were crucial in transfe…

The issue of the secret ballot in the Cambridge and Oxford Union Societies, c.1830–72: an extension of the nineteenth-century parliamentary culture o…

2015

Summary. In this article, debating societies are considered as an inherent part of the formation of a parliamentary culture in Britain. Despite the fact that the nineteenth-century Cambridge and Oxford Union Societies were considered to be ‘training grounds’ for statesmen, their debating practices have not been systematically studied in relation to national politics. This is largely due to the fact that the role of debate has remained understated in studies of parliamentary history, even though it is one of the fundamental political features in the Westminster system. Nineteenth-century parliamentary debate did not just occur for its own sake, rather it had a constitutional and political di…

Dallo studio delle culture indigene a un progetto di analisi critica della modernità. L’antropologia «fatta in» Colombia

2022

Based on a critical assessment of the historiography of Colombian anthropology, the chapter provides a synthesis of the history of anthropology made in Colombia, defined as “that produced in the country and which constitutes an empirical, methodological or conceptual contribution to new anthropological works or debates in Colombia” (Restrepo, Rojas, Saade 2017). The history of Colombian anthropology can be generally divided into three periods. The first goes from 1941 till 1968 and coincides with the birth and the institutional and academic consolidation of the disciplinary field. The second goes from 1968 till 1991: these years are marked by the rise and fall of the season of social and po…

From the Study of Indigenous Cultures to the Critics of Modernity: On Anthropology made in Colombia

2023

Based on a critical assessment of the historiography of Colombian anthropology, the chapter provides a synthesis of the history of anthropology made in Colombia, defined as “that produced in the country and which constitutes an empirical, methodological or conceptual contribution to new anthropological works or debates in Colombia” (Restrepo, Rojas, Saade 2017). The history of Colombian anthropology can be generally divided into three periods. The first goes from 1941 till 1968 and coincides with the birth and the institutional and academic consolidation of the disciplinary field. The second goes from 1968 till 1991: these years are marked by the rise and fall of the season of social and po…

Prospects for Parliamentary Government in an Era of War and Revolution: Britain and Germany in Spring 1917

2014

Arguments and counter-arguments in the debate to decriminalize some forms of incestuous relations in Poland

2018

This study explores argumentation and counter-argumentation patterns emerging from a corpus of readers’ comments found below-the-line of over twenty-five online articles on the subject of incest, the current legal sanctions against it and the possibility to decriminalize consensual incestuous relations between adults in Poland. The comments have been coded line-byline for the types of positioning and argument premises using Atlas.ti software. Using the framework for argument analysis according to underlying premises, the comments were analyzed with respect to stance taken, practical reasoning conducted, and salient rhetorical strategies applied. They are subsequently correlated with the dis…

Keep Calm in Heated Debates: How People Perceive Different Styles of Discourse in a Scientific Debate

2021

Scientific debates are, in an epistemological sense, argumentative approaches aimed at coming to the most appropriate conclusion. However, as these debates sometimes involve interpersonal rather than content-driven attacks (e.g., an argument between scientific experts might involve personal dislike), the following question arises: How do such communication behaviors affect people’s perception of the argument? In an empirical study, we presented prospective teachers (N = 222) with a newspaper article about two scientific experts controversially discussing the pros and cons of a fictional vocabulary training program. Using a 1 × 2 between-subject design, the article contained either a neutral…

Latviešu un vācu politiskie televīzijas debašu šovi. Salīdzinājums un diskursa analīze

2015

Bakalaura darba nosaukums ir Latviešu un vācu politiskie televīzijas debašu šovi.Salīdzinājums un diskursa analīze. Darba autore ir Māra Kairiša, darba vadītājs Dr. phil.Thomas Taterka. Bakalaura darbā tiek pētīti televīzijas politiskie sarunu šovi, kas ir informatīvi, izklaidējoši un ekonomiski raidījumi, kuros publiski, diskusiju veidā, tiek apspriestas dažādas sabiedrībā aktuālas politiska rakstura tēmas. Šajā bakalaura darbā atspoguļota šo šovu attīstības vēsture, empīriski un ar diskursa analīzes palīdzību pētīti Latvijas un Vācijas politiskie televīzijas debašu šovi, viens no tiem Latvijā raidīts šovs Dombura Studija, otrs Maybrit Illner, kas tiek raidīts Vācijā. Darba mērķis ir atspo…

„Demokracja in Progress”. Działalność Ministerstwa Spraw Zagranicznych na rzecz wzmacniania społeczeństwa obywatelskiego w Polsce

2016

Dyplomacja towarzyszy ludzkości od zarania dziejów i, podobnie jak polityka zagraniczna (z którą jest nieodłącznie kojarzona), podlega zmianom, adaptując się do zmienionych warunków środowiska międzynarodowego. Współczesny świat, który cechuje się znacznym stopniem skomplikowania, rosnącą liczebnością i różnorodnością aktorów międzynarodowych oraz sieciowością powiązań, tworzy zarówno dla polityki zagranicznej, jak i samej dyplomacji zupełnie nowe, nieznane dotąd wyzwania. Dzisiaj miarą ich efektywności jest stopień, w jakim odpowiedzialne za nie podmioty adaptują do swoich działań zasady dyplomacji publicznej. Ta ostatnia upodmiotowiła na arenie międzynarodowej niepaństwowych aktorów, nada…

Discursos sobre las mujeres en la cultura de la Ilustración: conexiones europeas y peculiaridades hispánicas

1996

La Ilustración representó en muchos sentidos un periodo de quiebra de las estructuras del pensamiento tradicional y de liberación de posibilidades críticas en la concepción de las relaciones sociales y las identidades individuales. Una de las vertientes de la sociedad y la cultura que acusó el cambio fue la representación de las relaciones entre los sexos y las identidades masculinas y femeninas.