Pub Date : 2002-02-01DOI: 10.1177/153270860200200109
P. Gill
The film Seven self-consciously explores two methods of discovering and analyzing clues and evidence. These methods work within the film to set up opposing worldviews and work outside the narrative to implicate viewers in the film's interpretive strategies. Seven relies on viewers to situate it in a generic category and plays with its generic status in ways that expand on and undercut viewer expectations. The play with interpretation touches on issues of moral apprehension, personal conviction, and social responsibility. This article examines the anguished pairing of these warring perspectives on a world defined by crime, self-interest, and moral indifference. Seven evinces a longing for a perhaps mythical past in which deep knowledge and thorough analysis of events were privileged over the pragmatic moral shorthand of contemporary modern culture. As it investigates the principal traits of the three protagonists—the spirited convictions of David Mills, the comprehensive despair of William Somerset, and the moral compunction of John Doe—Seven exposes their frightening kinship, demonstrating moral indignation to be a personal obligation and a psychological liability while playing out the ominous pun on criminal apprehension.
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Pub Date : 2002-02-01DOI: 10.1177/153270860200200108
Diana Mincytė
This essay is an autoethnographic attempt to bring together personal experiences, memories, and historical accounts about the Soviet occupation of Lithuania in 1944 and the overthrow of the regime by the nationalist movement in 1990. It weaves together visions, recollections, and stories in search for how such abstract notions as freedom, progress, and democracy intersect with "small lives." Its central concern is to understand why social movements, state institutions, and new technologies grow to reproduce social inequalities and, by doing so, fail in their promise to bring freedom to the general population. This essay arrives at the conclusion that there is no universal definition of liberty nor a single institutional means to free the public. It places the agency in the hands of the individual and argues that freedom as such exists only when we negotiate, search, and believe in the possibility for a better world.
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Pub Date : 2001-11-01DOI: 10.1177/153270860100100404
Dalia Rodriguez
This article is a story about the author’s experiences dealing with her mother who had manic depression for a large part of her life. In the story, the author attempts to have the reader understand the difficulties of dealing with a mentally ill parent; the feelings of guilt, frustration, and fear; as well as the deep sense of loss after her death.
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Pub Date : 2001-11-01DOI: 10.1177/153270860100100402
M. Dillon
Recent years have seen increased emphasis on the autonomy of human agency in creating meaning in everyday life. The institutional bias in sociology, however, and its concomitant emphasis on social reproduction rather than change favors hierarchical approaches to cultural production. This is apparent in the theorizing even of sociologists such as Pierre Bourdieu who emphasize the cultural dynamism of religion and other meaning systems. This article critiques the mechanistic underpinnings of Bourdieu’s perspective on religious production and his categorical differentiation between religious producers and consumers. Using data gathered from American Catholics, the author shows that interpretive autonomy allows them to recast the official discourse of the church hierarchy in ways that advance alternative interpretations. Interpretive autonomy is grounded in the Catholic tradition or habitus and is reflexively used by Catholics both to maintain the vibrancy of the church and expand the possibilities for institutional change.
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Pub Date : 2001-11-01DOI: 10.1177/153270860100100407
Louis F. Mirón, I. Bogotch, G. Biesta
In this interpretative study, the authors analyze the construction of three moral values in the context of inner-city high schools experiencing widespread poverty and racism. These values are trust, respect, and care. The authors demonstrate how the processes of social and discursive construction of morality differentially influence lived moral experiences for African American high school students from similar socioeconomic backgrounds. Differences are largely explained by the articulation of a strong African American tradition (racial-ethnic pride) in the magnet school, “City High.” By contrast, a profound lack of trust and respect for this tradition seems to hinder student voice and the pursuit of “moral equality” and access to quality public schooling in the comparative school, “Neighborhood High.”
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Pub Date : 2001-11-01DOI: 10.1177/153270860100100405
R. Coles
This article examines Clinton’s rhetorical strategy for creating a legacy in light of the imminent end of his second and final term as president. By examining Clinton’s public discourse from 1997 to 1999, with special attention to the period from September 1998 to June 1999, this article argues that Clinton used the frame of his race initiative to centripetally incorporate varied events and policies to redefine and bolster his legacy in the aftermath of scandal and political polarity. Specifically, President Clinton, with an eye on the legacy of the president and the identity of the Democratic Party, gathered the war in Kosovo and the shootings in Littleton, Colorado, along with their attendant disparate policies into one rhetorical frame, thereby supplying a conception of what Clinton’s 6 years as president had been about, a vision and mission for America, and an identity for the Democratic party distinct from the Republicans.
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Pub Date : 2001-11-01DOI: 10.1177/153270860100100401
G. Krug
First “discovered” by Anglo-Americans following the Second World War, karate has undergone a series of changes in the way in which it is presented and taught in the United States and Australia. In the 1990s, the publication of key secret texts, the establishment of a large body of historical information, the rapidly growing acceptance of traditional Chinese medicine, acupuncture, and the establishment of second- and third-generation dojos and instructors in Euro-American cultures have contributed to the demystification of karate and a lessening need for attachments to the people and culture of Okinawa. With these new representations of karate, the art is being remade as a set of Western knowledge and practices. These changes in the representation of karate trace a trajectory that transforms the pragmatic and spiritual characteristics of karate first into a marker of Asianess, then into a myth of origins, and finally into a set of historical and semiscientific practices.
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