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Freedom and Democracy: Sundanese as Cultural Capital

Freedom and Democracy: Sundanese as Cultural Capital escrito por Dini Harmita    Abstract   This paper is written for revisiting my bachelor thesis I wrote in 2005 about Sundanese women in poverty. The thesis itself was called a doctoral thesis during a VIVA by at least one of the examiners. I wrote in its conclusion that in order to conquer the universe we don’t need to accumulate capitals as suggested by Bourdieu in his Forms of Capitals. I mentioned that it’s implied also to other cultural capitals, not only Sundanese. I didn’t explain why but my theoretical and research result framework indicates it. Because a human being no matter in which culture we are born we are the results of interactions between systems. In freedom and democracy where stability is essential the interactions become important even more.    Key words:  Freedom, Democracy, Sundanese, Cultural Capital, Poverty    I.  The Interactions Between Systems and Capitals  ...

Freedom and Democracy: The Sociology of the Sociology and the Political Science of the Political Science

Freedom and Democracy: The Sociology of the Sociology and the Political Science of the Political Science escrito por Dini Harmita    Abstract   This paper is aimed at summarising freedom and democracy through inequalities both sociologically and institutionally. Sociology tends to study something micro and meso like changes and political sciences tend to learn something as macro as systems. Nonetheless, since both are social sciences there are nexus and nodes that become niches for us to reflect on. Through the summary it’s concluded that inequality can be a perfect reason for entities to gain freedom in democracy.    Key words:  Freedom, Democracy, Sociology, Political Science, Inequalities      Taking Off    This paper is written as part of the series of revisiting the author’s bachelor thesis on social capital of Sundanese women in poverty. The author used several theories and cases including from Sociology and Political Science...

Cultures in Freedom and Democracy: From Napoleon to Ocean Sunfish

Cultures in Freedom and Democracy: From Napoleon to Ocean Sunfish   escrito por Dini Harmita   Napoleon Fish and Ocean Sunfish   Who would have thought that napoleon fish is so huge and ocean sunfish is so ugly in real life. Who would have thought that freedom and democracy are so dreamed of yet so difficult to achieve. It’s in the way we see things that tends to determine our perspectives. Arts are indeed the true daughter of sciences, nonetheless cultures are not only about arts. This essay is written to understand cultures within freedom and democracy with different perspectives. The methodology used to write this essay is pure literature review.   Gross and Wilson (2020)  discussed cultural democracy with cultural capabilities where we could reproduce knowledge. Like  Bourdieu (1986)  defined cultural capital as institutionalised in the forms of education. Since sciences are institutionalised in the forms of education and knowledge constitutes per...

Bioluminescence of Freedom and Democracy in Asia and Europe through the Lenses of Behavioural Science and Policy

Bioluminescence of Freedom and Democracy in Asia and Europe through the Lenses of Behavioural Science and Policy   escrito por Dini Harmita   Abstract   This paper is aimed at summarising the behavioural sciences and policies related to freedom and democracy in Asia and Europe. One of the missing linkages that moderates related courses and discourses is behavioural routinisation. This explains what we eat and read today shapes our future. In freedom and democracy it is crucial in the sense of cognitive, affective, and psychomotoric stability of related institutions is represented through the behavioural routinisation. One of the essential institutions in representative democracy that is primarily characterised with the electoral system is political parties. In deliberative democracy policy is the key difference. The ability of governing political parties to interpret sciences and their promises into policy is going to be analysed in this essay. Europe and Asia have certa...