Metafora: Education, Social Sciences and Humanities Journal

The Use of Dugem (game world) Application in Overcoming Learning Loss in Sociology Learning

Anna Rusmiyati — 2023-11-03

The existence of games does not always have a negative impact, when a teacher is able to create innovation and modify a game, what emerges is innovative, creative, and solutive learning. From the application of the Dugem application using Appgeyser, there are several things that we can say here, including, (1) This game is able to restore the enthusiasm and enthusiasm of students learning in Sociology material so that it can minimize the occurrence of learning loss in the implementation of limited PTM, (2) Dugem is able to stimulate students to remember and relearn Sociology material that has been learned, (3) Able to increase literacy, collaboration, and communication between students, (4) Optimizing the use of android smartphones in learning, (5) With the Dugem application can motivate teachers to use information technology and make learning media.
So beautiful and happy even when face-to-face learning is still limited, where teachers and students are able to present fun learning so that the feared learning loss can be handled. Our role as a teacher must be maximized, so strategies, tricks, and packaging learning methods that are fun and not boring are needed to recreate active, creative and innovative learning. One of them is by using the Dugem application in the Sociology subject. The hope is that students will more easily remember and understand the material delivered by the teacher, as well as to help stimulate the brain and senses, as well as train emotional intelligence and social intelligence. When seeing students understand the material we convey, there is a sense of satisfaction for a teacher who has succeeded in presenting learning according to their expectations.

Symbolic Violence in the Organizational Culture of Student Associations at Higher Education in Surabaya

Aza Rifda Khamimiya — 2023-11-03

Violent behavior is still often found in the educational environment, including in higher education. The act of violence by seniors against juniors is one example. This violence has become a culture in the campus environment, one of which is in student association organizations, such as symbolic violence. This study aims to identify the causes of symbolic violence and the forms of symbolic violence practices carried out by the management of student association organizations at the state university in Surabaya. The research method used is descriptive-qualitative with an ethnomethodological approach and uses Bordue's theory of symbolic violence. The subjects in this study were members of the 2021 student association organization. This research location is at one of the tertiary institutions in Surabaya. The data collection is done through in-depth interviews. The results indicate differences in vision and mission brought by student association organizations in their implementation, as well as the forms of symbolic violence that occurred in senior orders and threats to juniors, yelling, and scolding. Meanwhile, according to Bourdue himself, the causes of symbolic violence are habitus, capital, and class. In addition, symbolic violence is divided into censorship in the form of marginalization and intimidation and euphemism in the form of generosity, motivation, and obligations. Overall, the research informants were not aware of this practice of symbolic violence, so as a result, it became a culture within the organization.

Keywords: symbolic violence, seniority, organization

The Effectiveness of Organizational Communication in Improving the Quality of Private Universities in Gorontalo

Jauhar Wahyuni — 2023-11-03

This study aims to prove the existence of communication in organizations, especially in universities that have the effectiveness to change the attitudes and behavior of the academic community in an effort to improve the quality of higher education. Through a quantitative approach using path analysis and the results of questionnaire data processing on 182 respondents from two private universities in Gorontalo Province, namely Universitas Ichsan and Universitas Pohuwato. It can be concluded that communication in the organization has a significant effect on the quality of higher education. Aspects that contribute to organizational communication are aspects of relationships, pleasure, and action. Each aspect of organizational communication has different effects on both organizations. The differences that arise between the two universities are also shown by the differences in the dominant aspects in relation to improving the quality of private universities in Gorontalo.

Netnography Study of Mental Health Disorder Discussion in the K-Pop Music Video among YouTube Users

Alya Syahputri — 2023-11-03

Mental health is one of the important aspects of realizing overall health. Few people with mental health disorders are treated due to a lack of education about mental health in society. Education about mental health needs to be done to be able to change the bad stigma against people with mental health disorders. Mental health education can be done by with any media, one of which is with music and music videos. Many musicians, like Korean musicians, bring up the topic of mental health in their songs. The researcher wanted to examine how messages related to mental health were conveyed by YouTube users in the comment section on Lee Hi’s music video entitled HOLO and Sunmi’s titled Borderline. This study aims to look at and map mental health issues from the two music videos. This research uses a type of descriptive qualitative research and netnography research method, using observation and documentation. The results of this study indicate that there are several types of mental health issues written by YouTube users in the two music video comment sections.

Product Development Strategy For Written Batik SMES In Sumberjo Sutojayan Village, Blitar District

Hery Suprayitno — 2023-11-03

Batik Sum Gati is a labor-intensive business, so the production process is mostly carried out by human labor compared to machine power. This is done because the production process does not require special skills because the batik motifs have been designed by the owner of Batik Sum Gati. The purpose of this research is to find out the product development strategy for UMKM Batik Sum Gati in Sumberjo Village, Sutojayan District, Blitar Regency. The method used is a qualitative method with a descriptive type of research to analyze the development strategy of Batik SMEs (a case study on Batik Sum Gati in Blitar Regency). The type of technique used is a non-statistical data analysis technique which of course is descriptive qualitative. The results of this study are that Sum Gati Batik UMKM in developing their business uses 3 strategies, namely: (1) Cost leadership strategy; (2) differentiation strategy; (3) Focus strategy. Future research is expected to be able to analyze factors other than this research.