Expressions of Social Criticism on Short Stories of Bromo Writing Camp Participants: Sociology of Literature Perspective

This study aims to find aspects of social criticism in a collection of literary works at the Bromo Writing Camp workshop held by the magister literary and cultural studies program at Airlangga university. The research problem is to find and describe the forms of social criticism found in selected literary works at the Bromo Writing Camp workshop. The method used in analyzing the short story is a qualitative descriptive method using the sociology of literature approach. From the 20 manuscripts, we chose four manuscripts as objects of research to be analyzed for the themes and content of the manuscripts. The four manuscripts found different forms of social criticism related to the fading of cultural values as national identity, gender inequality, poverty and social exclusion, deviations of social norms and moral values norms, and moral values.