Loss and Human Connection: An Exploration into the Nature of the Social Bond

AbstractGenerally, nonreproductive sex is thought to act as “social grease,” facilitating peaceful coexistence between subjects that lack close genetic ties. However, specifc nonreproductive sexual behaviors may fulfill different functions. With this study, we aimed to test whether nonreproductive mounts in Barbary macaques are used to 1) assert dominance, 2) reinforce social relationships, and/or 3) solve conflicts. We analyzed nonreproductive mounts (N = 236) and postmount behavior in both aggressive and nonaggressive contexts, in 118 individuals belonging to two semi-free-ranging groups at La Montagne des Singes (France). As predicted by the dominance assertion hypothesis, the probability to be the mounter increased with rank difference, especially in aggressive contexts (increasing from 0.066 to 0.797 in nonaggressive contexts, and from 0.011 to 0.969 in aggressive contexts, when the rank difference was minimal vs. maximal). The strength of the social bond did not significantly predict the proportion of mounts across dyads in nonaggressive contexts, providing no support for the relationship reinforcement hypothesis. Finally, in support of the conflict resolution hypothesis, when individuals engaged in postconflict mounts, 1) the probability of being involved in further aggression decreased from 0.825 to 0.517, while 2) the probability of being involved in grooming interactions with each other increased from 0.119 to 0.606. The strength of the social bond between former opponents had no significant effect on grooming occurrence and agonistic behavior after postconflict mounts. Overall, our findings suggest that nonreproductive mounts in Barbary macaques have different functions that are not affected by the strength of the social bond.

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The Social Bond: An Introduction to the Study of Society.

Political Science Quarterly ◽

10.2307/2147497 ◽

1971 ◽

Vol 86 (4) ◽

pp. 727

Author(s):

Lewis A. Coser ◽

Robert A. Nisbet

Keyword(s):

Social Bond ◽

The Social

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Self-Defense against Verbal Assault: Shame, Anger, and the Social Bond

Family Process ◽

10.1111/j.1545-5300.1995.00271.x ◽

1995 ◽

Vol 34 (3) ◽

pp. 271-286 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

THOMAS J. SCHEFF

Keyword(s):

Social Bond ◽

Self Defense ◽

The Social ◽

Verbal Assault

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Work, Recognition and the Social Bond: Changing Paradigms

New Philosophies of Labour ◽

10.1163/9789004215467_002 ◽

2012 ◽

pp. 1-38

Keyword(s):

Social Bond ◽

The Social

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Følelser og sociale bånd i Akademia

Dansk Sociologi ◽

10.22439/dansoc.v13i4.432 ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 13 (4) ◽

pp. 43-60

Author(s):

Charlotte Bloch

Keyword(s):

Social Relations ◽

Social Bonds ◽

Interview Study ◽

Academic Life ◽

Social Bond ◽

Emotional Culture ◽

Collective Creativity ◽

The Social ◽

Emotional Dimensions

Charlotte Bloch: Emotions and Social Bonds in Academia The purpose of this article is to expand our understanding of social relations in academia by examining the role that the emotional dimensions of these social relations play in academic life. It is based on the results of an interview study of emotions and emotional culture among people in various scholarly positions in academia. The article makes analytical distinctions between the structural conditions of emotions, the emotional culture of academia, lived or felt emotions and the management of emotions. And it identifies different ways of managing the emotions of uncertainty, shame, anger, pride and laughter. These feelings emerge from the structural conditions of the social relations in academic life, and the tacit rules of feeling in academic life define how these feelings are managed. Life in academia presupposes a certain amount of feeling labour and management of feelings. Thomas Scheff’s theory about emotions and social bonds is employed to identify what this management of feelings means for social relations in academia. Bonds in academia are stable and fluctuate between solidarity, isolation and engulfment, but primarily the last two. Loneliness, group conformity, absence of real cooperation, and weakening of individual and collective creativity are some of the consequences of this kind of social bond.

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UMA LEITURA SOBRE O TRANSTORNO DE PÂNICO À LUZ DA TEORIA FREUDIANA DA ANGÚSTIA

Psicologia e Saúde em Debate ◽

10.22289/2446-922x.v7n1a26 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 7 (1) ◽

pp. 376-397

Author(s):

Gabriel Liberato ◽

Gabriella Dupim

Keyword(s):

Panic Disorder ◽

Social Bond ◽

Ideological Discourse ◽

Psychological Suffering ◽

Symptom Dimension ◽

The Social ◽

Cultural Implications

Panic Disorder invites us to think about the clinical and cultural implications involved in structuring this type of suffering as treated by psychiatry through the DSM. By reducing the psychology of anguish to nosology, to a technical and ideological discourse, we disregard suffering as a result of new forms of subjectivation and modalizations of the social bond that contemporaneity has produced. Psychoanalysis is interested in psychological suffering in its symptom dimension, that is, considering the malaise in civilization without resorting to the processes of human subjectivation. In view of the above, this study aims to investigate the category of Panic Disorder from the Freudian work, following its clinical and theoretical path to understand the specificity of this form of suffering and its relations with anguish.

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