Epistemic group structure and collective agency

2011 ◽  
pp. 253-267
Author(s):  
Johan van Benthem
Keyword(s):  
Group Structure ◽  
Collective Agency

Group structure and productivity.

1970 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gordon E. O'Brien
Keyword(s):  
Group Structure

Some effects of unequal distribution of information in a wheel group structure.

1954 ◽  
Vol 49 (4, Pt.1) ◽  
pp. 554-556 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. C. Gilchrist ◽  
Marvin E. Shaw ◽  
L. C. Walker
Keyword(s):  
Group Structure ◽  
Unequal Distribution

A performative network theory of attitudes

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Quayle
Keyword(s):  
Attitude Change ◽  
Network Structure ◽  
Network Theory ◽  
Social Group ◽  
Group Structure ◽  
Social Identities ◽  
Bipartite Network ◽  
Identity Change ◽  
Multilayer Network ◽  
Dynamic Phenomena

In this paper I propose a network theory of attitudes where attitude agreements and disagreements forge a multilayer network structure that simultaneously binds people into groups (via attitudes) and attitudes into clusters (via people who share them). This theory proposes that people have a range of possible attitudes (like cards in a hand) but these only become meaningful when expressed (like a card played). Attitudes are expressed with sensitivity to their potential audiences and are socially performative: when we express attitudes, or respond to those expressed by others, we tell people who we are, what groups we might belong to and what to think of us. Agreement and disagreement can be modelled as a bipartite network that provides a psychological basis for perceived ingroup similarity and outgroup difference and, more abstractly, group identity. Opinion-based groups and group-related opinions are therefore co-emergent dynamic phenomena. Dynamic fixing occurs when particular attitudes become associated with specific social identities. The theory provides a framework for understanding identity ecosystems in which social group structure and attitudes are co-constituted. The theory describes how attitude change is also identity change. This has broad relevance across disciplines and applications concerned with social influence and attitude change.

The Women's Agency Scale 61 (Was-61): A Comprehensive Measure of Women's Intrinsic, Instrumental, and Collective Agency

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathryn M. Yount ◽  
Zara Khan ◽  
Stephanie Miedema ◽  
Yuk Fai Cheong ◽  
Ruchira T. Naved
Keyword(s):  
Collective Agency ◽  
Women's Agency ◽  
Women’S Agency

Anti-Politics, Depoliticization, and Governance

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Political Process ◽  
Common Interest ◽  
Collective Agency ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Growing Body ◽  
Varied Range ◽  
The Relationship

There is a growing body of evidence pointing towards rising levels of public dissatisfaction with the formal political process. Depoliticization refers to a more discrete range of contemporary strategies politicians employ that tend to remove or displace the potential for choice, collective agency, and deliberation. This book examines the relationship between these trends of dissatisfaction and displacement, as understood within the broader shift towards governance. It brings together a number of contributions from scholars who have a varied range of concerns but who nevertheless share a common interest in developing the concept of depoliticization through their engagement with a set of theoretical, conceptual, methodological, and empirical questions. The contributions in this volume explore these questions from a variety of different perspectives by using a number of different empirical examples and case studies from both within the nation state and from other regional, global, and multilevel arenas. In this context, this volume examines the limits and potential of depoliticization as a concept and its contribution to the larger and more established literatures on governance and anti-politics.

The Centralizer

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ercüment H. Ortaçgil
Keyword(s):  
Lie Group ◽  
Group Structure ◽  
Diffeomorphism Group ◽  
Group Diff ◽  
Local Solutions

The pseudogroup of local solutions in Chapter 3 defines another pseudogroup by taking its centralizer inside the diffeomorphism group Diff(M) of a manifold M. These two pseudogroups define a Lie group structure on M.

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