…Let No One Split Asunder: Controversy In Human Genetic Engineering

1987 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stanley S. Robin ◽  
Gerald E. Markle
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Engineering ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
Social Implication ◽  
The Social ◽  
Human Genetic Engineering ◽  
Genetic Science

In 1980 the first recombinant genetic engineering experiments on humans were performed. These experiments sparked a major controversy, international in scope and potentially profound in its implications for genetic science. We develop four perspectives—substantive, network, organizational, and societal—from which science can be seen as a process having differing social implication and meaning. The research and controversy are discussed with attention to the conflicts and their resolutions from each perspective and among them. Taken together, the four perspectives are used as a single basis for understanding the social processes involved in this case study and the more general workings of science.

scholarly journals Extending Geodemographics Using Data Primitives: A Review and a Methodological Proposal

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 386
Author(s):  
Jennie Gray ◽  
Lisa Buckner ◽  
Alexis Comber
Keyword(s):  
Social Dynamics ◽  
Feature Space ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
Multiple Time ◽  
Current State ◽  
Cluster Label ◽  
Static Data ◽  
The Social ◽  
Using Data

This paper reviews geodemographic classifications and developments in contemporary classifications. It develops a critique of current approaches and identifiea a number of key limitations. These include the problems associated with the geodemographic cluster label (few cluster members are typical or have the same properties as the cluster centre) and the failure of the static label to describe anything about the underlying neighbourhood processes and dynamics. To address these limitations, this paper proposed a data primitives approach. Data primitives are the fundamental dimensions or measurements that capture the processes of interest. They can be used to describe the current state of an area in a multivariate feature space, and states can be compared over multiple time periods for which data are available, through for example a change vector approach. In this way, emergent social processes, which may be too weak to result in a change in a cluster label, but are nonetheless important signals, can be captured. As states are updated (for example, as new data become available), inferences about different social processes can be made, as well as classification updates if required. State changes can also be used to determine neighbourhood trajectories and to predict or infer future states. A list of data primitives was suggested from a review of the mechanisms driving a number of neighbourhood-level social processes, with the aim of improving the wider understanding of the interaction of complex neighbourhood processes and their effects. A small case study was provided to illustrate the approach. In this way, the methods outlined in this paper suggest a more nuanced approach to geodemographic research, away from a focus on classifications and static data, towards approaches that capture the social dynamics experienced by neighbourhoods.

scholarly journals Slow Disaster in the Anthropocene: A Historian Witnesses Climate Change on the Korean Peninsula

Daedalus ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 149 (4) ◽  
pp. 192-206
Author(s):  
Scott Gabriel Knowles
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Korean Peninsula ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
Historical Narratives ◽  
Social Production ◽  
The Social ◽  
A Site ◽  
Historical Methods

Despite their seeming reluctance to engage in the politics of the now, historians have a crucial role to play as witnesses to climate change and its attendant social injustices. Climate change is a product of industrialization, but its effects are known in different geographical and temporal scales through the compilation and analysis of historical narratives. This essay explores modes of thinking about disasters and temporality, the Anthropocene, and the social production of risk – set against a case study of the Korean DMZ as a site for historical witnessing. Historical methods are crucial if we are to investigate deeply the social processes that have produced climate change. A “slow disaster in the Anthropocene” approach might show the way forward.

scholarly journals (Circular) Path Dependence—The Role of Vineyards in Land Use, Society and Regional Development—The Case of Lubuskie Region (Poland)

Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (24) ◽  
pp. 8425
Author(s):  
Pamela Jeziorska-Biel ◽  
Katarzyna Leśniewska-Napierała ◽  
Konrad Czapiewski
Keyword(s):  
Path Dependence ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
Circular Path ◽  
Tourist Attraction ◽  
Wine Making ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Level

The main goals of the article are: (a) presentation of the wine traditions of the region in the context of the concept of path dependence and wastescapes, as well as their impact on the spatial, social and promotional aspect of wine making; (b) identification and characteristics of the vineyards in Lubuskie Region in 2021; and (c) linking wine traditions with creating the identity of the region and implementing activities supporting its development. A case study was performed in accordance with the triangulation of research methods and techniques: (1) analysis of existing data and relating them to the activities of vineyards; (2) covert participant observation technique; and (3) qualitative field interviews with vineyard owners or managers. The vineyards of the Lubuskie Region are an important tourist attraction and local wines enrich the local food offers. However, the scale of production, still being rather small, comes with higher costs of obtaining the final product. At the social level, wine-growing activity presents a great deal of value and importance, and appears to be a reflection of positive endeavours. Wine making in the region is a complex example of contemporary cultural and social processes that are only just beginning to be observed in area.

Pre-Press Cancer narratives on social media as ‘small stories’

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (31) ◽  
Author(s):  
Carsten Stage
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
Illness Narrative ◽  
Cultural Discourses ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
The Media ◽  
Small Stories ◽  
Individual Body

Cancer narratives shared on social media platforms have received increased academic interest over the last decade but often without sufficiently acknowledging the media specific narrative affordances of these platforms. The article will address this problem, by first presenting a ‘small stories’ approach to studying illness narrative on social media and then putting the approach to work in a case study of a Danish cancer patient’s Instagram profile (@jannelivsnyder66). The paper argues, that the storytelling practices on the profile can be analytically approached by focusing on the interplay between three co-constitutive levels of interaction: 1) a level of the desired illness narrative and position that the narrator, influenced by available cultural discourses and interaction with followers, hopes to be able to tell; 2) a level of sharing everyday posts, which can either support or disturb the desired narrative; 3) a level of follower responses, where relations between the desired narrative and singular posts are monitored through processes of liking and commenting. Followers of social media cancer narratives should in light of this not be understood as an audience witnessing an individual telling his/her “own” story, but rather as crucial contributors to the social interaction and co-creation of desired narratives, subject positions, narrative progress and tellability. In conclusion, the article thus stresses that cancer storytelling on social media, despite the strong biological connection of the disease to an individual body, emerges through inherently social processes of reading, liking, commenting, monitoring and co-deciding narrative practices.

Challenges and Countermeasures of Bio-Genetic Engineering to Traditional Ethics Values

2014 ◽  
Vol 507 ◽  
pp. 892-896
Author(s):  
Jing Wei Liu ◽  
Jun Tao Wang ◽  
Xi Liu
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Engineering ◽  
Life Science ◽  
Genetic Technology ◽  
Engineering Technology ◽  
Ordinary Life ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Social ◽  
Genetic Science ◽  
Genetic Engineering Technology

21st is the century of life science and biotechnology. Modern bio-technology, as the core of genetic engineering, has been developed rapidly, which is used to solve the problems of resources, environments, agricultural and medical affairs, etc., and has played a very important role in our human ordinary life. However, the conflicts between biological genetic engineering techniques and ethics are inevitable. It is urgency to make out the ethic standard on genetic science. Issues about the social and ethical associated with genetic engineering technology must be understood clearly, and in the practice process of bio-technology, a series of complete legal, ethical, scientific policies, strict requirements and mechanisms should be establish, in order to promote the genetic technology to play positively.

scholarly journals VALIDITY OF EVOLUTIONARY GENETICS IN THE FIELD OF SOCIAL PROCESSES (BRIEF OUTLINE OF HUMAN EVOLUTION)

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (6(75)) ◽  
pp. 5-12
Author(s):  
N. Vakurova ◽  
L. Moskovkin
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Engineering ◽  
Human Evolution ◽  
Evolutionary Genetics ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
Social Field ◽  
The Social

Modern evolutionary genetics can adequately interpret current processes in the social field. At the same time, it is a genetic engineering biotechnology that actually provides a tool for managing society. In this article, we summarize what has been achieved in this direction, regardless of whether the source belongs to the Humanities or natural Sciences. The only criterion used for selecting the material is adequacy, i.e. validity and compatibility of the proposed models.

scholarly journals Cancer narratives on social media as ‘small stories’

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (31) ◽  
Author(s):  
Carsten Stage
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
Illness Narrative ◽  
Cultural Discourses ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
The Media ◽  
Small Stories ◽  
Individual Body

Cancer narratives shared on social media platforms have received increased academic interest over the last decade but often without sufficiently acknowledging the media specific narrative affordances of these platforms. The article will address this problem, by first presenting a ‘small stories’ approach to studying illness narrative on social media and then putting the approach to work in a case study of a Danish cancer patient’s Instagram profile (@jannelivsnyder66). The paper argues, that the storytelling practices on the profile can be analytically approached by focusing on the interplay between three co-constitutive levels of interaction: 1) a level of the desired illness narrative and position that the narrator, influenced by available cultural discourses and interaction with followers, hopes to be able to tell; 2) a level of sharing everyday posts, which can either support or disturb the desired narrative; 3) a level of follower responses, where relations between the desired narrative and singular posts are monitored through processes of liking and commenting. Followers of social media cancer narratives should in light of this not be understood as an audience witnessing an individual telling his/her “own” story, but rather as crucial contributors to the social interaction and co-creation of desired narratives, subject positions, narrative progress and tellability. In conclusion, the article thus stresses that cancer storytelling on social media, despite the strong biological connection of the disease to an individual body, emerges through inherently social processes of reading, liking, commenting, monitoring and co-deciding narrative practices.

Social Participation, Institutional Change, and Land Property in the Building up of Sustainability: A Case Study of Land-Use Conflict in Tenerife (Canary Islands)

10.1068/c18s ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 593-612 ◽  
Author(s):  
Federico Aguilera-Klink ◽  
Juan Sánchez-García
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Canary Islands ◽  
Institutional Analysis ◽  
Environmental Valuation ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
Land Use Conflict ◽  
Sustainable Environment ◽  
The Social ◽  
Assessment And Testing

This paper is grounded in VALSE (VALuation for Sustainable Environment) methodology, which seeks to understand the ways that concerned people express the ‘values’ of environment. In our research we aim to assess the importance of maintaining these values, and to test the integration of the valuation statements within a real decisionmaking process. The study of the combination of institutional analysis and democratic perspective in land-use conflict in the Canary Islands was used for such assessment and testing. An institutional analysis was carried out in order to account for recent changes in the notion of landownership (through the introduction of environmental and landscape values) and corresponding changes in the institutional framework. A democratic perspective was applied in order to include public expression, debate, and deliberation as valid ways of generating and exchanging knowledge, and as a means of reaching a satisfactory environmental decision. The problem of land use associated with the environmental valuation issue can be adequately understood by studying the social processes responsible for the different land uses. To think in terms of social processes for environmental valuation of the landscape implies concern over a process of collective understanding: the ways values and interests are formed and the way the conflict gives rise to different notions and rules of the game, and to different manners of conceiving and implementing decisionmaking processes and solutions to environmental problems.

Social Design for Services Framework

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Melanie SARANTOU ◽  
Satu MIETTINEN
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Research Group ◽  
Design Research ◽  
Service Design ◽  
Social Design ◽  
Practical Action ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World

This paper addresses the fields of social and service design in development contexts, practice-based and constructive design research. A framework for social design for services will be explored through the survey of existing literature, specifically by drawing on eight doctoral theses that were produced by the World Design research group. The work of World Design researcher-designers was guided by a strong ethos of social and service design for development in marginalised communities. The paper also draws on a case study in Namibia and South Africa titled ‘My Dream World’. This case study presents a good example of how the social design for services framework functions in practice during experimentation and research in the field. The social design for services framework transfers the World Design group’s research results into practical action, providing a tool for the facilitation of design and research processes for sustainable development in marginal contexts.

Sustainable Illegality: Gagauz Women in Istanbul

2014 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bayram Unal
Keyword(s):  
Police Officers ◽  
Ethnic Origin ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
Survival Strategies ◽  
Preferential Treatment ◽  
National Group ◽  
Turkish Migrants ◽  
Illegal Migrants ◽  
Sociological Inquiry ◽  
The Social

This study deals with survival strategies of illegal migrants in Turkey. It aims to provide an explanation for the efforts to keep illegality sustainable for one specific ethnic/national group—that is, the Gagauz of Moldova, who are of Turkish ethnic origin. In order to explicate the advantages of Turkish ethnic origin, I will focus on their preferential treatment at state-law level and in terms of the implementation of the law by police officers. In a remarkable way, the juridical framework has introduced legal ways of dealing with the illegality of ethnically Turkish migrants. From the viewpoint of migration, the presence of strategic tools of illegality forces us to ask not so much law-related questions, but to turn to a sociological inquiry of how and why they overstay their visas. Therefore, this study concludes that it is the social processes behind their illegality, rather than its form, that is more important for our understanding of the migrants’ survival strategies in destination countries.

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