Review of Between public and private: The lost boundaries of the self.

1980 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 269-269
Author(s):  
IRWIN ALTMAN
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Public And Private

scholarly journals Using the Self-Organising Map to Identify Regularities across Country-Specific Housing-Market Contexts

10.1068/b3186 ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-110 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tom Kauko
Keyword(s):  
Housing Market ◽  
Semiparametric Regression ◽  
The Self ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Institutional Differences ◽  
Market Fundamentals ◽  
Self Organising Map ◽  
Public And Private Sector ◽  
Housing Submarkets

The aim of exploring and monitoring housing-market fundamentals (prices, dwelling features, area density, residents, and so on) on a macrolocational level relates to both public and private sector policymaking. Housing market segmentation (that is, the emergence of housing submarkets), a concept with increasing relevance, is defined as the differentiation of housing in terms of the income and preferences of the residents and in terms of administrative circumstances. In order to capture such segmentation empirically, the author applies a fairly new and emerging technique known as the ‘self-organising’ map (SOM), or ‘Kohonen map’. The SOM is a type of (artificial) neural network—a nonlinear and flexible (that is, nonparametric or semiparametric) regression and ‘machine learning’ technique. By utilising the ability of the SOM to visualise patterns, one can analyse various dimensions within the variation of the dataset. Segmentation may then be detected depending on the resulting patterns across the map layers, each of which represents the data variation for one input variable. Utilising an inductive modelling strategy, the author runs cross-sectional and nationwide data on the owner-occupied housing markets of Finland (documentation presented elsewhere), the Netherlands, and Hungary with the SOM technique. On the basis of the resulting configurations certain regularities (similarities and differences) across the three national contexts are identified. In all three cases the segments are determined by physical and institutional differences between the housing bundles and localities. The exercise demonstrates how the inductive SOM-based approach is well-suited for illustrating the contextual factors that determine housing market structure.

Technology of optimization: An emerging configuration of productivity among professional software employees

2021 ◽  
pp. 136754942110302
Author(s):  
Vanessa Ciccone
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Software Industry ◽  
Private Life ◽  
The Self ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Political Consequences ◽  
Moral Ideals ◽  
The Empirical Analysis

In this article, I draw from several months of fieldwork from 2019 to assess professional subjectivity in the software industry of Canada. I assess employees’ constructions of and feelings about their own productivity. I argue that the ways in which subjects understand and feel about their productivity says a great deal about how power is ‘willfully’ negotiated within everyday professional tech settings of neoliberal societies. My findings suggest that optimization is emerging as a technology of self among the individuals I studied, and bringing political consequences. In the first section of the article, I provide a brief overview of the productivity imperative’s cultural trajectory, and show its relation to optimization. Then, in the empirical analysis and discussion, I outline that the technology of optimization involves a discourse around bringing one’s best to public and private realms, offering a specific set of moral ideals. I then show that another facet of this technology of self is centered on willfully entangling public and private life. Finally, I theorize subjects’ reported feelings about their own productivity, assessing how the technology of optimization relates to a politics of privilege. With this study, I seek to make a contribution to the relation between the culture of productivity and professional subjectivity in the software industry, in an effort to expose how power is negotiated at the level of the self in an increasingly influential sector.

scholarly journals The Social Oikos

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-32
Author(s):  
Michael Lee Humphrey
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Self ◽  
Ancient World ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Social ◽  
Nuanced Understanding ◽  
Core Points

In one of the foundational articles of persona studies, Marshall and Barbour (2015) look to Hannah Arendt for development of a key concept within the larger persona framework: “Arendt saw the need to construct clear and separate public and private identities. What can be discerned from this understanding of the public and the private is a nuanced sense of the significance of persona: the presentation of the self for public comportment and expression” (2015, p. 3). But as far back as the ancient world from which Arendt draws her insights, the affordance of persona was not evenly distributed. As Gines (2014) argues, the realm of the household, oikos, was a space of subjugation of those who were forced to be “private,” tending to the necessities of life, while others were privileged with life in the public at their expense. To demonstrate the core points of this essay, I use textual analysis of a YouTube family vlog, featuring a Black mother in the United States, whose persona rapidly changed after she and her White husband divorced. By critically examining Arendt’s concepts around public, private, and social, a more nuanced understanding of how personas are formed in unjust cultures can help us theorize persona studies in more egalitarian and robust ways.

Self/Portraits

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucy Ella Rose
Keyword(s):  
Gender Role ◽  
Gender Politics ◽  
The Self ◽  
Public And Private

Chapter 3 presents alternative visions of these neglected Victorian figures – the Wattses and the De Morgans – through an analysis of their self/portraits. It explores the Wattses’ and the De Morgans’ self-portraits and portraits of each other as well as of their famous contemporaries in order to examine the construction of artistic identities, the gender-role inversion within creative partnerships, and the self-fashioning of suffragists. It explores public and private self/portraits (that is, self-portraits and/or portraits) in the form of neglected paintings, sketches and photographs in which images and perceptions of these figures as individuals and as couples are built. It also compares the Wattses’ and the De Morgans’ self/portraits with those of their contemporaries, placing them in a wider context to reveal their standpoints and focuses. It explores the gender politics of portraiture and shows how their self/portraits fit into the tradition of Victorian portraiture.

Honesty as Ethical Communicative Practice

2020 ◽  
pp. 127-152
Author(s):  
Janie Harden Fritz
Keyword(s):  
Interpersonal Communication ◽  
The Self ◽  
Human Communication ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Self Disclosure ◽  
Human Relationships ◽  
Message Design Logic ◽  
Communicative Practice ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Relational Contexts

Honesty is a central concept in interpersonal communication ethics, typically studied through the lens of self-disclosure in close relationships. Expanding the self-disclosure construct to encompass multiple types of messages occurring in public and private relationships offers additional insights. Across relational contexts, at least two aspects of human communication are relevant to honesty: the content dimension, which references factual information carried by a message; and the relationship dimension, which provides the implied stance or attitude toward the other and/or the relationship. This dimension provides interpretive nuance for the content dimension, its implications for honesty shaped by culture and context. This chapter considers five themes relevant to communication research—self-disclosure and restraint, Grice’s theory of conversational implicature, message design logic, communication competence, and civility, authority, and love—and explore the implications of each content area for honesty in human relationships.

Who’s in Charge? Leadership Pressures— From Within and Without

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Goldie Blumenstyk
Keyword(s):  
Private Colleges ◽  
Shared Governance ◽  
The Self ◽  
Governing Boards ◽  
Boards Of Trustees ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Fiduciary Responsibility

How are colleges run? Is their unusual practice of “shared governance” in danger? Public and private colleges are run by the governing boards that have fiduciary responsibility for them—be they the self-perpetuating boards of trustees that run private colleges, the politically appointed (and in some...

scholarly journals Relationship between Perceived Quality of Home Environment and Self-Concept of Students at Undergraduate Level

2021 ◽  
Vol VI (I) ◽  
pp. 70-78
Author(s):  
Mahvish Fatima Kashif ◽  
Ayesha Batool ◽  
Sana Hafeez
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Home Environment ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Perceived Quality ◽  
The Self ◽  
Self Concept ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

The objective of the study was to identify the relationship of different dimensions of perceived quality of home environment and self-concept of undergraduate university students. Correlational research was selected as the research design. The population of the study was university students of the education department of public and private universities of Lahore. The total population was 1760. A proportionate stratified random sampling technique was used to select the sample. The strata were formed on the basis of the nature of the universities. The total number of students selected as the sample was 528. The instrument consisted of three parts; the first part consisted of demographic information (gender, nature of institution). The second part consisted of the Home Environment Inventory, designed by Misra (1983) to measure the quality of the home environment and the third part consisted of the Self-Concept Scale by Rastogi (1979) to measure self-concept. Multiple regression analysis was used to determine the relationship between the variables. The results indicated a significant relationship between the home environment and the self-concept of university students.

scholarly journals Relationship of Innovative Self-Perception with Training, Hiring and Profits, of Micro-Entrepreneurs

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gustavo Alfonso Barrera
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Descriptive Statistics ◽  
The Self ◽  
Private Institutions ◽  
Self Perception ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Training Activities ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
Latin American Countries ◽  
Selection Of

Entrepreneurship has become a fundamental theme in Latin America. In recent years, public and private institutions have invested in training entrepreneurs in order to contribute to economic growth, develop work and reduce poverty. In the presented research, it is compared the self-appraisal as innovators, of micro-entrepreneurs who have attended training during the last five years, with micro-entrepreneurs without training, and additionally, it is studied if the micro-entrepreneurs that self-perceive themselves as innovators are more prone to hiring workers and obtain higher profits. The methodology used is hypothesis testing with Chi2 statistic and descriptive statistics. The results exhibit that trained micro-entrepreneurs call themselves innovators in greater proportion and that this relationship is more relevant in some training topics, moreover, that innovative self-perception is linked to a greater intention of hiring and profits. The evidence obtained is considered relevant, since it allows orienting training activities in Latin American countries and improving the selection of topics and methodologies to promote their effectiveness.

scholarly journals The Impact of Food Allergy Training on a Teacher’s Self-Efficacy when Managing Food Allergic Students

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Paige Cook ◽  
Meghan McDonough
Keyword(s):  
Food Allergy ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
The Self ◽  
Food Allergies ◽  
Training Methods ◽  
Chi Square ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Hands On ◽  
The Impact

Food allergy training for teachers remains an important, but commonly overlooked, aspect of education as millions of children have been diagnosed with food allergies. Therefore, it is pertinent teachers receive food allergy training that is most beneficial in growing a teacher's understanding for teachers to be best suited in correctly helping food allergic students. Four food allergy training methods: hands-on in-person (actual handling of epinephrine), non-hands in-person, group video, and individual video, and their effects on the self-efficacy of participants is the focus of this study. Teachers were contacted from within the city of Chicago, both public and private, and from a mixture of food allergy training methods and were administered an online survey which asked questions pertaining to their food allergy knowledge, perception, and self-efficacy. Participants were given statements to which they would respond on a five-point Likert scale, scored using a chi-square test. Ultimately, the hypothesis that teachers who engaged in hands-on in-person would showcase higher levels of self-efficacy, due to higher levels of engagement, was not supported. While several statements proved significant after data analysis, there was not enough significance to prove a meaningful relationship between the self-efficacy and training method.

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