scholarly journals The intercorporeality of closing a curtain

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (2-3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Unknown / not yet matched ◽  
Johanne S. Philipsen
Keyword(s):  
Social Relationships ◽  
Empirical Investigation ◽  
Human Action ◽  
Multiple Timescales ◽  
Naturally Occurring ◽  
English Translations ◽  
Window Blinds ◽  
Past Experiences

Abstract Jointly coordinated affective activities are fundamental for social relationships. This study investigates a naturally occurring interaction between two women who produced reciprocal emotional stances towards similar past experiences. Adopting a microanalytic approach, we describe how the participants re-enact their past experiences through different but aligning synchronized gestures. This embodied dialogue evolves into affective flooding, in which participants co-produce their body memories of pulling down window blinds to block out sunshine. We show how the participants live this moment intercorporeally and how multiple timescales are tied together in gesture, which is both an incarnation of body history and a novel expression of it. Thus, collaborative gesturing is a resource for experiencing together emotions re-enacted from body memories. Contributing to our understanding of the intercorporeality of human action, we provide an empirical investigation into how emotions and multiple timescales are nested in cooperative gestures. Data are in Finnish with English translations.

Referring to past actions in caregiver–child interaction in Japanese

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 92-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomoyo Takagi
Keyword(s):  
Young Child ◽  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Major Part ◽  
Analytic Approach ◽  
Naturally Occurring ◽  
Child Interaction ◽  
Past Experiences

In naturally occurring everyday caregiver–child interaction, a major part of what is hearable as storytelling or an incipient form of it is talk about participants’ (mostly children’s) past experiences. Adopting a conversation-analytic approach, this study attempts to show how explicit references to children’s past actions formulated in the form of [(X) did (Y)], where X is the young child interacting with the caregiver, can engender opportunities for participants to develop telling activities. Through the detailed analysis of talk and embodied features of telling sequences in each case, the analysis will reveal how the [(X) did (Y)]-format utterance is utilized for co-constructing the telling, and what social and interactional consequences are accomplished through the telling occasioned by such reference.

An Ecocentric Reading of אמת‎, חסד‎, and דעת אלהים‎ in Hosea 4.1-6

2019 ◽  
Vol 70 (3) ◽  
pp. 343-360
Author(s):  
Olugbemiro O. Berekiah
Keyword(s):  
Tacit Knowledge ◽  
Hebrew Text ◽  
Human Action ◽  
Ecological Crisis ◽  
Biblical Text ◽  
Human Relationship ◽  
The Earth ◽  
English Translations

Many critics have blamed the current ecological crisis on an interpretation of the biblical text that legitimates human abuse of the earth’s resources, through a misconstruction of the human relationship with the rest of the created order. The Hebrew text of Hosea 4.1-6 documents a tacit knowledge of the consequence of human action on the ecosystem, evidence that has been eclipsed in various English translations due to the contextual gap between the text and the English recipient. This paper attempts a reconstruction of the Hebrew text, and undertakes a fresh translation that exposes the cosmological underpinnings of the text. The passage is then interpreted from an ecocentric perspective in a synchronic reading with other passages. This reveals an awareness of an intricate relationship among humanity, the earth, and non-human inhabitants of the earth, a relationship that Hosea describes with the terms אמת‎, חסד‎, and דעת אלהים‎.

Interacting to remember at multiple timescales

2015 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 419-450 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucas M. Bietti ◽  
John Sutton
Keyword(s):  
Social Interactions ◽  
Cognitive Networks ◽  
Complex Phenomenon ◽  
Multiple Timescales ◽  
Material Resources ◽  
Collaborative Processes ◽  
Dinner Table ◽  
Cultural Processes ◽  
Past Experiences ◽  
Cooperative Processes

Everyday joint remembering, from family remembering around the dinner table to team remembering in the operating theatre, relies on the successful interweaving of multiple cognitive, bodily, social and material resources, anchored in specific cultural ecosystems. Such systems for joint remembering in social interactions are composed of processes unfolding over multiple but complementary timescales, which we distinguish for analytic purposes so as better to study their interanimation in practice: (i) faster, lower-level coordination processes of behavioral matching and interactional synchrony occurring at timescale t1; (ii) mid-range collaborative processes which re-evoke past experiences in groups, unfolding at timescale t2; (iii) cooperative processes involved in the transmission of memories over longer periods occurring at timescale t3; and (iv) cultural processes and practices operating within distributed socio-cognitive networks over evolutionary and historical timeframes, unfolding at timescale t4. In this paper we survey studies of how the processes operating across these overlapping and complementary timescales constitute joint remembering in social interactions. We describe coordination, collaboration, cooperation, and culture as complementary aspects of interacting to remember, which we consider as a complex phenomenon unfolding over multiple timescales (t1, t2, t3, t4).

scholarly journals Loneliness and Social Isolation During the COVID-19 Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 272-284
Author(s):  
Susanne Buecker ◽  
Kai T. Horstmann
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Social Interactions ◽  
Social Isolation ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Empirical Investigation ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Psychological Consequences ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Quantitative Studies

Abstract. The outbreak of the global COVID-19 pandemic has drastically altered people’s lives. Loneliness and social isolation were publicly discussed as possible psychological consequences of the measures taken to slow the virus spread. These public discussions have sparked a surge in empirical studies on loneliness and social isolation. In this study, we first provide a systematic review synthesizing recent literature on the prevalence and correlates of loneliness and social isolation during the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic ( k = 53 studies). We found that most quantitative studies included in the systematic review were cross-sectional. The few longitudinal studies mainly reported increases in loneliness, especially when the pre-pandemic measurement occasions were months or years before the COVID-19 pandemic. Studies with pre-pandemic measures weeks or days before the pandemic reported relatively stable or even decreasing loneliness trends. Second, we enrich the systematic review with an empirical investigation on daily changes in the perceived quality and quantity of social relationships during the pandemic compared to before the pandemic ( N = 4,823). This empirical investigation showed that, on average, the quality of social relationships was perceived worse during the pandemic than before. This perception got slightly stronger over the first 2 weeks of the pandemic but stagnated thereafter. Regarding the quantity of social relationships, participants reported on average that they had fewer social interactions at the beginning of the study than before the pandemic. This perceived reduction in the quantity of social interactions linearly decreased over time.

scholarly journals Interações espaciais no Estado de São Paulo: uma análise comparativa entre dois tipos de redes

1998 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
pp. 76-95
Author(s):  
Teresa Mavignier de Andrade Ramos
Keyword(s):  
Social Relationships ◽  
Human Action ◽  
Physical Distance ◽  
Modern Technology ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
Potential Interaction ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
Urban Network ◽  
Paulo State ◽  
The Cost

The diffusion of modern technology has changed the world of social relationships, in which interactions were once limited by one's surroundings, a space caracterized above all by physical continuity. Until the last century, the conception of space strongly linked with physical distance of routes has prevailed, imposing local boundaries for the use of space by human action. The experience of circulation in a space built by remote and well connected points, enables social relationships to be established in an environment characterized for the most part by physical discontinuity. This paper analyses the complex and well developed urban network of São Paulo State, considering two components: the interurban bus flows, whose materiality incorporates the cost of physical distance in terms of time; and the telephone flows, which with its instantaneous conection allows the potential interaction among all the cities independently of the physical distance among them.

scholarly journals Arrangement classifiers, collocations, and near-synonymy: A corpus-based study with reference to Polish

2020 ◽  
Vol 137 (4) ◽  
pp. 245-258
Author(s):  
Damian Herda
Keyword(s):  
Internal Structure ◽  
Empirical Investigation ◽  
Salient Feature ◽  
Mass Nouns ◽  
Human Agent ◽  
Naturally Occurring ◽  
Similar Vein

The aim of this paper is to contrast the near-synonymous Polish classifiers kupa ‘heap’, sterta ‘pile’, and stos ‘stack’, all of which encode upward-oriented arrangements of objects or substances and thus prototypically combine with concrete inanimate nouns, by means of a collocational analysis conducted on naturally-occurring data derived from the Na­tional Corpus of Polish. The results of the empirical investigation point to a tendency for kupa ‘heap’ to combine predominantly with mass nouns denoting amorphous, frequently natural, stuff, whereas sterta ‘pile’ and stos ‘stack’ exhibit a pronounced predilection for count N2-collocates referring to artefacts. In a similar vein, while both sterta ‘pile’ and stos ‘stack’ typically stand for aggregates formed by a volitional human agent, it is not infrequent for kupa ‘heap’ to classify portions of substances whose shape is a result of the forces of nature or merely constitutes a by-effect of activities intended to achieve goals other than arranging stuff into units. What differentiates between sterta ‘pile’ and stos ‘stack’, however, is that constructional solidity appears a more salient feature of the latter item, hence its capability of applying to vertical collections of entities marked by an orderly internal structure.

scholarly journals Role of Social Enterprises in Addressing Energy Poverty: Making the Case for Refined Understanding through Theory of Co-Production of Knowledge and Theory of Social Capital

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (20) ◽  
pp. 8533
Author(s):  
Praveen Kumar ◽  
Nishant Tiwary
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Empirical Investigation ◽  
Energy Systems ◽  
Social Enterprises ◽  
Theoretical Understanding ◽  
Energy Poverty ◽  
Production Of Knowledge ◽  
Poor Communities

Social enterprises have become increasingly central in the field of energy poverty. As a result of market and government failures, an increased emphasis on social enterprises to address energy poverty has emerged. Still, there is limited theoretical understanding guiding the role of social enterprises in addressing the challenge of energy poverty. We apply theories of co-production and social capital to analyze the role of social enterprises in disseminating and implementing cleaner energy alternatives to resource poor communities. By combining implications of these theories, we argue that social enterprises act as honest brokers between communities and technologists, cultivate new social relationships, and change social structures to move poor communities to adopt and use cleaner energy systems. Understanding the role of social enterprises in addressing energy poverty through a theoretical realm will provide a guiding framework to undertake systematic empirical investigation.

Laughing together: laughter as a feature of affiliation in French conversation

1997 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 147-161 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yvette Ellis
Keyword(s):  
Conversation Analysis ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Naturally Occurring ◽  
Collaborative Construction ◽  
Shared Laughter

ABSTRACTIn this paper, I propose to show how the analysis of episodes of laughter in French interaction can be approached from the theoretical perspective of Conversation Analysis. Delicate microanalysis reveals how laughter is very carefully placed by participants during the course of their talk to achieve a range of interactional tasks. Using extracts from my corpus of naturally occurring French conversation, I examine how the collaborative construction of episodes of shared laughter contribute to the achievement of affiliation between co-participants. How the laughter is initiated, where it is placed and who joins in that laughter are shown to be significant to the task of constructing and displaying social relationships between the participants.

scholarly journals From Infantilizing to Collaborating: Interactions in an Adult Day Center in Taiwan

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 57-57
Author(s):  
Shumin Lin
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Empirical Investigation ◽  
Long Term Care ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Term Care ◽  
Video Recordings ◽  
Naturally Occurring ◽  
Relational Interactions ◽  
First Time

Abstract Many studies have found that interactions in long-term care settings are characterized by infantilizing speech towards older adults, which was principally interpreted as detrimental to older adults’ health and self-esteem. These studies, however, focused on how caregivers talked to older adults and were conducted primarily in Western countries. How older adults respond to and make sense of such speech has received little empirical investigation (Marsden & Holmes, 2014). In this paper, I re-examined issues related to infantilizing speech based on 6 months of fieldwork in an ADC in Taiwan, which serves 33 older adults (aged 66-94), including 16 diagnosed with dementia. My data (including observational fieldnotes, 72 hours of video-recordings of naturally-occurring interactions, and conversations/interviews with caregivers, older adults and their family members) show that the ADC was discursively co-constructed as a learning place with frequent didactic interactions that occurred both ways. Many older adults (those with dementia included), with little or no education before, cherished the opportunity to be “students” for the first time. Caregivers also appreciated learning various things from the older adults. Furthermore, didactic interactions co-occurred or were interspersed with relational interactions, including teasing, humor, and bodily interactions that show mutual friendliness and care. By taking into account the wide variety of interactions, attending to the contributions of all parties, and situating these interactions in the personal as well as social histories, this study demonstrated that even didactic or so-called infantilizing interactions were used by caregivers and older adults as they collaborated to create strong positive relationships.

Material Considerations

2002 ◽  
Vol 19 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 35-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Pietz
Keyword(s):  
Social Relationships ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Social Power ◽  
Human Action ◽  
Object A ◽  
Social Facts ◽  
Social Fact ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
Moral Intent

If Harr emphasizes that things become social objects only within particular storylines, Pietz makes the reverse point about the essential materiality of social relationships, especially contractual ones, e.g. as expressed in the legal history of the `material consideration'. Departing from a similar conception of the performative micro-reproduction of social order and the communicative objectification of social facts, he argues that a theory of forensic objects as social facts disrupts not only capitalist presumptions about economic objects as the sole origin of monetary value but also enlightenment conceptions of society as a sphere of consequential human action distinct from nature as the sphere of material causality. The material consideration is one such forensic object. A `material consideration' refers to an obscure but important social object that embodies the power to transform subjective promises into objective obligations and thereby establishes the social fact of legal liability. The failed attempt of liberal philosophers and jurists since the eighteenth century to conceive considerations as mere symbolic evidence of subjective moral intent rather as real enactments of social power demonstrates how difficult it is for modern social theory to articulate the idea of social materiality found in social facts such as considerations, at least as long as it sustains a strict separation between society and nature or between the intentional action of humans and the physical causality of material objects.

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