Conjointly Co-constituting the Social and the Individual in Communicating

2020 ◽  
pp. 161-207
Author(s):  
Robert B. Arundale
Keyword(s):  
Social Systems ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Individual

Chapter 5 extends the focus on what is individual in communicating by examining how conjointly co-constituting operative interpretings is essential in generating commonality and difference in an individual’s resources for interacting, as is apparent in examining an episode of everyday interacting. The chapter also extends the focus on what is social in communicating by examining how, in recurrently engaging their system-specific resources for interacting, participants interactively organize large, stable social systems like organizations and cultures. Two new assumptive commitments capture how conjoint co-constituting is linked reflexively with what is social, and with what is individual. Conjoint co-constituting is essential to human sociality, but it is also essential to human individuality, as in the final commitment that the embodied individual systems that are human beings also emerge in conjoint co-constituting.

scholarly journals Adaptative Potential Students as Internal Resources Mastery Under Transformation of Society

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 117-125
Author(s):  
Nataliya Zavatska ◽  
Ulyana Mykhaylyshyn
Keyword(s):  
Adaptive Capacity ◽  
Environmental Changes ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Social Adaptation ◽  
Adjustment Process ◽  
Adaptation Process ◽  
Structural Components ◽  
Mutual Adaptation ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Individual

The article shows that the specificity of a holistic personality adjustment process in social systems is not confined only because of the peculiarities of its elements, such as the personal maturity, changes in the social conditions of the environment, and is determined by the interaction of structural components of the adaptive capacity of the individual. This maladjustment of one of these components will inevitably impact on the integrity of the individual adaptation process. It was determined that based on the analysis of the structural components of adaptation of the person (socially adapted situation, social need for adaptive, adaptive psychological need) there is the need to clarify the role of each of these components in the process of adaptation of the person. In the context of investigations under the holistic process of social adaptation of personality in social systems we mean active mutual adaptation of the individual and the social environment to each other in order to create a harmonious cooperation for the effective functioning of the individual in these social systems. Violation of this process or the implementation of its social disapproved or antisocial ways leads to the violation of the integrity of the adaptation process and it flows in unacceptable forms of society. It is emphasized that social exclusion leads to disruption of the socialization process, reflected in the increasing complexity of learning and the use of social roles, values and attitudes. In accordance with the social work we should pay attention to the replacement of anti-social norms, values and attitudes to prosocial. This process we treat as a social reinsertion - purposefully organized restructuring of the moral and valuable personality and behavioral areas that promotes the formation of social and value orientations and behavior. It was stated that the whole process of social adaptation of the person can provide awareness and reflection of environmental changes in the social systems of the environment; activity of the person in the regulation of adaptive capacity; transformation of adaptive capacity into more complex and sophisticated forms of interaction with the surrounding reality

scholarly journals The allure of celebrities: unpacking their polysemic consumer appeal

2019 ◽  
Vol 53 (10) ◽  
pp. 2025-2053
Author(s):  
Markus Wohlfeil ◽  
Anthony Patterson ◽  
Stephen J. Gould
Keyword(s):  
Design Methodology ◽  
Supporting Evidence ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Total Period ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Link ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose This paper aims to explain a celebrity’s deep resonance with consumers by unpacking the individual constituents of a celebrity’s polysemic appeal. While celebrities are traditionally theorised as unidimensional semiotic receptacles of cultural meaning, the authors conceptualise them here instead as human beings/performers with a multi-constitutional, polysemic consumer appeal. Design/methodology/approach Supporting evidence is drawn from autoethnographic data collected over a total period of 25 months and structured through a hermeneutic analysis. Findings In rehumanising the celebrity, the study finds that each celebrity offers the individual consumer a unique and very personal parasocial appeal as the performer, the private person behind the public performer, the tangible manifestation of either through products and the social link to other consumers. The stronger these constituents, individually or symbiotically, appeal to the consumer’s personal desires, the more s/he feels emotionally attached to this particular celebrity. Research limitations/implications Although using autoethnography means that the breadth of collected data is limited, the depth of insight this approach garners sufficiently unpacks the polysemic appeal of celebrities to consumers. Practical implications The findings encourage talent agents, publicists and marketing managers to reconsider underlying assumptions in their talent management and/or celebrity endorsement practices. Originality/value While prior research on celebrity appeal has tended to enshrine celebrities in a “dehumanised” structuralist semiosis, which erases the very idea of individualised consumer meanings, this paper reveals the multi-constitutional polysemy of any particular celebrity’s personal appeal as a performer and human being to any particular consumer.

The ZP Framework and Effective Leadership Behaviour in Problematic, Non-Problematic and Issue-Ridden Situations

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 177-185
Author(s):  
Rajendra Khandekar
Keyword(s):  
Social Systems ◽  
Leadership Theories ◽  
Problematic Situation ◽  
Effective Leader ◽  
Leadership Behaviour ◽  
The Social ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Innovative Behaviour ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Problematic Situations

A review of leadership literature reveals three patterns. First, all leadership theories address problematic situations. Second, leadership theories address problems at increasingly complex levels of social systems from individual to relationships to groups to organizations and finally societies. Third, leadership theories imply that an effective leader identifies, flexibly prioritizes and acts accordingly on task and emotional problems confronting the social system to achieve goals. This paper reframes the concept of ‘situation’ using the Zeroth P (ZP) framework to integrate the above three patterns. The ZP framework provides a way to sort situations into four different types of problematic and non-problematic situations. It is proposed that each type of situation requires different types of leader behaviours. The proposed appropriate combinations are: Celebratory behaviour in a non-problematic situation when what is happening is what should be happening; Boundary-clarifying behaviour, in a non-problematic situation where nothing is happening that should not be happening; Rebellious behaviour when what is happening should not be happening; and Visionary/Innovative behaviour when the leader envisions a better world or situation that does not yet exist, but should exist. Application of the framework is illustrated at the individual and group levels, and research avenues are pointed out.

ANALYZING THE AGENT-BASED MODEL AND ITS IMPLICATIONS

2003 ◽  
Vol 06 (03) ◽  
pp. 331-347 ◽  
Author(s):  
YUTAKA I. LEON SUEMATSU ◽  
KEIKI TAKADAMA ◽  
NORBERTO E. NAWA ◽  
KATSUNORI SHIMOHARA ◽  
OSAMU KATAI
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Internal Structure ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Agent Based Model ◽  
Social Phenomena ◽  
Agent Based ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Individual

Agent-based models (ABMs) have been attracting the attention of researchers in the social sciences, becoming a prominent paradigm in the study of complex social systems. Although a great number of models have been proposed for studying a variety of social phenomena, no general agent design methodology is available. Moreover, it is difficult to validate the accuracy of these models. For this reason, we believe that some guidelines for ABMs design must be devised; therefore, this paper is a first attempt to analyze the levels of ABMs, identify and classify several aspects that should be considered when designing ABMs. Through our analysis, the following implications have been found: (1) there are two levels in designing ABMs: the individual level, related to the design of the agents' internal structure, and the collective level, which concerns the design of the agent society or macro-dynamics of the model; and (2) the mechanisms of these levels strongly affect the outcomes of the models.

scholarly journals University Solidarity Management

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (8) ◽  
pp. 487-504
Author(s):  
Fabiana Pinto de Almeida Bizarria ◽  
Mônica Mota Tassigny ◽  
Flávia Lorenne Barbosa
Keyword(s):  
Social Systems ◽  
University Management ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Social Agents ◽  
Reflective Process ◽  
Theoretical Synthesis ◽  
The Social ◽  
Epistemological Conception ◽  
Symbolic Interactions ◽  
The University

In the perspective of discussing a university management proposal that places an alternative epistemological conception and understands the multidimensionality of human beings and social systems (as a critique of economic instrumentality) and the multidimensionality of the educational phenomenon, this article presents a theoretical synthesis, an essay of idea, in the sense of proposing a model of solidarity management, in the perspective of its dimensions (Cosmopolitan Rationality; Multidimensional Model of Administration Management; Intercultural Translation). The solidary management of the university centralizes the debate on interculturalityfrom the perspective of emancipation, while activating the reflective process on how to strategically operationalize actions that are guided by an integrative rationality and coordinate the dimensions of the educational phenomenon, in this case: culture, politics, pedagogy and economics. It is in the scope of a democratization of knowledge that this management advances from the “societal” management, as it comprehends a perspective on participation that qualifies the knowledge and practices of social agents in building proposals as credible, and the social organization should focus its efforts and trigger the experiences of the subjects so that the intercultural translation process incorporates comprehensive and purposeful practices within symbolic interactions.

Sartre und die Macht der Dinge

2009 ◽  
Vol 2009 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-36
Author(s):  
Jens Bonnemann
Keyword(s):  
Social Constraints ◽  
Second Step ◽  
Herbert Marcuse ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Philosophical Work ◽  
Social Conditioning ◽  
The Social ◽  
Individual Project ◽  
Dialectical Reason ◽  
The Individual

Academia widely agrees in that Sartre in his early philosophy of freedom in Being and Nothingness (1943) ignores the restrictions people are subjected to by society. Here, Sartre proposes a concept of absolute freedom that is not affected by reality, even regarding extreme situations like incarceration. This paper starts with a review of critique raised by three renowned thinkers, philosophers as well as sociologists: Herbert Marcuse, Theodor W. Adorno and Pierre Bourdieu. With respect to this I will show in a second step that the criticism of Sartre’s position as expressed in his second main philosophical work, Critique of Dialectical Reason (1960), misses the mark. Whereas in the context of existentialism the individual project is liberated from social constraints, Sartre states in his later works that the project realises the individuals’s social fate in different ways. Today his early position – man defines his self and is nothing else than what he makes of himself – sounds like a strategy of motivation designed by Neoliberalism aimed at maximising the so-called human capital. However, the author of Critique of Dialectical Reason presents us with stimulating ideas how both the uniqueness of human beings as well as the social conditioning of

Communicating & Relating

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert B. Arundale
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Human Interaction ◽  
Communicative Interaction ◽  
Human Relationships ◽  
The Social ◽  
Language And Social Interaction ◽  
Everyday Talk ◽  
The Individual ◽  
New Research

Communicating & Relating offers an account of how relating with one another emerges in communicating in everyday interacting. Prior work has indicated that human relationships arise in human communicating, and some studies have made arguments for why that is the case. Communicating & Relating moves beyond this work to offer an account of how both relating and face emerge in everyday talk and conduct: what comprises human communicating, what defines human social systems, how the social and the individual are linked in human life, and what comprises human relating and face. Part 1 develops the Conjoint Co-constituting Model of Communicating to address the question “How do participants constitute turns, actions, and meanings in everyday interacting?” Part 2 argues that the processes of constituting what is known cross-culturally as “face” are the processes of constituting relating, and develops Face Constituting Theory to address the question “How do participants constitute relating in everyday interacting?” The answers to both questions are grounded in evidence from everyday talk and conduct. Communicating & Relating is an invitation to engage its alternative account in research on communicating, relating, and face in language and social interaction. Like other volumes in the Foundations of Human Interaction series, Communicating & Relating offers new perspectives and new research on communicative interaction and on human relationships as key elements of human sociality.

*The Study of Social Organizations

Behaviour ◽  
1976 ◽  
Vol 59 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 96-115 ◽  
Author(s):  
Glen Mcbride
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Model ◽  
Social Organization ◽  
Social Interactions ◽  
Animal Species ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Structural Features ◽  
Or Groups ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Animal Societies

AbstractThis paper presents a theoretical model of and a practical approach to the study of social systems. It was prepared after discussions at the XI and XII International Ethological Conferences, and each draft was presented to many ethologists for comment, and many responded. The paper looks at the social organization within animal species, and at the way animals build, maintain, and change it by their behaviour. The questions asked move always from the individual behaviours, through the social interactions, to the social reiationships and groups which are stable features of societies. The main societal subsystems discussed are: I. Social phases, or social structures which are maintained for periods of time; 2. Organic specialization by castes; 3. Social specialization in groups ; 4. The pattern of dispersal of individuals or groups; 5. The social organization of sexual and parent-offspring behaviour; 6. The organization of behaviour in relation to the environment; 7. The dynamic aspects of animal societies, particularly with changes in density. In each section, questions aim to draw out the pattern of behavioural organization, emphasising the structural features of the theoretical model presented.

scholarly journals The Importance of Primary Prevention Regarding Orientations Given to Babies´ Caregivers

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
C Anauate ◽  
E Peters Kahhale
Keyword(s):  
Social Contact ◽  
Zone Of Proximal Development ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Proximal Development ◽  
Mental Functions ◽  
The Social ◽  
Child Neurodevelopment ◽  
Teachers And Parents ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Brain

Caregiver orientation is very important to promote neurodevelopment on babies. Considering that relations are the key for this development of superior mental functions, we believe that all caregivers, teachers and parents should be present and paying attention to the children, providing opportunity for an ideal neurodevelopmentand humanization. It is important to orientate caregivers so that they can provide qualitative conditions, which integrate affection, conscience and action to promote development to occur according to the potential of the child. We believe that the individual constitutes himself by means of social contact. This work has the goal toapproach the theory which orientates, with specific guidelines and practical work, caregivers aiming a better child neurodevelopment. Bonds are necessary for a better and trustful relation. When you are present in a relation nervous connections are promoted and these lead to a more effective motor, cognitive and affectivedevelopment of the superior mental functions such as memory, attention, language, psychomotricity and executive functions. It uses didactically the following principles of the Social Historical theory of Luria and Vygotsky: mediation, functional units and zone of proximal development. Interactions between the brain and the formation of mental functions require the maturity of the nervous system as well as an active process that emphasizes relations of two or more human beings. Keywords: neurodevelopment, childhood, relation

scholarly journals Sekolah Berbasis Pesantren Sebagai Salah Satu Model Pendidikan Islam Dalam Konsepsi Perubahan Sosial

2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 69
Author(s):  
Nurochim Nurochim
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Social System ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Boarding School ◽  
Islamic Education ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Human Capabilities ◽  
The Social ◽  
School Model ◽  
Formal School

Abstract: The social change in Islam is used as the concept to realize the safety of the human being  in the world and the after life. One form of the processes of social changes is education which aims at improving the quality of human to have high competitiveness. Education in Indonesia has two models: pesantren (boarding school) model and formal school model. Boarding School model aims at developing human capabilities on the religious aspect and its curriculum is proven to be 100% on religions. Formal School model emphasizes on academic achievement with its curriculum 93% of general knowledge. Pesantren-Based School (PBS) is one of models of Islamic education that integrates two social systems, the excellence of the pesantren (boarding school) social system and school social system. Model of Islamic education is to create religious human beings, as well as clerical scientists, so that they can participate fully in the social community system. Pesantren-based School in the conception of this social change integrates pesantren and school education system into a wholly unified one. This social change is a change due to willingness of parents and the ideas of experts to establish educational institutions that embody graduates of scientists and religionists. This article is a descriptive study using a qualitative approach to investigate a social change by searching for information from the documents or the results of research related topesantren-based school. الملخص: كان التغيّر الإجتماعي في الإسلام لتحقيق الإنسان السالم في الدنيا والآخرة. ومن شكل هذه التغيّرات الإجتماعية هو التربية التي تهدف إلى ترقية نوعية الإنسان المتنافس. والنمط التربوي في إندونيسيا هو التربية في بسانترينات والتربية في المدارس العامة . ويهدف النمط التربوي في بسانترين إلى تنمية الطاقات البشرية في الجانب الديني، وكان المنهج الدراسي في بسانترين % 100 في العلوم الدينية. أما النمط التربوي في المدارس العامة فيركّز في الانجاز الأكاديمي والمنهج الدراسي فيها % 93 يكون في العلوم التجريبية والكونية. والمدرسة على أساس بسنترين هي أحد الأنماط للتربية الإسلامية الجامع للنظامين الإجتماعيين هما تفوّق النظام الإجتماعي لبسنترين وتفوّق النظام الإجتماعي للمدرسة. استطاع هذا النمط التربوي تكوين إنسان عالم متديّن وعالم في العلوم الكونية والتجريبية حتي يكون له دور فعّال في النظام الإجتماعي في المجتمع. والمدرسة على أساس بسانترين – في مفهوم التغيّر الإجتماعي -  يجمع النظام التربوي البسانتريني والنظام التربوي المدرسي في وحدة متكاملة. وهذا التغيّر الإجتماعي هو التغيّر لوجود إرادة أولياء الطلبة واسهامات فكرية من الخبراء لتكوين مؤسسات تربوية تخرّج فيها علماء في العلوم الدينية والعلوم الكونية والتجريبية. Abstrak: Perubahan sosial dalam Islam untuk mewujudkan manusia yang selamat di dunia dan akhirat. Salah satu bentuk proses perubahan sosial adalah pendidikan, yang bertujuan meningkatkan kualitas manusia yang berdaya saing tinggi. Pendidikan di Indonesia terdapat model pendidikan pesantren dan model pendidikan sekolah. Model pendidikan pesantren bertujuan untuk mengembangkan kemampuan manusia dari aspek agama dan terbukti kurikulumnya 100% agama. Model pendidikan sekolah menekankan prestasi akademik, yang terbukti kurikulumnya 93% pengetahuan umum. Sekolah Berbasis Pesantren (SBP) merupakan salah satu model pendidikan Islam yang mengintegrasikan dua sistem sosial, yakni keunggulan sistem sosial pesantren dan keunggulan sistem sosial sekolah. Model pendidikan Islam ini dapat menciptakan manusia yang agamawan sekaligus ilmuwan, sehingga dapat berperan penuh dalam sistem sosial kemasyarakatan. Sekolah Berbasis Pesantren dalam konsepsi perubahan sosial ini mengintegrasikan sistem pendidikan pesantren dan sistem pendidikan sekolah menjadi kesatuan yang utuh. Perubahan sosial ini merupakan perubahan karena adanya kemauan orang tua siswa dan hasil pemikiran para pakar untuk membentuk lembaga pendidikan yang mewujudkan lulusan yang ilmuwan dan agamawan. Artikel ini merupakan penelitian deskriptif dengan menggunakan pendekatan kualitatif, untuk mengetahui suatu perubahan sosial, dengan mencari informasi dalam dokumen atau hasil penelitian mengenai sekolah berbasis pesantren.

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