Self-Deprecation

2019 ◽  
pp. 172-192
Author(s):  
Karen Stohr
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Social Power ◽  
Social Position ◽  
Power Relationships ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Landscape

This chapter takes up the social practice of self-deprecation, or the deliberate lowering of one’s social position in a given social interaction. The social practice of self-deprecation is distinguished from the virtues of modesty and humility and from the social practice of humblebragging. When self-deprecation is used well, it alters the normative space of a social interaction in ways that restore or maintain equality. Used badly, it threatens that equality and undermines respect and self-respect. How self-deprecation affects the normative space of an interaction depends on the social landscape in which it occurs, especially social power relationships. The account of self-deprecation defended in this chapter distinguishes between morally constructive and morally destructive self-deprecation.

Insider or outsider? Issues of power and habitus during life history interviews with menopausal Iranian women

2019 ◽  
pp. 137-152 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elham Amini
Keyword(s):  
Life History ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
Iranian Women ◽  
Power Dynamic ◽  
Interview Situation ◽  
Menopausal Women ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Landscape ◽  
Per Se

Conducting my fieldwork among religious menopausal women in Iran raised the question of the position of the researcher in life history research. This chapter set out to reflect on the shifting power dynamics in life history interviews and argues for the need to go beyond a focus on intersectional categories per se, to look at the broader social landscape of power and its process. I do this by employing a Bourdieusian perspective, which considers the symbolic and cognitive elements by emphasising on the social practice. So, I emphasise the power dynamic within the interviews could not be explained only by identity categories and how they intersected, but needed to include how the actors deployed them in their social practice i.e. in the interview situation.

scholarly journals Why do corporate actors engage in pro-social behaviour? A Bourdieusian perspective on corporate social responsibility

Organization ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 349-371 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dominik van Aaken ◽  
Violetta Splitter ◽  
David Seidl
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Social Power ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Theoretical Concepts ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Corporate Social

Drawing on Pierre Bourdieu’s theory of social practice, this article develops a novel approach to the study of corporate social responsibility (CSR). According to this approach, pro-social activities are conceptualized as social practices that individual managers employ in their efforts to attain social power. Whether such practices are enacted or not depends on (1) the particular features of the social field; (2) the individual managers’ socially shaped dispositions and (3) their stock of different forms of capital. By combining these theoretical concepts, the Bourdieusian approach we develop highlights the interplay between the economic and non-economic motivations that underlie CSR, acknowledging influences both on the micro- and the macro-level, as well as deterministic and voluntaristic aspects of human behaviour.

scholarly journals Reasons for requests

2016 ◽  
Vol 18 (6) ◽  
pp. 641-675 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julija Baranova ◽  
Mark Dingemanse
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Landscape ◽  
Shed Light ◽  
Systematic Collection

Reasons play an important role in social interaction. We study reasons-giving in the context of request sequences in Russian. By contrasting request sequences with and without reasons, we are able to shed light on the interactional work people do when they provide reasons or ask for them. In a systematic collection of request sequences in everyday conversation ( N = 158), we find reasons in a variety of sequential positions, showing the various points at which participants may orient to the need for a reason. Reasons may be left implicit (as in many minimal requests that are readily complied with), or they can be made explicit. Participants may make reasons explicit either as part of the initial formulation of a request or in an interactionally contingent way. Across sequential positions, we show that reasons for requests recurrently deal with three possible issues: (1) providing information when a request is underspecified, (2) managing relationships between the requester and requestee and (3) explicating ancillary actions implemented by a request. By spelling out information normally left to presuppositions and implicatures, reasons make requests more understandable and help participants to navigate the social landscape of asking assistance from others.

scholarly journals Hegemony

Communication ◽  
2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Calabrese ◽  
Marco Briziarelli
Keyword(s):  
Political Theory ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Social Power ◽  
Antonio Gramsci ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
The Social ◽  
Historically Situated ◽  
Point Of Departure ◽  
Modern Condition

The term “hegemony” refers to a socially determined category that describes mechanisms and dynamics associated with power, and which is grounded in historically situated social practice. Hegemony accounts for the social power of one class over the others as a combination of leadership and domination. However, such power is never completely attained, since hegemony also accounts for the unresolved tension between dominant and alternative ideologies. Like many other important concepts used to describe aspects of the modern condition, hegemony represents a key point of departure, passage, and arrival for much of contemporary social and political theory. The concept has been used since the time of the ancient Greek polis, but contemporary accounts of hegemony most often rely on the thought of one of the 20th century’s most influential social philosophers: Antonio Gramsci. Gramsci’s imprint is so strong that it remains either explicitly referenced or implicitly inscribed in nearly all contemporary analyses that employ the idea of hegemony, which is evident below.

Tower-naves, lordly towers, and the Anglo-Saxon aristocracy

2019 ◽  
pp. 133-173
Author(s):  
Michael G. Shapland
Keyword(s):  
Social Power ◽  
Social Position ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
The Social

This chapter traces the construction of tower-naves at lordly residences during the late tenth and eleventh centuries, as part of a wider tradition of aristocratic tower construction in late Anglo-Saxon England. This is argued to have been driven by the increasing localization of social power in the hands of the aristocracy during this period, and their ambition to manifest their power in the landscape. The symbolic role of these towers is discussed, in legitimizing the social position of their lords, as is their usefulness in fulfilling their lords’ military duties. Several of the towers are placed within the context of wider landscapes of defence, in terms of their viability as refuges and watchtowers over war-beacons, assembly-sites, and routes of communication.

The Economy of the Agricultural World

2018 ◽  
pp. 142-174
Author(s):  
Alain Bresson
Keyword(s):  
Social Power ◽  
Animal Husbandry ◽  
Farming Systems ◽  
Power Relationships ◽  
Real Property ◽  
Institutional Conditions ◽  
Ancient Agriculture ◽  
The Social ◽  
Extreme Variability ◽  
Unpredictable Environment

This chapter examines the social and technical conditions that both structured the Greek agricultural economy's permanent features and presided over the changes it experienced. It first considers the structures of real property, with a particular focus on the distribution of property, the size of the estates, and access to land and farming systems. It then discusses the crucial questions of risk management in an unpredictable environment, taking into account the different strategies employed by peasants to limit uncertainty caused by, for example, the extreme variability of the climate. It also analyzes tradition and innovation in agriculture and animal husbandry, the development of new lands that increased the area suitable for cultivation, and how general institutional conditions and social power relationships limited the transformations of agriculture, and hence an increase in yields in agricultural production. The chapter concludes with an analysis of changes in ancient agriculture and the market.

Beyond participation to co-creation of meaning: mobile social media in generative learning communities

2010 ◽  
Vol 49 (3) ◽  
pp. 351-369 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Lewis ◽  
Roy Pea ◽  
Joseph Rosen
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Interaction ◽  
Learning Communities ◽  
Informal Learning ◽  
Generative Learning ◽  
Mobile Media ◽  
Participatory Media ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Landscape ◽  
Media Applications

Digital social media is dramatically changing the social landscape and the ways in which we understand ‘participation’. As youth embrace these dynamic yet highly scripted forms of mediated social interaction, educators have struggled to find ways to harness these new participatory forms to support learning. This article considers the interactive structures and frameworks that underlie much of ‘Web 2.0’ participatory media, and proposes that theories of social learning and action could greatly inform the design of participatory media applications to support learning. We propose engaging the potential of mediated social interaction to foster ‘generative learning communities’ and describe an informal learning social media application under development known as ‘Mobltz’ — embracing concepts of ‘mobile media blitz’ with the intentional emphasis on the syllable ‘mob’. The application is an attempt to bring guidance from what social science knows about learning and human development to craft interactional affordances based on sharing of meaning and experiences.

Between the eye and the gaze: Maternal shame in the novel We Need to Talk about Kevin

2018 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 214-230 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ortal Slobodin
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
Social Power ◽  
Feminist Criticism ◽  
Psychological Research ◽  
Power Relationships ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The Gaze ◽  
Moral Standards ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Gaze

This paper seeks to understand the social power of maternal shame, using a framework that integrates feminist criticism of contemporary motherhood ideologies with philosophical theories that discuss shame in the broader context of visual perception. By using Lionel Shriver’s (2005) novel We Need to Talk about Kevin, the paper illustrates how shame operates in the interplay between the socio-cultural, gendered ideals of motherhood and mothers’ representations of these ideals. Specifically, the paper suggests that today’s mothers operate under a social gaze that expects them to meet the cultural and moral standards of “good” motherhood. This internalized societal judging gaze and the perception of failing to meet these standards are often the source of maternal shame. In line with philosophical accounts which focus on the primacy of vision in shame, I argue that empathy (“seeing with the eyes of the other”) is the most powerful antidote to shame. While shame is induced by a judging gaze, empathy develops through connected gazes, each acknowledging the other’s subjectivity. Locating shame within a socio-cultural context can provide invaluable insights for psychological research and practice that pay critical attention to positionality, reflexivity, and the power relationships inherent in contemporary motherhood.

scholarly journals UNDERSTANDING BOURDIEU’S DISTINCTION: SOCIAL AND LITERARY CONTESTATION TO GAIN LEGITIMATE POSITION

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-57
Author(s):  
Ganesha Hari Murti ◽  
Nila Susanti
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Social Power ◽  
Coffee Consumption ◽  
Symbolic Capital ◽  
Symbolic Violence ◽  
Symbolic Power ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Class Distinction

This writing reveals the subtle domination in the area of literature and social practice which is illustrated through the practice of coffee consumption and also the claims of legitimate authors. Bourdieu examines this sociological space as a field of contestation, so he constructs his sociological project by mapping the type of social power in arena in which every subject wagers his capital to achieve a legitimate position. In the arena, each subject desires to get power either by way of embracing the rule that applies, doxa, or to fight with the practice of the new, heterodox. Following the existing rules are not able to change anything because it dictates the subject to be a disciplined subject. Bourdieu proposes the emerging heterodox because doing resistance to all forms of domination can give birth to the new alternative social structure and preventing the old one to remain in power. Social change is expected because Bourdieu's symbolic power as in symbolic capital tends to provoke symbolic violence. Having symbolic capital enchanting for its power to subtly dominate people with less capital. Oppression becomes natural due to everyday practice normalizing the oppression. shapes the taste of a certain class as class distinction. Bourdieu’s concept of distinction investigates a more sophisticated strategy in the social arena where every agent plays subtle intimidation and indeed domination. 

scholarly journals How Dynamic Brain Networks Tune Social Behavior in Real Time

2018 ◽  
Vol 27 (6) ◽  
pp. 413-421 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Silston ◽  
Danielle S. Bassett ◽  
Dean Mobbs
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Human Brain ◽  
Social Discourse ◽  
Core Set ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Landscape ◽  
Neural Reuse ◽  
Neural Substrate ◽  
Signal Complexity ◽  
The Brain

During social interaction, the brain has the enormous task of interpreting signals that are fleeting, subtle, contextual, abstract, and often ambiguous. Despite the signal complexity, the human brain has evolved to be highly successful in the social landscape. Here, we propose that the human brain makes sense of noisy dynamic signals through accumulation, integration, and prediction, resulting in a coherent representation of the social world. We propose that successful social interaction is critically dependent on a core set of highly connected hubs that dynamically accumulate and integrate complex social information and, in doing so, facilitate social tuning during moment-to-moment social discourse. Successful interactions, therefore, require adaptive flexibility generated by neural circuits composed of highly integrated hubs that coordinate context-appropriate responses. Adaptive properties of the neural substrate, including predictive and adaptive coding, and neural reuse, along with perceptual, inferential, and motivational inputs, provide the ingredients for pliable, hierarchical predictive models that guide our social interactions.

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