Introduction

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
Stephen J. Spencer
Keyword(s):  
Social Constructionist ◽  
Historical Narratives ◽  
Linguistic Turn ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Social ◽  
Constructionist Approach

The Introduction critiques the methodological frameworks available to the historian of medieval emotions, arguing for the enduring value of the social constructionist approach and the need to simultaneously respond to the theoretical principles associated with the linguistic turn. Relevant crusades scholarship is then surveyed, including the long historiographical tradition of seeking to reconstruct participants’ beliefs and ideologies from historical narratives, before outlining the book’s structure and arguments. An overview of the core sources which form the backbone of this study follows, with the intention of introducing uninitiated readers to the breadth and diversity of sources available to historians of the crusades.

Social Learning and Macroeconomic Policy in Britain

2001 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 133-152 ◽  
Author(s):  
IAN GREENER
Keyword(s):  
Social Learning ◽  
Policy Change ◽  
Policy Instruments ◽  
Macroeconomic Policy ◽  
Social Constructionist ◽  
Learning Models ◽  
The Social ◽  
Constructionist Approach ◽  
The 1960S

This paper examines the social learning models of policy of Hall and May attempting to create a synthesis of the best elements of each. We then apply the revised model to three specific instances of macroeconomic policy in Britain; the introduction of ‘Keynesian-plus’ policy in the 1960s, the movement from Keynesianism to monetarism, and the experiment with monetarism in the 1980s. In each case study, the degree of policy change is assessed, and possible reasons for that level of change explored. We conclude that a more social constructionist approach is required to understand the link between policy instruments, indicators, and paradigms, and, alongside this, a greater need to understand the implications of the assumptions underlying policy.

Dialogic representations of Britishness and Irishness

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-61
Author(s):  
Zsuzsanna Ajtony
Keyword(s):  
Social Constructionist ◽  
Fictional Characters ◽  
Cultural Resources ◽  
Speech Community ◽  
Linguistic Features ◽  
Careful Choice ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Language Studies ◽  
The Social ◽  
Constructionist Approach

Speakers construct their identities by careful choice of the appropriate linguistic features that will convey the specific social information that identifies them as part of a particular speech community (cf. Riley 2007, Joseph 2004). The social constructionist approach focuses on how social actors use linguistic and other cultural resources in the ongoing construction and re-construction of personal and group identity in interaction. Under such a view, identity (and hence ethnicity) is necessarily dynamic (Schilling-Estes 2004). Recent research on fictional characters and scripted discourse has proved the legitimacy of this scholarly area among language studies (Kozloff 2000, Culpeper 2001, Walshe 2009, Eder et al. 2010, Dynel 2011, Furkó 2013). This paper investigates several possibilities for the dialogic construction of the British and Irish ethnic stereotype. Drawing the distinction between real and fictional characters (Culpeper 2010), the micro-sociolinguistic, pragmalinguistic analysis of my corpora, taken from contemporary cinematographic representations of Britishness and Irishness, aims to compare some of the strategies that interactional partners employ, and which reveal several facets of their identities.

Racial reality and unreality1

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karim Murji
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
Social Constructionist ◽  
Socially Constructed ◽  
The Social ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Constructionist Approach ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter explores the debates on what race is. For some time, the dominant social constructionist approach in the social sciences has insisted that the only proper way to regard race is by refuting any connection with biology. Attention to the many ways in which race is socially constructed has been important; but, while a construction is not ‘unreal’, there is a common further step in which race is thereby deemed to be not valid. The rejection of race tends to treat race as something that would be ‘real’ if it were located in science and biology. The chapter then shows how recent developments in the natural sciences and changing views on the relationship between the natural and social sciences problematise that view. Yet in opposition to post-race views, critical scholars can then be seen to draw on conventional categories of race to show that racialised inequality still matters.

Love and Hate at Qumran: The Social Construction of Sectarian Emotion

2013 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 237-263 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ari Mermelstein
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
Social Constructionist ◽  
Core Beliefs ◽  
Divine Love ◽  
Divine Will ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Group Members ◽  
Constructionist Approach ◽  
Covenantal Community

Abstract Employing a “social constructionist” approach, according to which emotions are culturally conditioned expressions of values, this study considers how the sect behind 1QS used the emotions of love and hate to teach its members the proper ways of evaluating the world. Sectarian love and hate were vehicles through which the sect communicated core beliefs about election and revelation. Because his entrance into the sect was made possible by divine love, the initiate was expected to recognize his utter dependence on the divine will by loving those whom God loves and hating those whom he hates, thereby affirming his place in the covenantal community. Since divine love and hate manifested itself in the selective revelation of knowledge, sectarian love and hate required the unselfish disclosure of knowledge to other group members and the concealment of the same knowledge from outsiders. This link between the emotions of love and hate and an ethic of disclosure and concealment left its mark on routine sectarian conduct in the practice of reproof. Reproof of insiders and the conscious withholding of reproof from outsiders was a “socially dictated performance” of either love or hate that demonstrated the sectarian’s commitment to communal beliefs about covenant, knowledge, divine will, and relations with outsiders.

Considering context in discursive leadership research

2009 ◽  
Vol 62 (11) ◽  
pp. 1607-1633 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gail T. Fairhurst
Keyword(s):  
Social Constructionist ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Linguistic Turn ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Social ◽  
Discursive Leadership ◽  
Leadership Research ◽  
Organizational Sciences

In addition to leadership psychology, there is another journey to understand the context of leadership that takes as its starting point the linguistic turn in the social and the organizational sciences. Those impacted by the linguistic turn are broadly social constructionist, discursive, and more qualitative than mainstream leadership scholars. In varying degrees, these scholars view context as multi-layered, co-created, contestable, and locally achieved. This article explores a constellation of perspectives united by these themes, introduces the qualitative special issue articles, and suggests directions for future research on the context of leadership.

Emotions in a Crusading Context, 1095-1291

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen J. Spencer
Keyword(s):  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Social Constructionist ◽  
Historical Narratives ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social ◽  
Chansons De Geste ◽  
History Of ◽  
New Methodologies ◽  
Changes Over Time ◽  
Emotional Landscape

Emotions in a Crusading Context is the first book-length study of the emotional rhetoric of crusading. It investigates the ways in which a number of emotions and affective displays—primarily fear, anger, and weeping—were understood, represented, and utilized in twelfth- and thirteenth-century western narratives of the crusades, making use of a broad range of comparative material to gauge the distinctiveness of those texts: crusader letters, papal encyclicals, model sermons, chansons de geste, lyrics, and an array of theological and philosophical treatises. In addition to charting continuities and changes over time in the emotional landscape of crusading, this book identifies the underlying influences which shaped how medieval authors represented and used emotions; analyses the passions crusade participants were expected to embrace and reject; and assesses whether the idea of crusading created a profoundly new set of attitudes towards emotions. Emotions in a Crusading Context calls on scholars of the crusades to reject the traditional methodological approach of taking the emotional descriptions embedded within historical narratives as straightforward reflections of protagonists’ lived feelings, and in so doing challenges the long historiographical tradition of reconstructing participants’ beliefs and experiences from these texts. Within the history of emotions, it demonstrates that, despite the ongoing drive to develop new methodologies for studying the emotional standards of the past, typified by recent experiments in ‘neurohistory’, the social constructionist (or cultural-historical) approach still has much to offer the historian of medieval emotions.

scholarly journals Orígenes de la Psicología Discursiva y su desarrollo hacia una psicología cultural postmoderna

2014 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hugo Ignacio Campos Winter
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Social Constructionism ◽  
Cultural Psychology ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Social Constructionist ◽  
Discursive Psychology ◽  
Linguistic Turn ◽  
The Social ◽  
Identidad Cultural ◽  
Epistemological Framework

 El siguiente texto describe los orígenes de la psicología discursiva, corriente alternativa a la hegemonía del paradigma cognitivista en psicología. El contexto epistemológico desarrollado se origina en el giro lingüístico, continúa con el construccionismo social y la psicología social construccionista y finaliza con el análisis del discurso. Dicho marco explica las características distintivas de la psicología discursiva en relación a las otras corrientes y escuelas de psicología. Asimismo, los conceptos psicológicos y en particular el concepto de identidad, abordados desde la psicología discursiva, experimentan un giro no solo en su abordaje metodológico sino también en su ontología, adquiriendo una esencia discursiva. Finalmente, se propone un ensamblaje de la psicología discursiva con la antropología postmoderna para generar un nuevo concepto de identidad cultural y para esbozar un posible desarrollo de la psicología discursiva hacia una nueva psicología cultural postmoderna. This paper describes the origins of discursive psychology, alternative to the hegemony of cognitive psychology paradigm in current psychology. The epistemological framework developed originates in the linguistic turn, continues with the social constructionism and social constructionist psychology and ends with discourse analysis. This framework explains the hallmarks of discursive psychology in relation to other schools and schools of psychology. The psychological concepts and in particular the concept of identity seen from discursive psychology experienced a shift not only in its methodological approach but also in its ontology, acquiring a discursive essence. Finally, an assembly of discursive psychology and postmodern anthropology aims to generate a new concept of cultural identity and to outline the possible development of discursive psychology into a new postmodern cultural psychology.

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