“Samples Are Precious”: Value Formations in the Potentiality and Practices of Biobanking in Singapore

2021 ◽  
pp. 016224392110691
Author(s):  
Erik Aarden
Keyword(s):  
Public Goods ◽  
Life Span ◽  
Social Values ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Economic Value ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Scientific Practices ◽  
Temporal Complexity ◽  
Potential Value ◽  
The Social

Biobanking in Singapore is characterized by contested relations between funding ambitions and research practices, and different notions of what the (potential) value of storing samples and data for medical research is. Different biobanking efforts anticipate the production of public goods from stored materials in specifically situated ways. These efforts to produce public goods in the form of scientific and economic value can be fruitfully understood in terms of extraction, a complex sociotechnical process of retrieving (potential) value from raw materials, which both informs and is informed by specific social values. In exploring the extraction of potential value in relation to practice values, I propose the notion of value formations to account for the coproduction of and intersections between different forms of value(s) in scientific practices situated in particular social contexts. I trace value formations across the life span of biobanking collections, which range from recruitment, collection, and processing of samples to their storage, retrieval, and use. Observations along this life span show the social and temporal complexity of value-making in biobanking in Singapore, pointing to the contextual specificity of how biobanking is understood as a public good.

Personality and Social Contexts as Sources of Change and Continuity Across the Life Span

2018 ◽  
pp. 750-776
Author(s):  
Abigail J. Stewart ◽  
Kay Deaux
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Life Span ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Social Environment ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Life Stages ◽  
The People ◽  
The Social ◽  
Movement Participation

This chapter provides a framework designed to address how individual persons respond to changes and continuities in social systems and historical circumstances at different life stages and in different generations. We include a focus on systematic differences among the people who experience these changes in the social environment—differences both in the particular situations they find themselves in and in their personalities. Using examples from research on divorce, immigration, social movement participation, and experiences of catastrophic events, we make a case for an integrated personality and social psychology that extends the analysis across time and works within socially and historically important contexts.

Commodities in Action: Measuring Embeddedness and Imposing Values

2002 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 543-569 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy M. Koponen
Keyword(s):  
Social Values ◽  
Economic Value ◽  
Social Embeddedness ◽  
Economic Action ◽  
Politics Of Technology ◽  
The Social ◽  
Production Distribution ◽  
Close Observation ◽  
Actor Networks ◽  
Market Relations

Recent approaches in political economy look at the effects of technology and social values on economic action. Combining these approaches with those of economic anthropologists, this article poses that the way the economy is instituted can be understood by looking at reasons actors have for participating in actor-networks of production, distribution and consumption. Using the author's research on American recycling, this article first shows that much of the ‘making’ or instituting of the economy happens outside the market, through political machinations, contracts and standards. Second, it suggests that these relationships impose value upon goods differently than do market relations. The details of the recycling ‘chain’ show the ways actors shape the network and demonstrate that the social values that add ‘economic value’ to goods are not uniform, but are highly contextual. Starting from Mark Granovetter's notion of ‘social embeddedness', the article explains that the measure of social embeddedness is not as important as the values imposed upon other actors through social structure in the economy. It calls for a close observation of economic action in the locales within which production takes place to understand better the ‘actions-at-a-distance’ where the politics of technology, social movements and power create the empirical, instituted economy.

scholarly journals KEBIJAKAN PEMBANGUNAN PEMBERDAYAAN USAHA INDUSTRI TAPIOKA DI KABUPATEN PATI

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 83-93
Author(s):  
Suroso Suroso
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Social Development ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Economic Value ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Quantitative Approach ◽  
Medium Scale ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Social

ENGLISHPati Regency has a great potential in tapioca industries but the products are not feasible for big industries. Objectives of the research are: (1) to analyze the availability of raw materials for tapioca industries; (2) to analyze the role of tapioca industries in economic development; (3) to analyze the role of tapioca industries in social development; and (4) to analyze the competitiveness of tapioca industries in the study area. The research uses descriptive-quantitative approach. The research uses primary and secondary data. Data collecting uses techniques of interview, field-events and document observation. The analysis uses descriptive. There are some findings in the research. Firstly, the existing product of tapioca has a proportion rate 83.169% of the local raw materials. Secondly, the role of tapioca industries in the economic development is relatively good, in the second rating position among small and medium scale industries with the economic value 233,239,350,000 Rupiahs monthly. Thirdly, the role of tapioca industries in the social development is relatively good, in the third rating position among small and medium scale industries by employing of 3,617 workers. Fourthly, the competitiveness of tapioca industries in the study area is not relatively optimal, which is indicated by: (a) selling out raw materials, (b) the big industries are not willing to use the local tapioca products because of not feasible quality. INDONESIAKabupaten Pati memiliki potensi besar dalam industri tapioka tetapi produk tapioka dianggap kurang layak bagi industri besar. Tujuan Penelitian untuk : (1) menganalisa ketersediaan bahan baku usaha industri tapioka, (2) menganalisa peran usaha industri tapioka dalam pembangunan ekonomi, (3) menganalisa peran usaha industri tapioka dalam pembangunan sosial penyerapan tenaga kerja, (4) menganalisa daya saing usaha industri tapioka di area studi. Penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatan deskriptif kuantitatif. Penelitian menggunakan data primer dan data sekunder. Pengumpulan data dengan teknik wawancara, observasi lapangan dan observasi dokumen. Analisis data secara analisis deskriptif. Ada beberapa temuan dalam penelitian ini. Pertama, eksistensi produksi tapioka berada pada proporsi sebesar 83,169% dari potensi bahan baku lokal yang tersedia. Kedua, peran usaha industri tapioka dalam pembangunan ekonomi relatif baik, menempati peringkat 2 diantara UKM unggulan daerah dengan nilai ekonomi produksi per bulan sebesar Rp233.239.350.000,00. Ketiga, peran usaha industri tapioka dalam pembangunan sosial penyerapan tenaga kerja relatif baik, menempati peringkat 3 diantara UKM dengan penyerapan tenaga kerja sebanyak 3.617 orang. Keempat, daya saing usaha industri tapioka di area studi relatif kurang optimal terindikasi: (a) sebagian bahan baku lokal (ketela) dijual ke luar daerah karena penawaran harga yang kurang kompetitif, (b) perusahaan besar belum mau menggunakan produk tapioka tersebut dengan alasan kualitas kurang layak.

scholarly journals Do People Value Recorded Music?

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 141-158 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lee Marshall
Keyword(s):  
Popular Music ◽  
Social Values ◽  
Economic Value ◽  
Digital Music ◽  
Economic Decline ◽  
Recorded Music ◽  
Dramatic Decline ◽  
The Social ◽  
Consumption Practices ◽  
The Way

How much do the majority of people value music, and can or should that level of value be reflected in music’s economic value? The dramatic decline in the economic value of recorded popular music in the 21st century has prompted much debate about music being ‘devalued’ and the perceived ‘value gap’ between music’s socio-cultural and economic values. Using the economic decline of recorded music as a springboard, this article takes a different approach, however. It offers a theoretical analysis of popular music consumption practices organised thematically in terms of ‘music as object’ (focusing on the social values generated and perceived by recorded music artefacts) and ‘music as sound’ (focusing on the way that most contemporary musical experiences are characterised by music being background sound or accompaniment). Overall, the argument is that ‘music’ may not be as culturally valued by people as is commonly assumed. The way that music operates as a low-value entity to many people is perhaps reflected in the cultural and economic contours of the digital music industry, though they are not caused by digitisation per se.

Commodities in Action: Measuring Embeddedness and Imposing Values

2002 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 543-569 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy M. Koponen
Keyword(s):  
Sociological Theory ◽  
Social Values ◽  
Economic Value ◽  
Social Embeddedness ◽  
Economic Action ◽  
Politics Of Technology ◽  
The Social ◽  
Close Observation ◽  
Actor Networks ◽  
Market Relations

Recent approaches in political economy look at the effects of technology and social values on economic action. Combining these approaches with those of economic anthropologists, this article poses that the way the economy is instituted can be understood by looking at reasons actors have for participating in actor-networks of production, distribution and consumption. Using the author's research on American recycling, this article first shows that much of the ‘making’ or instituting of the economy happens outside the market, through political machinations, contracts and standards. Second, it suggests that these relationships impose value upon goods differently than do market relations. The details of the recycling ‘chain’ show the ways actors shape the network and demonstrate that the social values that add ‘economic value’ to goods are not uniform, but are highly contextual. Starting from Mark Granovetter's notion of ‘social embeddedness’, the article explains that the measure of social embeddedness is not as important as the values imposed upon other actors through social structure in the economy. It calls for a close observation of economic action in the locales within which production takes place to understand better the ‘actions-at-a-distance’ where the politics of technology, social movements and power create the empirical, instituted economy. The central question for sociological theory can then be put as follows: How is it possible that subjective meanings become objective facticities? Or, in terms appropriate to the afore mentioned theoretical positions: How is it possible that human activity (Handeln) should produce a world of things (choses)?

Personality and Social Contexts as Sources of Change and Continuity Across the Life Span

2012 ◽  
pp. 648-672
Author(s):  
Abigail J. Stewart ◽  
Kay Deaux
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Life Span ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Social Environment ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Life Stages ◽  
The People ◽  
The Social ◽  
Movement Participation

This chapter provides a framework designed to address how individual persons respond to changes and continuities in social systems and historical circumstances at different life stages and in different generations. We include a focus on systematic differences among the people who experience these changes in the social environment — differences both in the particular situations they find themselves in and in their personalities. Using examples from research on divorce, immigration, social movement participation, and experiences of war, we make a case for an integrated personality and social psychology that extends the analysis across time and works within socially and historically important contexts.

The Social Contexts of Racial Discrimination in Sentencing

1986 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 236-251 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martha A. Myers ◽  
Susette M. Talarico
Keyword(s):  
Racial Discrimination ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
The Social

Diffusion and Adoption of Corruption in Developing Economies: Evidence from Ghana

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (6) ◽  
pp. 21
Author(s):  
Solomon A. Keelson ◽  
Thomas Cudjoe ◽  
Manteaw Joy Tenkoran
Keyword(s):  
Social Values ◽  
Developing Economies ◽  
Policy Formulation ◽  
Institutional Factors ◽  
Developing Economy ◽  
Theoretical Underpinning ◽  
Institutional Failure ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
And Diffusion

The present study investigates diffusion and adoption of corruption and factors that influence the rate of adoption of corruption in Ghana. In the current study, the diffusion and adoption of corruption and the factors that influence the speed with which corruption spreads in society is examined within Ghana as a developing economy. Data from public sector workers in Ghana are used to conduct the study. Our findings based on the results from One Sample T-Test suggest that corruption is perceived to be high in Ghana and diffusion and adoption of corruption has witnessed appreciative increases. Social and institutional factors seem to have a larger influence on the rate of corruption adoption than other factors. These findings indicate the need for theoretical underpinning in policy formulation to face corruption by incorporating the relationship between the social values and institutional failure, as represented by the rate of corruption adoption in developing economies.

Intuitions and Arguments: Cognitive Foundations of Argumentation in Natural Theology

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 57-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helen De Cruz ◽  
Johan De Smedt
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Natural Theology ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Theories ◽  
Cognitive Foundations

This paper examines the cognitive foundations of natural theology: the intuitions that provide the raw materials for religious arguments, and the social context in which they are defended or challenged. We show that the premises on which natural theological arguments are based rely on intuitions that emerge early in development, and that underlie our expectations for everyday situations, e.g., about how causation works, or how design is recognized. In spite of the universality of these intuitions, the cogency of natural theological arguments remains a matter of continued debate. To understand why they are controversial, we draw on social theories of reasoning and argumentation.

Performing Masculinity and the Crisis of Transclass Man in August Wilson’s Drama

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Khatija Bibi Khan ◽  
Owen Seda
Keyword(s):  
Social Identity ◽  
Social Values ◽  
Social Construct ◽  
Cultural Experience ◽  
Great Cost ◽  
Social Milieu ◽  
Male Characters ◽  
The Social ◽  
North End

Feminist critics have identified the social constructedness of masculinity and have explored how male characters often find themselves caught up in a ceaseless quest to propagate and live up to an acceptable image of manliness. These critics have also explored how the effort to live up to the dictates of this social construct has often come at great cost to male protagonists. In this paper, we argue that August Wilson’s Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom and Joe Turner’s Come and Gone present the reader with a coterie of male characters who face the dual crisis of living up to a performed masculinity and the pitfalls that come with it, and what Mazrui has referred to as the phenomenon of “transclass man.” Mazrui uses the term transclass man to refer to characters whose socio-economic and socio-cultural experience displays a fluid degree of transitionality. We argue that the phenomenon of transclass man works together with the challenges of performed masculinity to create characters who, in an effort to adjust to and fit in with a new and patriarchal urban social milieu in America’s newly industrialised north, end up destroying themselves or failing to realise other possibilities that may be available to them. Using these two plays as illustrative examples, we further argue that staged masculinity and the crisis of transclass man in August Wilson’s plays create male protagonists who break ranks with the social values of a collectively shared destiny to pursue an individualistic personal trajectory, which only exacerbates their loss of social identity and a true sense of who they are.

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