Cognition in a Social Context: A Social-Interactionist Approach to Emergent Phenomena

2018 ◽  
Vol 27 (5) ◽  
pp. 369-377 ◽  
Author(s):  
Madalina Vlasceanu ◽  
Karalyn Enz ◽  
Alin Coman
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Context ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Psychological Research ◽  
Fundamental Characteristic ◽  
Collective Memories ◽  
Emergent Phenomena ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Interactionist ◽  
Interactionist Approach

The formation of collective memories, emotions, and beliefs is a fundamental characteristic of human communities. These emergent outcomes are thought to be the result of a dynamical system of communicative interactions among individuals. But despite recent psychological research on collective phenomena, no programmatic framework to explore the processes involved in their formation exists. Here, we propose a social-interactionist approach that bridges cognitive and social psychology to illuminate how microlevel cognitive phenomena give rise to large-scale social outcomes. It involves first establishing the boundary conditions of cognitive phenomena, then investigating how cognition is influenced by the social context in which it is manifested, and finally studying how dyadic-level influences propagate in social networks. This approach has the potential to (a) illuminate the large-scale consequences of well-established cognitive phenomena, (b) lead to interdisciplinary dialogues between psychology and the other social sciences, and (c) be more relevant for public policy than existing approaches.

scholarly journals The Relevance of Inequality Research in Sociology for Inequality Reduction

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 237802312110201
Author(s):  
Thomas A. DiPrete ◽  
Brittany N. Fox-Williams
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Social Inequality ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Sociological Research ◽  
Life Chances ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social ◽  
Large Scale Change ◽  
The Subject

Social inequality is a central topic of research in the social sciences. Decades of research have deepened our understanding of the characteristics and causes of social inequality. At the same time, social inequality has markedly increased during the past 40 years, and progress on reducing poverty and improving the life chances of Americans in the bottom half of the distribution has been frustratingly slow. How useful has sociological research been to the task of reducing inequality? The authors analyze the stance taken by sociological research on the subject of reducing inequality. They identify an imbalance in the literature between the discipline’s continual efforts to motivate the plausibility of large-scale change and its lesser efforts to identify feasible strategies of change either through social policy or by enhancing individual and local agency with the potential to cumulate into meaningful progress on inequality reduction.

Microcomputer Simulations of Presidential Elections

1983 ◽  
Vol 38 ◽  
pp. 20-20
Author(s):  
Robert S. Ross
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Role Playing ◽  
Science Students ◽  
Instructional Programs ◽  
Santa Barbara ◽  
Large Scale Systems ◽  
The Social ◽  
User Friendly ◽  
Machine Interaction

Simulations have been an important adjunct to instructional programs for some time. These have ranged from games, or role playing exercises, such as SIMSOC or Internation Simulation, to student-machine interaction, such as the inter-school simulation run out of University of California, Santa Barbara in the early 70's, to the all machine activities found in some of the early SETUPS. Having social science students use the mainframe computer, however, always posed problems: it definitely was not user-friendly and most instructors had little if any training or interest in the use of large scale systems.The wide-spread use of the micro computer is not only revolutionizing areas traditionally relying upon the computer, but is going to have an impact on the social sciences as well.

The work of the British School at Athens, 2014–2015

2015 ◽  
Vol 61 ◽  
pp. 34-48
Author(s):  
Catherine Morgan
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Fine Arts ◽  
Research Programme ◽  
Research Centre ◽  
Fine Grained ◽  
The Past ◽  
British School ◽  
The Social ◽  
Funded Project

Over the past year the School has delivered a rich and varied research programme combining a range of projects in antiquity, spanning the Palaeolithic to Byzantine periods, science-based archaeology to epigraphy (including the work of the Fitch Laboratory and the Knossos Research Centre), with research in sectors from the fine arts to history and the social sciences (see Map 2).At Knossos, new investigation in the suburb of Gypsadhes, directed by Ioanna Serpetsedaki (23rd EPCA), Eleni Hatzaki (Cincinnati), Amy Bogaard (Oxford) and Gianna Ayala (Sheffield), forms part of Oxford University's ERC-funded project Agricultural Origins of Urban Civilisation. The Gypsadhes excavation features large-scale bioarchaeological research, aimed at providing the fine-grained information necessary to reconstruct the Knossian economy through time.

scholarly journals The End-Purpose of Teaching Social Sciences and the Curricular Inclusion of Social Problems

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 12
Author(s):  
Delfín Ortega-Sánchez
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Scientific Literature ◽  
The Social ◽  
Points Of View

The most recent scientific literature on the treatment of social problems or controversial social questions in the social sciences classroom and their inclusion into curricula emphasizes the need to introduce students into large-scale social debates where different points of view exist, different interests are at stake, and where it is desirable that they construct their own opinions in that respect from a critical and reasoned perspective [...]

scholarly journals SACRED RIVERS: ENERGY RESOURCES AND PEOPLE’S POWER

2013 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 151-169
Author(s):  
Susan Visvanathan
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Energy Resources ◽  
The Political ◽  
Ongoing Debate ◽  
Technology And Culture ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The Social ◽  
Good Vision ◽  
The Way

This paper is concerned with the way energy requirements in the last three decades have seen a response from local communities who wish to express their love and longing for traditional occupations. Agriculture is a multi-faceted representation, and riverine civilisations have epitomised the relation between land, labour and production not just as a relation with technology and culture, but also in terms of the symbols of the sacred. With large scale over utilisation of resources and a lack of vision, the rivers are polluted. People’s movements draw on the work of scientists and those working in the Arts, including the Humanities and the Social Sciences to draw attention to the way in which petitions and protests communicate that politics is not merely about imposing ‘the good vision from above’ but is an interplay between the political, the legal, the socio-religious, the secular and the economic. In a democracy, politics is essentially about dialogue, and the rate of industrialisation may well be mediated by the power of the greens and environment movements, which have learnt their lessons from genocide of peasantry and tribals, and the mass exploitation of the resources of nature. The Sociologist attempts to document some of the shifts and evolving positions in this ongoing debate in India.

scholarly journals Is Global Management of Anti-Global Warming Policies at All Feasible?

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 13
Author(s):  
Jan-Erik Lane
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Climate Change ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Policy Implementation ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Abrupt Climate Change ◽  
Rational Decision ◽  
Rational Decision Making ◽  
The Social

Climate and earth scientists now predicting abrupt climate change never ask the social sciences whether large scale policy-making and international coordination, like the COP21 project, is all feasible. The message from policy analysis is that rational decision-making is a myth, as there is bound to be mistakes, confusion and opportunism in policy implementation. Is it better for each state to develop its own climate policy – the resilience option? However, when looking at energy planning by core states, one finds little of decarbonisation. Only Uruguay has good preparation for global warming. Abrupt climate change threatens numerous tipping points towards Hawking irreversibility. But the social sciences are skeptical about large scale policy implementation based upon comprehensively rational decision-making.

scholarly journals Doing Diagnosis: Autism, Interaction Order, and the Use of Narrative in Clinical Talk

2017 ◽  
Vol 80 (3) ◽  
pp. 254-275 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas W. Maynard ◽  
Jason Turowetz
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Order Theory ◽  
Psychological Research ◽  
Autism Spectrum ◽  
Social Psychological ◽  
The Social ◽  
Diagnostic Position ◽  
Interaction Order ◽  
Social Psychological Research ◽  
Scale Transformations

This study, with an eye toward the social psychology of diagnosis more generally, is an investigation of how clinicians diagnose children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Responding to Hacking’s call for a Goffmanian mode of analysis to complement and balance the emphasis on large-scale transformations and discourses, we examine the narrative way in which clinicians provide evidence to support a diagnostic position. Using recordings and transcripts of clinical visits across two eras, our findings about the interaction order of the clinic show distinct story types and components that contribute to diagnostic narratives for ASD. These include stories about concrete “instantiations,” stories that propose “tendencies,” and “typifications” or generalizations regarding a specific child. This work contributes to interaction order theory, methodology, and other domains of social psychological research.

Microcomputer Simulations of Presidential Elections

1983 ◽  
Vol 38 ◽  
pp. 20-20
Author(s):  
Robert S. Ross
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Role Playing ◽  
Science Students ◽  
Instructional Programs ◽  
Santa Barbara ◽  
Large Scale Systems ◽  
The Social ◽  
User Friendly ◽  
Machine Interaction

Simulations have been an important adjunct to instructional programs for some time. These have ranged from games, or role playing exercises, such as SIMSOC or Internation Simulation, to student-machine interaction, such as the inter-school simulation run out of University of California, Santa Barbara in the early 70's, to the all machine activities found in some of the early SETUPS. Having social science students use the mainframe computer, however, always posed problems: it definitely was not user-friendly and most instructors had little if any training or interest in the use of large scale systems.The wide-spread use of the micro computer is not only revolutionizing areas traditionally relying upon the computer, but is going to have an impact on the social sciences as well.

scholarly journals MDA as a Research Method of Generic Musical Analysis for the Social Sciences

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 160940691879702 ◽  
Author(s):  
Monique Charles
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Context ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Musical Analysis ◽  
Musical Form ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
The Social ◽  
Depth Interviews

Using Grime as a case study, I employ the analytical framework I created, that is, Musicological Discourse Analysis (MDA) as a holistic mode of analysis to contextualize Grime sociologically and musicologically. This method retheorizes genre, providing a more specific, useful, and detailed musical classification system; the sonic footprint timestamp (SFT). The MDA framework provides a generic mode of musical analysis for research projects in sociology, cultural studies, and the social sciences fields. This article evaluates key musical influences in the evolution of Grime as both (i) a musical form and (ii) an analysis of influences in relation to its social context. It evaluates the global, local, historical, technological, political, lyrical themes, and sonic properties (sounds) found in Grime. Significantly, this framework is very much concerned with the voices in the Grime scene, and therefore respondent experiences are central to this analytical method—incorporating in-depth interviews, observation (physical and online), and immersive listening.

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