The role of imaginaries in the construction of an innovative market: A market-oriented ethnography of the nanotechnology market

2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 24-45
Author(s):  
Amélie Bellion ◽  
Philippe Robert-Demontrond
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
Construction Process ◽  
Marketing Literature ◽  
The Social ◽  
Interpretive Approach ◽  
New Form ◽  
Simultaneous Use ◽  
Symbolic Construction ◽  
Market Construction

The aim of this article is to understand to what extent imaginaries can play a role in the construction of an innovative market. We conducted a market-oriented ethnography of the nanotechnology market construction process, analysing the strategies of three categories of stakeholders: consumers, opponents and promoters. The results reveal a new form of market construction: symbolic construction. In the case of nanotechnologies, this is based on two primary mechanisms: (1) the promotional mechanics of imaginaries, which favour the market through the simultaneous use of familiar and futuristic imaginaries; and (2) ‘meaning activism’, which challenges the market using dystopian imaginaries. This research advocates an interpretive approach to innovation, enriching the marketing literature on innovation and the social construction of markets; it also highlights certain managerial insights generated by this approach.

scholarly journals The Role of Spiritual Guidance for the Patient in Reinterpreting Pain At Al-Irsyad Hospital in Surabaya

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Nurhidayati Nurhidayati ◽  
Baiq Lily Handayani
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Social Construction ◽  
Spiritual Needs ◽  
Spiritual Guidance ◽  
Construction Process ◽  
Validity Test ◽  
The Social ◽  
Hospital Culture ◽  
Data Validity

Patient Companions (spiritual guidance for patients) at Al-Irsyad Hospital in Surabaya has been around since 2013. Al-Irsyad Hospital is an Islamic hospital that involves 'Friends of Patients' who can provide spiritual needs even when needed to strengthen the patient's mind in the process of healing. The construction process carried out by Friends of Patients is not only for patients but also for all components of the hospital, especially for employees as an Islamic hospital culture. The theoretical framework of this study is the social construction of Peter L Berger and Thomas Luckman. This type of research is qualitative research and how to determine the informants in this study using purposive techniques. Retrieval of data using observation, interviews, and documentation. While the data validity test in this study uses data triangulation, the findings of this study indicate that there is a change in perspective regarding pain, among others, illness is a trial and test from God. Illness is a form of forgiveness of sins and errors of God. The disease also elevates human degrees. Therefore, patients can reinterpret the meaning of the pain they are suffering from and realize that they are God's creatures. Keywords: spiritual needs, Islamic hospitals, a reinterpretation of illness, illness, patients. Referensi: Arifin, Isep Zainal. 2012. Bimbingan dan Konseling Islam untuk Pasien Rawat Inap di Rumah Sakit. Jurnal Ilmu Dakwah, 6 (19) Praktikya,  Ahmad  Watik  dan  Abdul  Salam  M.  Sofro,  1985,  Islam, Etika, dan Kesehatan. Jakarta: CV Rajawali Sunaryo. 2014. Sosiologi untuk Keperawatan. Jakarta: Bumi Medika. Parsons, T (dalam Sunaryo). 2014. Sosiologi untuk Keperawatan. Jakarta: Bumi Medika. Luckman, dan Berger. 1990. Tafsir Sosial atas Kenyataan. Jakarta: LP3S. Sudarma. 2012. Sosiologi untuk Kesehatan. Jakarta: Salemba Medika. Faqih, Ainurrohim. 2000. Bimbingan Konseling dalam Islam. Yogyakarta: UII Press.

The invisibility of violence

2005 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 583-602 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vicky Bishop ◽  
Marek Korczynski ◽  
Laurie Cohen
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
Formal Organization ◽  
Front Line ◽  
Policies And Procedures ◽  
The Social ◽  
Interpretive Approach ◽  
Line Context ◽  
High Level

This article explores the social construction of violence within the front-line context of job centres in the Employment Service (ES). The issue of violence within organizations is typically approached using positivistic methods. In contrast, this article deepens understandings of violence in organizations by using an interpretive approach. Through an analysis of data generated through an in-depth case study, this article argues that although ES front-liners experienced much of customer behaviour as violent, this high level of violence was systematically denied by the organization. In effect, the formal organization constructed violence in such a way that it was rendered invisible. This article examines not only how management, formal policies and procedures construct violence as invisible, but also the role of the staff themselves as active agents in the social construction of violence out of the workplace.

Perception of Absence as Value-Driven Perception

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anya Farennikova
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Ring Finger ◽  
Cultural Knowledge ◽  
The Social ◽  
New Form

Experiences of absence are often laden with values and expectations. For example, one might notice that a job candidate is not wearing a tie, or see the absence of a wedding band on a person's ring finger. These experiences embody cultural knowledge and expectations, and therefore seem like good candidates for being a form of evaluative perception. This chapter argues that experiences of absence are evaluative apart from the social or cultural values they take on. They are evaluative in their core, solely by virtue of being experiences of absence. The chapter begins by explaining why certain experiences of absence should be treated as a case of genuine perception. It then clarifies the role of the evaluative states in experiences of absence. The chapter concludes by arguing that experiences of absence constitute a new form of evaluative perception, and presents the subjective–objective dichotomy in a new light.

Service innovation as a social construction: The role of boundary objects

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 259-279 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristina Mele ◽  
Roberta Sebastiani ◽  
Daniela Corsaro
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
Service Innovation ◽  
Innovation Process ◽  
Boundary Objects ◽  
Resource Integration ◽  
Shared Meanings ◽  
Socially Constructed ◽  
The Social ◽  
Outcome Perspective

This article advances a conceptualization of service innovation as socially constructed through resource integration and sensemaking. By developing this view, the current study goes beyond an outcome perspective, to include the collective nature of service innovation and the role of the social context in affecting the service innovation process. Actors enact and perform service innovation through two approaches, one that is more concerted and another that emerges in some way. Each approach is characterized by distinct resource integration processes, in which the boundary objects (artifacts, discourses, and places) play specific roles. They act as bridge-makers that connect actors, thereby fostering resource integration and shared meanings.

The role of elite education in social reproduction in France, Belgium and Chile: Towards an analytical model

2021 ◽  
pp. 144078332110517
Author(s):  
Marie Verhoeven ◽  
Hugues Draelants ◽  
Tomás Ilabaca Turri
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Education System ◽  
Social Reproduction ◽  
Elite Education ◽  
Educational Pathways ◽  
The Social ◽  
Schooling System ◽  
Cognitive Dimensions

Using a societal analysis perspective that articulates structural, institutional and cognitive dimensions, this article outlines a model examining the contribution made by the schooling system to the social construction of elites. The model is put to the test by a comparative study of elitist educational pathways and their contrasting organisational modes in France, Belgium and Chile. The article shows that both the education of elites, and the role played by school in providing access to privileged social positions, continue to be marked by the distinctive historical construction of each society and education system, despite cross-cutting trends that are linked to globalisation.

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