scholarly journals Impressions and affective practice: bringing unity to Bourdieu’s habitus

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 121-137
Author(s):  
Greti-Iulia Ivana
Keyword(s):  
Meaning Making ◽  
Practice Theory ◽  
Levels Of Analysis ◽  
Affective Meaning ◽  
Theory Of Practice ◽  
Social Conditioning ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Cognitive Meaning

Despite the key commonalities between the affective and the practical turns, affect is still an underexplored aspect in practice theory. Proposing an analytical distinction between the sociological and the ontological levels of analysis, this article looks into schemes of appraisal as they appear in Bourdieusian practice theory, and highlights how beneath the unity of social conditioning, habitus creates fragmentation between embodied and cognitive meaning. Additionally, it provides a limited and often foggy account of emotions and affectivity. To overcome these challenges, it is argued that practice theory needs to rely on a conceptualisation of subjectivity, which allows for a more holistic and affective meaning making. Doing so draws on Wetherell’s affective practice and Ahmed’s Hume-inspired concept of impression, but also on a variant of practice which works with empirical rather than epistemic individuals. A theory of practice infused with affect overcomes not only the mind-body dualism, but also contributes to reducing the tension between structural and agentic poles.

scholarly journals Why 'piss' is ruder than 'pee'? The role of sound in affective meaning making

PLoS ONE ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. e0198430 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arash Aryani ◽  
Markus Conrad ◽  
David Schmidtke ◽  
Arthur Jacobs
Keyword(s):  
Meaning Making ◽  
Affective Meaning

scholarly journals Redundancy and reducibility in the formats of spatial representations

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sami Ryan Yousif
Keyword(s):  
Mental Representations ◽  
Spatial Scales ◽  
Spatial Location ◽  
Spatial Behavior ◽  
Polar Coordinates ◽  
Levels Of Analysis ◽  
Spatial Representations ◽  
High Level ◽  
The Mind

Mental representations are the essence of cognition. Yet, to understand how the mind works, we must understand not just the content of mental representations (i.e., what information is stored), but also the format of those representations (i.e., how that information is stored). But what does it mean for representations to be formatted? How many formats are there? Is it possible that the mind represents some pieces of information in multiple formats at once? To address these questions, I discuss a ‘case study’ of representational format: the representation of spatial location. I review work (a) across species and across development, (b) across spatial scales, and (c) across levels of analysis (e.g., high-level cognitive format vs. low-level neural format). Along the way, I discuss the possibility that the same information may be organized in multiple formats simultaneously (e.g., that locations may be represented in both Cartesian and polar coordinates). Ultimately, I argue that seemingly ‘redundant’ formats may support the flexible spatial behavior observed in humans, and that we should approach the study of all mental representations with this possibility in mind.

Expanding God’s Redemptive Fractal: Spirit-Centered Counseling and the Transformative Wisdom of Jesus

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 29-54
Author(s):  
Bill Buker
Keyword(s):  
Systems Theory ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Ways Of Knowing ◽  
Second Order ◽  
Conventional Wisdom ◽  
Order Change ◽  
Way Of Knowing ◽  
Second Order Change ◽  
The Mind

Using the image of a fractal, a Spirit-centered approach to counseling is proposed that conceptualizes the Spirit’s activity as seeking to replicate the patterns of God’s redemptive story throughout creation by facilitating deep second-order change. Involving an epistemological shift from ways of knowing shaped by the conventional wisdom of culture to a renewed mind grounded in the transformative wisdom of Jesus, this deep change is explored from the perspectives of science and Scripture. Integrating findings from systems theory with the ministry and message of Jesus, this approach to counseling emphasizes relational premises and values believed to be characteristic of the mind of the Spirit. Defined as the capacity to know and see in ways that are consistent with the passion and purposes of God, cultivating the mind of the Spirit is viewed as the essence of Spirit-centered counseling. Presumed to be seen most clearly in the life of Jesus, this model focuses on his distinctive way of knowing and seeing by examining what can be learned about the epistemological facets of perception and meaning-making when comparing his Way with the patterns of this world. It is proposed that Spirit-centered counseling is guided by the premises and patterns contained in Jesus’ transformative wisdom.

Use of Spirituality to Make Sense of Loss by Homicide

2020 ◽  
pp. 003022282090742
Author(s):  
Shannon K. Johnson ◽  
Brooks Zitzmann
Keyword(s):  
Grounded Theory ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Belief Systems ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Homicide Survivors ◽  
Spiritual Change ◽  
Crisis Of Meaning ◽  
Stage 1 ◽  
Cognitive Meaning

This article presents a magnification of Stage 2 of the Theory of Post-Homicide Spiritual Change, a three-stage grounded theory of spiritual change after homicide (Theory of PHSC). Having endured the disintegration of their belief systems in the immediate aftermath of murder (Stage 1), survivors turn in Stage 2 to a more extended process of grappling with a crisis of meaning. This Stage 2 process is presented within the framework of the meaning making model, with attention to spiritual meaning making and transcendental experiences. Findings can help service providers support homicide survivors throughout an intermediary stage of bereavement that is marked by a sense of stagnation and diminished well-being. By accompanying survivors through the difficult meaning making efforts that characterize this stage, providers can help position them to break free of intensive cognitive meaning making and gain forward momentum in Stage 3 of the Theory of PHSC and can focus on aspects of life that can help them successfully make meaning of their loss while positioning them to gain forward momentum.

Theorising community rage for decolonial action

2018 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 319-330 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hugo Canham
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Affective Meaning ◽  
The Past ◽  
Scholarly Production

Rage is under-theorised in South Africa. This absence is more pronounced in psychological scholarship. This is a remarkable oversight since we have gained infamy as the world’s epicentre of protest action. In this article, I read the landscape of scholarly production to conduct an analysis of how community rage and protests are made sense of. The analysis focuses on work from the past decade as it has been reported that this period has witnessed the greatest intensity of protest action within the post-apartheid period. I contend that protests are a form of community rage at sedimented oppressions. I demonstrate that the expression of community rage provides us the opportunity to work towards our collective decolonisation. In this analysis, I offer that affective meaning making in the theorisation of rage can craft a scholarship that enables praxis towards decolonial action.

scholarly journals Meaning-Making Exercise Using Images and Soundscape: The Case of San Pedro Street, Davao City, Philippines

SAGE Open ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 215824401773635
Author(s):  
Ma. Teresa Escano ◽  
Dennis John Sumaylo
Keyword(s):  
Visual Stimulus ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Mixed Media ◽  
San Pedro ◽  
Urban Decay ◽  
The Mind

This article explored the capacity of mixed media to elicit meanings from their lookers. A multisensory exhibition of photographs and soundscape was utilized to achieve the objective. The photographs provided the visual stimulus while soundscape accompanied the images to provide an aural map of the area being documented. Both media helped in the meaning-making process. The area documented was the center of Davao City, Philippines—San Pedro Street—as it cradles the center of faith, the seats of power, and the center of commerce. But, with urban decay, this place seemed to lose its former glory. With the visual and aural stimuli, these stories (memories) embedded in the mind of the lookers are culled. This is the meaning-making process.

scholarly journals Phenomenology: A Philosophy and Method of Inquiry

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 215 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sadruddin Bahadur Qutoshi
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Phenomenological Study ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Intellectual Engagement ◽  
Data Collection And Analysis ◽  
Phenomenological Studies ◽  
Conscious Level ◽  
The Mind

<p> <em>Phenomenology as a philosophy and a method of inquiry is not limited to an approach to knowing, it is rather an intellectual engagement in interpretations and meaning making that is used to understand the lived world of human beings at a conscious level. Historically, Husserl’ (1913/1962) perspective of phenomenology is a science of understanding human beings at a deeper level by gazing at the phenomenon. However, Heideggerian view of interpretive-hermeneutic phenomenology gives wider meaning to the lived experiences under study. Using this approach, a researcher uses bracketing as a taken for granted assumption in describing the natural way of appearance of phenomena to gain insights into lived experiences and interpret for meaning making. The data collection and analysis takes place side by side to illumine the specific experience to identify the phenomena that is perceived by the actors in a particular situation. The outcomes of a phenomenological study broadens the mind, improves the ways of thinking to see a phenomenon, and it enables to see ahead and define researchers’ posture through intentional study of lived experiences. However, the subjectivity and personal knowledge in perceiving and interpreting it from the research participant’s point of view has been central in phenomenological studies. To achieve such an objective, phenomenology could be used extensively in social sciences.</em></p>

scholarly journals The Subject of Conceptual Mapping: Theological Anthropology across Brain, Body, and World

Open Theology ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 117-135
Author(s):  
Erin Kidd
Keyword(s):  
Theological Anthropology ◽  
White Supremacy ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Human Person ◽  
Conceptual Blending ◽  
Conceptual Mapping ◽  
Human Thought ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Insight Into

Abstract Research in conceptual metaphor and conceptual blending-referred to collectively as “conceptual mapping”-identifies human thought as a process of making connections across fields of meaning. Underlying the theory of conceptual mapping is a particular understanding of the mind as embodied. Over the past few decades, researchers in the cognitive sciences have been “putting brain, body, and world back together again.” The result is a picture of the human being as one who develops in transaction with her environment, and whose highest forms of intelligence and meaning-making are rooted in the body’s movement in the world. Conceptual mapping therefore not only gives us insight into how we think, but also into who we are. This calls for a revolution in theological anthropology. Our spirituality must be understood in light of the fact that we are embodied beings, embedded in our environment, whose identities are both material and discursive. Finally, using the example of white supremacy, I show how this revolution in understanding the human person can be useful for ethical reflection, and in thinking about sin and redemption.

scholarly journals The Future of Intelligence: The Central Meaning-Making Unit of Intelligence in the Mind, the Brain, and Artificial Intelligence

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andreas Demetriou ◽  
hudson golino ◽  
George Charilaos Spanoudis ◽  
Nikolaos Makris ◽  
Samuel Greiff
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Mental Content ◽  
Future Research ◽  
General Intelligence ◽  
Artificial Intelligence Research ◽  
Central Meaning ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Core Meaning ◽  
The Brain

This paper focuses on general intelligence, g. We first point to broadly accepted facts about g: it is robust, reliable, and sensitive to learning. We then summarize conflicting theories about its nature and development (Mutualism, Process Overlap Theory, and Dynamic Mental Field Theory) and suggest how future research may resolve their disputes. A model is proposed for g involving a core meaning-making mechanism, noetron, drawing on Alignment, Abstraction, and Cognizance, perpetually generating new mental content. Noetron develops through several levels of control: episodic attentional inferential truth epistemic control in infancy, preschool, childhood, adolescence, and adulthood, respectively. Finally, we propose an agenda for future brain, assuming a brain noetron, and artificial intelligence research, assuming an artificial noetron, that might uncover the underlying brain mechanisms of g and generate artificial general intelligence.

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