The social mediation of vulnerability

In the course of the nineteenth century, political economy shifted from a discourse printed in books and journals and directed primarily at ‘men of affairs’ to a stratified public discourse. Where argument had once appealed to ‘reason’, argument by authority now became more significant in the teaching and publications of academic economists. This chapter shows the media through which this transition was effected—clubs, societies, and associations, adult extension teaching, popular literature, the creation of examinations and professional qualifications, and, in some limited cases, certification for employment, plus the creation of specialised academic journals.

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Music and the materialization of identities

Journal of Material Culture ◽

10.1177/1359183511424196 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 16 (4) ◽

pp. 376-388 ◽

Cited By ~ 98

Author(s):

Georgina Born

Keyword(s):

Social Identity ◽

Mutual Interference ◽

Genre Theory ◽

Institutional Conditions ◽

Musical Practice ◽

Social Mediation ◽

Novel Approach ◽

The Social ◽

Musical Genres ◽

Identity Formations

How does music materialize identities? This article argues that music is instructive in conceptualizing the materialization of identity because it opens up new perspectives on issues of materiality, mediation and affect. These perspectives are intimately related in turn to music’s plural socialities, which necessitate a novel approach to theorizing the social. Music, it is proposed, demands an analytics that encompasses four planes of social mediation; while these socialities, with other forms of music’s mediation, together produce a constellation of mediations – an assemblage. All four planes of social mediation enter into the musical assemblage: the first two amount to socialities engendered by musical practice and experience; the last two amount to social and institutional conditions that afford certain kinds of musical practice. The four are irreducible to one another and are articulated in contingent ways through relations of synergy, affordance, conditioning or causality. By adopting the topological metaphor of the plane to stand for distinctive socialities mediated by music, the intention is to highlight both their autonomy and their mutual interference. The second half turns to genre theory to suggest that analysing genre in terms of the mutual mediation between two self-organizing historical entities illuminates both how social identity formations may be refracted in music, and how musical genres can entangle themselves in evolving social formations. Finally, with reference to music’s capacity to create aggregations of the affected, the article considers the efflorescence of theories of affect, association and entrainment. While such theories illuminate the generative nature of the mutual mediation between musical formations and social formations, they are limited by lack of awareness of the four distinctive planes of music’s social mediation, as well as the significance of their autonomy and their contingent interrelations for understanding how music materializes identities.

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Estudio descriptivo sobre el entrenador de fútbol sala prebenjamín en La Rioja: perfil, motivaciones, cualidades y dificultades (Descriptive study of under 7s indoor football coach in La Rioja: profile, motivations, qualities and difficulties)

Retos ◽

10.47197/retos.v0i31.49811 ◽

2016 ◽

pp. 164-170

Author(s):

Abel Merino Orozco ◽

Ana Arraiz Pérez ◽

Fernando Sabirón Sierra

Keyword(s):

Participant Observation ◽

Descriptive Study ◽

Social Recognition ◽

Training Support ◽

Social Mediation ◽

Youth Football ◽

Sport Competition ◽

The Social ◽

Football Coach ◽

La Rioja

El entrenador de fútbol sala prebenjamín se erige como un mediador social, formativo y deportivo en un escenario en vigente vorágine y masificación. Debe atender las tensiones de clubes, familias y niños para promover un sentido educativo de la competición deportiva; por ello, su figura es foco de estudio emergente. En esta investigación se desea conocer descriptivamente el perfil del entrenador, sus motivaciones, cualidades y dificultades para considerar la relevancia de su formación para la mejora del escenario formativo-deportivo en prospectiva. El estudio forma parte de la fase descriptiva de un estudio de modalidad etnográfica. Tras el análisis cualitativo del trabajo de campo de una observación participante con ocho equipos prebenjamines (ocho entrenadores varones) durante toda la temporada 2014/15, se categoriza un cuestionario que se generaliza a una muestra de 52 formadores (47 varones y cinco mujeres). Los resultados muestran un joven entrenador con escasa formación inicial relacionada con la Educación Física, un desempeño de la actividad motivada por su arraigo al fútbol a lo largo de su vida y una priorización de partida por atender a cuestiones educativas y de mediación social sobre el referente estrictamente competitivo. Se discute sobre el interés en la profesionalización y el reconocimiento social de la actividad. El apoyo formativo del entrenador se presenta como una necesidad para la mejora en el fútbol base, priorizando competencias para la mediación en escenarios formativos-deportivos y claves psico-socio-pedagógicas para gestionar la educación de sus jugadores prebenjamines.Abstract. The under 7s indoor football coach stands as a social, educational and sports mediator in a scenario in current massification. He must work between the tensions of clubs, families and children to promote an educational sense of the sport competition; therefore, he is an emerging focus of study. The aim of this research is to determine descriptively the profile of the coach, their motivations qualities and difficulties to consider the relevance of his formation for the improvement of the training-sports area in prospective. The study forms part of the descriptive phase of a study of ethnographic mode. After the qualitative analysis of the fieldwork in a participant observation with eight under 7s football teams (eigth male coaches), we construct a questionnaire, that is generalized to a sample of 52 coaches (47 men and five women) along the season 2014/15. The results show a young coach with poor initial formation related to physical education, that works motivated by its roots in football throughout his life and a prioritization to answer to educational issues and social mediation before of the strictly competitive reference. The research discusses about the interest in the professionalization and the social recognition of the activity. The training support for the coach is presented as a need to improve the youth football, prioritizing skills for mediation in training-sports contexts and psycho-socio-pedagogical keys to manage the education of their under 7s players.

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Leveraging Social Media and Scholarly Discussion for Educator Empowerment

Australian Journal of Teacher Education ◽

10.14221/ajte.2021v46n11.3 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 46 (11) ◽

pp. 37-53

Author(s):

Steven Kolber ◽

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Sandy Nicoll ◽

Kelli McGraw ◽

Nicholas Gaube ◽

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Keyword(s):

Social Networks ◽

Social Media ◽

Professional Learning ◽

Virtual Space ◽

Or Education ◽

Virtual Spaces ◽

Social Mediation ◽

The Social ◽

Social Media Platforms ◽

Collective Experience

This paper shares insights from an international community of educators who have been using social media as a virtual space for a scholarly reading group: #edureading. The collection of educator narratives presented in this paper show how social networks on Twitter and Flipgrid were used as inclusive environments for teacher-led professional development. This paper is both a report of research involving five practitioners inquiring into their collective experience, and an exercise in building the scholarly capacity of the #edureading group. The accessibility of the social media platforms, as well as the collaborative, inquiry-based approach to scholarly reading, emerge as key themes in the educator narratives. The findings of this research emphasise that professional learning occurring in virtual spaces is open to social mediation using the norms of social networks, rather than the norms of workplaces, jurisdictions or education sectors, and that this can lead to a greater sense of empowerment for educators

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Social measures of resilience: An investigation into community resilience by taking adaptive physical measures through social mediation during infrastructure disruption

10.31705/wcs.2020.14 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Imam Chowdhury Ali ◽

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Zahin Hasin Ahmad ◽

Keyword(s):

Social Capital ◽

Social Exchange ◽

Social Issues ◽

Community Resilience ◽

Social Conditions ◽

Social Resilience ◽

Social Mediation ◽

Local Case ◽

The Social ◽

Physical Measures

This paper intends to break down a local case to grasp the possibility of adaptable measures by individuals and systems through the social exchange during infrastructure interruption on account of considerable precipitation. Finally, the extent of social resilience is assessed through the ‘5S’ framework. The assessment reveals the social capital and the incredible social conditions accomplished by the mix of the particular circumstance and differing interest packs are influencing the adaptable appraisals which can be considered as an important report to structure a strong framework by understanding the tangled social issues and multifaceted nature

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The Facebook President: Oil, Citizenship, and the Social Mediation of Politics in Nigeria

PoLAR Political and Legal Anthropology Review ◽

10.1111/plar.12217 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 40 (2) ◽

pp. 226-244 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Omolade Adunbi

Keyword(s):

Social Mediation ◽

The Social

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She more than he : gender bias supports the empathic nature of yawn contagion in Homo sapiens

Royal Society Open Science ◽

10.1098/rsos.150459 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 3 (2) ◽

pp. 150459 ◽

Cited By ~ 15

Author(s):

Ivan Norscia ◽

Elisa Demuru ◽

Elisabetta Palagi

Keyword(s):

Gender Bias ◽

Social Dynamics ◽

Homo Sapiens ◽

Social Bond ◽

Care Group ◽

Face To Face ◽

Social Mediation ◽

Social Closeness ◽

The Social ◽

Female Bias

Psychological, clinical and neurobiological findings endorse that empathic abilities are more developed in women than in men. Because there is growing evidence that yawn contagion is an empathy-based phenomenon, we expect that the female bias in the empathic abilities reflects on a gender skew in the responsiveness to others’ yawns. We verified this assumption by applying a linear model on a dataset gathered during a 5 year period of naturalistic observations on humans. Gender, age and social bond were included in the analysis as fixed factors. The social bond and the receiver’s gender remained in the best model. The rates of contagion were significantly lower between acquaintances than between friends and family members, and significantly higher in women than in men. These results not only confirm that yawn contagion is sensitive to social closeness, but also that the phenomenon is affected by the same gender bias affecting empathy. The sex skew, also found in other non-human species, fits with the female social roles which are likely to require higher empathic abilities (e.g. parental care, group cohesion maintenance, social mediation). The fact that female influence in social dynamics also relies on face-to-face emotional exchange raises concerns on the negative repercussions of having women’s facial expressions forcibly concealed.

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