Home truths: fieldwork, writing and anthropology’s ‘home encounter’

2019 ◽  
pp. 19-38
Author(s):  
Rachel Humphris
Keyword(s):  
Social Roles ◽  
Writing Process ◽  
Entry Point ◽  
Social Actor ◽  
Social Worlds ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
The Social ◽  
Home Space

This chapter presents the methodology of the research including theoretical discussions of ‘anthropological truth’, the researchers’ shifting situated positions throughout the fieldwork and the writing process. This chapter draws on Munn’s conception of the social actor as a mobile spatial field. The home emerged as the most salient site of interaction through this methodology. This has two implications. First, it provides a different entry point to social worlds (resonating with feminist analytics) rather than choosing a space and exploring the social actors that create it. Second, this approach revealed the home as the site where ‘culture’ was located and contested. This opens the home space to studies on diversity and conviviality. It also demonstrates the different terms that encounters in the home took on through the social roles of host and hosting, the materiality of the space, and gendered dynamics.

scholarly journals SOCIAL ACTOR REPRESENTATION ANALYSIS ON THE JAKARTA POST ONLINE NEWS OF PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 56
Author(s):  
Nuri Hidayatus Sholihah ◽  
Agwin Degaf
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Presidential Election ◽  
Online News ◽  
Social Actor ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Post Online ◽  
Identification Strategy

<p>Social actor representation (SAR) is an interesting topic to be analyzed. Through the analysis of the social actor in the news, it invites readers to have critical thinking. In this research, the social actors proposed are the two pair candidates of the 2019 presidential election; Jokowi- Ma’ruf and Prabowo- Sandi. The research has consisted of two research questions. First is, how are the exclusion strategy used in the Jakarta Post online news to represent the social actor. Second is how are the inclusion strategy used in the Jakarta Post online news to represent the social actor. By using the theory of Van Leeuwen (2008), the result of this research shows that the journalist of the Jakarta Post mostly used inclusion strategy rather than the exclusion strategy.The identification strategy is mostly used to get support from the public. The identification is practical in figuring out and portraying a social actor. Journalists represent related to the identity that exists in a figure. The portrayal of the social actors through the identity attached to them can certainly invite more attention to readers.</p>

scholarly journals What is a mode? Smell, olfactory perception, and the notion of mode in multimodal mediated theory

2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sigrid Norris
Keyword(s):  
Individual Characteristics ◽  
Olfactory Perception ◽  
Social Actor ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Mediated Action ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Mediational Means

AbstractMoving towards multimodal mediated theory, I propose to define a mode as a system of mediated action that comes about through concrete lower-level actions that social actors take in the world. In order to explain exactly how a mode is a system of mediated action, I turn to a perfume blog and use one blog entry as my starting point. The mode that I primarily focus on in this article is the mode of smell, explicating that the mode of smell is not synonymous with olfactory perception, even though modal development of smell is certainlyAs I am ostensibly focusing on theEven though the concept of mode is problematical - and in my view needs to always be problematized - I argue that the term and the notion of mode is theoretically useful as it allows us to talk about and better understand communication and (inter)action in three respects: 1. The notion of mode allows us to investigate regularities as residing on a continuum somewhere between the social actor(s) and the mediational means; 2. The theoretical notion of mode embraces socio-cultural and historical as well as individual characteristics, never prioritising any of these and always embracing the tension that exists between social actor(s) and mediational means; and 3. The theoretical notion of mode demonstrates that modal development through concrete lower-level actions taken in the world, is transferable to other lower-level actions taken.

scholarly journals TRANSIVITY ON ELON MUSK’S ONLINE BIOGRAPHY:A SOCIAL ACTORS DISCOURSE ANALYSIS

JURNAL BASIS ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 13
Author(s):  
Anggihat Prasetyoaji
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Data Sources ◽  
Social Actor ◽  
Context Analysis ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
The Social ◽  
Descriptive Qualitative

This research’s content is the analysis of biography texts about Elon Musk taken from four websites by combining SFL’s transitivity and Leeuwen’s social actor representation approach. The aims of this research are (1) to find the portrayal patterns of the social actor using social actor approach, (2) to find the linguistic evidences of the patterns using transitivity, (3) to explain the portrayal of the social actor based on the patterns found, and (4) to compare the results with the context and genre of biography. This research is categorized as a descriptive-qualitative research by using transitivity and Leeuwen’s social actor approach. Spradely’s method of domain, taxonomy, componential, and cultural context analysis is used to collect and analyze the data. The data sources for this research are four biography texts about Elon Musk taken from Britannica, BBC, Business Insider, and Investopedia. The research produced several results as follows: (1) various social actor representation patterns are used by the writer to convey their intention and stance in relation with the social actor, (2) the processes contained in the texts are identified by using transitivity, thus providing linguistic evidences, (3) representation patterns that are the most consistently occurring are: activation, passivation (subjection and beneficialization), determination, nomination, functionalisation, and instrumentalisation. These patterns can be deduced as the obligatory patterns in biography texts, and (4) the texts analyzed are relevant with the qualities of a biography text.

scholarly journals Disclosing Australian Newspaper's Ideologies in Reporting Political News through Social Actor Representations Strategy

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-54
Author(s):  
Ribut Surjowati
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Military Officers ◽  
Individual Freedom ◽  
Social Actor ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Political News ◽  
News Reports ◽  
Political Ideologies ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Government

This research aims at explaining how and why the Sydney Morning Herald communicates its ideologies in such a way through the social actors represented in news reports. Using Fairclough’s and Van Dijk’s model of CDA and Theo Van Leeuwen’s framework of the representation of social actors, the study found that in terms of assimilation, nomination and categorization, functionalization and identification, and Impersonalization, the newspaper viewed the Indonesian government, army, and military officers as the Out group social actors, and Australian, Papuan activists and those who support Papuan conflict as the In group social actors. These categorizations serve different purposes. Those who are related to the Out groups express a purpose to emphasize their brutality, superiority, and dominance towards the indigenous Papuans. On the other hand, In groups social actors were indicated as peacemakers. These findings signaled Australia’s political ideologies and hidden purposes towards Indonesia. Australia views itself as a liberal country which respects individual freedom; therefore, the government must protect and get justice, and, it is also Australia’s responsibility to give aids to Papuans who are seeking better place as stated in the international law which gives a picture of how this country is concerned towards Indonesia

scholarly journals Exclusión del ‘estudiante secundario’. Análisis multimodal en medios de Chile

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 297-313
Author(s):  
Liliana Vásquez-Rocca ◽  
Dominique Manghi
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Secondary Students ◽  
Social Actor ◽  
Multimodal Texts ◽  
Active Participant ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
The Social ◽  
Semiotic Approach ◽  
The Media ◽  
News Event

This study shows how three Chilean media construct in their discourse the social actor ‘secondary students’, in a multimodal way. It focuses on the representation of Televisión Nacional de Chile (also known as TVN), El Dínamo and El Ciudadano of this social group which is often suppressed suppressed from the media sphere. It is a qualitative study with a social semiotic approach, following the guidelines of Visual Grammar and the typology of representation of social actors by van Leeuwen (2003). The corpus comprised 15 multimodal texts of 2018 compiled from internet sites, which constitute a semiotic chain of a news event about education. The results suggest that TVN creates the meaning of an ‘aggressor student’, El Dínamo as a ‘student to be reformed’; whereas El Ciudadano, represents him as a social actor who is an ‘active participant’.

Exploring the abuse of robots

2008 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 415-433 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christoph Bartneck ◽  
Jun Hu
Keyword(s):  
Social Role ◽  
Social Dilemma ◽  
Critical Issue ◽  
Social Actor ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Independent Variables ◽  
The Social ◽  
Electric Shocks ◽  
Abusive Behaviour ◽  
Methodological Problems

Robots have been introduced into our society, but their social role is still unclear. A critical issue is whether the robot’s exhibition of intelligent behaviour leads to the users’ perception of the robot as being a social actor, similar to the way in which people treat computers and media as social actors. The first experiment mimicked Stanley Milgram’s obedience experiment, but on a robot. The participants were asked to administer electric shocks to a robot, and the results show that people have fewer concerns about abusing robots than about abusing other people. We refined the methodology for the second experiment by intensifying the social dilemma of the users. The participants were asked to kill the robot. In this experiment, the intelligence of the robot and the gender of the participants were the independent variables, and the users’ destructive behaviour towards the robot the dependent variable. Several practical and methodological problems compromised the acquired data, but we can conclude that the robot’s intelligence had a significant influence on the users’ destructive behaviour. We discuss the encountered problems and suggest improvements. We also speculate on whether the users’ perception of the robot as being “sort of alive” may have influenced the participants’ abusive behaviour.

scholarly journals Position taking and field level change: Capability Brown and the changing British landscape

2019 ◽  
Vol 73 (3) ◽  
pp. 351-377 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Wild ◽  
Andy Lockett ◽  
Graeme Currie
Keyword(s):  
Shape Change ◽  
Symbolic Capital ◽  
Social Position ◽  
Social Actor ◽  
Core Component ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Level Change ◽  
Theory Of Practice ◽  
Field Level ◽  
The Social

How does a social actor in a disadvantaged position achieve field level change? Using a longitudinal case of ‘Capability’ Brown, an individual rising from humble origins to shape and refine the British landscape, we examine how an actor’s unfolding efforts to move from a social position at the periphery of a field, to a social position at the centre of a field, may present them with opportunities to influence field level change. In doing so, we employ Bourdieu’s Theory of Practice, and unexplored notion of ‘position taking’. We argue that an actor’s tactics to shape change, and position taking to enhance social position, should be considered in conjunction with one-another, and that position taking strategies may be viewed as a core component of the work undertaken by social actors in trying to influence field level change. Further, we suggest that tensions between an agent’s accumulated capital and the social position typically afforded to their role in the field, may lead to efforts to ‘take’ or ‘create’ new positions, providing opportunities to influence the developing institution, with symbolic capital playing a pivotal role.

Agency as an interactive achievement

2009 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 177-200 ◽  
Author(s):  
NAJMA AL ZIDJALY
Keyword(s):  
Social Roles ◽  
Social Actor ◽  
Linguistic Strategies ◽  
The Social ◽  
Extended Sequence ◽  
Asking Questions

ABSTRACTThis study explores how agency emerges and is negotiated moment by moment in interaction by applying Erving Goffman’s notion of production format to an extended sequence of discourse that revolves around accomplishing a conjoint action: the rewriting of an official letter. Deconstructing the participants into the social roles they undertake in accomplishing this task illustrates what is involved in exercising agency: interactively negotiating production format roles and footing shifts through several linguistic strategies aimed at either claiming, ratifying, or rejecting the participants’ agency. These include providing options, negotiating production format roles, asking questions, speaking for another, questioning and asserting expertise, providing counter-arguments, and asserting past agentive selves. This study, thus, contributes to an understanding of agency as co-constructed, mediated, and continually negotiated, while also identifying specific linguistic strategies through which agency is negotiated in interaction. (Agency, disability, production format, social actor, conjoint action, linguistic strategies)*

scholarly journals Sirkumstansialisasi sebagai Piranti Representasi Inklusif Aktor Sosial dalam Pidato Politik (Sebuah Tinjauan Analisis Wacana Kritis Pidato Politik Hasan Rouhani)

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 19
Author(s):  
Rahmatan Idul
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Social Action ◽  
Active Role ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
Social Actor ◽  
Political Speech ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
The Social ◽  
Actor Analysis

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menyelidiki penggunaan sirkumstansialisasi dalam merepresentasikan secara inklusif aktor-aktor sosial yang terlibat dalam pidato politik Hassan Rouhani yang disampaikan di depan Sidang Umum Perserikatan Bangsa-Bangsa. Data diperoleh dari salah satu laman berita resmi Israel (www.timesofisrael.com) berupa 116 kalimat hasil transkripsi pidaro tersebut yang kemudian dianalisis menggunakan kerangka analisis aktor sosial Theo van Leeuwen. Kalimat-kalimat ini kemudian dielaborasi melalui teknik parafrase, yakni memodifikasinya secara struktural dengan tetap mempertahankan maknanya untuk mengungkap representasi inklusif aktor-aktor sosialnya. Hasilnya kemudian disajikan secara deskriptif. Pilihan linguistik Hassan Rouhani menekankan penggunaan preposisi sirkumstansial untuk melibatkan aktor-aktor sosial tertentu dalam pidato politiknya secara inklusif. Terdapat sembilan jenis preposisi yang digunakan Hassan Rouhani dalam pidatonya, yakni “against”, “among”, dan “for” untuk merepresentasikan peran pasif aktor-aktor sosial, preposisi “by”, “from”, dan “under” untuk menggambarkan peran aktif aktor-aktor sosial, preposisi “between” untuk menggambarkan peran yang berbeda dari aktor-aktor sosial (aktif dan pasif), preposisi “with” untuk menampilkan peran netral aktor-aktor sosial, dan preposisi “of” untuk memisahkan aktor-aktor social yang berperan aktif sebagai pelaku dan aktor-aktor social yang berperan pasif sebagai korban. Exerting van Leeuwen’s framework, this study aims at critically investigating the employment of circumstantialization in inclusively representing social actors involved in Hassan Rouhani’s political speech delivered in front of the General Assembly of the United Nations. Data were derived from one of Israel’s official websites (www.timesofisrael.com). Out of 116 sentences in the transcription of the speech, the relevant ones were selected to be analyzed using Theo van Leeuwen’s framework ‘Social Actor Analysis.’ These sentences were then elaborated through a paraphrase technique by structurally modifying them while maintaining their meaning to reveal social actors’ inclusive representation. The results were then presented descriptively. Hasan Rouhani’s linguistic choices accentuate the use of circumstantial prepositions to involve certain social actors in his political speech inclusively. Nine types of prepositions were employed in his speech. Hasan Rouhani used the preposition “against,” “among,” and “for” to represent the social actors in passive roles, the preposition “by,” “from,” and “under” to delineate the social actors in active roles, the preposition “between” to illustrate different roles of the social actors (active and passive) in social action, the preposition “with” to display the neutral role of the social actors, and the preposition “of” to indicate the active role or the passive role of the social actors.  

scholarly journals Symbolic Portrayal of Social Classes in Pakistani Advertisement

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 194
Author(s):  
Saba Zaidi ◽  
Saman Salah ◽  
Anisa Tul Mehdi ◽  
Mehwish Sahibzada ◽  
Durdana Rafiq ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Visual Representation ◽  
Social Classes ◽  
Social Actor ◽  
Lower Middle Class ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Class Differences ◽  
The Social ◽  
Insight Into

The current study aims to identify particular ways through which social actors are represented by Pakistani media such as MCB (Muslim Commercial Bank) Ladies Account (2017). This study is only limited to two Pakistani advertisements as a sample of study. The research design is qualitative content analysis. The study seeks to examine the propagation of class differences for the sake of gaining viewer&rsquo;s empathy in order to achieve marketing purposes. The researchers have applied Leeuwen&rsquo;s (2008) framework of Visual Representation of Social Actor for the analysis of data. The analysis of data has provided an insight into different ways class differences are showcased. It has further provided an insight that notion of lower/middle class is constructed and represented as &ldquo;others&rdquo; in the particular advertisements with the help of Visual Representation of Social Actors. The result of study validates that lower/middle class is particularly marginalized in the mentioned advertisements, whereas it has become a general practice of Pakistani media to project such kind of class dichotomy. The study has further incorporated the idea that through such kind of projections the capitalists propagate the purchase of unwanted items. Wherein, regardless of any use the viewers while empathizing with the social actors purchase the advertised items.

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