The psychology of information access regulation: how confidentiality shapes our social world

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
William Bingley
Keyword(s):  
Information Access ◽  
Social World ◽  
Access Regulation

A Social Identity Theory of Information Access Regulation (SITIAR): Understanding the Psychology of Sharing and Withholding

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
William John Bingley ◽  
Katharine Helen Greenaway ◽  
S. Alexander Haslam
Keyword(s):  
Social Identity ◽  
Social Identity Theory ◽  
Identity Theory ◽  
Information Access ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Access To Information ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Access Regulation ◽  
Theory Of Information

Secrecy, privacy, confidentiality, concealment, disclosure, and gossip all involve sharing and withholding access to information. However, existing theories do not account for the fundamental similarity between these concepts. Accordingly, it is unclear when sharing and withholding access to information will have positive or negative effects, and why these effects might occur. We argue that these problems can be addressed by conceptualizing these phenomena more broadly as different kinds of information access regulation. Furthermore, we outline a social identity theory of information access regulation (SITIAR), which proposes that information access regulation shapes shared social identity, explaining why people who have access to information feel a sense of togetherness with others who have the same access, and a sense of separation from those who do not. This theoretical framework unifies diverse findings across disparate literatures and generates a number of novel predictions about how information access regulation affects individuals and groups

A Social-Identity Theory of Information-Access Regulation (SITIAR): Understanding the Psychology of Sharing and Withholding

2021 ◽  
pp. 174569162199714
Author(s):  
William J. Bingley ◽  
Katharine H. Greenaway ◽  
S. Alexander Haslam
Keyword(s):  
Social Identity ◽  
Social Identity Theory ◽  
Identity Theory ◽  
Information Access ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Access To Information ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Access Regulation ◽  
Theory Of Information

Secrecy, privacy, confidentiality, concealment, disclosure, and gossip all involve sharing and withholding access to information. However, existing theories do not account for the fundamental similarity between these concepts. Accordingly, it is unclear when sharing and withholding access to information will have positive or negative effects and why these effects might occur. We argue that these problems can be addressed by conceptualizing these phenomena more broadly as different kinds of information-access regulation. Furthermore, we outline a social-identity theory of information-access regulation (SITIAR) that proposes that information-access regulation shapes shared social identity, explaining why people who have access to information feel a sense of togetherness with others who have the same access and a sense of separation from those who do not. This theoretical framework unifies diverse findings across disparate lines of research and generates a number of novel predictions about how information-access regulation affects individuals and groups.

To Be Means to Communicate: Living and Talking in a Social World

1995 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-17
Author(s):  
Steve Duck
Keyword(s):  
Social World

Review of The social world of old women: Management of selfidentity. Sage library of social research, Vol. 78.

1980 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 200-200
Author(s):  
RICHARD SCHULZ
Keyword(s):  
Social Research ◽  
Social World ◽  
Sage Library ◽  
The Social

Investigating the Social World: The Process and Practice of Research [Book Review]

2007 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 76-79
Author(s):  
Frances Crawford
Keyword(s):  
Social World ◽  
The Social ◽  
Research Book

The Contribution of Enrique Pichon-Rivière: Comparisons with His European Contemporaries and with Modern Theory

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
David E. Scharff
Keyword(s):  
Social World ◽  
Modern Theory ◽  
George Herbert ◽  
George Herbert Mead ◽  
Analytic Thinking ◽  
Family Analysis ◽  
The Social ◽  
Original Family ◽  
Kurt Lewin ◽  
Social Applications

Enrique Pichon-Rivière, a pioneer of psychoanalysis, worked and wrote in Argentina in the mid-twentieth century, but his work has not so far been translated into English. From the beginning, Pichon-Rivière understood the social applications of analytic thinking, centring his ideas on "el vinculo", which is generally translated as "the link", but could equally be translated as "the bond". The concept that each individual is born into human social links, is shaped by them, and simultaneously contributes to them inextricably ties people's inner worlds to the social world of family and society in which they live. Pichon-Rivière believed, therefore, that family analysis and group and institutional applications of analysis were as important as individual psychoanalysis. Many of the original family and couple therapists from whom our field learned trained with him. Because his work was centred in the analytic writings of Fairbairn and Klein, as well as those of the anthropologist George Herbert Mead and the field theory of Kurt Lewin, his original ideas have important things to teach us today. This article summarises some of his central ideas such as the link, spiral process, the single determinate illness, and the process of therapy.

Our Most Troubling Madness

2016 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Defeat ◽  
Social World ◽  
Epidemiological Evidence ◽  
The West ◽  
Social Settings ◽  
The Social ◽  
Brain Alteration ◽  
Benign Course ◽  
Cultural Features ◽  
The Way

This book examines the way schizophrenia is shaped by its social context: how life is lived with this madness in different settings, and what it is about those settings that alters the course of the illness, its outcome, and even the structure of its symptoms. Until recently, schizophrenia was perhaps our best example—our poster child—for the “bio-bio-bio” model of psychiatric illness: genetic cause, brain alteration, pharmacologic treatment. We now have direct epidemiological evidence that people are more likely to fall ill with schizophrenia in some social settings than in others, and more likely to recover in some social settings than in others. Something about the social world gets under the skin. This book presents twelve case studies written by psychiatric anthropologists that help to illustrate some of the variability in the social experience of schizophrenia and that illustrate the main hypotheses about the different experience of schizophrenia in the west and outside the west--and in particular, why schizophrenia seems to have a more benign course and outcome in India. We argue that above all it is the experience of “social defeat” that increases the risk and burden of schizophrenia, and that opportunities for social defeat are more abundant in the modern west. There is a new role for anthropology in the science of schizophrenia. Psychiatric science has learned—epidemiologically, empirically, quantitatively—that our social world makes a difference. But the highly structured, specific-variable analytic methods of standard psychiatric science cannot tell us what it is about culture that has that impact. The careful observation enabled by rich ethnography allows us to see in more detail what kinds of social and cultural features may make a difference to a life lived with schizophrenia. And if we understand culture’s impact more deeply, we believe that we may improve the way we reach out to help those who struggle with our most troubling madness.

Rationality and Passion in Private Experience: Modern Consciousness and the Social World of Old-Car Collectors

1980 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 392-412 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dale Dannefer
Keyword(s):  
Social World ◽  
The Social

Experience of Ethnographic Fieldwork in an English Benedictine Monastery

2011 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 221-235 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Irvine
Keyword(s):  
Social World ◽  
Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽  
Fieldwork Experience ◽  
The Social ◽  
Peripheral Participation

What is the role of imitation in ethnographic fieldwork, and what are its limits? This article explores what it means to participate in a particular fieldsite; a Catholic English Benedictine monastery. A discussion of the importance of hospitality in the life of the monastery shows how the guest becomes a point of contact between the community and the wider society within which that community exists. The peripheral participation of the ethnographer as monastic guest is not about becoming incorporated, but about creating a space within which knowledge can be communicated. By focusing on the process of re-learning in the monastery – in particular, relearning how to experience silence and work – I discuss some of the ways in which the fieldwork experience helped me to reassess the social world to which I would return.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document