Check Yo’ Stuff

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 198-209 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karla D. Scott
Keyword(s):  
Social Identity ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Social Identities ◽  
Intergroup Dialogue ◽  
Faculty Participation ◽  
Shared Meaning ◽  
Intergroup Interaction ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The Way

Contemporary social contexts motivating protests against injustice have also increased calls for dialogue—all too often proposed as communication for consensus. Dialogue cannot do this, but intergroup dialogue can increase shared meaning by bridging social identity divisions with understanding. This process, however, requires participants show up and recognize that what they “bring” to intergroup interaction can interfere with better understanding the everyday lived experiences of marginalized and disenfranchised social identities. This “stuff” gets in the way. Checking “stuff” reveals what needs to be released for understanding and action. This piece emerged during a university-sponsored community event offering opportunities to dialogue across difference. I assumed my university encouraged student, staff, and faculty participation, but students were not there and only a handful of “allies”—those who regularly call for “dialogue”—attended. As my disappointment morphed to anger, I began to write this “rant” on a napkin from the lunch buffet.

Football Manager as a Persuasive Game for Social Identity Formation

2014 ◽  
pp. 1-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda K. Kaye
Keyword(s):  
Social Identity ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Social Identities ◽  
Simulation Game ◽  
Group Affiliation ◽  
Interesting Insight ◽  
The Social ◽  
Persuasive Game ◽  
The Way

This case illustrates the way in which the football management simulation game, Football Manager (Sports Interactive), enhances the processes through which players formulate their social identities, which extend beyond the boundaries of gameplay itself. The case discusses the findings of my interviews with Football Manager players, which provides an in-depth examination of experiences associated with the game, both during gameplay and the way in which it functions within the wider social contexts of their lives. I discuss these findings in relation to social identity theory (Tajfel, 1978, 1979; Tajfel & Turner, 1979), through the way in which the game promotes players' sense of in-group affiliation, as well as promoting positive shared experiences between players. In this way, the current case presents an interesting insight into the social functions of the game and its role within the social narratives and identities of its players. From this, I conclude the utility of Football Manager as a persuasive game for formulating players' social identities, which may lead to further positive social impacts.

Football Manager as a Persuasive Game for Social Identity Formation

Gamification ◽  
2015 ◽  
pp. 1421-1432
Author(s):  
Linda K. Kaye
Keyword(s):  
Social Identity ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Social Identities ◽  
Simulation Game ◽  
Group Affiliation ◽  
Interesting Insight ◽  
The Social ◽  
Persuasive Game ◽  
The Way

This case illustrates the way in which the football management simulation game, Football Manager (Sports Interactive), enhances the processes through which players formulate their social identities, which extend beyond the boundaries of gameplay itself. The case discusses the findings of my interviews with Football Manager players, which provides an in-depth examination of experiences associated with the game, both during gameplay and the way in which it functions within the wider social contexts of their lives. I discuss these findings in relation to social identity theory (Tajfel, 1978, 1979; Tajfel & Turner, 1979), through the way in which the game promotes players' sense of in-group affiliation, as well as promoting positive shared experiences between players. In this way, the current case presents an interesting insight into the social functions of the game and its role within the social narratives and identities of its players. From this, I conclude the utility of Football Manager as a persuasive game for formulating players' social identities, which may lead to further positive social impacts.

(Re)Fashioning Masculinity: Social Identity and Context in Men’s Hybrid Masculinities through Dress

2018 ◽  
Vol 32 (5) ◽  
pp. 638-662 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ben Barry
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Social Identity ◽  
Hegemonic Masculinity ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Social Identities ◽  
Western Society ◽  
Gender Identities ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
Do So

Modern Western society has framed fashion in opposition to hegemonic masculinity. However, fashion functions as a principal means by which men’s visible gender identities are established as not only different from women but also from other men. This article draws on the concept of hybrid masculinities and on wardrobe interviews with Canadian men across social identities to explore how men enact masculinities through dress. I illustrate three ways men do hybrid masculinities by selecting, styling, and wearing clothing in their everyday lives. The differences between these three hybrid masculine configurations of practice are based on the extent to which men’s personal and professional social identities were associated with hegemonic masculine ideals as well as the extent to which those ideals shaped the settings in which they were situated. Although participants had different constellations of gender privilege, they all used dress to reinforce hegemonic masculinity, gain social advantages, and subsequently preserve the gender order. Failing to do so could put them personally and professionally at risk. My research nuances the hybrid masculinities framework by demonstrating how its enactment is shaped by the intersection between men’s social identities and social contexts.

Taal- en Sprekersbeoordeling Binnen En Buiten De Eigen Groep

1983 ◽  
Vol 17 ◽  
pp. 28-57
Author(s):  
Jan Berenst
Keyword(s):  
Social Identity ◽  
Social Status ◽  
Speech Acts ◽  
Intergroup Interaction ◽  
Language Varieties ◽  
Language Variety ◽  
The Social ◽  
Politeness Strategies ◽  
The City ◽  
The Way

Social status of and solidarity between participants in interaction are important for the way in which they formulate speech acts. The use of a particular language variety functions as a cue for the assessment of status and solidarity in intergroup interaction between strangers: speakers of a language variety are evaluated on these dimensions because of their use of that variety. In our research we compared the evaluations of language varieties, made by speakers of those varieties and made by relevant outgroups. Discongruency in evaluations is likely to prevent a smooth interaction between participants. Agreement in .evaluation can be the basis for a mutual nonproblematic interpretation of the interaction. Perceived differences between speakers can explain the use of certain accommodation strategies and politeness strategies. Our research concentrated on two accent varieties in relation to standard Dutch (AN), an ethnic variety Moluccan Dutch (MN) , and a regional variety Groningen Dutch (GN). There appeared to be interesting differences in the evaluations between the two accent groups in the city of Groningen. The Moluccan group evaluated the Correctness of MN and the Social Status of the MN-speaker more positively than the others did. The speakers of the regional GN however agreed with the AN-speakers about the low evaluation of GN and its speaker on this dimension. Moreover it turned out that the Moluccan group (by comparison) gave preference to the Moluccan speaker on the dimension of Solidarity, but that the GN-group preferred the AN-speaker. This result was similar to the degree of identification with speaker and language: the MN-group mostly with the MN-speaker, the GN-group with the AN-speaker. It is argued that these differences are the result of differences in the perception of the social identity of the groups.

The Social Construction of Peace

2021 ◽  
pp. 76-90
Author(s):  
Joanne Wallis
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
Local Knowledge ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Human Agency ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Socially Constructed ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Everyday

Peace is socially constructed; it is the product of human agency, and ideas and practices relating to peace are constituted and instantiated within intersubjective social contexts. A constructivist analysis of peace takes a reflexive approach to analyzing peace in order to rethink the tacit ontological assumptions on which dominant international analyses of peace are premised. It suggests that we need to make less certain, more dynamic, contingent, and flexible ontological assumptions regarding how peace is understood and practiced in conflict-affected societies. While acknowledging the ethical issues involved in seeking to know local knowledge, this suggests that we should expand our analysis to consider the everyday lived experiences, beliefs, feelings, ideas, and understandings of those affected by conflict.

Entrepreneurs of hate and entrepreneurs of solidarity: Social identity as a basis for mass communication

2005 ◽  
Vol 87 (860) ◽  
pp. 621-637 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Reicher ◽  
Nick Hopkins ◽  
Mark Levine ◽  
Rakshi Rath
Keyword(s):  
Social Identity ◽  
Mass Communication ◽  
Social Identities ◽  
Vulnerable Groups ◽  
Social Harmony ◽  
Psychological Model ◽  
The Social ◽  
Collective Resistance ◽  
The Way

AbstractThe authors draw upon the principles of the social identity tradition in order to elaborate a psychological model of mass communication. This centres on the way in which people construe their social identities and the meanings of events for these identities. They then go on to look at the ways in which these principles have been employed both to mobilize collective support for genocide and collective resistance to genocide. They conclude that it is critical to understand these principles and to apply them effectively in order to promote social harmony and the defence of vulnerable groups.

scholarly journals How Are Forcibly Displaced People Affected by the COVID-19 Pandemic Outbreak? Evidence From Brazil

2021 ◽  
pp. 000276422110004
Author(s):  
Patrícia Nabuco Martuscelli
Keyword(s):  
Social Identity ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Global South ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
Multiple Identities ◽  
Social Identities ◽  
Access To Information ◽  
Displaced People ◽  
New Challenges

Refugees tend to be a neglected population during health emergencies. This article studies how the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak in Brazil affected forcibly displaced people considering their intersectional multiple identities. I conducted 29 semistructured phenomenological interviews with refugees living in the states of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro between March 27 and April 06, 2020. These states’ governors closed nonessential services and schools. The results indicate that refugees face three challenges connected to this pandemic: (a) same challenges as Brazilians due to their labor vulnerability social identity, (b) challenges aggravated by the pandemic due to their identity of nonnationals including access to information and services, and (c) new challenges due to their social identity of forced displaced nonnationals including closing of migration services and borders and the feeling of “living the pandemic twice.” This research contributes to the literature of intersectionality and asylum by understanding how refugees in the Global South are affected by pandemics and responses to them, considering their own lived experiences and multiple social identities.

Personal Autonomy, Social Identity, and Oppressive Social Contexts

Hypatia ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 312-328 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebekah Johnston
Keyword(s):  
Social Identity ◽  
Racial Profiling ◽  
Personal Autonomy ◽  
Damage Model ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Social Identities ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Social Subordination

Attempts to articulate the ways in which membership in socially subordinated social identities can impede one's autonomy have largely unfolded as part of the debate between different types of internalist theories in relation to the problem of internalized oppression. The different internalist positions, however, employ a damage model for understanding the role of social subordination in limiting autonomy. I argue that we need an externalist condition in order to capture the ways in which membership in a socially subordinated identity can constrain one's autonomy, even if one is undamaged in one's autonomy competencies and self‐reflexive attitudes. I argue that living among those practically empowered to harass, to engage in racial profiling, and to treat as expendable is incompatible with a freedom‐condition required for unconstrained global self‐determination.

Das Ende der Kultur: Wie Georg Simmel den Begriff der Kultur soziologisch dekonstruiert

2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 79-94
Author(s):  
Ferdinand Fellmann
Keyword(s):  
Social Identity ◽  
Philosophy Of History ◽  
Georg Simmel ◽  
The Social ◽  
Auguste Comte ◽  
Individual Self ◽  
The Way

In this paper I claim that the metaphysical concept of culture has come to an end. Among the European authors Georg Simmel is the foremost who has deconstructed the myth of culture as a substantial totality beyond relations or prior to them. Two tenets of research have prepared the end of all-inclusive culture: First, Simmel’s formal access that considers society as the modality of interactions and relations between individuals, thus overcoming the social evolutionism of Auguste Comte; second, his critical exegesis of idealistic philosophy of history, thus leaving behind the Hegelian tradition. Although Simmel adheres in some statements to the out-dated idea of morphological unity, his sociological and epistemological thinking paved the way for the concept of social identity as a network of series connected loosely by contiguity. This type of connection is confirmed by the present feeling of life as individual self-invention according to changing situations.

Cranford

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Gaskell ◽  
Dinah Birch
Keyword(s):  
Social Contexts ◽  
Social Worlds ◽  
Victorian England ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Personal Tragedy ◽  
The Way

A man … is so in the way in the house!’ A vivid and affectionate portrait of a provincial town in early Victorian England, Elizabeth Gaskell’s Cranford describes a community dominated by its independent and refined women. Undaunted by poverty, but dismayed by changes brought by the railway and by new commercial practices, the ladies of Cranford respond to disruption with both suspicion and courage. Miss Matty and her sister Deborah uphold standards and survive personal tragedy and everyday dramas; innovation may bring loss, but it also brings growth, and welcome freedoms. Cranford suggests that representatives of different and apparently hostile social worlds, their minds opened by sympathy and suffering, can learn from each other. Its social comedy develops into a study of generous reconciliation, of a kind that will value the past as it actively shapes the future. This edition includes two related short pieces by Gaskell, ‘The Last Generation in England’ and ‘The Cage at Cranford’, as well as a selection from the diverse literary and social contexts in which the Cranford tales take their place.

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