scholarly journals Sensemaking in Social Construction of Organization. A Powerful Resource in Pandemic Context

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 308-318
Author(s):  
Alexandra Galbin
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
Social Interactions ◽  
Significant Influence ◽  
Social Constructionism ◽  
Effective Action ◽  
Organizational Context ◽  
Effective Practices ◽  
The Social ◽  
New Ideas

The paper presents the potential of sensemaking in social construction of organization, especially in times of uncertainty, generated by Covid-19 pandemic. The perspective is based on the social constructionism and explores the implications of sensemaking in organizational context. The paradigm of social constructionism is interested in dialogue and relations between members of organizations in the process of producing meaning in social interactions. In this context, sensemaking provides a significant influence in the process of organizing and leads the members to develop new ideas and discover effective practices, helping them to face the challenges encountered. Finally, the paper suggests the sensemaking as being a useful resource in creating a common map, providing hope, confidence, that may conduct to more effective action for rethinking the activities in situations of safety and trust.

Why Can’t We All Get Along? A Study of Hygge and Janteloven in a Danish Social-Casual Games Community

2015 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 403-425 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmad Beltagui ◽  
Thomas Schmidt
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
Social Interactions ◽  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
Perceived Fairness ◽  
Third Places ◽  
Social Constructs ◽  
Physical Environments ◽  
The Social ◽  
Casual Games ◽  
Online Setting

This article examines social interactions in a Danish online social-casual games community using the Danish social constructs of Hygge and Janteloven. Hygge relates to notions of home, family, safety, and security in small, sheltered surroundings, while Janteloven is a subversive attempt to codify the unwritten rules that enforce equality (or mediocrity) in Scandinavian societies. Off-line, Hygge exists in physical environments where a safe, social atmosphere can be created, similar to sociability in physical third places. In the online setting, we identify the social construction of shared interpersonal spaces where Hygge is achieved and regulated through perceived fairness with respect to constitutive and regulative rules. A sense of belonging moderates players’ behaviors toward others and even their achievements in the game to maintain harmony. The article offers a unique examination of social constructs online, contributing to the knowledge of Danish culture and of how local cultures shape online behaviors.

The social construction of social constructionism

Inquiry ◽  
1994 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 139-157 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Slezak
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
Social Constructionism ◽  
The Social

Bears, Zoos, and Wilderness: The Poverty of Social Constructionism

2002 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 195-202 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Dombrowski
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
Social Constructionism ◽  
Active Imagination ◽  
Short Article ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Construction Of Nature ◽  
In The Wild

AbstractIt is the purpose of this short article to defend the realism of Holmes Rolston and other environmental philosophers against the social constructionism of Neil Evernden and others who have written on the social construction of nature. This defense is attempted through appeal to a deceptively simple example: seeing a bear in a zoo.The following four claims are defended in the effort to show the deficiencies of the anthropocentrism of social constructionists like Evernden: (1) there is a difference between a bear in a zoo and one in the wild; (2) this difference legitimates the belief that the former is an attenuated version of the latter; (3) the danger posed by a bear in the wild is not due to an overly active imagination; and (4) experience of sublime beauty (in contrast to mere cuteness) in the presence of a wild bear is only partly of one's own doing.

scholarly journals CRITICAL-DISCURSIVE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIONISM: WHAT IS THE STANDPOINT OF SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIONISM RESEARCH?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janicce Martínez Richard
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
Social Constructionism ◽  
Formal Theory ◽  
Subject Position ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
The Social ◽  
Methodological Approaches ◽  
Methodological Principles ◽  
Scientific Truth ◽  
Epistemological Relativism

An overview of critical-discursive Social Constructionism is presented, showing its historical development and its critique of any methodological approaches that do not take into consideration the social-historical reality. In particular, it criticises the dualistic ‘external object - cognitive subject’ position of the Positivist current that has its roots in the Enlightenment and later in Modernity, which leads to a conception of reason and scientific truth as supposedly incontrovertible realities outside of any historical and social construction. Finally, social constructionism is presented not as a formal theory grounded of strict methodological principles, but rather as an approach that attempts to show the limitations of certain scientific or methodological views, emphasising the importance of social construction through language and the relative relevance of different positions, from which a certain vindication of epistemological relativism emerges.

In defiance of an ageing culture

1999 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 139-148 ◽  
Author(s):  
MIKE HEPWORTH
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Social Constructionism ◽  
Review Article ◽  
Recent Book ◽  
Middle Years ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The Uk

Margaret Morganroth Gullette, Declining to Decline: Cultural Combat and the Politics of the Midlife. Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia 1997, 276pp, $29.95 cloth ISBN 0-8139-1721-2.Margaret Morganroth Gullette is one of America's foremost critics of the concept of ageing as a universal and comprehensive process of decline which begins in the middle years. She is a formidable critic of biological essentialism, defender of social constructionism, and opponent of ‘middle ageism’. Her most recent book, published in 1997 and not yet available in the UK, has been widely acclaimed in the USA. This review article describes Gullette's analysis of the social construction of decline in the context of her previous writings on midlife and outlines her strategy for combatting the decline model of ageing into old age.

Organizing Global Knowledge Management in a Dispersed Organization

2001 ◽  
pp. 426-441
Author(s):  
Shan L. Pan
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Social Construction ◽  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
Organizational Context ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Global Knowledge ◽  
The Social ◽  
Technological Perspective ◽  
Over Time

Knowledge has been identified as one of the most important resources that contribute to the competitive advantage of an organization. Such realization has led to a number of studies that have attempted to understand how organizations explore and exploit knowledge from a technological perspective. However, the chapter aims to go beyond the technological perspective by addressing the organizational and social issues of organizing global knowledge sharing. The research is based on an empirical investigation of knowledge sharing processes from an international organization. Through the social construction approach, the chapter traces the interactions between global knowledge management (KM) practices and the organizational context over time.

scholarly journals Constructing the Identities of ‘Responsible Mothers, Invisible Men’ in Child Protection Practice

2002 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 147-171 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heather D'Cruz
Keyword(s):  
Child Maltreatment ◽  
Social Construction ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Social Constructionism ◽  
Child Protection ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Ways Of Knowing ◽  
Social Categories ◽  
Social Phenomena ◽  
The Social

Social constructionism offers valuable insights into the study of social problems for example, poverty, homelessness, crime and delinquency, including how social phenomena ‘become’ social problems, through social processes of interaction and interpretation. The social construction of child maltreatment has recently emerged as a site of scholarly inquiry and critique. This paper explores through three case studies how ‘responsibility for child maltreatment’ is constructed in child protection practice, with a specific focus on how ‘responsibility’ may also be gendered. In particular, how is gender associated with responsibility, such that the identity-pair, ‘responsible mothers, invisible men’, is a highly likely outcome as claimed in feminist literature? What other assumptions about ‘identities of risk’ or ‘dangerousness’ articulate with patriarchy and influence how responsibility is constructed? The case studies explore normally invisible processes by which social categories become ‘fact’, ‘knowledge’ and ‘truth’. Furthermore, the social construction of ‘responsibility for child maltreatment’ is extended by a reflexive analysis of my own constructionist practices, as researcher/writer in claims making. The analysis offers an insight into the dynamic and dialectical relationship between professional and organisational knowledge and practice, allowing for a critique of knowledge itself, the basis for the claims made and possible alternative ways of knowing.

scholarly journals The Social Construction of the Soundscape of the Castilian Cities (15th and 16th Centuries)

Acoustics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-77
Author(s):  
Gisela Coronado Schwindt
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Construction ◽  
Social Interactions ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Normative Documents ◽  
Cultural Approach ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Senses ◽  
Combining Methods

This paper seeks to develop some conceptual elements that articulated the social construction of the soundscape of the urban spaces of the kingdom of Castile (15th–16th centuries). We focus our attention on the revision of the normative spheres that structured the subjective universe of the Castilian inhabitants, in order to notice and spot the different sound representations that intervened in the spatial and social configuration of the cities, their possible conflicts, and levels of acoustic tolerance. This proposal is part of the so-called “sensorial turn” in the Social Sciences, defined by David Howes as a cultural approach to the study of the senses as well as a sensorial approach to the study of culture. The research is carried out through the analysis of the sensory marks present in a documentary corpus made up of normative documents (municipal ordinances, books of agreement, chapter acts, diocesan synods, and royal dispositions) and judicial documents (General Archive of Simancas) combining methods of discourse analysis and the history of the senses. In the article, we argue and remark that the sound dimension operated as a device that acted in the shaping of the identity of places, since it contributed to define and delimit their use. This was reflected in the importance given by the authorities to the normative regulation of the community, which included a textual dimension in which the historical soundscape was imprinted, revealing the multiple social interactions that integrated it.

The Social Construction of Violence: The Case of Sexual and Domestic Violence

1999 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 234-245 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charlene L. Muehlenhard ◽  
Leigh Ann Kimes
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Social Construction ◽  
Sexual Violence ◽  
Social Constructionism ◽  
Power Relationships ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Socially Constructed ◽  
The Social ◽  
Over Time

What counts as “violence” is socially constructed, has varied over time, and reflects power relationships. Informed by social constructionism, we illustrate these points using as examples sexual violence and domestic violence. We review changes in how society and social scientists have defined and understood these topics during the last 30 years. We then discuss 3 areas of continuing controversy: who should decide if sexual or domestic violence has occurred, what to count as sexual and domestic violence, and the role of gender in defining sexual and domestic violence.

Varieties of social constructionism and the problem of progress in psychiatry

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth F. Schaffner ◽  
Kathryn Tabb
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
Psychiatric Disorders ◽  
Social Constructionism ◽  
Social Factors ◽  
Medical Settings ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Relationship

Chapter 11 discusses how the debates over the relationship between social factors and progress in psychiatry have been muddied by confusion over how the term “social construction” has been, and should be, used. It covers how one option is to move away from the language of social construction, like many in the literature have done since the 1990s. But this move risks obscuring the continued importance of attending to the role of the social in psychiatric progress. This chapter aims to clarify the different positions taken by social constructionists about psychiatric disorders and to advocate for what it calls “inclusionary social constructionism.” Through a comparison between the history of HIV/AIDS and the present state of schizophrenia in research and medical settings, the chapter illustrates and evaluates the space of possible characterizations of social construction by psychiatrists and philosophers of psychiatry.

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