PSYCHOLOGICAL TIME AND SOCIOLOGY: A RESEARCH AGENDA

1979 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 217-222
Author(s):  
H. Wayne Hogan
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Environmental Design ◽  
Personal Space ◽  
Psychological Experience ◽  
Psychological Phenomena ◽  
Experience Of Time

Psychological time is presently seen as potentially being both an independent and a dependent dimension associated with such sociological and psychological phenomena as social change, environmental design, personal space, esthetics, and color considerations. Several “annotated” hypotheses are offered, with the suggestion that their testing will ultimately demonstrate that the psychological experience of time has many more sociological implications than have heretofore been recognized.

Discourse analysis for social change: voice, agency and hope

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (267-268) ◽  
pp. 69-84
Author(s):  
Juan Eduardo Bonnin
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Collective Agency ◽  
Global Crisis ◽  
Multiple Voices ◽  
Explicit Bias ◽  
Current Context ◽  
Uncertain Future

Abstract The aim of this essay is to propose some key challenges and problems in the field of language in society. In the current context of global crisis, we have the opportunity to design a research agenda for an uncertain future from a dark present. But there is no reason why that agenda should also be uncertain and dark. An agenda thus established can start from three aspects that I explore in this article: the recognition and appreciation of multiple voices, organized and collective agency, and an unwavering and explicit bias for hope.

scholarly journals Social Entrepreneurship as a Path for Social Change and Driver of Sustainable Development: A Systematic Review and Research Agenda

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 1091 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sanchita Bansal ◽  
Isha Garg ◽  
Gagan Sharma
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Social Entrepreneurship ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Web Of Science ◽  
Research Papers ◽  
The Web

Social entrepreneurship has been recognized as a tool to attain sustainable development. This paper highlights the role of social entrepreneurship in triggering social change and attaining sustainable development. The paper contributes significantly to the existing literature by conducting a systematic review of extant works. To this end, we analyzed and reviewed 173 research papers from the Web of Science database. The results are presented in the form of descriptive findings and thematic discussion. The paper concludes by setting up the agenda for future researchers in the field.

Night and the Japanese Fairy Tale

KronoScope ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 94-116
Author(s):  
Gergana Petkova
Keyword(s):  
Fairy Tales ◽  
Fairy Tale ◽  
Human Factor ◽  
Source Material ◽  
Structural Function ◽  
Structural Elements ◽  
Psychological Experience ◽  
Experience Of Time ◽  
Nature Of Time

Time, and particularly night, in folktales can be approached from various perspectives. In the present study, we shall see time in its structural function and will analyze the protagonist’s experience of time, as well as the “anthropic” nature of time and night as structural elements in fairy tales. We shall accomplish this by examining the theme of time, and particularly nighttime with its functions and characteristics, within the framework of the Japanese tale. We shall attempt to rethink the position of night and time in fairy tales as a motif, a background, a facilitator, and an opportunity that exists because of the human factor in the process of storytelling.The present study is based on the subgenre of ordinary folktales (also known as true folktales, or Zaubermärchen). The source material (59 tales out of the total 189 defined as “true”) can be found in volumes ii-vii of Seki Keigo’s Index of Japanese Folktales. All of the 59 tales that form the basis of this study are examined in regard to time, and conclusions are illustrated by a few selected examples. The time-motifs are discussed as originating from the storytelling process; as being part of the binomial world of the folktale; as illustrating the physical and psychological experience of time quantities and qualities; and as forming a framework that facilitates the relationships between the dramatis personae.

The Orthodoxy in RT-PE and the Research/Practice Gap: A Critique and an Alternative View

1989 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 123-130 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Kirk
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Change Process ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Alternative View ◽  
The Political ◽  
Research Practice ◽  
The Social ◽  
Teacher As Researcher ◽  
Practice Gap ◽  
Strategies For Change

In this paper I argue that there is currently an orthodoxy in RT-PE that is unable, through its present epistemologies and methods, to make a major impact on curriculum practice. Three particular issues are highlighted as problematic: strategies for change adopted within the orthodoxy, who has the power to define and legitimate the research agenda, and an apolitical view of change. In presenting an alternative view of how we might close the research/practice gap in RT-PE, I suggest that researchers must develop more democratic approaches to working with teachers, for example along the lines of the teacher-as-researcher movement rather than on them. I also argue that in order to do this, we must develop more appropriate research epistemologies and methodologies. Finally, these two developments must be framed within a more sophisticated and systematically developed understanding of the social change process, and of the political nature of our attempts as educators to bring about change.

scholarly journals Media Innovation and Social Change: Introduction to the Special Issue

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Niahmh Ní Bhroin ◽  
Stefania Milan
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Open Innovation ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Media Industry ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
The Relationship

Our purpose with this Special Issue is to present and contribute to a body of research that critically explores the relationship between media innovation and social change. In doing so, we also outline the contours of a research agenda to further develop this emerging field. Our motivation arises from a review of research published in the nine previous editions of this journal, where we explored how research about media innovations engaged with the topic of social change. We find that research in the field of media innovations has tended to focus on business and economic imperatives for media innovation, following the paradigm of research on digitalisation introduced by von Hippel’s theories of ‘democratizing innovation’ (2005), Chesbrough’s ‘open innovation’ (2006), or Tapscott and Williams, ‘Wikinomics’ (2011). As a consequence, digitalisation and the introduction of new technologies is usually unquestioningly presented as a business imperative for media industry stakeholders.

scholarly journals Comfort: A Project for Cultural Studies

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 463-474
Author(s):  
Andrew Hickey
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Recent Observation ◽  
Present Moment ◽  
Social Formation ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Scholarly Attention

Abstract Taking as its provocation the recent observation by Larry Grossberg that “knowledge is relatively powerless to affect the conditions and directions of social change” (Tilting at Windmills 149-150) this paper will suggest that it is with the explication of comfort that a valuable response to the challenge of the current conjuncture can be found. Following a brief survey of the nature and purpose of Cultural Studies scholarship in this present moment, attention will turn to how comfort comes to be encoded into everyday practices and routines of lifestyle. Accordingly, this paper will assert that Cultural Studies, with its concern for “the quotidian experiences of lives lived” (Martin and Hickey 149), is well-placed to launch inquiry into the “conditions” of comfort-conditions that mark the dimensions of late capitalist social formation. A call for a research agenda within Cultural Studies that positions comfort as a prompt for scholarly attention will be outlined as an “activated” form of cultural inquiry focused on the clarification of the “everyday” dimensions of living now.

scholarly journals Toward a Sociology of Artificial Intelligence: A Call for Research on Inequalities and Structural Change

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 237802312199958
Author(s):  
Kelly Joyce ◽  
Laurel Smith-Doerr ◽  
Sharla Alegria ◽  
Susan Bell ◽  
Taylor Cruz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Structural Change ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Social Dimensions ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Leading Role ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Shaping ◽  
Sociological Approaches

This article outlines a research agenda for a sociology of artificial intelligence (AI). The authors review two areas in which sociological theories and methods have made significant contributions to the study of inequalities and AI: (1) the politics of algorithms, data, and code and (2) the social shaping of AI in practice. The authors contrast sociological approaches that emphasize intersectional inequalities and social structure with other disciplines’ approaches to the social dimensions of AI, which often have a thin understanding of the social and emphasize individual-level interventions. This scoping article invites sociologists to use the discipline’s theoretical and methodological tools to analyze when and how inequalities are made more durable by AI systems. Sociologists have an ability to identify how inequalities are embedded in all aspects of society and to point toward avenues for structural social change. Therefore, sociologists should play a leading role in the imagining and shaping of AI futures.

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