Critical GIS Twenty Years After Friday Harbor Meeting: Critical Intervention to Epistemology, Ontology, Methodology, and the Social Implication of GIS

2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 199-215
Author(s):  
Jin-Kyu Jung
Keyword(s):  
Social Implication ◽  
Critical Gis ◽  
The Social ◽  
Friday Harbor ◽  
Critical Intervention

scholarly journals Tolerance of Muslim beliefs and practices: Age related differences and context effects

2007 ◽  
Vol 31 (5) ◽  
pp. 467-477 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maykel Verkuyten ◽  
Luuk Slooter
Keyword(s):  
Social Cognitive ◽  
Context Effects ◽  
Cognitive Domain ◽  
Political Rights ◽  
Social Implication ◽  
Beliefs And Practices ◽  
Age Related ◽  
The Social ◽  
Positive Effect ◽  
Older Males

Tolerant judgments of Muslims' political rights and dissenting beliefs and practices by ethnic Dutch adolescents (12—18 years) were examined. Participants ( N = 632) made judgments of different types of behaviors and different contexts in an experimental questionnaire study. As in other studies, tolerance was found to not be a global construct. Adolescents took into account various aspects of what they were asked to tolerate and the sense in which they should be tolerant. The type of actor, the nature of the social implication of the behavior, the underlying belief type, and the dimension of tolerance, all made a difference to the tolerant judgments. Additionally, the findings strongly suggest that tolerance judgments do not develop through an age-related stage-like sequence where an intolerant attitude is followed by tolerance. For females, there were no age differences, and older males were less tolerant than younger males. There were also gender differences with males being less tolerant for some types of behavior and females being less tolerant for behaviors that negatively affected Muslim females. Level of education had a positive effect on tolerance. The findings are discussed with reference to social-cognitive domain theory.

What to Do When People Stare: A Workshop to Teach Individuals With Disfiguring Conditions to Contend With Staring and Improve Control of Social Interactions

2019 ◽  
Vol 40 (6) ◽  
pp. 743-751
Author(s):  
Charlene Pell
Keyword(s):  
Nonprofit Organizations ◽  
Social Interactions ◽  
Social Implication ◽  
Facial Disfigurement ◽  
Psychosocial Consequences ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Media ◽  
Facial Difference ◽  
Workshop Evaluation ◽  
The Impact

Abstract Facial disfigurement due to any congenital or acquired condition is a social disability that can impede communication, contribute to awkward social interactions, and cause individuals with differences to be isolated and rejected. Yet, few interventions have been developed to address the psychosocial consequences of living with a visible difference, despite research indicating that the more visible the disfigurement is to others, the greater the social implication and challenge for the affected individual. This article reviews the impact of the “What to Do When People Stare” social and communication workshop, including its theoretical basis (drawn from anthropological research and theory pertaining to disfigurement), the phenomenon of staring, and the experience of being the target of a stare. The review highlights feedback from 46 individuals with disfiguring conditions caused by burns, dermatological conditions, and craniofacial conditions who completed a Workshop Evaluation Survey. The instructor, who has a facial difference, reviewed the science of staring, the role and influence of the media and beauty in society, myths associated with disfigurement, social and communication skills, and asked specific questions to elicit feelings and beliefs about why people stare, and how it feels to be the object of a stare. After completing the workshop, 80% of participants reported that they felt better prepared to cope with staring, and 83% reported a better understanding about the motives of staring. The workshop demonstrates the need to increase awareness of visible differences and to teach individuals with visible differences and the general public appropriate social skills for engaging with one another. The workshop’s success to date highlights the need for similar programs addressing the psychosocial communicative dimensions related to staring. Collaborations with burn centers and other nonprofit organizations that treat and assist individuals with psychosocial issues related to visible difference could strengthen content and assessment data.

…Let No One Split Asunder: Controversy In Human Genetic Engineering

1987 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stanley S. Robin ◽  
Gerald E. Markle
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Engineering ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
Social Implication ◽  
The Social ◽  
Human Genetic Engineering ◽  
Genetic Science

In 1980 the first recombinant genetic engineering experiments on humans were performed. These experiments sparked a major controversy, international in scope and potentially profound in its implications for genetic science. We develop four perspectives—substantive, network, organizational, and societal—from which science can be seen as a process having differing social implication and meaning. The research and controversy are discussed with attention to the conflicts and their resolutions from each perspective and among them. Taken together, the four perspectives are used as a single basis for understanding the social processes involved in this case study and the more general workings of science.

scholarly journals Literary words of foreign origin as social markers in Jeffrey Archer’s novels

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 816-830
Author(s):  
Tatiana A. Ivushkina
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
Lower Class ◽  
Social Position ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Upper Class ◽  
Careful Examination ◽  
Social Implication ◽  
Foreign Origin ◽  
The Social ◽  
French Words

The paper is aimed at studying the use of literary words of foreign origin in modern fiction from a sociolinguistic point of view, which presupposes establishing a correlation between this category of words in a speech portrayal or narrative and a social status of the speaker, and verifying that they serve as indices of socially privileged identity in British literature of the XX1st century. This research is the continuation of the diachronic sociolinguistic study of the upper-class speech portrayals which has traced the distinctive features in their speech and has revealed that literary words of foreign origin unambiguously testify to the social position of a character/speaker and serve as social indices. The question arises then whether it holds true for modern upper-class speakers/speech portrayals, given all the transformations a new millennium has brought about. To this end we have selected 60 contexts from two novels by Jeffrey Archer - Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less (2004) and A Prisoner of Birth (2008) , and subjected them to a careful examination. A graduate from Oxford and representative of socially privileged classes, Archer gives a wide depiction of characters with different social backgrounds and statuses. The analysis of the novels based on the contextual and functional approaches to the study enabled us to categorize the selected words into four relevant groups. The first class represented by terms ( commodity, debenture, assets, luminescence, etc.) serves to unambiguously indicate education, occupation, and fields of knowledge or communicative situations in which a character is involved. The second class is formed of words used in conjunction with their Germanic counterparts ( perspiration - sweat, padre - priest, convivial - friendly ) to contrast the social position of the characters: literary words serving as social indices of upper class speakers, whereas their synonyms of Germanic origin characterize middle or lower class speech portrayals. The third class of words comprises socially marked words (verbs, nouns and adjectives), or U-words (the term first coined by Allan Ross and Nancy Mitford), the status acquired in the course of social history development (elegant, excellent, sophistication, authoritative, preposterous, etc .) . The fourth class includes words used in a humorous or ironic meaning to convey the narrators attitude to the characters or the situation itself ( ministrations, histrionic, etc.). Words of this group are perceived as stylistic aliens, as they create incongruity between style and subject matter. The social implication of the selected words is enhanced by French words and phrases often accompanying them.

scholarly journals An adaptive e-learning architecture: An experimental model for implementation and personalization of regional and English medium learners

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (10) ◽  
pp. 306-317
Author(s):  
Dr. K. Bhagyalakshmi ◽  
◽  
Dr S. Manimaran ◽  
Dr. T. Muthupandian ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Learning System ◽  
Individual Student ◽  
Social Implication ◽  
Learning Content ◽  
Regional Language ◽  
The Social ◽  
Core Subject ◽  
E Learning ◽  
And Performance

Traditional e-Learning system displays the same content to all the learners irrespective of their knowledge level and relevance. This paper enumerates insight into the learner‟s perspective and expectation on medium of study such as regional language verses English language at education institute in fathoming the core subject or e-content provided to them in English and proposes a design for developing an adaptive e-Learning system personalized to the learner. To investigate into the learner‟s individual desire the best cutting edge practice of applying statistical tools along with a plausible framework is being adapted. The results implied that the medium of instruction (Regional language / English) at school has greater impact on the performance compared to the region (Rural / Urban) the students hailed from, when the same content is given to them in English using traditional e- Learning. However, often there exists a widespread difference among regional language as a medium of learning in rural area and English as a medium of learning in urban area. Therefore, this study intend to develop e-learning content based on individual student capability to understand using systematic decision making and customized rules. The social implication of this study reveals that adaptive elearning based on individual personal capacity and customized e-learning content has been successfully implemented and effectively established a balanced trade-off between regional language as a medium students and English as a medium of learning student‟s knowledge and performance.

The Problem of Unemployment Among Epileptics

1958 ◽  
Vol 104 (434) ◽  
pp. 103-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neil Gordon ◽  
Sheridan Russell
Keyword(s):  
Older Patients ◽  
Age Of Onset ◽  
Social Implication ◽  
Cerebral Tumour ◽  
The Social

When the diagnosis of epilepsy is made, the patient must first of all be investigated to make sure that the epilepsy is not symptomatic of a disease that will need some special line of treatment. For example, epilepsy starting at any age may be the first indication of a cerebral tumour, although this will obviously be more likely among the older patients. The nature and extent of these investigations will depend on such factors as the age of onset, the type of seizure and the associated positive physical signs. However, even in the cases where there is no evidence whatsoever that the epilepsy is symptomatic, an electroencephalogram may help in differentiating the type of epilepsy from which any particular patient is suffering, and so aid in deciding on the form of treatment most likely to be beneficial. When any necessary investigations have been carried out and the form that treatment is to take has been settled, the social implication of this diagnosis has then to be faced. This often resolves itself into a discussion of the patient's employment.

The social network implications of prestigious goods among young adults: evaluating the self vs others

2015 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 199-208 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seung Hwan Lee ◽  
Sean Luster
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Experimental Studies ◽  
The Self ◽  
Social Implication ◽  
Social Image ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Social ◽  
Negative Perceptions ◽  
Social Affinity ◽  
Promotional Messages

Purpose – This paper aims to investigate the paradox of whether prestigious goods help or inhibit a consumer’s social affinity. The goal of this research is to explore whether pursuit of prestigious goods increases consumers’ social affinity or decreases their social affinity, and, more importantly, to understand the mechanisms that drive this process. Design/methodology/approach – Three laboratory experimental studies and a social network study are conducted to show that consumers hold inconsistent beliefs about the social implication of prestigious goods. Findings – In Study 1, the authors showed that prestigious goods evoked stronger social affinity for the self than for the other. In Study 2, the authors showed that people evaluated themselves high in social affinity when they brought a prestigious wine to a party compared to when they brought a cheaper, generic wine, but evaluated others low in social affinity when they brought the same prestigious wine. In Study 3, the authors showed the mediating effects of social image and boastfulness on social affinity. Study 4 utilizes social network study to further validate previous findings in a field setting. Practical implications – For high-end retailers, the authors suggest framing their promotional messages to explicitly highlight how owning prestigious goods will benefit them (i.e. social image). It is important that these retail managers (and salespeople alike) make it more salient on how their prestigious goods socially benefit the consumer (the self). Thus, it is important to get consumers to think about how a prestigious item looks on them and not on others. However, marketers must be prudent when constructing these messages, as the link between prestigious consumption and network development is merely perceptual. Originality/value – The findings demonstrate that consuming prestigious goods increases social affinity via positive social image for the self. When evaluating others, the authors demonstrate that consuming prestigious goods decreases social affinity via boastfulness. In sum, owning prestigious items may seem beneficial socially to the self, but people have negative perceptions (boastfulness) of those who own the same prestigious goods. Hence, there seems to be a discrepancy in how the authors evaluate themselves versus how they evaluate others with the same prestigious goods.

The History of Clinical Neuropsychology in Israel

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eli Vakil ◽  
Dan Hoofien
Keyword(s):  
Social Implication ◽  
Clinical Neuropsychology ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Neuropsychological Rehabilitation ◽  
The Social ◽  
Long Term Follow Up ◽  
History Of ◽  
State Of Israel

The history of clinical neuropsychology in Israel has been affected by both the worldwide development of the field of neuropsychology, which began in the 1970s and provided the conceptual and theoretical frameworks of clinical neuropsychology, and by the social implication of the unique geopolitical situation of the state of Israel. These circumstances led to a great need for neuropsychological rehabilitation services initially for veterans and later for civilians. While European and American influences are evident in the scientific knowledge of neuropsychology and neuropsychological assessment, Israel has been pioneering, creative, and original in neuropsychological rehabilitation. Israel’s contributions are reflected in the research conducted on various aspects of rehabilitation that has exploited an advantage that exists in Israel—the long-term follow-up of individuals after traumatic brain injury (TBI). This research has, in turn, encouraged the formation of graduate programs and training facilities for clinical neuropsychology at most of the universities in Israel.

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