scholarly journals The social dynamics of secrecy: Rethinking information and privacy through Georg Simmel

2012 ◽  
Vol 17 ◽  
pp. 15-20
Author(s):  
Sami Coll

This article argues that Georg Simmel’s ideas on secrecy can shed new light on current debates around the relevance or otherwise of privacy as a protection against surveillance interventions. It suggests an interactional approach to privacy, and considers it as a dynamic process which redefines the boundary between what information should be disclosed and what information should be concealed in every social interaction. Simmel argues that this “natural” process relies on the identification of the interlocutor: her psychological/emotional involvement in the relationship, her social position in society and the representation of her expectations. Recent empirical examples show that this interactional perspective may have the potential to reconcile differing privacy accounts, by linking theoretically different levels that are factually distinct: privacy as a collective fact, as a contextual integrity, and as an individual fact.

2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mildin J. Retutas

Social interaction creates a vital source of opportunities to learn Mathematics and opportunities for students to talk about their own thinking, and this talk encourages reflection. A study was organized to find out the relationship between the social interaction and the performance of third-year students in geometry. Specifically, the study sought to determine their levels of accidental, repeated, regular, and regulated social interactions; students’ academic performance in geometry; and the relationship between students’ levels of social interaction and their performance in Geometry. The study used the descriptive-correlation method involving 39 students as respondents, and complete enumeration sampling design was used. The descriptive used for social interactions were outstanding, very satisfactory, satisfactory, poor and very poor while for the performance were very high, high, moderate, low and very low. The results showed no significant relationship with the social interaction, while the students’ performance in geometry was very satisfactory. The study concludes that the social interaction has no influence on the performance of students in geometry. The study recommends further study shall be made on the relationship of the students’ performances when clustered according to the different levels of social interaction so that appropriate intervention can be made easily.Keywords—Mathematics Education, social interaction, performance, third year students, geometry, descriptive-correlation method, Davao City, Philippines


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ju Wang ◽  
Feng Zheng ◽  
Lifeng Yin ◽  
Shengnan Shi ◽  
bing hu ◽  
...  

Gut microbiota influence neurodevelopment of brain and programing of behaviors. However, the mechanism underlining the relationship between shoals' behaviors and intestinal microbiota remain controversial and the roles of neurotransmitters are still unclear. Here we show that, shoaling behavior affected the innate color preference of shoals, indicating that shoals tended to choose a favorable color environment that benefits social contact. Meanwhile, administration of D1-R antagonist disrupted the social interaction which led to the deficits of color preference. More importantly, the altered microbiota caused by an antibiotic OTC decreased the sociability and weakened shoals' color preference. When given a supplement of LGG after OTC exposure, fish exhibited an unexpectedly recovery capability in social cohesion and color preference. Our findings show that dopamine level of brain could mediate both social recognition and color preference, and highlight the pathway of microbial metabolites through the microbiota-gut-brain axis that coordinate the production of dopamine.


2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Arin Nafiana ◽  
Johan Mahyudi ◽  
Muhammad Khairussibyan

Abstrak: Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk (1) mendeskripsikan bentuk interaksi sosial dalam ketujuh cerpen pada kumpulan cerpen Jendela Cinta karya Fahri Asiza dkk. dan (2) mendeskripsikan pemanfaatan cerpen dalam kumpulan cerpen Jendela Cinta sebagai pembelajaran sastra di SMA. Metode yang digunakan adalah metode deskriptif kualitatif. Teknik pengumpulan data yaitu dokumentasi. Selanjutnya data dianalisis dengan teknik deskriptif analitis yang meliputi pengidentifikasian, pengklasifikasian, dan penyimpulan pada data-data yang terkumpul dari kumpulan cerpen Jendela Cinta karya Fahri Asiza dkk. dengan pendekatan sosiologi sastra, yakni teori interaksi sosial Georg Simmel. Bentuk interaksi sosial dalam teori ini berupa superordinasi dan subordinasi, pertukaran, konflik, prostitusi, dan sosiabilitas. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa ditemukan 37 data dengan rincian data 8 bukti data superordinasi dan subordinasi, 6 bukti data pertukaran, 11 bukti data konflik, 3 bukti data prostitusi, dan 9bukti data sosiabilitas. Pada bentuk interaksi superordinasi dan subordinasi satu di antaranya tergambar dalam hubungan antara tokoh majikan dan tokoh pembantu pada cerpen berjudul “Dia!”, bentuk pertukaran salah satunya tampak melalui tokoh Ratna dan ketiga adiknya pada cerpen “Malam Biru” saat bertukar informasi, bentuk konflik ditemukan satu di antaranya dalam perselisihan antara GAM dan TNI di Aceh yang diceritakan dalam cerpen “Terapung” dan “Bidadari Kecilku”, bentuk prostitusi ditemukan dalam cerpen “Bulan Mengapung” melalui tokoh Parjo dan teman-temannya, dan bentuk sosiabilitas satu di antaranya tergambar melalui keramahan tokoh Aminah dalam cerpen “Jendela Cinta”. Abstract: This research aims to (1) describe the forms of social interactions in the seven short stories called Jendela Cinta by Fahri Asiza et al. and (2) describe the use of short stories in the collection of Jendela Cinta short story as literary learning in senior high school. The method use is descriptive qualitative method. The data collection technique is documentation. Furthermore, the data were analyzed using descriptive analitytical techniques which include identifying, classifying, and inferring data collected from the short story collection of Jendela Cinta by Fahri Asiza et al. with a sociological approach to literature, based on Georg Simmel’s theory of social interaction. The form of social interaction in this theory is in the form of superordination and subordination, exchange, conflict, prostitution, and sociability. The result of this research indicate that found 37 data with 8 data details of superordination and subordination data, 6 evidence of exchange data, 11 evidence of conflict data, 3 evidence of prostitution data, and 9 evidence of sociability data. In the form interaction of superordination and subordination, one of them is illustrated in the relationship between the employer and the maid in the short story “Dia!”, one form of exchange was seen through the character Ratna and her three younger siblings in the short story “Malam Biru” when exchanging information, one form of conflict was seen in a dispute between GAM and TNI in Aceh which was told in the short stories “Terapung” and “Bidadari Kecilku”, a form of prostitution found in the short story “Bulan Mengapung” through Parjo figures and friends, and one form of sociability was seen through Aminah figures in the short story “Jendela Cinta”.


Author(s):  
Thomas Raith

This chapter explores in how far Web 2.0, Weblogs in particular, has changed foreign language learning. It argues that Weblogs, along with Web 2.0, have created new genres for which users need new forms of literacy. A qualitative study on the relationship between the online audience of Web 2.0 and learners’ writing processes is presented and the findings are discussed. The study supports the assumption that learners are aware of the social interaction taking place through weblogs and that this awareness of audience influences the writing process. The author’s intention is to point out that Web 2.0 has created new communities of language practice and that foreign language learning is happening in these discourse communities through social interaction. The challenge in foreign language education is to integrate these communities of practice into the foreign language classroom.


1970 ◽  
Vol 117 (539) ◽  
pp. 397-403 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. S. Ferguson ◽  
M. W. P. Carney

There is a body of opinion which regards psychiatrically ill individuals, or at least one great class or subdivision of them, as suffering primarily from disturbances in personal relationships and social interaction processes generally. Sullivan, Horney and Fromm have made the most significant theoretical contributions to this subject, and empirical applications have been reported by Balint (1957), Maxwell Jones (1968), Rapoport (1960) and Laing (1961). These writers have at least this in common, that they take the point of view that since the pathology of the illness lies in social relationships the fundamental treatment process must lie there also—must, in fact, consist of re-experiencing social interaction within a therapeutic re-educative framework. In the past attention has been directed principally to the doctor-patient relationship as a heuristic model of social interaction, but Rapoport has extended the operational range of significant interaction to include all staff-patient, staff-staff and patient-patient encounters. As the recent Subcommittee of the Central Health Services Council has pointed out (1968), little has been written of the nurse as therapist, but a considerable literature has accumulated concerning the role of the social worker or caseworker or counsellor (e.g. Halmos, 1965). Halmos investigates the nature of such relationships, and finds therapeutic utility to be unrelated to intellectual skills. The therapeutic process is adjudged to lie in the relationship, true enough, but the essential qualities have more to do with the interpersonal styles of the therapist, than with his analytical expertise. Such is his conclusion. Apparently social skills are necessary for the professional worker, but intellectual skills for the problems to be unravelled are of little importance, and are largely irrelevant.


1995 ◽  
Vol 90 ◽  
pp. 363-381 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. C. Nevett

Despite the amount of textual material surviving from classical Greece, our knowledge of the household has remained limited because of the selectivity and orientation of those texts. In this paper, archaeological remains of late 5th- to late 4th-cent. houses are explored in order to shed light on aspects of domestic relations that recur most frequently in the sources: the relationship between male and female household members, and the way in which this was reinforced through the organization of the domestic environment. The traditional picture of a house divided into male and female areas is an over-simplification of a complex pattern of social relationships. A broader approach focuses on interaction between men and women, rather than on women's activity in isolation. The resultant, more detailed model for gender relations offers a glimpse of variability through space and time in how relationships were expressed spatially, and suggests the possibility of differences in the relationships themselves at different levels of the social hierarchy.


2021 ◽  
pp. 73-78
Author(s):  
Roy Romey Mangunsong ◽  
Sudarman Sudarman

Background: The occurrence of serious problems in children's mental development, that children will become aggressive, lack of social interaction and deteriorating of communication skills, is affected by the introduction of gadgets too early and the intensity of uncontrolled use of gadgets by parents. Aim of this study is to determine the relationship between pragmatic ability and social interaction with the intensity of using gadgets in kindergarten children in Surakarta.  Methods: This research was conducted in the kindergarden TK ABA Thoyibah Surakarta, TK Sri Juwita Hanum Surakarta dan TK Negeri Pembina city of Surakarta in april until august 2020. Sample conduct using total sampling technique. Amount of sample is 115 students of kindergarden. The relationship of the variables studied, both pragmatic ability and social interaction with the intensity of using gadgets, is an Odds Ratio (OR), which is exponential from b, the statistical significance of the Odds Ratio is tested with mannova.  Results: The results of the analysis of the pragmatic ability variable showed that Exp B: 2,916, p: 0,420. The results of the social interaction variable analysis showed that Exp B: 2,977, p: 0.011.  Conclusion: Pragmatic ability and social intensity are jointly related to the intensity of using gadgest in kindergarten students in Surakarta, with the results of the analysis of the variable pragmatic ability Exp B: 2,916, p: 0,420 and the results of the analysis of social interaction variables Exp B: 2,977, p: 0.011.


2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 27
Author(s):  
Yayan Suryana

This paper presents an analysis of the death rituals carried out by Muslims in the Priangan region known as ngajahul. Ngajahul is done on the sixth or seventh day after death. Analysis of the ritual of death illustrates that the ritual of death is not only a spiritual-fiqhiyyah aspect, but also has a role in describing social relations. The graveyard that lay in the cemetery, not only shows the grave, but also describes the relationship between the deceased, the family and the social environment. This research in a sociological perspective produces the concept that the rituals of death and society, especially Muslim societies in various aspects are referred to as containing social cohesion. This concept illustrates that death rituals are not as depicted in recitation forums that see death rituals as a tradition laden with rituals that are spiritually nuanced. Ngajahul is a tradition that produces social interaction and involvement in social life that is produced simultaneously. Key Words : Ngajahul, Ritual, Social cohesion, fiqhiyyah


1970 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Chaitanya Mishra

Developing a distinctive disciplinary vantage point is crucial to becoming a professional. Thesis writing at the Master's level allows the professional opportunity of thinking and writing independently. For students of Sociology in particular, it is fundamental to recognize that the social is everywhere. There is nothing that is not socially constituted. Further on, a Sociology student should develop the sociological vantage point in order to see how the social is constituted. This the student can do by engaging and ‘dialoguing' with well-known sociological theorists. The student will then be able to think about how and why societies are historically constituted, how and why societies are diverse, internally differentiated and hierarchized and how and why societies transform themselves. They will learn to unravel the relationship between different levels of a society. In addition, they will also learn the significance of the structure even as they visualize historical human agents change the structure. Keywords: Social; Sociological; Sociological Imagination; Thesis Writing; Social Relationship; Institutions DOI: 10.3126/dsaj.v3i0.2779 Dhaulagiri Journal of Sociology and Anthropology Vol.3 2009 1-18


Author(s):  
Carlos Nolasco

ResumoEste ensaio tem como ponto de partida o reconhecimento de que o mundo contemporâneo se encontra numa situação de ambivalência, entre perigos e possibilidades, que não só desafiam o presente como equacionam o futuro. O desporto e o gesto desportivo, como fenômenos que resultam dos contextos em que são produzidos, encontram-se necessariamente nessa ambiguidade. Partindo das Epistemologias do Sul, enquanto proposta de resgate de dimensões epistêmicas e humanas ausentes do espaço hegemônico, e apresentadas como alternativas ao esgotamento da modernidade, propõe-se uma análise crítica das dinâmicas sociais do desporto, através da operacionalizando dos conceitos de sociologia das ausências e de sociologia das emergências, sugerindo a emergência de outro desporto que vá ao encontro da perspectiva da motricidade humana na assunção da complexidade e da transcendência do gesto desportivo.Palavras-chave: Epistemologias do Sul. Motricidade Humana. Interculturalidade. Desporto. Corpo.In search of absent movements for emerging motricities: the relationship between Epistemologies of the South and Human MotricityAbstractThis essay has as its starting point the recognition that the contemporary world is in a situation of ambivalence, between dangers and possibilities, which not only challenge the present but also equate the future. Sport and sporting gesture, as phenomena that result from the contexts in which they are produced, are necessarily in this ambiguity. Starting from the Epistemologies of the South, as a proposal to rescue epistemic and human dimensions absent from the hegemonic space, and presented as alternatives to the exhaustion of modernity, a critical analysis of the social dynamics of sport is proposed through the operationalization of the concepts of sociology of absences and sociology of emergencies, suggesting the emergence of another sport that meets the perspective of human motricity, assuming the complexity and transcendence of the sporting gesture.Keywords: Epistemologies of the South. Human Motricity. Interculturality. Sport. Body.En busca de movimientos ausentes de motricidades emergentes: la relación entre las epistemologías del sur y la motricidad humanaResumenEste ensayo tiene como punto de partida el reconocimiento de que el mundo contemporáneo se encuentra en una situación de ambivalencia, entre peligros y posibilidades, que no solo desafían el presente sino que también equiparan el futuro. El deporte y el gesto deportivo, como fenómenos que resultan de los contextos en los que se producen, se encuentran necesariamente en esta ambigüedad. Partiendo de las Epistemologías del Sur, como una propuesta para rescatar las dimensiones epistémicas y humanas ausentes del espacio hegemónico, y presentadas como alternativas al agotamiento de la modernidad, proponemos un análisis crítico de las dinámicas sociales del deporte, a través de la operacionalización de los conceptos de sociología de las ausencias y de sociología de las emergencias, sugiriendo la emergencia de otro deporte que cumpla con la perspectiva de la motricidad humana en el supuesto de la complejidad y trascendencia del gesto deportivo.Palabras clave: Epistemologías del Sur. Motricidad humana. Interculturalidad Deporte. Cuerpo.


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