scholarly journals Dance and Socio-Cybernetics: The Dance event of “K’na” As A Shaping Component of The Cultural Identity Amongst the Arvanites of Neo Cheimonio Evros, Greece

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 30
Author(s):  
Eleni Filippidou ◽  
Maria Koutsouba
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Control Theory ◽  
Ethnic Group ◽  
Internal Control ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Dance Music ◽  
Identity Control ◽  
Identity Control Theory

The research field of this paper is the wedding dance event of “K’na”, as this takes place by the Arvanites of Greek Thrace, an ethnic group moved to the area from Turkish Thrace in 1923. The aim of this paper is to investigate whether the three components of dance, music and song of Greek traditional dance, as these reflected in the “K’na” dance event amongst the Arvanites ethnic group of Neo Cheimonio (Evros), are related to issues of ethno-cultural identity under the lens of socio-cybernetics. Data was gathered through ethnographic method as this is applied to the study of dance, while its interpretation was based on socio-cybernetics according to Burke’s identity control theory. From the data analysis, it is showed that through the “K’na” dance event the Thracian Arvanites of Neo Cheimonio shape and reshape their ethno-cultural identity as a reaction to the input they receive from their environment. Therefore, the “construction” of their identity, as a constant process of self-regulation and internal control, is subjected to the conditions of a cybernetic process.

scholarly journals The Construction of National Identity through Cybernetic Process: The Example of “K’na” Dance Event in Greek and Turkish Thrace

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (18) ◽  
pp. 13-31
Author(s):  
Eleni Filippidou ◽  
Maria Koutsouba ◽  
Vassiliki Lalioti ◽  
Vassilis Lantzos
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Data Analysis ◽  
Control Theory ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Cultural Development ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Identity Control ◽  
The People ◽  
Border Areas

AbstractThe research field of this paper is the area of Thrace, a large geopolitical-cultural unit that was divided – due to political reasons – in three subareas distributed among three different countries: Bulgaria, Turkey and Greece. A dance event that used to take place before the border demarcation but is still performed in the Greek and Turkish Thrace is that of “K’na”, a wedding dance event danced by the people of both border areas, despite of the changes in their magical-religious beliefs and the changes brought by socio-economic and cultural development. In particular, the aim of this paper is the study of the “construction” of the national identity of inhabitants both of Greek and Turkish Thrace, as this is manifested through the dance practice within the wedding event of “K’na”, through the lens of sociocybernetics. Data was gathered through ethnographic method as this is applied to the study of dance, while its interpretation was based on sociocybernetics according to Burke’s identity control theory. From the data analysis, it is showed that the “K’na” dance in Greek and Turkish Thrace constructs and reconstructs the national identity of the people who use them as a response to the messages they receive via the communication with “the national others”. In conclusion, the “construction” of the identity results from a continuous procedure of self-regulation and self-control through a cybernetic sequence of steps.

Revisiting the Identity Control Theory Approach

1997 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 363-371 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer L. Kerpelman ◽  
Joe F. Pittman ◽  
Leanne K. Lamke
Keyword(s):  
Control Theory ◽  
Theory Approach ◽  
Identity Control ◽  
Identity Control Theory

Too Much of a Good Thing?

2005 ◽  
Vol 68 (4) ◽  
pp. 359-374 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter J. Burke ◽  
Michael M. Harrod
Keyword(s):  
Control Theory ◽  
Strong Support ◽  
Married Couples ◽  
The Other ◽  
Identity Control ◽  
Self Consistent ◽  
Identity Control Theory ◽  
Newly Married ◽  
Self Discrepancy ◽  
The Relationship

Self-discrepancy (SD) theories and self-enhancement (SE) theories have focused primarily on people's motivations to seek either self-consistent or self-enhancing feedback. The two sets of theories, however, also suggest different reactions to the feedback people receive from others. SE theories suggest that people react negatively to evaluations that are more negative than self-evaluations, but positively to evaluations that are more positive. SD theories, like identity control theory, suggest that people react negatively to either under- or overevaluation. We use data from newly married couples over the first three years of marriage to test these different predictions of SD and SE theories. The results indicate strong support for discrepancy theories overall, though an examination of potential moderators suggests that the discrepancy effect is larger when the relationship to the other is stronger. We discuss implications of these results for identity control theory.

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