Weaving the Social Fabrics

2011 ◽  
pp. 731-752
Author(s):  
Tiffany Y. Tang ◽  
Pinata Winoto
Keyword(s):  
Appropriate Technology ◽  
Social Awareness ◽  
Group Interactions ◽  
Design Elements ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Shed Light

This chapter describes our evaluation which shed light on the impact of appropriate technology and its design elements in promoting and supporting social awareness and seamless group interactions.

It Is More Than Language

2020 ◽  
pp. 79-98
Author(s):  
Dianne Toe ◽  
Louise Paatsch ◽  
Amy Szarkowski
Keyword(s):  
Specific Area ◽  
Cooperative Interaction ◽  
Social And Emotional Development ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
Social And Emotional ◽  
The Social ◽  
Pragmatic Skills ◽  
Social Use ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Shed Light

Deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) children who use spoken language face unique challenges when communicating with others who have typical hearing, particularly their peers. In such contexts, the social use of language has been recognized as an area of vulnerability among individuals in this population and has become a focus for research and intervention. The development of pragmatic skills intersects with many aspects of child development, including emotional intelligence and executive function, as well as social and emotional development. While all these areas are important, they are beyond the scope of this chapter, which highlights the impact of pragmatics on the specific area of cognition. Cognitive pragmatics is broadly defined as the study of the mental processes involved in the understanding of meaning in the context of a cooperative interaction. This chapter explores how DHH children and young people construe meaning in the context of conversations and expository interactions with their peers. The chapter aims to examine the role played by the cognitive processes of making inferences and comprehending implicature, within the overall display of pragmatic skills. Further, the authors use this lens in the analysis of interactions between DHH children and their peers in order to shed light on the development of pragmatic skills in children who are DHH.

scholarly journals Is Psychological Value a Missing Building Block in Societal Sustainability?

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (12) ◽  
pp. 4550 ◽  
Author(s):  
João Carvalho ◽  
Célio Sousa
Keyword(s):  
Value Creation ◽  
Ecological Value ◽  
Bottom Line ◽  
Organizational Survival ◽  
Psychological Dimension ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Product ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Shed Light

Value creation is a constitutive and defining aspect in organizational ventures. This is unsurprising, as it is required for organizational survival and sustainability. Approaches based on the creation of economic, social and ecological value draw attention to the multiple and multiplicative nature of value creation. While academia still acknowledges the conceptual value of such approaches, a framework that add a psychological dimension to the established Elkington’s triple-bottom line model seems particularly refreshing and inspiring. Relying on the concepts of psychological value and sustainability, this paper presents the outcomes of an exploratory empirical study involving managers and users/customers of four organizations in the social sector in Portugal. This study discusses how managers and users/customers of these organizations make sense of and value psychological value. The outcomes of the interviews with both managers and users/customers shed light into the unexplored, hazy and neglected analytical links that may exist between psychological value and broader perspectives on sustainability. We conclude that this novel approach enhances our understanding about the impact that a social product can have in societal sustainability.

A case study of unquiet translators

Target ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Esther Monzó-Nebot
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Change ◽  
Work Processes ◽  
Gray Area ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Stability ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Shed Light ◽  
Made In

Abstract Remarkable efforts have been made in Translation and Interpreting Studies to test the subservient habitus hypothesis formulated by Simeoni (1998) in his seminal work. In the face of increasing evidence that translators tend to reproduce a given society’s or community’s prevalent norms and contribute to the stability of such norms (Toury 1978), subversive translation practices have been reported (Delabastita 2011; Woods 2012) and indeed promoted as a way of fostering social and cultural change (Levine 1991; Venuti 1992). However, insights into how translators’ subservient or subversive habitus develop and depart from each other are still lacking. In order to shed light on this gray area, this article scrutinizes the contrasts between the habitus of professional legal translators who acquiesce to and who reject the norms governing their positions in the field. Special attention is given to those who decide to abandon the translation field. Their behavior is examined by relating habitus to forms of socialization and studying the implications of their strategies. Based on a case study drawn from interview data, this article focuses on the social practices of resistance and rebellion vis-à-vis subservience, and the impact of both on translation workplaces, work processes, and translators’ futures.

scholarly journals Coffee and socialism in the Venezuelan Andes

Focaal ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 (84) ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Aaron Kappeler
Keyword(s):  
Small Group ◽  
Cultural Factors ◽  
First Century ◽  
Social Awareness ◽  
Coffee Production ◽  
Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽  
The Andes ◽  
The Social ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Impact

Based on ethnographic fieldwork in the highlands of Barinas, this article investigates the impact of “twenty-first century socialist” policies on the Andean peasantry and the relationships established as part of Venezuela’s ongoing agrarian reform. The analysis explores the historical and material-cultural factors surrounding coffee production in the Andes and the dynamics that have shaped a small group of growers. It examines the recent efforts of the Venezuelan government to increase domestic coffee production and support internal growers, suggesting that attempts to insert the state into the rentier structure of the coffee economy have somewhat inadvertently reinforced a working-class consciousness. The ethnographic vignette illustrates the present relationship of state functionaries to coffee growers and narrates their analysis of the conditions, showing the contradictory effect these relations have on the social awareness of growers.

Influencers and targets on social media: Investigating the impact of network homogeneity and group identification on online influence

First Monday ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sanna Malinen ◽  
Aki Koivula
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Group Identification ◽  
Demographic Differences ◽  
Highly Educated ◽  
The Social ◽  
Large Scale Survey ◽  
Influential Users ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Shed Light

This study identifies social media users who aim to influence others and those who have experienced influencing behavior targeted at them. It investigates how influential users and targets of influence differ with respect to their demographic backgrounds and how the perceived group identification, network homogeneity, and size of the social network affect online influence. The data was based on a large-scale survey of Finnish people (N=2,761). We find that young and highly educated men were more likely to be targets of influence, but the demographic differences were less obvious with regard to influencing behavior. Moreover, group identification was a significant factor underpinning online influence for both influencing behavior and target experiences. The network homogeneity and the size of the network increased the likelihood of influencing behavior. Our main contribution is to shed light on people who are targets of online influencing on social media. By comparing influential users and their targets, this study extends the previous research, which has mostly focused on detecting influential people.

CONTRIBUTIONS OF THE SOCIAL MILIEU TO CHANGING INDIVIDUAL POLITICAL ORIENTATIONS

2000 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 251-260
Author(s):  
Matthew Valle ◽  
Larry Carlton
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Context ◽  
Work Group ◽  
Political Orientation ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Group Interactions ◽  
Political Activities ◽  
The Social ◽  
Political Orientations ◽  
Research Propositions ◽  
The Impact

This paper proposes a model for examining the combination of individual perceptions of politics and intentions to engage in political activities (termed political orientations) under the influence of social processes in organizations. The concept of political orientation is viewed as a fluid strategy for subjective influence which is affected by elements of the organizational context, work-group interactions, and leader/member relations. Research propositions are offered concerning the impact of selected variables on the adaptation of individual political orientations within organizations, and suggestions for future research are discussed.

scholarly journals The impact of technology as a communication tool within the class: the teachers’ perceptions

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 45-55
Author(s):  
Alessandro Soriani
Keyword(s):  
Classroom Climate ◽  
Pedagogical Practices ◽  
Communication Tool ◽  
Daily Work ◽  
Teachers Perceptions ◽  
The Social ◽  
Information Management Systems ◽  
Impact Of Technology ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Shed Light

Abstract The introduction of ICTs in the school system has been a powerful catalyst for educational and pedagogical practices. But there is more than meets the eyes: in fact, an increasing influence of technologies in the school is evident especially if one considers the social-relational side. This is mostly due to the pervasiveness of mobile devices and the proliferation – in terms of time and space – of communication channels that mediate the exchanges between the school’s actors – via email, through classroom information management systems, through chat or IM exchanges. By describing a research run in four secondary schools aimed to understand the ICTs’ influences on classroom climate, the purpose of this paper is to shed light on how teachers perceive the new aspects of technologies and their use in their daily work, highlighting how these technologies influence the way in which they build relationships with students, parents and colleagues.

The ‘Gig’ Economy and its Impact on Social Security

2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 293-312 ◽  
Author(s):  
Borja Suárez Corujo
Keyword(s):  
Social Security ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Gig Economy ◽  
The Social ◽  
Total Lack ◽  
New Forms Of Work ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Platform Economy ◽  
Shed Light

This article aims to shed light on one crucial aspect of the ‘gig’ economy: the extent to which the new forms of work in this field undermine the pillars upon which traditional Bismarckian systems of social security have been built. Focusing on Spain, three main issues are analysed. First, after considering the legal classification of this type of service provision and its implications, the scheme within the social security system that corresponds to the registration of the service providers is identified. Second, how registration and subsequent social security contributions affect the generosity of social benefits is clarified. In particular, attention is paid to both the risk of partial, or total, lack of, protection due to the absence of compulsory contributions and the low-level of contributions made by the self-employed. And third, the impact the development of the platform economy may have on the financing of social security and its future sustainability – given the current difficulties confronting the Spanish economy – is examined. Some recommendations relating to these three issues are outlined as concluding remarks.

The Impact of Endorsing the Belief in a Just World on Social Judgments

2013 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 209-218 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benoît Testé ◽  
Samantha Perrin
Keyword(s):  
Social Desirability ◽  
Social Value ◽  
Social Utility ◽  
Western Society ◽  
Social Judgments ◽  
Just World ◽  
The Social ◽  
Main Effect ◽  
The Impact

The present research examines the social value attributed to endorsing the belief in a just world for self (BJW-S) and for others (BJW-O) in a Western society. We conducted four studies in which we asked participants to assess a target who endorsed BJW-S vs. BJW-O either strongly or weakly. Results showed that endorsement of BJW-S was socially valued and had a greater effect on social utility judgments than it did on social desirability judgments. In contrast, the main effect of endorsement of BJW-O was to reduce the target’s social desirability. The results also showed that the effect of BJW-S on social utility is mediated by the target’s perceived individualism, whereas the effect of BJW-S and BJW-O on social desirability is mediated by the target’s perceived collectivism.

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