Social Learning from the Inside Out

2011 ◽  
pp. 1-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Bennet ◽  
Alex Bennet
Keyword(s):  
External Environment ◽  
Social Bonding ◽  
Holding Environment ◽  
The Social ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
Societal Level ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Inside Out

This chapter explores from the viewpoint of the mind/brain the factors and conditions which influence the social creation and sharing of knowledge. A foundation is developed by providing clear definitions of information, knowledge and learning, including levels of knowledge and the process through which the mind/brain creates new knowledge. Then neuroscience findings are used to discuss social interaction, including environmental impacts on the creation and sharing of knowledge. Factors such as arousal and stress level, social attunement, holding environment, intersubjective space, level of trust, social bonding, and an enriched external environment are posited to enhance the creation and sharing of knowledge. Finally, the individual learning and knowledge activity is extrapolated to the societal level through a short introduction to collaborative entanglement (learning to create and apply knowledge as communities), and the use of metaphor and story. Summary highlights of neuroscience findings are also provided.

Attention Sustainability Impact on Social Status in the Class

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-46
Author(s):  
Stanislava Varadinova
Keyword(s):  
Social Status ◽  
Communication Skills ◽  
School Dropout ◽  
Learning Material ◽  
Early School ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Way ◽  
Positive Environment

The attention sustainability and its impact of social status in the class are current issues concerning the field of education are the reasons for delay in assimilating the learning material and early school dropout. Behind both of those problems stand psychological causes such as low attention sustainability, poor communication skills and lack of positive environment. The presented article aims to prove that sustainability of attention directly influences the social status of students in the class, and hence their overall development and the way they feel in the group. Making efforts to increase students’ attention sustainability could lead to an increase in the social status of the student and hence the creation of a favorable and positive environment for the overall development of the individual.

The Neuropathic Diathesis, or the Diathesis of the Degenerate

1888 ◽  
Vol 34 (146) ◽  
pp. 167-176
Author(s):  
G. T. Revington
Keyword(s):  
Family History ◽  
Normal Development ◽  
Personal History ◽  
Striking Feature ◽  
General Paralysis ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Mind

I think that the foregoing statistics, and those which follow, together with the large number of cases which I quote, and which connect general paralysis with almost every form of neurotic manifestation, will prove conclusively that neurotic inheritance is a striking feature in the causation of general paralysis. I question whether a distinction between “the cerebral and the insane element” in general paralysis can be maintained. If general paralysis is not a degeneration of the mind-tissue, then the pathology of insanity has no existence, and I would say that the subtle influence for evil, which is transmitted from parents, whose brains are deteriorated by neurotic outbursts, or soaked in alcohol, or wrecked by physiological immorality, tends strongly towards such degeneration. If insanity is, as Dr. Savage says, a perversion of the ego, then a general paralytic is the in-sanest of the insane. We know that the children of a melancholic parent, for example, may develop any form of neurosis—in other words, it is not that melancholia or general paralysis, or any other definite disease, is transmitted, but that a certain tendency to deviate from normal development is transmitted. This tendency to deviate is the neurotic diathesis, and the form of its development is determined by collateral circumstances, and a certain series of collateral circumstances determine the development of general paralysis. Perhaps neurotic inheritance may mean in some cases a limited capital of nervous energy, and if this is wasted recklessly the individual breaks down suddenly and pathologically, as we all do slowly and physiologically. I would also point out that considering the number of histories of insanity which owing to ignorance or reticence we, do not receive, and considering that we never receive information as to the existence of the slighter neuroses, it is marvellous that we get so high a percentage as 51. Of the 145 general paralytics with a reliable history, 38 had a family history of insanity, 28 a family history of drink, 8 of both, 43 had a personal history of drink, 8 of a previous attack too remote to be considered, at least, according to our present ideas, as part of the disease, and the vast majority had a history of some physiological irregularity which must be considered as conducive to the creation of an acquired neurosis. We may now pass to some further statistics.

scholarly journals Deltagelsens kunst?

2014 ◽  
Vol 42 (118) ◽  
pp. 51-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith Schwarzbart ◽  
Kristine Samson
Keyword(s):  
The Social ◽  
Individual Actor ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The City ◽  
Point Of Departure

Within recent years, art and urbanism have gradually moved closer to each other and come together around socially engaged, dialogical projects. Participation and the creation of urban publics are topics that often concern artists as well as urban planners and activists. Based on a record of this recent conjunction between art and urbanism, the article examines practices, fractures, and conflicts in the aftermath of the social turn. With a point of departure in the coalescing public programme of the Istanbul Biennial and Occupy Gezi at Taksim Square in 2013, the article questions the art of participation. What type of public is created in the participative art? And is an artistic social turn towards the city even possible beyond the art institution? The article concludes that precisely in the conflict between the two different rationales of art and urbanism a participatory, urban public can emerge; a public, however, which lie beyond the intention and rationales of the individual actor.

Language and the subconscious

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allan M Cyna ◽  
Suyin GM Tan
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
External Environment ◽  
Conscious State ◽  
Routine Activities ◽  
Logical Thinking ◽  
Verbal Cues ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
Extreme Stress ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Mind

Many of the communications commonly encountered in anaesthetic practice elicit subconscious responses, and, because this is so, they frequently go unrecognized. This form of communication involves verbal and non-verbal cues also known as suggestions that can elicit automatic changes in perception or behaviour. Much of this chapter is based on language structures that are thought to make subconscious changes in perception, mood or behaviour more likely, both with patients and anaesthetists themselves. Recognizing subconscious responses will facilitate communication. As is discussed later, anaesthetists can communicate with patients and colleagues in ways that utilize subconscious functioning. To all intents and purposes this looks like intuitive communication, when in reality it has structure and therefore can be learned and taught. The conscious and unconscious states are familiar to all anaesthetists. However, it is frequently unappreciated that all patients, whether in an unconscious or conscious state, will also be functioning subconsciously. In the unconscious patient it is well recognized that subconscious activities still occur—for example, in implicit awareness. Most people would appreciate that there are times during consciousness when they switch off the ‘logical brain’ and enter ‘daydream’-type thinking or they ‘tune out’. People including anaesthetists tend to function subconsciously most of the time—for example, during routine activities such as driving home on ‘autopilot’ and arriving home without realizing it consciously. The ability we all have to function automatically—that is, subconsciously—frees up the conscious part of the mind to focus on other things such as planning tomorrow’s ‘neuro’ case. The teleological basis for this ability lies in being able to filter the massive amount of information continuously presented to the individual. This allows the conscious mind to focus on what it perceives to be important—facilitating learning, logical thinking and problem solving. During activities where logical thinking is not a requirement, the subconscious comes to the fore. This is characterized by dissociation from the external environment—being ‘in your own world’. Paradoxically, at times of extreme stress, the subconscious tends to take over when the conscious part of the mind becomes so overwhelmed by external inputs it ceases to function logically.

The World the Bedouin Lived in: Climate, Migration and Politics in the Early Modern Arab East

2015 ◽  
Vol 58 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 21-55
Author(s):  
Astrid Meier ◽  
Tariq Tell
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Environmental History ◽  
The Past ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Societal Level ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Marginal Zones

Environmental history provides a perspective from which we can deepen our understanding of the past because it examines the relationships of people with their material surroundings and the effects of those relationships on the individual as well as the societal level. It is a perspective that holds particular promise for the social and political history of arid and marginal zones, as it contributes to our understanding of the reason some groups are more successful than others in coping with the same environmental stresses. Historians working on the early modern Arab East have only recently engaged with the lively field of global environmental history. After presenting a brief overview of some strands of this research, this article illustrates the potential of this approach by looking closely at a series of conflicts involving Bedouin and other power groups in the southern parts of Bilād al-Shām around the middle of the eighteenth century.

Book Reviews: Concept Formation in Social Science, Theoretical Logic in Sociology. Volume Two. The Antinomies of Classical Thought: Marx and Durkheim, The Individual and the Social Self: Unpublished Work of George Herbert Mead, The Macmillan Student Encyclopedia of Sociology, States and Societies, Managing the Mind: A Study of Medical Psychology in Early Nineteenth Century Britain, Contemporary Britain, Belonging: Identity and Social Organisation in British Rural Cultures, Consensus and Beyond: The Development of Labour Party Strategy since the Second World War, Women's Imprisonment: A Study in Social Control, Women's Religious Experience, The Social World of the Comprehensive School, Teaching about Race Relations: Problems and Effects, The Multicultural Curriculum, Race, Ethnicity and Power, Approaches to Welfare, Living the Fishing, Death and Renewal: Sociological Studies in Roman History, Volume 2, The Survey Method: The Contribution of Surveys to Sociological Explanation

1984 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 589-631
Author(s):  
Derek Layder ◽  
W. Watts Miller ◽  
R. Harré ◽  
Duncan Mitchell ◽  
Dominic Strinati ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Medical Psychology ◽  
Survey Method ◽  
Multicultural Curriculum ◽  
Party Strategy ◽  
The Social ◽  
School Teaching ◽  
Women's Imprisonment ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Sociological Explanation ◽  
The Mind

scholarly journals Relationship between Trust and Acculturation Attitudes (With Ukrainians in Russia and Russians in Latvia as an Example)

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 76-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
A.N. Tatarko
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Group ◽  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Generalized Trust ◽  
Acculturation Strategies ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
The Social ◽  
Societal Level ◽  
Acculturation Attitudes ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Separation Strategy

This research focuses on the relationship between various types of trust and acculturation strategies (according to J. Berry’s model) in ethnic minorities and migrants. Trust is a major resource both of an individual and society. On the individual level it is considered as a component of the social psychological capital of personality, and on the societal level — as a core part of the social capital of the society. This study aimed to test the assumption that generalized trust in migrants or minorities is related to their preferred acculturation strategies and that this relationship is mediated by more particular types of trust, such as trust in representa- tives of own ethnic group and trust in representatives of other ethnic groups. The study involved Russians living in Riga, Latvia (N=336) and Ukrainian migrants who have been living in Moscow for approximately 1,5 years (N=80). The outcomes show that generalized trust and trust in representative of non-ethnic groups correlate with the choice of acculturation strategies aimed at integration with the society. Trust in representatives of own ethnic group correlates positively with the choice of the “Separation” strategy.

scholarly journals ESSENCE OF SOCIAL INSURANCE, ITS ROLE AND PLACE IN THE SYSTEM OF SOCIAL PROTECTION OF THE POPULATION

THE BULLETIN ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (390) ◽  
pp. 198-203
Author(s):  
G. B. Akhmetzhanova ◽  
N. M. Mussabekova ◽  
T. E. Voronova ◽  
B. Amangul ◽  
R. V. Grigorieva ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Relations ◽  
Social Insurance ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Private Property ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
The State ◽  
Vulnerable Groups ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Individual

This article discusses the formation of the social protection system in the Republic of Kazakhstan and its component such as social insurance, the place and role of the Head of State - the Leader of the Nation in the implementation of these reforms in Kazakhstan. The essence, goals, principles of social insurance were determined in this article. The points of view of the scientists and experts were studied. The interpretation of the social insurance, comparative analysis of the concepts of social security, social assistance, benefits and compensation was researched. The state could not stay out of this complex process and began to actively participate in it. Moreover, this participation has been carried out in two directions. The first is the creation of the state insurance system, which either protects the states’, mainly property interests, or protects certain socially vulnerable groups of the population. The second is the creation of the mechanism for legal regulation of insurance relations as the special group of the public relations. In the legislation of any country extensive block called legislation on insurance. In the market economy, based on the private property, the main driver of insurance is the desire of the owner to protect his property. At the same time, the growth of welfare causes the individual to take care of himself, which expands the scope of personal insurance.

scholarly journals Llevar “a la Cámara la mente del Ejecutivo”. Notas sobre las interpelaciones parlamentarias en la ‘Confederación Argentina’, 1854-1861 | Bring “the mind of the Executive to the Chamber”. Notes on the parliamentary interpellations in the “Argentine Confederation”, 1854-1861

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (13) ◽  
pp. 125
Author(s):  
Giuliana Nicolini ◽  
Ana Laura Lanteri
Keyword(s):  
Federal State ◽  
The Political ◽  
Institutional Experience ◽  
Collective Experience ◽  
The Creation ◽  
National Constitution ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Mind

Nos centramos en la experiencia político-institucional de la “Confederación Argentina” en la década de 1850, tras la creación de un Estado republicano, representativo y federal por la constitución nacional de 1853. Analizamos uno de los instrumentos constitucionales de control: las interpelaciones. Desde su práctica, proponemos acercarnos a los espacios de participación y preponderancia entre ambos poderes públicos, así como vislumbrar la labor de los ministros. El contenido de los llamados, los debates y su resolución nos permiten entonces advertir la relación legisladores-ministros y aspectos de la experiencia individual y colectiva de estos últimos, que han sido poco atendidos por los estudios del período_________________________________________We focus on the political-institutional experience of the "Argentine Confederation" in the 1850s, after the creation of a republican, representative and federal State by the national constitution of 1853. We analyze one of the constitutional instruments of control: interpellations. From its practice, we propose an approach to the spaces of participation and preponderance between both public powers, as well as to the labour of the ministers. From the content of the calls, the debates and their resolution we study the legislator-ministers relationships and aspects of the individual and collective experience of the ministers, which have been unconsidered by the studies of the period.

Weighing the odds: an exploration of resistance to obesity and overweight

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 421-441 ◽  
Author(s):  
Denise Conroy ◽  
Sandra D. Smith ◽  
Catherine Frethey-Bentham
Keyword(s):  
Overweight And Obesity ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Consumer Resistance ◽  
Under Nutrition ◽  
Economic Framework ◽  
Obesity And Overweight ◽  
The Social ◽  
Societal Level ◽  
The Individual

Purpose In 2018, we have surpassed the population landmark of 7.5 billion, and yesterday’s global crisis of under-nutrition in poorer nations is now accompanied by a journey into overweight and obesity. The purpose of our research is to focus on the health and resistance of those who avoid overweight and obesity rather than continuing to focus on the pathology and disease of this phenomenon. Design/methodology/approach Taking a consumer-centric perspective and using the lens of the social-economic framework, the authors report qualitative research conducted with 31 young people (ages 17-26) who have been resistant to weight gain in an increasingly obesogenic environment, followed by a survey of the general population, n = 921. The authors look at this type of consumer resistance to better understand how to develop government and community leadership and build more obesogenically resilient societies. Findings The findings support the contention that obesity is a social problem that requires a social solution. Originality/value The main contribution to the conversation addressing increasing levels of overweight and obesity is that this research demonstrates that these are complex social problems and require complex intervention at the societal level, not the individual level.

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