Establishing Social Order in 3D Virtual Worlds with Virtual Institutions

2011 ◽  
pp. 140-169 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anton Bogdanovych ◽  
Simeon Simoff
Keyword(s):  
Social Norms ◽  
Virtual Worlds ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Physical World ◽  
3D Interaction ◽  
Commercial Activities ◽  
Virtual Institutions ◽  
The Social ◽  
Rule Changes ◽  
Controlled Environments

An important security aspect of Virtual Worlds (in particular Virtual Worlds oriented towards commercial activities) is controlling participants’ adherence to the social norms (rules of behavior) and making them follow the acceptable interaction patterns. Rules of behavior in the physical world are usually enforced through a post factum punishment, while in computer-controlled environments like Virtual Worlds we can simply block the actions that are inconsistent with the rules and eliminate rule violations as such. In order to facilitate enforcing the rules in such automatic manner and allow for frequent rule changes, the rules have to be expressed in a formal way, so that the software can detect both the rules and the actions that can potentially violate them. In this chapter the authors introduce the concept of Virtual Institutions that are Virtual Worlds with normative regulation of interactions. For development of such systems the authors employ the Virtual Institutions Methodology that separates the development of Normative Virtual Worlds into two independent phases: formal specification of the institutional rules and design of the 3D interaction environment. The methodology is supplied with a set of graphical tools that support the development process on every level, from specification to deployment. The resulting system is capable of enforcing the social norms on the Virtual Worlds’ participants and ensuring the validity of their interactions.

The Dignity of Servanthood in Pastoral Care

2003 ◽  
Vol 57 (3) ◽  
pp. 269-279 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronald H. Sunderland
Keyword(s):  
Social Norms ◽  
Pastoral Care ◽  
Human Dignity ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Rich Source ◽  
Care Recipient ◽  
The Social ◽  
Caring Relationship ◽  
Pastoral Relationship

Servanthood is a dominant image of ministry in both Jewish and Christian scriptures, and poses a rich source of material from which to address the theme of human dignity from the perspective of pastoral care. The biblical concept of servanthood, which defines the nature of the pastoral relationship and dignifies the personhood of the care recipient, suggests an approach to the issues of vulnerability of both giver and receiver of care, and proposes that the caring relationship is best conceived as a partnership to which each participant brings gifts. The servant theme implies addressing the notion of the kingship of Christ, how control issues affect the ministry of pastoral care, and the realization that being a servant of the Lord entails a concern for the well being of each individual and of the social order; that is, servant ministry mandates both visiting the sick ( Matthew 25) and seek justice and righteousness as social norms ( Isaiah 16:5).

scholarly journals Nauczyciel wobec współczesnej rzeczywistości społecznej

2021 ◽  
pp. 23-37
Author(s):  
Elżbieta Gaweł-Luty ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Norms ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
Professional Roles ◽  
Professional Identities ◽  
Proper Functioning ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Way

Social structures include specific entities marked by both institutionalized social norms and by their own individual reflections on their role in society. Social structures are not a permanent phenomenon, because society is constantly restructuring itself. The basis of a social order is the standardization of the actions of individuals, when these activities are subject to typification, institutionalism is created. Thus, institutions define requirements for the way people function in the social space. Individuals also undertake professional roles with existing social structures, the performance of which is likewise determined by social norms.For the proper functioning of society, therefore, social and professional identities of individuals and of groups are both needed.

The Internet in Everything

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura DeNardis
Keyword(s):  
National Security ◽  
Virtual Worlds ◽  
Physical World ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Material Objects ◽  
World Systems ◽  
Loss Of Life ◽  
The Social ◽  
Policy Solutions

The Internet has leapt from human-facing display screens into the material objects all around us. In this so-called Internet of Things—connecting everything from cars to cardiac monitors to home appliances—there is no longer a meaningful distinction between physical and virtual worlds. Everything is connected. The social and economic benefits are tremendous, but there is a downside: an outage in cyberspace can result not only in a loss of communication but also potentially a loss of life. Control of this infrastructure has become a proxy for political power, since countries can easily reach across borders to disrupt real-world systems. This book argues that this diffusion of the Internet into the physical world radically escalates governance concerns around privacy, discrimination, human safety, democracy, and national security, and it offers new cyber-policy solutions. The book makes visible the sinews of power already embedded in our technology and explores how hidden technical governance arrangements will become the constitution of our future.

The Sociological Novel and Anticolonialism

Post-Mandarin ◽  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ben Tran
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
Romantic Relationships ◽  
Social Norms ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Social Roles ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Sociological Analysis ◽  
Social Facts ◽  
The Social ◽  
Gendered Roles

Chapter 3 reevaluates Nhất Linh’s novelistic works, which have been characterized as politically feckless “romanticism.” I show how Nhất Linh observes romantic relationships in his novels through a sociological lens to critique the gender relations inherent in the Confucian social order. Nhất Linh’s Đoạn Tuyệt [Breaking Away] reveals the social norms, institutions, and rituals that continued to determine women’s social roles during the 1930s. The novel attempts to expose the social facts—what the texts calls “invisible strings” [những dây vô hình]—that imposed restrictive and subordinate gender roles. My reading recasts this “romanticist” novel as a sociological analysis of gendered roles and expectations that gave the illusion of being natural and self-evident but were in fact reproduced by the collusion between Confucian patriarchy and French colonialism.

scholarly journals Sources of funding as an influence on alcohol studies

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robin Room
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Drug Research ◽  
Physical World ◽  
The Other ◽  
Historical Evidence ◽  
Operating Rules ◽  
The Social ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Human Construction

Room, R. (2016). Sources of funding as an influence on alcohol studies. The International Journal Of Alcohol And Drug Research, 5(1), 15-16. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.7895/ijadr.v5i1.231When I first read Thomas Kuhn’s (1962) seminal work, shortly after its first publication, I was awakened to the historical evidence that even the “hardest” science is a human construction deeply influenced by the social order and the conceptual traditions in which the scientist works. On the other hand, as constructivism took hold in sociology, I realized I was a “soft” constructivist, willing to acknowledge that our conceptual and other constructions face some limits from the physical world and its operating rules (Room, 1984). But in fields like ours, the constraints are quite broad, so that what constitutes alcohol social science—what its research questions are, and how it approaches them—has varied a great deal over the last century or so, and varies considerably among the societies which have been willing to fund such research. I remember discovering that temperance-oriented survey studies, when they turned attention at all beyond the boundary between drinker and abstainer, focused only on frequency of drinking, ignoring amount per occasion (Lindgren, 1973)— a pattern found also in drug war–era drug surveys. What we collect as material for study and what we focus on in analyzing it are deeply influenced by our intellectual and cultural-political heritage and environment.

scholarly journals Of Coase and Comics, or the Comedy of Copyright

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael J Madison
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Social Norms ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Original Study ◽  
Stand Up Comedy ◽  
The Social ◽  
The One ◽  
Property Regimes

This Essay responds to There’s No Free Laugh (Anymore): The Emergence of Intellectual Property Norms and the Transformation of Stand-Up Comedy, by Dotan Oliar and Christopher Sprigman. It argues that case studies of disciplines and domains that may be governed by intellectual property regimes are invaluable tools for comparative analysis of the respective roles of law and other forms of social order. The Essay examines the case of stand-up comedy under a lens that is somewhat broader than the one used by the authors of the original study, one that takes into account not only the social norms of individual comics themselves but also features of the entertainment market - and particularly the market for record albums - that shaped comics' incentives and behaviors and comic content itself.

The Social Order Yields to Functional Analysis

1958 ◽  
Vol 3 (6) ◽  
pp. 158-160
Author(s):  
LAWRENCE SCHLESINGER
Keyword(s):  
Functional Analysis ◽  
Social Order ◽  
The Social

Sex and the Social Order.

1946 ◽  
Author(s):  
Georgene H. Seward
Keyword(s):  
Social Order ◽  
The Social

George Hoggart Toulmin: politics and geology

1978 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 481-481
Author(s):  
ROY PORTER
Keyword(s):  
French Revolution ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Lower Class ◽  
Great Distance ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Christian View ◽  
The Social ◽  
French Enlightenment ◽  
Political Conservatism ◽  
History Of

The physician George Hoggart Toulmin (1754–1817) propounded his theory of the Earth in a number of works beginning with The antiquity and duration of the world (1780) and ending with his The eternity of the universe (1789). It bore many resemblances to James Hutton's "Theory of the Earth" (1788) in stressing the uniformity of Nature, the gradual destruction and recreation of the continents and the unfathomable age of the Earth. In Toulmin's view, the progress of the proper theory of the Earth and of political advancement were inseparable from each other. For he analysed the commonly accepted geological ideas of his day (which postulated that the Earth had been created at no great distance of time by God; that God had intervened in Earth history on occasions like the Deluge to punish man; and that all Nature had been fabricated by God to serve man) and argued they were symptomatic of a society trapped in ignorance and superstition, and held down by priestcraft and political tyranny. In this respect he shared the outlook of the more radical figures of the French Enlightenment such as Helvétius and the Baron d'Holbach. He believed that the advance of freedom and knowledge would bring about improved understanding of the history and nature of the Earth, as a consequence of which Man would better understand the terms of his own existence, and learn to live in peace, harmony and civilization. Yet Toulmin's hopes were tempered by his naturalistic view of the history of the Earth and of Man. For Time destroyed everything — continents and civilizations. The fundamental law of things was cyclicality not progress. This latent political conservatism and pessimism became explicit in Toulmin's volume of verse, Illustration of affection, published posthumously in 1819. In those poems he signalled his disapproval of the French Revolution and of Napoleonic imperialism. He now argued that all was for the best in the social order, and he abandoned his own earlier atheistic religious radicalism, now subscribing to a more Christian view of God. Toulmin's earlier geological views had run into considerable opposition from orthodox religious elements. They were largely ignored by the geological community in late eighteenth and early nineteenth century Britain, but were revived and reprinted by lower class radicals such as Richard Carlile. This paper is to be published in the American journal, The Journal for the History of Ideas in 1978 (in press).

The Social Furniture of Virtual Worlds

Disputatio ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (55) ◽  
pp. 345-369
Author(s):  
Peter Ludlow
Keyword(s):  
Large Class ◽  
Data Structures ◽  
Virtual Worlds ◽  
Causal Powers ◽  
Virtual Objects ◽  
David Chalmers ◽  
The Social

AbstractDavid Chalmers argues that virtual objects exist in the form of data structures that have causal powers. I argue that there is a large class of virtual objects that are social objects and that do not depend upon data structures for their existence. I also argue that data structures are themselves fundamentally social objects. Thus, virtual objects are fundamentally social objects.

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