Using Soclab for a Rigorous Assessment of the Social Feasibility of Agricultural Policies

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Françoise Adreit ◽  
Pascal Roggero ◽  
Christophe Sibertin-Blanc ◽  
Claude Vautier
Keyword(s):  
Sociological Theory ◽  
Agricultural Practices ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Social Dimension ◽  
Natural Environments ◽  
Methodological Framework ◽  
Agricultural Policies ◽  
Software Environment ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
The Social

This paper presents a theoretical and methodological framework to take into consideration the social dimension in a sustainable development project. To do this, the authors have developed the SocLab software environment, which implements a formalization of a well-established sociological theory, and enables the modeling of social organizations, to analyze their properties and to simulate social actors’ behaviors. SocLab was used to assess the social acceptability of new agricultural practices more in line with the preservation of water resources and natural environments, in a well defined context. The paper shows how it was used and presents the main results.

Using Soclab for a Rigorous Assessment of the Social Feasibility of Agricultural Policies

2012 ◽  
pp. 228-243
Author(s):  
Françoise Adreit ◽  
Pascal Roggero ◽  
Christophe Sibertin-Blanc ◽  
Claude Vautier
Keyword(s):  
Sociological Theory ◽  
Agricultural Practices ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Social Dimension ◽  
Natural Environments ◽  
Methodological Framework ◽  
Agricultural Policies ◽  
Software Environment ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
The Social

This paper presents a theoretical and methodological framework to take into consideration the social dimension in a sustainable development project. To do this, the authors have developed the SocLab software environment, which implements a formalization of a well-established sociological theory, and enables the modeling of social organizations, to analyze their properties and to simulate social actors’ behaviors. SocLab was used to assess the social acceptability of new agricultural practices more in line with the preservation of water resources and natural environments, in a well defined context. The paper shows how it was used and presents the main results.

Using Soclab for a Rigorous Assessment of the Social Feasibility of Agricultural Policies

2012 ◽  
pp. 728-742
Author(s):  
Françoise Adreit ◽  
Pascal Roggero ◽  
Christophe Sibertin-Blanc ◽  
Claude Vautier
Keyword(s):  
Sociological Theory ◽  
Agricultural Practices ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Social Dimension ◽  
Natural Environments ◽  
Methodological Framework ◽  
Agricultural Policies ◽  
Software Environment ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
The Social

This paper presents a theoretical and methodological framework to take into consideration the social dimension in a sustainable development project. To do this, the authors have developed the SocLab software environment, which implements a formalization of a well-established sociological theory, and enables the modeling of social organizations, to analyze their properties and to simulate social actors’ behaviors. SocLab was used to assess the social acceptability of new agricultural practices more in line with the preservation of water resources and natural environments, in a well defined context. The paper shows how it was used and presents the main results.

scholarly journals Moral authority and status in International Relations: Good states and the social dimension of status seeking

2017 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 526-546 ◽  
Author(s):  
William C. Wohlforth ◽  
Benjamin de Carvalho ◽  
Halvard Leira ◽  
Iver B. Neumann
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Moral Authority ◽  
Social Dimension ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Middle Power ◽  
The Social ◽  
Status Seeking ◽  
Positional Good ◽  
Social Creativity ◽  
Status Politics

AbstractWe develop scholarship on status in international politics by focusing on the social dimension of small and middle power status politics. This vantage opens a new window on the widely-discussed strategies social actors may use to maintain and enhance their status, showing how social creativity, mobility, and competition can all be system-supporting under some conditions. We extract lessons for other thorny issues in status research, notably questions concerning when, if ever, status is a good in itself; whether it must be a positional good; and how states measure it.

scholarly journals Becoming Family Farmers: The Contribution of the Existential Ontological Perspective to the Social Learning for Sustainability Theory

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (15) ◽  
pp. 8186
Author(s):  
Marcia Juliana d’Angelo ◽  
Janette Brunstein ◽  
Jones Madson Telles
Keyword(s):  
Social Learning ◽  
Social Dimension ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Family Farmers ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Status ◽  
Sustainability Theory ◽  
Four Levels ◽  
Ways Of Being

This research examines social learning for sustainability (SLfS), particularly in its social dimension. Few studies have discussed or advanced on the ontological issues of SLfS relating to who social actors are becoming. This study aims to describe and analyze how the process of SLfS facilitates Brazilian families who were at the base of the social pyramid (no income) to change the status from landless campers to family farmers with land moving up four levels in the social pyramid over a decade. The research is qualitative interpretative, based on narratives from semi-structured interviews with 16 social actors and document analysis. The results show the meaning of learning professional ways of being family farmers from an existential ontological perspective.

Assessing the GMO debate in Turkey: The Case of Cotton Farming

2013 ◽  
Vol 49 ◽  
pp. 5-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cem İskender Aydın ◽  
Gökhan Ȫzertan ◽  
Begðm Ȫzkaynak
Keyword(s):  
Political Process ◽  
Agricultural Practices ◽  
Social Dimension ◽  
Value Systems ◽  
Social Dimensions ◽  
Cotton Production ◽  
Ecological Farming ◽  
Key Stakeholders ◽  
The Social ◽  
Business As Usual

AbstractThis paper frames the GM cotton approval debate in Turkey in the context of a socio-political process in which conflicts must be resolved between competing interests and among people who hold different value systems and have different priorities. Four different cotton farming alternatives— business as usual (BAU), ecological farming (ECO), GM farming (GM), and good agricultural practices (GAP)—are assessed and evaluated via a set of environmental, social, and economic criteria chosen on the basis of an extensive review of the cotton production and genetically modified organism (GMO) literatures, and in-depth interviews with several key stakeholders and experts in Turkey. The results show that when economic concerns are considered primary, GM farming is the preferred practice. In contrast, when only the social dimension is prioritised, the ECO alternative performs best. Finally, when the economic and social dimensions are appraised together, GAP emerges as a compromise solution. This study reveals that the decision to approve GM farming is not only complex but also value-laden and interest-based.

Comments on the Social Dimension of Airplane Disasters

1985 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 187-188
Author(s):  
Lars Clausen
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
Social Dimension ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Emergency Situations ◽  
Rescue Team ◽  
The Social ◽  
Human Failure ◽  
The Moment ◽  
The Ideal

There are different social actors (or “collective social actors”) in a disaster who may have differing ideas on the “ideal passenger in a disaster”.This is an euphemism; it includes a gang of hijackers. Any suggested human failure in a complicated technical environment might be threatened or committed deliberately. Some attitudes of the ideal passenger, as seen from the point of view of the pirate, show that: i) the passenger ought to keep quiet, should not panic and should readily obey orders of the hijackers and must be easily persuaded by bullying tactics; and ii) the passenger must be selective in observing his situation —neither apparently looking at anybody nor recognizing anything, except to obey the commands he might receive from the hijackers.This one did not want the disaster to happen, e.g., a rescue team. It also has an “ideal passenger” in mind: i) he should not panic, and should keep quiet, after having given a signal that he is alive and needs help; ii) he should follow orders and should place his trust in personnel; and iii) he should do his best to help himself and identify emergency situations in his co-passengers and help them. The moment rescuers arrive he has to change his role and follow orders.This is the company operating the flight, as presented by the pilot and his crew: i) this party is interested in a quiet and non-panicking passenger; ii) expect him to follow their advice on trust; and iii) require him to take precautions seriously; i.e., reading the emergency regulations put in front of his seat, without unduly worrying about them, but remembering them when disaster strikes.

scholarly journals “Ele vai negar tudo”: O estudo interacional de uma estória de violência doméstica contra a mulher narrada em entrevista de pré-mediação familiar judicial

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 25-47
Author(s):  
Paulo Cortes Gago ◽  
Maria do Carmo Leite de Oliveira ◽  
Áida Silva Penna ◽  
Maria de Lourdes Pereira ◽  
Vanderlei Andrade de Paula
Keyword(s):  
Conversation Analysis ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Cycle Of Violence ◽  
Methodological Framework ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Policy Issues ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
The Social ◽  
Gender Based

In this article, we study the narrative of a woman, allegedly the victimof gender-based violence, produced spontaneously in a legal family pre-mediationinterview, in a child custody lawsuit. In a qualitative research work, in light ofthe theoretical-methodological framework of Conversation Analysis, we analy-zed moments of this narrative as sequential objects, arranged in turns of talk-in-interaction. We describe the types of violence narrated, the way they occurred,and the actions of the social actors involved. Furthermore, we relate the narra-tive episodes that make up the plot to the ‘Maria da Penha’ Law and the cycle ofviolence. The results point to a complex network of personal and institutional re-lationships that deal with violence against women, in which everyone is an actor,whether in combat or in the perpetuation of the cycle of violence. We relate themicro-interactional results to macro-social and public policy issues.

scholarly journals Crecimiento económico y exclusión social en la agricultura familiar argentina

2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 171
Author(s):  
Mario Lattuada ◽  
Eduardo Moyano Estrada
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Social Exclusion ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Social Dimension ◽  
Agricultural Policies ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
The Social ◽  
Family Agriculture ◽  
Open Markets

This article focuses on the process of economic growth that Argentina underwent during the nineties and its effects on the Pampeana region’s farming sector. Its main goal is to contribute, from a sociological point of view, to the debate on the possibilities and limitations of family agriculture to reproduce itself in a context characterized by the implementation of structural ajustement programs. Firstly, the article describes the evolution of the most important economic indicators of Pampeana farming sector during the last decade. Secondly, it points out the different elements which both provoked the deterioration of the small farmers’ incomes and increased its social and economic weakness. Thirdly, it shows the growing debtment of Pampa farmers and, consequently, the reduction of the number of farms in that region. Finally, the authors offer some ideas on the process of social exclusion of small and middle farmers in a context of open markets where the role of the State is restricted. From starting of the European experiences, they propose changes for agricultural policies to be more sensitive to the social dimension of sustainability.

scholarly journals THE CONFLICT OF SOCIAL LIFE AND CULTURAL FORMS: SIMMEL’S THEORY OF “QUALITATIVE SOCIETAL DIFFERENTIATION”

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (7) ◽  
pp. 167
Author(s):  
Gregor Fitzi
Keyword(s):  
Social Action ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Sociological Theory ◽  
A Priori ◽  
Life Forms ◽  
Social Differentiation ◽  
Early Theory ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
The Social ◽  
Phases Of Development

Simmel’s work has often been interpreted as a succession of disparate phases of development following contradictory epistemological paradigms and intellectual stances, and a similar misunderstanding applies to his theory of societal differentiation. A completely different view emerges of Simmel’s contribution to sociological theory if his process of theory-building is placed at the forefront of analysis along with its specific continuities. The present paper provides a synthetic study of Simmel’s theory of societal differentiation by systematically reconstructing the different stages of its development. It starts with Simmel’s early theory of the parallel differentiation of the social group and the personality of the social actors, thus highlighting that social differentiation can be understood only as a process that takes place both on the level of social action and social structure. The focus then shifts to Simmel’s theory of culture and its relationship to the core of his sociological theory in the so-called a priori of sociation. Finally, the paper shows how Simmel’s late sociological anthropology links the different contributions on social differentiation, cultural sociology and the epistemological premises of sociation in a theory of life forms producing the structuration of “qualitative differentiated societies”.

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