Biotechnological Communication and the Socio-Cultural Embeddedness of Economic Actors

2020 ◽  
pp. 87-99
Author(s):  
Marion Dreyer
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Embeddedness

Entanglements between Agency and Vulnerability in the Phenomenon of Birth. Reflections on Children’s Expressions about ‘Being Born’

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (2-2020) ◽  
pp. 135-146
Author(s):  
Catrin Heite ◽  
Veronika Magyar-Haas
Keyword(s):  
Social Studies ◽  
Social Construction ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Living Environment ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
Cultural Embeddedness

Analogously to the works in the field of new social studies of childhood, this contribution deals with the concept of childhood as a social construction, in which children are considered as social actors in their own living environment, engaged in interpretive reproduction of the social. In this perspective the concept of agency is strongly stressed, and the vulnerability of children is not sufficiently taken into account. But in combining vulnerability and agency lies the possibility to consider the perspective of the subjects in the context of their social, political and cultural embeddedness. In this paper we show that what children say, what is important to them in general and for their well-being, is shaped by the care experiences within the family and by their social contexts. The argumentation for the intertwining of vulnerability and agency is exemplified by the expressions of an interviewed girl about her birth and by reference to philosophical concepts about birth and natality.

scholarly journals Human Essence in Conclusion

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martijn van Zomeren ◽  
John F. Dovidio
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Theory Of Evolution ◽  
Human Essence ◽  
Integrative Theory ◽  
The Many ◽  
Cultural Embeddedness ◽  
State Of The Field

This chapter asks what the absence of scholarly consensus on the human essence, as illustrated by the many different contributions to this volume, can tell us about the state of psychology and about psychologists in general. Furthermore, it asks how we may be able to move toward such a consensus. It first reviews the different essences (and thus theoretical lenses) in the contributions to each section of this volume, which revolve around the themes of individuality, sociality, and cultural embeddedness. The chapter then outlines what the state of the field signals about the value of broader theorizing, and what changes would be needed in the broader system in order to move from the current fragmented view of human essence toward a truly integrated view. Finally, it considers the question of whether one existing broad and potentially integrative theory—Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution—can serve to connect views of the human essence in terms of individuality, sociality, and cultural embeddedness.

The Obviousness and Obvious Limits of Individuality as Human Essence

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martijn van Zomeren
Keyword(s):  
Human Essence ◽  
Zoom In ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Individual Body ◽  
Cultural Embeddedness

The chapter discusses the different approaches to the human essence that the six chapters in this first section contributed under the umbrella of individuality. More specifically, it first discusses them in terms of the seeming obviousness of locating the human essence in the individual body and/or mind, and then the obvious limits of this in the quest for identifying the human essence. Subsequently, it discusses what we may be missing when we zoom in too much onto the individual’s body, brain, and mind, which is what happens between individuals that cannot be reduced to the individual itself. In doing so, the chapter already provides a window on the second and third sections of the volume, which deal with relationality and cultural embeddedness as crucial aspects of the human essence.

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