Gesture Development From an Interactionist Perspective

2017 ◽  
pp. 141-162
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Crais
Keyword(s):  
Interactionist Perspective ◽  
Gesture Development

The Power of Peers: Why Some Students Bully Others to Conform

2008 ◽  
Vol 18 (12) ◽  
pp. 1704-1716 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sharyn Burns ◽  
Bruce Maycock ◽  
Donna Cross ◽  
Graham Brown
Keyword(s):  
Group Process ◽  
Peer Group ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Psychological Theory ◽  
Social Psychological ◽  
Group Status ◽  
School Time ◽  
Individual Perceptions ◽  
Interactionist Perspective ◽  
Purposive Sample

Utilizing an interactionist perspective, two associated sensitizing constructs, and a combination of social psychological theory, this article reports on the influence of the peer group on individual perceptions, and its impact on initiation and persistence of bullying. The specific research question, “How does the need to conform with peers and the peer group influence the initiation and persistence of bullying others?” is investigated. Semistructured, one-on-one interviews with a purposive sample of 51 Grade 7 students (aged 12 years) were conducted during school time to investigate factors that influence students to bully others and what might help them to stop. Emerging from the theme of peer group was the need for belonging and group status, in particular social norms or the need to conform, which was influential when students described why they initiated and persisted with bullying others. The influence of labeling, the group process, and the aspiration to be like others within their group emerged as key constructs. The implications of these data for schools will be described and recommendations made.

THE INTERACTIONIST PERSPECTIVE Some Things Hagan Didn't Tell Us

Criminology ◽  
1975 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 416-420 ◽  
Author(s):  
RAYMOND L. SCHMITT ◽  
STANLEY E. GRUPP
Keyword(s):  
Interactionist Perspective

Deviance: The Interactionist Perspective, 3rd edition.

1979 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 253
Author(s):  
Carl Sundholm ◽  
Earl Rubington. ◽  
Martin S. Weinberg
Keyword(s):  
Interactionist Perspective

Collaborative dialogue: opportunities and challenges in vocabulary acquisition and retention of threshold EFL learners

2020 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 133-160
Author(s):  
Moussa Ahmadian ◽  
Azar Tajabadi
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Vocabulary Acquisition ◽  
Knowledge Building ◽  
Convincing Evidence ◽  
Collaborative Dialogue ◽  
Efl Learners ◽  
Joint Problem ◽  
Interactionist Perspective ◽  
Joint Problem Solving

AbstractBelonging to the interactionist perspective, the collaborative dialogue is a technique which engages learners in joint problem-solving and knowledge building. With the aim of investigating the link between this technique and vocabulary acquisition and retention, this study was conducted with 18 threshold English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners who were randomly chosen and put in 6 groups. They were given 6 lexical-focused tasks to be completed collaboratively and their interaction was audio-recorded. The instances of lexical-based language-related episodes (LREs) were identified in the transcribed dialogues and their outcomes were coded as “correctly resolved”, “incorrectly resolved”, and “unresolved”. The frequency of the LREs was computed; it was found that the learners were able to solve the lexical problems they encountered to a very large extent. Furthermore, the analysis of LREs and the comparison of posttest and delayed posttest scores provided convincing evidence of a link between the outcomes of LREs and the learners’ vocabulary acquisition and retention, suggesting that “correctly resolved” LREs resulted in learning and retaining the target words, while “unresolved” LREs led to non-significant learning and “incorrectly resolved” LREs led to learning the wrong meaning of the vocabulary items. The findings along with the opportunities and challenges of collaborative dialogue are discussed and possible implications for language teaching are explained.

Deviance: The Interactionist Perspective.

1979 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 73
Author(s):  
Peter J. Strub ◽  
Earl Rubington ◽  
Martin S. Weinberg
Keyword(s):  
Interactionist Perspective

scholarly journals ‘As if nobody’s reading’?: The imagined audience and socio-technical biases in personal blogging practice in the UK

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
David R Brake
Keyword(s):  
Social Norms ◽  
Computer Mediated Communication ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Structural Factors ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Critical Technology ◽  
Site Use ◽  
Interactionist Perspective ◽  
Initial Survey ◽  
The Uk

This thesis examines the understandings and meanings of personal blogging from the perspective of blog authors. The theoretical framework draws on a symbolic interactionist perspective, focusing on how meaning is constructed through blogging practices, supplemented by theories of mediation and critical technology studies. The principal evidence in this study is derived from an analysis of in-depth interviews with bloggers selected to maximise their diversity based on the results of an initial survey. This is supplemented by an analysis of personal blogging’s technical contexts and of various societal influences that appear to influence blogging practices.Bloggers were found to have limited interest in gathering information about their readers, appearing to rely instead on an assumption that readers are sympathetic. Although personal blogging practices have been framed as being a form of radically free expression, they were also shown to be subject to potential biases including social norms and the technical characteristics of blogging services. Blogs provide a persistent record of a blogger’s practice, but the bloggers in this study did not generally read their archives or expect others to do so, nor did they retrospectively edit their archives to maintain a consistent self-presentation.The empirical results provide a basis for developing a theoretical perspective to account for blogging practices. This emphasises firstly that a blogger’s construction of the meaning of their practice can be based as much on an imagined and desired social context as it is on an informed and reflexive understanding of the communicative situation. Secondly, blogging practices include a variety of envisaged audience relationships, and some blogging practices appear to be primarilyself-directed with potential audiences playing a marginal role. Blogging’s technical characteristics and the social norms surrounding blogging practices appear to enable and reinforce this unanticipated lack of engagement with audiences. This perspective contrasts with studies of computer mediated communication that suggest bloggers would monitor their audiences and present themselves strategically to ensure interactions are successful in their terms. The study also points the way towards several avenues for further research including a more in-depth consideration of the neglected structural factors (both social and technical) which potentially influence blogging practices, and an examination of social network site use practices using a similar analytical approach.

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