Search results for "Interactionism"

Transnational bodies: Embodiment of transnational settings

2016

AbstractThe everyday life of more and more people is characterized by transnationalism. People increasingly interact across borders and in a network of transnational relationships. While interactions may be border-crossing, the actors’ body remains situated and limited in time and space. However, the thesis of this paper is that transnationalism processes are embodied. Thus, we speak of an embodiment of transnational settings. We focus on symbolic interactionism – Charles H. Cooley and George H. Mead in particular provide a large repertoire of concepts – to theoretically conceive transnational bodies. To show how transnational embodiment can manifest itself we use the example of young peopl…

Heterogeneous knowledge: Trends in German discourse analysis against an international background

2011

This contribution maps the complex field of discourse analysis in Germany by situating its major currents and putting them in historical perspective. In a first step, it presents the major intellectual sources, such as (post-)structuralism, pragmatism/interactionism as well as hermeneutics, which have served as a backdrop for the establishment of discourse analysis as an interdisciplinary field since the 1980s. In a second step, it takes a closer look at the intellectual conjunctures in the social sciences such as Critical Theory and systems theory before turning to the discourse analytical tendencies that have emerged since the 1980s in the light of Foucault's reception in Germany. Finally…

Conceptual and Paradigmatic Foundations of ISD

1995

Interactionist Approach to Visual Aesthetics in HCI

2021

Visual Aesthetics has gathered interest among scholars in HCI research. The growing interest stems from examinations of the aesthetic-usability effect (“what is beautiful is usable”), and possibly vice versa. Thus, numerous studies focus on understanding how we make sense and experience visual entities in interacting with technology. However, theoretical, and methodological stances vary, which impact conclusions of the studies conducted, and thus, affect design implications. Visual experience research in HCI lacks detailed conceptualizations of the constituents of visual experience and understanding of how these conceptualizations affect the overall research results through implicit methodo…

Fixing meaning

2012

This contribution looks into a speech by Russian President Vladimir Putin after the terrorist attack against a high school in the Northern Caucasian town Beslan in September 2004, widely seen as marking the end of the liberal hegemony in the Russia of the post-soviet period. However, a closer look reveals the many possible readings that are made of the speech. According to the reactions found in a corpus of press articles, the speech activates both “internationalist” and “sovereignist” readings in media discourse. By pointing out the polyphonic organization of discourse, I make the case for a productive exchange between the French tradition of discourse analysis, interactionism and critical…

Descartes’ Notion of the Mind–Body Union and its Phenomenological Expositions

2018

The chapter clarifies the connections between Descartes’ discussion of the mind–body union and classical phenomenology of embodiment, as developed by Husserl and Merleau-Ponty. It argues that the perplexing twofoldness of Descartes’ account of the mind–body union—interactionistic on the one hand, and holistic on the other—can be explicated and made coherent by phenomenological analyses of the two different attitudes that we can take toward human beings: the naturalistic and the personalistic. In the naturalistic attitude, the human being is understood as a two-layered psycho-physical complex, in which mental states and faculties are founded on the material basis of the body. In the personal…

Expert‑panel accreditation evaluation‑practices: an autoethnographic case study of the Community of Madrid

2017

Accreditation is defined by the European Higher Education Area quality‑assurance agencies as a key element in quality management and continuous improvement in university teaching‑learning processes, and is an institutional practice that started to be developed in 2014 in Spain. This article illustrates the case of the Community of Madrid Quality Agency, as case study analysis through my experience as a panel member for the accreditation of higher‑education qualifications. Methodologically, it is based on an autoethnographic approach and uses the theory of symbolic interactionism to reveal and analyse the evaluative process and culture. For this purpose, two analytical axes were drawn: stude…

Suicidi

2020

I suicidi, eventi drammatici come pochi altri, hanno da sempre costituito una sfida per l’immaginazione sociologica. Se Emile Durkheim aveva dimostrato le capacità esplicative della sociologia, le sociologie costruzioniste – e, in particolare, interazionismo simbolico, etnometodologia, fenomenologia – hanno operato la resa dei conti con gli approcci positivisti. I saggi che qui presentiamo offrono una summa di grande interesse dei modi originali con cui le sociologie costruzioniste hanno re-immaginato lo studio dei suicidi andando oltre la rigidità dello schema “cause e cure” degli approcci positivisti ed arricchendo di sfumature la nostra comprensione del fenomeno. Di fronte a un panorama …

Gli strumenti di monitoraggio e controllo e l’analisi quali-quantitativa dei dati sulla percezione del cyber-bullismo da parte degli insegnanti

2019

In the last ten years it happens less frequently to hear teachers talk about "pranks" when debating about the trend that shows a small number of teenagers and very young students, to put aggressive, violent discriminating, and, in general, victimizing behaviors are taking place. At least, we register this trend in the perception of the teachers we interviewed. It is certainly a sign, or even a consequence, of the fact that the entire educational institution, from the top management to the teachers, for over twenty years now, has become aware not only of the fact that that weren’t "pranks", but seriously aggressive behaviors, but also of the fact that, in addition to pro-sociality and non-ag…

Alternativas en la investigación de los aspectos sociales del desarrollo cognitivo

2001

The terms “social” and “cultural” are ambiguous and can be used with different meanings. This paper tries to clarify the prevailing conceptions of the social factors that intervene in cognitive development, as found in developmental psychology. These conceptions are grouped into five main approaches, based on their theoretical commitments and the corresponding methodological strategies: 1) some theories treat the social world as an object of knowledge; 2) other theories see social life as consisting in a collection of symbolic interactions; 3) some approaches tend to consider socio-cultural variables as constituting an environment that influences individual subjects; 4) still other approach…