Search results for "social action"
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Social Animation in Complex Environments
2007
This work presents a market-based social model to produce good quality behavioral animations for groups of intelligent virtual agents. The social model coordinates the activities of groups of virtual characters and also includes social actions in the agent decision-making. We follow the Multi-Agent Resource Allocation approach presented in [2], where agents express their preferences using utility functions. The dynamics of social interactions is inspired by the theory of Piaget [3] over which we have implemented reciprocal task exchanges.
La acción social ante la crisis global
2010
La crisis global exige profundas mutaciones en todos los subsistemas de la sociedad, y requiere de nuevas conceptualizaciones, mapas conceptuales y transiciones técnicas en el ámbito de la intervención social. A partir de las convulsiones del Estado de Bienestar, de las reducciones presupuestarias, del aumento de las demandas en situación de emergencia, de las exigencias de la cultura actual del derecho y de los procesos de mundialización, se recrea el lugar de la acción social: como atención a las privaciones, despliegue de las capacidades y fomento de la acción conjunta. Asimismo, se necesita abrir la acción social a distintos actores: al Estado con sus administraciones, al mercado con su…
Tortura y malos tratos en la España democrática
2020
La tortura en la España contemporánea y democrática es una realidad preocupante, como lo muestran Informes de los más relevantes organismos internacionales en la lucha y prevención de la tortura, como el Comité Europeo para la Prevención de la tortura del Consejo de Europa, ONG, sentencias internas del Estado español y, gravemente, sentencias del Tribunal Europeo de Derechos Humanos. Estas condenas a España del TEDH se producen por la violación del artículo 3 del Convenio Europeo de Derechos Humanos, por no realizar de manera exhaustiva y adecuada las investigaciones ante denuncias por malos tratos y torturas, y la última condena también por tratos inhumanos. Realidades que ponen al desnudo…
La relación con los animales: un nuevo ámbito de la intervención socioeducativa
2014
This article analyses the educational approaches towards the animal-human relationship which have been developed during the last 20 years. The article establishes a chain of states in that relationship and presents the reasons why those states are consecutive or, occasionally, simultaneous. Next, the different European profiles of social educators are reviewed to see which of these are more open towards educational action with animals, something which could be considered a new field for educators if they have adequate professional training. A series of European (and some American) websites are analysed in order to determine their approach towards the human-animal relationship. Although most…
Handling knowledge: Using classroom materials to construct and interpret information requests
2015
Abstract This article contributes to the recent conversation analytic interest in exploring the mechanisms of action formation and ascription by investigating how embodied interactional practices involving material objects relate to the organization of social action. Using as data information request sequences in student–student interaction, the study highlights the material nature of an interactional context and examines how students orient in talk and by bodily-visual means to their and their co-conversants’ textual documents during individual task work. Sequential analyses illustrate how the manual handling of such everyday learning materials as handouts and tasks sheets is not only an i…
The Marginalisation of Finely Tuned Semiotic Practices and Misunderstandings in Relation to (Signed) Languages and Deafness
2014
AbstractWhen people draw on the available modal resources (e.g. gestures) in specific contexts over time, those resources come to display regularities. The more a community uses and regulates those resources, the more fully and finely articulated their regularities and patterns become. Modes, organised by regular means of representation, are constantly transformed by users, depending on what the community needs. This paper discusses the way semiotic resources and practices, i.e. social actions with a history, used by sign language signers in visually oriented communities, as well as the research in such domains, have been marginalised. The paper reflects some of the main reasons for such ma…
Focal social actions through which space is configured and reconfigured when orienting to a Finnish Sign Language class
2018
Abstract This paper focuses on how signing students organise themselves spatially in social interactions in a university lecture hall. One may view space as a concrete location, a social construct, and a normative actor with historical trajectories. The study addresses the question, ‘What are the mediated actions through which the students and teacher (re)configure space for participating in a class?' Following a methodological framework of Mediated Discourse Analysis and multimodal interaction analysis, I approach this question by examining the social actions occurring when entering a lecture hall. The primary data includes video recordings, photos, and participatory observations, document…
How Mafia Works: An Analysis of the Extortion Racket System
2014
In this document, we present an analysis of quali-quantitative data on Extortion Rackets in Sicily. The second section provides an introduction to the interpretative framework on Extortion Racket Systems (ERSs). Therefore, the third section takes into account the methodological issues in the collection and analysis of data on extortions. The fourth and five sections offer an analysis on the types of extortion and the correspondent behaviour of the victims, followed by a focus on the process of extortion. An overview of the case-studies analysis on mafia-type organizations ends the document.
I comportamenti virtuosi tra rispetto delle norme e aspettative sociali
2020
Il capitolo si sofferma sull’azione rispetto alle norme spiegando come le aspettative sociali ricoprano un ruolo cruciale nella gestione delle informazioni utili per muoverci nell’ambiente in cui viviamo, giacchè ci consentono di ridurre l’incertezza derivante dall’assunzione di determinate scelte, di stimare quali possibili effetti avrà una nostra azione in un determinato tempo e in uno specifico contesto, o ancora di valutare quali possono essere le strategie che possiamo mettere in campo per ridurre la probabilità di una risposta indesiderata da parte degli altri. The chapter focuses on action with respect to the rules, explaining how social expectations play a crucial role in the man…
The social media : platform towards a participatory democracy : PSOE, PP, Ciudadanos, Podemos - may 2018
2019
Este artículo se ha publicado de forma definitiva en: https://revistabarataria.es/web/pdf/num26/445_Lopez_Trigo_Bar_26_2019.pdf El presente artículo tiene por objeto el análisis de la comunicación desarrollada en los medios sociales por lo cuatro partidos mayoritarios: PP, PSOE, Podemos y Ciudadanos, para profundizar si son las redes sociales una plataforma real hacia la Democracia participativa. Esta investigación se centra en lo que supone la Moción de censura, presentada por Pedro Sánchez, líder del PSOE, entre finales de mayo y principios de junio de 2018 en España. Hito político y social en este país donde es la primera vez que dicha moción es aceptada y consigue cambiar al presidente …