Search results for "social relation"

Menores criados por sus abuelas. Mejora de la pautas de cuidado a menores en acogimiento familiar en familia extensa a través de un programa de inter…

2011

[EN] In this research we have tried to describe the fostering kinship with grandparents as an alternative to living together in cases in which parents cannot play or stop playing their roles of main caregivers of their own children. This diversity ranges from multiproblematical and risky families, in which the situations of neglect and unprotection of minors prevail, to the care of minors due to more normalized causes (like parents death, divorce, etc.) The impact of this family situation on grandparents requires an special attention, due to problems related to the restructuring of roles, i.e. turning grandparents into substitute parents. The prevention of the emergence of negative conseque…

Competency needs among managers from Spanish hotels and restaurants and their training demands

2003

Abstract This study aims to: (1) identify managerial competency needs in the Spanish hospitality industry, (2) to differentiate present and future training demands requested by managers, and (3) to identify the relationship between managerial competency needs and training demands. The sample was made up of 80 Spanish hotel and restaurant managers. Results show technical managerial competency needs mainly in computing, languages, and economic–financial management. Generic managerial competency needs appear mostly in job performance efficacy and self-control and social relationships. All training demands refer to technical issues, while none refer to generic managerial competencies. Moreover,…

The future of sensorimotor communication research

2019

Guarding the borders of the Norwegian welfare state. How NAV employees decide on social assistance for unemployed Polish migrants

2021

In this article, I focus on social relations and institutional logics to explore how street-level bureaucrats in the Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration (NAV) assess unemployed Polish migra...

Landscape of Exception as Spatial and Social Interaction Between High-Quality Agricultural Production and Immigrant Labour Exploitation

2021

This Chapter analyses the spatial and social interaction phenomena between high-quality agricultural production and immigrant labour exploita- tion that produce the landscape of exception, a particular declination of the Agambenian (2005) “state of exception” concept. The landscape of exception construction mechanism is generated within South-Eastern Sicily through the productive system of greenhouses, finalised to the vegetables production. Green- houses, in particular, represent an effective tool for spatial manipulation over the landscape and social control of migrant workers. In relation to these considerations, this work reflects on ethical challenges and dilemmas of planning, highligh…

Social structure in termite societies

1989

The societies of Isoptera and Hymenoptera differ in two general features. 1. The termite societies are bisexual. From a primitive symmetry between both sexes, many asymmetries appeared during the course of their evolution. These asymmetries are related either to a sexual dimorphism, or a biased sex ratio, or both, and are differently expressed in the separate castes of a given species. 2. The hemimetabolous development allows a termite to take part in the social tasks before the end of its postembryonic development, and even to reproduce at a larval stage (neoteny). Thus Isoptera exhibit a polymorphism of larvae, unlike Hymenoptera where a polymorphism of imagoes is observed. Moreover, an i…

Bilingual practices and the social organisation of video gaming activities

2010

Abstract Grounded in the interactional paradigm for the study of bilingual language use, this paper investigates how players engaged in a collaborative game-playing activity orient to the co-presence of two languages in the setting and deploy bilingual resources in organising their action and participation. The analysis aims to demonstrate how a particular kind of ‘bilingual order’ ( Cromdal, 2005 ) is co-constructed in which the players use their native language (Finnish) for interaction with each other, but systematically draw on the language of the game in constructing their turns as recognisable and building their alignments with respect to activities under way. The analysis highlights …

Exploring and Reshaping Learners’ Beliefs About the Usefulness of Corrective Feedback : A Sociocultural Perspective

2016

A number of studies have shown that learners’ beliefs about the usefulness of corrective feedback for improving their L2 (a second or a foreign language) use influences the extent to which learners can utilize that same feedback. It seems, then, that changing some of these beliefs could benefit the L2 learning process. The present article reports on two small-scale studies, both drawing on a sociocultural perspective on the development of beliefs. Changes in learners’ beliefs about corrective feedback were observed both within a period of six months (Case study) and over the course of one research interview (Group study). The studies exemplify how the interplay of one’s own and other’s expe…

El teatro social en Son nom d’avant de Hélène Lenoir

2014

This paper proposes a transdisciplinary approach to the problem of identity, more specifically, the question of hidden identity, constructed and represented by the individual-actor in the great theater of life with and among others. Through one of Helene Lenoir’s most remarkable works, Son nom d’avant , we will try to explain the characters’ attempts first to adapt to social roles imposed by an old family tradition, and second to adjust their social identities to situational demands. Social relations appear as a source of weakness or torment for characters continually divided between their “real identities” (Goffman, 1977) –shaped by their desires and aspirations– and their “social identiti…

“But big is a funny word”: a multiple perspective on concept formation in a foreign-language-mediated classroom

2015

In recent years, foreign-language mediated instruction (immersion, content-based language learning and teaching) has been studied from various perspectives. In the following study, a single event from a Finnish third-grade EFL-mediated geography lesson is studied by combining insights from three research approaches: sociocultural, socio-cognitive, and discourse-pragmatic. The data analysis focuses on how during concept formation, the participants use commonplace means present in every classroom – textbook and chalkboard, spoken and written, verbal and nonverbal communicative means – to construct knowledge and its social context. The results indicate that there exist strong parallels among t…