Dimensions Of Social Practice Research Articles

Ideologi Penggunaan Istilah-Istilah Covid-19 di Berita Online: Analisis Wacana Kritis Model Norman Fairclough

This study aims to describe the structure of the text (text dimension), discourse practice (dimension of social practice), and sociocultural practice (sociocultural dimension) against the use of COVID-19 terms in online news. The research method used is qualitative descriptive The critical discourse analysis approach Norman Fairclough used to find the depth of meaning of news texts containing COVID-19 terms. The term data about COVID-19 is taken from three websites, namely Bisnis.com, Kompas.com, and Liputan6.com. Based on the results of the analysis, it was concluded that, first, the text structure in the form of advisories, information, and education about events (events) increasing COVID-19 cases and policy actions taken by the government to reduce COVID-19 cases. Second, discourse practices include the identity of the government and society. Third, the dimension of sociocultural practice indicates policies that impact: (a) the marginalization of society, (b) social dominance, and (c) social wrong because the policies implemented are not to the conditions of society. The results of this study are expected to provide a correct understanding of the use of COVID-19 terms in online news so that the public can be more critical in reading news in online media.

Focus on the power dimensions of an adult’s literacy-related practices

ABSTRACTThis paper focuses on the power dimension of social practices. The study sought to understand the literacy-related practices of a retired woman without a high-school diploma in everyday life and community activities. It drew on social practice theories, the New Literacy Studies, and transformative learning. The ethnographic approach chosen to provide a thick description of practices, involving participant observation and interviews, allowed the power dimension to surface. The study contributed an in-depth analysis of the singular experience of an adult faced with literacy challenges in power-embedded contexts, as defined in three main findings. First, it revealed unexpected empowering achievements from an adult with little formal education not usually captured in standardised evaluations. Second, it outlined three intermingled practice categories that evolved during a lifelong project: resourceful literacy, self-directed learning, and ambivalent participation in the community. Third, the participant’s ambivalence provided a strong means to uncover the power dimension of social practices in the form of a dialectic between solidarity and domination relationships. Experiences of solidarity encouraging participation in literacy, learning, and community activities and of domination inhibiting participation are described. Implications point to emancipatory approaches in adult literacy, learning, and education, as well as prior learning recognition.

Embedding Higher Education into a Real-World Lab: A Process-Oriented Analysis of Six Transdisciplinary Project Courses

Since the early days of the emerging research format of Real-world Labs (RwLs), higher education plays a vital role in them. Examples have been presented on teaching activities in RwLs, but the reasons for and evidence of their inclusion stays limited. To start a systematic discussion on the embedding of higher education in RwLs, this paper presents the case of six Transdisciplinary Project Courses carried out in the RwL “District Future—Urban Lab” in Karlsruhe/Germany. The paper presents the discourses on the role of learning in RwLs and compares it to those on Transition Labs and Urban Living Labs. To offer a new approach to address this aspect, the paper introduces a social practice perspective to map out the interrelations between an RwL and higher education therein. The detailed analysis of the processes is used to identify the potential of the RwL to support learning. It shows that all dimensions of social practice can be identified in the interplay between Real-world Lab and Transdisciplinary Project Courses, even though to a very different degree and in different phases. The text closes with lessons learned for teaching project courses in RwLs and similar labs.

Yellow‐sticker shopping as competent, creative consumption

This paper presents the preliminary findings of an empirical study into a specific and novel form of contemporary consumption: “yellow‐sticker shopping.” This type of consumption involves the active targeting for purchase of food products that have been reduced in price because they are approaching their expiry date. Given the complexities of food provisioning in austerity Britain, that include both non‐conventional sites like markets and food banks as well as conventional “discounters” and high street supermarkets, the analysis reveals how this form of food provisioning goes far beyond the “cost‐saving” accounts that might be expected. The research uses autoethnographic material in the form of vignette, constructed around research conducted in the North of England, together with analysis of an online discussion forum. Data are thematically analysed using literature on shopping and supermarkets and then organised according to the three dimensions of social practice: materials, competences and meanings. The paper makes three key contributions in relation to the practice of yellow‐sticker shopping. First, that it has distinct spatial and temporal qualities and the role played by the space of the supermarket and its associated fixtures and technologies is important. Second, that the uncertain supply of yellow‐sticker goods results in unpredictability. Successful shopping is celebrated and characterised in ways other than the drudgery often associated with the weekly shop. Third, it reveals an assemblage of competences, skills and knowledge not only in relation to grocery shopping but that take place in the home, around food, its storage and preparation and cooking and recipe knowledge. The paper concludes by outlining further planned research associated with the practice of yellow‐sticker shopping that will contribute to ongoing study into the alternative modes of food provisioning and their spatialities that are characteristic of life in contemporary Britain.

Learning, body and territory among indigenous Xakriabá boys

AbstractThis article draws on an ethnographical study of indigenous Xakriabá boys, focusing on fieldwork that explores everyday practices that characterise the passage from domestic space to manhood through territory circulation. The hunt assumes an emblematic position in the learning process configuration that constitutes the male ethos of the Xakriabá. We review the unique arrangement of key practices, exploring their articulations and revealing learning processes developed both through the use of the scythe in agricultural work, and through hunting in the woods that surround the villages. Learning is explored as an inherent dimension of social practices. We highlight the relationships among different learning configurations in order to identify recurrent themes, such as peer interaction and co-responsability, which characterise particular ways of learning among the Xakriabá.

Ideology and mental health: analysis of the discourse of workers in the psychosocial area

This study proposes to analyze the discourse of workers in a Psychosocial Care Center regarding the operation of the ideologies which express the dimension of social practices incorporated at this service. This was a qualitative research, and the corpus was originated by transcription of semi-structured interviews, applied to 17 out of the 25 workers of a substitute service in a city in southern Brazil. The theoretical-methodological analysis of the operation of ideologies by John Thompson was used. The discourse analysis of the workers' practice shows a plurality of ideological manifestations, so that they reserve the changing practices with innovative and creative features such as the maintenance of obsolete models, hindering or even preventing these changes. In conclusion, these issues should be worked continuously in everyday services, being a major challenge to the consolidation of the psychiatric reform in Brazil.

Kroppar, dislokationer och politiska praktiker på YouTube

This article explores the benefits of political discourse theory in the analysis of self harm video blogs. It is argued that a reworked concept of ‘dislocation’ (e.g. Laclau 1985, 1990; Glynos & Howarth 2007) can shed light on the chaotic experiences prior to the act of self harm, and it is further claimed that this act, as well as the practice of video blogging, can be seen as responses to the dislocatory experience. On the explicit level, the videos often challenge the stigma of self harm, and especially the stigma of self injury scars. However, drawing on Glynos and Howarth’s four dimensions of social practices (social, political, ethical, ideological), the article demonstrates how many of the video blogs simultaneously contest and conform to this stigmatisation. It is suggested that a categorisation according to the four dimensions can be used as a first step in the analysis ofsocial practices.

EXTENDING THE THEORY OF NORMATIVE PRACTICES: AN APPLICATION TO TWO CASES OF NETWORKED MILITARY OPERATIONS

The theory of normative practices has proven to be helpful in eliciting the normative dimension of social practices. In this article we apply the theory to military practice. Since current military missions are Network Enabled Operations, which mandate a strong focus on cooperation with other military and non-military partners, an additional framework is needed to understand actual problems in such missions. We have extended the theory of normative practices with interrelations (enkaptic, part-whole, and juxtapositional). Two cases from missions in Afghanistan have been analyzed to show the usefulness of the theory of normative practices and its extension with interrelations.

Escrita e identidades

The focus of this paper is on gender identities at work place adult literacy. Based on the concept of discourse as a crucial dimension of social practices in relation to other dimensions, mainly power, the paper addresses the issue of identity change in past narratives and their recontextualisation associated with work place current demands. The research findings suggest that women and men use different strategies in relation to literacy.

Theorising New Literacies In and Out of School

This paper begins by revisiting the place of literacy in public discourses, 20 years after Graff's exploration of the 'literacy myths' that dominate much community and research discussion. The paper aims to illustrate the fundamental inter-connectedness of literacy with social practice and with the moral and political organisation of contemporary cultures, illustrating these points through an examination of interview materials collected in medical clinics and schools. These illustrations are explored for the ways in which they show literacy to be a focal point for considerations that both draw on and reconstruct broader dimensions of social practice and cultural organisation such as the discourses of gender and class. The paper concludes by stressing the ongoing need for researchers to question the status of literacy as a functionally autonomous and explanatory construct, and to approach their study of literacy through an examination of the detailed ways in which members of a culture bring certain attributes of literacy to life in their conduct and in their accounts of everyday practice.

For a Practical Aesthetics

The neoconservative agenda to dismantle the National Endowment for the Arts is, unsurprisingly, part of a larger strategy to reverse the gains made in the past two decades by gays and lesbians, racial and ethnic minorities, women, and other subordinated and subaltern groups. Why attack the aesthetic at this point in time? With civil rights on the retreat, the relatively protected sphere of the aesthetic has become the terrain of political contestation, of addressing crucial ethical concerns in ways that the mass media are disinclined to adopt. It is easier to withdraw advertising from a T.V. station to pressure it to change its programming than it is to convince a panel of experts on what criteria to judge what is or is not art. In any event, the understanding of art itself has been undergoing great changes. With the politicization and commodification of art, few people today can seriously identify the aesthetic with the realm of freedom. The new contestatory movements have provoked a counter-offensive by various sectors of the Right: fundamentalists (anti-obscenity and antiabortion), nationalists (anti-flagburning and English Only advocates) and political conservatives (anti-affirmative action and anti-civil rights). Having learned from the new social movements that the personal and the cultural are political, the Right has openly declared itself the ideological foe not only of subaltern groups seeking enfranchisement but also of liberal, humanistic expressions of universality, such as the that guarantee freedom of practice to their enemies.' In what follows, I focus on the reasons why these political, moral and economic issues have converged on the question of the aesthetic, a dimension of social practice which the social sciences have largely ignored. I also pay particular attention to how current conservative attempts to achieve hegemony do so at the expense of gays and lesbians, who in turn have repoliticized their cultural practices. The conservative backlash to the politicization of sexuality and other intimate matters,' reached the pinnacle of high-handedness last summer when Jesse Helms proposed a ban on public funding for 'obscene and indecent' art and for any work that 'denigrates, debases or reviles a person, group or class of citizens on the basis of race, creed, sex, handicap, age or national origin.'3 The motive was, as everyone no doubt remembers, the offense that Mr. and Mrs. Helms took at the flagrant display of homoeroticism in an exhibition of Robert Mapplethorpe's