Framework Of Social Interaction Research Articles

Remaking the Late Holocene Environment of Western Uganda: Archaeological Perspectives on Kansyore and Later Settlers

AbstractArchaeological and environmental research by an international and interdisciplinary team opens new perspectives into the settlement histories of Kansyore, Early Iron Age, and Bigo period peoples in the once forested regions of the Ndali Crater Lakes Region (NCLR) of western Uganda. The research examines the role of Kansyore agropastoralists and their Early Iron Age and Bantu-speaking contemporaries in remaking a once forested environment into a forest-savannah mosaic from circa 500 BC to the end of the first millennium AD. Archaeological settlement and subsistence evidence is examined within a framework of social interaction of Sudanic speakers with Bantu speakers, drawing on historical linguistics and environmental studies to arrive at a new synthesis of late Holocene history in western Uganda. This perspective also unveils the significance and chronology of Boudiné ware, a long enigmatic ceramic tradition that we identify as contemporary to Transitional Urewe and deeply influenced through social interactions with those making Kansyore ceramics and inhabiting the same landscape. Using archaeological evidence from fifteen sites and multiple burials spanning from 400 to 1650 calAD, new views of ceramic histories, lifeways, and symbolic values are revealed, including Bigo period settlements that arose in what was an environmental refugium beginning in the early fourteenth century AD. This research also shows that the Kansyore of the forested region east of the Rwenzori Mountains had greater affinities to late Holocene archaeological evidence from western Equatoria, in the southern South Sudan, and Kansyore Island, Uganda, than it does to the Kansyore in eastern Kenya.

The Role of Internet and Social Interactions in Advancing Waste Sorting Behaviors in Rural Communities

Addressing the global challenge of sustainable waste management, this research investigates the influence of social dynamics and digital connectivity on rural residents’ willingness to adopt waste classification practices, essential for sustainable environmental management. Through a comprehensive analysis of 5413 rural participants surveyed in the China Labor-force Dynamic Survey (CLDS), this study employs a novel mixed-methods approach. It integrates quantitative analysis with the Manski social interaction framework and a Recursive Bivariate Probit model to explore the intricate interplay between community interactions, internet access, and environmental behaviors. Our methodology stands out for its unique combination of social theory and econometric modeling to address a pressing environmental issue. Results highlight a significant effect of mobile internet use and social interactions within communities on enhancing willingness towards waste classification. Notably, digital connectivity emerges as a key facilitator of environmental engagement, mediating social influences, and fostering a collective approach to waste management. Considering these insights, we propose targeted policy interventions that blend digital strategies with traditional community engagement efforts. Recommendations include crafting digital literacy programs and leveraging social media to bolster community-centric environmental governance. By harnessing the synergistic potential of digital tools and social dynamics, these strategies aim to elevate the effectiveness of waste classification initiatives in rural China, offering a scalable model for environmental sustainability.

‘It’s communication between people who are going through the same thing’: experiences of informal interactions in hospital cancer treatment settings

PurposeIn hospital settings, patients, visitors, and staff engage in many interactions outside formal clinical encounters. Whilst many of these may be inconsequential, others contribute significantly to how patients and their carers experience cancer and its treatment. This article aims to explore the experiences and significance of interactions that occur outside formal clinical encounters in hospital cancer treatment settings.MethodsSemi-structured interviews were conducted with cancer patients, carers, and staff recruited from two hospital sites and cancer support groups. Hermeneutic phenomenology informed lines of questioning and data analysis.ResultsThirty-one people participated in the study: 18 cancer patients, four carers, and nine staff members. The experiences of informal interactions were grouped into three themes: connecting, making sense, and enacting care. The participants described how these encounters allowed connection with others in the hospital spaces, facilitating a sense of belonging, normality, and self-worth. Through these interactions, individuals participated in making sense of their experiences, to better anticipate the decisions and challenges that might lie ahead. By connecting with other individuals, they cared for others and felt cared for themselves, and were able to learn from, teach, and support each other.ConclusionsOutside the confines of the clinical discourses participants negotiate terms of engagement, sharing of information, expertise, and their own personal stories that they may employ to contribute to the individuals around them. These interactions occur within a loose and evolving framework of social interactions, an ‘informal community’, in which cancer patients, carers, and staff members play active and meaningful roles.

Postwar Italian Journeys: Narratives of Homecoming, National Cohesion and German–Italian Friendship

Abstract Scholars, journalists, diplomats and even archivists routinely assert that to understand German–Italian relations one must start with Goethe. Without denying Goethe’s importance, this article suggests that the emotional pull and prominence of Italy for postwar Germans may have had less to do with Goethe than with the Italian journey’s importance as a shared script. By providing familiar sets of baseline behaviours and roles on which Italians and Germans could rely and to which they could attune their expectations, the script of the Italian journey helped smooth postwar tensions. It eased early West German travels and the pangs of national division, and for a time it also worked to salve Italians’ own national wounds, in addition to bringing in much-needed tourist revenues. As a framework for social interaction, moreover, the Italian journey helped both Italians and Germans work around their complex relations and uncomfortable pasts. That it lives on as an explanation for foreign relations and a popular trope also points to the tradition’s reinvention in the postwar period and its distance from the historical referent. The location of the Italian journey in the eighteenth century and the timeless quality that this long history gave to Germans’ yearning for Italy continued to offer postwar Germans a claim to national cohesion. It served (theoretically) to unite, first, West Germans and then, after 1990, Germans east and west. As a salvageable national tradition, it had few competitors.

Analyzing the historic district of Tehran regarding walkability approach (case study: Naseri fortification)

Addressing human needs in urban areas has been one of the most significant factors in the formation and expansion of cities. Between the human needs, walking is one of the most important ones and has been ignored in present-day cities. The main goal of providing pedestrian walkways is to give priority to pedestrians in order to revive civil life. Pedetrianization will play an undeniable role in the revitalization of urban centers by providing a framework for social interactions and allowing citizens to enter a safe and peaceful environment. As the historic district of Tehran, Naseri fortification is one of the most important parts of the city with the capability of gathering, shopping and recreation. In this fortification, we can take the advantage of the existing potential of the historic fabric of Tehran and create a vital, stable and secure space, along with physical and functional revitalization. Walkability is the main approach toward achieving this goal, and accordingly, the present research aims to analyze Naseri fortification of Tehran concerning walkability. The present condition analysis is performed according to the qualitative indicators such as physical-functional, socioeconomic and environmental indicators and additionally, the quantitative indicators such as density of the historical attractions, type of activities, and accessibility to the metro stations. Afterwards, the passages in this area are prioritized through the multi-criteria approach for adding pedestrian walkways based on the obtained results and eventually, the selected passages are identified in order to construct new pedestrian walkways or widen existing sidewalks.

공간 경제에서의 사회적 상호 작용

이 논문의 목적은 개인들이 공간 경제에서 사회적으로 상호 작용하는 과정에서 발생하는 외부 효과를 설명하는 것이다. 이 논문의 접근법은 공간 균형이라는 개념을 포함하여 근대적인 도시 경제학적인 방법론에 기초한다. 또한 이 논문은 공간 경제학의 전반적인 이슈들은 확대하고 확장한다. 즉, 공간적 상충관계, 공간적 외부성, 사회적 최적과 비계획적인 균형 사이의 차이, 그리고 복수 균형과 같은 개념들을 다룬다. 마지막으로, 이 체계를 통해 공간 환경과 관련된 제도들을 평가한다.

Societal transformation: Eastern European experience and conceptualization

The paper contains analyses of attempts at explaining the profound changes in Eastern Europe after 1989. The analyses are guided by the conceptual framework of social interaction. It covers the micro, meso and macro level of the social organization. The first target is the theory of transition. The diagnosis reveals some constructive features of the theory together with its difficulties to get operationalized and effectively used in explanations. The major deficit of the theory is the absence of a concept of society. Based on the concept of social interaction the conceptual framework of societal transformation efficiently functions as a heuristic tool and as an organizer of knowledge. Is the societal transformations conceptual framework sufficient for a full-fledged explanation of the reform processes in Eastern Europe? The search for an answer leads to increasing relevance of the region’s involvement in the globalization. The conclusion is that the impact of global trends should be integrated in the explanatory procedures of the continuing transformation of Eastern European societies.

Crowdsourcing as a Social Interaction Tool to Stimulate Sustainable Transportation Mode Use

Background: In this paper, a crowd-based social interaction framework is developed to assess the potential increase in the use of sustainable transportation modes – such as walking, bicycling and public transit. Methods: The empirical data were used to validate mode shift behaviors for 77 participants from California State University Long Beach. Data collection spanned over two phases, Phase I followed by Phase II. Each study phase lasted a month. Participants used one of the four modes – personal car, walking, bicycling and public transit - to arrive at the university campus. During Phase I, a control group was created, and individual mode choice of participants were obtained. Individual participants in Phase II were assigned short-encrypted distinct names and were asked to post a daily comment on the quality of experience using the mode that was used to arrive at the campus. The participants were asked to post the comments over a “Twitter” page that was used as the crowdsourcing platform for this study. The encrypted name masked the individual identity of the user. Analysis at the end of Phase II showed that there was an overall mode-shift of almost 19% of personal car users to other sustainable modes of walking, bicycling and transit. Results: Results show very important policy implications of using crowdsourcing as a social interaction tool to influence mode choice behavior of commuters, especially among college students and young adults. Conclusion: A crowd-based social interaction framework is developed to assess potential increase in the use of sustainable transportation modes – such as walking, bicycling, and public transit. Results showed that providing advanced information on traffic and parking problems can result in a mode shift to active transportation modes.

Mulheres negras nas universidades e saberes decoloniais: por uma teorização de um pensamento feminista negro

No Brasil deste século XXI, as universidades têm experimentado novos itinerários e delineado novas trajetórias que foram provocadas, sobremaneira, pela adoção de políticas de ações afirmativas em seus processos de ingresso e permanência, em vários níveis. Além de mudanças na composição étnico-racial das universidades, pode ser notada especificamente uma maior presença de mulheres negras nesses espaços. Essas presenças, associadas à afirmação de um Pensamento Feminista Negro, têm desestabilizado modelos instituídos e normativos: tanto no âmbito das interações sociais que são sedimentadas em estruturas nas quais as mulheres negras ocupam a sua base; quanto no campo da produção de conhecimentos, e de disputas teóricas, campo este que é forçado a não mais lidar com mulheres negras meramente como objetos de pesquisa, mas na condição de produtoras, e estudiosas, de saberes que têm revelado dimensões decoloniais. A partir desses pressupostos, discutimos neste artigo, em uma perspectiva interdisciplinar, em que medida essas movimentações, que tornaram os espaços mais plurais, implicam em uma emergência de novos pensamentos e saberes e também em uma realização de dignidades, tais quais aquelas previstas nos Direitos Humanos, que foram historicamente perdidas.

Gobierno abierto en la gestión de los ayuntamientos

La política informacional ha propiciado un cambio de relaciones entre la administración pública y los medios de comunicación, entre el político y el periodista o entre el alcalde y el ciudadano; ha estrechado el contacto y generado nuevas formas de comportamiento y de relaciones entre ambos espacios y actores de la vida social. Este trabajo pretende mostrar cómo las redes sociales han trasformado la relación entre ayuntamientos y medios de comunicación, así como evidenciar el papel de los ciudadanos en este nuevo marco de interacción social.

Social Interactions and Competition in Shadow Education

We examine the competition in shadow education inputs among students' parents under a social interaction framework by using a representative survey of middle school students in China. Based on the data structure and the identification issues, we apply spatial Tobit models and find that the competition does exist but will be overestimated if we overlook the reflection problem. Moreover, the competition effect is higher of the more observable outcome for agents in the same reference group. Heterogeneity analyses indicate that the competition reaction is stronger for parents with 9th-grade children and for parents whose children may have competitive disadvantages in the future. The competition is more intense among parents who have similar attributes, thus may communicate more frequently. The competition level is higher during the beginning of an academic year.

Inclusión de la perspectiva de género en la psicología: Una apuesta frente a la realidad del conflicto armado en Colombia

En el ensayo El género: una categoría útil para el análisis histórico, la historiadora Joan Scott (1986) hace una reflexión en torno a los usos del concepto género, colocando en cuestión cómo el análisis histórico en su desarrollo carece de dicha perspectiva. Scott define al género como una forma primaria de relaciones significantes de poder; distinguiendo 4 elementos que le conforman: 1) Los símbolos y los mitos, 2) Los conceptos normativos, 3) Las instituciones y organizaciones sociales de las relaciones de género y 4) La identidad. Dichos elementos se sitúan en el contexto social, de ahí que las representaciones en torno a la diferencia sexual como la feminidad y masculinidad nutran los intercambios de significados en el marco de las interacciones sociales, a la vez que las instituciones normativizan, condicionan o reproducen determinados símbolos en relación a esta diferencia.

Between Thanatos and Eros: Erich Fromm and the psychoanalysis of social networking technology use

Social networking technologies have become a ubiquitous framework for social interaction, serving to organise much of the individual’s social life. Such technological structuring affects not merely the individual’s psyche (as a psycho- technics), it also affects broader aspects of society (as a socio-technics). While social networking technologies may serve to transform society in positive ways, such technologies also have the potential to significantly encroach upon and (re) construct individual and cultural meaning in ways that must be investigated. Erich Fromm, who psychoanalytically describes humans as a product of their society and the economic systems within that society, may provide insight into the influence of social networking technologies in contemporary society. He sees the relationship between the individual and society as being in a constant state of dynamic change. Utilising Fromm’s psycho-societal insight, social networking technologies are shown to conflate and confuse the relation between Thanatos and Eros – the Thanatos of a lifeless and consumerist agenda-filled mechanisation, and the Eros associated with social engagement. Thanatos and Eros are tied together via social networking technologies. This results in, firstly, social networking technologies functioning predominantly to further capitalist agendas through the monetisation of these technologies – particularly in terms of linking commodity fetishism and the foundational social drive of the individual. Secondly, social networking technologies mechanise human action according to predictable behavioural paths through the use of these technologies, especially in terms of how socialisation is possible via these technologies (shaping how platonic and romantic relationships may take place in the contemporary world). Such a mechanisation of interpersonal engagement contrasts with Erich Fromm’s assertion that interpersonal relations (vis-à-vis love) are not “mere emotion”, but rather represent an interpersonal creative capacity and interplay. Fromm’s psycho-societal insights will show how contemporary individuals may take independent and responsible rational action to establish accountable and psychologically beneficial ways of engaging with others through social networking technologies.

Autistic youth in 3D game‐based collaborative virtual learning: Associating avatar interaction patterns with embodied social presence

AbstractThis study examines interaction patterns in a series of game activities for learning social skills by autistic youth in a 3D game‐based collaborative virtual learning environment (CVLE). Researchers studying collaborative learning have indicated the importance of social interactions and social presence. However, few studies have examined the relationship of avatar social interactions with embodied social presence in a 3D game‐based CVLE. Specifically, we examined avatar‐mediated verbal and nonverbal interactions by autistic youth in iSocial, a game‐based 3D CVLE for developing social competencies. How are avatar‐mediated verbal and nonverbal social interactions related to the extent of embodied social presence? Building on prior studies on embodied social presence (ESP) theory and the verbal and nonverbal social interaction framework, this paper aims to explore the link between the combination of verbal (appropriate and inappropriate) and nonverbal (avatar proximity, orientation, joint attention and gesture) interaction patterns and experienced ESP level. We report on the results of 3 cohorts of a total of 11 youth aged from 11 to 14 who were diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder learning in 13 game activities in iSocial. The video data of the participants’ screen recordings were analyzed and coded based on the ESP theory and verbal and nonverbal social interaction framework. Through cluster analysis, the results identify distinct patterns of verbal and nonverbal interaction that are associated with different levels of embodied social presence. The findings of this study (1) shed light on the link between social interactions and embodied social presence and (2) provide a deeper understanding of how the unique spatial and visual characteristics of 3D CVLE and the design of game activities in 3D CVLE may transform collaborative learning, especially for autistic youth.

A human-scaled GIS: measuring and visualizing social interaction in Barcelona’s Superilles

Social interaction is a key component of urban sustainability, but its spatial measurement is difficult using existing off-site GIS data. This paper reports on a new method of measuring social interaction using a combination of mobile technology and parametric software, which was tested on two of Barcelona’s new semi-pedestrian superilles. The research is introduced within a theoretical framework for social interaction and cohesion adapted from a broader index of sustainability. It shows how on-site data collection can be used to measure the capacity of urban spaces to support social interaction. It is argued that the combination of mobile technologies, GIS data, and predetermined indicators of the capacity of spaces to support positive human experiences offers an important complement to more traditional methods of recording and measuring the qualities of urban spaces.

INFORMATION CULTURE AS THE BASIS FOR EFFICIENT TALENT MANAGEMENT

Urgency of the research. At the present stage of social development, the importance of studying the foundations of formation is entailed by the search for new mechanisms for improving the professional and personal qualities of an individual. Target setting. It is expedient to define the essence of the category as a factor of social development and methodological approaches to the management in the framework of the modern paradigm of socioeconomic development. Analysis of recent researches and publications. The research results on the society current state, its transformational processes and requirements to the person as the basis of social development have been presented in scientific works of foreign and domestic scientists, such as Gardner G., Michael A., Shweyer A., Molyako V., Reznikov Zh. I. and others, present Uninvestigated parts of general matters defining. The scientists have not yet sufficiently researched the issues of the essence in the importance of social interaction as a factor of scientific and technological progress and their influence on the formation. The research objective. The article is aimed at studying the social interaction as one of the main qualities for a man of today, issues of management and how and influence its development. The statement of basic materials. The concepts talent management, information culture have been investigated in the article. Their absolute interrelation and influence on personality formation, organization development, team activity and their effectiveness are proved. The possible ways of and personality cultivating in the conditions of innovative development society, the widespread introduction of and telecommunication technologies are highlighted. Conclusions. Talent management on the basis of high-level in combination with and communication technologies enables to formulate effectively processes of managing and functioning of any organization. Thus, the basis of the social development of the third millennium are the conditions for the effective realization of human talent, not only in the personal perspective, but also in the framework of social interaction based on the mastery, without which further progress of the work intellectual tools and new technologies is impossible.

Parents’ Marital Status and Child Physical Abuse Potential: The Mediation of Depression Symptoms

Informed by a social interactional framework of stress and parenting, the aim of this study was to examine the mediating effect of depression symptoms on the association between parents’ marital status (married and divorced parents) and child physical abuse potential, in a Portuguese community sample. It was hypothesized that the possible observed differences between divorced and married parents in the child physical abuse potential would be explained by their depression symptoms. Parents (N = 892) were assessed in their marital status, severity of depression symptoms and child physical abuse potential. Results showed that, when compared with married parents, divorced parents had higher child physical abuse potential. However, parents’ depression symptomatology was found as a mediator of the effect of marital status differences on child physical abuse potential. The influence of the status of divorced parents on the increase of child physical abuse potential was explained by the increase of the parents’ depression symptoms. This finding suggested that parents’ divorced status had no longer an effect on child physical abuse potential when parents’ depression symptomatology was tested as a mediator variable. The present mediation model explained 47 % of the variability in the child physical abuse potential score. Practical implications of these findings for prevention and psychological intervention are also discussed.

The Institutionalization of Alternative Economies

This paper explores the institutionalization process of complementary currencies; understanding the institutionalization of alternative economies is key in order to assess their sustainability. Drawing from neo-institutional theory, the paper examines the objectification processes in a sample of Spanish and Greek recently formed time banks. The paper focuses on the rationalization stage, i.e. when rules, practices and symbols are embedded in the organization, and studies how symbols and norms establish the framework for social interaction and make the common space of action visible. The main finding of this paper is that timebanking is subject to multiple logics, both inter and intra time banks. These logics lead to adopt different organizational forms, promote disparate forms of actorhood, and adopt different pricing and accounting systems. Yet, these objects are not aligned with one another, and tensions between the symbolic and the functional are found. Institutionalization is not yet complete as there are still missing blended models that bridge multiple logics.

Morality, Practice, and Economy in a Commercial Sealing Community

In small social groups dependent on specific resources, it is difficult to separate actions, moral understandings, and the resource itself. It is the response to the affordances of a given environment that shapes the moral framework of social interaction. Therefore, changes in the market sphere also impact the conscious and unconscious actions relating to the affordances of the environment, as well as a community’s socioeconomic values. It is argued that moral relativism is justified when it is approached through an “affordance lens,” meaning that if the role and relevance of a resource for a community is not understood, its moral environment cannot be understood either. With ethnographic data stemming from the 2013 sealing season in a fishing-and- sealing community in northern Newfoundland, this interplay of morality, practices, and socioeconomic values is documented.

Роль кластеров в современной экономике: зарубежный опыт

The existing interest of researchers in clusters is based on the interdependence between clusters development on the one hand and the acceleration of innovation activity and growing competitiveness on the other. As systems of regional economic activity and innovations, clusters are developing due to the advantage of proximity, shared markets of specialized labor force, knowledge creation and transfer, network of supportive services together with a complex framework of social interaction, producing as a result a profound synergetic effect. The article examines the peculiarities of emergence and development of innovative clusters in advanced economies as well as specific features underlying their competitiveness. Such analysis seems to be of great importance taking into consideration the development of Russian clusters’ innovative component.