Logic Of Action Research Articles

Tension and Transaction: Dynamics of Religious Recomposition from a Multiscopic Perspective

This review article is based on re-reading the Joas vs. Weber discussion about the macro-concept of “disenchantment”. For Joas, the Weberian thesis brings together, in a single explanatory model, different social processes that must be differentiated. Joas’s proposal highlights the need to build research models sensitive to the interaction and the play of different logics of action between tension and transaction. The collection of some of the most recent tendencies shows how research on religion and modernity has renewed its interest in “visible religion”, granting a fundamental place to study the different modalities of religious agency in the recomposition of the public domain. Reading these results allows the reconstruction of an epistemological model centered on the logic of action, considering that religion can no longer be studied only on the terrain of its institutional reproduction. Instead, the plurality of religious agency requires observation at different scales: a multiscopic and multisite perspective.

Counter-contestation in global health governance: The WHO and its member states in emergency settings

Is the contestation of international institutions always a one-sided process that originates from nation-states? In research to date, there has been little discussion of the extent to which international institutions endure, or even form counter-reactions to national contestation strategies. This study examines the reasons for which WHO engages in counter-contestation vis-à-vis its member states.The paper analyzes the evolution of global health governance by relating a principal-agent approach and contestation considerations. The WHO (agent) wants to reshape the principal-agent relationship with the member states (principals) in order to maximize its autonomy and eventually ensure stronger independence. The WHO pursues its efforts to become more independent on the basis of its own logic of action: To achieve this autonomy from member states, WHO on the one hand uses a strategy we call counter-contestation. On the other hand the member states want their interests to be represented by the WHO and ensure this goal through the logic of action known as contestation. Four international health crises are used to show how different the logics of action are and what effects they have. This study explores how and to what extent WHO actively engages in the political exchange of diplomatic moves and manoeuvres, creating contestation as a mutual game between states and International Organizations.

Control dynamics in rogue trading: Sovereignty and exception-to-the-rule attitudes in the contemporary financial sphere

Sovereignty, for Derrida (2005, 2009), is defined by an exception-to-the rule attitude: the sovereign is the one who decides on an exception. A sovereign can thus “go rogue” and behave as an outlaw, transgressing the rules of his own community. This article applies this conception of sovereignty to analysis of the Kerviel-Société Générale (SocGen) rogue trading affair. It examines the exception-to-the-rule attitude found in the actors of the financial sphere (the trader, the bank, the State) and the underlying control dynamics. Our results show that the trader acts as a rogue when he takes the exceptional right to place himself above his bank’s rules on position-taking. The bank is equally rogue when it reserves the exceptional right to place itself above the prudential regulations governing its sector. The State goes rogue too, granting the banking supervisory body the exceptional right to administer criminal justice. Following Boltanski (2011), our analysis explains these exception-to-the-rule behaviors by the contradictory logics that drive them. Two logics are identified in the financial sphere: the market logic, and the prudence logic. We highlight that fraud, and more generally the exception-to-the-rule attitude, result from the ambivalence generated by the coexistence of these contradictory logics of action, which are notably conveyed through control mechanisms. The study concludes that the State has a major role to play in this respect. More specifically, we raise the point that the neoliberal style of the penal State contributes to the occurrence of fraud.

Digital mobilization via attention building: The logic of cross-boundary actions in the 2019 Hong Kong social movement

Scholars have noticed that contemporary digitally-mediated activism is hybridized in terms of organizational structures, action-repertoires, and underlying movement logics. However, to what extent such hybridization takes place in contentious politics and whether or not the process benefits the goal of movement mobilization remain uncertain. This study scrutinizes the mechanism of online activism in an analysis of 2 million Telegram Channel messages collected during the 2019 Hong Kong Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill movement. It highlights the logic of cross-boundary action – a mixture of action actors, organizational structures, repertoires, network positions for empowerment – through which self-organized activists played overwhelmingly vital roles in the movement but were critically supported by small numbers of organizational and news media actors in some essential functioning. The study also establishes a relationship between the online audience’s attention to the call-for-action messages and the subsequent protest turnout, indicating a private-to-public shift via networked media, in which most of the diversely connected self-organized activists captured most of the attention. It finally summarizes the multidimensional nature of digital activism in defining the way social media affordance shapes the landscape of contemporary political participation.

“(…), the more intense the dialogue and exchange between coach and medical staff, the more benefit for athlete support quality!”

Background According to key assumptions to modern systems theory (Luhmann, 1983, 1990) the individual action logic of both sports coaches and sports physiotherapists are likely to differ fundamentally. Although both professions are entrusted with the care of athletes, they each follow different systemic logics in doing so. While coaches are embedded in the elite sport system, sports physiotherapists are assigned to the health care system Steinmann et al., 2019). The professional action of both players follows different systemic expectations in each case. Research Question What are potential conflicts within the cooperation between sports physiotherapists and coaches and what are areas of improvement? Methods The project aims at transferring research into practice and includes two parts: First, the project-team performs guided expert interviews with sports physiotherapists (n = 27) and coaches (n = 20) working in German elite sport in order to gather mutual functional, role and action expectations in real social situations. These expectations are compared and fitted in professional theory. The evaluation is based on qualitative content analysis (Kuckartz & Rädiker, 2020; Mayring, 2015). The second part of the project contains a Delphi-Workshop (Niederberger & Renn, 2018). Contentious results are phrased in a rating form for the participants a) to discuss and b) to derive recommended courses of action and case studies. Results Information gathering, content analysis and results are completed. Furthermore, the Delphi-Workshop took place in September 2022 (n = 8). The assumption has been confirmed that potential for optimization of the cooperation between coaches and sports physiotherapists is above all found in their structurally different action logic. The interview partners agree that there is a lack of financial reward for physiotherapists and therefore question international competitive ability. Conflicts are often found in the process of Return-to-Sport decision making since coaches are members of the elite sports system whereas physiotherapists belong to the health system. Furthermore, different employment models can lead to different engagement, because coaches in elite sports usually have a permanent position whereas physiotherapists usually work as freelancers for a low fee. Conclusion By delivering qualitative-empiric insight into the cooperation between coaches and sports physiotherapists in German elite sports, the project identifies starting points for its further improvement. Results verify the need for further research and relevance for the elite sports system. Recommended plans of action and case studies will be provided to organizations in elite sports and to the project’s cooperation partners.

Populist things. A study on the materiality of political ideas

AbstractIs there such thing as a populist thing? This article tries to answer this question by comparing two iconic populist objects: the Make America Great Again (MAGA) cap and the yellow vest. Despite their centrality to populist politics, there is remarkably little systematic examination of these objects' populist affordances, let alone a comparative study. We propose to address this lacuna by performing a pragmatic analysis of each object's role in the populist politics of the United States and France, respectively. Our comparison uncovers two findings, which, in turn, help us answer our research question. First, our study of the MAGA cap reveals how nationalism and populism can be combined into a powerful political message. Second, the yellow vest exemplifies how populism functions on its own that is, as a way of doing politics that is centred on feelings of resentment. Either in conjunction with other political phenomena (e.g., nationalism) or by itself, populism emerges from our analysis as a logic of action that involves both linguistic claims and physical objects. Things, in this reading, are surprisingly central to how populism operates.

From centralization to cooperation: The development and reform process of sports venues in China from 1949 to 2022.

The management of sports venues has undergone a series of reforms since the People's Republic of China's establishment in 1949. The reform of management right is especially significant. It reflects the government-enterprise relationship and logic of government action. Utilizing the perspective of the government-enterprise relationship, this study systematically reviews the reform model for sports venues to incorporate Chinese characteristics. The aim of this study is to understand the relationship between the People's Republic of China's government and the market through the reforms implemented for the operation and management of sports venues. According to the study, the development and reform of sports venues in China has experienced government centralization, devolution, decentralization, and cooperation. The reform of sports venues' operation and management follows a "market-oriented government-led" model which reflects the government's logic. It is concluded that a "market-oriented government-led" model is essential for the promotion of comprehensive reforms for sports venues with Chinese characteristics.

Akademska profesionalizacija i hibridni profesionalizam u obrazovanju odraslih

Discourse on professionalisation and professionalism is a longstanding focus in adult education practice and research. Drawing on the theoretical framework of Freidson (2001) and Noordegraaf (2007, 2015), this qualitative research combined an explorative method and an in-depth analysis (Nutt Williams & Hill, 2012; Williams & Morrow, 2009). It focussed on the comparison of adult education programmes at the Master's level in three countries (document analysis), and the critical reflection on logics of action three adult educators of the referred countries themselves use to describe their work (semi-structured interviews). Thematic content analysis was used to examine data concerning academic professionalisation and professionalism in adult education. Findings showed that the extent of promoting professionalisation appeared differently in each country, depending on the social and historical contexts and the interplay among several factors within which higher education institutions offering programs on adult education are settled. In addition, the practice of adult educators expressed by themselves involved several logics of action. This study highlights the presence of hybrid professionalism in adult education.

JUVENTUDE E ACESSO AO ENSINO SUPERIOR: SOBRE O NÃO LUGAR DE VESTIBULANDO

ABSTRACT: The text aims to understand the challenges and perspectives of young people from working-class backgrounds about the transition to higher education. It is based on fieldwork carried out in Brasilia/Federal District in 2018 that draws on the application of more than two hundred questionnaires in community-based preparatory courses and interviews with twenty youngsters. The results indicate the existence of a non-place of a preparatory course student characterized by the absence of links between individuals and educational or work institutions. There is a friction between logics of action that contradictorily meet and combine in the statements of the interviewees: sometimes they perceive higher education as a vocation to be claimed through effort, sometimes as one among other opportunities to “chase after.” On one hand, meritocratic perspectives stimulate them to invest in options of programs, careers, and institutions that are more daring, allegedly related to their personal vocation; on the other hand, the successive failures in the transition attempts or the previous difficulties in their school trajectories force them to opt for more pragmatic paths, reproducing logics of “knowing how to get by” that mark their experiences beyond the educational field. This discussion elucidates how the expansion process of higher education has responded to a change in the way that access to education itself is understood.

Logiques d’action de conseillers pédagogiques en mathématiques au primaire dans l’accompagnement d’enseignants à la résolution de problèmes en contexte d’enseignement

Despite the importance, in Québec, of pedagogical consultants (PCs) for continuing education, little research has focused on understanding the PC profession, from within its practice. This is particularly the case in mathematics education where PCs are facing major challenges in relation to problem solving. Through collaborative research carried out with PCs intervening in elementary schools, we aimed at a better understanding of the support offered to teachers. Three contrasting cases presenting different accompaniments are here developed. Based on the framework of “professional didactics” and on the concept of “logic of action”, an emerging analysis puts in light the professional activity these CPs enact and the underlying reasons guiding their activity.

Կիլիկիայի դասերը. մաս առաջին / Lessons of Cilicia: Part One

The model of Cilician Armenia, as a single system of the most important components of the life of the state, is still waiting for its analyst and researcher. The history of the three-century life of Cilician Armenia is a unique example and the study of its external and internal environment, especially in terms of economic management and relations with the outside world, can revive very important and valuable ideas, which are in the context of today's trends in state governance. In addition, with some contemporary adjustments, it can be localized in Armenia, as a positive and suitable experience. A flexible foreign diplomatic policy and a realistic military-political concept, a new culture of coexistence of the internal and external environment, a program of reforms in the economy and especially in the field of trade, strategic and tactical victories - all this, in the presence of such neighboring countries, which, to put it mildly, were not enthusiastic about the unexpected emergence of the state With its creation, Cilicia seemed to begin mixing the active "game cards" of regional players. The paper attempts to publicly explain the logic of such actions of Cilician Armenia and the issues arising from themtrying to remain within the most visible common features with modern Armenia.

Recalling the Past Within a Social Network’s Collective Memory Work: How Did Korean Twitter Users Shape #Equal_Punishment_for_Equal _Crime From Their Experiences?

On 19 May 2018, more than 12,000 women gathered at Hyehwa subway station in Seoul, South Korea to protest discrimination against Korean women and spy camera involved crimes. This rally was a response to an incident in which a male nude model in a class was secretly photographed by a female model at Hongik University. This study examined how discourses on Twitter regarding the incident led to the demonstration and what was the memory working that shaped significant discourses through critical discourse analysis. First, a discourse that “women have long been victims” emerged through personal remembrances. Second, photographs of the female suspect standing with police officers directed a discourse that “women have been treated unfairly by public authorities” through collective witnessing. Third, many women contextualized the incident as a gendered event by connecting the past feminist movements. Finally, through appropriating past slogans and accumulated hashtags on Twitter, the main slogan of the rally #Equal_punishment_for_equal_crime was established. This study provides an under-researched context of digital mnemonic practices and the logic of connective actions by analyzing feminist movements in South Korea.

Adaptation rationales and benefits: A foundation for understanding adaptation impact

Efforts to achieve coordinated, effective, and impactful adaptation outcomes are complicated by factors ranging from the local specificity of adaptation needs to the challenges of politics and prioritization that drive funding decisions. However, these and other challenges are perpetuated and exacerbated by poorly constructed, often implicit, and generally institution- or context-specific impact pathways connecting policy/institutional priorities through their materialization in specific actions to their intended outcomes. We call these impact pathways adaptation rationales, as they represent the logic of an adaptation action. The implicit nature of most current adaptation rationales makes it difficult to identify and test the accuracy and veracity of claims and assumptions underlying everything from policy priorities to intervention selection. In this article, we address this foundational challenge for the adaptation community of practice by proposing a typology of adaptation benefits (reduced exposure, reduced sensitivity, and increased adaptive capacity) that facilitates the construction of meaningful, transparent adaptation rationales. We lay out what these well-understood components of vulnerability mean in the context of adaptation benefits and provide guiding questions for their use in constructing adaptation rationales. Using hypothetical and real-world examples of projects and portfolios, we illustrate how this typology and the adaptation rationales it enables focus attention on the goals of a given action, its likely effectiveness, and for whom it is likely to be effective. Each of these issues offers an opportunity to strengthen project design, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation, while also facilitating portfolio-level understandings of adaptation approaches, assumptions, and efficacy. This typology does not, by itself, presume to resolve the many debates in adaptation practice, such as the tension between incremental and transformational goals, the tradeoffs between actions addressing exposure via infrastructure versus those aimed at the underlying structures of inequality that render some populations more vulnerable to these impacts than others. However, by bringing issues of governance and justice the forefront of adaptation conversations, the typology, and the adaptation rationales it enables, allows for the productive, situationally-appropriate negotiation of these debates to improve the outcomes of adaptation policy and action.

Determinant factors of the Rural Warehouse Condominium collective action model

Abstract The Rural Collective Actions are presented with the aim of facing and overcoming difficulties and particularities of the agricultural business, as well as obtaining gains and advantages, in an environment that suffers from constant transformations. This study investigates which reasons determine the choice of the Rural Collective Action model Rural Warehouse Condominium, under the perspective of the Theory of Logic of Collective Action. For this purpose, we conducted the Statistical Analysis, Multiple Correspondence and Correlation Analysis. The results indicate motivating factors for the rural model through Social, Logistics, Political, Economic, Management and Collective Action Logic variables, being of more significant burden: (i) smaller collective actions are easier to promote collective interest; (ii) rural producers work together to promote common interests; (iii) in a small collective group, individual efforts have a higher influence on results; and, (iv) the smaller is the collective group, the closer is the individual will be to achieving collective benefits. The correlation analysis shows stronger relationships between cost reduction with freight and cost reduction with transport (0.833); and, between the lack of financing lines for small and medium producers and the lack of financing lines for agricultural warehouse (0.741).

A EXPERIÊNCIA SOCIAL DAS COORDENADORAS PEDAGÓGICAS DA EDUCAÇÃO INFANTIL

ABSTRACT: This text aims to analyze the process of professional constitution of the pedagogical coordinators of daycare centers and preschools, based on the social experiences they have lived in Early Childhood Education. The article is conceptually based on the Pedagogies of Childhood and Early Childhood Education (FERNANDES; CAMPOS, 2015; ROCHA, 2001; SILVA, 2008; among others), articulated with the sociology of experience, formulated by François Dubet (1996). From the methodological point of view, the empirical material was produced through document analysis and interviews with six pedagogical coordinators from Turmalina, a city situated in the northern of the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil, and, consecutively, was submitted to content analysis (BARDIN, 1977). The analyzes of this material allowed to verify that they act from different logic of action to become professionals, which affects the construction process of their professionalities. The study highlights the emergence of an epistemological statute that defines the roles due to the pedagogical coordination of daycare centers and preschools, considering the sociopolitical and pedagogical specificities of Early Childhood Education.

The Action Logic of Artificial Intelligence Interaction Technology Empowering Foreign Language Education

The Action Logic of Artificial Intelligence Interaction Technology Empowering Foreign Language Education

Logic and Ethics—Hegel's Logic of Action

This essay presents Hegel's dialectic-speculative Logic as the originally and constitutively practical movement of thinking's self-determination. While this reading implies a fundamental thesis concerning Hegel's conception of logical thinking, it is also conducive to a broader consideration of the nature of the practical sphere writ large and its philosophical thematization. This latter point is crucial when at stake is “truth” in its complex validity—truth being central not only to logical thinking and knowing but also to our embodied, worldly, historical human action. In light of this issue, the essay examines the implications of the convergence of truth and freedom in Hegel's Logic.

Taking Aging Parents on Holiday: A Social Practice Perspective

Family travel with aging parents has emerged as a growing market in China. This study applies social practice theory to examine family travel practices and related sociocultural factors. Qualitative interviews with 23 families were conducted to identify parents’ and adult children’s subjective experiences of intergenerational differences and action logics throughout the trip. The findings reveal that, because of urban-rural distinctions, the two generations have differing travel habits, preferences, and capabilities, which foster interdependency but also induce tensions. Influenced by reciprocal filial piety, both generations feel obligated to make compromises and gratify the other’s needs to fulfill their desirable prospects of family travel. The urban-rural distinctions are gradually resolved as the ongoing negotiations unfold. This study advances existing research by integrating the zooming-in and zooming-out lenses of practice theory to highlight the interplay between family travel practices and wider social structures.

How does the grassroots drive just transition? Evidence from an alteration of resettlement sites in China

Dam-induced resettlement is a typical pattern of development-induced displacement and resettlement (DIDR), which concludes involuntariness and leads to injustice practices. Although the justice of resettlement is studied in existing works, few of them notice that the selection of resettlement sites might be holistically an opportunity for just transition, and the performance of this process is not totally a government arrangement. To address this gap, this paper takes the Multi-level Perspective (MLP) as the theoretical framework, and adopts mixed methods to examine a second selection case of resettlement sites for the Wuxikou dam in Jiangxi Province, China. Based on grounded theory, five categories of resettlees' demands for resettlement sites, namely agricultural production (AP), non-agricultural production (NAP), material life (ML), social life (SL), and reception of natural ecology (RNE) are identified. The multiple conjunctural causation between these demands and resettlees' actions for changing initial resettlement sites is analyzed by Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA). Four intermediate solutions as well as the core and peripheral conditions are found. Apart from the bottom-up petitions, how the political environment and governmental administration enabled the resettlees' request for altering resettlement sites is illustrated. It is found that, although the government and resettlees with different interests and action logics, the same result is promoted under the national policies,viz, the implementation of changing resettlement sites, process justice and outcome justice are therein realized. Relative policy implications and outlooks on just resettlement practice are remarked.

Realizing common prosperity: The action logic of social entrepreneurship community mobilization in rural tourism

The effective participation of rural residents in tourism social entrepreneurship can improve their quality of life and promote community transformation. Hence, it is important to understand the strategies and process of community mobilization by social entrepreneurs. This study focuses on the strategy of village cadre, who play the dual roles of an entrepreneur and a policy implementer to mobilize community residents to participate in collective tourism entrepreneurship and the mechanism for changing residents’ attitudes in a rural China context, by using the longitudinal research method of nonparticipatory observation and 50 interviews conducted in Yuanjia Village, Shaanxi Province. The results show that the community mobilization of social entrepreneurs has not been accomplished overnight but has undergone a 3-stage dynamic process of change. These results indicate that social enterprises should incorporate indigenous people into their value network in the early stage of tourism development and continue to explore the mechanism of affiliating residents with benefits, so as to further increase residents’ in-depth participation. Residents play the dual roles of producer and collaborator in tourism social entrepreneurship and work with social entrepreneurs to promote the sustainable development of rural tourism and achieve common prosperity.