Process Of Mutual Influence Research Articles

The Formation of the Visual Theatre Aesthetics: Theater Practice and Experiments of the Russian Avant-garde in the 1900–1930s

The visual theater is now rapidly developing on the Russian stage. In such performances the director, like an artist creates visibly embodied poetic images in the theater space and uses an actor as an element of the stage composition. The works of “visualists” — R. Wilson, R. Castellucci, J. Nadj, D. Krymov, “Engineering Theater AKHE”, etc. — clearly demonstrate one of the defining trends of contemporary theatre: the transfer of effective activity from the verbal component to the visual elements. However, despite the seeming novelty of techniques, the ideas developed by modern directors in the visual theatre often turn out to be high-tech, but quite logical continuation of theatre and artistic avant-garde experiments of the 1900–1930s. That was the time when artists and directors began to explore intensively each other’s possibilities and started to move towards each other. In the article the development of approaches to work with visual imagery as a sense-making element of the performance is explored on the example of performances staged by V. Meyerhold, A. Tairov, E. G. Craig (“Hamlet” in the oscow Art Theatre, 1909–1911) etc. On the example of theoretical works and scenic experiments of V. Kandinsky, K. Malevich, V. Tatlin etc., it is studied how the Russian avant-garde started to bring under theatrical techniques. The author analyzes the process of mutual influence between the theater and fine arts at the beginning of the 20th century and establishes parallels between experiments of the 1900–1930s and the main aesthetic conventions of modern visual theater.

Exploring the Vicissitudes of Safety and Danger in Psychoanalysis: Developing Trust Through Mutual Engagement

ABSTRACTOne of the essential features of a therapeutic change process is the ability to establish, within the therapeutic relationship, a sense of safety from which patients can engage and explore the many issues that bring them into therapy. Efforts to gain our patients’ trust so that they feel safe enough to expose their vulnerabilities and engage in a healing process remain at the center of the analytic enterprise, no matter the theoretical position of the therapist. In fact, in an otherwise diverse and sometimes fractious psychoanalytic field, the importance of safety is one of the few areas of near consensus. In our approach, we acknowledge the intersubjective nature of all relational experience and appreciate the powerful processes of mutual influence that reverberate between the analytic couple. As we see it, clinical engagement requires both partners to take risks, tolerate a sense of danger, learn to trust each other, and seek emotional safety through connection and understanding. In this article, we explore a number of perspectives related to building and restoring a shared sense of safety despite what we consider to be the necessary, inherent dangers of psychoanalytic engagement. We include two clinical vignettes that elaborate our views more fully.

New ways to get policy into practice

PurposeHealth service effectiveness continues to be limited by misaligned objectives between policy makers and frontline clinicians. While capturing the discretion workers inevitably exercise, the concept of “street-level bureaucracy” has tended to artificially separate policy makers and workers. The purpose of this paper is to understand the role of social-organizational context in aligning policy with practice.Design/methodology/approachThis mixed-method participatory study focuses on a locally developed tool to implement an Australia-wide strategy to engage and respond to mental health services for parents with mental illness. Researchers: completed 69 client file audits; administered 64 staff surveys; conducted 24 interviews and focus groups (64 participants) with staff and a consumer representative; and observed eight staff meetings, in an acute and sub-acute mental health unit. Data were analyzed using content analysis, thematic analysis and descriptive statistics.FindingsBased on successes and shortcomings of the implementation (assessment completed for only 30 percent of clients), a model of integration is presented, distinguishing “assimilist” from “externalist” positions. These depend on the degree to which, and how, the work environment affords clinicians the setting to coordinate efforts to take account of clients’ personal and social needs. This was particularly so for allied health clinicians and nurses undertaking sub-acute rehabilitative-transitional work.Originality/valueA new conceptualization of street-level bureaucracy is offered. Rather than as disconnected, it is a process of mutual influence among interdependent actors. This positioning can serve as a framework to evaluate how and under what circumstances discretion is appropriate, and to be supported by managers and policy makers to optimize client-defined needs.

Русский язык в Дагестане второй половины XIX – начала XX вв.: распространение и роль в развитии русско-дагестанских взаимоотношений

Aim is showing the ways and difficulties of spreading Russian in the Dagestan society, its role in the development of the processes of Russian-Dagestan mutual influence in the spheres of economic and everyday activity, education and enlightenment. The methodological basis of the study is historicism and system analysis, providing a comprehensive study of social processes in dynamics, through a set of interrelations and interdependencies. Conclusions. At the beginning of the 20th century Russian became widespread in the Dagestan society. Russian schools, teachers and libraries worked in the Dagestan region, and Dagestanians got the opportunity to study outside the republic. A large role in spreading Russian was played by immigrants from Russia. Thanks to the Russian language, the processes of mutual influence and interaction between Russians and Dagestan peoples in different areas of life were intensified.

Learning Stories as cross-national policy borrowing: The interplay of globalization and localization in preprimary education in Contemporary China

Chinese kindergartens’ over 110 years of adaptation of foreign models is a vivid example of how globalization comes into direct contact with Chinese culture and creates cultural hybridities. Learning Stories as a narrative assessment tool to children’s development from New Zealand, has swept China with the endorsement from the professional organizations and local authorities, especially attracting many followers in Beijing. Based on a two-year participatory action research in Beijing, the article examines Learning Stories as policy borrowing, redesigned as an innovative reflection tool for professional learning community which results from processes of mutual influence between the global and the local. The article highlights the importance of culture and context in considering professional development and the ‘fluid’ and dynamic nature of ‘glocalization’ working towards integration of globalization and localization. Furthermore, borrowing or learning foreign policies in preprimary education can be seen as one of governmental strategies to assimilate education more thoroughly than ever before into a network of disciplinary procedures and voluntary self-control.

Discursive struggles between bidding and target companies: an analysis of press releases issued during hostile takeover bids

What are the types of interactions in the discursive struggles between the two parties involved in a hostile takeover bid? How is the legitimacy of the bid (de) constructed by both the bidding and target companies during their discursive struggles? This paper aims at addressing these research questions. Discursive struggles between the bidding and target companies are studied in a sample of 66 press releases related to seven hostile takeover bids approved by the French Market Regulator between December 2006 and December 2014. A study of the sequence followed by each party in issuing their press releases confirms the existence of strong interactions in all the hostile takeover bids studied. Using a manual content analysis methodology, we find that the disclosures made by the bidding and target companies consist of a series of attacks and defenses in which target companies are particularly offensive. We also give evidence that the two companies use legitimation, (de) legitimation and (re) legitimation arguments during discursive struggles, revealing the reciprocity of the communication between the two protagonists. We underline the symbolic or strategic dimensions of these legitimacy strategies in the view of the outcome of bids. Finally, we discuss the implications of our findings for regulators and make suggestions for future research. Based on the metaphor of ventriloquism, our research highlights the importance of considering disclosures as a dynamic and mutual influence process.

Features of Social and Economic Transformations in the Globalization Era

JEL Classification Codes: F60, F63, 035, 044 1. Introduction The notion of transformation (from Latin) means conversion, modification. One should take account that transformation can introduce both rather positive and negative, crisis features of destructive type social changes. It has been known that changes are integral attribute of any normally developing society. At the same time social transformation represents a wide spectrum of social phenomena, starting from insignificant changes (in the organization, management, force balance inside production sphere, reforms in some social systems), finishing full-scale fundamental changes in the social sphere itself. Fundamental transformations in the social systems result from the processes of modern globalization, which are basis for colossal changes actually in all systems of the social relations in the nearest and distant future of the mankind. In modern scientific literature there are three main approaches in the discourse of Global Studies: revolutionary, developed by K. Ohmae, R. Keohane, J. Nye and others. These authors welcome the processes of economy's denationalization, development of trade and production nets among countries as well as transnational financial links. These authors insist on very positive consequences of globalization. But there are others (E. Giddens, J. Rosenau), who develop so called evolutionary approach in which different countries will adapt to global processes gradually, difficultly, but in the whole positive for the world social integrity. It is necessary to mention the skeptics who see mainly negative consequences. Ch. Kegley, E. Vittkopf are among those. (Hopefully they are minority). But all the authors agree that the inevitable globalization will expose the society to the complex transformations and simultaneously will create the conditions for new social systems. Obviously when speaking about transformations of the systemic type as a rule an extremely complex set of factors transforming the whole spectrum of social conditions is usually meant. This article is concentrated on only some features of social and economic transformations, which, in our opinion, are fundamental. 2. Theoretical, Informational and Empirical, and Methodological Grounds of the Research First of all it should be mentioned that modern planetary society is not just a conglomerate of different social organisms. Modern society most probably is the result of historical formation of very complex in their interaction and intersection of social systems. On this background transformation may differ greatly depending on the type of society where they occur. The Western social systems, which underwent modernist changes, are the result of long-lasting co-evolution, i.e. the process of interaction and mutual influence of different social changes on each other which resulted in comparatively moderate pace of social development (Thalassinos et al., 2015). This temporary regime allowed introducing the processes of social transformations gradually for four-five centuries (the period of capitalistic system formation). In the course of these transformations economic and political innovations were growing into life, that made this process necessary for every next generation and fixed it on the mental level as well. In other words according to V. Kollontay, the model of evolutionary social transformations was realized in the Western countries. In the course of its development it was becoming more open, perceptive to efforts to regulate it and manage as well as more predictable for prospective transformations. Currently the relations of the EU countries obey to the new processes of co-evolution. It is clear that this process is far from being completed as it has deep contradictions connected with the necessity of integration as one of the manifestations of globalization, on the one hand, and rather complex process of adaptation of the countries to each other, on the other. …

Modelling and forecasting the stock market volatility of SSE Composite Index using GARCH models

The stock market is constantly changing with uncertainties. Rapid dissemination of information and fast capital flow will lead to fluctuations of stock price, and the undulating price will affect the market in return. This is a process of mutual influence and mutual conduction. China’s stock market, which pertains to an emerging market, has been acutely volatile since the very beginning, and often appear radical ups and downs. This paper selects the SSE Composite Index as research object, through the application of GARCH type models to conduct empirical analysis, carving the features of this index from an econometric perspective. And on basis of the status quo of the volatility of SSE Composite Index, it offers some suggestions.The result shows that from the time series point of view, the SSE Composite Index possesses significant properties of time-varying and clustering. Series distribution of it presents leptokurtosis with significant ARCH and GARCH effects. Moreover, by comparing the fitting and forecast performance of GARCH (1, 1) (symmetric) and TARCH (1, 1) and EGARCH (1, 1) (asymmetric), it can be concluded that EGARCH (1, 1) outperforms the others. Besides, China’s securities market should strengthen its system construction, reduce excessive government intervention and advocate rational investment philosophy.

Mechanism of public opinion functioning

The article justifies the theoretical model of the mechanism of public opinion functioning. The subject of the study is public opinion. The goal of the research is to justify the theoretical model of the mechanism of public opinion on the basis of analysis of manifestations of this phenomenon during main stages of human history. Methods of research are systemic, historical, structural-functional, dialectical. They reveal the relationship between the object and the subject of public opinion functioning. The scientific significance of the paper is to create a theoretical model of public opinion functioning in order to determine its impact on social development and find practical application in social management. The analysis of public opinion at various stages of the historical development of mankind shows that in various socio-cultural conditions the mechanism of the operation of this phenomenon is determined by the need to address major social problems and contradictions. It is manifested by the significant influence of subjects on objects of public opinion, thus affecting the development of judgement of current public life problems, including government affairs in the sphere of social management. The community as an object of public opinion, in the process of interaction with subjects of public opinion, relies on social settings and stereotypes, personal life experience. It correlates facts of life with opportunities that it has for implementing its own needs and interests, and it acts on the basis of emotions, mind and will. The mechanism of public opinion functioning appears as a process of interaction and mutual influence of the authorities and the public, the state and civil society that exists within a single communicative field. The conditions for preserving public opinion are: the availability of an urgent social problem to keep an interest; the frequency of the information provided; the popularity of a corresponding position in the public consciousness; the adequacy of representations, evaluations and real genesis; the stability of the supported position; and the efficiency as a measure of achieving goals of social majority as well. The leading tendency in the functioning of public opinion at different stages of historical development is: the relative stability of group existence; a durable level of agreement among most people regarding facts, actions, events and situations at the expense of maintaining interest of various strata of society; the influence of crystallized public opinion on decision-making in socio-political life at the expense of accumulated intellectual and emotional potential

Психологическое сопровождение профессионального становления студентов-психологов

Introduction. The article discusses the problem of psychological support of psychology students’ professional formation on example of Togliatti State University students. The system approach in current domestic research considers professional formation as a process and integral phenomenon of mutual influence of a human and professional activity.
 Methodology. The purpose of the study is to explore psychological support as a factor of psychologists’ professional formation while studying at university. The paper (a) presents an empirical confirmation of the effectiveness of the author’s approach to the development and implementation of the program of psychology students’ psychological support; (b) discusses structural, functional, and methodical aspects of this program.
 Results. The paper describes three stages of the experimental study. The first stage of the study explored a socio-economic situation, the demand for psychology specialists, job functions and responsibilities of psychology specialists. The second diagnostic stage analyzed requirements for psychologists in various fields, students’ representations about the profession, as well as difficulties for beginning psychologists. The problems highlighted by beginning psychologists were divided into categories. The psychological support of TSU psychology students in training and educational activities for their future successful job placement was implemented at the third stage.
 Discussion. The content of the program included personality-focused techniques of professional development for implementing functions and goals of psychological support of students’ professional formation. The program of psychological support aimed at personal professional development and formation of future specialists gained appraisal. The system of psychological support contributes to students’ professional development while studying at university.

O papel da burocracia de nível de rua na implementação e (re)formulação da Política Nacional de Humanização dos serviços de saúde de Porto Alegre (RS)

Resumo Este artigo analisa a implementação da Política Nacional de Humanização nas unidades básicas de saúde de Porto Alegre. Para isso, foi utilizada a abordagem de análise baseada na interação que enfatiza o processo de influência mútua entre o plano da política pública e as características dos espaços locais de implementação. Assim, situa o olhar nos contextos de atuação das burocracias de nível de rua, ressaltando o papel exercido por sua discricionariedade. A pesquisa foi qualitativa com a utilização de dados primários e secundários. Averiguou-se que os implementadores, diante da falta de treinamento nos marcos da política, da percepção de carência de recursos e do baixo grau de apoio, forjaram um entendimento peculiar dos objetivos e das estratégias da política. Eles criaram uma visão do que seria humanizar os serviços, inspirada pela estrutura normativa e ajustada às preferências e necessidades locais.

Categories in Motion: Emerging Perspectives in the Archaeology of Postcolumbian Indigenous Communities

This essay provides a personal and somewhat polemical assessment of recent developments in the historical archaeology of sites occupied by indigenous groups, and very tentatively predicts future trends. Three conceptual areas—holism, vantage point, and the social practice of archaeology—are identified as zones for future improvement. In terms of holism, greater empirical and analytical attention needs be paid to the full range of interacting parties, including both settler and indigenous interlocutors, in order to better understand processes of mutual influence. Vantage-point analysis can be used to better capture the details of historical settings through attempts to understand the spatial dimensions of power relations and, also, to further the deployment of local indigenous concepts in scholarship. In terms of the social practice of archaeology, trends in authorship and the lack of integration of “dirt” archaeology and decolonizing methods in archaeological writing remain problematic.

A review of 25 years of research in bidirectionality in parent–child relationships

The concept of bidirectionality represents a process of mutual influence between parent and child, whereby each influences the other as well as the dyadic relationship. Despite the widespread acceptance of bidirectional models of influence, there is still a lack of integration of such models in current research designs. Research on bidirectionality could be strengthened through the adoption of advanced methodologies, including behavioral-genetic research designs and advanced structural equation modeling. The aim of this empirical review is to further advance the study of bidirectionality by evaluating the evidence from 25 years of bidirectionality research in infancy and early childhood. The review indicates significant advancements in the use of methods that address the ecological validity of bidirectional effects, as well as areas that continue to rely on correlational designs to detect bidirectional effects. We describe analytic approaches that may improve the specificity of bidirectionality evidence and highlight gene–environment interaction designs as a promising area for future bidirectionality research.

INTERTEXT INTERACTION IN NEWSPAPER TEXT

The article considers intertextual interaction as background and intertextuality dialogic grounds of realization in modern Ukrainian newspaper text. Intertextuality is understood as a recursive relationship with certain texts as a process of mutual influence and interpenetration of the two texts into each other, resulting intertextual elements of predtekst appear in the «new» text. The relationship between dialogue and intertextual categories has been found, which is a manifestation of dialogue intertext in a basic newspaper report.

The effects of integrated transformational leadership on achievement

Purpose Greater understanding about how variables mediate the relationship between leadership and achievement is essential to the success of reform efforts that hold leaders accountable for student learning. This multi-source, quantitative study tests a model of integrated transformational leadership including three important school mediators. Design/methodology/approach 5,392 students provided data on student engagement, and 569 teachers provided survey data on principal leadership and the collective teacher efficacy and extra effort of their colleagues. Data were analyzed at the school-level (N = 51) using mediation analysis with the PROCESS macro to calculate the direct and indirect effects of all of the variables in the serial multiple mediator model. Findings The model explained a significant amount of variance in both reading (38%) and mathematics (35%). Collective teacher efficacy and student engagement mediated all of the leadership effects, demonstrating the importance of teacher and student relations in school improvement. The combined effect sizes are significantly greater than the effects of earlier TL models. Originality/value This study contributes to “leadership for learning” research by demonstrating that refining TLBs to include instructional management can enhance a leader's impact on achievement. As one of the few studies to examine student engagement as a mediator along with teacher mediators, the current study highlights the importance of teacher-student relations in school improvement. While collective efficacy mediated all of the effects of leadership on achievement, student emotional engagement also contributed to mathematics achievement. The study’s findings advance research into mutual influence processes, indicating that reciprocity may extend throughout the leader-teacher-student loop.

Ideological Consistency, Political Information and Elite–Mass Congruence*

ObjectiveThe literature considers the importance of political sophistication for controlling political elites, although it disregards the role of ideological consistency. The objective of this article is to gain insight into the role of citizens’ ideological consistency as either an impairment to citizens’ ability or an effective tool in bringing about elite–mass congruence.MethodsCombining data from the European Social Survey (ESS) and the Comparative Manifesto Project (CMP) for 29 European countries, I implement an empirical strategy to disentangle the top‐down and bottom‐up processes of mutual influence between elites and citizens.ResultsConsistent with the enabling (as opposed to the impairing) conception of ideological consistency, ideological consistency closes, rather than increases, the gap between the elites and the masses. Also, bottom‐up models dominate top‐down models regardless of electorates’ ideological consistency and information.ConclusionEmpirical findings challenge the literature about the causal effect of political ignorance on the autonomy of political elites, and they urge for the inclusion of ideological consistency as a crucial factor for a better understanding of the positional gaps between the elites and the masses.

Positive and Negative Peer Contagion In Relation To Quality of Friend and Friendship

Peer contagion describes a mutual influence process that occurs between an individual and a peer and includes behaviors and emotions that potentially undermine one’s own development or cause harm to others. The influence process often occurs outside of awareness; participants may not intend to influence their peers, but they engage in relationship behaviors that satisfy immediate needs for an audience or companionship, and these behaviors inadvertently influence themselves or others. It can be of two types positive and negative peer contagion. Negative peer contagion include- aggression where as positive would include altruistic behavior. Different ways to reduce peer contagion would that include evaluation of aggression, intervention strategies for youth. The present study conducted on 250 adolescents (age between 13 to15). Then on the basis of screening total number of 120 subjects were selected and divided into two equal groups of 60 subjects; each group had 30 low and 30 high quality of friendship group. They were selected from different schools of South Delhi. Tools used in the study are Aggression Questionnaire, Self-report altruistic scale (SRA), Quality of friendship questionnaire; Quality of friend (Interview schedule).The result suggested that there is no interaction between quality of friend and the quality of friendship in the positive peer contagion. But desirable friend and undesirable friend and high and low quality of friendship can distinguished on the positive peer contagion. On the negative peer contagion there is interaction between the quality of friendship and quality of friend and also high quality of friendship is highly related to it, also negative peer contagion is more related to undesirable friend.

Siberia in the Mirror of Other Cultures: Literature and Translation

The article deals with the origin and the matter of reflecting the “Siberia” concept in the texts of Russian literature, which has resulted in the creation of a “strong” literary image of Siberia. The particular attention is paid to the Siberian text as a translation object and to translation units in the text. The article considers the main types of Siberian texts involved in the interlingual literary translation: tales and epic texts of the peoples of Siberia, literary texts of Siberian writers (V.P Astafyev, V.M. Shukshin). The Siberian text is understood as an integral and significant part of the Russian cultural and literary space. Being involved in the continuous process of global cross-cultural interaction and mutual influence, the Siberian text broadcasts cultural information about Russia and Siberia to the representatives of “other” cultures.

Communion and Liberation: a Catholic movement in a multilevel governance perspective

In this article we focus on how changes in political structure influence religion. Communion and Liberation (CL) is widely known in Italy as a very important Catholic movement whose political power has been significantly increasing in the last 15 years. It is an example of a movement deeply rooted at the local level, where its activities range from grassroots meetings to business activities and service provision. In the sociological literature, CL has been studied either by focusing on its political ideology, or as a religious movement. Introducing a specific focus on the political system allows us to highlight the close relationships between the recent changes in the Italian political system and the reasons for the local success of CL. Indeed, it has been a process of mutual adaptation and influence. The political success of a Catholic movement in a Western democracy is relevant to understanding the changing role of religion in the political arena. Christian movements can play a role of substitution for traditional political movements in countries where traditional parties have become particularly weak and not capable of inspiring enthusiasm among citizens. But the story of CL in Lombardy suggests also that something is changing in the relationship between national and local politics. CL is able to play on different territorial horizons by using local, regional and national political spheres to promote its policies, mainly in the welfare sector. This is an important signal of a capacity both to adapt to a changing political system and to influence these changes. In this paper we focus on the relationships between CL and Italian politics in the Second Republic (1993 to the present day) by analysing CL representation of its political role as well as by pointing out the political opportunity structure in which its success has taken place.

WHEN EUROPEANIZATION FEEDS BACK INTO EU GOVERNANCE: EU LEGISLATION, NATIONAL REGULATORY AGENCIES, AND EU REGULATORY NETWORKS

The existing literature explains the emergence of European regulatory networks through the need for regulatory coordination and the battle for power between policymakers. Bringing together the Europeanization and policy feedback perspectives, this article suggests that European regulatory networks should also be seen as the result of a more complex process of mutual influence between the European and the national levels. An in‐depth case study on the telecommunications sector reveals that the implementation of EU policies has contributed to the empowerment of national regulatory agencies, which, in turn, has conditioned the development of European regulatory networks. EU policy has thus indirectly conditioned the rise of European regulatory networks by previously transforming national administrations. Besides expanding our understanding of European regulatory networks, by bridging the Europeanization and policy feedback literatures, this article indicates promising orientations for future theoretical development in both fields.