Negative Social Processes Research Articles

An Analysis of the Social Roles and Practices and Interactional Metadiscoursal Resources in American Former President Trump’s Facebook Text Messages

Facebook is a means of interaction through which individuals most frequently relate to others. Most of the studies that have attempted to analyze Trump’s messages or speeches were descriptive. They have not critically pinpointed some of the socio-cultural motivations that have given rise to the linguistic options utilized by the writer. Therefore, the present study purports to critically analyze the experiential social roles and practices articulated by Trump's Facebook messages and the socio-cultural factors motivating these roles. It also attempts to examine the interactional meta-discoursal persuasive linguistic strategies employed to qualify these roles and practices. To this end, a corpus of two hundred posted texts was selected from Donald Trump’s personal Facebook page. We drew on Van Laween’s (2008) CDA model and Hyland’s (2005) interactional meta-discourse framework to analyze these texts. The results have provided insights about Trump’s identity and his various relationships. Trump utilized a high frequency of active material social processes to construct a positive image of himself as an active leader who shares common concerns with his audience, whereas he evaluated his opponents negatively by presenting them as always being involved in negative social processes. Besides, he utilized certain interactional cues to affect his addressees’ attitude in order to secure their positive reaction to the propositional content and to involve them collaboratively through his messages. Keywords: Interactional Meta-Discourse, Social Processes, Trump, Critical Discourse Analysis.

Рефлексия горожанами феномена консолидации: по материалам социологического исследования

The article is devoted to the study of the state of consolidation of urban communities in the Russian regions, the diagnosis of the dispositions of citizens in relation to consolidation processes. The authors consider aspects of urban identity and relevance of consolidation in the minds of residents. The article is based on the materials of a sociological study conducted by the team of the Belgorod State National Research University in 2022 in three constituent entities of the Russian Federation: Belgorod, Voronezh and Kursk regions. It includes a questionnaire survey of the urban population (N = 1 500 respondents) based on a quota (gender, age, place of residence) of the sample. In the conditions of an unfavorable economic situation, which significantly affects the deterioration of the socio-economic foundations of local self-government, and the development of negative social processes solving the problems of urban areas is possible only through collective efforts made by the urban community. Significant opportunities for solving the aggravated problems are associated with the process of social consolidation of the local community.

Predicting conflict-prone disputes using the structure of turn-taking: the case of Wikipedia

ABSTRACT Detection of conflict-prone discussions on online social platforms can help moderate debates and prevent negative social processes such as the formation of echo chambers or polarization of opinions. Here, we examined how controversy of a discussion topic can be estimated from formal characteristics of discussion threads on the English Wikipedia. We discovered that dyadic turn-taking patterns tended to convey highly emotional, personal content, disagreement, and words relating to the conflict. Using the fraction of such two-person patterns in the multi-person discussion as a predictor, we were able to classify effective and conflict-prone discussions with 80% accuracy. These results show that monitoring of turn-taking patterns may become one of the easy heuristics that help detect conflicts in task-oriented online groups.

Where the action is: Exploring adolescents’ perspectives of middle school social venues

Hallways, cafeterias, buses, bathrooms, locker rooms, and other spaces in and around school property serve as venues for positive and negative social processes. Middle school educators can gain important insights into the adolescent world by exploring student perspectives of these spaces vital to middle school social experiences. Often unseen or misunderstood by adults, the social processes in these spaces may facilitate social and emotional growth or may serve to harm students through various forms of victimization. Exploring young adolescents’ perspectives of the social processes in these spaces is vital if educators are to address concerns and advocate for policy or procedure changes in these school environments, if warranted.

Обеспечение равенства в образовании: анализ опыта Дании, Норвегии, Финляндии и Швеции

This paper is focused on mitigating the challenge of inequality in educational systems of the four Nordic states: Denmark, Norway, Finland, and Sweden. Alt-hough many other countries invest significantly in education, the Nordic states accommodate lower level of child poverty and smaller scales of such negative social processes as criminality, child preg-nancies, substance abuse, etc. The author summar-ies modern research findings revealing that equal societies with the smallest property gap between the richest and the poorest are safe, healthy, and there-fore competitive. The experience of the Nordic states suggests inter alia that competition between pupils, as a manifestation of inequality, does not benefit anyone. From inequalities, the society suffers as a whole. It can thus be approximated equality in the Nordic states which explains their leading position in international education rankings and the overall high level of social welfare.

Assessment of the regulatory impact in the social sphere of the Russian Federation

The subject of this research is the existing in the Russian practice procedures for assessment of projects of normative legal acts from the perspective of their impact upon the social sphere. Analysis is conducted on the interconnection between negative social processes in the Russian society, as well as absence of state interest in assessing social impact of various transformations in the social sphere and their normative manifestation. The author examines the approaches towards assessment of regulatory impact that are established in international documents and conserve as a base for developing conceptual foundation and methodology of assessing social influence, as well as principles that need to be places in the basis of assessment of the regulatory impact in the social sphere. The scientific novelty of this study consists in the fact that for the first time in Russian literature the author poses the problem of the need to assess not only the economic, but also social consequences of projects, solutions and their normative expression. An attempt is made to conceptualize the foundation for such assessment and formulate its principles vase on the existing international law.

Social support, social undermining, and acute clinical pain in women: Mediational pathways of negative cognitive appraisal and emotion.

Women may be disproportionately vulnerable to acute pain, potentially due to their social landscape. We examined whether positive and negative social processes (social support and social undermining) are associated with acute pain and if the processes are linked to pain via negative cognitive appraisal and emotion (pain catastrophizing, hyperarousal, anger). Psychosocial variables were assessed in inner-city women (N = 375) presenting to an Emergency Department with acute pain. The latent cognitive-emotion variable fully mediated social undermining and support effects on pain, with undermining showing greater impact. Pain may be alleviated by limiting negative social interactions, mitigating risks of alternative pharmacological interventions.

ENVIRONMENTAL AND PSYCHOLOGIC VARIABLES AND THEIR RELATIONSHIP TO BASIC SOCIAL PROCESSES WITHIN THE COMMUNITY OF YOUTH STUDY SOCIAL FIELD AT DIFFERENT SEGINENTS OF THE POPULATION OF PORT SAID GOVERNORATE

This research aims to study the basic social processes within the community and learn about the relationship of these social processes with some of the environmental variables (such as the social and economic level, educational level, marital status, age, sex)، As well as to identify the relationship between these social processes and some psychological variables (such as taking responsibility, self-confidence, shyness, social life, moral obligation, acceptance, respect, satisfaction, desire for excellence, emotional balance and decision-making ability) . The study relied on approach social survey sample consisted where this sample of 200 single case of residents of Port Said, who belong to different segments of socially, economically and culturally. The study also relied on the questionnaire as a data collecting tool. The study found a range of results which are, the presence of a statistically significant difference in the basic positive and negative social processes within the community of altered marital status and was in the direction of married couples for the positive processes, and in the direction of the singles for the operations of the negative, as well as the presence of a statistically significant difference in basic positive and negativesocial processes within the community of altered AgeAnd the level of economic and social type, in addition to having a statistically significant difference between self-confident people and unsure people in the practice of the social processes within the community in the directoion of the self-confident people. The ended with a series of recommendations including, The attention to the process of social upbringing, urging the children from an early age and brought them up to love the spirit of cooperation and rejecting the conflicts, make religious and cultural seminars to illustrate the importance of the positive social processes, and to consolidate the right habits within the community.

ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY AS AN OBJECT OF SOCIAL ANALYSIS

Purpose. The article is devoted to the viewpoint of social science topic of environmental security in the context of contemporary reality. The subject of analysis are the institutional, systemic and phenomenological aspects of the interaction of man and nature, as well as the factors determining the nature of these relationships. Methodology. An analysis of the social dimension of the problem demanded recourse to the structural-functional approach; the theory of social construction of reality reflected the active role of knowledge of the subject in the formation of ideas about the social environment; phenomenological methodology allowed to consider the individual aspects of the formation of the social world. Results. Determination of the social nature of the problems with access to the factors of development of environmentally constructive and destructive activities. It has been shown that a significant proportion of negative social processes caused by private social interests come into conflict with the general social orientation to the preservation of the natural environment. Social consciousness is presented as the leading determinants of formation of environmental performance. Practical implications. Results of the study can be used in the further development of mainstreaming of social determinants of negative environmental trends and design.

Trust and people who inject drugs: The perspectives of clients and staff of Needle Syringe Programs

AimsInterest in health-care related trust is growing with the recognition that trust is essential for effective therapeutic encounters. While most trust-related research has been conducted with general patient groups, the experiences of people who inject drugs cannot be understood without acknowledging the critical role social stigma plays in shaping (mis)trust, both generally and in regards to health services specifically. This study examined the experiences of trust among clients and staff of Needle and Syringe Programs (NSPs) in one area of Sydney, Australia. MethodIn-depth interviews with 12 NSP staff and 31 NSP clients were conducted. Analysis was informed by a five component model of trust, with particular emphasis on the notion of “global trust” as encompassing experiences of stigma and other negative social processes related to injecting drug use. Participant experiences of trust in NSPs were compared with those within other drug-related health services. Particular attention was paid to understanding the relationship between ‘identity’ (as a drug user) and ‘legitimacy’ (as a service user) and the centrality of this relationship to the experience of global trust for PWID. ResultsNotions of identity and legitimacy were inextricably bound up with the stigmatisation of drug use, shaping participants’ experiences and accounts of trust in NSPs and drug treatment services. Client participants reported high levels of trust in NSPs, especially when compared with drug treatment services, describing being treated like “any other person” even when negotiating ‘sensitive’ issues. NSP staff participants described the establishment of trust as not only underpinning their work with clients but as something that required ongoing renewal and demonstration. Conclusion“Global trust” assists us to better understand the complex experiences shaping PWID decisions to engage with and trust health services. The high levels of trust reported between client and NSP need to be recognised as a valuable resource for the delivery of effective health care for people who inject drugs, including encouraging behaviours to support the prevention of blood-borne viruses.

Social processes and team creativity in multicultural teams: A socio‐technical framework

SummaryCultural diversity is widely believed to broaden the knowledge and perspectives in a team and hence benefit team creativity. However, cultural diversity can at the same time suppress team creativity through the negative social processes it engenders, and this negative mechanism has received little theoretical attention. We present a theoretical analysis to explicate how cultural diversity creates cultural identity and intercultural obstacles, which hinder knowledge sharing and integration among team members and hence team creativity. Drawing on the socio‐technical systems perspective, we identify two types of contextual variables that moderate the negative, mediated impact of cultural diversity on team creativity: information and communication technology and task environment in terms of task characteristics. We provide an analysis of how each type of variables moderates the negative impact of cultural diversity on social processes and the impact of social processes on knowledge sharing and integration. Several future research directions based on the socio‐technical systems perspective are discussed. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Psychological factors of the readiness of teachers to ensure social security in the educational environment

The negative sociocultural transformations that are taking place in modern society and the resulting psychological transformation of personality and mode of life strongly require searching for ways of providing social safety to the next generation, with teachers being the implementers of this process. Teachers’ professionalism is determined by their willingness to solve personal and socially relevant problems, including the willingness to provide social security for other people, to thwart social risks, and to build constructive interpersonal relationships.

Combining Mentoring With Structured Group Activities

The current study explores the potential of one-on-one mentoring facilitated within a structured group format for developing connection and sustaining mentor-mentee relationships with early adolescent girls. Results from a mixed-methods study using survey and observational data reveal that college student mentors and their seventh grade mentees report moderate-to-high satisfaction with the group experience, with no mean differences between groups. Yet there were significant differences between groups in the group members’ (mentees) satisfaction with their one-on-one mentoring relationships. Although all groups demonstrated high levels of some positive social processes related to connectedness (e.g., fun), groups in which mentees’ reported higher levels of satisfaction with their one-on-one relationships engaged in more higher level positive social processes (e.g., caretaking). Groups in which mentee’s reported lower satisfaction with their one-on-one relationships demonstrated more negative social processes (e.g., disengagement). Implications for after-school settings are discussed.

Africa and Africans in the Linguistic Worldview of Russians (From the Results of the 'Associative' Experiment)

This research paper attempts to explore the linguistic consciousness of Russian people which reflects the fundamental image about the residents of Africa, African culture, Africa‟s socio-economic development, the geographical location of Africa and Africa‟s nature, and at the same time the fundamental lexical items associated with Africa, which are basically linked with the colour of the skin of Africans and the hot climate of the continent. The image or worldview in this paper is to identify the general opinion which the Russians have about Africa and Africans. It is the picture that is formed in the minds of Russians about the inhabitants of Africa. The image of Africa and Africans in Russian linguistic consciousness is formed from the presentation of the continent of Africa and the people living in it. These conceptions about Africa and Africans by Russians are formed under the influence of historical, geographical, cultural and educational information received from studies in schools, tertiary institutions, books, journals, newspapers. Others are from documentary and animated films, television and radio programmes, personal life experiences and from communicative situations. In spite of the negative social processes in the Russian society, there is practically no reflection of racism and chauvinism in Russian linguistic consciousness about Africa and Africans. Judging from the result of the experiments carried out, negative information about Africa, and above all, Africans is very negligible.

Student‐teachers' perspectives on positive and negative social processes in school

In recent years, the Standards for Qualified Teacher Status in England have placed new emphasis on student‐teachers' ability to become integrated into the ‘corporate life of the school’ and to work with other professionals. Little research, however, has been carried out into how student‐teachers perceive the social processes and interactions that are central to such integration during their initial teacher education school placements. This study aims to shed light on these perceptions. The data, gathered from 23 student‐teachers through interviews and reflective writing, illustrate the extent to which the participants perceived such social processes as supporting or obstructing their development as teachers. Signals of inclusion, the degree of match or mismatch in students' and school colleagues' role expectations, and the social awareness of both school and student‐teacher emerged as crucial factors in this respect. The student‐teachers' accounts show their social interactions with school staff to be meaningful in developing their ‘teacher self’ and to be profoundly emotionally charged. The implications for mentor and student‐teacher role preparation are discussed in this article.