Social Relations Research Articles

Listening to Electric Miles

This project considers a case study from the archive of modern recorded jazz—Miles Davis’s Jack Johnson (1971)—as a means to address the collaborative aesthetic, technical, and social dimensions of record production. The release of The Complete Jack Johnson Sessions (2003) contains a number of alternate takes and “inserts” that were cut up and spliced together to create extended tracks on several albums by Davis released from 1971 to 1974. Drawing on recent work in popular music studies, ethnomusicology, and studies in the art of record production, I ask how this studio collaboration affects our notions of authorship and creativity in jazz. In other words, what is the relationship between the countless decisions in the studio and the sound that results? I will study studio practices and interactions in an integrated fashion, bringing together technological, practical, social, and creative/artistic components through a detailed consideration of the construction of a specific track from the album, “Yesternow.” The study of this little-discussed album by a canonical artist allows us to show how a specific approach to recording, as well as changes in recording technology, can be correlated with sonic and formal differences, and social relations.

Discuss the Current Situation and Development of Social Interpersonal Relationships based on Social Atomization

Discuss the Current Situation and Development of Social Interpersonal Relationships based on Social Atomization

Trajectories of language and the culture of the Gopali community in the Chitlang Valley

Language pedagogy primarily casts light on cultural trajectories of language use in certain communities. By examining these of the Gopali community in the Chitlang Valley, located 28 miles southwest of Kathmandu, this preliminary study delves into various applied aspects of language use in the area. Preliminary observations indicate that the Gopali, a subset of the Newar ethnic group, have a distinctive linguistic and cultural identity in Nepal. However, they have yet to be recognized as a separate ethnic community despite their unique language, marital exchange, origin stories, and cultural practices. Currently subsumed under the Newar subset, the Gopali language is on the brink of extinction primarily because of an increasing level of influence exerted by Nepali, Tamang and Kathmandu-based Newar accents on Gopali speakers. As the misrecognition of language and culture was historically linked with the political-economic access of the community, we observed the impact of the political economy on the Gopali of Chitlang. This paper has been developed on the basis of data elicited from various narratives, key informant interviews (KII), life histories, language surveys, and observations conducted in October, 2021. Thus, the interpretation has been made in relation to various political, social and economic relations of language use and cultural changes. In consideration of multilingualism as a norm of language education, this study has also explored the impact of multilingualism among the younger generation in the Chitlang Valley. The study can help policymakers introduce mother tongue-based multilingual education (MTB-MLE) to children in the Gopali community.

Social Problems of Women with Breast Cancer - Afield Study in Nanakaly Hospital in Erbil city

This research was conducted under the title (Social Problems of Women with Breast Cancer - Afield Study in Nanakaly Hospital in Erbil city) done. the main aim of this Research is to become familiar with Social Problems that Women with Breast Cancer face. In this study, the Quality Method and the semi- open meeting tools is used to data Collect information. The research community Nanakaly hospital in Erbil. The Study sample is aimed at women with cancer, with (273) women in (2021) the study sample is (12) women. The results of the Study point out that, women with breast cancer have family problems. Also, in terms of social relations, Women Will have Problems and they connect mix with people and they are afraid that people will say bad things to them. Economically, the will have problems and will not be able to provide for them. Sexually, women do net have sexual desires when they are sick and use drugs, their hair is cut off, their eyebrows are moved, their skin color is damaged and they suffer a lot of physical pain when using chemical injections, chemical pills and radiation treatment.

Artificial Intelligence in the Social Science Area: Systematic Literature Review in Web of Science and Scopus

The evolution of technology is giving rise to new scenarios in communication, information access, and social relations. Particularly, artificial intelligence has a great impact on the current media ecosystem, including social, academic, communicative, health aspects, and interpersonal relationships. This research aims to study how artificial intelligence is reflected in the scientific production in the most relevant publications in Social Sciences. To this end, a systematic review of the scientific literature published in Spanish on the Web of Science and Scopus databases spanning from 2018 to the first three quarters of 2023 was carried out, following the standards of PRISMA Statement (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses). From an initial sample of 159 articles, 109 were analysed after applying the inclusion and exclusion criteria. Results show that 2022 was the most productive year, with Spain having the highest number of publications. Furthermore, most of the research was published on Scopus and in the field of Law, with a predominance of qualitative methodology. The key themes were the benefits of implenting artificial intelligence (AI) and its dangers and threats.

‘You come as a human being…’: exploring sense of equality in arts interventions through an ethnographic study of Shared Reading

Research shows that the arts hold a particular potential for promoting health, well-being and social inclusion for vulnerable people. However, the use and consumption of the arts tend to be...

A multi-period intuitionistic fuzzy consensus reaching model for group decision making problem in social network

AbstractA new intuitionistic fuzzy consensus reaching model is developed with multi-period public opinions and expert evaluation values in social network environment. First, the public opinions are obtained by using the crawler software and sentiment analysis technology is used to transform public opinions into intuitionistic fuzzy decision matrix in each period. Attribute weights are calculated by using the time attenuation factor and changes in public opinion. Second, the social trust relationship is modeled and incomplete social trust relationships are completed by using Archimedean t-norm. The expert weights are calculated by using the dynamic trust degree and similarity degree. Third, a consensus framework is proposed for multiple-period decision making problem, which coordinates conflicts between experts through dual feedback paths. The collective opinion scores are calculated by using weights of periods and attribute weights obtained from the word frequency of public opinions. The tourism attraction recommendation method is used to illustrate the proposed method.

Hybrid control systems: from ontological reflection to conceptualization of the phenomenon

As the practices of using digital means in various spheres of life and at the levels of ensuring its regulation, it becomes more and more urgent to consider the nature and consequences of hybridization of social and digital relations, the results of which are now manifested at all levels of social management: social (interaction of the state and society), organizational (managerial, sectoral), local (territorial and interpersonal interaction). In this context, a dual perspective of hybridization emerges: technocratic (unification, modernization, and control from above). In this context, a dual perspective of hybridization arises: technocratic (unification, modernization and control from above) and socio-contextual (taking into account needs and interests from below, development taking into account life strategies). From a technocratic perspective, hybridization can be viewed as an idealized product (object) of the evolution of artificial regulatory systems, as the embodiment of the ideal form, structure of algorithmization of human activity, and follow the unfolding path of technocratization of public life. However, already today we are witnessing failures in the processes of digital transformation of territories and in the operation of hybrid management systems, the purpose and functionality of which are more likely to be configured to build and reproduce technocratic principles of management organization, which gives rise to the imperatives and determination of hybrid objects over hybridizing management entities, reduces sensitivities to spontaneous processes of socio-network grouping. The latter phenomenon is proposed to be considered and studied as a mechanism for launching the formation (localization) of hybrid control systems within the framework of the theoretical construct of the sociology of control called the "sociocultural body of problem solving".

Food safety concerns and purchase choices among poor households in the urbanising global south: the case of Dhaka, Bangladesh

This article looks into the daily food shopping practices of poor urban households in Dhaka, Bangladesh. A practice theory-based approach is used to explore their coping strategies in response to food safety concerns. By applying an exploratory sequential mixed-method approach, two groups of shoppers are compared: recently arrived migrants and established residents, as recently arrived migrants are expected to face an unfamiliar food shopping environment and therefore need to reconsider their daily food shopping practices. The results describe the elements of food shopping practices: food items, retail outlets, affordability, social networks, and relations to work. We identified the absence of freshness, undesirable substances, and the need for more information about the production process as the primary food safety concerns. Among both shopper groups, the harmful consequence of applying the chemical 'formalin' to food is considered the most prominent food safety concern. Major coping strategies include identifying (un)safe food, proactive selection, and establishing and maintaining social relationships. The two groups have similarities and differences in using skills and competencies to mitigate their food safety concerns in everyday shopping practices. Recently arrived migrants have to adapt to urban lifestyles and reconfigure their food safety concerns into their daily food shopping practices.

Coworking spaces for remote workers: an inclusive solution? Advantages and challenges from affiliated workers’ perspectives

AbstractSome companies are considering offering their affiliated workers external coworking spaces as an option to achieve both flexibility and inclusion, giving remote workers the chance to maintain a sense of community and have access to on-site support. However, the motivations, advantages, and problems associated with using coworking spaces for affiliated workers remain underanalysed. This study adopts a qualitative approach by conducting semistructured interviews with Italian affiliated workers who are coworking space users. Our analysis explores the benefits of using coworking spaces and the reasons that motivate affiliated workers to do so, as well as how relationships, social support, and collaboration with coworkers and colleagues are perceived. The results show that the perceived main advantages concern (a) flexibility and work efficiency and (b) relational opportunities, at both the personal and professional levels. The findings clarify the conditions under which workers sharing coworking spaces develop satisfying social relationships and collaboration, shedding light on the group dynamics of a mix of affiliated and unaffiliated workers across coworking spaces from the affiliated workers’ perspective. The study also discusses the role that affiliated workers’ organizations can play in addressing the challenges that coworking spaces pose for workers’ well-being and organizations.

Analisis Budaya Organisasi Karyawan PT. Exedy Manufacturing Indonesia

The social relationships created in an organization need a cultural bond to achieve the desired goals. The purpose of this research is to determine the application of organizational culture at PT. Exedy Manufacturing Indonesia. The research design uses quantitative methods with factor analysis. Research location at PT. Exedy Manufacturing Indonesia. Data was collected through observation and questionnaires. The research population was all employees at the company PT. Exedy Manufacturing Indonesia. Samples were taken randomly from various departments with a total of 100 respondents. The research results show that the three organizational culture factors that exist at PT. Exedy Manufacturing Indonesia namely Team Orientation, Stability, Innovation and risk taking. Component (factor) 1 has a correlation value of 0.799 > 0.5. Component (factor) 2 has a correlation value of 0.738 > 0.5. Component (factor) 3 has a correlation value of 0.739 > 0.5. These three factors include internal and external factors, so they can be used as a reference for PT. Exedy Manufacturing Indonesia to carry out improvements and developments.

Evaluating Adaptive Capacity and Welfare of Farmers in Uganda's Climate-Vulnerable Regions Using an Index-Based Method

The escalating impacts of climate change on agricultural regions in Africa underscore the urgent need for effective adaptation strategies. This study aims to quantify factors influencing the well-being and adaptation capacity of farmers in climate-vulnerable areas. Conducted from December 2023 to March 2024 in Kigezi and Acholi regions, the study sampled 320 farmers using random sampling. The Adaptive Capacity and Welfare Index (ACWI) was used to describe the well-being and adaptive capacity of farmers in climate-vulnerable areas. ACWI comprises five components (Access to Welfare Programs, Social Relationship Conditions, Family Welfare Conditions, Adaptation Capacity, Experience with Innovation/Technology, and Climate Change Extension). Linear regression results identify several significant factors influencing ACWI, such as village location, planting activities during the dry season, number of family dependents, cultivated land area, education level, income from rice farming, alternative employment, and fishing activities. Kigezi region showed a higher ACWI compared to Acholi, indicating better business diversification and climate change awareness. This study underscores the importance of considering local conditions and socio-economic factors in enhancing farmers' adaptive capacity and welfare. Policy recommendations should focus on improving access to resources, adaptation programs, training, and promoting farmer education and business diversification to ensure sustainability and productivity in agriculture amidst climate change challenges

The tortoise in the urban development network: How social relations affect decision-making speed in a road expansion project in Kristiansand, Norway

ABSTRACT Why do urban development projects take a long time to complete? This question is of paramount importance, both practically and academically. Practically, understanding the reasons for delays in these projects can help improve project efficiency, reduce costs, and enhance stakeholder satisfaction. Academically, the study contributes to the field of urbanization by applying social network analysis (SNA) to explore the interactions and relationships among decision-makers in urban development projects. This study draws upon original data from a road extension project in Kristiansand to illustrate and explain why the implementation of large development projects suffers from convoluted and slow decision-making processes after an overall agreement on project aims and goals has been established. This study draws on a sample of 33 actors who participated in the decisions concerning the project. I collected the data through a combination of interviews and document reviews and subsequently analyzed them using social network structural metrics and visualization techniques. The results show that the actors are connected in less dense, more centralized, and clustered networks with subgroups and low reciprocity which have hampered efficient communication, resulting in delays. The findings imply that the pattern of relationships among decision-making actors can affect the amount of time taken to reach conclusions in urban development initiatives.

Ontological and epistemological bases of the study of market constitution through practices

Market practices provide a framework for exploring markets, which in turn require a better understanding of each other, because researchers and academics often approach markets more normatively. Recently, some scholars have begun to reconnect marketing/economics and markets, developing understandings based on the theories of practices. To contribute to this advance, the objective proposed by this work is to present the ontological and epistemological bases for studying market practices according to the seminal works of Kjellberg and Helgesson (2006/2007). In the end, it can be concluded that an approach to the constitution of markets based on practices assumes a relativistic ontological position. It is relativistic because it assumes that: what it is, is relative to the multiple associations that promote it. Therefore, it is a multiparadigmatic approach. Different contexts and social relations generate different meanings and actions due to the historical and cultural character of the production of these meanings. Researchers must be attentive to the ontology of the place in which relational realities are constructed, focusing their attention on the way people construct and organize reality.

The Compassion-Centered Model and Its Constructive Role in the Formation of a Healthy Society in the Light of

Compassion is kindness rooted in appreciation of other human beings as real human beings. Research has been done on these important and constructive educational models of kindness and their constructive role in the formation of a healthy society in the light of the Prophet's way of life. Kindness is one of the important issues. In the field of community education, we can mention skills and characteristics that play a significant role in individual and social relationships based on kindness and attention to people's needs and problems and creating solidarity and responsibility of community members. Although the role of kindness as an educational model in the society has been neglected in the present era, the Quran and hadiths have mentioned it as a source of guidance and human education. This research investigates the concept of compassion and its educational effects from the perspective of the prophetic tradition with a descriptive-analytical method in order to investigate the characteristics and skills of compassion and its educational effects in the fields of belief, emotion, emotional and moral, in individual and social axes, and the culture of compassion to grow in society and focus on it. The results of the research show that compassion is one of the effective and useful personal and social traits that causes the mutual influence of people on each other in the direction of a better life and healing of the soul and spirit. And still, compassion is a set of qualities and skills and has a concept more than kindness and compassion. If after discussion and investigation it can be said that compassion is a person's relationship with God and man himself and It places society and people on the basis of monotheistic belief, love, responsibility, sympathy and empathy. According to this compassion, it has several basic educational roles, including seeing God as present and watching in all stages of life, and seeing Him as the agent of receiving mercy and guidance; And also controlling emotions and feelings and managing human interactions with others and protecting and relieving humans from the pains and pains of others and being kind to them and creating a platform for creating mutual love and good interaction in the community and these are reasons for being human and Muslim. We should keep this religious and human duty alive in our minds so that we can have a society free from unkindness.

Tomorrow let’s all be pangolins! Western affirmation of a relational ontology in thinking and acting for a multi-species future

How should we envision the future of environmental justice in a context where the imbalances between part of humanity and other living beings seem irreversible and could compromise the survival of the majority? The scientific world and activist movements, both in the West and among indigenous peoples, are making their voices heard to denounce an industrial, productivist and extractivisit lifestyle that is predatory and incompatible with ensuring the well-being and intentionalities of all living beings. The ontological framework of the Anthropocene era seems to support this type of social relationship of domination. Indeed, naturalism puts humans as distinct from the rest of the animal kingdom and as having the right to use the different components of the environment as material resources. Due to the succession of environmental and social crises, whether worldwide or local, these power relationships need to be re-examined. The study of scientific results and observations from the last forty years, listening to people’s accounts of their attachments to their living environment, and the observation of new social and environmental movements all point to the emergence of hybrid ontologies that question naturalism, opening the door to the possibility of multi-species justice as an alternative to inequality.

Decoding loneliness: Can explainable AI help in understanding language differences in lonely older adults?

Study objectivesLoneliness impacts the health of many older adults, yet effective and targeted interventions are lacking. Compared to surveys, speech data can capture the personalized experience of loneliness. In this proof-of-concept study, we used Natural Language Processing to extract novel linguistic features and AI approaches to identify linguistic features that distinguish lonely adults from non-lonely adults. MethodsParticipants completed UCLA loneliness scales and semi-structured interviews (sections: social relationships, loneliness, successful aging, meaning/purpose in life, wisdom, technology and successful aging). We used the Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC-22) program to analyze linguistic features and built a classifier to predict loneliness. Each interview section was analyzed using an explainable AI (XAI) model to classify loneliness. ResultsThe sample included 97 older adults (age 66–101 years, 65 % women). The model had high accuracy (Accuracy: 0.889, AUC: 0.8), precision (F1: 0.8), and recall (1.0). The sections on social relationships and loneliness were most important for classifying loneliness. Social themes, conversational fillers, and pronoun usage were important features for classifying loneliness. ConclusionsXAI approaches can be used to detect loneliness through the analyses of unstructured speech and to better understand the experience of loneliness.

Factors impacting college students’ collaborative learning intention: a social cognitive theory perspective

ABSTRACT Understanding students’ intentions towards collaborative learning (CL) is crucial for efficiently using related learning activities inside and outside the classroom. Based on social cognitive theory (SCT), we propose a framework to explore the impact of contextual and individual factors on students’ intent to engage in CL. We performed structural equation modelling (SEM) to examine the relationships among three environmental factors (fairness, innovation, and social relationships), two intrinsic motivational factors (self-efficacy, outcome expectations), and students’ intent to engage in CL. The findings indicate that building a collaborative climate where students perceive fairness, innovation, and warm social relationships in the classroom facilitates their intention to engage in CL. In addition, students’ intent is influenced by their belief in their ability to engage in CL activities (self-efficacy) and their outcome expectations. The findings have several implications for developing the theory of CL and educational policymaking.

Relational equality, mutual benefit and social insurance

Abstract In a democratic nation state with a relatively open economy, does the state have an obligation to seek to achieve equality among its citizens? If so, where does that obligation come from? And equality of what? I argue that the luck egalitarian conception of equality of opportunity, which requires the state to compensate for contingencies for which individuals are not responsible but not for those for which they are, is incompatible with the practical functioning and moral underpinning of a market economy. I discuss two views which focus on equality in social, political and economic relationships between individuals—Anderson’s conception of relational equality and my economic conception of mutual benefit. These approaches have a similar contractual or contractarian structure: they work from the several viewpoints of potential participants in cooperative ventures rather than the synoptic viewpoint of a moral spectator. They provide complementary justifications for social insurance.

Game Changer: Exploring the Role of Board Games in the Lives of Autistic People.

This mixed methods paper reports findings from three studies examining the overlap between autism and hobbyist board gaming. The first was a quantitative survey of over 1600 board gamers, showing that autistic individuals are overrepresented in this hobby compared to the general population and that autistic traits measured by the AQ are significantly elevated amongst board gamers. Study 1 also assessed gamers' motivations and preferences and reported key differences as well as similarities between autistic and non-autistic gamers. The second was a qualitative study that reported the results of 13 interviews with autistic individuals who are hobbyist board gamers. Using Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis (IPA), four key themes were uncovered, including a preference for systemising, escapism and passions, the social lubrication effect of games and difficulties with deception. In the third, 28 autistic individuals were introduced to board games in groups of 5-10 over an afternoon. Subsequent focus groups were then analysed using IPA. This analysis uncovered themes around how board games are challenging but encouraged growth and how they were an alternative vehicle for forging social relationships. Through this paper, we discuss how and why board games may be a popular hobby amongst the autistic population, and its potential utility for improving autistic wellbeing.