scholarly journals Bicycle cinema

Thesis Eleven ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 138 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lars Kristensen
Keyword(s):  
Human Agency ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
Technical Development ◽  
Bruno Latour ◽  
Human Needs ◽  
Life On Earth ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Interpretative Flexibility

This paper examines the relationship between identities and the bicycle as portrayed in films. The analysis finds that taking the viewpoint of the bicycle emancipates the bicycle from being subjected to closure, as the constructionists would have it, and thus articulates the differences with which the bicycle can communicate to its rider. The paper examines the bicycle as depicted in three films: Premium Rush (Davis Koepp, 2012), A Sunday in Hell (Jørgen Leth, 1977) and Life on Earth (Abderrahmane Sissako, 1998). It engages with the concept of ‘interpretative flexibility’ and the development of the bicycle, as examined by Wiebe Bijker and others, and argues that the interpretative flexibility of bicycles does not cease just because the high-wheeler was abandoned and the ‘safety’ bicycle was universally accepted. The fight for the role of the bicycle continues and the bicycle is subject to constant transformations in order to reconstruct it according to human needs. Andrew Feenberg’s modified constructivism is applied to re-examine the technical development of the bicycle, claiming that technology is dependent on specific social structures as well as human agency. The paper argues that just as social structures are negotiable and unfixed at any point in time, the bicycle too is never neutral but remains negotiable and unfixed. Consequently, since the bicycle constantly ‘speaks’ back to the user, there is never closure in the technical development of the bicycle. Drawing on the writings of Bruno Latour and the Deleuzian idea of assemblages, the bicycle and its rider are considered as an organic entity that is constantly forged and un-forged. Understanding the rhetoric of the bicycle machine helps the convergence of a bicycle becoming with becoming a rider, marking the bicycle as equal to its rider. Viewed in this way, the hierarchy of agency collapses and a crystallization emerges out of the rider and bicycle entwinement.

scholarly journals Reconciling hydrology with engineering

2013 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 2-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Demetris Koutsoyiannis
Keyword(s):  
Natural Philosophy ◽  
Water Storage ◽  
Change Of Direction ◽  
Human Needs ◽  
Adverse Impacts ◽  
Past Experiences ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Autonomous Science

Hydrology has played an important role in the birth of science. Yet practical hydrological knowledge, related to human needs for water storage, transfer and management, existed before the development of natural philosophy and science. In contemporary times, hydrology has had strong links with engineering as its development has been related to the needs of the design and management of water infrastructures. In the 1980s these links were questioned and it was suggested that separating hydrology from engineering would be beneficial for both. It is argued that, thereafter, hydrology, instead of becoming an autonomous science, developed new dependencies, particularly on politically driven agendas. This change of direction in effect demoted the role of hydrology, for example in studying hypothetical or projected climate-related threats. Revisiting past experiences suggests that re-establishing the relationship of hydrology with engineering could be beneficial. The study of change and the implied uncertainty and risk could constitute a field of mutual integration of hydrology and engineering. Engineering experience may help hydrology to appreciate that change is essential for progress and evolution, rather than only having adverse impacts. While the uncertainty and risk cannot be eliminated they can be dealt with in a quantitative and rigorous manner.

scholarly journals Topography of social touching depends on emotional bonds between humans

2015 ◽  
Vol 112 (45) ◽  
pp. 13811-13816 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juulia T. Suvilehto ◽  
Enrico Glerean ◽  
Robin I. M. Dunbar ◽  
Riitta Hari ◽  
Lauri Nummenmaa
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Nonhuman Primates ◽  
Social Bonds ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
Social Touch ◽  
Emotional Bonds ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Relationship

Nonhuman primates use social touch for maintenance and reinforcement of social structures, yet the role of social touch in human bonding in different reproductive, affiliative, and kinship-based relationships remains unresolved. Here we reveal quantified, relationship-specific maps of bodily regions where social touch is allowed in a large cross-cultural dataset (N = 1,368 from Finland, France, Italy, Russia, and the United Kingdom). Participants were shown front and back silhouettes of human bodies with a word denoting one member of their social network. They were asked to color, on separate trials, the bodily regions where each individual in their social network would be allowed to touch them. Across all tested cultures, the total bodily area where touching was allowed was linearly dependent (mean r2 = 0.54) on the emotional bond with the toucher, but independent of when that person was last encountered. Close acquaintances and family members were touched for more reasons than less familiar individuals. The bodily area others are allowed to touch thus represented, in a parametric fashion, the strength of the relationship-specific emotional bond. We propose that the spatial patterns of human social touch reflect an important mechanism supporting the maintenance of social bonds.

Smoke Screen

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gregory L. Simon
Keyword(s):  
Social Structures ◽  
Relative Role ◽  
The West ◽  
Mountain Pine Beetles ◽  
The Third ◽  
First Case ◽  
Fire Activity ◽  
Pine Beetles ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter presents three cases that illustrate how the underlying drivers of wildland-urban interface (WUI) wildfires frequently mischaracterize the relative role of ecological and social structures of influence. The first case explores the rather unscientific origins of the term firestorm and the credibility it is afforded as a legitimate fire classification through its normative use and acceptance in mainstream fire discourse. This process diminishes the very social and profitable origins of the WUI fire problem and naturalizes these areas as a hazardous by-product of larger, exogenous, and inviolable environmental forces such as climate change. The second case examines recent efforts to study and explain the relationship between mountain pine beetles and fire activity in the western United States. The third case describes the deeply political and protracted process of challenging the economically powerful wood shingle and cedar shake industry. Collectively all three cases illustrate how contemporary discourses on fire tend to truncate the scope of what counts (or is allowed to be brought to the debate table) as an underlying driver of increased fire activity in the West.

The role of language and the language of role in institutional decision making

1983 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 187-211 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hugh Mehan
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
Classroom Teachers ◽  
Education Programs ◽  
Regular Classrooms ◽  
Student’S Performance ◽  
Cognitive Activities ◽  
Teachers And Parents ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractThe relationship between linguistic processes, cognitive activities, and social structures is explored by examining the decision making of committees of educators as they decide to place students into special education programs or retain them in regular classrooms. Often, different committee members enter committee meetings with different views of the student's case and its disposition, e.g., classroom teachers and parents provide accounts of the student's performance that compete with the view of the psychologist or district representative. Yet by the meeting's end, the version of the student's case provided by the psychologist or the district representative prevails.

The Play of Possibility

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas S. Henricks
Keyword(s):  
General Theory ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Human Agency ◽  
Sense Making ◽  
The Relationship

This final chapter summarizes the book's major themes, including the thesis that play is a distinctive strategy of meaning-making that finds its end in self-realization. It begins with a discussion of a general theory of play, with particular emphasis on the relationship between sense-making and play as well as the distinction between ideal play and real play. It then considers the role of play in human agency and revisits Johan Huizinga's challenge to evaluate the role of play in the contemporary era. It also describes some problematic qualities of play and concludes with an analysis of questions of whether and how play should be evaluated by arguing that play as action is not equivalent to play as interaction or to play as activity; therefore, interactive (and thus intersubjective) play should respect the freedom of all participants.

THE RELATIONSHIP OF FAMILY ROLE IN FULFILLING HUMAN BASIC NEEDS WITH SELF-CONCEPT AMONG POST STROKE PATIENTS AT PUSKESMAS SINDANG BARANG BOGOR

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-31
Author(s):  
Julianto Julianto Laia
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Self Concept ◽  
P Value ◽  
Stroke Patients ◽  
Post Stroke ◽  
Human Needs ◽  
The Family ◽  
Basic Human Needs ◽  
The Relationship

Background : Stroke is a health issue and needs spesial attention. Based on the basic health research, stroke is a major couse of death and disability in almost all hospitals in indonesia. Organizations stroke world accouting for nearly 85% of people who have the risk factors can prevent a stroke if aware of and andress theserisk factors early on. The role of the family will help the patient care process to make the best possible stroke patients can do the activity again while not fully back to normal as before the stroke. The concept of human beings have a role in the fulfillment of basic needs. A positive self concept gives meaning and unity to someone. Healthy concept generates positive feelings toward themselves. The Objectiveof this research : To determine the relationship role of the family in the fulfillment of basic human needs with the self-concept among post stroke patients in the Sindang Barang Bogor. The Methods : This study used a descriptive analytical design and cross sectional approach. The technique used in this research is total sampling with the number of sample 46 respondents. The collection of data obtained through questionnaires. The Results : Based on the analysis of the relationship between the role of the family with self-concept of 46 respondents (67,4%) had the role of a passive family with poor self-concept as much as 20 respondents ( 43,5 %). The Results of statistical test p value = 0,016 which means p value < 0,05 means Ho rejected shows that there is a significant relationship between relationship role of the family in the fulfillment of basic human needs with the self concept post stroke patients.

The role of oxytocin on peaceful associations and sociality in mammals

Behaviour ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 153 (9-11) ◽  
pp. 1053-1071 ◽  
Author(s):  
Teresa Romero ◽  
Kenji Onishi ◽  
Toshikazu Hasegawa
Keyword(s):  
Individual Variation ◽  
Social Bonds ◽  
Maternal Attachment ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Substantial Evidence ◽  
Pair Bonds ◽  
Biological Substrates ◽  
The Relationship

There is currently substantial evidence indicating that oxytocin, a hypothalamus neuropeptide, modulates many forms of social behaviour and cognition in both human and non-human animals. The vast majority of animal research, however, has concentrated on maternal attachment and reproductive pair-bonds. In order to understand the neurochemical foundations of peaceful associations and sociality, oxytocin’s contribution to other types of social bonds, as well as to individual variation in sociality, should also be explored. Here, we summarise the most current studies that have investigated oxytocin’s role in regulating stable peaceful associations not directly related to mating. We also provide an overview on oxytocin’s role in support of specific social structures, and propose a novel research approach to evaluate the relationship between individual variation in social tendencies and variation in the oxytociergic system. We conclude by discussing avenues of future investigation in the biological substrates of sociality.

The sociolinguistic variant as a carrier of social meaning

2010 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 423-441 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathryn Campbell-Kibler
Keyword(s):  
Social Structures ◽  
Social Meaning ◽  
Third Wave ◽  
Listener Responses ◽  
Variable Function ◽  
Heuristic Device ◽  
Social Associations ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Study Hypothesis

AbstractTraditionally used as a “heuristic device” (Labov, 1978), the sociolinguistic variable has taken on a new role as a primitive of speaker/hearer mental models in third-wave variation work (Eckert, 2005, 2008). Results from a sociolinguistic perception study suggest that at least in some cases, variants of the same variable function independently as loci of indexically linked social meaning. Listener responses were collected to three matched guises of the English variable (ING): -in, -ing, and a neutral guise with no audible (ING) tokens. The results counter the study hypothesis that listener expectation, triggered by speaker regional accent, would shape (ING)'s impact. Instead, the two variants showed distinct social associations: the -ing guises were rated as more intelligent/educated, more articulate, and less likely to be a student than either the -in or neutral guises, which did not differ significantly. In contrast, -in guises made speakers sound less formal and less likely to be gay than the -ing and neutral guises, which did not differ. These results suggest that third-wave work needs to more closely examine the role of the variable in theorizing the relationship between linguistic and social structures.

Crossing boundaries

2002 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 90-97
Author(s):  
Nicola Laneri
Keyword(s):  
General Public ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Role ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractArchaeology is not just about writing reports and interpreting ancient societies and their social structures, but it is also a process which should aim at the creation of a clear communicative message to the general public. Thus, archaeologists should be aware of every possible medium of communication – verbal, written, visual, sound – to express re-constructions of ancient pasts. In this essay I express some ideas about how archaeologists could collaborate with experts, for example theatre directors, in defining artistic way of communicating the past. Finally, I focus on the relationship between academia and fringe archaeology and I look into the political role of archaeologists in modern society.

Water

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth A. Reinert
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Ecology ◽  
Critical Issue ◽  
Water Shortages ◽  
Human Needs ◽  
Basic Human Needs ◽  
United Nations System ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Nations System

This chapter considers water as a basic good that satisfies critical basic human needs for drinking, hygiene, and food preparation. It considers the widespread nature of water deprivation and the challenges of addressing this deprivation, including climate change, water shortages, and increased population growth. The chapter examines the subsistence right to water and the role of this right within the United Nations system of human rights. It also examines the relationship of water to food security and the industrial ecology of water. It takes up the issues of nanotechnology and desalination in helping to provide water as well as the critical issue of water storage. It concludes with a consideration of demand-side issues and water provisioning processes.

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