scholarly journals Using A Semiotic Metatheory for Theory Understanding, Appraisal, and Use: An Illustrative Social Work Translation of the Affect Control Theory of Emotions

10.18060/128 ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
James A Forte
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Control Theory ◽  
Social Environment ◽  
Human Behavior ◽  
Scientific Theory ◽  
Affect Control Theory ◽  
Affect Control ◽  
Sign Systems ◽  
Social Settings ◽  
The Social

Charles Sanders Peirce’s creed, “Do Not Block Inquiry,” and his triadic model of the signs serve as the base for a semiotic metatheory of science and scientific theory. Semioticians characterize science as a universe of diverse sign systems, and scientists as members of different language communities.This paper introduces this approach. Affect control theorists ponder and investigate how actors, identities, actions, objects, emotions, and social settings are interrelated during interaction. Semiotic tools and principles guide the translation of the Affect Control Theory(ACT) of emotion. ACT is summarized and appraised for its value in increasing our understanding of human behavior in the social environment, its suitability to social work, and its applicability. ACT technical words are translated into simpler language, ACT displays into words, and ACT’s interactionist language is translated into the language of ecosystems theory. Suggestions for strengthening ACT and for promoting semiotic translation are included.

scholarly journals The Social Psychology of Occupational Status Groups: Relationality in the Structure of Deference

2020 ◽  
Vol 83 (4) ◽  
pp. 463-475
Author(s):  
Emily Maloney
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Social Network ◽  
Control Theory ◽  
Occupational Status ◽  
Affect Control Theory ◽  
Relational Patterns ◽  
Affect Control ◽  
The Social ◽  
Network Methods ◽  
Better Than

Affect Control Theory (ACT) can predict the average deference that occupational identities receive from others. These “deference scores” can capture occupational status better than previous operationalizations of prestige. Combining this new measurement of occupational status with social network methods, this article explores the underlying relational patterns hidden within Freeland and Hoey’s (2018) scores of average deference. I construct a complete network of deference relations across 303 occupational identities using Bayesian ACT simulations. A blockmodel analysis of this network resulted in four positions within the occupational deference structure: everyday specialists, service-to-society occupations, the disagreeably powerful, and the actively revered. These are occupational classes that defer to the same occupational identities and receive deference from the same occupations. Exploring the reduced blockmodel provides a more complete depiction of the occupational status structure as measured by ACT.

Social Work Textbooks on Human Behavior and the Social Environment

2005 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 85-110 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Taylor ◽  
Elizabeth A. Mulroy ◽  
Michael J. Austin
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Environment ◽  
Human Behavior ◽  
The Social

Exploring Aging through Intergenerational and Cross-Cultural Narratives

2005 ◽  
Vol 11 (sp1) ◽  
pp. 105-119
Author(s):  
Fiona M. Patterson
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Knowledge Base ◽  
Social Environment ◽  
Human Behavior ◽  
Intergenerational Relationships ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Age Group ◽  
Cultural Narratives ◽  
The Social

The use of intergenerational and cross-cultural narratives in undergraduate social work courses is introduced, illustrated, and discussed. The focus is on material to excite and broaden the knowledge base of students by introducing cultures and an age group with whom they may not be familiar. Another goal is to present the richness and wisdom of stories that elders from various ethnicities have to tell in order to overcome stereotypes of aging and promote positive intergenerational relationships on a personal and professional level. For practice, policy, and Human Behavior in the Social Environment courses, examples are given of readings, films, a song, and specific assignments.

Toward Generic Practice: The Interactional Approach

1984 ◽  
Vol 65 (6) ◽  
pp. 323-329 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph D. Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Environment ◽  
Human Behavior ◽  
Practice Theory ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
The Social

Interaction practice theory can integrate knowledge of human behavior and the social environment with values and skills for generic practice. The existential, humanistic, and phenomenological roots of this theory are examined and its applicability to social work practice is demonstrated.

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