Moral Passage: The Symbolic Process in Public Designations of Deviance

1967 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 175-188 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph R. Gusfield
Keyword(s):  
Symbolic Process

scholarly journals From Individuals to Populations: A Symbolic Process Algebra Approach to Epidemiology

2009 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 535-556 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris McCaig ◽  
Rachel Norman ◽  
Carron Shankland
Keyword(s):  
Process Algebra ◽  
Algebra Approach ◽  
Symbolic Process

Colonial governance and state incorporation of Chinese language: the case of the first Chinese language movement in Hong Kong

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Chi Keung Charles Fung
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Mother Tongue ◽  
Chinese Language ◽  
Historical Case Study ◽  
Official Language ◽  
Historical Case ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Colonial State ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
Symbolic Process

Purpose Despite the importance of the first Chinese language movement in the early 1970s that elevated the status of Chinese as an official language in British Hong Kong, the movement and the colonial state’s response remained under-explored. Drawing insights primarily from Bourdieu and Phillipson, this study aims to revisit the rationale and process of the colonial state’s incorporation of the Chinese language amid the 1970s. Design/methodology/approach This is a historical case study based on published news and declassified governmental documents. Findings The central tenet is that the colonial state’s cultural incorporation was the tactics that aimed to undermine the nationalistic appeal in Hong Kong society meanwhile contain the Chinese language movement from turning into political unrest. Incorporating the Chinese language into the official language regime, however, did not alter the pro-English linguistic hierarchy. Symbolic domination still prevailed as English was still considered as the more economically rewarding language comparing with Chinese, yet official recognition of Chinese language created a common linguistic ground amongst the Hong Kong Chinese and fostered a sense of local identity that based upon the use of the mother tongue, Cantonese. From the case of Hong Kong, it suggests that Bourdieu’s conceptualisation of state formation paid insufficient attention to the international context and the non-symbolic process of state-making itself could also shape the degree of the state’s symbolic power. Originality/value Extant studies on the Chinese language movement are overwhelmingly movement centred, this paper instead brings the colonial state back in so to re-examine the role of the state in the incorporative process of the Chinese language in Hong Kong.

Music as A Symbolic Process

1987 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 327-344 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. R. McGLASHAN
Keyword(s):  
Symbolic Process

On Machine Symbol Grounding and Optimization

2011 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 73-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oliver Kramer
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Data Mining ◽  
Cognitive Processes ◽  
Interface Design ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Autonomous Agent ◽  
Symbol Grounding ◽  
Intrinsic Structure ◽  
Functional Perspective ◽  
Symbolic Process

From the point of view of an autonomous agent the world consists of high-dimensional dynamic sensorimotor data. Interface algorithms translate this data into symbols that are easier to handle for cognitive processes. Symbol grounding is about whether these systems can, based on this data, construct symbols that serve as a vehicle for higher symbol-oriented cognitive processes. Machine learning and data mining techniques are geared towards finding structures and input-output relations in this data by providing appropriate interface algorithms that translate raw data into symbols. This work formulates the interface design as global optimization problem with the objective to maximize the success of the overlying symbolic algorithm. For its implementation various known algorithms from data mining and machine learning turn out to be adequate methods that do not only exploit the intrinsic structure of the subsymbolic data, but that also allow to flexibly adapt to the objectives of the symbolic process. Furthermore, this work discusses the optimization formulation as a functional perspective on symbol grounding that does not hurt the zero semantical commitment condition. A case study illustrates technical details of the machine symbol grounding approach.

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