Recent Methodological Opportunities in Online Hypermedia – a Case Study of Photojournalism in Singapore

2011 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 59-72
Author(s):  
Terence Heng
Keyword(s):  
Recent Work ◽  
Collaborative Research ◽  
Social Situations ◽  
Social Lives ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Work Done ◽  
Methodological Paper

This methodological paper reviews the recent work done by photojournalists in Singapore who have leveraged on the use of multimedia to create meaning-rich narratives of the social situations they investigate. Using an online multimedia project recently launched by journalists and photojournalists in Singapore, I will show how photographers’/photojournalists’ expertise, knowledge and combination of text and photographs serve to exemplify the opportunities that hypermedia affords to sociologists, and argue that hypermedia presentations are particularly useful in extending auto/biographical narratives, encouraging collaborative research, as well as interrogating the everyday social lives of our informants.

Understanding the Macro-context of Teaching Environmental Education: A Case Study from Queensland, 1989-1991

1992 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 77-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Fien
Keyword(s):  
Social Process ◽  
Social Activity ◽  
Underlying Structure ◽  
Social Setting ◽  
Contextual Influences ◽  
Social Situations ◽  
The Social ◽  
Political Forces ◽  
Curriculum Decisions

Any discussion of curriculum should consider the social setting, especially the relationship between schools and society and its influence on curriculum decisions…. Curriculum decisions take place in a complex social setting, through demands that are imposed by society and filter down to schools (Ornstein and Hunkins, 1988: 114).Context is an important element in understanding the nature of the curriculum in any field and its goals. Thus, Cornbleth (1988: 89) describes curriculum as “an ongoing social activity shaped by various contextual influences within and beyond the classroom”. She argues that curriculum is a “contextualized social process” which:… cannot be understood adequately … without attention to its setting or context. Curriculum is contextually shaped…. (C)urriculum emerges from the dynamic interaction of action, reflection and setting (Cornbleth, 1990: 6-7)Similarly, Berlak and Berlak (1981: 24) write of the need to investigate teachers' decision making in terms of “the social, cultural and political forces and structures that are omnipresent in all social situations”. Sharp and Green (1975) argue that comprehensive explanations of teaching require an investigation of the “sociology of situations, their underlying structure and interconnections and the constraints and contingencies they impose” (p. 25).

Gender, Temporalities, and Periodization in Early Iron Age West-Central Europe

2012 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bettina Arnold
Keyword(s):  
Iron Age ◽  
Life Histories ◽  
Danube River ◽  
Early Iron Age ◽  
Social Variables ◽  
Social Lives ◽  
Individual Mobility ◽  
The Social ◽  
Archaeological Chronologies

Archaeological chronologies tend to conflate temporalities from all cultural contexts in a region without consideration for the different depositional trajectories and life histories of the objects that serve as the basis of those chronologies. Social variables, such as gender, age, status, and individual mobility, act on artifacts in ways that must be identified and differentiated in order for seriations derived from one context to be applicable in another. This article presents evidence from early Iron Age contexts in Southwest Germany to illustrate this phenomenon and discusses its ramifications from the perspective of a case study focusing on the mortuary landscape of the Heuneburg hillfort on the Danube River. Gender in particular is strongly marked in this society and can be shown to affect the depositional tempo of certain artifact categories, which have different social lives and depositional fates depending on context. Artifact assemblages vary not only in terms of archaeological context and temporality but also are impacted by the social personae of the human agents responsible for, or associated with, their deposition.

scholarly journals Everyday urbanism and the everyday state: Negotiating habitat in allotment gardens in Berlin

Urban Studies ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 56 (2) ◽  
pp. 352-367 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hanna Hilbrandt
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Relations ◽  
Informal Housing ◽  
Allotment Gardens ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
Transformative Potential ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Anthropological Literature ◽  
The City

This paper is an inquiry into the powers at play in the everyday practices of making the city, and the social and spatial relations through which those who inhabit its margins put these powers to work. This exploration is based on a case study that considers informal housing practices and their regulation in allotment gardens in Berlin. To trace the mechanisms through which residents work to stay put in these sites, despite regulations prohibiting residency therein, the paper relates a debate on the transformative potential of the everyday to anthropological literature on the workings of the state, embedding this discussion in relational approaches to power and place. Joining these perspectives, I argue that the gardeners’ possibilities to stay put depend on the ways in which they meditate the presence of regulatory practices through their relations to state actors or institutional frames. These mediations not only highlight that people co-construct the order that takes shape, but also point to the boundaries of inclusion and exclusion built up along the way.

‘Mass Gambling’ from 1947 to 2011: Controversies and Pathologies

2014 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 203-213 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emma Casey
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Social Attitudes ◽  
Social Reformer ◽  
Historical Comparison ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Moral Framing ◽  
Shared Commitment ◽  
The Relationship

This paper explores the relationship between Mass Observation and sociological method. It will demonstrate that often this relationship has been an uneasy one with the detailed, deeply qualitative and broadly ‘unstructured’ data elicited by Mass Observation frequently positioned as posing problems for sociologists particularly in terms of data analysis and interpretation. The paper will explore these debates by focusing on two case studies drawn from Mass Observation directives. The first will draw on the 1947 gambling study which was commissioned by the social reformer Seebohm Rowntree and his collaborator Commander G.R. Lavers and the second will draw on the 2011 ‘Gambling and Households’ directive. These case studies have been chosen because they help to illuminate the complexities of the concerns surrounding the sociological uses of Mass Observation. The paper will draw on correspondence between Rowntree, Lavers and co-founder of Mass Observation Tom Harrisson in 1947 which uncovers fascinating detail about Harrisson and Rowntree's shared commitment to revealing information about the everyday experiences and practices of working class life, but also some interesting disparities about what ‘sociological data’ might look like and what its purpose ought to be. The second case study draws on findings from the 2011 Gambling and Households directive. This directive offers an interesting historical comparison with the 1947 data. It flags up similarities particularly in terms of the moral framing of gambling, social attitudes to gambling pathologies and addictions and discourses about spending and winning money but also some notable differences particularly with regards to class identification and gambling. Each of these similarities and differences will be explored with the intention of demonstrating the particular uses of Mass Observation in uncovering the frequently overlooked and subjective patterns of intimacy.

scholarly journals Collaborative research as boundary work: learning between rice growers and conservation professionals to support habitat conservation on private lands

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erin Hardie Hale ◽  
Christopher C. Jadallah ◽  
Heidi L. Ballard
Keyword(s):  
Collaborative Research ◽  
Boundary Work ◽  
Central Valley ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Migratory Bird ◽  
Bird Conservation ◽  
Private Lands ◽  
The Social ◽  
Multi Stakeholder

AbstractMulti-stakeholder initiatives for biodiversity conservation on working landscapes often necessitate strategies to facilitate learning in order to foster successful collaboration. To investigate the learning processes that both undergird and result from collaborative efforts, this case study employs the concept of boundary work as a lens to examine learning between rice growers and conservation professionals in California’s Central Valley, who were engaged in a collaborative research project focused on migratory bird conservation. Through analysis of workshop observations, project documents, and interviews with rice growers and conservation professionals, we identified five distinct factors of the collaborative research process that influenced learning amongst these two groups: having mutually beneficial goals, sharing ownership of the collaborative research process, building trust, integrating knowledge, and institutional alignment. We also examined and identified learning outcomes for both rice growers and conservation professionals, which included new knowledge of the social-ecological system, new practices around farming and collaboration, and shifting identities. Our findings suggest that applying these factors and outcomes for learning when structuring collaborative research, and other multi-stakeholder initiatives, can foster learning amongst diverse stakeholder groups to support new approaches for balancing resource use and adaptive management.

scholarly journals THE INFLUENCE OF SOCIAL SCIENCES ON THE PROFESSIONALIZATION OF SOCIAL WORK A CASE STUDY IN A TREATMENT TEAM WITH CONSUMERS OF PSYCHOACTIVE SUBSTANCES

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (9) ◽  
pp. 24-31
Author(s):  
Joana Brinca ◽  
Nídia Morais
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Treatment Team ◽  
Psychoactive Substances ◽  
Social Situations ◽  
Security Culture ◽  
Intervention Method ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Individual

Speaking in social services implies talking about the social concept, which is an indissociable social issue and social problems arising from industrialization, urbanization and proletarization.According to ander-egg (1995b, pp. 152-153) "by the influence of sociology [and other social sciences], the term" social came to be used with two meanings: a generic and broad, referring to the global society [and the collective characteristics of a particular population] (...); and another restricted, alluding to particular questions of sociological analyses, such as social structure, social change, stratification, mobility and social participation ", that is, the individual in and in society. In the decade of 60 the "social" integrated as a partner the economic issue and improvement of the quality of life/social welfare. It was within this logic of thought that was associated with the concept "social sectors" (1995b, pp. 152-153) such as: education, housing, health, social security, culture, politics, employment. In turn, in the decade of 70, there is a change in the current paradigm. We witnessed a progressive passage/attempt to pass a tripartite intervention method to an integrated intervention method. That is, the positivism applied to the social sciences is questioned giving place to the emergence of other more integrated and more flexible paradigms highlighting the importance and influence of the social sciences in the analysis of contextual variables of social situations/ problem presented, as can be seen by the case study on the professional practice of the social worker in a treatment team of portugal, with consumers of psychoactive substances, under the opioid substitution program.

scholarly journals Doing High-tech Collaborative Research in the Middle of Borneo:

2012 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Hitchner
Keyword(s):  
Collaborative Research ◽  
Local Community ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Gis Technology ◽  
Community Members ◽  
The Social ◽  
Training Community ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
And Storage

This case study describes the experiences of an anthropologist currently conducting GIS-based ethnographic research in the Kelabit Highlands of Sarawak, Malaysia, using the e-Bario Telecentre as a local collaborating institution, a base for the input and storage of hard and soft copies of data and reports, and as a nexus for training community members to use GIS technology. Grounded in discussion of current collaborative research trends in the fields of anthropology and geography, this paper elaborates on the challenges and benefits of using the technology, facilities, and personnel currently available at the e-Bario Telecentre. It also describes how this current project is laying the foundation for a larger project that will be owned, managed, and used by the local community. This article elaborates on the social, cultural, political, economic, and environmental context in which this project is developing, demonstrating how this research project, and the transfer of technological knowledge that is a key component of it, can be both  beneficial and challenging to the Kelabit community. Finally, it offers suggestions for the improvement of e-Bario by suggesting both what e-Bario can do to better serve the needs of researchers in the Kelabit Highlands and what researchers can in turn do to assist e-Bario in meeting its goals to serve the community, visitors, and other researchers.

The Archival Afterlives of Prison Officers in Idi Amin’s Uganda: Writing Social Histories of the Postcolonial State

2018 ◽  
Vol 45 ◽  
pp. 245-274 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine Bruce-Lockhart
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
Social Worlds ◽  
Public Servants ◽  
Postcolonial State ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
A Site ◽  
Official Records

Abstract:Africans historians have recently paid more attention to postcolonial archives, trying to locate these elusive collections as well as thinking more critically about how to use them. Uganda, in particular, has been an important site for reconsidering the role of postcolonial archives in historical research. Using the archives of Uganda Prisons Service as a case study, this article explores how official records can illuminate the social histories of public servants and the postcolonial state. Along with surveying the state of Uganda’s official archives – particularly those of the Uganda Prisons Service – it explores how these documents provide insight into the everyday experiences and concerns of prison officers after independence. Beyond its bureaucratic functions, paperwork served as a site in which officers could negotiate their responsibilities and relationships. Through the archives of the Uganda Prisons Service, we learn about the social worlds of prison officers within and beyond the prison walls, thus better understanding their experience of public service beyond narratives of corruption and brutality. Ultimately, this article demonstrates the ways in which official archives can be used to study the postcolonial state from a social history perspective.

scholarly journals Gendering Pacification: Policing Women at Anti-fracking Protests

2019 ◽  
Vol 122 (1) ◽  
pp. 64-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helen Monk ◽  
Joanna Gilmore ◽  
William Jackson
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Violence ◽  
Recent Work ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Police Brutality ◽  
Police Power ◽  
Social Production ◽  
Police Violence ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Impact

This article seeks to consider the policing of anti-fracking protests at Barton Moss, Salford, from November 2013 to April 2014. We argue that women at Barton Moss were considered by the police to be transgressing the socio-geographical boundaries that establish the dominant cultural and social order, and were thus responded to as disruptive and disorderly subjects. The article draws upon recent work on pacification, which views police power as having both destructive and productive dimensions, to consider the impact of police violence on women involved in protest. We seek to explore the ways in which this violence impacts not only on those involved in protest but also those on the peripheries. The article suggests that the threat and use of sexual violence by police towards women aims to enforce compliance within the protest movement and to send a message, specifically to those on the fringes of the movement, that protest is illegitimate and inherently dangerous. As such, sexual violence forms part of the social production and construction of gender and is instrumental in the making and remaking of subjectivities. The case study suggests that police brutality towards women at Barton Moss, therefore, operated as a disciplinary function to regulate acceptable forms of protest and acceptable forms of femininity.

Compassion

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric J. Cassell
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Social Situations ◽  
The Troubles ◽  
Social Nature ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Everyday World

Compassion is a feeling evoked by the serious troubles of another where the onlooker can identify with the sufferer and believes that it is possible that he or she might have the same difficulty. The troubles must not be self-inflicted. Discussions of compassion go back to Aristotle, although they were originally called “pity.” The idea of compassion rests on beliefs about the social nature of everyday life as well as clear evidence of identification with others, which is even found in newborns. The everyday world is a social world. The place of the internet and contemporary social media in these processes is discussed. The idea of spirit is discussed, as are the religious and philosophical origins of the idea. Social situations where compassion is absent are discussed. The importance of compassion in medicine is stressed. Suffering, its definition and its importance in compassion are covered.

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