Human ArenasPub Date : 2023-10-31DOI: 10.1007/s42087-023-00370-6
Enno Freiherr von Fircks
{"title":"Reasoning with Vygotsky: Semiosis Between Everyday and Scientific Concepts","authors":"Enno Freiherr von Fircks","doi":"10.1007/s42087-023-00370-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s42087-023-00370-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36162,"journal":{"name":"Human Arenas","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135870583","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Traditional Decorative Symbols and User Behavior: Experiences of Ghanaian and Chinese Seat Users","authors":"Obed Persie Appiah-Kubi, Zhihui Wu, Obed Atta-Asamoah, Xinhao Feng","doi":"10.1007/s42087-023-00365-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s42087-023-00365-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36162,"journal":{"name":"Human Arenas","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134972779","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Human ArenasPub Date : 2023-10-20DOI: 10.1007/s42087-023-00367-1
Adam LeRoy, Nikolay Veresov
{"title":"Use of Child Reference Groups in Cultural-Historical Research","authors":"Adam LeRoy, Nikolay Veresov","doi":"10.1007/s42087-023-00367-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s42087-023-00367-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36162,"journal":{"name":"Human Arenas","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135617823","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Human ArenasPub Date : 2023-10-20DOI: 10.1007/s42087-023-00368-0
Carlos Barros, Jennifer McGarrigle, Ana Sofia Santos, Isabelle Albert, Elke Murdock
{"title":"Solidarity Typologies in Dynamics Between Portuguese Emigrants and Their Parents","authors":"Carlos Barros, Jennifer McGarrigle, Ana Sofia Santos, Isabelle Albert, Elke Murdock","doi":"10.1007/s42087-023-00368-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s42087-023-00368-0","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Motivations for migratory movements tend to be contextualised at an individual level and refer to opportunities related to the country of destination. In the Portuguese context, this view is increasingly limited when we analyse the emigration of young adults since this process directly involves family figures in the country of origin, as they tend to be the first source of support. This paper aims to explore the dimensions of intergenerational solidarity, analysing conflict as transversal dimension and the presence of ambivalence, for a proposal of behaviour typologies in Portuguese transnational families. Using a qualitative approach, young Portuguese adults who emigrated in the European space and Schengen area ( N = 22) were interviewed addressing questions about their migratory projects, as well as their dynamics with their parents in Portugal. A thematic analysis was carried out with the support of the NVivo software. The results indicate four behaviour typologies: (1) high cohesion and dependence, (2) full solidarity tested with resilience, (3) affective and functional solidarities, with normative and value divergences, and (4) no solidarity and irreconcilable differences. The findings suggest the impact of intergenerational norms and values, as they may be at the origin of communicational patterns that increase well-being and resilience in migration projects.","PeriodicalId":36162,"journal":{"name":"Human Arenas","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135569193","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Human ArenasPub Date : 2023-10-04DOI: 10.1007/s42087-023-00364-4
Sabina Pultz, Katia Dupret
{"title":"Emotions Online: Exploring Knowledge Workers’ Emotional Labour in a Digital Context in an Agile IT Company","authors":"Sabina Pultz, Katia Dupret","doi":"10.1007/s42087-023-00364-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s42087-023-00364-4","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Digital technologies and new ways of organising transform the way we experience work. This paper seeks to contribute to our understanding of the role of digital emotional labour (EL) among knowledge workers. We investigate the EL involved in digital communication practices among co-located knowledge workers employed in an agile IT-consultancy firm with a relatively flat hierarchy. Based on rich qualitative data, we analyse how the specific socio-material infrastructures of a democratic communication technology called ‘Flowdock’ give rise to EL (Hochschild in American Journal of Sociology, 85 (3), 551–575, 1979, University of California Press , 1983). The study contributes theoretically by developing work on EL in a digital context by engaging with Oudshoorn’s ( Sociology of Health & Illness, 31 (3), 390–405, 2009) term ‘digital proximity’. This implies opening up EL to a more dynamic and situated approach and contributing to the organisational research scrutinising the EL of backstage professionals. The paper concludes that online communication creates new demands of managing emotions in relation to 4 themes key to agile organising: (1) working as whole persons, (2) creating partnerships, (3) unclear decision-making and lastly (4) informal power dynamics. We discuss implications of the overall finding that knowledge workers face increased demands mixing social and technical skills.","PeriodicalId":36162,"journal":{"name":"Human Arenas","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135591890","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Human ArenasPub Date : 2023-09-26DOI: 10.1007/s42087-023-00362-6
Stefany Bastidas-Rivera, José Eduardo Sánchez, Yari Lorena Sierra-Gil, Luisa Fernanda González-Cabal
{"title":"The Hospital Classroom: An Opportunity for Educational Inclusion","authors":"Stefany Bastidas-Rivera, José Eduardo Sánchez, Yari Lorena Sierra-Gil, Luisa Fernanda González-Cabal","doi":"10.1007/s42087-023-00362-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s42087-023-00362-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36162,"journal":{"name":"Human Arenas","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134961074","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Human ArenasPub Date : 2023-09-20DOI: 10.1007/s42087-023-00363-5
Fabienne Gfeller, Tania Zittoun
{"title":"A New Housing Mode in a Regional Landscape of Care: A Sociocultural Psychological Study of a Boundary Object","authors":"Fabienne Gfeller, Tania Zittoun","doi":"10.1007/s42087-023-00363-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s42087-023-00363-5","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The study of ageing, which received growing attention over the past 30 years, has progressively realised the importance of the cultural, historical, and socio-economical environment for the various courses of ageing. However, we believe that it could be further conceptualised. First, we propose to enrich it through the notion of “landscape of care” developed by geography. Second, the distinction developed by sociocultural psychologists between sociogenesis, microgenesis, and ontogenesis is useful to articulate different scales of the landscape of care and to consider individual trajectories. Finally, the notion of boundary object leads us to discuss how a specific object might play a bridging function in this landscape. We draw on a regional case study carried out in a Swiss canton where the building of “flats with referees” is part of a new policy that aims at adapting the care and support network to demographic change and to favour ageing in place. Our hypothesis is that these flats may have a function of boundary object as they lead various actors to collaborate. Based on observations, desk research, and interviews, the study shows that on a sociogenetic level, these flats have a bridging function. However, on ontogenetic and microgenetic levels, divergences and misunderstandings hinder these flats to fully achieve this function. By examining the changes in the landscape of care, this article contributes to a better understanding of people’s trajectories within their sociocultural environments.","PeriodicalId":36162,"journal":{"name":"Human Arenas","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136308118","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Human ArenasPub Date : 2023-09-14DOI: 10.1007/s42087-023-00360-8
William Angkasa
{"title":"Synchronous Chanting in Indonesian Social Movement Repertoires: A Tool for Emoting and for Manipulating Emoters","authors":"William Angkasa","doi":"10.1007/s42087-023-00360-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s42087-023-00360-8","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Chanting has been in existence since time immemorial and is thought to emerge as a way to convey information about visceral and affective states. Chanting synchronously allows participants to synchronize their actions and affective states for it requires them to actively and coordinatively participate in it. This phenomenon can be observed in various social rituals across times and cultures all around the world, including in social movement repertoires, such as demonstrations and street protests. Since emotions play a pivotal role in social movements, gaining insights into how chanting can be used as a “tool” for emoting and evoking emotions in such contexts is useful. For this purpose, the lens of situated cognition and affectivity is used to analyze how activists' interactions during occurrences of synchronous chanting facilitate distributed emotions among the participating chanters. Looking at cases of social movements in Indonesia, a multi-ethnic nation-state, which has its own demonstration culture embedded in its sociocultural-historical context, it is argued that synchronous chanting as an emoting tool is coupled to Indonesian activists of various groups. Some of these chants even date back to more than two decades ago, beginning when Indonesian youth fought against the despotic regime of President Suharto and his New Order, to hundreds of years ago when the founding fathers fought against colonialism. Based on the said framework, the analysis concludes that synchronous chanting can be used as a tool for not only emoting but also manipulating people.","PeriodicalId":36162,"journal":{"name":"Human Arenas","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134913870","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Human ArenasPub Date : 2023-09-08DOI: 10.1007/s42087-023-00361-7
Bob Uttl
{"title":"Student Evaluation of Teaching (SET): Why the Emperor Has No Clothes and What We Should Do About It","authors":"Bob Uttl","doi":"10.1007/s42087-023-00361-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s42087-023-00361-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36162,"journal":{"name":"Human Arenas","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86429893","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Human ArenasPub Date : 2023-09-02DOI: 10.1007/s42087-023-00359-1
P. Kowalski, A. Taylor
{"title":"Exploring the Ecology: Beyond Cameron and Khanna","authors":"P. Kowalski, A. Taylor","doi":"10.1007/s42087-023-00359-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s42087-023-00359-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36162,"journal":{"name":"Human Arenas","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89962969","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}