Theo van Leeuwen
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- May 2008
- ISBN:
- 9780195323306
- eISBN:
- 9780199869251
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195323306.001.0001
- Subject:
- Linguistics, Sociolinguistics / Anthropological Linguistics
Building on Bernstein's concept of recontextualization, Foucault's theory of discourse, Halliday's systemic-functional linguistics and Martin's theory of activity sequences, this book defines ...
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Building on Bernstein's concept of recontextualization, Foucault's theory of discourse, Halliday's systemic-functional linguistics and Martin's theory of activity sequences, this book defines discourses as frameworks for the interpretation of reality and presents detailed and explicit methods for reconstructing these frameworks through text analysis. There are methods for analyzing the representation of social action, social actors and the timings and spatial locations of social practices as well as methods for analyzing how the purposes, legitimations and moral evaluations of social practices can be, and are, constructed in discourse. Discourse analytical categories are linked to sociological theories to bring out their relevance for the purpose of critical discourse analysis, and a variety of examples demonstrate how they can be used to this end. The final chapters apply aspects of the book's methodological framework to the analysis of multimodal texts such as visual images and children's toys.Less
Building on Bernstein's concept of recontextualization, Foucault's theory of discourse, Halliday's systemic-functional linguistics and Martin's theory of activity sequences, this book defines discourses as frameworks for the interpretation of reality and presents detailed and explicit methods for reconstructing these frameworks through text analysis. There are methods for analyzing the representation of social action, social actors and the timings and spatial locations of social practices as well as methods for analyzing how the purposes, legitimations and moral evaluations of social practices can be, and are, constructed in discourse. Discourse analytical categories are linked to sociological theories to bring out their relevance for the purpose of critical discourse analysis, and a variety of examples demonstrate how they can be used to this end. The final chapters apply aspects of the book's methodological framework to the analysis of multimodal texts such as visual images and children's toys.
Theo Van Leeuwen
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- May 2008
- ISBN:
- 9780195323306
- eISBN:
- 9780199869251
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195323306.003.0002
- Subject:
- Linguistics, Sociolinguistics / Anthropological Linguistics
This chapter presents a framework for analyzing how the participants of social practices can be, and are, represented in English discourse. It outlines and exemplifies the social and critical import ...
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This chapter presents a framework for analyzing how the participants of social practices can be, and are, represented in English discourse. It outlines and exemplifies the social and critical import of the categories of this framework and details the realization of each category. After discussing the discursive exclusion of social actors and the role social actors can play in discourse, the representation of social actors as groups (assimilation) and as individuals (individualization), the ways in which actors can be categorized (e.g. functionalization, categorization, relational identity) and the metonyms and abstractions that can conceal human agency behind institutions (institutionalization) or behind the means of action (instrumentalization) is addressed. A newspaper article about immigration is analyzed to bring out the potential of the methodology for critical discourse analysis.Less
This chapter presents a framework for analyzing how the participants of social practices can be, and are, represented in English discourse. It outlines and exemplifies the social and critical import of the categories of this framework and details the realization of each category. After discussing the discursive exclusion of social actors and the role social actors can play in discourse, the representation of social actors as groups (assimilation) and as individuals (individualization), the ways in which actors can be categorized (e.g. functionalization, categorization, relational identity) and the metonyms and abstractions that can conceal human agency behind institutions (institutionalization) or behind the means of action (instrumentalization) is addressed. A newspaper article about immigration is analyzed to bring out the potential of the methodology for critical discourse analysis.
Neil Fligstein and Doug McAdam
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199859948
- eISBN:
- 9780199951178
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199859948.001.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Social Theory
Finding ways to understand the nature of social change and social order—from political movements to market meltdowns—is one of the enduring problems of social science. This book draws together ...
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Finding ways to understand the nature of social change and social order—from political movements to market meltdowns—is one of the enduring problems of social science. This book draws together far-ranging insights from social movement theory, organizational theory, and economic and political sociology to construct a general theory of social organization and strategic action. This book proposes that social change and social order can be understood through what the book calls strategic action fields. It posits that these fields are the general building blocks of political and economic life, civil society, and the state, and the fundamental form of order in our world today. Similar to Russian dolls, they are nested and connected in a broader environment of almost countless proximate and overlapping fields. Fields are mutually dependent; change in one often triggers change in another. At the core of the theory is an account of how social actors fashion and maintain order in a given field. This sociological theory of action, what they call “social skill,” helps explain what individuals do in strategic action fields to gain cooperation or engage in competition. To demonstrate the breadth of the theory, the book makes its abstract principles concrete through extended case studies of the Civil Rights Movement and the rise and fall of the market for mortgages in the U.S. since the 1960s. The book also provides a “how-to” guide to help others implement the approach and discusses methodological issues.Less
Finding ways to understand the nature of social change and social order—from political movements to market meltdowns—is one of the enduring problems of social science. This book draws together far-ranging insights from social movement theory, organizational theory, and economic and political sociology to construct a general theory of social organization and strategic action. This book proposes that social change and social order can be understood through what the book calls strategic action fields. It posits that these fields are the general building blocks of political and economic life, civil society, and the state, and the fundamental form of order in our world today. Similar to Russian dolls, they are nested and connected in a broader environment of almost countless proximate and overlapping fields. Fields are mutually dependent; change in one often triggers change in another. At the core of the theory is an account of how social actors fashion and maintain order in a given field. This sociological theory of action, what they call “social skill,” helps explain what individuals do in strategic action fields to gain cooperation or engage in competition. To demonstrate the breadth of the theory, the book makes its abstract principles concrete through extended case studies of the Civil Rights Movement and the rise and fall of the market for mortgages in the U.S. since the 1960s. The book also provides a “how-to” guide to help others implement the approach and discusses methodological issues.
Theo Van Leeuwen
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- May 2008
- ISBN:
- 9780195323306
- eISBN:
- 9780199869251
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195323306.003.0001
- Subject:
- Linguistics, Sociolinguistics / Anthropological Linguistics
Drawing on the work of Bernstein and other sociologists and anthropologists, as well as on the work of linguists such as Gleason, Grimes, Halliday and Martin, this chapter defines discourse as the ...
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Drawing on the work of Bernstein and other sociologists and anthropologists, as well as on the work of linguists such as Gleason, Grimes, Halliday and Martin, this chapter defines discourse as the recontextualization of social practice and introduces the key elements of social practices—actors, actions, performance modes, presentation styles, times, locations, resources and eligibility conditions It then outlines the transformations that occur in the process of recontextualization and the way in which recontextualization adds reactions, purposes and legitimations to representations of social practices. An extended analysis of a short newspaper article exemplifies the concepts introduced.Less
Drawing on the work of Bernstein and other sociologists and anthropologists, as well as on the work of linguists such as Gleason, Grimes, Halliday and Martin, this chapter defines discourse as the recontextualization of social practice and introduces the key elements of social practices—actors, actions, performance modes, presentation styles, times, locations, resources and eligibility conditions It then outlines the transformations that occur in the process of recontextualization and the way in which recontextualization adds reactions, purposes and legitimations to representations of social practices. An extended analysis of a short newspaper article exemplifies the concepts introduced.
Ash Amin and Joanne Roberts (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- January 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780199545490
- eISBN:
- 9780191720093
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199545490.001.0001
- Subject:
- Business and Management, Organization Studies, Knowledge Management
It has long been an interest of researchers in economics, sociology, organization studies, and economic geography to understand how firms innovate. Most recently, this interest has begun to examine ...
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It has long been an interest of researchers in economics, sociology, organization studies, and economic geography to understand how firms innovate. Most recently, this interest has begun to examine the micro-processes of work and organization that sustain social creativity, emphasizing the learning and knowing through action when social actors and technologies come together in ‘communities of practice’; everyday interactions of common purpose and mutual obligation. These communities are said to spark both incremental and radical innovation. This book examines the concept of communities of practice and its applications in different spatial, organizational, and creative settings. Chapters examine the development of the concept, the link between situated practice and different types of creative outcome, the interface between spatial and relational proximity, and the organizational demands of learning and knowing through communities of practice. More widely, the chapters examine the compatibility between markets, knowledge capitalism, and community; seemingly in conflict with each other, but discursively not.Less
It has long been an interest of researchers in economics, sociology, organization studies, and economic geography to understand how firms innovate. Most recently, this interest has begun to examine the micro-processes of work and organization that sustain social creativity, emphasizing the learning and knowing through action when social actors and technologies come together in ‘communities of practice’; everyday interactions of common purpose and mutual obligation. These communities are said to spark both incremental and radical innovation. This book examines the concept of communities of practice and its applications in different spatial, organizational, and creative settings. Chapters examine the development of the concept, the link between situated practice and different types of creative outcome, the interface between spatial and relational proximity, and the organizational demands of learning and knowing through communities of practice. More widely, the chapters examine the compatibility between markets, knowledge capitalism, and community; seemingly in conflict with each other, but discursively not.
Theo Van Leeuwen
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- May 2008
- ISBN:
- 9780195323306
- eISBN:
- 9780199869251
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195323306.003.0008
- Subject:
- Linguistics, Sociolinguistics / Anthropological Linguistics
This chapter adapts the framework for analyzing the representation of social actors (cf. chapter 2) to the domain of visual communication. After discussing the critical import of analyzing ...
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This chapter adapts the framework for analyzing the representation of social actors (cf. chapter 2) to the domain of visual communication. After discussing the critical import of analyzing orientational dimensions of visual imagery such as the gaze, social distance, and angle, the chapter discusses the exclusion of social actors from visual discourses, the way images can allocate roles to social actors, the way images can represent social actors specifically or generically, and as individuals (individualization) or groups (assimilation), and the ways in which images can categorize social actors (biological and cultural categorization). To bring out its potential for critical discourse analysis, the framework is used in an analysis of white representations of blacks.Less
This chapter adapts the framework for analyzing the representation of social actors (cf. chapter 2) to the domain of visual communication. After discussing the critical import of analyzing orientational dimensions of visual imagery such as the gaze, social distance, and angle, the chapter discusses the exclusion of social actors from visual discourses, the way images can allocate roles to social actors, the way images can represent social actors specifically or generically, and as individuals (individualization) or groups (assimilation), and the ways in which images can categorize social actors (biological and cultural categorization). To bring out its potential for critical discourse analysis, the framework is used in an analysis of white representations of blacks.
Theo Van Leeuwen
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- May 2008
- ISBN:
- 9780195323306
- eISBN:
- 9780199869251
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195323306.003.0009
- Subject:
- Linguistics, Sociolinguistics / Anthropological Linguistics
This chapter adapts the framework for representing social actors (chapter 2) to the domain of children's toys. Focusing specifically on the Playmobil range of toys, the chapter investigates how ...
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This chapter adapts the framework for representing social actors (chapter 2) to the domain of children's toys. Focusing specifically on the Playmobil range of toys, the chapter investigates how children can, and do, use dolls and figurines as a semiotic resource for representing social actors in play. It analyzes Playmobil toys for very young children as a semantic framework with its own inclusions and exclusions, its own ways of structuring the roles, identities and meanings of the social actors included, and of linking categories such as age, gender, class, ethnicity and profession or trade to specific representational features and attributes. The chapter ends with an account of the way children use Playmobil as a resource for rehearsing their understandings of the social world around them.Less
This chapter adapts the framework for representing social actors (chapter 2) to the domain of children's toys. Focusing specifically on the Playmobil range of toys, the chapter investigates how children can, and do, use dolls and figurines as a semiotic resource for representing social actors in play. It analyzes Playmobil toys for very young children as a semantic framework with its own inclusions and exclusions, its own ways of structuring the roles, identities and meanings of the social actors included, and of linking categories such as age, gender, class, ethnicity and profession or trade to specific representational features and attributes. The chapter ends with an account of the way children use Playmobil as a resource for rehearsing their understandings of the social world around them.
LUIS RONIGER and MARIO SZNAJDER
- Published in print:
- 1999
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198296157
- eISBN:
- 9780191685200
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198296157.003.0008
- Subject:
- Political Science, Comparative Politics
This chapter examines the social factors that influenced the redefinition of public life and collective identities in the Southern Cone countries of Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay in the wake of ...
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This chapter examines the social factors that influenced the redefinition of public life and collective identities in the Southern Cone countries of Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay in the wake of redemocratization. It provides examples of the lines of thought and debate through which different social actors tried to come to grips with what the experience of military rule revealed about their society and prospects for future change. It also analyses the role of the cultural domain collective self-understanding in reshaping collective identity.Less
This chapter examines the social factors that influenced the redefinition of public life and collective identities in the Southern Cone countries of Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay in the wake of redemocratization. It provides examples of the lines of thought and debate through which different social actors tried to come to grips with what the experience of military rule revealed about their society and prospects for future change. It also analyses the role of the cultural domain collective self-understanding in reshaping collective identity.
Peter Knoepfel, Corinne Larrue, Frédéric Varone, and Michael Hill
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9781861349071
- eISBN:
- 9781447303121
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781861349071.003.0003
- Subject:
- Sociology, Organizations
This chapter defines policy actors. It explores the various types of policy actors — political-administrative actors, social actors, target groups, beneficiaries, and so on. It explains that the ...
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This chapter defines policy actors. It explores the various types of policy actors — political-administrative actors, social actors, target groups, beneficiaries, and so on. It explains that the various types of actors constitute what is called the ‘basic triangle’ of a policy. It presupposes that a social problem has been defined politically as a public one and that consequently, a public intervention measure of a redistributive nature is imperative. It notes that this precondition concerning the link between the beneficiaries of public initiatives and political-administrative actors is not necessarily a given in everyday reality.Less
This chapter defines policy actors. It explores the various types of policy actors — political-administrative actors, social actors, target groups, beneficiaries, and so on. It explains that the various types of actors constitute what is called the ‘basic triangle’ of a policy. It presupposes that a social problem has been defined politically as a public one and that consequently, a public intervention measure of a redistributive nature is imperative. It notes that this precondition concerning the link between the beneficiaries of public initiatives and political-administrative actors is not necessarily a given in everyday reality.
Jacob Torfing, B. Guy Peters, Jon Pierre, and Eva Sørensen
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199596751
- eISBN:
- 9780191738180
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199596751.003.0005
- Subject:
- Political Science, Comparative Politics
unities, it is only natural that the individuals interested in the concept would attempt to find some ways of measuring the concept. Governance at its most basic level means the capacity of actors ...
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unities, it is only natural that the individuals interested in the concept would attempt to find some ways of measuring the concept. Governance at its most basic level means the capacity of actors (both official institutions themselves and those operating in concert with social actors) to set andAs the term governance has become used more commonly in both the academic and practitioner comm pursue collective goals, and secondarily to do so in a democratic manner. Existing indicator systems for governance coming from the World Bank and others, as important as they may be for assessing many aspects of development, do not assess effectively the goal-setting and process attributes that we will argue (see below) are central to understanding governance. In addition to the difficulties in measuring governance per se, there are perhaps greater problems involved in measuring interactive governance. In addition to the issues involved in the capacity to influence the economy and society, there is the need to understand how interactions with social actors are involved in these processes. This need may therefore involve greater concern with processes as well as with the most basic issues of the consequences of governing.Less
unities, it is only natural that the individuals interested in the concept would attempt to find some ways of measuring the concept. Governance at its most basic level means the capacity of actors (both official institutions themselves and those operating in concert with social actors) to set andAs the term governance has become used more commonly in both the academic and practitioner comm pursue collective goals, and secondarily to do so in a democratic manner. Existing indicator systems for governance coming from the World Bank and others, as important as they may be for assessing many aspects of development, do not assess effectively the goal-setting and process attributes that we will argue (see below) are central to understanding governance. In addition to the difficulties in measuring governance per se, there are perhaps greater problems involved in measuring interactive governance. In addition to the issues involved in the capacity to influence the economy and society, there is the need to understand how interactions with social actors are involved in these processes. This need may therefore involve greater concern with processes as well as with the most basic issues of the consequences of governing.
Esther M. K. Cheung
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9789622099777
- eISBN:
- 9789882206953
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5790/hongkong/9789622099777.003.0007
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
The generic characteristics and subversion in Made in Hong Kong present a film of timeliness, both as a critical response to commercial genre films and as a self-sufficient narrative film. Chan ...
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The generic characteristics and subversion in Made in Hong Kong present a film of timeliness, both as a critical response to commercial genre films and as a self-sufficient narrative film. Chan “grassroots” the world by way of his do-it-yourself model, although he is not always alienated from the industry and the mainstream. Grassrooting the space of flows, involves creating pressure from the grassroots, inserting personal meaning by social actors, and developing autonomous expression and purposive horizontal communities. Fruit Chan achieved this kind of grassrooting and inspired other filmmakers to follow suit.Less
The generic characteristics and subversion in Made in Hong Kong present a film of timeliness, both as a critical response to commercial genre films and as a self-sufficient narrative film. Chan “grassroots” the world by way of his do-it-yourself model, although he is not always alienated from the industry and the mainstream. Grassrooting the space of flows, involves creating pressure from the grassroots, inserting personal meaning by social actors, and developing autonomous expression and purposive horizontal communities. Fruit Chan achieved this kind of grassrooting and inspired other filmmakers to follow suit.
John A. Hall
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- October 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780691153261
- eISBN:
- 9781400847495
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691153261.003.0012
- Subject:
- Political Science, International Relations and Politics
This concluding chapter argues that anxiety and even hostility have been shown to be the actions of states; when they put ideological dreams into effect, they become enemies of civility, and all too ...
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This concluding chapter argues that anxiety and even hostility have been shown to be the actions of states; when they put ideological dreams into effect, they become enemies of civility, and all too often politicize social actors so as to make them recalcitrant. Virtue should not be the business of states, and visions should remain private. This is not to say for a moment that states are not needed. Civil behavior by political elites can lead to the creation and maintenance of an inclusive and open frame within which people, blessed with negative resisting power, can experiment with their lives. The chapter then addresses the problem of economic growth—that is, the creation of decent sufficiencies and negative resisting power.Less
This concluding chapter argues that anxiety and even hostility have been shown to be the actions of states; when they put ideological dreams into effect, they become enemies of civility, and all too often politicize social actors so as to make them recalcitrant. Virtue should not be the business of states, and visions should remain private. This is not to say for a moment that states are not needed. Civil behavior by political elites can lead to the creation and maintenance of an inclusive and open frame within which people, blessed with negative resisting power, can experiment with their lives. The chapter then addresses the problem of economic growth—that is, the creation of decent sufficiencies and negative resisting power.
Fernando Calderón
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- October 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780198716082
- eISBN:
- 9780191784309
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198716082.003.0010
- Subject:
- Business and Management, Knowledge Management
This chapter argues that the current goal of human development is the autonomy and dignity of people. From this point it is possible to analyze processes and developing policies. This goal would ...
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This chapter argues that the current goal of human development is the autonomy and dignity of people. From this point it is possible to analyze processes and developing policies. This goal would constitute the main demand of the people who seek new ways of life in the cultural, institutional, socio-economical, ecological, and political forms. Dignity would give a new meaning to development. For this, the chapter proposes the idea of a “human development agency.” The chapter culminates with a corollary about the pedagogy of the proposal. The argument is supported in the approach of the sociology of the actor and in the concepts and empirical findings of human development reports, particularly in the global reports and some regional and national reports promoted by the United Nations in which the author has participated. This chapter is also based on the discussions of the group that has worked on the projectLess
This chapter argues that the current goal of human development is the autonomy and dignity of people. From this point it is possible to analyze processes and developing policies. This goal would constitute the main demand of the people who seek new ways of life in the cultural, institutional, socio-economical, ecological, and political forms. Dignity would give a new meaning to development. For this, the chapter proposes the idea of a “human development agency.” The chapter culminates with a corollary about the pedagogy of the proposal. The argument is supported in the approach of the sociology of the actor and in the concepts and empirical findings of human development reports, particularly in the global reports and some regional and national reports promoted by the United Nations in which the author has participated. This chapter is also based on the discussions of the group that has worked on the project
Alexandra Kaasch and Kerstin Martens (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- November 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780198743996
- eISBN:
- 9780191803994
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198743996.001.0001
- Subject:
- Political Science, International Relations and Politics
This book advances our understanding of the global dimension of social policy by applying the notion of global social governance to actors, their relationships to each other, and their pathways, as ...
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This book advances our understanding of the global dimension of social policy by applying the notion of global social governance to actors, their relationships to each other, and their pathways, as well as their footprints of influence in the specific policy fields of social concern in which they are active. Focusing on a broad array of individual and corporate global social policy actors, ranging from international organizations to state formations and NGOs, the chapters in this book draw a fuller picture of agency in global social policy than what current accounts provide. It considers the multiple facets of individual actors’ scope and legitimacy for a particular actor in conjunction with the configuration of global social governance as characterized by multi-centred and multi-scaled obstacles, as well as diverse forms of collaboration. The book studies the contextualised actors’ range and power in designing, shaping, and facilitating various global social policies. Thus, the chapters discuss the role of particular (corporate) actors within global social policy structures and assess the impact of a number of key organizations, states, groups, and individuals in the governance of global social policy. At the same time, a variety of social policy fields in which these actors are involved are addressed, including the labour market issues, family policy, health policy, and education policy, migration issues, and global (re)distribution via various forms of development aid or remittances.Less
This book advances our understanding of the global dimension of social policy by applying the notion of global social governance to actors, their relationships to each other, and their pathways, as well as their footprints of influence in the specific policy fields of social concern in which they are active. Focusing on a broad array of individual and corporate global social policy actors, ranging from international organizations to state formations and NGOs, the chapters in this book draw a fuller picture of agency in global social policy than what current accounts provide. It considers the multiple facets of individual actors’ scope and legitimacy for a particular actor in conjunction with the configuration of global social governance as characterized by multi-centred and multi-scaled obstacles, as well as diverse forms of collaboration. The book studies the contextualised actors’ range and power in designing, shaping, and facilitating various global social policies. Thus, the chapters discuss the role of particular (corporate) actors within global social policy structures and assess the impact of a number of key organizations, states, groups, and individuals in the governance of global social policy. At the same time, a variety of social policy fields in which these actors are involved are addressed, including the labour market issues, family policy, health policy, and education policy, migration issues, and global (re)distribution via various forms of development aid or remittances.
Ute Klammer, Simone Leiber, and Sigrid Leitner
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- January 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781447349150
- eISBN:
- 9781447349204
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781447349150.003.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Social Movements and Social Change
Both social policy and social work contribute to processes of societal (dis-)integration in modern welfare states of the ‘global North’. The interdependence of the two fields is quite often framed as ...
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Both social policy and social work contribute to processes of societal (dis-)integration in modern welfare states of the ‘global North’. The interdependence of the two fields is quite often framed as a one-way road: Reforms in generalised social policy schemes affect social work top-down. By contrast, this book underscores the mutuality of the relationship between social policy and social work by focusing on the bottom-up influence of social work(ers) on the making of social policy, as well as the role of social workers as implementers. The introductory chapter gives an overview of the state of the art regarding this research perspective. In addition, it presents a conceptual framework of social work’s role in social policy-making by using the policy cycle as the core analytical lens. The chapter reflects on possibilities for political influence at the different stages of the policy cycle and explores the opportunities of political action open to different types of social work actors.Less
Both social policy and social work contribute to processes of societal (dis-)integration in modern welfare states of the ‘global North’. The interdependence of the two fields is quite often framed as a one-way road: Reforms in generalised social policy schemes affect social work top-down. By contrast, this book underscores the mutuality of the relationship between social policy and social work by focusing on the bottom-up influence of social work(ers) on the making of social policy, as well as the role of social workers as implementers. The introductory chapter gives an overview of the state of the art regarding this research perspective. In addition, it presents a conceptual framework of social work’s role in social policy-making by using the policy cycle as the core analytical lens. The chapter reflects on possibilities for political influence at the different stages of the policy cycle and explores the opportunities of political action open to different types of social work actors.
Ute Klammer, Simone Leiber, and Sigrid Leitner (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- January 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781447349150
- eISBN:
- 9781447349204
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781447349150.001.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Social Movements and Social Change
Bringing together international case studies, this book offers theoretical and empirical insights into the interaction between social work and social policy. Moving beyond existing studies on policy ...
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Bringing together international case studies, this book offers theoretical and empirical insights into the interaction between social work and social policy. Moving beyond existing studies on policy practice, the book employs the policy cycle as a core analytical frame and focuses on the influence of social work(ers) in the problem definition, agenda setting, policy formulation and implementation of social policy. Twenty-three contributors offer examples of policy making from seven different countries and demonstrate how social work practitioners can become political actors, while also encouraging policy makers to become aware of the potential of social work for the social policy-making process.Less
Bringing together international case studies, this book offers theoretical and empirical insights into the interaction between social work and social policy. Moving beyond existing studies on policy practice, the book employs the policy cycle as a core analytical frame and focuses on the influence of social work(ers) in the problem definition, agenda setting, policy formulation and implementation of social policy. Twenty-three contributors offer examples of policy making from seven different countries and demonstrate how social work practitioners can become political actors, while also encouraging policy makers to become aware of the potential of social work for the social policy-making process.
Philip A. Woodes
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9781847427366
- eISBN:
- 9781447304067
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781847427366.003.0007
- Subject:
- Social Work, Social Policy
This chapter discusses embodied actors, a concept which starkly contrasts with the idea of the ‘empty self’ that is driven by consumerism, consumer products and externalised identities. It ...
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This chapter discusses embodied actors, a concept which starkly contrasts with the idea of the ‘empty self’ that is driven by consumerism, consumer products and externalised identities. It investigates the importance, nature and strengths of the embodied social actor and explores the idea of embodied learning, democratic consciousness and critical democratic actors who enacted the kind of adaptive strategies discussed in the previous chapter.Less
This chapter discusses embodied actors, a concept which starkly contrasts with the idea of the ‘empty self’ that is driven by consumerism, consumer products and externalised identities. It investigates the importance, nature and strengths of the embodied social actor and explores the idea of embodied learning, democratic consciousness and critical democratic actors who enacted the kind of adaptive strategies discussed in the previous chapter.
Ute Klammer, Simone Leiber, and Sigrid Leitner
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- January 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781447349150
- eISBN:
- 9781447349204
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781447349150.003.0014
- Subject:
- Sociology, Social Movements and Social Change
The concluding chapter draws on the results of the different contributions and considers their specific or generalisable character. It sums up how knowledge of the influence of diverse social work ...
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The concluding chapter draws on the results of the different contributions and considers their specific or generalisable character. It sums up how knowledge of the influence of diverse social work actors within different stages of the policy cycle adds to existing research, and which research questions are still pending.Less
The concluding chapter draws on the results of the different contributions and considers their specific or generalisable character. It sums up how knowledge of the influence of diverse social work actors within different stages of the policy cycle adds to existing research, and which research questions are still pending.
Dan P. McAdams
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- August 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780190231217
- eISBN:
- 9780190609061
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190231217.003.0009
- Subject:
- Psychology, Social Psychology
Recent theory and research in psychological science suggests the human personality may be decomposed into three layers consisting of (a) broad dispositional traits of social actors, (b) specific ...
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Recent theory and research in psychological science suggests the human personality may be decomposed into three layers consisting of (a) broad dispositional traits of social actors, (b) specific goals and values of motivated agents, and (c) integrative life stories constructed by autobiographical authors. The author frames the three layers of personality within a broad understanding of evolutionary theory. As members of a cognitively gifted eusocial species, humans evolved to live in complex social groups, striving to get along and get ahead. Dispositional personality traits, characteristic goals and values, and internalized life narratives account for the individual’s unique variation on the evolved design for human nature, specifying adaptive advantages and limitations in group life.Less
Recent theory and research in psychological science suggests the human personality may be decomposed into three layers consisting of (a) broad dispositional traits of social actors, (b) specific goals and values of motivated agents, and (c) integrative life stories constructed by autobiographical authors. The author frames the three layers of personality within a broad understanding of evolutionary theory. As members of a cognitively gifted eusocial species, humans evolved to live in complex social groups, striving to get along and get ahead. Dispositional personality traits, characteristic goals and values, and internalized life narratives account for the individual’s unique variation on the evolved design for human nature, specifying adaptive advantages and limitations in group life.
Emmanuel Gaillard
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- January 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780198739807
- eISBN:
- 9780191802775
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198739807.003.0012
- Subject:
- Law, Public International Law, Company and Commercial Law
This chapter analyses international arbitration as a social field that is structured by social actors and their rituals. The social actors are structured into essentials actors, such as the parties ...
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This chapter analyses international arbitration as a social field that is structured by social actors and their rituals. The social actors are structured into essentials actors, such as the parties and arbitrators; arbitration service providers, such as arbitration institutions and counsel; and value providers, such as states passing arbitration legislation, international organizations, non-governmental organizations, and arbitration scholars. Rituals that structure the interaction of these actors are, inter alia, arbitral hearings, arbitration conferences, and prizes given as symbols of professional recognition. The sociological helps to illustrate how international arbitration has changed during the past decades from a ‘solidaristic’ to a more ‘polarized’ field, in which different roles in the arbitral process are allocated to different actors and where arbitration becomes subject to intense outside scrutiny.Less
This chapter analyses international arbitration as a social field that is structured by social actors and their rituals. The social actors are structured into essentials actors, such as the parties and arbitrators; arbitration service providers, such as arbitration institutions and counsel; and value providers, such as states passing arbitration legislation, international organizations, non-governmental organizations, and arbitration scholars. Rituals that structure the interaction of these actors are, inter alia, arbitral hearings, arbitration conferences, and prizes given as symbols of professional recognition. The sociological helps to illustrate how international arbitration has changed during the past decades from a ‘solidaristic’ to a more ‘polarized’ field, in which different roles in the arbitral process are allocated to different actors and where arbitration becomes subject to intense outside scrutiny.
