The paper analyzes the role-making of an orchestral conductor. It is framed by symbolic interactionist perspective and focuses on Ralph Turner’s theory works Alfred Schütz Howard S. Becker associates. research project based grounded methodology. applied techniques include semi-structured interviews, video-elicited observations teaching conducting opera rehearsals, video analysis, secondary data...

In late 2019, a team of researchers and activists from Ecuador the UK began new oral history project, accompanying Afro-Ecuadorian women living in province Esmeraldas, as they interrogated articulated their heritage. The impact coronavirus, which has hit particularly hard, delayed workshops interviews we had planned, but also created space for an extended exploration ethics project. Over email ...

The literature on conflict management offers two explanations of why the effectiveness of thirdparties to settle militarized disputes differs. The structural research tradition focuses on conflictcharacteristics, while the individualist approaches highlight the background, skills and powerof a mediator, as well as the mediation strategy. This article reconciles these two approaches,...

The authors performed 2 experiments to examine the accessibility of thoughts about group memberships (i.e., collective self-cognitions) relative to thoughts about traits, states, and behaviors (i.e., private self-cognitions). Few collective self-cognitions were accessible for the present participants from an individualist culture. Furthermore, collective self-cognitions were highly associated w...

I explore a type of computational social simulation known as artificial societies. Artificial society simulations are dynamic models of real-world social phenomena. I explore the role that these simulations play in social explanation, by situating these simulations within contemporary philosophical work on explanation and on models. Many contemporary philosophers have argued that models provide...

Serious long-term poverty in the United States is more likely to burden those who come from non-Western, collectivist cultures that socialize people modify behavior accordance with demands made by outside group. People these cultural backgrounds conform less easily individualist, inner-directed, and enterprising culture of States.

<p class="Domylne">The initial aim of this article is to analyze the clash between everyday family practices and parents’ normative images perfect children. I identified five sets features behaviors actual child that mirror daily parents–children interactions (including parental socialization strategies) three reflect perceptions a child. The analysis revealed two “dimensions contradictio...

This paper presents extensions and improvements of previous work, where we defined a CBR system for action selection in the robot soccer domain. We show empirical results obtained with real robots, comparing our team playing approach with an individualist approach. Source URL: https://www.iiia.csic.es/en/node/55378 Links [1] https://www.iiia.csic.es/en/staff/raquel-ros [2] https://www.iiia.csic...