In this article, we apply concepts from symbolic interactionism a well-established tradition of interpretivist sociology to investigate the social and political processes involved in a sociotechnical intervention. The intervention was designed to elicit operator involvement in an experimental trial of an advanced manufacturing system at an industrial site in Australia. The interactionist concep...

BACKGROUND Nurses' practice involves working in complex organizational settings and facing multiple stressors over time that can lead to burnout. This study aimed to identify predictors of burnout among nurses working in hospitals. METHOD A sample of 1,157 participants from four hospitals in the city of Porto (Portugal) was investigated (78% women, mean age = 34.7 years) using socio-demograph...

Interaction between people and companion animals provides the basis for a model of the self that does not depend on spoken language. Drawing on ethnographic research in an animal shelter as well as interviews and autoethnography, this article argues that interaction between people and animals contributes to human selfhood. In order for animals to contribute to selfhood in the ways that they do,...

Abstract In spite of their pivotal role in language learning, psychological variables involved learning have received less attention empirical research. Therefore, this paper tried to inspect the effects interventionist DA, interactionist and non-DA on EFL students’ SAF, FLCA, FLLM. To achieve goal, 78 respondents were chosen randomly separated into three groups: EG1 (interactionist DA), EG2 (i...

Developmental systems theory (DST) is often dismissed on the basis that the causal indispensability of nongenetic factors in evolution and development has long been appreciated. A reformulation makes a more substantive claim: that the special role played by genes is also played by some (but not all) nongenetic resources. That special role can be captured by Shea's 'inherited representation'. Fo...

The relationship between cognition and emotion has been one of major stumbling blocks in defining the concept of emotion. We argue that a unified model of cognition and emotion based on interactionist epistemology would allow to unambiguously define emotion and thus facilitate research in affective aspects of speech communication. The main tenet of the model is that cognition itself includes th...