This article describes the use of emotion talk in the context of using a manualised approach to family therapy where the presenting problem is self-harm. Whilst we understand that there is an internal aspect to emotion, we also consider emotions to be socially purposeful, culturally constructed and interactional. We found that within the presenting families, negative emotions were often talked ...

Emerging research is beginning to explore the role of social bonds in science learning. In this study, I develop a novel conceptual framework extending recent education that has adopted Scheff's bond theory understanding use microsociological methods understand and knowledge construction as contemporaneous phenomena through analysis interactional dynamics. Drawing on ethnomethodology an interpr...

Many have proposed that autobiographical stories do more than describe a pre-existing self. Sometimes narrators can change who they are, in part, by telling stories about themselves. But how does this narrative self-construction happen? Most explanations rely on the representational function of autobiographical discourse. These representational accounts of narrative self-construction are necess...

1. Overview Complexity can be viewed as " the property of a real world system that is manifest in the inability of any one formalism being adequate to capture all its properties " (Mikulecky 2001: 344). In the past few decades, this notion has raised significant interest in many disciplines, from physics to biology, mathematics, artificial intelligence, etc. more recently, this cross-disciplina...