Bridging Micro, Meso, and Macro Processes in Social Psychology

Jaspal, Rusi; Carriere, Kevin R.; Moghaddam, Fathali M.

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-21094-0_15

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“…For example, similar to our earlier illustration with mask wearing, Jaspal et al. (2016, pp. 270–271) discuss an interesting example of how artifacts can represent moral orders and position individuals.…”

Section: Critiques Of Positioning Theory: Epistemological and Methodological Stocktakingsupporting

confidence: 76%

Positioning theory, embodiment, and the moral orders of objects in social dynamics: How positioning theory has neglected the body and artifactual knowing

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The work of Rom Harré was groundbreaking in attention to the dynamics of social episodes as discursively produced. In particular, Positioning Theory, as introduced and explicated by Harré and colleagues, focused on the examination of speech and other acts to consider positions and storylines. Positioning theorists also considered the shifting patterns of rights and duties that shape and are shaped by social interaction. In this article, we briefly revisit positioning theory. We then review two critiques of positioning theory—that positioning scholars have neglected real world, naturalistic data and that positioning theory places too much emphasis on verbocentric communication (e.g., speaking, writing). Drawing upon some of the earlier observations of Harré and his collaborators, we urge consideration of artifactual and embodied positions. Extending beyond conversational interactions, we consider how the embodied actions and the artifacts produced by individuals can be analyzed. The paper includes data‐based examples of embodied interactions related to artifacts and multimodal communication in a children’s engineering literacy club. The examples demonstrate the ways in which moral orders are created and represented through multimodal interactions with artifacts as well as gesture, speech, and embodied actions.

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Section: Critiques Of Positioning Theory: Epistemological and Methodological Stocktakingsupporting

confidence: 76%

Positioning theory, embodiment, and the moral orders of objects in social dynamics: How positioning theory has neglected the body and artifactual knowing

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“…The theory holds that norm violation precipitates a process of escalation or de-escalation of negative intergroup behaviour by group members whose norms have been violated, who attribute norm violation to the malevolent intent of the other group's members. These results are hypothesised to be dependent on such factors like attribution styles and intergroup attitudes at the micro level, group identity at the meso level, and perceptions of relative power and relative deprivation that come out of the position that their groups hold in social and political structures of a society (Jaspal, Carriere, & Moghaddam, 2016;Kawakami & Dion, 1993). It is with this in view that this article seeks to investigate how felt emotions by individuals on their group's behalf influence their reaction to violation of social norms in the context of their group's position in the social, economic and political structures of the society.…”

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Emotional Reactions to Intergroup Norm Violations

Tripathi

Kumar

Siddiqui

et al. 2018

Psychology and Developing Societies

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The present study investigates emotional reactions that follow norm violations involving Hindus and Muslims in India. It also studies how in-group's emotional reaction is predicted by the emotion that the group experiences in tandem with certain contextual factors, such as, fraternal relative deprivation (FRD), social identity, power to harm and resource power. Data were collected on 221 Hindus and 167 Muslims. Three different types of norm-violating situations were presented and subjects were asked to rate the extent to which they and their group will experience anger, fear or anxiety in such situations. Respondents were asked to choose between conciliation, retaliation and retribution as one of their preferred emotional reactions. Although, conciliation was the most preferred reaction for resolving conflicts for both, Hindus and Muslims, this preference changed from one situation to another. Across three situations, anger was the most intensely experienced emotion followed by the emotions of anxiety and fear. Anger evoked retaliatory reactions among Hindus while Muslims preferred a retributory reaction in situations involving strong norm violations.

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“…This sort of multilevel analysis is useful to differentiate among the centrality within the entire network (whole classroom) and the local relational environment of subjects (egocentric network). As some authors suggest, the combination of egocentric and sociocentric analysis is especially pertinent for linking the micro level and the macro level processes that shape the embeddedness of individuals within social groups [43,44].…”

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A Relational View of Psychological Empowerment and Sense of Community in Academic Contexts: A Preliminary Study

Ramos-Vidal

2019

Behavioral Sciences

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Scholars need to pay attention to understand the factors that shape the interactions between individuals and social groups. Constructs like Psychological Sense of Community (PSoC) and Psychological Empowerment (PE) are powerful constructs used to evaluate the antecedents and the consequences of individual attachment to social settings. In parallel, recent advances in network analysis show that the position occupied within whole networks and ego-centric networks are relational factors that affect the subjective perception of membership to social groups. Studies that are conducted in organizational and community settings show strong associations between PSoC and PE. However, these connections have rarely been evaluated within natural settings such as the classroom context. On the other hand, although the theoretic basis of PSoC and PE claims that both processes are formed in a relational way, there are few studies that empirically evaluate the effects of social connectedness on the emergence of PSoC—referred to the classroom—and PE referred to academic-task development. The aim of this research is to determine the effects that the position occupied in formal and informal exchange networks induce on PSoC and PE dimensions. Sixty-four students enrolled in a master degree program (women = 68.8%, Mean age = 26.09, SD = 3.88) participated in this cross-sectional study. Multivariate analyses and network analyses were performed to test the hypotheses under study. The main research finding is that PSoC and PE are synergistic constructs that mutually shape to each other. In relational terms, by sending several nominations in informal networks, it is possible to generate notable impacts on some PSoC dimensions, while receipt of a wide number of nominations in formal contact networks is associated with high levels of PE. In addition, individuals who present high levels of PE are located in the core of formal exchange networks. These results are discussed in order to design actions to increase PSoC and PE in postgraduate academic settings.

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Bridging Micro, Meso, and Macro Processes in Social Psychology

Abstract: Social psychology and cultural psychology have long been concerned with exploring the relationship between individuals and society (Valsiner & Rosa, 2007). A broad division has

Cited by 25 publications

References 13 publications

Positioning theory, embodiment, and the moral orders of objects in social dynamics: How positioning theory has neglected the body and artifactual knowing

Positioning theory, embodiment, and the moral orders of objects in social dynamics: How positioning theory has neglected the body and artifactual knowing

Emotional Reactions to Intergroup Norm Violations

A Relational View of Psychological Empowerment and Sense of Community in Academic Contexts: A Preliminary Study

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