Personal and Social Change

Breakwell, Glynis M.; Rowett, Colin

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“…Monteith & Mark (2005, 116) use empirical evidence to show that paying attention to the affects of interaction can cause low‐prejudiced individuals to better embody their beliefs and values, bringing about positive personal change. Change at the personal level reverberates at the social level (Breakwell & Rowett 1982, 86).…”

Section: Positional Affectsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Being Alongside and Becoming Researcher: Art Practice, Accountability and Convergence in the Studio

Atkinson¹

2020

Int J Art Design Ed

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This article offers an analysis of a period of autoethnographic fieldwork conducted at Venture Arts, an art studio in Manchester (UK) that provides infrastructure to support people with intellectual disabilities to participate in the visual arts. The analysis is concerned with two 'discomfort zones' that have become apparent in the research period. The first is my positionality as a researcher in the studio space. In this section I draw on new materialism and critical disability studies to propose my methodology, mode of analysis and strategies of writing. In writing towards an understanding of my positionality and associated affective flows, the second discomfort zone provides an exposition of my emerging methodology. In this section I analyse my fieldnotes to explore the tensions and alliances between different zones of practice in the Venture Arts studio, and their relationship with existing conceptions of contemporary art and relational art. While each of these lenses offers tools through which to understand the artistic practice that arises out of the studio, none of them does completely. Instead, I propose an alternative account that recognises the overlapping, converging and co-constituted zones of practice in the Venture Arts studio.

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Section: Positional Affectsmentioning

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Being Alongside and Becoming Researcher: Art Practice, Accountability and Convergence in the Studio

Atkinson¹

2020

Int J Art Design Ed

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“…However, after the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the fall of the Berlin Wall, there has been a small surge of research on social change in psychology. For example, several edited books (e.g., Thomas and Veno, 1992; Breakwell and Lyons, 1996; Crockett and Silbereisen, 2000) and special issues of journals (Silbereisen and Tomasik, 2010; Blackwood et al, 2013) have focused exclusively on social change and on people's reactions to it. For clarity purposes, Table 3 attempts to summarize the various theories or perspectives in different subfields of cultural and social psychology while Table 4 attempts to do so in subfields of psychology.…”

Section: Social Change In Sociology and Psychologymentioning

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“…For example, for Breakwell and Lyons (1996), changes involve the disintegration of previous national and international order and sets in motion a process of re-definition and re-evaluation of societal norms, belief systems, and power structures. While the communal sense of continuity and permanence is challenged, social change often represents a period of massive transformations in political, social, and economic structures (e.g., Goodwin, 1998; Kim and Ng, 2008; Chen, 2012).…”

Section: Constructing a Typology Of Social Change: The Characteristicmentioning

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“…This is in agreement with Albert's (1977) proposition: “Rapid change constitutes a major threat to self-identity” (p. 499). Similarly, in their book entitled Changing European Identities , Breakwell and Lyons (1996) discuss the mechanisms associated with change in identities in the context of the development of the European Union and refer to a loss of national identity. This change in cultural identity is similar to what Wall and Louchakova (2002) describe as a “shift in the cultural collective consciousness” (p.253).…”

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“…However, the shift occurs at a much more rapid pace, provoking a break with the past. Some authors have highlighted this sense of discontinuity by referring to DSC as the disintegration of a previous social order or as the break in a frame of reference (Golembiewski et al, 1976; Nadler and Tushman, 1995; Breakwell and Lyons, 1996). They also use terms such as the “construction of something new,” a “reconceptualization,” or a “re-definition.” Indeed, the breakdown of a social structure conveys the need for the reconstruction of core elements in a society.…”

Section: The Typology Of Social Changementioning

confidence: 99%

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Toward a Psychology of Social Change: A Typology of Social Change

Sablonnière

2017

Front. Psychol.

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Millions of people worldwide are affected by dramatic social change (DSC). While sociological theory aims to understand its precipitants, the psychological consequences remain poorly understood. A large-scale literature review pointed to the desperate need for a typology of social change that might guide theory and research toward a better understanding of the psychology of social change. Over 5,000 abstracts from peer-reviewed articles were assessed from sociological and psychological publications. Based on stringent inclusion criteria, a final 325 articles were used to construct a novel, multi-level typology designed to conceptualize and categorize social change in terms of its psychological threat to psychological well-being. The typology of social change includes four social contexts: Stability, Inertia, Incremental Social Change and, finally, DSC. Four characteristics of DSC were further identified: the pace of social change, rupture to the social structure, rupture to the normative structure, and the level of threat to one's cultural identity. A theoretical model that links the characteristics of social change together and with the social contexts is also suggested. The typology of social change as well as our theoretical proposition may serve as a foundation for future investigations and increase our understanding of the psychologically adaptive mechanisms used in the wake of DSC.

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From majority to minority and vice versa: The asymmetrical effects of losing and gaining majority position within a group.

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Limbert²,

Bauer³

2000

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

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Two studies examined the effects of stable, partially changed, and completely changed majority and minority positions within a group on perception and evaluation of the group. It was hypothesized that loss of majority position (majority-to-minority change) would have stronger effects than gain of majority position (minority-to-majority change). The hypothesized asymmetrical effect was demonstrated in that loss of majority position decreased perception of group-self similarity, group attraction, and expectations for positive interactions with the group, whereas a corresponding gain of position did not increase them. Thus immediately following changes, the group is especially fragile because disintegrative forces created by the loss of majority position are stronger than integrative forces created by the gain of majority position.

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Personal and Social Change

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Being Alongside and Becoming Researcher: Art Practice, Accountability and Convergence in the Studio

Being Alongside and Becoming Researcher: Art Practice, Accountability and Convergence in the Studio

Toward a Psychology of Social Change: A Typology of Social Change

From majority to minority and vice versa: The asymmetrical effects of losing and gaining majority position within a group.

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