The Social Turn in the Science of Human Action

Sugiman, Toshio; Gergen, Kenneth J.; Wagner, Wolfgang; Yamada, Yōko

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“…Qualitative methods were privileged to highlight the personal, interpersonal and social theories used by people to give sense to the health issue derived by the particular brain damage. [42][43][44] Data collection and analysis were conducted in accordance with the guidelines for rigour in qualitative research. 37,41 We preferred a particular form of semistructured narrative interview 45,46 since it allows attention to meanings and themes FACCIO ET AL.…”

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(Re)constructing identity following acquired brain injury: The complex journey of recovery after stroke

Faccio,

Fonte,

Smania

et al. 2023

Health Expectations

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IntroductionPeople with poststroke acquired brain injury (ABI) face a complex and often troubled identity reconstruction journey. The literature is rich with studies related to the psychological and neuropsychological components involved in rehabilitation, but it is lacking with respect to the investigation of the existential dimensions and the challenges associated with finding new senses and meanings for one's identity and future perspectives, body and interpersonal relationships.MethodsThe aim of this study is to investigate the narrative processes of identity reconstruction after brain damage. Through a qualitative approach, 30 autobiographical narratives about self, body and the relationships with others were collected and analyzed. Semistructured interviews were used for the data collection. Narrative and positioning analysis were applied.ResultsFour main positionings emerged: sanctioning a radical break with one's previous life; assuming a sense of salvation and compulsory as well as irreversible adaptation to the limitations associated with one's condition; feeling different and disabled; and considering new possibilities and active constructions of self‐being in relationship with others. These results underline the narrative processes of construction of the injury and the identity and delineate possible resources and instruments to improve the clinical practice for health practitioners. They are also valuable for other professionals who deal with neurological services and rehabilitation, such as psychological counselling and support for persons who have experienced ABI and their families.Patient or Public ContributionThis work resulted from a close collaboration between two universities and a hospital neurological rehabilitation department in the Veneto Region (Northern Italy). Three associations of people with stroke and their families living in the same area contributed to designing the research on the basis of the needs expressed by their members with the aim to identify strategies and devices to be implemented in the public service to improve the care pathway. They also participated in the interpretation of the data.

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(Re)constructing identity following acquired brain injury: The complex journey of recovery after stroke

Faccio,

Fonte,

Smania

et al. 2023

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“…A processual lens explores the emergence of a new venture as it co-acted relationally, focusing on the process of leadership (how), rather than trying to explain its cause (why) or its outcome (what): ‘Process studies put movement, change and flow first; to study processually is to consider the world as restless, something underway, becoming and perishing, without end’ (Hjorth et al, 2015: 599). Here, the nature of entrepreneurial leadership becomes atypical, since the emphasis is on relational processes, their multiple expressions, their embeddedness in entrepreneurial idiosyncrasies, and their constitutive role in venture development (Steyaert, 2007; Sugiman et al, 2008). Venture development comes from the processes under which entrepreneurial leadership unfolds, where the flow happens continuously.…”

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“…As such, the article attests to the social turn in human action, which epitomizes an emphasis on ‘social as opposed to individual process, its multiple manifestations, its lodgment in culture and history, and its vital importance in addressing the future’ (Sugiman et al, 2008: 12). This conceptual orientation furthers the development of leadership as a theoretical notion in entrepreneurship studies, by linking a processual view of relationality to the context of new SME ventures.…”

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Processes of entrepreneurial leadership: Co-acting creativity and direction in the emergence of new SME ventures

Sklaveniti

2017

International Small Business Journal: Researching Entrepreneurs

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This article offers a novel theoretical conception about processes of entrepreneurial leadership in the emergence of a new small- and medium-sized enterprise (SME) venture. It draws on shifts in relational connections among venture participants to conceptualize entrepreneurial leadership through processes of creativity and direction. These processes demonstrate that the co-action of venture participants makes up entrepreneurial leadership and drives the new venture forward. This allows to understand the emergence of a new venture from a lived perspective, flowing from relational processes under which the establishment of the organization is (re)constructed relationally and is made eligible to participants in its narrow and broader societal surroundings.

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“…From the constructionism perspective, 1 the individual's action and identity is viewed as inherently social, more specifically, as deriving from shared meanings (Sugiman, Gergen, Wagner, & Yamada, 2008). Applied to psychopathology, socio-constructionism emphasizes how psychopathological categories, which over time took on a privileged ontological status in the lives of patients, professionals, and public health officials (Gone & Kirmayer, 2010), are not the by-product of specific modalities of the mind's functioning, placed in the individual; rather, they are socially connoted scripts placed within the sphere of social discourse, to which some individuals identify with (K. J.…”

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The Social Construction of the Pathological Gambler's Identity and Its Relationship With Social Adaptation: Narratives From Members of Italian Gambling Anonymous and Gam-Anon Family Groups

Venuleo

Marinaci

2017

JGI

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According to a socio-constructionist perspective, pathological gamblers' ''subjectivities'' emerge out of social networks and networks of meaning-making in which scientists, politicians, health services, and common people take an active part. We are interested in showing how a legitimated view (socio-cultural model) of problem gambling as a disease affects the way in which the members of Gamblers Anonymous (GA) self-groups understand and present their identity and talk about their problem and the help they have received. The work is based on a qualitative analysis of 35 in-depth, semi-structured, open-ended interviews, 25 with gamblers who attend Italian GA self-help groups and 10 with gamblers' relatives who attend Gam-Anon family groups. The main themes arising from the interviews show how a dominant view of problem gambling as a lifelong chronic illness opens the door to reconciliation with oneself and one's relatives. This work provides insights into the close relationship between acculturation to a pathological identity, moral reconciliation, and ''social belonging'' that occurs through conforming to the GA group.Keywords: culture, problem gambling, identity construction, Gambling Anonymous groups, Gam-Anon family groups, pathological identity, social adapting Résumé Selon un point de vue socio-constructiviste, les )subjectivités* des joueurs pathologiques émergent des réseaux sociaux et des réseaux de création de sens dans lesquels les scientifiques, les politiciens, les services de santé et les personnes ordinaires participent activement. Nous sommes intéressés à montrer comment une vision légitimée (modèle socio-culturel) du jeu problématique en tant que maladie affecte la fac¸on dont les membres des groupes autonomes de Gamblers Anonymes (GA) comprennent et présentent leur identité et parlent de leur problème et de l'aide qu'ils ont rec¸u. Le travail est basé sur une analyse qualitative de 35 entrevues approfondies, semistructurées et ouvertes, 25 avec des joueurs qui fréquentent des groupes d'entraide italiens de GA et 10 avec des parents de joueurs qui fréquentent des groupes familiaux Gam-Anon. Les principaux thèmes découlant des entrevues montrent comment une vision dominante du jeu problématique en tant que maladie chronique tout au long de la vie ouvre la voie à la réconciliation avec soi-même et avec ses proches. Ce travail donne un aperc¸u de la relation étroite entre l'acculturation à une identité pathologique, une réconciliation morale et une )appartenance sociale* qui se produit en se conformant au groupe GA.

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The Social Turn in the Science of Human Action

Cited by 7 publications

References 25 publications

(Re)constructing identity following acquired brain injury: The complex journey of recovery after stroke

(Re)constructing identity following acquired brain injury: The complex journey of recovery after stroke

Processes of entrepreneurial leadership: Co-acting creativity and direction in the emergence of new SME ventures

The Social Construction of the Pathological Gambler's Identity and Its Relationship With Social Adaptation: Narratives From Members of Italian Gambling Anonymous and Gam-Anon Family Groups

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