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Hello Cathy and Laban Most of Thomas Scheff's papers are available on his website: http://www.soc.ucsb.edu/faculty/scheff/ success Dirck -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- From: Cathy Baldwin Sent: Thursday, May 21, 2015 4:53 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Social bonds and social process definitions Hi Laban, Your work sounds great!! Yes I too have looked at the social capital literature on strong and weak bonds, but I want something which explains the process of interaction and emotional experience that leads to the bonds. I'm trying to stress the role of 'the social' - interaction and relationship building - to psychology and public health people. I'm really sorry, I don't have any copies of Scheffer's papers as yet because I'm currently in Australia far from a university library and have, so far unsuccessfully, been trying to find them on the net with my university login. Do you have access to any health or psychology mailing lists that might be worth a post and request? I'll give this some thought too. Has anyone thought much about a definition of social process also? It seems to be a taken for granted term, but how is actually defined? Thanks v much. best wishes, Cathy Dr Cathy Baldwin, [log in to unmask] Post Doctoral Associate, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford http://www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/about-us/affiliates-emeriti-research-fellows/dr-cathy-baldwin/ ________________________________ From: Musinguzi Laban [[log in to unmask]] Sent: 20 May 2015 18:09 To: Cathy Baldwin; [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Social bonds and social process definitions Dear Cathy, Thank you for opening up this discussion. I am currently studying more or less the same thing- Community health in a rural village in Uganda. I must say given that my background is not in Anthropology or Sociology, i am facing alot of difficulty defining and, more importantly applying these concepts especially bonding. So in the end i decided to use the framework provided in the social capital literature to conceptualize (which is ofcourse sociological) bonding as resources that inhere in exclusive social groups. So i also use these concepts of social groups, bonding social capital to try to advance an argument that communities can improve their own health, and that bonding relations evolve as they encounter external interventions. I was looking forward to reading this book-Emotions, the Social Bond, and Human Reality, Part/Whole Analysis by Thomas Scheff but for some reason i couldnt access on my University Library. Is it possible to have a pdf if you have one? or any other articles that have used his framework in understanding bonding? thank you so much LABAN MUSINGUZI KASHAIJA, PhD Candidate, AISSR, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. On Wednesday, May 20, 2015 1:00 PM, Cathy Baldwin <[log in to unmask]> wrote: Hi Rina and Moira, Thanks very much indeed for these refs. I will have a good look. Moira - I am also using the term 'social bonds' in a community health context - writing a paper with one other - on applying a new psychosocial concept of subjective well-being called 'community flourishing' to health impact assessments (HIA) of public spaces. These assessment studies are focusing on good 'social cohesion' and 'social connectedness' (more sociological /public policy terms) in communities as 'determinants of health' (public health concept). One communities' definition of social cohesion includes the term 'social bonds' - and as an anthro by training - but working rather interdisciplinarily these days - I wanted an interactive, anthro understanding of 'social bonds' and how they're formed/negotiated. I found Hirschi,1969; Scheffer, 1997 - in sociology - so thank you for affirming that Scheffer is a key person - his stuff is very social psychological it seems, but great he has an article on the sociological understanding of bonds, as that is a little closer to where I come from (urban UK anthropology). I'd love to know more about what a clinical anthropologist does -it sounds like a fascinating borderline to tread! Thanks v much again for your generous replies both of you. Best wishes, Cathy Dr Cathy Baldwin, [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Post Doctoral Associate, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford http://www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/about-us/affiliates-emeriti-research-fellows/dr-cathy-baldwin/ ________________________________________ From: The Anthropology-Matters forum mailing list [[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>] on behalf of Moira CTT [[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>] Sent: 20 May 2015 11:16 To: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: Social bonds and social process definitions Dear Cathy I do not know excaclty in what (research/analytical) contexts you are going to use this concept. My position on it is: I am a clinical anthropologist and co-educte transcultural family therapists. Hence my conception of how people interrelate is interactive and systemic (see below) The 'social bond' is an 'ancient' concept in sociology but as far as I know did Thomas Scheff re-develop the concept interactively (on Bateson and Goffman) in his boek in 1990 and some papers (see below two publications). I think I took theory beyond the social bond and the interactive (and symbolic interaction) by combining anthropological theory with family therapy (Batesionian) theory. This came about during my ten years of clinical fieldwork. I studied multicultural groups of (about 500) young men (with their families/communities) in the Netherlands. (for publications see http://anthropo-gazing.academia.edu/DirckVanBekkum) Central is the dynamic-processual concept of balancing of loyalties in and between humans. This 'root concept', from an Anthropological Gaze people, is part of the ideaa that people (human communities) are 'systemically' driven by evolutionary forces conceptualized by Family & Community Continuity. (for abstract/PPT see https://www.academia.edu/11326067/2015_FAMILY_AND_COMMUNITY_CONTINUITY_Co-Creating_Transitional_Spaces_for_Permanence_in_Change) success and greetings Dirck van Bekkum clinical-systemic anthropologist PAPER: Thomas J. Scheff, Shame and the Social Bond: A Sociological Theory, , dowload: http://www.soc.ucsb.edu/faculty/scheff/main.php?id=2.html in: Sociological Theory, Volume 18, Issue 1, pages 84–99, March 2000 BOOK: Scheff, Thomas J., Emotions, the social bond, and human reality: Part/whole analysis. Studies in emotion and social interaction, second series. New York, NY, US: Cambridge University Press; Paris, France: Editions de la Maison des Sciences de l'Homme. (1997). ix 249 pp. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511549496 Abstract: This book outlines and gives examples of a new approach to research in the human sciences. It puts into practice the recommendation of C. W. Mills, for what he called the exercise of the sociological imagination. It is referred to here as part/whole analysis. The focus of this book is the study of emotions and social bonds and their interrelationships, but it codifies the methodological dimension. The author's goal is to describe an approach to all human research that allows the interpenetration of theory, method, and data in such a way that each equally casts light on the other, generating a theory that is based directly on observations of actual human behavior, both inner experience and outer conduct. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved) -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- From: Label K Rina Sherman Sent: Tuesday, May 19, 2015 9:12 AM To: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: Social bonds and social process definitions Cathy, hi You may want to look at an article just published in Trabalhos de Antropologia e Etnologia <http://revistataeonline.weebly.com/> *Exchanges in multimedia ethnographic fieldwork As experienced during the Ovahimba years – Les années Ovahimba - An ethnographic study in text, film and photography: Namibia – Angola 1997 -2004 <http://revistataeonline.weebly.com/uploads/2/2/0/2/22023964/tae53-55_ovahimba_years_sherman_10.pdf>* *(Rina Sherman) * All the best, Rina *https://www.facebook.com/LabelsK <https://www.facebook.com/LabelsK>* https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Ovahimba-Years-Les-ann%C3%A9es-Ovahimba-Rina-Sherman/1590240904568021 ________________________ *Rina Sherman* – *Label K Film* www.rinasherman.comOn Tue, May 19, 2015 at 6:21 AM, Cathy Baldwin < [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote: > Hi there, > > I am looking for papers which define social bonds and how they are formed, > and debate the meaning of the term 'social process'. These are basic > concepts with varied definitions in sociology but as a late comer to > anthropology, I was wondering if I am missing a great literature in > anthropology? > Sorry for the apparent basicness of this question - but was wondering if > anyone could help? I'm assuming 'social bonds' might sit on the interface > between biological and socio-cultural anthropology. These seem to be terms > which are regularly used but rarely defined in detail. 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