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]
Post Doctoral Associate,
Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford
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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)
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From: Label K Rina Sherman
Sent: Tuesday, May 19, 2015 9:12 AM
To: [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
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*Rina Sherman* – *Label K Film*
www.rinasherman.comOn Tue, May 19, 2015 at 6:21 AM, Cathy Baldwin <
[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. I may be missing
> something here.
>
> Thanks very much indeed.
> 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/
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