Pub Date : 2024-03-25DOI: 10.1177/1354067x241242411
T. Tsuchimoto, Tamiyo Koyama
To understand new facets of situated freedom, this study explores the socio-cultural process of ‘freedom’ in everyday situations from the trajectory equifinality approach (TEA) perspective. The concept is important for TEA, which describes aspects of ‘free’ choice as constructed through communication between self and society. This study elaborates on and enriches the argument of the situated freedom by considering the authors’ shared experience (bifurcation point; BFP) using the three layers model of genesis (TLMG). Consequently, we depict that freedom is not only located within a situation but also in semiotic communication. Situated freedom for the authors in BFP involves semiotic communication, including imagining the hyper-generalised affective semiotic field for others, represented by the flow of feelings ‘comfort for all’. Amanogawa (the Milky Way), an organic metaphor for the TLMG mountain range, extends this idea. This study demonstrates how freedom-related feelings experienced by the authors emerge in the communication of their socio-cultural context. The Amanogawa metaphor in the TLMG, which bridges the self and society, provides a richer illustration of the semiotic communication between systems in the BFP.
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Pub Date : 2024-03-25DOI: 10.1177/1354067x241242415
Shi-xu
Humanity has never suffered so much from racial repression, social division and cultural domination as in the contemporary world. Freedom is under the severest attack the mankind has ever seen. Erno and Birk timely seize the issue of human freedom and contend that psychologists must turn their attention to it from a practical, political and interdisciplinary perspective, thereby opening up new avenues to human flourishing and self-actualization. And yet this proposal has given still insufficient heed to the cultural nature of freedom. It is the objective of this essay to argue for and sketch out a cultural-discursive approach that purports to provide not just a systematic and precise account of freedom but also a methodological framework for its research.
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Pub Date : 2024-03-22DOI: 10.1177/1354067x241242408
Annukka Pursi, Lasse Lipponen, S. Poulter, Emma Kurenlahti
Being human involves encountering losses to which grief is a common response. No one can escape grief—it is the price of affection and love. In this paper, we aim to understand how grieving unfolds as described in university students’ short narratives of their childhood. Applying a cultural-historical approach, especially the notion of emotional configuration, we explore the interplay of emotion, sense-making, and practice in grief-related childhood life events. Our research problematizes the binary classification of “little and large griefs” and shows that focusing only on death-related grief may devalue losses in childhood that are not related to death. Our findings demonstrate that grief is never isolated, but configured with a variety of other emotions and feelings, and strongly related to children’s own sense-making and worldviews. Attention to emotional configuration shifts our focus from individual grief to the wider cultural-historical practices and sense-making processes in which grief is always intertwined.
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Pub Date : 2024-03-22DOI: 10.1177/1354067x241242410
Vrushali Pathak, K. D. Kharshiing, M. Shahnawaz
The outbreak and rapid spread of the novel coronavirus disease or COVID-19 had health, social and economic ramifications for people worldwide. Using the framework of Social Representation Theory, the present research attempts to understand how emerging adults (18–29 years) made sense of the COVID-19 outbreak, the role of collectives (organizations) in managing it, and the evolution of this understanding over time. The function of this theoretical perspective in the present study is to help make sense of the COVID-19 pandemic as a threatening event and in the process understand if responsibility or blame is attributed to specific collectives. Data was collected in two phases, from ten participants (four males and six females), aged 18–29 years residing in India. Semi-structured interviews were used to generate data. Findings have been discussed as ‘sociogenesis of COVID-19’, ‘role of collectives: heroes, villains, or on the fence’, ‘collective symbolic coping: making sense of collective threats’, and ‘the next normal: learnings from COVID-19). Finally, this study would have implications for research on social representation and its evolution, especially of emerging infectious diseases and the representation of collectives may also be used to reevaluate health policies and get better prepared for future emergencies.
{"title":"COVID-19 and emerging adults in India: A social representation approach","authors":"Vrushali Pathak, K. D. Kharshiing, M. Shahnawaz","doi":"10.1177/1354067x241242410","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1354067x241242410","url":null,"abstract":"The outbreak and rapid spread of the novel coronavirus disease or COVID-19 had health, social and economic ramifications for people worldwide. Using the framework of Social Representation Theory, the present research attempts to understand how emerging adults (18–29 years) made sense of the COVID-19 outbreak, the role of collectives (organizations) in managing it, and the evolution of this understanding over time. The function of this theoretical perspective in the present study is to help make sense of the COVID-19 pandemic as a threatening event and in the process understand if responsibility or blame is attributed to specific collectives. Data was collected in two phases, from ten participants (four males and six females), aged 18–29 years residing in India. Semi-structured interviews were used to generate data. Findings have been discussed as ‘sociogenesis of COVID-19’, ‘role of collectives: heroes, villains, or on the fence’, ‘collective symbolic coping: making sense of collective threats’, and ‘the next normal: learnings from COVID-19). Finally, this study would have implications for research on social representation and its evolution, especially of emerging infectious diseases and the representation of collectives may also be used to reevaluate health policies and get better prepared for future emergencies.","PeriodicalId":309184,"journal":{"name":"Culture & Psychology","volume":" 25","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140219917","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-03-04DOI: 10.1177/1354067x241236719
Charlotta Sophie Sippel, Lisa Weber
Based on the empirical material collected in lifetime-narrative interviews, the article illuminates the multiple experiences of Chilean exiles between solidarity, belonging, Othering and foreignness in the German Democratic Republic (GDR). The focus of the biographical case reconstruction based on Rosenthal is the individual negotiation of Othering practices and narratives, which the interview partners rejected, reinterpreted or strategically used for themselves. The results are biographical snapshots which show that not only encounter with (everyday) racism, but also experienced help and solidarity actions could cause discomfort among the Chilean political exiles, since they reflected the hegemonic conditions underlying their stay in the GDR. The interviewees experienced how state-institutionalised solidarity was linked to the political conditions of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany and had its limits where individuals deviated from the behaviour expected of them. Throughout their lives, the interviewees are torn between Chile and the GDR (and later Germany): Confronted with feelings and constructions of foreignness and belonging(s) in relation to both countries they find different and changing ways of dealing with them over the course of their lives. What they have in common is the impossibility of deciding on a single national identity.
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Pub Date : 2024-03-04DOI: 10.1177/1354067x241236721
Jamile Leidiane dos Santos César, Luca Tateo
Branded clothes and accessories are objects whose meaning extends beyond their use value. Branded items are widely used and consumed by adolescents worldwide, affecting their perception of themselves and of others. Then, how does the use of branded clothes and accessories relate to the identity development and the social relations between adolescents? To answer, we present the result of a netnographic case study focusing on a Brazilian young man, using a mixed-method approach involving observation, social media analysis and semi-structured interviews. First, we develop an innovative theoretical framework in which cultural psychology of semiotic dynamics and psychoanalysis enter in dialogue to understand identity development. Then, we analyse how branded clothes and accessories function as an identifying sign, for both the construction of the participant’s own identity and in relation to others. Finally, we discuss identity beyond the tautology of the self-identical subject, supporting the development of the concept of identity as an identifying mosaic, where identifications are organized fluidly and dynamically throughout an individual’s life.
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Pub Date : 2024-03-01DOI: 10.1177/1354067x241236740
Lorelie Ann Banzon-Librojo
This study is a reexamination of the life stories of 10 male, center-based, Filipino children in conflict with the law (CICL) focusing on the most prominent descriptions of their loob or inner self before entering the youth rehabilitation center, during their commitment at the center, and after they leave the center. Participants were 18–22 years old during the interviews but were charged with committing an offense as minors. An adapted life story interview guide was used to conduct in-depth, face-to-face, semi-structured interviews with the CICL which elicited stories of their past, present, and future. REC-approved protocols and research guidelines for juvenile justice populations were followed in gathering data. Thematic analysis showed that almost all the CICL had sama ng loob or resentments in the past, experienced pagbabagong-loob or a sense of renewal in the present, and expressed their desire to make up by giving back to others in the future because of their utang na loob or sense of gratitude to those who have helped them. The development of the inner self of the CICL from past to present to the future can be described as Nagibâ-Nabubuo-Babawi or Collapsed-Taking Shape-Giving Back. Findings of the study provide a glimpse of the inner self of the CICL from their perspective. It highlights the dynamic movement of the CICL’s inner self which has implications for prevention, intervention, and rehabilitation efforts in relation to youth offending.
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Pub Date : 2024-03-01DOI: 10.1177/1354067x241236727
Gunhild Meen, M. Reime, L. B. Selseng
This article explores discourses of grief and loss among siblings bereaved by drug-related deaths. Although sociocultural context influences how grief is expressed and understood, there is a lack of knowledge about how prevailing discourses on grief provide conditions for dealing with grief. The aim of this study was to draw attention to cultural understandings of grief with the research question: ‘Following a drug-related death, how do bereaved siblings draw on discourses in their talk about grief and how do they position themselves accordingly as bereaved?’ We also examined some social consequences of siblings’ positionings. The data were obtained from in-depth interviews with 10 bereaved adult siblings talking about their experiences. The data were analysed using the interpretative repertoires and positioning perspectives from discourse psychology. Findings revealed four interpretative repertoires displaying a variety of talk about grief: grief as being visibly affected; grief as a hierarchy; grief as something to be managed; grief as a reaction which follows death. These repertoires portray different understandings of grief used by siblings in meaning-making relating to their own experiences of bereavement. The positions produced by the repertoires have consequences for bereaved siblings’ access to help and support. Siblings frequently placed themselves or were placed in positions that produced a lack of social recognition of their grief and hence they were deprived of help and support.
{"title":"‘I’ve tried not to show it too much, and not burden others with my problems’: A discourse analysis of understandings of grief among siblings bereaved by drug-related deaths","authors":"Gunhild Meen, M. Reime, L. B. Selseng","doi":"10.1177/1354067x241236727","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1354067x241236727","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores discourses of grief and loss among siblings bereaved by drug-related deaths. Although sociocultural context influences how grief is expressed and understood, there is a lack of knowledge about how prevailing discourses on grief provide conditions for dealing with grief. The aim of this study was to draw attention to cultural understandings of grief with the research question: ‘Following a drug-related death, how do bereaved siblings draw on discourses in their talk about grief and how do they position themselves accordingly as bereaved?’ We also examined some social consequences of siblings’ positionings. The data were obtained from in-depth interviews with 10 bereaved adult siblings talking about their experiences. The data were analysed using the interpretative repertoires and positioning perspectives from discourse psychology. Findings revealed four interpretative repertoires displaying a variety of talk about grief: grief as being visibly affected; grief as a hierarchy; grief as something to be managed; grief as a reaction which follows death. These repertoires portray different understandings of grief used by siblings in meaning-making relating to their own experiences of bereavement. The positions produced by the repertoires have consequences for bereaved siblings’ access to help and support. Siblings frequently placed themselves or were placed in positions that produced a lack of social recognition of their grief and hence they were deprived of help and support.","PeriodicalId":309184,"journal":{"name":"Culture & Psychology","volume":"34 14","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140082511","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-02-28DOI: 10.1177/1354067x241236726
Glen Rutherford, Sudarat Tuntivivat
In each given situation, our words and deeds carry signs and meanings that are contingent on, and reflect, the social-ecological semiotic settings. The purpose of this work is to better understand the complex organization of psyche, language, and culture. The process of hyper-generalization brings affective and cognitive opposites into the whole sign field and guides the whole relating with the world. As well, the process of semiotic mediation entails signs constraining and enhancing both interpersonal and intrapersonal psychological processes and experiences, including through nested systems (the levels of the individual-the relationship-the community-the societal). We present data for Australia and Thailand on Hofstede’s six culture dimensions, that is, power distance, uncertainty avoidance, masculinity/femininity, individualism/collectivism, short-term/long-term orientation & restraint/indulgence. An idealized and dynamic model of relations of Hofstede’s six culture dimensions and four indeterminate pronouns (e.g., ‘every’-one, ‘some’-one, ‘any’-one, ‘no’ one) is proposed. As a framework for construing the complex semiotic organization of (western, English-speaking) culture and psyche, four “cyclical” regulatory statements are outlined, regarding personal constraint, personal enhancement, cultural constraint, and cultural enhancement in language and culture, that is, in semiotic cultural psychology. Examples on the values of caring for people and planet are given to illustrate the social-ecological semiotic framework.
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Family and generational issues are central to research and debate on migration and culture. In this article we combine perspectives on partner choice and marriage with a narrative approach to intergenerational dynamics. More specifically we have invited young adult Norwegian-Tamils to gather in small groups with same gender peers and reflect on topics of partner choice and marriage. The data resulting from these discussions was contextualized by way of Cigdem Kagitcibasi’s theory of family change and analyzed based on Jerome Bruner’s perspectives on narrative and semiosis. Our results show how narrative analysis can capture and elucidate change processes that occur from one generation to the next. Narrative networks develop around contextualized “problems” and new generations interpret and reproduce both the context and the problems in new ways. Kagitcibasi argues that collectivist family patterns will prevail in the form of psychological interdependence when families migrate from traditional to Western socioeconomic contexts. The tendencies in our data both support and nuance this claim.
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