Active Social Symbolic Selves: Vygotskian Traditions

Active Social Symbolic Selves: the Phenomenological Sociology Tradition

Anxiety in Action: Sullivan's Interpersonal Psychiatry as a Supplement to Vygotskian Psychology

Psychiatric issues such as the formation of intimate bonds, personality, anxiety, and antisocial behavior tend to have little place in Vygotskian and neo-Vygotskian studies, giving the impression that all humans are competent and cooperative participants in social interaction. Nonetheless, Vygotsky himself was interested in psychiatric issues and contributed to psychiatric practice. Harry Stack...

Leveraging Identity to Make Learning Fun: Possible Selves and Experiential Learning in Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOGs)

Elizabeth Simpson (2005) believes the relevance and engagement demands of today's generation of learners are largely unmet in typically didactic classrooms. Video games, she argues, can provide an opportunity to meet this challenge, since many teenagers already choose to live much of their real social lives in virtual space—exchanging instant messages, meeting friends online, and interacting wi...

Designing Social Computing using Traditions of Symbolism, Personalization, and Gift Culture Patches is a wearable social networking system that is expressive and emotional, and brings meaning to social interaction

This paper explores social computing from the perspective of sociology and its effect on social networks. We focus on traditions of symbolism, personalization, and gift culture to better understand the lived experience of participants engaging in social networking tasks. Our review reveals the importance of symbolic communication, creating strong emotional ties through personalization, and crea...

Experience of Symbolic Violence among Immigrant Student’s and Its Psychosocial Consequences

Introduction: Migration, in addition to social, cultural, and economic consequences, undoubtedly has different psychological consequences for immigrants. These consequences can have a huge impact on their mental health. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to investigate the experience of symbolic violence and its psycho-social consequences among immigrant students and to determine its fina...