During recent decades social theory has struggled with the attempt to overcome both subjectivist and structuralist conceptions. In this effort, actors have been understood to construct social reality through their practices. Thus, social practices are socially constructed at the same time. Neither subjects nor objects existed prior to this work of construction; the nature of reality is therefor...

in a speech community, people utilize their communicative competence which they have acquired from their society as part of their distinctive sociolinguistic identity. they negotiate and share meanings, because they have commonsense knowledge about the world, and have universal practical reasoning. their commonsense knowledge is embodied in their language. thus, not only does social life depend...

One aspect of library quality is as ‘library a place’. As the main that influences customer satisfaction, place needs to get attention from including structuring layout facilities. This study aims determine facilities according native digital generation at Christian Petra University Library. If are arranged with good layout, there will be an increase in productivity, work efficiency and have im...

Virtual reality appears to be a promising and motivating platform to safely practice and rehearse social skills for children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). However, the literature to date is subject to limitations in elucidating the effectiveness of these virtual reality interventions. This study investigated the impact of a Virtual Reality Social Cognition Training to enhance social ski...

Risk perception is due to a subjective evaluation of reality and depends on a number of factors such as: individual coherence and flexibility, the set of social values and rules that contributed to the definition of the individuals' interior world - this does not always make proper risk perception possible. Even though the way common people set-up their own judgment is based on their own interp...

This study addresses ways in which inmates at the only maximum-security prison for women in Neuse City (in the northeastern United States) redefine their social world in order to survive incarceration. An aim of the project is to engage in theory building in order to examine the experiences of a world that is “lived in the round.” A life in the round is a public form of life. It is a lifestyle ...

“Is there no way to make the electron microscope more powerful?” was one of the questions that Richard Feynman asked in his famous 1959 talk ‘There’s plenty of room at the bottom’. Feynman devoted about a tenth of his lecture to electron microscopy, saying, among other things, that the electron microscopes of the day were “one hundred times too poor,” and that their performance was far from bei...

Previous research demonstrated social influence resulting from mimicry (the chameleon effect); a confederate who mimicked participants was more highly regarded than a confederate who did not, despite the fact that participants did not explicitly notice the mimicry. In the current study, participants interacted with an embodied artificial intelligence agent in immersive virtual reality. The agen...