Pbog 50 days to save the planet 9 2012

50 Days to Save the Planet My Sociological Footprint

➔ One World ~ Many People with different cultures

A working hypothesis by Clive Burgess October 2012

Curious... looking beyond the obvious at the bigger picture ~ developing a cultural model ISTE

My global perspective

Clive Burgess ©Oct 2012


● Developing a new conceptual model● Gathering the information & data● Seeking out the inner connections● Strategy – Interpretive Interaction ● Methodology – Research Practice Schematic ● Ergonomic perspective● Socio-political activities● Teamwork – informal networks

The story so far...



[4. The Essence of the Materialist Conception of History.Social Being and Social Consciousness]The fact is, therefore, that definite individuals who are productively active in a definite way enter into these definite social and political relations. Empirical observation must in each separate instance bring out empirically, and without any mystification and speculation, the connection of the social and political structure with production. The social structure and the State are continually evolving out of the life-process of definite individuals, but of individuals, not as they may appear in their own or other people’s imagination, but as they really are; i.e. as they operate, produce materially, and hence as they work under definite material limits, presuppositions and conditions independent of their will.Karl Marx. The German Ideology. 1845

Clive Burgess ©2012

Strategy – interpretive interaction

“Although thought maybe seen by some as subjective, it is the actions one takes by using ones own definition of the situation and the social relationships between the interactions of the participants and how others respond to the actions taken, which create socially real consequences...”

Clive Burgess 13th July 2005




➔ Interpretive Interaction ➔ Social Political Activities ➔ Teamwork – informal/formal organisation ➔ Ergonomic perspective

The four elements...


Action Science ~ Participant Observation

ISTE the sociology of informal organisational life

Informal Organisation: Role Play Coping Mechanisms


My new framework to conduct my social research on informal organisations will look something like this... ethnography – social construction of culture

➔ Interpretive (Interpretive Interaction) → Plan 'the definition of the situation' → Ethnomethodology → looking at cultural means

➔ Social-political (Ethico-political) → Patterns of Behaviour 'this is how it's done round here' 'the politics of everyday life'

➔ Teamwork → Rational Organisation 'We want this person to this that way, and that person to do that this way and so on' → Division of Labour → Division of effort

➔ Ergonomics → 'we want you to do this with these in this way to protect our health and safety' ...

➔ Using means as such as people's bodies (health) and physical means such as fork-lift trucks (safety) according to cultural norms laws etc


50 Days to Save the Planet Methodology

Action ScienceResearch Practice

Critique

Presentation

Write it up

Everyday Living

Social Research

ConceptualModel

PLANDOCHECKACTREFLECT

● Preparation. Incubation, Illumination, VerificationGraham Wallis The Art of Thought 1950 Clive Burgess ©Oct 2012

Empirical Generalism

Induction ~ Informal Logic ~ Fuzzy Logic ~ Evidence “Doing things”

Theory

Reduction

Hypothesis

Adapted from Richard JohnsonModel in Making Histories

Participant Observation

Research Practice - 13th October 2012

Stuff taken from learnt experience and practice ➔ Customer Focused➔ Coaching➔ Self-managed Teams➔ Person Centred Counselling


Sustainable Development – Basic Elements

Behavioural Health and Safety

Behavioural Economics – 'Climate Change'

Cognitive Ergonomics

Time, Stress and Crises Management

Risk Management

50 Days to Save the PlanetSociety & Relationships

Society = the sum total of or an ensemble of social relationships...How do you define 'social' relationships?A 'relationship' is a quality which can be stated only of two or more entities together where each refers to the other, not of some single thing. 'Social' relationships are where some entity recognized as being 'social' that is people, organisations or societies, are constantly in interaction with each other at some level or another

Relationships may be physical, biological, social or cultural.Example Physical: Cup and Saucer... Biological: Bird and an egg... Social: Husband and Wife... or Home and Work... Cultural: A noun and a verb

Clive Burgess ©2012Clive Burgess 2010

50 Days to Save the PlanetRelationships

Relationships

Activities carried on in relationships

A relationship is an interaction between two people... a husband and a wife is a home relationship … a boss and a worker is a work relationship an interrelationship strictly speaking is a relationship between two relationships

A relationship between two relationships:...eg relationships in the home between husband and wife and relationships at work between a boss and a worker

Interrelationships are therefore relationships between relationships... a woman as a worker at work and the woman as a wife at home

By extension intra-relationships is an activity carried on within a relationship for example the wife having sex with the husband but not with her boss that would be extra-relationships...

Clive Burgess ©2012Clive Burgess 2010

50 Days to Save the PlanetCase Study

Case Study ~War ~ Armed Forces ~ Disability ~ Effects on culture

Research Practice - 13th October 2012● Outcome of mornings work

Case Study ~War ~ Armed Forces ~ Disability ~ Effects on cultureSocial History of Paralympics in relation to the first world war, compared with war injuries to limbs produced by the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Socio-political – Corporate War

Globalisation: Compare Advanced Nations with Developing Nation ~ Advantages in technological advances give disabled service personnel in the Western World in comparison with those with limb injures sustain by people in Africa etc from land mines and wars in their countries etc

ATOS ~ Arms length governmental departments – cost control and work in practice


Research Practice - 13th October 2012Ergonomics – technical advances in medical science

Cultural impact – changing culture ~ the way we read, write, etc

Biological injuries ~ different types and severity

Physical use of the means ~ advances in bio-mechanics & equipment

Social environment – Sustainable Development model

Teamwork ~ Acceptance in Society ~ 'One' supported by many , working together to support disabled personnel ~Armed Forces personnel, Medical technicians, Bio-Mechanical technicians, Planners & Designers, Social workers, Doctors, Nurses, Physiotherapists, Researchers, Counsellors, Support workers, Housing officers,Families, volunteers.

Media research ~ Network Multimedia ~ Use of documentaries on TV, stuff on radio, newspapers, journals, blogs, social networks

Use value~ could this model be used: How would it advance 'adaptability' for technological equipment & culture in relation to 'climate change' and how others see 'climate change'?


50 Days to Save the Planet Areas of Research

COMMUNITIESHubs, Cluster

IncubatorsNetworks

Includes: Welfare – Social Services National Health ServiceNational Care ServicePrison Services -ProbationPensions cut or reducedChild Poverty Target Changed

EDUCATIONEMPLOYMENT

Costs escalatingWages dropping

HOUSING BUILT ENVIRONMENT

Public & AffordableHousing

TRANSPORTINFRASTRUCTURE

Roads, RailSea & Air

ECONOMY

Includes:Fresh waterFlood defenceFood productionForests & WoodlandsCoastlineWaste ManagementFunding Cut

NATIONAL SECURITYIncludes:Armed ForcesPolice, Fire, Ambulance, Coastal Services

Socio-political activities & structure

INTERNATIONALINVESTMENT

Tobin TaxOver seas

Development

ENVIRIONMENT

HEALTH & WELLBEING

ENERGYIncludes:Fuel Security Prices increasedFuel Poverty Target Changed

Coping Mechanisms The environment we find ourselves in


ISTE The Sociology of Informal

Organisational LifeConceptual ModelsUnder Construction

October 2012Clive Burgess


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INTERPRETIVEINTERACTION

ERGONOMICS

SOCIALPOLITICAL


ISTEThe sociology of informal

organisational life

Action ScienceParticipant Observation

ISTE – InformalOrganisational Life Conceptual

Model

HISTORY

TEAMWORK

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EGONOMICSHuman Factor

SOCIAL POLITICAL

Cope with Everyday Life

Cope with Communication

Information & Data

Cope with InstructionsCope with

Technological processes

Cope withusing Technology

Cope withSocial Interactions

Cope with Everyday Risks

Working Together

Self-Control

Clive Burgess & Colin Burgess ©Oct 2012

Roles andResponsibilities

Cope with Alienation Role Distance

BullyingStress

Substance AbuseBlamingSuicide

ISTEThe Sociology of

Informal organisational life

Informal Organisational Life or not as the case may be

Coping Mechanisms

HISTORY

TEAMWORK

ISTE – InformalOrganisational Life

ERGONOMICS

ASPECTS

Clive Burgess Copyright September 2012


SOCIALPOLITICAL

TEAMWORK


SOCIAL Norms



SOCIALPOLITICAL

ERGONOMICS

HISTORY

TEAMWORK


Informal Life


PRACTICES



SOCIALPOLITICAL

ERGONOMICS

HISTORY

TEAMWORK


Informal Life


'Definition of the Situation'


AGENCY


SOCIALPOLITICAL

ERGONOMICS

Processes

HISTORY

TEAMWORK


Informal Life


The Situation

'This is how it's done around here'



SOCIALPOLITICAL

ERGONOMICS

Processes:Politics of Everyday Life

HISTORY

TEAMWORK


Informal Life

Roles&

Responsibilities

Conversation


(division of effort)



SOCIALPOLITICAL

ERGONOMICS

Processes

'We want this person to this that way,and that person to do that this way and so on'

Structure HISTORY

TEAMWORK


Informal Life




SOCIALPOLITICAL

ERGONOMICS

Processes

'We want you to do this with these in this way to protect our health and safety'

HISTORY

TEAMWORK


Informal Life


➔ One World ~ Many People with different cultures

A working hypothesis by Clive Burgess October 2012

Curious... looking beyond the obvious at the bigger picture ~ find the inner connections ~ different by design

My global perspective


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Pbog 50 days to save the planet 9 2012