Tag: social action
Can citizen science drive social change?
What is citizen science and how can this practice be implemented to benefit communities and boost prosperity? Based at the Institute for Global Prosperity University College London, the newly launched Citizen Science Academy aims to provide the answer. By training residents to the practices of social research and equipping them with the tools to drive social action in different areas […]
Couples bickering: Disaffiliation and discord in Chinese conversation
In “Couples Bickering”, Guodong Yu, Yaxin Wu and Paul Drew use conversation analysis on candid, everyday conversations in Mandarin from China in order to understand communication and social action. Using the relationships in interaction of arguments and conflicts found in conversations between couples, they show how there are many linguistic and grammatical ways that conflict can be limited to bickering, […]
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