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    Editorial: A conversation about performative social science

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    Conversing by e-mail and mediated by an imaginary cyber-moderator, two of the co-editors of this Special Issue on Performative Social Science (PSS) Mary GERGEN and Kip JONES, themselves pioneers of PSS, engage in conversation around such topics as creativity, skill and craft, outputs and outcomes, aesthetics, audience, evaluation, interpretation, scholarship, ambiguity, talking and doing, and inter-disciplinary collaborations. While GERGEN concludes that action is meaningful and rich in symbolic significance, JONES, like Norma DESMOND, speculates that PSS "is big; it's the pictures that got smaller"

    Performative Social Science and Psychology

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    Este articulo presenta una mirada general a la "Ciencia social performativa", la cual se define como la implementación de diferentes formas de interpretación artística en la ejecución de un proyecto científico. Dichas formas pueden incluir: arte, teatro, poesía, música, danza, fotografía, escritura de ficción y aplicaciones multimedios. Las prácticas de investigación performativa están en su fase de desarrollo, la mayoría del trabajo principal ha aparecido en las últimas dos décadas. Frecuentemente basado en una meta-teoría social construccionista, los partidarios rechazan una visión realista o perspectiva de mapa de la representación, y exploran variedades de formas expresivas para construir mundos relevantes a las ciencias sociales. La orientación performativa frecuentemente se basa en un enfoque dramatúrgico que abarca temas y presentaciones cargados de valor emocional. Los científicos sociales dedicados a temas de justicia social y perspectivas políticas han estado especialmente bosquejando este enfoque. La ciencia social performativa invita a las colaboraciones productivas entre varios campos disciplinarios y entre las ciencias y las artes. URN: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs1101119Mit diesem Beitrag bieten wir einen Überblick über "performative Sozialwissenschaft", d.h. die Nutzung unterschiedlichster Ausdrucksformen aus Malerei, Dichtung, Theater, Musik, Tanz, Fotografie usw. für wissenschaftliche Projekte. Performative Sozialwissenschaft befindet sich in einem noch frühen Entwicklungsstadium; die wesentlichen Arbeiten sind erst innerhalb der letzten beiden Jahrzehnte erschienen. Ausgehend von einer zumeist sozial-konstruktionistischen Metatheorie wendet sich dieser Ansatz gegen eine realistische Repräsentationsidee und experimentiert stattdessen mit Formen, die für die Konstruktion sozialwissenschaftlich relevanter Welten bedeutungsvoll sein können. Performativer Sozialwissenschaft unterliegt zumeist eine dramaturgische Orientierung, die werthaltige, emotional besetzte Themen und Präsentationen umfasst, ebenso Fragen sozialer Gerechtigkeit und eine dezidiert politische Perspektive. Von besonderem Interesse sind transdisziplinäre Arbeiten und die Zusammenarbeit von Wissenschaft und Kunst. URN: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs1101119This article presents an overview of "Performative Social Science," which is defined as the deployment of different forms of artistic performance in the execution of a scientific project. Such forms may include art, theater, poetry, music, dance, photography, fiction writing, and multi-media applications. Performative research practices are in their developmental stage, with most of the major work appearing in the last two decades. Frequently based on a social constructionist metatheory, supporters reject a realist, or mapping view of representation, and explore varieties of expressive forms for constructing worlds relevant to the social sciences. The performative orientation often relies on a dramaturgical approach that encompasses value-laden, emotionally charged topics and presentations. Social scientists invested in social justice issues and political perspectives have been especially drawn to this approach. Performative social science invites productive collaborations among various disciplinary fields and between the sciences and arts. URN: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs110111

    Performative social science and psychology

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    "This article presents an overview of 'Performative Social Science,' which is defined as the deployment of different forms of artistic performance in the execution of a scientific project. Such forms may include art, theater, poetry, music, dance, photography, fiction writing, and multi-media applications. Performative research practices are in their developmental stage, with most of the major work appearing in the last two decades. Frequently based on a social constructionist metatheory, supporters reject a realist, or mapping view of representation, and explore varieties of expressive forms for constructing worlds relevant to the social sciences. The performative orientation often relies on a dramaturgical approach that encompasses value-laden, emotionally charged topics and presentations. Social scientists invested in social justice issues and political perspectives have been especially drawn to this approach. Performative social science invites productive collaborations among various disciplinary Fields and between the sciences and arts." (author's abstract

    A role for Phospholipase D in Drosophila embryonic cellularization

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    BACKGROUND: Cellularization of the Drosophila embryo is an unusually synchronous form of cytokinesis in which polarized membrane extension proceeds in part through incorporation of new membrane via fusion of apically-translocated Golgi-derived vesicles. RESULTS: We describe here involvement of the signaling enzyme Phospholipase D (Pld) in regulation of this developmental step. Functional analysis using gene targeting revealed that cellularization is hindered by the loss of Pld, resulting frequently in early embryonic developmental arrest. Mechanistically, chronic Pld deficiency causes abnormal Golgi structure and secretory vesicle trafficking. CONCLUSION: Our results suggest that Pld functions to promote trafficking of Golgi-derived fusion-competent vesicles during cellularization

    Rhinorrhea, cough and fatigue in patients taking sitagliptin

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    Sitagliptin is a dipeptidyl peptidase-4 (DPP IV, CD26) inhibitor indicated for treatment of Type II diabetes as a second line therapy after metformin. We report fifteen sitagliptin intolerant patients who developed anterior and posterior rhinorrhea, cough, dyspnea, and fatigue. Symptoms typically developed within 1 to 8 weeks of starting, and resolved within 1 week of stopping the drug. Peak expiratory flow rates increased 34% in 8 patients who stopped sitagliptin. Similar changes were found in 4 out of 5 persons who had confirmatory readministration. Chart review identified 17 patients who tolerated sitagliptin and had no symptomatic changes. The sitagliptin intolerant group had higher rates of clinically diagnosed allergic rhinitis (15/15 vs. 6/18; p = 0.00005), Fisher's Exact test) and angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitor - induced cough (6/13 vs. 1/18; p = 0.012). Nasal and inhaled glucocorticoids may control the underlying allergic inflammation and abrogate this new sitagliptin - induced pharmacological syndrome. Potential mucosal and central nervous system mechanisms include disruption of neuropeptides and/or cytokines that rely on DPP IV for activation or inactivation, and T cell dysfunction

    Asthma Prevalence and Severity in Arab American Communities in the Detroit Area, Michigan

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    Immigrant populations provide a unique intersection of cultural and environmental risk factors implicated in asthma etiology. This study focuses on asthma prevalence and severity in 600 Arab American households in metro Detroit, the largest immigrant reception zone for Arab Americans in North America. The survey method introduced a number of novel features: (a) a ranking scheme for the key environmental risk factors for asthma was used to derive an aggregated environmental risk index (ERI) for each household, and (b) an aggregate measure of asthma severity based on symptom frequency and intensity. Environmental risk factors and surrogates for socioeconomic status (SES) were found to be stronger predictors of asthma prevalence than asthma severity, while demographic variables such as English fluency and birth in the United States were better predictors of asthma severity than asthma prevalence. These results suggest that SES variables may be more reflective of environmental exposures in communities involved in this study, while English fluency and birth in the United States may be linked to health care access and utilization behavior that can influence the asthma management. We also found a significant relationship between asthma prevalence and degree of acculturation. Asthma prevalence was highest among moderately acculturated immigrants compared with new immigrants and those who were well acculturated, suggesting that among Arab Americans in the Detroit area, risk factors associated with new immigrant status are replaced by “western” risk factors as the population becomes more acculturated.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/44945/1/10903_2005_Article_3673.pd

    Dialogue: Life and Death of the Organization

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    Draft copy for the Handbook of Organizational Discourse, D. Grant, C.Hardy, C. Oswick, N. Phillips and L Putnam. (Eds.) Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.There is a pervasive tendency in organizational studies to view acts of communication in terms of the individual agent. It is the individual who speaks, writes, gestures, and so on; it is the individual we credit for effective speaking, just as it is the individualís ineffective listening that invites discredit. This tendency to focus on individual acts of expression is indeed unfortunate because it suppresses perhaps the central feature of such actions, their function within relationships. Indeed, as we shall soon make clear, it is from the relational matrix that the very possibility of individual sense making comes into being, and without the existence of ongoing relationship communicative acts lose their status as communication. As the editors of this Handbook have made clear, organizational worlds are created and sustained through discourse. This chapter makes it equally clear that it is through relational process that discourse acquires its significance. More broadly stated, it is by virtue of relational processes that organizations live or die
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