De Jaegher, Hanne and Di Paolo, Ezequiel (2007) Participatory sense-making: An enactive approach to social cognition. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, 6 (4). pp. 485-507. ISSN 1568-7759

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Abstract

As yet, there is no enactive account of social cognition. This paper extends the enactive concept of sense-making into the social domain. It takes as its departure point the process of interaction between individuals in a social encounter. It is a well-established finding that individuals can and generally do coordinate their movements and utterances in such situations. We argue that the interaction process can take on a form of autonomy. This allows us to reframe the problem of social cognition as that of how meaning is generated and transformed in the interplay between the unfolding interaction process and the individuals engaged in it. The notion of sense-making in this realm becomes participatory sense-making. The onus of social understanding thus moves away from strictly the individual only.

Item Type:	Article
Depositing User:	Hanne DeJaegher
Date Deposited:	21 Feb 2012 09:58
Last Modified:	10 Jul 2013 13:00
URI:	http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/37319

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