Thread: Patience is a virtue ..... they reckon

Originally Posted by Lionelgee

Hello All,

Well back in 1959 Erving Goffman, who was a Sociologist, wrote what was at the time considered to be a ground-breaking book The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life.

After interviewing a number of individuals with Autism I established what their representations of Self were - from how they described their reactions to 18 different situations or scenarios. These were open-ended question stems such as, when I feel stress building up inside me, I ...

As my study relates to Autism, these descriptions were 'representations' of Autism from their everyday perspectives. So that ticks off the "Representations of Autistic selfhood in everyday life" bit before the colon.

Now for the ... Towards a prototypical approach

'Towards' suggests I was trialling something new out and the 'approach' part refers the direction along the path I took. However, it was not just any approach it was a specific one that relates to 'prototypes'

Prototypes are based off Wittgenstein's earlier work Philosophical Investigations (1953 - translation into English) into categorisation = family resemblance. Rosch (1978, p. 579) categorisation where if something was 'prototypical' it meant the best example or best description of some category. For example, if someone asked you what your best example of what a fruit is most people surveyed - who were in the Northern Hemisphere said ... "Orange' where the poorest example of a piece of fruit to them was an olive. It is what image that first appears in your mind, in the quickest amount of time.

The most prototypic representation of furniture was chair and poorest representation of a piece of furniture was telephone - you know when they used to be fixed to a wall, and as Blonde sang you could be "hanging by the telephone" In the category. The most prototypic or best example of a weapon is a gun and the poorest example is a screwdriver. .

By using a prototypic process I was taking a snapshot of what the best fit examples of each scenario/situation was with the life of an individual with Autism. So I was able to identify what their manifestations of Stress and Anxiety within different situation looked like.

After Rosch (1978) there was a bloke called Horowitz (1981) who decided that the best way to present different representations of what a 'lonely' person looked like was to construct an image made of different sized rectangles. The smaller the box the most potent or best example of a certain characteristic was. The wider the rectangular box the least potent of poorer the example was. In the case of a Lonely person, Horowitz (1981, p. 13) the most prototypic example was 'feeling isolated' followed by 'feels excluded from activities, not part of a group' . Where the poorest example to describe a lonely person was 'is quiet reserved and introspective'.

I formed a number of these graphic prototypes to depict the best examples of different manifestations or representations of Autism.

Put it all together and you get ...

Representations of Autistic selfhood in everyday life: Towards a prototypical approach

The title as such is self-explanatory

See, 'simples'

Kind regards
Lionel

Really glad you know what you are talking about Lionel, you lost me at
"Well back in 1959 Erving Goffman,...."

Originally Posted by 4bee

Really glad you know what you are talking about Lionel, you lost me at
"Well back in 1959 Erving Goffman,...."

It was "Hello all" for me. And I did first year Psych at Monash..... Well, nearly.

Originally Posted by Tins

It was "Hello all" for me. And I did first year Psych at Monash..... Well, nearly.

Kicked out on your arse yet again John?

We really do have an eclectic membership, and that means you too 4BEE.

Originally Posted by bob10

We really do have an eclectic membership, and that means you too 4BEE.

Moi?

Originally Posted by 4bee

Moi?

See? Multi-lingual, you speak in tongues, 4bee.

Originally Posted by bob10

See? Multi-lingual, you speak in tongues, 4bee.

Not just tongues, I also know essential words like Please, Thank you, etc, words that are essential to get one by.
But bloody Russian has me buggered, all that back to front/upside down Sashy stuff.

Originally Posted by Lionelgee

Hello All,

Well back in 1959 Erving Goffman, who was a Sociologist, wrote what was at the time considered to be a ground-breaking book The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life.

After interviewing a number of individuals with Autism I established what their representations of Self were - from how they described their reactions to 18 different situations or scenarios. These were open-ended question stems such as, when I feel stress building up inside me, I ...

As my study relates to Autism, these descriptions were 'representations' of Autism from their everyday perspectives. So that ticks off the "Representations of Autistic selfhood in everyday life" bit before the colon.

Now for the ... Towards a prototypical approach

'Towards' suggests I was trialling something new out and the 'approach' part refers the direction along the path I took. However, it was not just any approach it was a specific one that relates to 'prototypes'

Prototypes are based off Wittgenstein's earlier work Philosophical Investigations (1953 - translation into English) into categorisation = family resemblance. Rosch (1978, p. 579) categorisation where if something was 'prototypical' it meant the best example or best description of some category. For example, if someone asked you what your best example of what a fruit is most people surveyed - who were in the Northern Hemisphere said ... "Orange' where the poorest example of a piece of fruit to them was an olive. It is what image that first appears in your mind, in the quickest amount of time.

The most prototypic representation of furniture was chair and poorest representation of a piece of furniture was telephone - you know when they used to be fixed to a wall, and as Blonde sang you could be "hanging by the telephone" In the category. The most prototypic or best example of a weapon is a gun and the poorest example is a screwdriver. .

By using a prototypic process I was taking a snapshot of what the best fit examples of each scenario/situation was with the life of an individual with Autism. So I was able to identify what their manifestations of Stress and Anxiety within different situation looked like.

After Rosch (1978) there was a bloke called Horowitz (1981) who decided that the best way to present different representations of what a 'lonely' person looked like was to construct an image made of different sized rectangles. The smaller the box the most potent or best example of a certain characteristic was. The wider the rectangular box the least potent of poorer the example was. In the case of a Lonely person, Horowitz (1981, p. 13) the most prototypic example was 'feeling isolated' followed by 'feels excluded from activities, not part of a group' . Where the poorest example to describe a lonely person was 'is quiet reserved and introspective'.

I formed a number of these graphic prototypes to depict the best examples of different manifestations or representations of Autism.

Put it all together and you get ...

Representations of Autistic selfhood in everyday life: Towards a prototypical approach

The title as such is self-explanatory

See, 'simples'

Kind regards
Lionel

Yeh, Right?

BTW We have an Autistic Foster son & I'm buggered if I know how he sees most of life.