SON
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SON is an acronym to Social Objects Network.It is also called semantic field or a field of knowledge shared by a community. When SON is created every member of the community has similar MON to the MON of other members of the community in the particular area of discussion.
A Popperians SON is created by mutual process of conjectures and refutation, and it is later sustained by educating the new comers to the community.
SON by Habermas
Habermas: The theoretical foundation of our measure of discourse quality is Habermas’(1981, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1995, 1996) discourse ethics is the principle of universalism, which holds that a norm is valid only if everyone who is potentially affected by the norm accepts its consequences, including any anticipated negative side effects. The acceptance of norms cannot be imposed in an authoritarian manner. Rather, individuals ought to consent to those norms, and this is done through a process of argumentation and persuasion. This process of discourse constitutes ‘communicative action:’ individuals give and criticize reasons for holding or rejecting particular validity claims, so that universally valid norms can be discovered through reason. (Taken from [1])
Common Ground Theory
Common Ground is defined as a prerequisite for mutual understanding in communication processes and it consists of shared information, mutual knowledge, mutual beliefs, and mutual assumptions[2]. Building Common Ground is crucial for effective communication and collaborative work since it helps people converse and understand each other.
Research had found that the more complex the problem is, the more time students set for creation of a better SON (it is called metacognition in this article[3]
See Also
References
- ↑ Steenbergen, Marco R., et al. "Measuring political deliberation: a discourse quality index." Comparative European Politics 1.1 (2003): 21-48.(p.25)
- ↑ Clark, H.H. and Carlson, T.B. (1982), “Hearers and speech acts”, Language, Vol. 58 No. 2, pp. 332-73
- ↑ Socially shared metacognition of dyads of pupils in collaborative mathematical problem-solving processes, 2014, Tuike Iiskala, Marja Vauras, Erno Lehtinen and Pekka Salonen