Schlötter The Social Nature of Man – falsifiable / Die soziale Natur des Menschen – falsifizierbar

Empirical Study on the Global Meaning of Spatial Positioning of Humans to Each Other / Empirische Studie über Systemaufstellungen und die weltweite Bedeutung räumlicher Stellungen von Menschen zueinander
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-3-8497-9018-9
Verlag: Carl Auer Verlag
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Deutsch, Englisch, 190 Seiten

Reihe: Verlag für systemische Forschung

The author's fundamental empirical study of system constellations with life-sized figures from the year 2005 could also be realised in China in 2015. In this book, he proves that the perception of the position in a space actually follows the generally comprehensible semantics of a language and this is hardly any different in China than it is in Germany. Thus, gestural language can be described as a "global language". It is concerned with the exploration of the social nature of man as well as human social gravitational forces with the help of the new research discipline "sociothesie". Thereby, the concept of a "social affected space" can be empirically substantiated.

Die grundlegende empirische Studie des Autors über Systemaufstellungen mit lebensgroßen Figuren aus dem Jahr 2005 konnte 2015 auch in China realisiert werden. Er weist in diesem Buch nach, dass die Wahrnehmung der Position im Raum tatsächlich der allgemein verständlichen Semantik einer Sprache folgt und dies in China kaum anders ist als in Deutschland. Die Zeichensprache kann demnach als "Weltsprache" bezeichnet werden. Es geht um die Erforschung der sozialen Natur des Menschen sowie der humanen sozialen Schwerkräfte mit Hilfe der neuen Forschungsdisziplin "Soziothesie". Damit kann das Konzept eines "sozialen Wirkraumes" empirisch begründet werden.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schlötter, Peter

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychotherapie / Klinische Psychologie Beratungspsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Forschungsmethoden
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Sozialpsychologie

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2.METHODOLOGY AND RESULTS OF THE MULTIPLE-CHOICE EXPERIMENTS IN CHINA
The doctoral thesis which was completed in 2005 is the basis of the respective identical repeat of the empiricism in China. As with the precursor study it has been ensured that the chain of documentation, video – test date, for every test date is anonymous but unbroken and permanently available (see the discussion on ethical standards below). Test-1 was always equipped with one camera, test-2 with two (shot – reverse shot). Important implementation details are found in chapter 7 on methodology. Two documented older consultation cases were selected for the research project. Over ten years ago, the technical manager of a medium-sized company positioned the SYC used in test-1 according to his intuition, as shown in Fig. 1. He chose a position for himself which as later named position 1 (numbering was only carried out in the later evaluation). These organisation constellations are identically followed time and again with the SIR. The TP are employees from cooperating private companies and so it is not hard to achieve a good cross-section of the normal working population (for example this included 1&1 GmbH, Kroll Ontrack GmbH, Bertelsmann Stiftung and Robert Bosch GmbH, the latter also in China). A TP is led from one individual test to the next, always in exchange with a figure and in this sequence through the whole constellation. Any personal communication with the test leaders during the test is avoided wherever possible. If necessary small writing boards and electronically accessed statements can be used. In test type 1 every TP is offered the same meaning options (CHS: characteristic sentences) at the same place, and for this selection in the first round of the test there is only the figure constellation as information, nothing else: Fig. 1-b – The same with TP and SIR. Test 1 is described in the text and if they wish, every reader can now carry out this test themselves using the seven CHS, whereby in the real test the hierarchy was still completely unknown. The human imagination of course only provides weaker signals with the small pictures, but this is sufficient for the required decisions in this sample test mostly. Fig. 1-a – Problem constellation in Test 1, top view, ‘a.That is the position that safely belongs to the group but may only go along with the rest. b.That is the position which has lots of responsibility here with support. c.That is the position which doesn’t have anything to say and no longer belongs to the group. d.That is this position from which something important is expected. e.That is the position which is respected as observer and is seen as being somewhat ‘in the line of fire’. f.That is the position which remains neutral, more than others. g.That is the position which feels safe and important and is somewhat restricted. h.I clearly feel something different. i. I don’t feel anything at all.’ At every point a TP can completely freely choose one of these seven social characterisations. After completing this first round, the redundant second round involves the TP being shown seven turned-down piles of seven size A6 profiles (PRO: profile/s), and has the opportunity to freely choose one PRO to attach to the individual positions. These PRO are roughly the same as the CHS, but are much longer with 20-50 words, also for the first time in this experiment the additional information of a heirarchical relationship of each of the characterisations is provided in the PRO: (a. ‘Workforce’; b. ‘Management, executive board’; c. ‘Former deputy manager’; ’; d. ‘Technical manager’; e. ‘Production manager’; f. ‘Customer’; g. ‘New deputy manager’). Whenever someone steps up to an SYC they will spontaneously get a feeling about the concrete social system which is represented on the visual plane and its apparently active social references from the perspective of this individual person. This phenomenon was observed in almost all TP, as the option ‘i’ was selected in China by 1.35% of persons and in Germany by 1.30% of persons. This means that the social relationship active in each position is intuitively read by a person when confronted with this constellation. Every reader can test this hypothesis in Fig. 1-a with the seven CHS. This phenomenon is known as representative perception. ‘Representative perceptionis the central mutual phenomenon of the different types of system constellation.’10 This representative perception consists of two components which are different but may not be separated; on the one hand the perception of a visual image which results from the person’s perspective of a constellation and on the other hand what this person’s introspection provides in emotions and spontaneous valuations when confronted with the figure constellation11. This introspection is initially a spontaneous, unconscious process. Here a person’s specific intuition is expressed, which is quite different from the phenomenon of an intuition with an individual different person which is described as empathy. The latter ability is explained in recent research work on the basis of mirror neurons12. The figures used have an absolutely invariant appearance which definitely do not provide any perception which could be connected to live mimics, gestures or physical posture. The intuition which can be observed in SYC using SIR can therefore only refer to the geometric position of SIR or persons in the space, and should therefore also be named individually. We will return to this again in chapter 5. For the research in China only the verbal components used in the test needed to be translated. Everything else remained completely the same. The frequencies found in the choice of the options are specified as example at individual positions in the bar graphs (see Fig. 2-a to 2-c). Fig. 2-a to 2-c – Representative examples of CHS frequenciesin absolute figures as they were found in China.These examples already show the occurring significance and also that the options were used approximately just as often over several positions, so that a trivial result can be excluded. Differentiated observations with specific future research mean differentiated insights and conclusions can be expected with reference to cultural characteristics. This remarkable potential can be explained using the results on ‘Position 1’ as an example. Fig. 3-a: This shows the frequencies found in China (CHS vs PRO) in comparison. In the upper figure, the CHS are entered, i.e. the options which were chosen to represent the position. Thereby the social intuition from ‘inside’ is applied (see chapter 5). The accumulation of sentence b is immediately obvious, while approx. a third gave option d precedence. In the lower figure, the PRO are shown, which on the other hand were selected with a certain distance, namely when the TP could move around within the constellation. The formal hierarchy offered in the PRO dominates with option b for the Chinese with 85%. Fig. 3-b: Here the CHS choice is still in the same place in Germany (below), in contrast to the CHS choice in China (above). The formal hierarchy was not yet named. In Germany the option b, which was favoured in China, was taken into consideration but only by a strong majority, while the informal powerful position d was selected with the highest unanimity (74%) which ever occurred in these tests in Germany. In both countries there are general similarities between both positions and the social meaning, which is at this position in both cultures, only from these options together. They are the two most powerful positions and options. Fig. 3-a to 3-c – Comparison of frequencies of Position 1 in China and Germany, all figures are in percentage. Chinese understand gestural language of the positions in the space differently as with a dialect, but just as significantly concordant as Germans. Fig. 3-c: If the formal hierarchy was given in a PRO as option, in China almost only sentence b with exactly this option was chosen, while in Germany also a basic majority prioritised the formal hierarchy, however not many less remained with their original estimation. The frequencies found are initially an objectively definable fact. However on this basis further interpretive theories can be developed and justified, in this case, for example, the association with formal and informal hierarchies: 1.Relating to the predominant social feeling in China, 2.Relating to the predominant social feeling in Germany, 3.Relating to a comparison of cultures in the two countries. Differentiated observations with specific future research mean differentiated insights and conclusions can be expected with reference to cultural characteristics, 4.Relating to this technology manager in person, with his private and, above all career consequences,...

Über Autor(innen)

Peter Schlötter, Dr., Dipl.-Ing., leitete lange Jahre eine technische Abteilung eines mittelständischen Konzerns. Nach verschiedenen Aus- und Weiterbildungen eröffnete er 1998 seine Praxis für psychotherapeutische Begleitung in Karlsruhe und arbeitet als Unternehmensberater für Personalentwicklung.

Peter Schlötter, Dr., Dipl.-Ing., leitete lange Jahre eine technische Abteilung eines mittelständischen Konzerns. Nach verschiedenen Aus- und Weiterbildungen eröffnete er 1998 seine Praxis für psychotherapeutische Begleitung in Karlsruhe und arbeitet als Unternehmensberater für Personalentwicklung.