The work process setting and situational contexts based on socially distributed cognition : an interactive, cognitive and social proposal of analysis
Barranco Font, Oriol (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Centre d'Estudis Sociològics sobre la Vida Quotidiana i el Treball (QUIT))
Lozares Colina, Carlos (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Centre d'Estudis Sociològics sobre la Vida Quotidiana i el Treball (QUIT))
Moreno Colom, Sara 1978- (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Centre d'Estudis Sociològics sobre la Vida Quotidiana i el Treball (QUIT))

Date:	2017
Abstract:	To carry out an ethnographic study on the work process in the sterilization unit of a hospital in Catalonia (Spain), we found the socially distributed cognition approaches of Hutchins and Kirsh useful. However, these approaches lack sufficient explanation on three important issues: (a) the pragmatic criteria for identifying and delimiting a relevant unit of analysis and therefore the setting and contexts of the work process; (b) the mechanisms and results of reciprocal influences between these levels of analysis; and (c) the relation between these levels. Therefore, we added several new elements to these approaches, in addition to Layder's model of contexts with some important modifications, with the aim of offering an interactive, cognitive and social proposal of analysis that clarifies these three issues, allowing a more exhaustive and broader empirical analysis that captures better the 'social' dimension embedded in the work processes.
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Language:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió acceptada per publicar
Subject:	David Kirsh ; Edwin Hutchins ; Contexts ; Distributed cognition ; Unit of analysis
Published in:	Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, Vol. 47 Núm. 4 (2017) , p. 481-501, ISSN 1468-5914

DOI: 10.1111/jtsb.12143

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