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Foreword -- Contents -- Interpersonal Dynamics within Argumentative Interactions: An Introduction -- 1 Inter-generational Argumentation: Children's Account Work During Dinner Conversations in Italy and Sweden -- 1.1 Accounts and Family Inter-generational Argumentation -- 1.2 Data -- 1.3 Laments and Plaintive/Pleading Voice as Account Work: Preschool-Age Children's Proto-Accounts -- 1.4 Repeats and Want-Statements as Account Work: Preschool-Age Children's Proto-Accounts -- 1.5 Varied Verbal Accounts by School-Age Children -- 1.6 Irony as Argument -- 1.7 Prior Contracts as Arguments: School-Age Children -- 1.8 Language Socialization and Intergenerational Argumentation -- Appendix: Transcription Key -- References -- 2 What Can Studying Designed Marital Argument Interventions Contribute to Argumentation Scholarship? -- 2.1 History of Marital Intervention -- 2.2 Marriage Education -- 2.3 The PAIRS Approach -- 2.3.1 Fair Fight for Change -- 2.3.2 Talking Tips -- 2.3.3 Daily Temperature Reading -- 2.3.4 Initiation and Conclusion of PAIRS Communication Tools -- 2.4 The PREP Approach -- 2.4.1 Speaker-Listener Technique -- 2.4.2 Problem Solving Discussion Structure -- 2.4.3 Friendship and Commitment -- 2.5 Evaluating Designed Marital Argumentation Interventions -- 2.5.1 Design Hypotheses 1: Marital Interaction is a Designable Activity -- 2.5.2 Design Hypothesis 2: Marital Argumentation Involves Multiple Goals that are Best Managed Individually Rather Than Simultaneously -- 2.5.3 Design Hypothesis 3: "Good" Arguments Results in a Resolution of the Problem Without Damaging the Relationship -- 2.6 Conclusion -- References -- 3 Reading Together: The Interplay Between Social and Cognitive Aspects in Argumentative and Non-argumentative Dialogues -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Learning Through Social Interaction Among Peers

Cet article interroge les interactions intergénérationnelles en famille lors de désaccords verbaux exprimés à table. Ces échanges offrent un aperçu psychosocial et culturel des règles de socialisation familiale qui sont transmises par les parents aux enfants. L'étude menée vise à reconstruire les schémas argumentatifs sous-jacents aux échanges discursifs lors de repas en famille. Le corpus de données est constitué de 30 enregistrements vidéo de 10 familles suisses et italiennes réunies à table. Une sélection de 132 discussions argumentatives, réalisée selon des procédures et des critères préalablement établis, a été opérée pour une analyse pragma-dialectique des schémas argumentatifs mobilisés, c'est-à-dire pour reconstruire les modalités privilégiées par les participants lors d'échanges discursifs à table. Les résultats montrent que les parents et les enfants mobilisent différents types de schémas liés à l'objet de discussion et aux liens entre arguments en termes de relations symptomatiques, de causalité et d'analogie. L'étude contribue à éclairer les connaissances actuelles sur les manières d'interagir lors d'échanges argumentatifs en famille. La reconstruction des schémas utilisés par les adultes et les enfants constitue une piste fructueuse pour investiguer les modalités de gestion des désaccords par les membres de la famille.

In this article, using a multidimensional methodology, we explored the role of materiality in the everyday lives of eight Italian families. Focusing on spaces and objects, we analyzed how people "use" material frames and boundaries in expanding their individual and collective experiences at home. We employed a composite design including different sources of data: audio and videotaped home tours, visual ethnographic notes and photos, observations of everyday family activities, home-mapping and observational tracking of actions at regular intervals. We used discourse and conversation analysis to investigate family members' talk-in-interaction concerning materiality. The findings show that spaces and objects are expansions of participants' everyday activities: they are presented as flexible in their use, multifunctional and affectively connoted. We also present implications for the methodological design and its potential for capturing how family doings create both a sense of life and the affordances of everyday experiences at home.

AbstractAccording to the intercultural paradigm, prejudice reduction is a way of promoting positive interactions among people and preventing discriminatory behaviours. This paper focuses on the role of teacher interventions in reducing student prejudices. We carried out a quantitative survey, which was administered to middle and high school students in France, to identify the role played by individual, school and sociocultural variables on 'flagrant' and 'subtle' prejudices. The findings show that when students perceive that their teachers are discussing racism and discrimination during formal education, manifestations of both types of prejudice decline. In addition, this perceived engagement creates a multiplicative effect on intergroup contacts among students, and this is an important condition for decreasing prejudice. The study highlights the potential of formal education to deconstruct stereotypes and encourage interculturalism, even in a context which is quite hostile to any reference to cultural identities. It also underlines that intercultural practices can start at the micro level without any formal institutional support.

PurposeSmart Manufacturing (SM) lies at the core of Industry 4.0. Operations management research has investigated the determinants of SM advancement but there is still limited understanding of the linkages between SM and organizational factors and about whether both the technological and organizational subsystems for SM are guided by firms' competitive priorities. To close these gaps, building on operations strategy theory, this paper aims to empirically test a model positing that competitive priorities drive SM advancement. The relation between competitive priorities and SM advancement is assumed to be mediated by organizational microfoundations.Design/methodology/approachUsing data from a single respondent survey with 234 firms in the automotive component industry, structural equation modeling is adopted to test the model hypotheses. Relevant constructs are measured with reference to the lead plant for SM.FindingsFindings highlight that SM advancement is driven by the need to simultaneously compete in terms of cost, quality and delivery, thus suggesting that manufacturers view SM as a mean to develop multiple manufacturing capabilities. Organizational microfoundations fully mediate the relation between competitive priorities and SM advancement.Originality/valueResults have implications for SM research, as they provide an understanding of the strategic priorities of firms engaging in SM. Findings also bear relevance for manufacturing executives engaged in the SM transformation, as they provide quantitative evidence that shaping an adequate organizational environment is a prerequisite for SM advancement.

PurposeSmart Manufacturing (SM) lies at the core of Industry 4.0. Operations management research has identified several factors influencing firms' ability to adopt SM. However, a clear understanding of capabilities needed to progress in SM is still missing. This paper aims to investigate how absorptive capacity (AC) allows firms to advance in SM and explore how managerial antecedents support the capacity to absorb SM-related knowledge at different stages of SM adoption.Design/methodology/approachThis study adopts an exploratory approach through multiple case studies. Twelve firms, operating as part of the automotive supply chain and exhibiting different stages of SM adoption, constitute the sample.FindingsThe results suggest that advancement in SM requires firms to progressively reinforce their AC. Firms' ability to acquire and assimilate SM knowledge is supported by managerial antecedents encompassing integrative capacities to bridge old and SM technologies, managerial cognition through the clear alignment of SM technologies with strategic goals and knowledge development capabilities through practices oriented to provide senior managers with SM competences.Originality/valueThe findings contribute to SM research by suggesting that AC is a crucial dynamic capability for SM adoption. The results also provide evidence-grounded recommendations to firms engaged in the digital transformation on the managerial capabilities needed to support AC and to progress from lower to higher stages of SM.