The Fishbowl

BUS 345 - Business in Society
Notes #1 9/10/2019

“I’m looking at you, looking at me, looking at you”

Emersion - (in a practical sense) give it at least 15 minutes everyday.
Expanding of knowledge, vocabulary & view of the world.
No right or wrong. No judgement.
Copying → Interpret, examine differences

“Don’t Blink”
Sociality - SOCIABILITY
Social nature or tendencies as shown in the assembling of individuals in communities.
The action on the part of individuals of associating together in communities.
The state or quality of being social.

Methodologies to Learn “You’re in the wrong room”

Individuation - distinguish from others of the same kind; single out: "it is easy to individuate and enumerate the significant elements"
According to Gilbert Simondon Individuation means …

Learning takes place through:
Reflection - serious thought or consideration
A fixing of the thoughts on something; careful consideration.
A thought occurring in consideration or meditation.

Imagination (images) - a “felt” experience, inner child
What is “How you see the world” ? Answer: What is the image in your mind.

Flow - image of … move along or out steadily and continuously in a current or stream.

Link: words ←→ images
Learning one word at a time.
Word structures - how to structure out words.
Sharing the images our words evoke.
As we do this we become a society.

Read 3 times minimum then Deconstruct - analyze (a text or a linguistic or conceptual system) by deconstruction, typically in order to expose its hidden internal assumptions and contradictions and subvert its apparent significance or unity.
Derrida : Deconstruction

Social Reflexibility → Anthony Giddens

BUS 345 - Business in Society
Notes #2 9/17/2019

“Maximizing your return for your money”
“When you’re entering the fishbowl you’re entering the gym...exercising your mind and looking at yourself and the last sentence you’ve written”
→ Operating: your eyes, yourself (your mind) & your writing

Forming a society

Connectivity is BIG
Learning how to connect … will happen in my head - through the exchange of symbols
With each other, this class, the other class
Making a commitment to read every text of my group member
Writing your words for the sake of the group - to add value to by carefully selecting words

We live symbolic lives - nothing exists outside words

Restructuring creates value

Creating knowledge through divisions and subdivisions
creating your own reality (knowledge) when you experience live
Sustaining each other's life → by selecting words and adding to each other

*Focus when entering fishbowl*
Distraction - i'm not slowing down im not focusing and i'm not selecting my words nor substituting them to create value
entering to create value for 2 other people

Differences are realized in our mental structures - want to get at that
Selection of words - differences in the words we selected
Connect across these differences

Social Meeting Exercise:
Pre-individual
Notes written out before the meeting
Ethnographic notes
Open ended , social - not talking about class
Writing out what happened - conversation & physical
Circle (6) words from notes
concepts & symbols
Pairing words into (3) pairs - dichotomy
Unrelated / opposite words
Creating simple sentences from words (3) - abstract sentences
Short paragraph under each describing social meeting
“Creating history as possibility” - Paolo Ferreilla

Nuance of meaning

Do not want to copy someone else - to experience it for yourself

BUS 345 - Business in Society
Notes #3 10/8/2019

Fishbowl 10+1 Steps:
Structure
You’re entering the unknown with a given structure - “what is this thing?”
Never without a structure (DNA)
World Pool
Gathering words
Writing them down - networking, structure
More resources
Re-Structure
Rewriting the sentence - selection process
Substituting words to make it simple
Using all 3 concepts
Relate - to have reference
Relation - an existing connection, a significant association between or among things
FE → Felt Experience
First person “I”
Your story - describing an incident - explaining it through memory
Experiential - you experienced it
Take : thinking , interpretation , imagining , visualizing
Grounded in knowledge and your experience
3 & 4 must fit together - Abstraction - the act of considering something as a general quality or characteristic, apart from concrete realities, specific objects, or actual instances.
123 / 123 / 123 - 9 words
1 word (symbol) - perceptual category
Your own word - you don’t want to be told what to think
Reread - reductionist technique
A / B
Interactively - jointly determining which 2 words to form a dichotomy (unrelated) out of 9 words
Word Pool
Structure
Inflection
FE → Felt Experience
Final Paragraph: Insight, Understanding + Realization
Insight and Realization

3 interactive within the context - social within the context
Successful global business

Develop the knowledge or knowing of
4 characteristics:
Integrated networking structure - opening “sentence”

BUS 345 - Business in Society
Notes #4 10/22/2019

Must catch up to move on
Learning to create a better society
You’re sharing, you’re knowing and creating knowledge
Through self reflection

Methodology:
Symbolic interaction
Participant observation
Social construction
Action research
Auto attenography

Looking at diversity differently - looking at selection of symbols that we make
All footnotes but now at the center of the page
In group to add value to the group

Learning to empower your text
Learning to create value through words

“Praise” - enhancing each other
The journey is inwards - learning to write a textbook

Self organization - risk you’re taking

Aghast - expression

Peter Senge - “The 5th Discipline” - The Learning Organization

“The Final Reflection”
Written option
3 pages maximum
Addressing the four global phenomenon
Looking back at the experience
Reflecting on the doing
Interacting in fishbowl is acting in anecdote
Let the viewer decide
Saying what occured to you - but - saying it carefully
“A lot of thinking, but the doing shouldn’t take too long”
Documentary