Abstract To participate in social impact assessments, members of a community need to understand both the nature and complexity of impacts at the individual and social level. This study considers the role of engagement in developing community understanding of social impacts by documenting and analyzing organizational and community actions and responses in the Adani Carmichael mine case. Findings suggest engagement facilitates the conduct of social churn. We define social churn as a process of collective level discussion, meaning-making, and consensus-building from multiple information inputs in response to equivocality or uncertainty resulting from organizational behavior, out of which is generated an articulation of community level perceptions of that organizational behavior and its impacts at an individual, community, and societal level. Theoretically, the findings of this study challenge traditional linear notions of social impact assessments and offer an alternative engagement-based model. Practically, the model identifies ways in which organizations can recognize and participate in the social processes that both create and represent the differing levels of social reality determining perceptions of those impacts.

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时间和社会流失在影响评估中的作用：基于参与的模型

摘要 要参与社会影响评估，社区成员需要了解个人和社会层面影响的性质和复杂性。本研究通过记录和分析 Adani Carmichael 矿案中的组织和社区行动和反应，考虑了参与在培养社区对社会影响的理解方面的作用。调查结果表明，参与促进了社会流失的行为。我们将社会流失定义为从多个信息输入中进行集体层面讨论、意义制定和达成共识的过程，以应对组织行为导致的模棱两可或不确定性，由此产生了社区层面对该组织行为的看法的表达及其在个人、社区和社会层面的影响。从理论上讲，这项研究的结果挑战了社会影响评估的传统线性概念，并提供了一种替代的基于参与的模型。实际上，该模型确定了组织可以识别和参与社会过程的方式，这些社会过程既创造又代表了决定对这些影响的看法的不同社会现实水平。