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Arias, Alejandro Elias Ochoa. "An interpretive-systemic study of Community Organizations in Venezuela." Thesis, University of Hull, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.337057.
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Sosenko, Filip. "On the scientific status of interpretive inquiry." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/2648.
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Interpretive social science is well established institutionally at universities and research centres. It benefits from this institutional context in terms of prestige, credibility and grants. In comparison with non-interpretive disciplines however, its scientific status is questionable. What elements of it are really scientific and what elements are threats to this scientific character? This problem has been discussed in the past but unfortunately the discussion has gradually dried up without a successful resolution. In my thesis I am revitalising it. I take a systematic rather than historical approach: instead of picking up the discussion where it has been abandoned, I begin with a working definition of science, and analyse to what extent interpretive inquiry meets the requirements of this definition. The structure of my thesis follows this definition in that what is discussed is the three substantial elements of it - theory, research method, and professional quality control. In relation to theory, I pose questions on a range of topics, such as whether interpretive social science is explanatory, and whether it generates new knowledge. In relation to method, I explore, amongst other things, whether qualitative method permits the production of valid and reliable findings. The discussion of professional quality control considers issues around the reporting of findings and the assessment of these findings by others. I complement my analysis by considering three interpretive case studies, exploring both whether they produce theoretical knowledge and reflecting on their methodological strengths and weaknesses. Additionally, I explore the border between interpretive inquiry and non-fiction arts, such as literary reportage and documentary filmmaking, arguing that this border is more blurred than it may first appear.
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Cromie, Thetis Rachel. "The construction of the sexually aggressive child the sociology of representation an interpretive interactionsit investigation /." Click here for text online. The Institute of Clinical Social Work Dissertations website, 2004. http://www.icsw.edu/_dissertations/cromie_2004.pdf.
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Dissertation (Ph.D.) -- The Institute for Clinical Social Work, 2004.<br>A dissertation submitted to the faculty of the Institute of Clinical Social Work in partial fulfillment for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
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Gunderson, Lisa. "Memory, Modernity, and the City: An Interpretive Analysis of Montreal and Toronto's Respective Moves From Their Historic Professional Hockey Arenas." Thesis, University of Waterloo, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10012/1244.
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This thesis seeks to understand how and if the popular claims that hockey is an integral part of the culture in Toronto and Montreal are referenced, oriented to, and/or negotiated in everyday life. Taking the cases of the moves of the Toronto Maple Leafs and the Montreal Canadiens from Maple Leaf Gardens and the Montreal Forum, respectively, the thesis asks: What can these similar cases tell us about the culture of the cities in which they occurred and, if it is possible, in what ways can the culture of the cities (as a shaping force) be made recognizable in the discourse generated in, around, and by the moves? The perspective taken is a 'radical interpretive' approach, involving a critical blend of interpretive theories and methodologies - including semiology, phenomenology, hermeneutics, and dialectical analysis - that aim to reflexively question the themes that the cases themselves bring to light. The thesis thus concerns itself with issues of cosmopolitanism, globalization, and modernity as well as the concomitant questions of identify, commitment to place, and practical social action in the modern city.
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Smiley, John-Paul. "Exploring policy discourses in the UK construction sector : an interpretive analysis." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2016. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/22913.
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The following thesis explores construction policy discourses within the context of the United Kingdom (UK). The research was deemed both important and necessary as the construction sector represents a major portion of the UK economy, accounting for approximately seven per cent of GDP, and employing millions (Rhodes: 2015). Adopting an ontology of becoming and an interpretive epistemological perspective, it is argued that construction policy documents are best characterised as crystallised snapshots of a community s attempts at meaning making in time. Utilising a qualitative methodology, the thesis primarily achieves its aims through the textual analysis of three prominent construction policy documents ( Rethinking Construction - the Egan report, the Government Construction Strategy , and the Industrial Strategy: Construction 2025), as well as informational interviews with eleven contemporary, senior construction policy stakeholders, from nine different organisations. The empirical element was inspired by interpretive approaches to policy analysis, and in particular the works of Yanow (2000; 2003; 2007) and drew upon the Hermeneutical approach repopularised by Taylor (1971), and Gadamer (1975). Four primary discourses were discovered, these being: The discourse of the need to be competitive ; The discourse of the essentialness of efficiency ; The discourse of unfulfilled potential ; The discourse of fear of not being Modern . The analysis suggests that construction policy discourses at the time of writing are predominantly influenced by the dominant cultural trends known as neoliberalism and the enterprise culture , but that these too must be seen as emerging from, and as informed by, the super-ideology of political declinism (Tomlinson: 2000). It is from these cultural sources that the pools of meanings articulated in the texts are drawn (Marton: 1986). Furthermore, tracing the etymology of the word policy , it is suggested that construction policy documents police behaviour by shaping it towards particular directions in keeping with specific normative visions concerning the good life policy elites have. The findings are important as they suggest that contemporary construction policy discourses are in danger of becoming increasingly myopic, with alternative perspectives and visions increasingly marginalised, and so any potential for the flexible adaptation or reimagining of future policies is reduced. As a result, the thesis argues for greater involvement from a broader spectrum of social actors in all stages of construction policy, to both contribute to strengthening citizenry and democracy in the UK, whilst reducing the potential for myopia amongst policy elites.
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Strahlman, Harriet L. "Past and future| An interpretive study of Heritage Language and Culture parents' perspectives on their children's education." Thesis, Tennessee Technological University, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3740837.
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<p> This qualitative research compared and contrasted the experiences, expectations, hopes, and dreams held by three dyads of Heritage Language and Culture (HLC) parents in three different countries concerning education. Sociolinguistic and sociocultural methods of analysis of narrative were used to code and analyze 63 stories selected from six participant interview transcripts. The context of each research venue, including economic, racial, and social positioning of each participant was explored, as were the researcher’s subjectivities, as elements impacting the analysis and interpretation of findings. Especially impactful on the findings and implications of this research was that each of the participant parents had experienced a <i>significant negative event</i> during their childhood schooling, and each participant had at least one child who had also experienced a significant negative event while attending a primary level public school.</p><p> Findings answered the five research questions and indicated that HLC parents valued education and identified it as a means of achieving success. Although the definition of success was found to vary by country of residence, all the participant parents believed academic and life success were dependent upon the acquisition of English language skills. Although parents in all three research venues recited multiple instances of physical abuse or threats or acts of violence or racism within the school setting, and were not surprised that it occurred, all valued the social aspects of attending school.</p><p> The implications for educational program planners and school personnel arising from these findings include the potential for misunderstanding between U.S. school personnel and HLC immigrant families concerning corporal punishment policies and violence, rejection of U.S. education program definitions of successful educational outcomes by HLC families, and reciprocity in education between schools and families. Three avenues for future research resulting from this current research are suggested.</p>
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Gutierrez, Estrada Maria Rebeca. "Perceptions and experiences of Mexican graduate learners studying in the United States: A basic interpretive qualitative study." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/26918.
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The present study explores the language, cultural and social perceptions and experiences of eight Mexican instructors pursuing graduate degrees in the southwestern U.S. Identity and power relations in academia are also explored. The main research questions are: (1) How do Mexican, Spanish-speaking university instructors pursuing graduate degrees in English in the U.S. perceive their language, academic, social and cultural experiences? (2) How do they cope with the linguistic, social, and cultural demands of their new environment? (3) How do they perceive their identity(ies)? (4) In what ways does their relationship with their advisor, professors, peers, impact their life in academia and in the U.S.? The findings of this basic interpretive qualitative study revealed that the participants' identities as multiple, dynamic, diverse, and changing guided them in their adaptation to their new environment. Finally, the author highlights the need for the development of English for Academic Purposes curriculum.
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Buelens, Saarke. "Inside the 'black box' : a critical interpretive perspective on the internal dynamics of schooling at Learn to Live and their impact on youths' at risk social-educational status." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/7775.
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Includes abstract.|Includes bibliographical references.<br>Participation in social and educational environments is crucial for young people’s development, well-being and opportunities for leading a fulfilling and successful life. Many South African youngsters – and particularly street children – are often excluded from meaningful participation in their communities. This involves participation in social, educational, cultural, political and economic life. The family and the school are two important arenas where such participation can take place. In addition, these youngsters are confronted with unpredictable future life chances. Thus, they often find themselves in a disadvantaged position within society. In light of this observation, the theme of youth at risk has been much discussed in South Africa for the past three decades. This study focuses on a group of especially disadvantaged adolescents, who do not live in safe and nurturing family environments and who are excluded from formal education. I investigate whether ‘theories and practices of education’, featured in non-formal educational interventions, have an impact on the reproduction of disadvantage and risk among its students. My research focuses on the case of Learn to Live, a non-formal educational intervention that tries to counteract the disadvantages that especially disadvantaged youth in Cape Town face.My findings show that educators and students try to find a balance between, on the one hand, emphasising the uniqueness of students’ extremely disadvantaged situation and the need for a particular kind of education that results from it, and on the other hand, the desire to conform to mainstream ideas and mainstream adolescent life. In their attempts to find this balance, nearly all participants acknowledge that Learn to Live is a necessary stepping stone in students’ lives towards success and happiness. The educators believe that the school itself can contribute a lot to the students’ situation and emphasise their role of victims of their circumstances. The students, however, state that Learn to Live is merely there to give them a second chance. They do consider their own role in the schooling process and the path to success to be paramount. This is also reflected quite clearly in the students’ aspirations, their feelings of hope, and their looking to the future. The implications of these findings for Learn to Live include: building on students’ strengths, talents and resiliency by offering them an empowerment-based intervention, creating more opportunities where students can experience feelings of success and pride, and making use of testimonies of successful students.
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Harris, Otto D. III. "Transforming race, class, and gender relationships within the United Methodist Church through Wesleyan theology and Black church interpretive traditions." Thesis, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3624194.
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<p> In this dissertation, I analyze the historic and present social conditions of The United Methodist Church within the context of American culture. I also present strategies for reconciliation among estranged Black and White race groups, socioeconomic class groups, gender erotic predisposition groups, and ethnic groups other than Black and White. I use the theoretical lens of Black church interpretive traditions intersecting with Wesleyan theology. J. Deotis Roberts (1971/2005) proclaims, <i>"The black church, in setting black people free, may make freedom possible for white people as well. Whites are victimized as the sponsors of hate and prejudice which keeps racism alive" </i> (p. 33). The Black church is distinct from mainstream American church in that the Black church offers more upbeat and up-tempo worship, rhythmic preaching, gospel songs and spirituals through choirs with improvisational lead singers, call and response interaction between the preacher and the congregation, sermons that held justice and mercy in tension through hope, and worship experiences that are not constrained by time limits. From the Black experience in America, the Black church offers a profound response for existential predicaments related to "life and death, suffering and sorrow, love and judgment, grace and hope, [and] justice and mercy" (McClain, 1990, p. 46). I draw from the statements of priorities of United Methodist theorists (seminaries and theological schools) and practitioners (annual conferences) to critique collective expressed values and behaviors of United Methodists. Also, from congregations in the Western North Carolina (Annual) Conference of The United Methodist Church, I analyze narratives from personal interviews of pastors of congregations that have a different majority race composition than their own, of pastors of multi-ethnic congregations, and of congregants from multi-ethnic congregations. I suggest that the social history and present social conditions of The United Methodist Church are perplexing, particularly concerning Black and White relations. However, The United Methodist Church has the mandate, heritage, responsibility, organizational structure and spiritual capacity to contribute to substantive and sustainable reconciliation in the Church and in American society.</p>
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Wang, Yun. "Fondement et représentation de la sociologie compréhensive." Thesis, Strasbourg, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014STRAG006.
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Cette thèse a pour but d’étudier les racinements et les représentations de la sociologie compréhensive. L’étude sur le fondement permet de représenter tous les éléments philosophiques, psychiques, sociologiques et historiques présents dans le monde réel et mental, et qui peuvent nous aider à mener à bien notre étude sociologique. La représentation nous pousse à établir un système de pensée sans chercher positivement la causalité et les lois générales. Le sens de la vie, la morale, l’éthique, etc. liées à l’être humain non seulement peuvent mais doivent être interprétées par la compréhension sociologique, car elles ne sont pas séparées de l’activité humaine dans les phénomènes. Sans confondre avec un aprioriste moral, l’idée vitale détermine que dans la recherche sociologique, la vie des hommes est considérée comme la finalité de toutes les activités<br>This dissertation aims to study the basis and representations of interpretive sociology. The study on the basis allows representing all philosophical, psychological, sociological and historical elements present in the real world and mind, who can help us achieve our sociological study. Representation leads us to establish a system of thought without positively seeking causality and general laws. The meaning of life, morality, ethics, etc. related to humans not only can but also must be interpreted by the sociology, because they are not separated from human activity in the phenomena. Not to be confused with a moral apriorist, the vital idea determines that in sociological research, human life is regarded as the goal of all activities
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Marinaro, Fabiana. "Reform without change : a sociological analysis of employment legislation and dispute processing in Japan." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2017. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/reform-without-change--a-sociological-analysis-of-employment-legislation-and-dispute-processing-in-japan(ca8c9774-731f-4ae5-ac9f-bef9303ed9da).html.
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This thesis sheds new light on the study of law in Japan by exploring legislative interventions and dispute resolution processes in the Japanese field of employment. The academic literature about the legal system of Japan has produced valuable research about various areas of Japanese law, from attempts at explaining patterns of rights assertion in the country to more recent studies about the legal reforms launched by the government of Japan starting from the 2000s. However, it has rarely considered the employment field as a fruitful subject for research. Nonetheless, in the past thirty years, employment has been one of the areas of Japanese law to experience considerable reform. Against the backdrop of the changes in the composition of the Japanese workforce and the bursting of the economic bubble of the beginning of the 1990s, the government of Japan assumed a more prominent role in the regulation of employment relations. In light of these developments, this thesis contributes to the debate on the role of law in Japan by examining this rarely investigated area of the Japanese legal system. Specifically, it focuses on the legislative interventions of the Japanese government to regulate the peripheral workforce of the labour market, namely women and part-time workers, and procedures for the resolution of employment disputes. In doing so, it demonstrates that the efforts of the legislators to enhance the creation of a more inclusive labour market have been fundamentally constrained by ideological and institutional factors, and resulted in an uneven distribution of legal resources among workers which exacerbated existing employment status divisions. This, in turn, has translated into unequal access to justice, affecting the extent to which different categories of workers can obtain redress through the legal apparatus.
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Olausson, Anna. "Att göra sig gällande : Mångfald i förskolebarns kamratkulturer." Doctoral thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för tillämpad utbildningsvetenskap, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-51523.
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The aim of this thesis is to describe, analyse and understand how children in preschool construct cultural diversity in their interaction. A wide definition of culture is being used, thereby stressing the cultural background of all children. The study is based on observations and conversations with children in three Swedish preschools. In observing and talking to the children the main interest has been on the extent to which experiences from the children’s individual backgrounds, called cultural impulses, are discernible in their play and interaction. In the analysis a theoretical framework of childhood sociology has been used in order to understand what meaning the children’s actions in their peer cultures have in the construction of cultural diversity. The activities going on in the peer culture have also been studied in relation to the pedagogical context. The findings show diversity within the peer group when it comes to gender and competencies but the actions within the peer cultures contain power game and inclusion as well as exclusion. These are results of hierarchies in the group, building on for example status and social position. These hierarchies are strong in the processes in which it is determined which of the cultural impulses from the children that will be a part of the play and which ones that will be rejected. In Swedish preschool one part of the pedagogical context is the seldom-questioned "fri lek". This is a period of varied length during which the children play by themselves with little or no interference from the pedagogues. The results from the observations indicate that this kind of play has very different meaning for the children. For some it is a possibility to make use of their own experiences in their peer culture and for some it means subordinating to those with higher rank in the hierarchy.<br>Felaktigt serienummer (#44) i avhandlingen.
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Wurm, Gregory Joseph. "Doing and Interpreting Lyrical Sociology: Living in Detroit." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2018. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/6884.
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This thesis examines, experiments with, and theorizes the value of lyrical sociology as an approach to social scientific research. A lyrical sociology, as proposed by Andrew Abbott, seeks to describe an author's emotional response to a phenomenon rather than explain it. This allows for a researcher's own experience to play a role in the research process in a way that helps the reader to connect emotionally and ethically to both the world they read about and the world they themselves are a part of. It has valuable implications for the way researchers relate to their research, their research subjects, their audience, and ultimately their own lives. I start by situating lyrical sociology within the broader context of the discipline, and the social sciences more generally, and then elaborate upon the specific stance and mechanics required of the writer and reader of lyrical works. Next, I present a series of lyrical vignettes about the time I spent living as a missionary in inner-city Detroit. Lastly, I give an analysis and reflection on what I learned from the process of writing and reading these stories and then conclude with a discussion on future directions lyrical sociology can take.
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Adeyeri, Oluwadamilare S. "Intrinsic Motivation and Human Agency of Faculty Engaged In Service-Learning: A Qualitative Interpretive Study of a U.S. Mid-western Public University." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1336612787.
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Lanno, Régis. "Une sociologie de la littérature appliquée aux oeuvres : Maurice Blanchot, de l'entre-deux-guerres à la fin de la seconde guerre mondiale." Thesis, Strasbourg, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014STRAG031.
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L’ambition de ce travail est de définir les conditions de possibilité d’une sociologie des œuvres littéraires. Cette démarche est illustrée par l’analyse des articles politiques, critiques littéraires et œuvres romanesques de l’écrivain Maurice Blanchot, de la période de l’entre-deux-guerres à la fin de la seconde guerre mondiale. La sociologie des œuvres littéraires doit être en mesure de produire une analyse de la forme et du contenu des œuvres. C’est en inscrivant notre travail dans la tradition compréhensive que nous tentons de dépasser les obstacles épistémologiques et méthodologiques d’une telle perspective. La compréhension des œuvres et du sens de la pratique littéraire de Blanchot passe par la reconstruction de ses expériences socialisatrices : son histoire de famille, son rapport au corps, à la maladie et à l’amour. Nous posons aussi que son passage à l’extrême droite et sa conception radicale de la pratique littéraire procèdent du même malaise existentiel<br>The aim of this work is to define the conditions of possibility of a sociological approach applied to literary works. That approach is illustrated by the analysis of political and literary articles, and novels of the writer Maurice Blanchot, from the inter-war period to the end of the Second World War. We define sociology of literary works as an approach that must be able to produce knowledge about both content and style. We postulate that the theoretical framework of interpretive sociology is the most likely to answer the epistemological and methodological obstacles of such a perspective. We try to evidence that the understanding of the literary works and the literary practice of Blanchot can be achieved by the reconstruction of his socialization experiences: his family history, his relation to his body, to illness and to love. We also postulate that his political commitment at the far right and his radical view of literary practice are based on the same existential unease
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Aberley, Douglas Carroll. "Interpreting bioregionalism." Thesis, Heriot-Watt University, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/10399/2110.
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Brackney, Dana Elisabeth. ""Knowing Where I Am At": The Experience of Self-Monitoring Blood Glucose for People with Non-Insulin-Requiring Type 2 Diabetes." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2010. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/1727.
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Eleven participants living with non-insulin-requiring Type 2 Diabetes (T2DM) discussed their self-monitoring blood glucose (SMBG) experience. All had been recently diagnosed (< 2 years) and treated for diabetes with a self-regulating SMBG guideline for primary care practice. Their digitally-recorded interviews and photographed logbooks were analyzed thematically and interpreted through the lens of numeracy literature to answer 2 questions: 1. What is the meaning of SMBG among people with non-insulinrequiring T2DM? 2. How do people with non-insulin-requiring T2DM perceive the function of SMBG in diabetes self-management? The meanings of SMBG were patient competence, "It is easy, just a little pin prick"; patient control, "I can control it. It doesn't control me"; and patient security, "It is not that way anymore." Three periods of lived time were observed: Diagnosis "The numbers say I have diabetes"; "I just can't figure out why it does that"; and Routine "I make my numbers." Prominent numeracy functions emerged by time period. During Diagnosis primary numeracy functions included comparing SMBG results to target values. Participants expressed this experience as, "I am some kind of O.K." During applied numeracy functions included taking medication correctly. SMBG readings were experienced as a clue to the diabetes mystery, sometimes confusing the participants, "I just don't know why it does what it does," or answering questions, "Now there is no question marks." Numbers motivated some people for action "The numbers get me out a walking" or restraint "If I didn't have the numbers, I would be tempted to cheat." During Routine interpretive numeracy functioned to aid the evaluation of the efficacy of participant's health behavior change. Numbers had taken on meaning helping a person to "know where I am at." Clinical implications are suggested including adjustments to the selfregulating SMBG guideline for primary care practice. Findings are discussed in relation to personal knowledge processes (Sweeny, 1994) and related SMBG research. Participants concluded that routine SMBG is essential to maintaining and restraining health behavior. This study provides a model for use of SMBG in diabetes selfmanagement and patient perspectives on SMBG during the 2 years following T2DM diagnosis.
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Osterloh, Margit. "Interpretative Organisations- und Mitbestimmungsforschung /." Stuttgart : Schäffer-Poeschel, 1993. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37438097s.
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Texte remanié de: Habilitationsschrift--Wirtschafts- und sozialwissenschaftlichen Fakultät--Erlangen-Nürnberg--Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, 1990.<br>Bibliogr. p. 353-388. Index.
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L'Hommedieu, John. "The Continuing Anglican Metamorphosis: Introducing the Adapted Integrated Model." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2012. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/5395.
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The purpose of this thesis is to develop and test the Advanced Integrated Model, a typological model in the tradition of Weber's interpretive sociology, as an asset in explaining recent transformations in American Episcopal-Anglican organizations. The study includes an assessment of the church-sect tradition in the sociology of religion and a summary overview of Weber's interpretive sociology with special emphasis on the nature and construction of ideal-types and their use in analysis. To illustrate the effectiveness of the model a number of institutional rivalries confronting contemporary Episcopal-Anglican organizations are identified and shown to be explainable only from a sociological perspective and not simply as “in house” institutional problems. The present work sheds light on parent-child conflicts in religious organizations and reopens discussion about the theoretical value of ideal-types in general, and church-sect typologies in particular, when utilized from a comparative-historical perspective.<br>M.A.<br>Masters<br>Sociology<br>Sciences<br>Applied Sociology
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Sauerbronn, João Felipe Rammelt. "O consumidor envergonhado: uma investigação das relações entre o sentimento de vergonha e os significados do consumo." reponame:Repositório Institucional do FGV, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10438/16729.
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Previous issue date: 2007-03<br>Consumer researchers from multiple tendencies had already noticed the importance of understanding the emotional phenomena associated to consumption. Emotions are key components of the human behavior and help understand the consumer behavior as well. In my thesis I present an analysis of the relationship between the feeling of shame and the meanings of consumption. Following Bagozzi, Gürhan-Canli, and Priester (2002) proposal, I had adopted an approach focused on the social basis of emotions. Although people can experience emotions privately, some emotional responses emerge from interpretations triggered by social events. In order to access the feelings experienced by the individuals during consumption I had chosen an interpretative perspective for the research. As a consequence of my epistemological option it was necessary for me to use a coherent methodological approach. The interpretative interactionism had provided a very useful resolution to the problems of analyzing the voluminous data that results in a qualitative research. The use of the interpretive interactionism was very helpful not only during the data analysis but also during the writing process. Each chapter of my thesis present a phase of the method as proposed by Denzin (1989). I could remain fully focused on the phenomenon under study because of the progressive (step-like) character of the analysis. This method made it possible to reach the perspectives of the respondents through their languages, attitudes and thoughts. I had achieved a rich and complete interpretation of the consumption experiences related to the feeling of shame. Three cases broadly represent the data retrieved and present to the reader a close examination of the elements used on the interpretation process. It was clear that the feeling of shame could influence and change the meanings of consumption of goods and services and change the consumer evaluation about it. Such clarification can be useful to marketers and researchers interested in the unpredictability of the consumer behavior.<br>O estudo das emoções no consumo é fundamental para a expansão do conhecimento da área de marketing. Pesquisadores de consumo de múltiplas tendências já perceberam a importância de se compreender mais profundamente os fenômenos emocionais associados ao consumo. Esta tese apresenta uma análise das relações entre o sentimento de vergonha e os significados de consumo. Utilizei uma abordagem de orientação sociológica, focada nas relações entre o indivíduo e o grupo na construção de seus sentimentos. Para poder penetrar no mundo dos sentimentos vividos pelos indivíduos, adotei uma perspectiva interpretativa para a pesquisa. Como conseqüência direta de minha opção epistemológica, foi necessária a utilização de uma abordagem metodológica capaz de alcançar os conjuntos de significados subjetivos dos indivíduos organizados dentro de um contexto social. Essencialmente, ficou demonstrado que o interacionismo interpretativo (DENZIN, 1989) ofereceu uma solução útil e consistente para os problemas de análise dos volumosos dados resultantes da abordagem qualitativa. A utilização do interacionismo interpretativo permitiu que eu permanecesse totalmente focado no fenômeno sob estudo devido às características progressivas (step-like) da análise. Além disso, a abordagem adotada tornou possível o acesso às perspectivas dos participantes através de suas linguagens, atitudes e pensamentos. Como resultado, obtive uma interpretação mais rica e completa das relações de consumo que envolvem a vergonha. Foram construídos três casos que representam de forma abrangente as entrevistas capturadas. Estes três casos ofereceram indicações suficientes para a discussão acerca dos principais pontos levantados. Ficou claro que a vergonha pode agir de maneira a constituir e modificar o significado de consumo de bens e serviços e alterar a avaliação do consumidor com relação a estes. Além disso, o estudo da vergonha pode ter conseqüências práticas para o marketing uma vez que este sentimento está relacionado ao estímulo ou desestímulo do consumo, além de surgir como resposta para algumas experiências de consumo.
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Clark, Michelle. "Experiences of women with endometriosis : an Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis." Thesis, Queen Margaret University, 2012. https://eresearch.qmu.ac.uk/handle/20.500.12289/7722.
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Background: Endometriosis is a common, yet enigmatic chronic gynaecological condition, with an unknown aetiology and no cure, affecting approximately 6-10% of females of a reproductive age. Symptoms include heavy menstrual bleeding, pelvic pain, fatigue and infertility which has a negative impact on daily living. Clinical research aiming to establish the cause of the condition and to develop treatments is ongoing; however, there is a lack of research investigating what it is like to live with the disease. Aim: The aim of the study was to examine the experiences of women with a surgical diagnosis of endometriosis. Methods: Semi structured interviews were carried out with 13 women. Interviews were transcribed verbatim and data analysed using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA). Analysis revealed five key themes: making sense, impact on daily life, identity, taking back control and legitimisation. Results: Women reflected upon the journey they travelled in trying to make sense of their symptoms. Diagnosis enabled a fuller understanding of their condition and facilitated increased knowledge and support. The condition impacted on all aspects of daily life and psychological outcomes to the point where women felt controlled by the disease. Identity and sense of self was challenged through changes in their ability to fulfil expected social roles, with women trying to maintain their past identities by minimising the reality of their symptoms. A variety of coping skills were employed to take back control over their lives. Finally, normalisation of symptoms by medical professionals, family members and lay public reduced the legitimacy of the condition and made self-management difficult. viii Conclusion: There is a general lack of knowledge, acceptance and support for women with endometriosis. Qualitative studies such as this one add the contextual information required to understand what it means to live with endometriosis. However, improving the quality of life of women with this debilitating condition requires further understanding of their lived experiences.
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Bergareche, Ana. "Interpreting autonomy : work, sexual violence and women's empowerment in the northern Mexican border." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2001. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/2505/.
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This study explores the extent to which women's employment status promotes autonomy among low-income women in the northern Mexican border. Autonomy is assumed as inherent in women's freedom from sexual violence in and out of the household, and therefore an underlying question to the above would be as follows: Which aspects of women's employment status offer valuable options to resist and overcome violence. As a framework for discussion, I use the theoretical context of the New International Division of Labor (NIDL) and gender debate. In exploring the question above, I focus on the symbolic meanings women attribute to their experience as female workers, in connection to traditional gender notions. Such focus allows for a perspective on women's autonomy beyond the material aspects of work and into the symbolic realm of their experience. The analysis explores the impact of age, marital status, education, migrant origin, spirituality and structural change. The argument has three main levels: First, the need to address the symbolic dimension of women's autonomy and dependence and its relevance to the impact of work on their daily life. I focus my analysis of this dimension on women's assimilation of Catholic gender notions in the Mexican context. Second, I consider women as active agents in that they are capable of transforming such notions and promote autonomy in their lives. Third, I explore the key factors in women's shift from a passive assimilation of Catholic gender notions to their challenge and positive use towards women's autonomy. The final conclusions provide support for both the integration and exploitation perspective, showing that maquiladora employment can offer both the means for further dependence and increased autonomy. The outcome is relative to women's access to media communication and emerging gender roles, access to information and education resources, the availability of support networks and a positive assimilation of Catholic gender notions. These factors converge in two key elements that I consider particularly significant in women's paths toward autonomy, namely women's positive notion of self and gender solidarity. Consequently, work is most efficient in leading to autonomy when women assimilate their role as workers within a framework of elements that promote empowerment in their lives. This process is illustrated through a case study that explores the role of community support networks in women's experience of work and autonomy.
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Morgan, Sylvia. "Constructing identities, reclaiming subjectivities, reconstructing selves : an interpretative study of transgender practices in Scotland." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2017. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/8073/.
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This thesis provides a sociologically informed understanding of the intersubjective meanings of historical and emergent transgender identities and practices in Scotland. An investigation of the social construction of gender variant identities was conducted by means of an interpretative analysis, developed out of theories of phenomenology, ethnomethodology, symbolic interactionism and performativity, applied to the formation of gendered subjectivities. Empirical data took the form of narrative histories gathered through 38 in-depth interviews with 28 transgender-identified participants currently living in Scotland. As the first exclusively qualitative sociological study of transgender conducted in Scotland, the thesis contributes towards: research examining the formative experiences of trans people; research recording the narrative histories of older trans people; research methods for recruiting small, hidden, hard to reach populations; and a sociological understanding of the social construction of transgender identities and practices, in the context of changing legislation and social attitudes in Scotland.
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Morris, Traci Lynn 1965. "Interpreting our own: Native peoples redefining museum education." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/278608.
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For my Master of Arts in American Indian Studies at the University of Arizona I have done a comparative analysis of the Docent program's at the Arizona State Museum and the National Museum of the American Indian. A docent program or guided tour program, is part of educational programing at each museum. In order to fully understand and appreciate objects in a museum, especially those in exhibits dealing with Native Americans, requires interpretation. The guided tour is one of the most popular interpretive techniques. In this particular study, I focus on the use of storytelling as an interpretive technique. This study was done in an educational setting through informal observation of the docents, personal interviews and discussion with the docents and Educational Coordinators at each museum, examination of educational training, examination of Native American education techniques, and investigation of storytelling and its relationship to museums and Native peoples.
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McCormack, Lynne Maree. "Primary and vicarious posttraumatic growth following genocide, war and humanitarian emergencies : an interpretative phenomenological analysis." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2010. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/12142/.
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There is little research into the ‘lived’ experience of individuals exposed to war, genocide or humanitarian emergencies. Similarly, little is known about the positive and negative psychological processes following such complex psychosocial events for reconstructing lives. Using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA), this thesis sought to offer subjective insights into the unique experiential world of aid personnel, military veterans and their wives from both a primary and vicarious perspective. IPA is a detailed examination of an individual’s lived experience of a particular event. It seeks the insider’s perspective through a process of iterative interpretative activity. Data from semi-structured interviews revealed both negative and positive interpretations. Negative aspects included trauma betrayal, shame, narcissistic self harm, rageful anger and moral doubt. The positive domains of empathy, love, humility and gratitude, aspects of posttraumatic growth that are not captured by existing standardised psychometric tools of growth, assisted meaning making for redefining lives over time. This thesis critiques: first, the predilection for positivist research paradigms rather than phenomenological understanding to inform psychological practice and research; second, the commodification of traumatic phenomena as emotional capital; and third, my personal experience using IPA. In summary, theories of growth to date posit social support as a necessary condition for growth following adversity. However, when social support is absent or even antagonistic I propose that a unique dispositional profile that incorporates a strong altruistic identity can stimulate meaning making and posttraumatic growth. A strong altruistic identity is committed to assisting those in need despite the risk of personal threat or cost. It also has the reciprocal benefit of developing personal and social wellbeing in the giver. For the participants of this thesis, the growthful domains of love, empathy, gratitude and humility, all aspects of an altruistic identity, appeared to generate renewed moral integrity and self reparation for psychological growth.
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Mihajlović, Jelisaveta. "The challenge of policy coordination : interpreting governance of the historic city centres in Serbia." Thesis, Northumbria University, 2016. http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/36004/.
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This research seeks to establish a more coherent and comprehensive grip on the complex, often chaotic reality being addressed by the policy actors in the process of governance of the historic city centres and the policy coordination entailed by that process. The twofold objective of this research is to increase our understanding of governance of the historic city centres in Serbia, and to identify and explain barriers to and opportunities for policy coordination. In so doing, this research embraces the interpretative paradigm to examine conservation and governance of the historic city centres as a contextualised and subjective process that takes into account what is meaningful to policy actors. This research is important as it highlights the importance of studying the micro-social processes because policy-relevant, organisational learning is situated within ongoing policy-related practices. This research demonstrates the complexity of policy process and the amount of coordination needed to address policy agenda. This research makes three contributions to knowledge. First, it provides interpretation of governance of the historic environment in the new context, namely Serbia. Second, it extends our knowledge of micro-social and micro-political aspects of heritage governance. In so doing, it applies interpretive approaches to explore the research field that has been underresearched. And finally, this research extends our knowledge about the policy coordination in urban governance and governance of the historic environment by identifying a range of factors that combined could inhibit or support an overall effort towards policy coordination.
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Seto, Wood Hung Andy. "Reinhold Niebuhr as a Christian realist : an essay on interpreting his thought." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2000. http://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_ra/242.
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Turner-Halliday, Fiona. "Experiences of freedom and personal growth in a community arts group for mental health : an Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis." Thesis, Queen Margaret University, 2013. https://eresearch.qmu.ac.uk/handle/20.500.12289/7716.
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Background: The relationship between art and mental health has evolved from a main focus on art therapy to include community arts approaches with wider and more socially-based links to health. The proliferation of community arts approaches across the UK is not met, however, with a research focus that provides insight into the mechanisms by which the activity might contribute to improving mental health. Aims: The aim of this study is to qualitatively explore the meaning of taking part in community arts for those with mental health problems and to learn about the process and ethos of group experience that was interpreted to form a necessary foundation for mental health benefit. Methods: The community arts experience of six art group members was explored through semi-structured interviews (four of whom participated in a second round of interviews). Data was analysed using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA). Findings: Community arts for mental health, in this particular study, span multiple aspects of participants’ life contexts that were found to fall into two main aspects of meaning; that is, a sense of freedom from expectation and a trajectory of personal growth. When taken together, these two superordinate themes further represent the meaning of art group experience as a process whereby the art group culture can allow, and facilitate, positive change and long-term development. Conclusions: The investigation of benefit and outcome in relation to community arts for mental health can only go so far in providing insight into the journey of participatory experience. Instead, this study’s exploration of the meanings of art engagement within a group context goes beyond description of benefit to suggest a complex process whereby the ‘ingredients’ of the art group culture is pivotal to the role of community arts in improving the lives of those experiencing mental health problems. The journey of growth that was experienced by participants evokes important and complex questions for community arts in relation to public health goals, therapeutic approaches to improve mental health and concepts within mental health arenas, such as the nature of ‘recovery.’ Furthermore the study suggests a pivotal role for health psychology in sparking a collaborative dialogue about the learning that can be gained from community arts approaches, as well as in facilitating community arts in designing approaches to working with mental health groups that are based on the insightful reflections of those who engage in them.
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Kilbride, Ashleigh Jayne. "How couples appraise and communicate about their fertility problems : a study using interpretative phenomenological analysis." Thesis, University of Hull, 2003. http://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:3552.
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The focus of this study is the impact of fertility problems on couples as a unit. The meaning of fertility problems and how couples reported they communicated were the main areas of interest. A cross-sectional semi-structured interview study was employed. Ten couples were recruited via the Hull FVF unit and interviewed by the primary researcher. The interview transcripts were analysed using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis. Two super-ordinate themes emerged: Expectations of life -"What's it all about? " highlighted the lifecycle expectations people have; how when our expectations are not met one considers one's commitments and goals in life; and the impact of fertility treatment on all of these factors. Dealing with ongoing fertility problems - 'When it doesn't happen how we expect" presented the differing responses to ongoing infertility with feelings of resentment and acceptance emerging. Communication was revealed to play an important, yet complex, role in the experience of continued fertility problems. Women seemed to have a greater need for communicating, both with their partner and with others. The couples that reported effective communication were also more likely to report successfully managing any differences as well as satisfaction with their relationship. The themes were discussed in relation to previous theory and research; the stress and coping model was found to be helpful for guiding the research process, but did not seem sufficient to fully explain the depth of meaning the fertility problems had for the couples. Further research on couple communication is recommended. The main clinical implications of the study pointed to couples needing time out from treatment to process their experiences and for counselling to be offered more regularly at different points in time.
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Kalaluhi, Stephen L. "On Developing a Deeper Understanding of Authentic Leadership| Interpreting Matthew 3|11 - 5|48 Using Intertexture Analysis and Social and Cultural Texture Analysis." Thesis, Regent University, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3689190.
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<p> Abstract This inductive, qualitative research study explore the construct of authentic leadership within the context of organizational leadership as demonstrated within the Matthew 3:11 – 5:48 pericope. Using the Matthew 3:11 – 5:48 pericope as a foundation for authentic leadership, this study seeks to answer the following research question: How does the pericope within the Christian sacred text that describes Jesus' baptism, temptations, subsequent start of ministry, and initial teachings as found in Matthew 3:11 – 5:48 contribute to our current understanding of how organizational outcomes are affected by leader morality when applied from within the intrapersonal, interpersonal, developmental, and pragmatic perspectives of authentic leadership? This research followed the exegetical foundation as described by Robbins (1996a, 1996b), and focused primarily on the frameworks associated with intertexture analysis and social and cultural texture analysis. Nine themes emerged from the data, suggesting the authenticity of Jesus was further enhanced through the intrapersonal perspective, the interpersonal perspective, the developmental perspective, and the pragmatic perspective. Specifically, the nine themes identified the following aspects of authentic leadership: (a) use of traditions, regulations, and pre-existing laws, (b) recitation of traditions, regulations, and pre-existing laws, (c) reconfiguration of traditions, regulations, and pre-existing laws, (d) use of reference, allusion, and echo to build authenticity as a leader, (e) use of social knowledge and its use in establishing authenticity, (f) use of reformist discourse to emphasize different authentic leadership approaches, (g) the concept of ascribed honor and its importance to authentic leaders, (h) the concept of challenge-response and its use in authentic leadership, and (i) the concept of purity and its role in authentic leadership. A discussion about the research findings and their implications to the contemporary organizational leadership context is included. This research also addresses the limitations of this study, as well as provides guidelines pertaining to possible future research related to the topic of authentic leadership studied from within a Christian worldview.</p>
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Zisel, Matthew J. "An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of Low-Income, First Generation Students' Transition to and Perceptions of Community College." Thesis, State University of New York at Stony Brook, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10790548.
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<p> Largely because it puts higher education within reach for all people, the community college is thought to play a vital role in the democratic functioning of American society. Partly driven by an ethos of American egalitarianism, low-cost and open access community colleges enroll, train, and educate nearly anyone who aspires to higher education. For low-income and first-generation college students, the community college serves as a primary vehicle for social mobility. Problems associated with low retention and graduation rates have lowered the public perception of community colleges and threaten to exacerbate growing concerns over income and wealth inequality in America. Therefore, it becomes important for policy analysts to explore and better understand the nature of community colleges in an effort to create improvement strategies. </p><p> This qualitative study seeks to understand the community college experience from the perspective of low-income, first generation students. It asked first year students about their background experiences and analyzed how those experiences shaped their transition to the first year of college. It also asked how low-income, first generation students perceived the community college in order to understand how students evaluate it and define its purpose. Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis was used to make sense of student experiences and to give voice to community college students who, as a studied population, receive far less attention than students at four-year colleges. </p><p> This study finds that low-income, first generation community college students lived experience includes managing class-based disadvantages; this made navigating their first year of community college challenging. Students had come to the community college expecting to learn skills that would help them to form new professional identities so that they could begin transforming their lives, making it possible to ascend the socio-economic ladder. In order to succeed in this new environment, students had to learn and adapt to a new set of social norms and expectations that the institution uses to socialize its students. Based upon the analysis of student experiences and perceptions, this study makes six recommendations to help improve student success which may lead to improved public perception and funding for community colleges. </p><p>
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Uzunian, Adrian B. "Interpreting Risk: Variations and Explanations of Resident Perceptions of Hydraulic Fracturing Impacts." DigitalCommons@USU, 2016. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/4745.
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Hydraulic fracturing is a novel technological development that has pushed the extraction of energy resources forward. As technology improves and world oil and gas markets shift, more shale formations are being uncovered, and new drilling activities are seen as economically viable. I examine the ways in which residents perceive environmental and health risks of hydraulic fracturing in the Eagle Ford Shale region of Texas, and how these perceptions differ depending on social position and where the resident is receiving their information. To understand how residents perceive the environmental and health risks associated with the Eagle Ford Shale oil and gas boom, or if these perceptions differ by social status and information sources, I conducted a qualitative analysis of key informant and focus group interview data, coding for major themes found in interview transcripts. I found that groups in lower social positions had increased concern regarding environmental and health risk perceptions than those in higher social positions. Additionally, respondents in lower social positions discussed all environmental and health risk perceptions with a relatively higher breadth and depth than those in higher social positions. Regarding information sources, those in higher social positions tend to receive more of their information on hydraulic fracturing from government officials and industry. Those in lower social positions receive more information from interpersonal networks, although they generally discussed a general lack of information concerning oil and gas development. These findings contribute to a relatively small field of growing research on resident perceptions in a hydraulic fracturing context. This research also brings attention to rural populations who are being uniquely impacted by hydraulic fracturing and provides insight into a region, the Eagle Ford Shale, where there is a need for more scholarly research.
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Blomberg, Helena. "Mobbning, intriger, offerskap : att tala om sig själv som mobbad i arbetslivet." Doctoral thesis, Örebro universitet, Akademin för humaniora, utbildning och samhällsvetenskap, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-11999.
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This thesis is a study of bullying narratives, mainly co-produced in a process of ongoing interaction. The focus is on how narrators rhetorically organize their storytelling and identity work by using discursive resources. The empirical material consists of 12 interviews with, and 12 written stories by people who have been exposed to workplace bullying plus information from three websites about bullying, and previous research. The overarching aim of the study is to identify how a bullying discourse is produced, reproduced, challenged and negotiated in bullied persons’ narratives. Specific aims are to determine how bullying is portrayed publicly, how narrators with experience of being bullied build their stories, how the narratives stand in relation to victimization, what makes it possible to talk about vulnerability and what are its limits, and finally to develop a narrative approach.Theoretically and methodologically, the study has its basis in narrative analysis, discursive psychology, conversation analysis, and metaphor analysis. The study shows how the narrators categorize themselves as active, competent, and consensus seeking. They resist being victimized, but by their use of the interpretative repertoire and a standard story of bullying, they nevertheless become indirectly victimized. What’s at stake, in the narratives, is the question of guilt, which they rhetorically evade by the use of different metaphors. These metaphors depict bullying as a mystery, a lifelong source of suffering, a transformation, a learning experience, a battle, a contagious virus, and a trap. The narrators are constrained by the narrative conditions, the interpretative repertoire, standard story, and narrative form and content – a story of good and evil when creating their own story. The narrative conditions at the same time set the limit for expressing oneself in the identity work. This also means we are part of the production and reproduction of the bullying discourse when I, as a researcher, and the narrators use the repertoire and the standard story in mutual understanding.<br><p>Helena Blomberg är verksam som universitetsadjunkt i sociologi vid Mälardalens högskola sedan 2001och vid Örebro universitet sedan 2003. Hennes huvudsakliga verksamhetsområde rör metodologiska frågeställningar kopplat till den kvalitativa forskningstraditionen, främst diskurs- och narrativ analys. Hon ingår även i Diskursgruppen vid Stockholms universitet, en tvärvetenskaplig forskargrupp som arbetar med olika diskursanalytiska ansatser.</p>
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Wittezaële, Olivier Laurent. "The relationship between interpreters and users of the interpreting services at the Potchefstroom Campus of the North-West University / O.L. Wittezaële." Thesis, North-West University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/2062.
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Cavaghan, Rosalind. "Gender mainstreaming as a knowledge process : towards an understanding of perpetuation and change in gender blindness and gender bias." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/6595.
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This thesis locates itself in wider developments in gender theory and examinations of the state’s production of gender inequality. It responds to two research problems in existing literature. Firstly, scholars have developed increasingly complex theorisations of the social construction of gender and the state’s role in it. This body of research has shown how gender blindness and gender bias in state policies produce inequality and how gender structures priorities, hierarchies and roles within state organisations. Fully operationalising these insights has, however, thus far proved difficult. Secondly, whilst existing research provides a nuanced picture of these multiple dynamics involved in the state’s reproduction of gender inequality, we cannot yet fully account for the processes through which these dynamics are maintained. As a result, our explanations of how change could be achieved are also under-developed. This thesis uses gender mainstreaming (GM) implementation as a model to explore these research problems, examining the processes underlying the ‘disappointing’ policy outcomes which existing analyses of GM implementation have documented (Bretherton 2001, Daly 2005, Mazey 2000). Whilst these existing studies provide an essential starting point, this thesis argues that many have applied an implicitly rigid or rationalistic approach to policy analysis, highlighting the disparity between the intended and actual outcomes of GM. This kind of approach fails to operationalise our understanding of the construction of gender as a process and a constantly renegotiated phenomenon. It also fails to exploit the research opportunities which GM implementation provides. To enable such an analysis, this thesis draws together literatures from policy studies, particularly interpretative policy analysis (Colebatch 2009, Pressman and Wildavsky 1984, Yanow 1993) and science and technology studies/the sociology of knowledge (STS/SK) (Latour and Callon 1981, Law 1986) to apply an understanding of policy implementation as a process of negotiation, where we analyse how policy is interpreted, understood and enacted, on the ground. This perspective emphasises how local responses to strategic policy demands emerge through collective processes of interpretation, which are heavily affected by pre-existing policy assumptions, activities and practices (Wagenaar 2004, Wagenaar et al 2003). These concepts are used to operationalise the concept of gender knowledge (Andresen and Doelling 2002, Caglar 2010, Cavaghan 2010, 2012, Doelling 2005) to investigate how shared (non)perceptions of gender inequality are institutionalised and perpetuated, whilst competing notions are marginalised. Thus developed, the gender knowledge concept enables us to grasp and analyse (non)perceptions of the gender inequality issue; the evidence or ways of thinking which underpin them; and the processes, materials and persons involved in institutionalising them to the exclusion of competing perceptions. This approach therefore operationalises the notion that gender and gendering is a process and connects the ‘genderedness of organisations’ (Benschop and Verloo 2006, Rees 2002) to gendered policy outputs. Examining ‘what is happening’ when GM is implemented in this manner provides an opportunity to identify mechanisms of resistance, i.e. the processes through which the production of gender inequality is maintained. By corollary, examining ‘successful’ incidences of GM implementation provides empirical examples of how change has occurred. The project thus aims to produce theoretical insights which can be extrapolated to a wider understanding of the perpetuation of the state production of gender inequality.
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Van, Den Eynde Laura. "Interpreting Rights Collectively: Comparative Arguments in Public Interest Litigants’ Briefs on Fundamental Rights Issues." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/217681.
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This research explores the role of public interest litigants in the circulation of arguments among courts regarding the interpretation of fundamental rights. Such circulation is often labeled ‘judicial dialogue’. ‘Public interest litigants’ are here defined as entities (individuals or groups) with no direct interest in the case, who use procedural avenues to participate in the litigation. Despite extensive scholarly attention for judicial dialogue, the necessity for more empirical research devoted to the exchanges among jurisdictions had been stressed. Three jurisdictions with different postures towards cross-citations were chosen for the analysis: the U.S. Supreme Court, the European Court of Human Rights and the South African Constitutional Court. Among their vast case law, landmark cases were selected dealing firstly with death penalty or related questions and secondly with discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. Briefs submitted by public interest litigants to courts were collected and analyzed, mainly to inquire about the identity of the actors involved in the cases, to see whether their briefs contain comparative material and, if they do, to record what sort of references are made and whether they are accompanied by justifications supporting their relevance.The analysis reveals that the briefs contain comparative material. Many public interest litigants can be considered as messengers of this information. They push for the detachment of judicial interpretation from the text at hand and propose a variant of the interpretative exercise in which the mobilized material is not exclusively jurisdiction-bound. The cross-analysis also reveals that, contrary to the picture painted by the literature on the phenomenon, there are actually many comparisons in the broad sense (referring for example to a ‘universal practice’) that are used in a norm-centric way, that is, where the simple mention of a comparative element in the form of a broad reference or the outcome of a foreign case should have weight in the adjudication and not in a reason-centric way, that is, by exposing the reasoning of a foreign judge. The research also hypothesized that the comparative material brought by public interest litigants influences the judges. Analyzing the cases using the process-tracing method allowed to substantiate that briefs are read and established that several comparative references brought by public interest litigants were debated during the oral arguments and found an echo in the judgments (in majority and dissenting opinions). Along with the use of other methods such as interviews of judges, the hypothesis was thus confirmed.Exploring the roles of external actors also enables to supply the literature on judicial dialogue with factual insights regarding the identities of the actors behind the circulation of legal arguments. It was found that, in the United States, the traditional domestic ‘repeat players’ (that is, actors often involved in the litigation) do not clearly embrace a comparative approach while most public interest litigants in Europe and South Africa do. Similarly, the pregnant role of transnational actors is underlined. The analysis suggests an explanation drawn from an aspect of the legal culture in which the public interest litigants evolve and which influences their argumentative strategies: the horizon of the ambient rights discourse: a civil rights discourse, more territorially bounded (and more often found in the U.S. context), is distinguished from a human rights or fundamental rights discourse which entails a more cosmopolitan dimension.The final part of the research explores and discusses the justifications provided by public interest litigants to support the relevance of a comparative approach in the interpretation of rights. The compilation of these justifications allows to confront those provided first hand to the judges with those constructed post facto by the scholarly literature. It reveals the uncertain implications of some of these justifications, in particular the one pointing to the universal nature of the discussed rights and the one invoking the need for consistency among the approaches of jurisdictions.The research thus allows to confirm the hypothesis that public interest litigants play a key role in judicial dialogue. Moreover, it points at further promising researches, and this thesis hopes to draw the attention to often neglected elements, such as the identity and status of the actors bringing comparative information, the forms of citations and the roles assigned to them, the aspects of legal culture that are seldom mentioned in the literature and the implications of the justifications explicitly or implicitly provided for the relevance of comparative material.<br>Doctorat en Sciences juridiques<br>info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished
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Sosa, Katherine Joanna. "“Square Peg in a Round Hole” An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of Workers’ Experiences with Workplace Conflict." Diss., NSUWorks, 2019. https://nsuworks.nova.edu/shss_dcar_etd/132.
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Conflict is a predictable aspect of organizational life. Research indicates that workers spend the majority of their lifetime at work and that unresolved conflict is one of the largest reducible costs in organizations. However, the majority of employee conflicts are not accurately addressed by rights-and-power based conflict management systems. This Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) study explored the experiences and perceptions of workers who had been involved in an unresolved or escalated workplace conflict that was of consequence in their lives. The study sought to learn how it impacted them and how they made sense of the conflict, their organizations, and their options. Nine workers from seven different industries were interviewed using semi-structured interviews. Central to this study’s gestalt is the square peg in a round hole phenomenon that symbolizes what it means to live through a significant workplace conflict. The participants experienced emotional turmoil, a sense of powerlessness, and a perception that their interpersonal conflicts did not fit within their organizations’ conflict management systems. Participants’ stories are woven throughout the analysis and highlighted in six superordinate themes (1) Impact from Negative Work-Life Events, (2) Costly Reactions, (3) Covert Conflict, (4) Reducing Dissonance to Facilitate Resilience, (5) Detachment from the Organization, (6) Learning through Reflection. This study contributes to the field of conflict resolution with insights on workplace conflict costs including the pervasiveness of presenteeism, how a sense of powerlessness can lead to detachment from the organization, and how valuable dialogue can be in reframing workers’ experience.
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Kšica, Přemysl. "Postavení chrámového varhaníka v Českých zemích." Master's thesis, Akademie múzických umění v Praze.Hudební a taneční fakulta. Knihovna, 2012. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-177725.
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Nowadays we can be witnesses of an opinion, that in czech country was always in the area of czech church music strong tradition amateur musicians´ influence. Supposedly, that it ever was, is correct, that it is still also today. An aim of this work is not to declaim a role of amateur musicians, but an effort to point to aspects, when is required, even irreplaceable a profesionality. It should be awarded a proper significance, which is unfortunately not always well understanded. In a church praxis is often made a difference in an attitude, if it is about amateur organist or profesionalist, and not just in a financial apprasial point of view.
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Tison, Alev Balci. "The interpreter's involvement in a translated institution: a case study of sermon interpreting." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/378648.
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Aquesta tesi examina la implicació de l'intèrpret en el context institucional d'un ambient religiós amb una perspectiva multi-metodològica i multidisciplinària. Partint de diverses disciplines com la sociologia, la sociolingüística i la traductologia, nocions com les d'institució, ideologia, normes i context constitueixen el marc de referència. Aquest estudi de cas investiga una església en particular com a institució traduïda i en traducció mentre l’estableix en un context cultural i lingüístic nou, centrant-se en el paper dels intèrprets i de la pràctica d'interpretació pròpiament aquesta. La noció de la seva participació és escodrinyada en relació amb altres conceptes usats per descriure el paper de l'intèrpret en recerques prèvies. Partint que la interpretació mai succeeix en el buit i que els intèrprets estan limitats pel context en què intervenen, s'ofereix una anàlisi descriptiva dels micro i macro contextos com a fonament per a l'anàlisi de dades recopilades. La interpretació eclesiàstica es visualitza com una pràctica social arrelada en una institució social. Aquest estudi també examina el sermó com a tipus textual i com a gènere per proporcionar una comprensió més profunda dels esdeveniments comunicatius intervinguts per l’intèrpret sota estudi. S'aplica l'etnografia i cert grau d'auto-etnografia per conduir l'estudi de camp i per recol·lectar les dades per a l'anàlisi qualitativa i quantitatiu. Aquestes anàlisis investiguen les percepcions del rol i de les normes d'expectativa concernents els temes com les estratègies d'interpretació, selecció, motivació dels intèrprets, el grau d'autoritat que se'ls delega, i les decisions ideològicament motivades. Els resultats van ser triangulats amb anàlisi del discurs en base als sermons interpretats en condicions naturals i mirant les estratègies dels intèrprets, diversos graus d'implicació en l'esdeveniment comunicatiu, i les eleccions lèxiques ideològicament motivades en relació a les normes de procés.<br>Esta tesis examina la implicación del intérprete en el contexto institucional de un ambiente religioso con una perspectiva multi-metodológica y multidisciplinaria. Partiendo de varias disciplinas como la sociología, la sociolingüística y la traductología, nociones como las de institución, ideología, normas y contexto constituyen el marco de referencia. Este estudio de caso investiga una iglesia en particular como institución traducida y en traducción mientras se la establece en un contexto cultural y lingüístico nuevo, centrándose en el papel de los intérpretes y de la práctica de interpretación propiamente dicha. La noción de su participación es escudriñada en relación con otros conceptos usados para describir el papel del intérprete en investigaciones previas. Partiendo de que la interpretación nunca sucede en el vacío y que los intérpretes están limitados por el contexto en que median, se ofrece un análisis descriptivo del micro y macro contextos como fundamento para el análisis de datos recopilados. La interpretación eclesiástica se visualiza como una práctica social arraigada en una institución social. Este estudio también examina al sermón como tipo textual y como género para proporcionar una comprensión más profunda de los eventos comunicativos mediados por intérprete bajo estudio. Se aplica la etnografía y cierto grado de auto-etnografía para conducir el estudio de campo y para recolectar los datos para el análisis cualitativo y cuantitativo. Estos análisis investigan las percepciones del rol y de las normas de expectativa concernientes los temas como las estrategias de interpretación, selección, motivación de los intérpretes, el grado de autoridad que se les delega, y las decisiones ideológicamente motivadas. Los resultados fueron triangulados con un análisis del discurso sobre los sermones interpretados en condiciones naturales en base a las estrategias de los intérpretes, varios grados de implicación en el evento comunicativo, y las elecciones léxicas ideológicamente motivadas ebasadas en relación a las normas de proceso.<br>This thesis examines the interpreter’s involvement in the institutional context of a religious setting with an interdisciplinary and multi-method approach. Drawing on approaches from Sociology, Sociolinguistics and Translation Studies, notions such as institution, ideology, norms and context constitute a theoretical framework. A particular church in the case study is investigated as a translated and translating institution while being established in a new linguistic and cultural context, with a focus on the role of interpreters and the interpreting practice itself. The notion of involvement is scrutinized in relation to other concepts used to describe the role of the interpreter in previous research. Recognizing that interpreting can never occur in a social vacuum and that interpreters are bound by the context they mediate in, a descriptive analysis of the micro- and macro-level contexts of the research is provided as a foundation for the data analysis to follow. Interpreting at church is approached as a social practice embedded in a social institution. The study also scrutinizes the sermon as a text type and genre for a deeper understanding of the interpreter-mediated communicative events under study. Ethnography and a degree of autoethnography are employed to conduct fieldwork and to collect data for both qualitative and quantitative analyses. These analyses investigate role perceptions and expectancy norms regarding the issues such as interpreters’ motivation, eligibility, interpreting strategies, the degree of authority granted to them and their ideology-bound decisions. The findings are triangulated by a discourse analysis based on naturally occurring interpreter-mediated sermons regarding interpreters’ strategies, various degrees of their involvement in the communicative event, and their ideology-bound lexical choices in relation to process norms.
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Milien, Yvon. "A Study of Haitian Mormon Converts Dwelling in New York City: A Cross-Cultural Perspective in Understanding, Interpreting, and Experiencing the Mormon Subculture." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 1997. http://patriot.lib.byu.edu/u?/MTGM,33261.
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Ames, Valesca Daiana Both. "Controvérsias tecnológicas : o caso do aeromóvel em Porto Alegre." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/102200.
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Esta dissertação se insere no âmbito das discussões sobre controvérsias tecnológicas, tendo como objetivo geral mapear e analisar aquelas que se estabeleceram em torno do Aeromóvel em Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, durante o período que se estende do final da década de 1970 até o ano de 2013. O referencial teórico adotado para mapear e analisar as controvérsias se situa no campo dos Estudos Sociais em Ciência e Tecnologia, mais especificamente, na abordagem da Construção Social da Tecnologia. Os objetivos específicos consistem em identificar os grupos sociais que se envolveram na controvérsia, analisar os discursos formulados sobre o Aeromóvel, bem como os elementos do contexto social mobilizados pelos atores sociais para explicar a história da tecnologia. O estudo teve caráter qualitativo e utilizou fontes primárias e secundárias para a geração dos dados. A fonte primária consistiu na realização de entrevistas narrativas com membros dos grupos sociais relevantes. As fontes secundárias foram compostas por matérias jornalísticas, relatórios técnicos, ata de audiência pública, catálogos de divulgação e termo de contratação do Aeromóvel. A análise de dados foi constituída a partir da combinação entre elementos da análise proposta por Schutze, da análise argumentativa e temática. Os resultados apontam as distintas interpretações formuladas pelos grupos sociais a respeito do significado, dos problemas e vantagens do Aeromóvel, assim como dos fatores contextuais que teriam influenciado seu desenvolvimento. Ademais, apresentam-se as principais controvérsias que envolveram a tecnologia. A descrição dos diferentes grupos envolvidos e da flexibilidade interpretativa acerca do Aeromóvel indica que seu processo de experimentação e implantação não se restringiu ao âmbito técnico ou científico, envolvendo também grupos políticos, grupos empresariais e a mídia. Igualmente, concluí-se que a abertura e o fechamento das controvérsias não dependeram da comprovação da eficiência do Aeromóvel, mas de fatores sociais como a habilidade retórica dos atores envolvidos e a redefinição de problemas da tecnologia. A descrição a respeito das controvérsias que envolveram o Aeromóvel pretende lançar um olhar “humano” ao processo de construção de tecnologias, apresentando-o como permeado por incertezas, negociações, acordos e controvérsias entre grupos sociais.<br>This master´s thesis falls within the scope of discussions on technological controversies with the overall objective to map and analyze the controversies that settled around the Aeromovel in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, during the period that extends from the late 1970s to the year of 2013. The theoretical references adopted to map and analyse the controversies lies within the field of Social Studies of Science and Technology, more specifically, in the Social Construction of Technology approach. The specific objectives consist of identifying the social groups that were involved in the controversies, analyze the formulated speeches about the Aeromovel, as well as social context's elements mobilized by the social actors to explain the history of technology. The study had a qualitative character using primary and secondary sources to generate data. The primary source consisted of narrative interviews with members of relevant social groups. The secondary sources were composed of newspaper articles, technical reports, minutes of public hearing, catalogs disclosure and the Aeromovel´s term of employment. Data analysis was obtained from the combination of elements of analysis proposed by Schutze, the argumentative and the thematic analysis. The results indicate the distinct interpretations formulated by social groups regarding the meaning, the problems and advantages of the Aeromovel, as well as the contextual factors that have influenced its development. Furthermore, we present the main controversies surrounding the technology. The description of different groups involved and the interpretative flexibility concerning the Aeromovel indicates that the process of experimentation and deployment are not restricted to technical or scientific scope, involving political groups, enterprise groups and the media. In addition, we conclude that the opening and closing of the controversies did not depend on proof of the efficiency of Aeromovel, but social factors as the rhetorical skill of actors involved and the redefinition of technology problems. The description about the controversies surrounding the Aeromovel intends to launch a "human" look at the process of building technologies, presenting it as permeated by uncertainty, negotiations, agreements and disputes between social groups.
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Schlinzig, Tino. "Identitätspolitiken multilokaler Nachtrennungsfamilien." Doctoral thesis, Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2017. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-226556.
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Modernisierungstheoretischen Annahmen zufolge sind soziale Beziehungen in Gesellschaften der zweiten Moderne keine gegebenen Größen mehr, sondern Gegenstand von Aushandlungsprozessen, handlungsleitende gesellschaftliche Wissensvorräte erodieren und das bürgerliche Kernfamilienmodell sieht sich zunehmend soziokulturell legitimierten Alternativen gegenüber. Zahlreiche Wandlungstendenzen von Familie lassen sich ablesen, unter diesen die Zunahme von Fortsetzungsfamilien nach Trennung und Scheidung und im Zuge dessen die Aufweichung der monolokalen Haushaltsbindung von Familie. Diese Dynamiken werfen die Frage nach der Ausgestaltung der Herstellungsleistungen von Familie auf, die mit Doing und Displaying Family im Rahmen einer praxistheoretischen Wende innerhalb der Familiensoziologie bereits angeschnitten sind. Hier setzt das Forschungsinteresse der vorliegenden Arbeit an: (1) Bereits vorliegende empirische Erkenntnisse und theoretisch-konzeptuelle Überlegungen maßgeblicher Forschungsfelder werden zusammengeführt und diskutiert. (2) Aus praxeologisch-wissenssoziologischer Perspektive richtet die Empirie der vorliegenden Studie ihre Aufmerksamkeit auf die Rekonstruktion familialer Identitätspolitiken und der Herstellung von Gemeinschaft im sogenannten paritätischen Wechselmodell, in dem Kinder regelmäßig und zu gleichen Teilen an den Orten der getrenntlebenden Eltern wohnen. Mit den Befunden kann gezeigt werden, dass eine von Eltern und Kindern geteilte Differenzthese zentraler Ankerpunkt für die Identitätskonstruktionen der untersuchten Familien bildet. Zwei Familienkerne stehen sich nach der Relokalisierung eines Elternpaares im Zuge der Auflösung ihrer Zweierbeziehung als zwei Familienwirklichkeiten mit je unterschiedlichen Behauptungen sozialer Ordnung gegenüber. In diese müssen sich die Kinder aktiv einpassen bzw. regelmäßig durch die monolokalen Familienmitglieder re-integriert werden. Die Behauptung und Stabilisierung der lokalen Ordnungen wird über fünf Formen physischer und symbolischer Schließung als Teil familialer Identitätspolitiken abgesichert: (1) kommunikativ, (2) räumlich, (3) personell, (4) materiell und (5) habituell. Zwischen materieller und habitueller Schließung zu verorten, wurde das Olfaktorische als Medium der Vergemeinschaftung identifiziert. Das empirische Material eröffnet zudem einen Blick auf die Normalisierungsstrategien der untersuchten Eltern und Kinder im Umgang mit extern herangetragenen Markierungen von Andersartigkeit, Abweichungsvermutungen und der Normalisierungsmacht des bürgerlichen Kernfamilienmodells. Der Studie liegt ein qualitatives multi-method Design zugrunde. Der Materialkorpus speist sich aus problemzentriert-narrativen Interviews, Gruppendiskussionen, ego-zentrierten Netzwerkkarten sowie fotografischen Alltagsdokumentationen der aktiv multilokal lebenden Kinder aus insgesamt fünf Familienensembles. Die Materialien wurden auf Grundlage der dokumentarischen Methode der Text- und Bildinterpretation analysiert<br>According to modernization theory social relationships in second modernity are no longer a given quantity but are subject to negotiation processes. Guiding social knowledge is eroding and the nuclear family model is increasingly confronted with sociocultural legitimate alternatives. There are numerous transformations of the family observable – among these increasing numbers of families after separation and divorce, and in consequence the dissolution of the monolocal household family in favour of multi-local family arrangements. These dynamics raise the question of Doing and Displaying Family practices, addressed within the framework of a practice turn within family sociology. Main aim of this paper is (1) to discuss existing empirical findings and theoretical/conceptual considerations of relevant research fields, and (2) by employing a praxeological approach, to focus on identity politics as a means to establish and stabilize family identity and belonging within shared residence arrangements where children regularly shuttle between their separated parent’s households. Data suggest that passive multi-locally living parents and their partners oscillate between referring to the other household on behalf of the active multi-locally living children to create a cross-spatial sense of commonness and belonging and at the same time applying territorialisation practices to promote a place-bound social order and family identity. This includes processes of communicative, spatial, personal, material, and habitual closure. Moreover, in a way between material and habitual closure, the olfactory was identified as a medium of identification and distinction. However, children face the challenge to merge both residential places and family nuclei into a coherent whole and simultaneously need to distinguish between different family sociotopes. Moreover, the empirical material provides insights into the normalization strategies of parents and children in dealing with externally applied difference markers, deviance attributions and the normalization power of the nuclear family model. The basis of the empirical research is a multiple methods comprising qualitative research design. Narrative interviews, group discussions and visual methods were employed. Data are analysed by means of the documentary method for text and picture interpretation within a qualitative reconstructive approach
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Santos, José Carlos Cariacás Romão dos. "A polifonia do cordel de simbólica católica: contrapondo reducionismos interpretativos." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2010. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/1786.
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Previous issue date: 2010-09-24<br>Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior<br>The aim of this thesis is to analyse the reductionist presuppositions about cordel (pamphlet) literature in its religious dynamic. We examine the hypothesis that the cordel is a polyphonic product and that therefore it must be analysed in such a way as to avoid simple general statements in respect of its production.
　
We begin our research with a deep examination of the world of the cordel and the problems inherent in its interpretation, targeting, to begin with, the poor usage of the terms people/popular in the understanding of the cordel, which in its turn cancels out the complexity of perception of the listeners for whom the poems were written. Next we look at the precariousness of the classification of the religious cordel which only deals with elements outside of the context without getting caught up in the internal dynamic of its production. In three chapters we discuss the fallacy that asserts the production of the cordel to be coloured by catholic orthodoxy, thus analysing human images as if they are thoughts in the same production (with a view to counterpoint the reductionist interpretation). In the last chapter we analyse and refute the exaggerated suggestion that the cordel is conservative and traditionalist.
　
The research uncovers the following results: the cordel is a polyphonic product with its own internal logic and which does not offer any margin for reductionist interpretation. Any reductionism is due to the intellectual short-sightedness of researchers-once they are shown to be ignorant of religious phenomena and theoretical articulations concerning the culture of popular religion. The work in question offers information for the process of interpretation of catholic symbolism in the cordel<br>O objetivo desta tese é analisar pressupostos que se mostram reducionistas em pesquisas sobre a literatura de cordel em sua dinâmica religiosa. Atentamos para a hipótese de que o cordel é uma produção polifônica e que, portanto, deve ser analisada de modo a evitar afirmações gerais e simplórias acerca da sua produção.
Iniciamos a abordagem vasculhando o mundo do cordel e os problemas inerentes a sua interpretação, focando, destarte, o mau uso dos termos povo/popular na compreensão do cordel que, por sua vez, anula a complexidade da percepção dos auditórios para os quais os poemas foram escritos. Em seguida observamos a precariedade da classificação do cordel religioso que só lida com elementos externos do contexto sem ater-se a dinâmica interna de sua produção. Em três capítulos discutimos a sentença falaciosa que afirma ser a produção do cordel marcada pela ortodoxia católica analisando, destarte, as imagens humanas no modo como são pensadas na referida produção (com vista a contrapor a interpretação reducionista). No último capítulo analisamos e refutamos a afirmação exagerada de que o cordel é conservador e tradicionalista.
A pesquisa aponta os seguintes resultados: o cordel é uma produção polifônica que possui uma lógica interna própria e que não oferece margem para ser interpretado de maneira reducionista. Os reducionismos são devidos a miopia intelectual dos pesquisadores uma vez que se mostram como desconhecedores do fenômeno religioso e das articulações teóricas acerca da cultura da religiosidade popular. O trabalho em questão oferece subsídios para o processo interpretativo do cordel de simbólica católica
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Vosloo, Frances Antoinette. "Om te skryf deur te vertaal en te vertaal deur te skryf : Antjie Krog as skrywer/vertaler." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/4011.
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Thesis (DLitt (Afrikaans and Dutch))--University of Stellenbosch, 2010.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This dissertation explores Antjie Krog as translator within the Afrikaans and English
literary field in South Africa. The focus of the study is primarily on Krog’s translation of
her own work, namely her prose works Country of my skull and A change of tongue/’n
Ander tongval, and poetry Down to my last skin, die sterre sê ‘tsau’/the stars say ‘tsau’
and Verweerskrif/Body bereft. Although Krog is also renowned for her work as translator
of others’ work, the concept self translation is particularly relevant for this study: to write
through translation and translate through writing.
The study has a dual objective: on a polysystemic level Krog’s position and status as
translator and that of her translation products within the Afrikaans and English literary
field in South Africa is researched; on a sociocultural level Bourdieu’s concept habitus is
employed in order to explore the underlying force behind Krog’s translation process. The
focus throughout is on Krog’s double writing, the overlapping of the act of writing and
the act of translating as it resonates on textual and metatextual level. Although a
Bourdieusian reading of translations is a relatively unexplored terrain in the South
African translation field, this study aims to add fresh insights into a dispositional view of
the translator in his or her space within the literary field.
In the course of this study philosophical concepts of Deleuze and Guattari, Kristeva and
Bhabha are employed. Deleuze and Guattari’s concept minor literature is employed
insofar the act of translation and the translation product reflects a different subjectivity.
Kristeva’s concept the abject is likewise explored in the way it is reflected in Krog’s
writing and translating. In the end it is argued that Krog, when writing in her non-mother
tongue and when translating, is situated in a hybrid space, an in-between space. This
study thus shifts from a polysystemic analysis of Krog’s translation products to a more
individual approach and the notion that Krog’s habitus as writer is inextricably linked to
her habitus as translator; that translation is an embodied process.<br>AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie proefskrif is ’n studie van Antjie Krog as vertaler binne die Afrikaanse en
Engelse literêre veld in Suid-Afrika. In hierdie studie word daar slegs op Krog se
vertaling van haar eie werk gekonsentreer, naamlik die prosawerke Country of my skull
en A change of tongue/’n Ander tongval, en die poësie Down to my last skin, die sterre sê
‘tsau’/the stars say ‘tsau’ en Verweerskrif/Body bereft. Hoewel Krog ook as vertaler van
ander skrywers se werk bekend is, is dit veral die konsep selfvertaling wat in hierdie
studie van belang is: om te skryf deur vertaling en vertaal deur te skryf.
Die studie neem ’n tweeledige vorm aan: op ’n polisistemiese vlak word die posisie en
status van Krog as vertaler, en ook van haar vertaalprodukte binne die Afrikaanse en
Engelse literêre veld in Suid-Afrika ondersoek; op ’n sosiokulturele vlak word Bourdieu
se konsep habitus ingespan ten einde die onderliggende dryfvere agter die vertaalproses
van Krog te ondersoek. Die deurlopende fokus is op die dubbele skrywerskap van Krog;
die oorvleueling van die skryfhandeling en vertaalhandeling soos dit op tekstuele en
metatekstuele vlak resoneer. Alhoewel ’n sosiokulturele (Bourdieuaanse) lesing van
vertaaltekste ’n relatief onbekende terrein in Suid-Afrikaanse vertaalteoretiese kringe is,
wil hierdie studie aantoon dat ’n disposisionele beskouing van die vertaler in sy of haar
ruimte binne die literêre veld vars insigte bring.
Deur die loop van die studie word filosofiese konsepte van Deleuze en Guattari, Kristeva
en Bhabha betrek. Deleuze en Guattari se denkinstrument van ’n mineurletterkunde word
ingespan sover die vertaalhandeling en -produk ’n andersoortige subjektiwiteit
weerspieël. Hierbenewens word Kristeva se konsep van die abjekte in Krog se skryf- en
vertaalhandeling ondersoek. Uiteindelik word dit aangevoer dat Krog as vertaler binne ’n
hibriede ruimte, ’n tussenruimte funksioneer wanneer sy in Engels skryf en wanneer sy
vertaal. Hierdie studie beweeg dus van ’n polisistemiese ondersoek na Krog se
vertaalprodukte tot by ’n meer individuele ondersoek na die beskouing dat Krog se
habitus as skrywer onlosmaaklik verbind is aan haar habitus as vertaler, en dat die proses
van vertaling ’n beliggaamde proses is.
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Blaya, Mengual Miguel Ángel. "Francisco Rabal a través de la prensa. Análisis del tratamiento periodístico (1951-2001)." Doctoral thesis, Universidad de Murcia, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/10911.
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Investigación hemerográfica avalada por la reconstrucción y la deconstrucción de documentos portadores del eco social de un personaje, Francisco Rabal, que ni pasó desapercibido por la sociedad, los escenarios y los platós, ni puede ser ignorado por la historia y los anales del cine, el teatro y la interpretación en general. Han sido utilizados métodos concretos de investigación social de carácter cualitativo, descriptivo e interpretativo; análisis de contenidos de prensa en una investigación rigurosa sobre el tratamiento periodístico visto aquel en el escenario del universo del mensaje y contemplado éste tanto por sí solo como desde la perspectiva hemerográfica, en la que adquiere una importancia extrema la comunicación no verbal, el valor de lo icónico. Los interesados en estas investigaciones encontrarán una herramienta muy válida: la conjunción de periodismo y sociología para que el resultado ofrezca esa visión transversal solamente presente en el ámbito contextualizado de las Ciencias Humanas.<br>Newspaper investigation guaranteed by the construction and the desconstruction of documents , bearers of the social echo of a character, Francisco Rabal, who neither went unnoticed by the society, the stages and the sets, nor can be ignored by the cinema history and annals, the theatre and the performance in general. Specific methods of social investigation of qualitative, descriptive and interpretative nature have been used: press contents analysis in a rigorous research about the journalistic processing, seen the former in the scene of the universe of the message and considered the latter so much by itself as from the newspaper prospect, in which the non verbal communication, the value of the icon acquires an extreme importance.People interested in these investigations will find a very valid tool: the conjunction of journalism and sociology for the result to offer that cross view only set in the context of Human Sciences.
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Marpeau, Anne-Claire. "Emma entre les lignes : réceptions, lecteurs et lectrices de Madame Bovary de Flaubert." Thesis, Lyon, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019LYSEN035/document.
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Le travail porte sur la lecture de Madame Bovary de Flaubert. Menacée d’être proscrite en 1857, elle devient ensuite progressivement prescrite par les programmes de littérature au lycée et à l’université en France et dans les pays anglo-américains. La chercheuse explore le processus de « classicisation » du roman et l’histoire de la réception de son personnage principal par trois communautés interprétatives : les journalistes et critiques contemporain·e·s de Flaubert, les critiques universitaires français et anglo-américain·e·s des années 1960-1980 et des lycéen·ne·s français·e·s en 2016. Le travail interroge donc la constitution des interprétations dominantes ainsi que la dynamique des phénomènes d’identifications au cœur de ces différentes lectures en relation avec l’esthétique de l’auteur. Des problématiques de légitimation structurent en effet ces discours lectoraux et révèlent dans les valeurs qu’ils convoquent la « valence différentielle des sexes », universelle selon Françoise Héritier, qui fait d’une lecture masculine la référence de toute lecture légitime du roman en invalidant des attitudes lectorales perçues comme féminines. Cette situation a pour conséquence un encadrement pédagogique spécifique des interprétations lectorales dans le cadre scolaire dont la thèse interroge les présupposés et les effets sur les lecteurs et lectrices contemporain·e·s.Diverses méthodologies ont été utilisées pour mener la recherche. Les articles de journaux et les textes judiciaires publiés lors du procès de Madame Bovary ont été analysés. Un corpus de travaux structuralistes et post-structuralistes, des théories de la réception et féministes a également été examiné. La chercheuse a par ailleurs eu recours aux techniques de l’explication de texte pour comprendre l’esthétique de Flaubert et la confronter aux réactions des divers lecter·rice·s. Enfin, la chercheuse a mené une enquête de terrain basée sur un questionnaire, des journaux de lecture et des entretiens avec une classe de lycéen·ne·s français<br>This work carries on reading Madame Bovary by Flaubert. Although reading the novel threatened to be prohibited when it was first published in 1857, it progressively became mandatory in French studies in French high schools and at French universities and Anglo-American universities. The thesis explores the « classicisation » process of the novel as well as the reception of its principal character by three interpretive communities: journalists and critics who were Flaubert’s contemporaries, French and Anglo-American academics between the sixties and eighties, and high school French students in 2016. The work thus examines the making of dominant interpretations and the dynamics of identifications at play in relation with the aesthetics of the author. Readers discourses are indeed shaped by self-legitimation purposes and by the universal « differential valency of genders » that Françoise Héritier conceptualized. Masculine reading is thought to be the template of « good » readings of the novel, while all readers’ demeanours perceived as « feminine » are invalidated. This situation results in a specific framing of pedagogical expectations, expectations of which the thesis intents to decipher the assumptions and effects on French high-school readers.To do so, the researcher used a variety of methodologies. She analyzed articles published in newspapers when the book was first published as well as the judiciary speeches and texts written during the trial of Madame Bovary. She also analyzed academic papers and structuralist, post-structuralist, reader-response and feminist theories. She used literary close reading to understand the aesthetics of Flaubert and confront his writing to the reactions of his readers. Finally, she gathered and analyzed empirical data through a survey, reading diaries and interviews with a class of French high school students.This thesis therefore belongs to the field of cultural studies, in the sense that it uses various academic approaches to understand a cultural object and its effects on its readers and because it tries to shift the epistemological viewpoint from which a classic such as Madame Bovary as been examined in Western culture
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KEENAN, EVE TUCKER. "THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF THE DEFINITION OF NURSING (INTERPRETIVE, PROFESSIONAL)." 1986. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI8612056.
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This study presents an ethnographic perspective of a nursing unit, focused on the creation of the definition of nursing. Participant observation was used as the main data gathering resource. Analysis of documents and a questionnaire supplemented data collection. The purposes of this study were to (1) discover the process by which the definition of nursing became known to the staff members on a selected unit and, (2) describe the unit's definition of nursing and how it was practiced. The motivation for this research was a search for a way for the nurse manager to understand how nursing comes to be known on a nursing unit, so the manager would be in a stronger position to support a collaborative process for the development of a "new" vision of professional nursing. The definition of nursing discovered was a complex mixture of the old and new cultures discussed in nursing literature today. The traditional culture of nursing was dominated by the language and values of medicine and bureaucracy. The medical perspective dominated the way the nurses viewed and cared for their patients. The assessment forms, teaching curriculums, language and ritual of shift report and patient progress notes all reinforced the medical pathology. The departmental structure and lack of problem solving between specialties served to exhaust the nursing resources in time consuming systems and routines (e.g. medication and laboratory systems). The emphasis on rules and task assignments by way of policies, memos and job descriptions, focused nursing care in such a way that there was little room to be creative and use autonomous nursing judgment. The behaviors in the "new culture" in nursing was characterized by an emphasis on professional development. There was a beginning by nurses to identify domains that were unique for nursing. The new standards for documenting care provided the method and process for nurses to begin to use a new exclusive framework for assessing their patients and planning their care. The new culture's nurses were beginning to recognize and use the power within themselves to establish new values and directions. Implications for nursing education, management and further research were discussed.
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Howard, Amelia Lauren Ruby. "City Life, Anxiety and the Problem of the Neighbour: A Theoretical Exploration of the Grey Zone." Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10012/5767.
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This thesis is a theoretical exploration of the problem of the neighbour as an encounter with the Grey Zone. I look at various materials that can be formulated as expressions of the anxiety over the unknown that can come out in confrontation with problematic neighbours. Using an interpretive lense that recognizes the fundamental ambiguity in any speech (Blum 2010, Bonner 1997, 1998) I attempt to show how such talk is grounded in the problem of anxiety in the face of the unknown. I begin with an analysis of city life and problem neighbours in general, I then move to a theoretical discussion of the problem that Žižek’s formulation of the Neighbour as Other and Raffel’s discussion of a shared world brings out. I then look at the problem of a specific kind of bad neighbour, a methadone clinic can have in terms of the experience of parenting, and how this is articulated in some theoretical writings on city life. I then turn to an analysis of the proverbial fence as a solution to the Neighbour, followed by an analysis of the Russell Williams case as a call to revisit the problem of the Neighbour in relation to the Grey Zone. Though seemingly disconnected, all the cases I deal with can be understood as part of a conversation on the relation of health, neighbourliness and anxiety in the city to the problem of an encounter with the unknown.
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Douglas, Patricia. "Governing Lived Embodiment: Autism, Asperger's and Care." Thesis, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1807/24225.
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This thesis brings interpretive disability studies together with a governmentality approach and feminist methodology to think through the meaning of autism, Asperger’s and maternal care. I examine how Asperger’s is articulated as a problem of individual governance through what I call the care complex, an array of practices, knowledges, technologies and institutional locales that attempt to scientifically know and manage alterity under neo-liberal rule. I focus on discourses of inclusion that seek to normalise the movements of alterity through a mother’s care, and reveal how direct and authoritarian forms of power are integral to the accomplishment of this paradoxical version of inclusion and care. The aim of this thesis is to “take care” of autism differently. Thus I also consider how maternal care is lived out and felt, opening analytical space to ask critical questions about power, embodiment and human vulnerability.
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Ferguson, Susan Mary. "(Re)Writing the Body in Pain: Embodied Writing as a Decolonizing Methodological Practice." Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1807/27316.
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This thesis explores the possibilities of embodied writing for social inquiry. Using an examination of the social production of bodily pain to exemplify my approach, and drawing upon autobiographical writing, I develop an embodied writing practice and theorize its implications for decolonizing knowledge production. Following a phenomenologically informed interpretive sociology, I attend closely to language and the construction of meaning through reflexive engagement with pain as a social phenomenon. I also utilize mindfulness meditative practice methodologically to centre the body within social research and intervene in the mind/body split which underwrites much Western knowledge production and reproduces normative, medicalized relations to bodily knowledge. I suggest that by undoing those traditional boundaries demarcating the possibilities of knowledge production, and attending to our epistemological locations which are themselves deeply political, we might generate differently imagined relations to embodiment.