Dissertations / Theses: 'Interactionist Sociology'

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Yan, Ming. "The improvement of organizational socialization in groups : an interactionist perspective of social identity theory." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2011. http://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_ra/1259.

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Hulcelle, Marc. "Automatic analysis of trust over the course of a human-robot interaction using multimodal features and recurrent neural architectures." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Institut polytechnique de Paris, 2023. http://www.theses.fr/2023IPPAT043.

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La confiance est une notion importante en interaction homme-robot puisqu'elle impacte la qua-lite des relations entre les partenaires d'interaction et ainsi les performances de la tâche en cours. Les recherches autour de la confiance se sont essentiellement circonscrites autour des analyses des effets socio-psychologiques sur l'utilisateur du design du robot, ou de son comportement. Les mesures de la confiance se font généralement au début et fin de l'interaction par des questionnaires remplis par les utilisateurs eux-mêmes. Dans cette thèse, nous nous intéressons à une analyse de la dynamique de la confiance conduite régulièrement tout au long de l'interaction. Comme les approches usuelles de Psychologie dites mentalistes ne nous permettent pas de faire ceci, nous faisons appel aux théories de la Sociologie Interactioniste afin d'établir un schéma de codage TURIN (Trust in hUman Robot INteraction) dédié à cela. Ensuite, nous utilisons des outils de Machine Learning afin de développer des modèles d'analyse automatique de la confiance. Nous proposons une nouvelle méthodologie permettant de conduire l'analyse au cours de l'interaction, en s'appuyant sur des approches simples dans un premier temps, puis sur une nouvelle architecture neuronale récurrente dans un deuxième temps. Nous analysons ensuite nos modèles afin de déterminer les indices comportementaux les plus pertinents et comprendre les types d'erreur que ceux-ci commettent
Trust is an important psychological construct in HRI as it mitagates the relationship qualities between partners of an interaction, as well as the performance of the interaction's task. Research on trust were essentially organized around the study of socio-psychological effects of the robot's design and behavior on users. Trust is usually measured through questionnaires filled by users themselves at the beginning and end of the interaction. In this thesis, we tackle the issue of automatic analysis of trust dynamics during the course of interaction. The standard Psychological approaches used in HRI to study, coming from a mentalist perspective, do not currently allow such analysis. We thus leverage Interactionist Sociology theories to create a coding scheme named TURIN (Trust in hUman Robot INteraction) dedicated to this task. From there, we use Machine Learning tools to develop multimodal models of trust. We propose a new methodology that allows to conduct the analysis over the course of the interaction, first through simple models, then by the design of a specific recurrent neural architecture. We finish by an analysis of ours models to determine which behaviors are the most indicative of trust and understand the types of errors thatthey make

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Simpson, Jessica Nashia. "Toward a Sociology of Autism." TopSCHOLAR®, 2018. https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/3072.

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Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASDs) are characterized by difficulties in social interaction and communication. Recent studies within the social sciences have espoused a need to reconceptualize autism out of the domain of the intrapersonal and into the realm of the sociocultural. Semi-structured in-depth interviewing was used to examine the selfperceptions and experiences of twelve people who identified as on the autism spectrum. Social scientists have tended to grant the topic of autism to the domain of psychology; as a result autistic perception has been stigmatized resulting in the exclusion of autistic perspectives in knowledge production on the lived experiences of autistic actors. The first-hand accounts examined in this study lend support to the idea that symbolic interactionism provides a more nuanced framework for studying how autistic perception influences autistic experience in contrast to the functionalist-reductionist approach of cognitive psychology. From this perspective we can position autistic differences in disposition and interaction as socioculturally situated rather than as solely a result of individual cognitive impairment. The application of microsociological concepts to autistic perception and interaction has the potential to expand knowledge on both autistic experience and the social construction of normative order.

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Rodrigues, Aparecido Wilson [UNESP]. "A escola entre o executivo, o judiciário e a sociedade." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/104838.

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Esta tese é uma tentativa de contribuir com a organização das escolas públicas no enfrentamento de uma demanda crescentemente mais necessitada e uma oferta progressivamente minguada pelas imposições dos organismos internacionais. A pretensão desse trabalho é denunciar e dimensionar o problema sem, no entanto, infelizmente, oferecer nesse momento, algum conforto aos aflitos dessa turbulência desumana. A empreitada é analisar o nível de comprometimento da proposição e da ação dos três poderes republicanos, da sociedade política brasileira, na universalização da educação como direito público e subjetivo, nesse contexto globalizado e, anunciar que um outro mundo é possível através da adoção de concepções plurais de justiça que permitam, que as desigualdades sociais e econômicas sejam dispostas de tal forma que beneficiem mais aos menos aquinhoados. Por fim acreditar com mais convicção na orientação da sociologia interacionista para a qual, a sociedade é como uma cena, o indivíduo é como um ator social em comunicação significativa com outros atores e suas significações próprias e, a vida social é a composição dialética dessas ações na construção da personalidade individual e da ordem social. A teoria do currículo, a teoria do conhecimento, a governança democrática, a reflexão crítica e pesquisadora, proporcionam o arcabouço científico para a construção de uma escola sintonizada com a indigência da sociedade civil.
This thesis is a temptive of contributing with the reorganization of the public schools in the fight by a more and more urgent necessity and a rare progressive offer by the power of the international institutions. The intention of this work is denounce the existing problem and show how serious it is without giving them in this moment any kind of comfort. The purpose is to analyse the level of dedication of the proposition and of the action of the three Republic powers, of the Brazilian Politics Society making the educational system global as a public and a subjective right in this globalized context, and showing that another world is possible through the adoption of plural conceptions of justice that permit that the economic and social differences among people are reorganized in a good way in order to help more and more the poors. Believing with more convinction in the orientation of the interactionist sociology that says the society is like a scene, the human being is like an actor in an important communication with other actors and their own meanings and, their social life is the dialetic composition of those actions.In the building of the individual personality and of the social order. The theory of the curriculum, the theory of the knowledge, the democractic behaviour, the crictical reflection and the investigating action give us a scientific fortress to the building of a school that are plugged to the civil society.

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Rodrigues, Aparecido Wilson. "A escola entre o executivo, o judiciário e a sociedade /." Marília : [s.n.], 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/104838.

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Orientador: Paschoal Quaglio
Banca: Cristiano Amaral Garboggini Di Giorgi
Banca: José Augusto Chaves Guimarães
Banca: José Geraldo Alberto Bertoncini Poker
Banca: Marília Faria de Miranda
Resumo: Esta tese é uma tentativa de contribuir com a organização das escolas públicas no enfrentamento de uma demanda crescentemente mais necessitada e uma oferta progressivamente minguada pelas imposições dos organismos internacionais. A pretensão desse trabalho é denunciar e dimensionar o problema sem, no entanto, infelizmente, oferecer nesse momento, algum conforto aos aflitos dessa turbulência desumana. A empreitada é analisar o nível de comprometimento da proposição e da ação dos três poderes republicanos, da sociedade política brasileira, na universalização da educação como direito público e subjetivo, nesse contexto globalizado e, anunciar que um outro mundo é possível através da adoção de concepções plurais de justiça que permitam, que as desigualdades sociais e econômicas sejam dispostas de tal forma que beneficiem mais aos menos aquinhoados. Por fim acreditar com mais convicção na orientação da sociologia interacionista para a qual, a sociedade é como uma cena, o indivíduo é como um ator social em comunicação significativa com outros atores e suas significações próprias e, a vida social é a composição dialética dessas ações na construção da personalidade individual e da ordem social. A teoria do currículo, a teoria do conhecimento, a governança democrática, a reflexão crítica e pesquisadora, proporcionam o arcabouço científico para a construção de uma escola sintonizada com a indigência da sociedade civil.
Abstract: This thesis is a temptive of contributing with the reorganization of the public schools in the fight by a more and more urgent necessity and a rare progressive offer by the power of the international institutions. The intention of this work is denounce the existing problem and show how serious it is without giving them in this moment any kind of comfort. The purpose is to analyse the level of dedication of the proposition and of the action of the three Republic powers, of the Brazilian Politics Society making the educational system global as a public and a subjective right in this globalized context, and showing that another world is possible through the adoption of plural conceptions of justice that permit that the economic and social differences among people are reorganized in a good way in order to help more and more the poors. Believing with more convinction in the orientation of the interactionist sociology that says the society is like a scene, the human being is like an actor in an important communication with other actors and their own meanings and, their social life is the dialetic composition of those actions.In the building of the individual personality and of the social order. The theory of the curriculum, the theory of the knowledge, the democractic behaviour, the crictical reflection and the investigating action give us a scientific fortress to the building of a school that are plugged to the civil society.
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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.
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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Lindgren, Derbas Amanda. "Vardagens övergrepp : En kvalitativ intervjustudie om upplevelser av vardagsrasism." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för sociala och psykologiska studier (from 2013), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-68678.

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The purpose of this study was to study experiences of everyday racism in individuals with overseas cultural backgrounds from outside situations. The study was made with five qualitative interviews. Theories that’s been used are about everyday racism, stereotypes, symbolic interactionism and Cooleys looking glass self. The result show that all the respondents have experienced everyday racism in a variety of situations in different places/environments. They have described situations where they have been ignored/excluded, stereotyped, exposed of grossly words and prejudices about their personality. Symbolic interactionism can explain everyday racism based on how the situations are defined, how situations change, which affects the interaction depending on how specific strong symbols are understood; like skin tone and a person looks.
Syftet med studien är att studera upplevelser av vardagsrasism hos individer med utomeuropeiska kulturella bakgrunder. Teori som använts är hur vardagsrasism kan förstås, stereotyper, symbolisk interaktionism gällande fem hörnstenar och Cooleys spegeljag. Det har gjorts fem kvalitativa intervjustudier där det framkommer att vardagsrasism sker på de flesta samhällsområdena i vardagslivet med undantag för fredade zoner som förorter. I intervjuerna framkom det att vardagsrasismen uttrycks genom exkludering, stereotypifiering, grova glåpord som till exempel blatte och svartskalle, fördomar om ens personlighet och att göras annorlunda/olik andra. Med symbolisk interaktionism kan vardagsrasismen förstås med hur situationer är föränderliga som påverkar interaktionen vilket beror på särskilda symboler; som hudfärg och utseende.

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Kurti, Liridona, and Annie Bengtsson. "SFI-Individanpassad? : En kvalitativ studie över elever som kombinerar SFI och arbete." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-77831.

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Abstract Title: SFI- individualized? A qualitative study on students who combine SFI with work. A report published by the Government regarding the individualization of the education of Swedish For Immigrants (SFI) has shown that the individualization of SFI studies is essential for students who combine their studies with work. The report also arises a problem, namely that there are largely SFI students working in parallel with their studies that choose to cancel their SFI studies. This became the starting point for our study. What is requested in the SOU report is individual adaptation to a greater extent, especially when the working SFI students are able to complete the education. With our study we aim to understand how these working students experience individualization and the ability to combine work and study effectively, the starting point being that individualization is necessary for students. To gather empirical material for our study we have done a qualitative research including 14 interviews with SFI students who combine their studies with work. After gathering our empirical material from our interviews, we then presented the results and analyzed them with the help of our theories. The theories used in this study are Herbert Blumer's “symbolic interactionism” and Magnus Persson’s “educational resources”. Based on the study results it appears from several students that most SFI students feel that individualization is needed, but that it is currently inadequate and perceived as problematic by the students. The lack of individualization is made visible in everyday teaching, where the experiences and the consequences of it mean the following; Through the study we have found that in the SFI classes there are major differences among students' knowledge in the Swedish language and their conditions for learning. Nevertheless, these students are put in the same class and have the same school information to solve, which indicates that an individualization of the studies is missing. We have also come to understand that SFI students family situation has a major influence on how they choose to conduct their SFI studies. However, what influences students more in how they feel that the studies are individualized to their needs, are the SFI students earlier educational resources which becomes an important part in this study.

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Nordvik, Monica K. "Contagious Interactions : Essays on social and epidemiological networks." Doctoral thesis, Stockholm : Visby : Acta Universitatis Stockholmiensis ; eddy.se [distributör], 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-8309.

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Trumpy, Alexa. "Subject to negotiation: the mechanisms behind cooptation and success in movement-firm interactions." The Ohio State University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1387366922.

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MacArthur, Kelly Rhea. "“Doing Gender” in Doctor-patient Interactions: Gender Composition of Doctor-patient Dyads and Communication Patterns." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1216054789.

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Rosman, Emilie. "Intersecting Accounts of Marginalisation : Financial Troubles, Single-Motherhood and Ill Health Intersections in Institutional Interactions with the Swedish Social Insurance Agency." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Sociologiska institutionen, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-363906.

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Despite of a well-established welfare state in Sweden, socio-economic and residential segregation is increasing rapidly. This has for instance been related to the neo-liberalisation of the welfare state and housing system. One institutional tool for reducing systematic inequality is the housing allowance, which specifically targets low-income households with children as well as young households without children. However, recent studies show how these groups are becoming ever more excluded, despite of the financial aid. The aim of this thesis is thus to contribute with a situated understanding of the practical accomplishment of Swedish socio-economic marginalisation in relation to housing allowance and the welfare state. This is achieved by examining naturally occurring accounts socio-economic marginalisation in 366 audio recorded phone calls to the Swedish Social Insurance Agency about housing allowance, out of which I specifically focus on accounts made by single mothers. In order to make sense of the data, I apply and introduce an ethno-intersectional approach. This entails the synthesis of the applied ethnomethodological methods Conversation Analysis, Discursive Psychology and Membership Categorisation Analysis with intersectionality as one analytical device. The results demonstrate how single-mothers intersect financial troubles, single-motherhood and ill health while expressing situated marginalisation as part of doing legitimacy work. The study also sheds light on how the application of welfare policies could partake in the systematic (re)production of structural inequalities. At large, the introduction of the ethno-intersectional approach is grounded on the theoretical interest of encouraging further action-oriented and situated explorations of the ways in which categories of inequality such as class, ethnicity and gender operate in conjunction and contribute to the generation, reinforcement or alteration of structural intersections of socio-economic marginalisation and privilege.

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Shang, Qingyan. "Two essays on social interactions." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1148654775.

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Armentor, Janet L. "Simulated social spaces exploring interactions in a Web chat room /." Related electronic resource: Current Research at SU : database of SU dissertations, recent titles available full text, 2005. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/syr/main.

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Österdahl, Tina, and Sanna Danielsson. "Kritik, vad innebär det? : En studie som kartlägger kvinnors upplevelser av kritik på arbetsplatsen." Thesis, Örebro universitet, Akademin för humaniora, utbildning och samhällsvetenskap, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-15891.

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Syftet med studien är att skapa förståelse för hur kvinnor på kvinnodominerade arbetsplatser upplever kritik. Studien kommer att vara en fältstudie vari man granskar kvinnor som är verksamma inom förskolan, då tidigare forskning visat på en klar majoritet av kvinnor inom denna yrkeskår. Avsikten med studien är inte att uppnå någon objektiv sanning av verkligheten, dock avser denna studie tolka eventuella fenomen som rör ämnet, samt skapa en förståelse för individens syn på begreppet. Informanterna har valts ut strategiskt, vidare präglas informanternas deltagande av självselektion. Man kommer inte att ta hänsyn till andra variabler än kön vad gäller urvalet. Teorier som studien vilar på är den symboliska interaktionismen där bland annat dess syn på rationalitet behandlas. Vidare tas Johan Asplunds teori om social responsivitet i beaktning och avslutningsvis Erving Goffmans teori om identitetsskapande. De slutsatser som kan dras i och med denna studie är att relationerna mellan individerna i en grupp verkar ha stor betydelse för hur man upplever kritik. För att undvika missförstånd kring det valda ämnet verkar allmän mening råda att "definitionen av situationen" är något man bör ta i beaktande, detta då kritik till en början upplevs som någonting negativt.
The purpose of this study is to create an understanding of how women in female dominated workplaces are experiencing criticism. The study will be a field study which is examining women who are active in preschool, when previous research has demonstrated a clear majority of women in this profession. The intention of this study is not to create any objective truth of reality, however, relate this study to interpret and describe any phenomena related to the topic, and create an understanding of the individual's perception of the concept. The informants were chosen strategically, further characterized the informants' participation of self-selection. It will not take into account, variables other than gender in terms of selection. Theories that the study rests on is the symbolic interactionism, which, among other things, its view of rationality is treated. Furthermore the theory of Johan Asplund, social responsivity, is taken into consideration and, finally, Erving Goffman's theory of identity formation. The conclusions to be drawn, in and of this study is that the relations between individuals in a group seems to have a major impact on how people perceive criticism. To avoid misunderstandings about the chosen topic appears public opinion, advise that the "definition of the situation" is something you should take into consideration, so where the spontaneous reaction of criticism is negative.

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Williams, Linda Jane. "Gendering and schizophrenia : negotiating power relations, gender understandings and experience in psychiatric/patient interactions." Thesis, Brunel University, 2002. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/6295.

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This thesis uses a discursive approach to examine psychiatric understandings of gender and schizophrenia in clinical encounters between professionals and patients. Chief reasons for undertaking the research were an unease about the concept of schizophrenia and a lack of attention to interactive psychiatric contexts in feminist work on gender and madness. This study attempts to move beyond explanations of schizophrenia as a label or social product to analyse the intersections between femininity, masculinity, and schizophrenia accomplished within psychiatric/patient interactions. Drawing on case conference discussions in a British psychiatric unit, I argue that the interplay between locally accomplished power and the broader mandate of community care produces co-existing relations of benevolent psychiatry/responsible patient, and supervisory psychiatry/ untrustworthy patient, and considerable professional persuasion and patient resistance at this local level. Within these relations, understandings of femininity and (masculine) personhood produce a plurality of meanings of emotion, activity, and (in)dependence. The experiences of patients and their significant others are fluid and complex resources (re)configured in gendered relational terms to inform the restoration of lives and definitions of trouble. The central argument is that schizophrenia is not applied as a label but operates largely as a background understanding. Professional assumptions about schizophrenia, not gender, inform discourses of responsibility, consumerism and supervision, whereas professional discourses of femininity and (masculine) personhood intersect with understandings of schizophrenia to differentiate and delimit restoration to purpose and autonomy. But professionals' understandings of femininity and masculinity, not schizophrenia, inform definitions of trouble: negative understandings of femininity are associated with blame and change; those of masculinity with excusing and unchangeability. Contemporary psychiatry is more concerned with encouraging self-regulation and restoring lives than straightforward social control and gender conformity. But gender understandings remain salient to contemporary psychiatry and, in relation to schizophrenia, gender differentiations in local interactions run counter to schizophrenia's distributional gloss of gender neutrality.

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Perez, Teresa. "How do discourses enable and constrain the power of development practitioners in interactions within the women's circle?" Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/3859.

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Falkeborn, Sandra, and Carolina Ferrari. ""Duktiga flickor" : - Om högpresterande kvinnors val av identitet och karriär." Thesis, Mälardalen University, School of Sustainable Development of Society and Technology, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-5901.

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The “good girl” is today an accepted and widespread notion. It is delimited to young girls and women who are characterised to be, for example, ambitious, high performing, working too much and risks developing mental illnesses. In today’s society women are assumed to pursue their career alongside maintaining the main responsibility for the household and family. The overarching purpose of this study has been – via a hermeneutic approach and based on the theory of symbolic interactionism – to elucidate and contribute knowledge to the social role of being a “good girl” and the associated implications for a woman’s identity and career. The aim has moreover been to address the differences between the two groups of respondents: women born in the 1980s and women born in the 1960s.The study is based on six individual semi structured interviews and two group interviews. The purpose is to gain a deeper understanding of and, thereby, a better interpretation of the phenomena of “good girls”. The interviews were conducted on a sample suited to the purpose, where the younger group of respondents will have studied at least three years at the university before graduating. The older groups of respondents have studied at least four years at an academic level before taking up employment. The results show that all respondents are characterised by ambitious identities, which create conflicts between, on the one hand, how they perceive themselves and, on the one hand, how others expect them to act.

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Leak, Michelle A. "Teaming Up for Patient Safety| A Case Study of Social Interactions among Surgical Team Members." Thesis, The George Washington University, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3688016.

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Despite increased awareness of the link between teamwork and medical errors, and increased development of interventions aimed at improving team performance, the incidence of preventable errors in hospitals, and in the surgical environment particularly, remains high. Absent from interdisciplinary team development efforts is empirical evidence informed by the voices of surgical team members specific to their day- to- day experiences of teamwork. For this reason, a case study of interdisciplinary teamwork among Orthopedic Surgery team members was conducted from June to December 2013 to: (a) discover how teamwork behaviors are enacted in the surgical environment to affect the incidence of preventable surgical errors; and (b) understand the experience of teamwork from the perspective of surgical team members.

The case study data included 37 one-on-one interviews with Orthopedic Surgery team members (including two supervisors), and observations by the researcher guided by the Observational Teamwork Assessment for Surgery (OTAS) instrument. This study finds that while mindfulness is a prerequisite to safety behaviors that are found in the surgical setting, there is a dynamic interplay between processes of collective mindfulness and traditional teamwork behaviors wherein one continuously informs, shapes, and reinforces the other. Noting contributions of the this study to practice, the opportunity exists to expand the present inquiry beyond Orthopedic Surgery to include other surgical specialties as well as non-surgical practices within the hospital and clinic environments.

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Duggan, Aaron Robert. "A fictive reality| The social construction of mythologies and the mythologizing of social interactions." Thesis, Pacifica Graduate Institute, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3633910.

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Human beings organize and navigate their experience of everyday life and their interactions with others through the creation, presentation, and representation of myths. This dissertation expands the definition of myth beyond stories of gods and humans to include social narratives used by groups and individuals to contextualize and define everyday situations. As such, they perform vital social functions. These include providing common narratives that have the power to bind otherwise independent beings into more or less coherent collectives capable of joint actions, as well as reducing feelings of individual isolation and existential anxiety by narratively making sense out of the violence, unpredictability, and discontinuity that accompany life. Myths are constructed narratives that masquerade as common sense; they appear to have a supernatural or supra-human basis or origin. Their created nature is collectively, and often unconsciously, denied by those who adhere to them.

This dissertation outlines an approach to mythology grounded in sociological principles as an alternative to the more familiar approaches of the humanities, religious studies, or psychology. Synthesizing principles drawn from the sociological schools of social constructionism and symbolic interactionism, this dissertation proposes that humans, as users of complex, symbolic language, necessarily experience the world through a matrix of narratives both written and unwritten. But this approach is not simply social constructionism or symbolic interactionism with a mythological gloss. Instead, it serves as a bridge between the macro view of social constructionism and the micro view of symbolic interactionism.

This dissertation treats myths not as currencies of belief, but rather as currencies of behavior and consequence. For illustration, three examples from the modern world are presented: 1) How same-sex inclusion challenges traditionalist myths of marriage; 2) How myths of divine providence and expansionism have influenced American domestic and foreign policy from the nation's inception to the present; and 3) The role that the propagandizing of engrained cultural myths and stereotypes played during the 1994 Rwandan genocide. Ethical and moral implications of human-constructed myths are also considered.

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Wilson, Rasmus. "The Discursive construction of elderly´s needs -A critical discourse analysis of political discussions in Sweden." Thesis, Örebro universitet, Institutionen för humaniora, utbildnings- och samhällsvetenskap, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-75488.

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This thesis explores the political discourse´s portrayal of elderly needs in Sweden, as well as discourses the lived effects on the elderly population. The study is guided by the following research questions 1) What is the current political discourses construction of elderly´s needs? And 2) How could this discourse affect the elderly population? To fulfil the purpose and answer the research questions the study utilizes a critical discourse analysis. The study also employs a wide theoretical foundation with central concepts deriving both from a general sociological tradition, such as symbolic interactionism. As well as more specialized gerontological theories, such as ageism and structured dependency. By using a thematic analysis as well as a synthesising analysis the study provided both an in-depth and collected depiction of the discourse on elderly needs as well as its lived effects. The analysis found four thematics of interest, a) Emotional needs b) elderly´s need of others c) organizational needs and d) basic amenities. All of which were characterized by a dystopian and ageist portrayal of old age. Seemingly based on ageist stereotypes rather than the characteristics of the actual demographic. Similarly, the overall narrative showed that elderly where portrayed as a homogenized collective of others. The narrative also depicted elderly as a very simple, dependant and burdensome demographic. The lived effects were varied under the thematic analysis, these could be characterized under two overarching trends. Firstly, the risk that elderly embrace the dystopian role depicted in the discourse. Secondly the discourses skewed portrayal of elderly can lead to less effective and potentially destructive policies and resource allocation.

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Merra, Lucile. "Pour une sociologie des médias sociaux : Internet et la révolution médiatique : nouveaux médias et interactions." Thesis, Paris 5, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013PA05H024/document.

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Cette thèse porte sur un objet sociologique en construction : les médias sociaux. Si le caractère tautologique de cette expression surprend de prime abord, l’absence de définition abordant cet objet sous un angle médiatique laisse entrevoir la récence et la complexité du concept. Par une approche empirique fondée sur l’étude des usages, des pratiques et des représentations des utilisateurs de ces nouveaux médias, nous poursuivons ici l’objectif de produire une analyse contextualisée de l’apparition d’un nouveau genre médiatique. La dimension interactionniste qui sous-tend la nature de ces médias guidera notre réflexion en accordant, de ce fait une place centrale, à la participation des utilisateurs actifs sur ces médias. De ces individus connectés et en réseau à leurs agrégations en audiences actives, nous nous intéresserons aux nouvelles formes d’expression de l’engagement. Nous tenterons alors d’apporter un regard sociologique à cet objet social, culturel et médiatique que sont les médias sociaux et sur la constitution des mouvements sociaux qu’ils supportent
This thesis is focused on the analysis of a topic that is still a “work in progress” in Sociology: social media. Although this tautological expression may be amazing at first sight, it appears that no academic definition of social media has been proposed to date. This gap in academic research illustrates that this topic is both recent and complex. Therefore, our research aims to conduct a contextual analysis of the emergence of a new media. This research is based on an empirical approach through the study of uses, practices and representations of social media users. As social media are characterized by the interactionist dimension, our research will target active users. From these connected and networked people to active audiences, our analysis will focus on new ways related to involvement. Our research will contribute to the sociological understanding of a social, cultural and media topic that represents social media as well as the set up of social movements supported by social media

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Wipf, Élodie. "Action publique concertée et gestion des sports de nature : une ethnographie participative au Conseil général du Bas-Rhin." Thesis, Strasbourg, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012STRAG009/document.

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Nés de l’article 52 de la Loi sur le sport modifiée en 2000, la Commission Départementale des Espaces, Sites et Itinéraires relatifs aux sports de nature (CDESI) et le Plan Départemental des Espaces Sites et Itinéraires relatifs aux sports de nature (PDESI) sont des outils de concertation territoriale dédiés à la gestion publique des sports de nature au niveau départemental. Un enjeu de ce travail tient à l’appréhension des transformations de l’action publique en s’attachant à l’étude des dispositifs de concertation sur les sports de nature. Un deuxième enjeu de ce travail s’attache à mettre en évidence les effets de la concertation en analysant les interactions et les différents modes d’engagements des acteurs au cours de la « chose publique en train de se faire » (Cefaï, 2002). Les acteurs s’engagent non seulement dans la concertation comprise comme une activité sociale faite d’interactions, mais ils s’engagent également dans la concertation en tant que processus d’action publique. Aussi, un autre enjeu de ce travail est d’appréhender les effets de la concertation par une analyse processuelle des engagements (Fillieule, 2004) des acteurs et des organisations. En mobilisant les outils conceptuels de la sociologie interactionniste, de la sociologie pragmatique, ainsi que de la sociologie structuraliste, l’analyse des situations interactionnelles a notamment permis d’identifier les procédures de cadrage et les techniques dramaturgiques mises en œuvre par les interactants, ainsi que les répertoires argumentatifs mobilisés par ces acteurs pendant l « ’épreuve » de la concertation
Territorialization of public action created new tools of public. Born of article 52 of the Law on sport modified in 2000, the Departmental committee for Spaces, Sites and Routes relative to natural sports (CDESI) and the Departmental Plan of Spaces Sites and Routes relative to natural sports ( PDESI) are governance tools dedicated to the public management of outdoor sports for counties. A challenge of this work is to understand the changes of public policy by focusing on the study of mechanisms for consultation on outdoor sports. A second item of this work is to highlight the effects of cooperation by focusing on the analysis of interactions and actor’s commitments during the "public thing in the making" (Cefaï, 2002). Actors commit themselves not only in the dialogue included as a social activity made by interactions, but they also take part to the dialogue included as a process of public action. Also, another issue of this work is to understand the effects of consultation by a processual approach of individual commitments (Fillieule,2004) of actors and organizations. Using the conceptual tools of symbolic interactionism, pragmatic sociology, and structuralist sociology, the analysis of interactional situations has highlighted the framing work and procedures implemented by the interactants, as well as the dramaturgical techniques and argumentative directories which, they mobilize during the "test" of the consultation. Confrontation of viewpoints and justifications of interactants’ positions can evolve from their initial configuration sets, even if for some of them these changes are sometimes ephemeral

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Picková, Iva. "Transformation of identities in international educational milieu of university in Sweden." Thesis, Örebro universitet, Institutionen för humaniora, utbildnings- och samhällsvetenskap, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-83459.

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This thesis focuses on the transformation of identities of international master students attending Örebro University along with their perception of how this experience will affect their future. A qualitative content analysis of 10 semi-structured interviews was employed to explore the topic and answer the research questions. The thesis is guided by the theoretical background that stands on the synthesis of Jenkins’ perception of identity and the identity theory, supplemented by the understanding of international students as ‘student travellers’. The analysis of respondents’ narratives revealed that all aspects of their identity were affected. International students, throughout their stay abroad, live in a certain bubble as they distance themselves from the society on one hand and identify with the international students’ group on the other, affecting their social identity. However, before a new identity is formed and while the old one is being changed, the students experience a state of limbo during which uncertainty of roles emerges. Their person identity is influenced as well due to the international experience providing an opportunity to consciously alter some aspects of personality and, furthermore, to promote their independence, open-mindedness, and awareness of other cultures. Additionally, through contact with these other cultures, the international student develops into a person of two minds – international and of the country of their origin. In regards to the students’ perception of the future, the desire to stay international, to travel and live abroad is essential in creating something of a nomad life. Moreover, the respondents considered the international experience to have a positive impact on their career through an advantageous position over others along with the acquisition of an international network.

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Dean, Rachel. "Quality of interactions in residential care : elderly people with dementia and those with long term mental health problems." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.309166.

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Cooper, Sarah Katherine. "Breaking the Crass Ceiling? Exploring Narratives, Performances, and Audience Reception of Women's Stand-Up Comedy." Scholar Commons, 2018. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/7613.

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Despite the long history of stand-up comedy as a distinct form of popular entertainment, there has been little sociological attention given to its cultural significance. Comedians have arguably become legitimate and visible voices in many public conversations about social issues and social justice. This dissertation explores the cultural work of women’s comedy in popular culture. Specifically, I examine narrative representation and audience reception of women’s stand-up comedy through multi-method qualitative inquiry. First, I analyze stand-up performances by popular U.S. comedians Amy Schumer, Wanda Sykes, and Margaret Cho. Through narrative analysis, I focus on the ironic performativity of Schumer and the charged styles of Sykes and Cho, and I discuss how these women use humor (in different but overlapping ways) to challenge dominant cultural narratives pertaining to gender, race, and sexuality. Second, I conduct an audience reception analysis using focus groups in order to better understand how people consume and interpret stand-up comedy. Due to the polysemic nature of comedy and satire, audiences decode these texts in a myriad of ways. My analysis shows how different audiences perceive the comedian as unpacking social “truths” in comedy. I elaborate these audience decoding positions, discuss the layers of interpretation (i.e., intersectional positionality and interpretive frameworks), and discuss how participants negotiate symbolic boundaries around what is deemed funny or topically appropriate for comics to say. My findings further highlight the importance of identity in critical referential viewing by incorporating standpoint epistemologies. In particular, audience members of marginalized social groups experience a “bifurcated consciousness” (Smith 1974) in their interpretations compared to those from dominant identity groups, and women and minority audience members are more likely to interpret these performances as counterhegemonic texts.

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Blomberg, Marcus, and Dora Jansson. "Att leva med organisationens image –En kvalitativ studie om arbetstagarens upplevelse av sin organisationstillhörighet." Thesis, Örebro universitet, Institutionen för humaniora, utbildnings- och samhällsvetenskap, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-89979.

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The interpretation an individual does as an organizational member is complex. This studyfocuses on the meaning that arises when an individual interprets their organization through theopinions of others. The importance of other people's perceptions of the organization has thusfar seen a low degree of sociological research. However, this study intends to contribute to suchresearch. The purpose of this study is to understand how external perceptions of one's ownorganization become part of an organizational member’s identity, as well as the importance ofthese external perceptions in the organizational member’s relationship with the organizationand external actors. The study takes a qualitative approach, and the results are based on semistructuredinterviews with informants working in different positions in the Swedish bankingsector. The theoretical frameworks used in this study consist of Tom J. Brown et al. and thetheory of organizational identity, Pierre Bourdieu's concept of habitus, and the forms of capitalcombined with Howard Becker's Commitment theory, and finally Erving Goffman'sdramaturgical perspective. The results show that the most crucial aspect for the informants tostay in an organization is the social contacts and networks they receive from their organizationalmembership. Thus, the perceptions of external actors' regarding the organization have littlebearing on the perceived commitment of the informants. Furthermore, it appears that theinformants in interactions with others find their financial knowledge to be highly valued by thepublic, despite a perceived negative attitude towards the sector. The study finds this to beimportant for the impression management, and role-taking informants undertake in interactions.Lastly, it seems that the habitus has a central purpose in understanding the meaning informantsplace in other people's perceptions of the organization, both regarding commitment andinteractions.
Det tolkande som en individ gör i egenskap av organisationsmedlem är komplext och dennastudie riktar in sig på den mening som uppstår när en individ tolkar sin organisation i utifrånandras uppfattningar. Betydelsen av andras uppfattningar om organisationen har hittills sett enlåg grad av sociologiskt inriktad forskning och det är något som denna studie ämnar bidra med.Syftet med denna studie är att få förståelse för hur externa uppfattningar av den egnaorganisationen blir del av en organisationsmedlems identitet, samt betydelsen av dessa externauppfattningar i organisationsmedlemmens relation till organisationen och externa aktörer.Resultatet av denna kvalitativa studie baseras på semistrukturerade intervjuer med informantersom arbetar på olika positioner inom den svenska bankbranschen. Det teoretiska ramverk somhar använts i studien är Tom J. Brown m.fl. och teorin kring organisationsidentitet, PierreBourdieus habitusbegrepp och kapitalformer i relation till Howard Beckers teori om åtagande,och slutligen Erving Goffmans dramaturgiska perspektiv. Resultatet visar att den viktigasteaspekten till att informanterna stannar kvar i organisationer är de sociala kontakter och nätverkde får. Därför kan man se att externa aktörers uppfattningar om organisationen har litenbetydelse för informanternas upplevda åtagande. Det framkommer även att informanterna iinteraktioner upplever deras finansiella kunskap som högt värderad av allmänheten, trots enupplevd negativ inställning till branschen som helhet. Detta konstateras ha betydelse för denintrycksstyrning och det rolltagande informanterna gör i interaktioner. Avslutningsvis,framläggs det även att habitus verkar ha en central roll i att förstå betydelsen som informanternalägger i andras uppfattningar om organisationen, både gällande åtagande och i interaktion.

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Dassieu, Lise. "Les traitements de substitution aux opiacés en médecine générale : les appropriations d'une politique publique." Thesis, Toulouse 2, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015TOU20034/document.

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En autorisant tout médecin à prescrire du Subutex, la législation française désigne les généralistes comme acteurs essentiels d’une politique publique liée aux drogues : la dispensation de traitements de substitution aux opiacés (TSO). Cette thèse vise à comprendre comment la médecine générale compose avec cette prérogative. L’appropriation des TSO par les généralistes se décline à un niveau collectif – à quelles conditions cette mission peut-elle être assumée par ce groupe professionnel ? –, et sur le plan interactionnel – comment une personne dépendante devient-elle le patient d’un généraliste ? La question de l’appropriation d’une politique publique rejoint donc celle de l’acquisition du statut de "patients" pour des individus socialement stigmatisés, relevant parallèlement d’une politique pénale. Ce travail, fondé sur des entretiens et observations de consultations, montre que les généralistes s’approprient les TSO au moyen d’un processus de tri des patients et des tâches accomplies. Loin de manifester un refus de mettre en œuvre la politique substitutive, le tri vise à la rendre compatible avec les valeurs et modes d’organisation propres à la médecine générale. Cependant, les critères de sélection produisent des inégalités d’accès aux traitements : tous les "toxicomanes" ne deviennent pas des patients dans les mêmes conditions. L’ethnographie des consultations suggère que le statut de patient s’acquiert au cours de la construction d'une relation où la prescription devient progressivement routinière. Cette thèse invite à confronter plusieurs échelles d’analyse, en envisageant la mise en œuvre d’une politique de santé au prisme des interactions médecin-patient
French legislation allows any physician to prescribe Subutex. Consequently, general practitioners are key actors of a public policy related to drug use: providing opiate substitution treatments (OST). This thesis aims to understand how general practice copes with this prerogative. Appropriation of OST by general practitioners comes at a collective level – how can this mission be assumed by this professional group? –, and also at an interactional level – how does an opiate addicted person become the patient of a general practitioner? The issue of appropriating a public policy is related to that of acquisition of patient status for socially stigmatized persons, who are, at the same time, the subjects of a penal policy. Our qualitative study (interviews and observations) shows that general practitioners appropriate OST by a sorting process. Sorting is a heuristic notion to describe practitioners’ adaptations with extension of their prerogatives by public policies: they don’t refuse to implement the substitution policy. On the contrary, they try to make it compatible with their values and their professional daily organization. However, selection criteria produce inequalities in access to treatments: every addict doesn’t become a patient in the same conditions. Consultations ethnography suggests that the patient status can be acquired while building a relationship with the doctor, in which the prescription is gradually becoming routine. This thesis invites to confront multiple scales and levels of analysis, by studying the implementation of a health policy through the prism of doctor-patient relationship

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Harger, Brent. "Interpretations of bullying how students, teachers, and principals perceive negative peer interactions in elementary schools /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2009. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3378353.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Sociology, 2009.
Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on Jul 6, 2010). Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-10, Section: A, page: 4076. Adviser: Donna Eder.

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Reese, Linda. "Processes of Performance Production & Maintenance: Interactions Between Rock Bands & Sound Technicians." TopSCHOLAR®, 1990. https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/2746.

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During the past three decades there has been growing academic interest in the sociology of popular music. Social researchers have investigated the economic impact of music consumers as well as the emerging roles of agents, managers and promoters. Other researchers have explored the sociological implications of musical performance from the perspectives of performer and audience. While we have learned much about some of the roles that people assume within the music industry, there is one important role that has received little attention: the role of the sound technician. The purpose of this study is to identify and describe the social interactional processes that band members (musicians and singers) and sound technicians use to organize, produce and maintain the specific social reality of a live musical performance in a club or bar. This thesis focuses on the description of the patterns of social interaction that emerge during the performance production, the set up and sound check, and the performance maintenance of regional-level rock and roll bands and their sound technicians. Utilizing a qualitative approach to my research, I gathered the data for my study through participant observation. From August, 1989 through January, 1990 I observed eighteen bands during their set ups, sound checks and performances. My total sample consists of 118 band members (singers, musicians and sound/light technicians). These band members represent 110 men and eight women who ranged from nineteen to thirty-nine years of age. The seventeen sound technicians in this sample were men between the ages of twenty to thirty-six years. I combined field observations of the bands with in-depth interviews with forty-seven individuals. Analysis of the data yielded two distinct processes involved in the production of the performance (the set up and the sound check) and a plethora of subtle and not-so-subtle interactions between the band members on stage and their sound technicians which were designed to maintain the integrity of their performances. I also identified primary and secondary role sets of the sound technician. I discussed the importance of the sound technician's roles to the regional-level rock band. The analysis of my data established evidence that the musicians and singers in such bands develop patterns of reliance upon their sound technicians, and that these patterns of reliance seem to be related to the individual and collective expertise, knowledge and goal-orientation of the band members and the bands as entities. My analyses also suggested a group of criteria common to these band members' and sound technicians' patterns of interaction of practiced and perceived performance production and maintenance. These criteria organized themselves on five performance continua: professionalism, expertise, goal-orientation, reliance and self-definition. These continua reflected varying degrees of competence and ability within the bands' actions and interactions that facilitate the production and maintenance of their performances.

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Peres, Teresa Sandra. "Stigma management in waste management: An investigation into the interactions of 'waste pickers' on the streets of Cape Town and the consequences for agency." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/24492.

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Contemporary approaches to waste management in South Africa have been driven by a desire to modernise and cleanse urban public spaces. Even though street waste pickers provide a separation-at-source service, thereby minimising waste to landfill, these people and their work continue to be stigmatised. Using Goffman's theory of stigma and impression management, this study establishes how evident stigma is in the agency of waste pickers. Agency was conceptualised using Emirbayer and Mische, to identify the management of stigma in waste pickers' choices, regarding established routines, future plans and their practical evaluation of ongoing circumstances. Following Giddens, stigma is posited as a source of both enablement and constraint to waste pickers' agential capacity. A social constructionist theoretical approach, combined with an interpretivist epistemology, was used to gather qualitative data using ethnographic methods. The first of its kind in this field, participatory fieldwork was conducted with waste pickers over the course of a year. Using a combination of thematic and discourse analysis the findings showed that stigma emerges in an insidious manner. To overcome being stigmatised by their physical appearance, waste pickers use an idealised presentation of self to position themselves as superior to criminals, illegal drug users and poor working classes. Although the capacity to overturn negative stereotypes was constrained because waste pickers were often unable to confine discrediting behaviour to back region spaces, the power of stigma was never absolute. Impression management enabled waste pickers to resist being positioned as matter out of place through their cultivation of relationships with residents and agents of social control. However, I argue that because these reciprocal relationships go largely unseen by the wider public, stigma continued to constrain the agential capacity of impression management strategies. The implication of the study is that, although agency is somewhat invisible, waste pickers are able to subvert the impact of policies designed to threaten their freedom of movement and access to waste. In achieving this, the unintended consequence is that waste pickers' agency further entrenches the stereotypical discourses that position them and their work as a threat to order in Cape Town.

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Watson, Reginald G. "Nazarene Clergy Responses to Homosexuality And Interactions with LGBT People." Thesis, Regent University, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3700870.

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The Church of the Nazarene asserts that homosexuality is a perversion of human sexuality, and that homosexual acts are sinful and subject to the wrath of God. The denomination also states that all people should be treated with dignity, grace, and holy love—regardless of sexual orientation—while firmly maintaining its position that a “homosexual lifestyle” is sinful and contrary to scripture. Nazarene clergy experience a tension between the denomination’s position on homosexuality and ministering to LGBT people. This qualitative study explored the lived experiences of thirteen Nazarene clergy responses to homosexuality and their interactions with LGBT people. The resulting themes offer implications for Nazarene clergy, the Church of the Nazarene, LGBT people, counselor educators, and clinical practitioners.

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Buikema, Ronald J. "Anatomy of Corporate Decline| A Symbolic Interactionism Approach to the Manager's Observations, Understanding and Response." Thesis, University of Maryland University College, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3602433.

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The onset or inception of organizational decline has been largely bypassed in management research over the past two decades, even though understanding this fundamental typology is key to mitigating organizational failure, while also providing important insight regarding how managers respond to phenomena that they may neither expect or understand. Understanding how managers observe, decide, and act in times of uncertainty, and how organizational culture and other factors may shape that environment, are important for scholars and practitioners alike to understand. This dissertation argues that corporate decline has largely been misunderstood from the perspective of onset or initiation; that the manager's decision-making process in times of decline must be considered in relation to the actual causes and factors associated with decline, and that the fundamental definition of organizational decline must be revised in light of advances in our understanding in management over the past three decades. This qualitative empirical descriptive study reviews literature regarding organizational decline with emphasis on the onset of decline, presents an equation for understanding a firm's propensity for decline, provides a revised definition of organizational decline, and examines the decision-making process of management when faced with decline based on symbolic interactionism theory.

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Johansson, Sundel Nathalie, and Emmy Örtlund. "Att etablera och integrera i Sverige : En studie utifrån nyanländas perspektiv." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för sociala och psykologiska studier (from 2013), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-68577.

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Utifrån ett historiskt perspektiv är Sverige ett land som människor från olika delar av världen invandrat till. Framförallt under 1900-talet ökade invandringen till Sverige, inte minst under 1960-1970 talet där vi kan urskilja en kraftig ökning av arbetsinvandring. Under denna tidsperiod hade utrikes födda personer högre sysselsättningsgrad än infödda. Idag har utrikes födda en lägre sysselsättningsgrad än personer som är födda i Sverige (Björkman 2003). Vidare är invandring och integration enligt väljarna den viktigaste frågan inför valet 2018. Stor grupp av människor som flytt från krigsdrabbade Syrien och det politiskt instabila Eritrea och Somalia har till följd gjort att frågan är mer aktuell än någonsin. Bara under 2016 sökte 160 000 personer asyl till Sverige. I samband med detta växer högerpopulistiska röster runt om Europa, däribland i Sverige (Turesson 2017). Regeringens insatser för nyanländas etableringsprocess skall enligt etableringsreformen bestå av en personlig plan för att uppnå ett konkret mål - ett arbete. Det som är sociologiskt intressant i denna etableringsprocess enligt oss är att undersöka nyanländas egna upplevelser, både vad gäller deras möjligheter till ett arbete men också sociala dimensioner som har betydelse för deras etablering och integrering. Omgivningen är av stor betydelse för att de nyanlända skall få ett arbete och för att de skall trivas i det nya landet Sverige. Tyvärr är det många som invandrat till Sverige som blir deprimerade och får en försämrad hälsa då de känner sig utanför, ensamma och upplever att det saknar inflytande. Både vad gäller deras egen situation men också i samhället (Hadziabdic & Sandström, 2006). Idag tar det upp till tre gånger så lång tid att få ett arbete och att försörja sig än vad det gjorde under slutet på 1900-talet. Hela 60 procent av de män som invandrat till Sverige under 1980-talet hade ett arbete efter två till tre år, medan det tog upp till fem år för kvinnor under samma tidsperiod. Idag tar det upp till nio år för män och upp till tolv år för kvinnor, trots allt flera av dem som fått uppehållstillstånd i Sverige både har utbildning och arbetslivserfarenhet inom bristyrken (Lucas 2018), Etablering- och integreringsproblematiken är ett erkänt problem idag och ligger som tidigare nämnts högt upp på den politiska agendan inför valet 2018. Men vad känner de personer som kommer till Sverige? Vilka svårigheter och utmaningar är det som de nyanlända möts av egentligen? Trots att det är ett högaktuellt ämne i den politiska debatten saknas de nyanländas perspektiv.
From a historical perspective, Sweden is a country that people from different parts of the world immigrated to. Especially during the 20th century immigration increased to Sweden, especially during the 1960s and 1970s, where we can distinguish a sharp increase in labor immigration. During this period, foreign-born persons had higher employment rates than native speakers. Today, foreigners have a lower employment rate than people born in Sweden (Björkman 2003). Furthermore, immigration and integration according to voters is the most important issue for the 2018 election. A large group of people moving from war-hit Syria and politically unstable Eritrea and Somalia has consequently made the issue more current than ever. Only in 2016 160,000 sought asylum for Sweden. In this context, right-wing populations around Europe, including Sweden (Turesson 2017), grow. According to the establishment reform, the Government's efforts for the neighbors' establishment process must consist of a personal plan for achieving a concrete goal - a work. What is sociologically interesting in this process of establishment, according to us, is to explore newly arrived's own experiences, both in terms of their opportunities for work, but also social dimensions that are important for their establishment and integration. The environment is of great importance for the newly arrived's to get a job and to enjoy themselves in the new country of Sweden. Unfortunately, many people who immigrated to Sweden are being depressed and have a reduced health when they feel outside, lonely and experience that it has no influence. Both regarding their own situation but also in society (Hadziabdic & Sandström, 2006). Today, it takes up to three times as much time to get a job and to take care of what it did at the end of the 20th century. Around 60 percent of the men who immigrated to Sweden in the 1980s had a job after two to three years, while it took up to five years for women in the same period. Today, it takes up to nine years for men and up to twelve years for women, despite all of those who have obtained a residence permit in Sweden, both have education and work experience in the bristle industry (Lucas 2018). The establishment and integration issues are a recognized problem today and, as mentioned earlier, are high on the policy agenda for the 2018 election. But what do the people who come to Sweden feel? What difficulties and challenges is what the new arrivals face by? Although it is a high topic in the political debate, the perspectives of the newly arrived are lacking.

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Aires, João Paulo Gill de Barros de Machado. ""Mostra a nossa voz"!" Programa de Pós-Graduação em Artes visuais da UFBA, 2011. http://www.repositorio.ufba.br/ri/handle/ri/9848.

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Esta dissertação é uma reflexão sobre a história de vida dos indivíduos que aproveitam o lixo como forma de subsistência: os catadores de materiais recicláveis. Foca em particular os catadores de lixo do município do Salvador, Bahia. Aborda a sociabilidade do trabalho e a prática da economia solidária. Discuti o problema da sustentabilidade na atividade econômica, a fragilidade das experiências empreendedoras bem como a observação da produção dos resíduos. Aborda conceitos da sociologia da arte e arte e sociedade no contexto contemporâneo, na dimensão crítica e reflexiva de Joseph Beuys. Cria poéticas visuais que causam impactos e suscitam o diálogo entre dois mundos: o mundo do consumo e o mundo do desperdício. A observação participativa é neste trabalho a base que dá origem a essa pesquisa. Com esta vivência tive a intenção de criar, através da arte, esse questionamento que da origem à reflexão sobre a temática, e, a partir da cooperação com os catadores, “Mostra a Nossa Voz” sobre um problema social. Compreende a importância do artista visual no mundo como agente social que desperte no público o interesse, a reflexão critica sobre os problemas sociais de ordem humanista.
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Solini, Laurent. "Faire sa peine à l'établissement pénitentiaire pour mineurs de Lavaur : sociologie des expériences de détention." Toulouse 3, 2012. https://buadistant.univ-angers.fr/login?url=https://www.cairn.info/faire-sa-peine-a-l-etablissement-penitentiaire--9791034603848.htm.

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Les recherches en sciences sociales s'intéressant à l'univers carcéral semblent, depuis peu, déplacer leur regard vers l'expérience carcérale du détenu dans l'objectif d'analyser son rapport à l'enfermement. L'incarcération constitue alors une épreuve. Le détenu positionné au centre d'un quotidien sous contraintes œuvre à l'amélioration de ses conditions de détention. La situation sociale particulière que constitue la période d'incarcération est alors appréhendée en tant que ligne biographique dominante ramenant à elle tous les autres centres d'intérêts de la vie quotidienne du détenu. Si ce déterminisme de l'incarcération a fait l'objet de recherches s'appuyant essentiellement sur des entretiens biographiques menés avec les détenus, peu d'études se sont intéressées à la manière dont ce rapport particulier à la peine d'emprisonnement se construit, au jour le jour, de surcroit chez une population mineure à l'intérieur d'une prison, présentée par les pouvoirs public comme novatrice : l'établissement pénitentiaire pour mineurs (EPM) de Lavaur. Notre travail de recherche porte sur les expériences de détention des mineurs incarcérés à l'intérieur d'un EPM. Une enquête ethnographique menée entre janvier 2008 et juin 2010 à l'EPM de Lavaur permet d'appréhender les expériences de détention au moyen d'une étude approfondie des logiques d'action construites par les détenus durant l'ensemble des temps collectifs mixtes auxquels ils sont sommés de participer. Dès lors, " faire sa peine " s'exprime, à l'EPM de Lavaur, dans l'instauration d'un rapport pratique à l'enfermement. Le détenu œuvre dans le but d'améliorer ses conditions de détention et bricole des espaces de liberté en manœuvrant avec l'hyperactivité forcée que lui inflige l'institution. Prié de partager l'ensemble des activités collectives, le jeune détenu, alors soumis à la surveillance des personnels ainsi qu'à l'observation des détenus (la persistance des regards étant renforcée par la configuration architecturale des lieux ménageant de nombreux espaces ouverts), s'engage dans une mise en scène de soi. Il fait ainsi la démonstration de certaines conduites, produits d'une culture importée en prison, et cherche à en camoufler d'autres dans le but de susciter la reconnaissance des acteurs présents. L'EPM de Lavaur est ainsi envisagé en tant que prison-scène. De ce point de vue, quatre figures de pratiques peuvent être extraites à partir d'une classification des logiques d'action construites par les détenus à l'intérieur des temps collectifs. Elles constituent alors les idéaux-types de conduites renvoyant à la mise en scène de façades personnelles idéalisées, l'adolescent s'attachant à maintenir ou à faire varier des rôles lui garantissant une meilleure position à l'intérieur des groupes formés lors des temps collectifs
Researches in social sciences that deal with the penitentiary world seem recently to focus on the prison experiment of the inmate to analyze its relation to the imprisonment. Detention is then a test. The inmate that is subjected to daily constraints works in order to improve his conditions of detention. The particular social situation that constitutes the detention is then comprehended as a dominant biographical line bringing back with it all the other goals of the inmate's life. If this determinism of the incarceration has been subjected to researches based mainly on inmate biographical interviews, few studies focused on how is built this particular relation to the detention, day by day, in addition in a minor population within a prison, described as innovative by the government: the " établissement pénitentiaire pour mineurs " (EPM) of Lavaur (France). Our research focused on the experiments of detention of minor incarcerated in an EPM. An ethnographic investigation that was performed between January of 2008 and June of 2010 at the EPM of Lavaur allowed to comprehend the experiments of detention thanks to a comprehensive study of the logics of action built by inmate during the whole mixed collective times in which they participate. Therefore " faire sa peine " is expressed at the EPM of Lavaur in the establishment of a practice relation to the incarceration. The inmate works to improve his conditions of detention and builds spaces of freedom by operating with the compelled hyperactivity that is imposed by the institution. Asked to share the overall collective activities, the young inmate, submitted to the surveillance of the staff and to the observation of other inmates (the persistence of gazes is strengthened by the architectural sites leaving to many open spaces) engages him in a staged. Thus, he demonstrates some behaviors, resulting from an imported culture in prison, and seeks to hide other in order to raise the recognition of the actors present. The EPM of Lavaur is thus envisaged as a prison-stage. From this point of view, four figures of practices can be extracted from a classification of action logics build by inmates during the collective times. They are then the ideal types of behaviors referring to the staging of an ideal self-images, the teenager works to maintain or to vary the roles guaranteeing him a better position within the groups formed during the collective times

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Cullen, Michelle. "Cities on the path to 'smart' : information technology provider interactions with urban governance through smart city projects in Dubuque, Iowa and Portland, Oregon." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2016. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/3392/.

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Information and communication technologies are increasingly being infused into city systems and services as part of a growing trend to make cities ‘smart’. Through the design and implementation of these efforts, large information technology (IT) providers are interacting with local government policy and planning processes via: (a) strategy—project objectives, priorities and approaches; (b) engagement—which actors are involved, the roles they play and the interactions between and among them; and (c) representation—how the local government portrays the project through narrative and brand. In the discussion below, I argue that as smart projects multiply, interactions around this proliferation will pave the way for IT providers to more broadly inform urban governance processes. For in effect, IT providers are not just selling smart technologies. Rather, they are propagating a set of assertions about the role, structure, function and relationships of local government. These assertions are informed by neoliberal and entrepreneurial principles, bound up with the concept of smart, and attractively wrapped within the smart city imaginary. This imaginary is largely created by IT providers, and cannot be pursued without them. Within my approach, I view smart initiatives not simply as technical but social and political strategies, for while these projects are about technological innovation, they are also about ‘innovations’ in the relationships, interactions and discourse that surround them. To capture both the discursive and material realities of these projects, my methods of examination included key informant interviews and case study analysis of two cities in the United States, Dubuque, Iowa and Portland, Oregon. I focus specifically on smart projects led by IBM, an influential actor in the smart city market, and use Dubuque as a primary case study with Portland for comparison. My work provides an in-depth view of the IT provider IBM alongside the rise of the corporate entrepreneurial smart city, and sheds light on what these initiatives might mean for municipal administrations and city residents in similar urban environments.

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Alford, Kelli Brooke. "Job Skills, Tolerance, and Positive Interactions: The Gendered Experiences of Appalachian Migrants." TopSCHOLAR®, 2011. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/1135.

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The following study examines gendered learning experiences of a population of Appalachian migrants surveyed from the late 1970s to the early 1990s. The respondents who participated in the survey used for this study began their lives in Appalachia. These respondents then left Appalachia for various other areas in the country and even around the world only to ultimately return to the mountainous region later in their lives. To begin, theory will be introduced concerning the stratification of gender in the Appalachian economic landscape, as well as a theoretical framework placing Appalachian women in an interlocking web of oppression with other subjugated cultural groups. This outsider kinship found among Appalachian women and other socially ostracized groups, I argue with the support of theory, will foster an atmosphere of tolerance and positive interaction among Appalachian females and the people they meet in their new homes. Literature will also be presented regarding the heavily skewed nature of the role of women versus men in Appalachian society and economy. Using logistic regression, various aspects of migrant experiences away from Appalachia will be examined and analyzed, including the acquisition of job skills, tolerance-based knowledge, and positive interactions with neighbors in their new environment.

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Cupka, Cassandra. "Stepparenthood and Depressive Symptoms in Later Life: The Mediating Role of Parent-Child Contact and Interactions." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1478901909792178.

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Kilgore, Elizabeth Ann. "A Study of the Work and Interactions of Exotic Dancers." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2002. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1040068806.

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Codaccioni, Vanessa. "Punir les opposants : une sociologie historique des "procès politiques" : les interactions répressives entre le PCF et l'État (1947-1962)." Paris 1, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011PA010309.

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À partir de l'analyse des interactions répressives entre les membres du PCF et les agents de l'Etat pendant la guerre froide et le conflit algérien, cette thèse s'attache à saisir les conditions d'émergence de « procès politiques» impliquant des opposants en temps de crise. Plus précisément, il s'agit de saisir les modalités de leur construction dans deux configurations judiciaires successives, et d'étudier de manière séquentielle et relationnelle les pratiques militantes communistes, leur répression, et les stratégies de politisation des procédures judiciaires en découlant. La première partie porte sur l'analyse du cycle militantisme-répression-solidarité pendant la guerre froide. Si cette période offre la possibilité d'étudier les conditions d'existence de procès politisés, c'est parce qu'elle donne à voir un double processus de radicalisation favorable à leur émergence: la radicalisation politique, qui se traduit par la valorisation des illégalismes militants et de l'expérience vécue de la répression; et un processus de criminalisation des opposants sous-tendu par la théorie du « complot ». La deuxième partie, consacrée à la guerre d'Algérie, permet de mettre à jour les facteurs explicatifs d'une absence d'utilisation stratégique de la répression par l'organisation partisane. Néanmoins, l'observation des mobilisations politico-juridiques des "cause lawyers" communistes, qui partent défendre les emprisonnés politiques algériens, permet d'interroger les conditions de possibilité d'une solidarité juridique aux partisans de l'indépendance de l'Algérie, et la manière dont se construisent autrement des « procès » dits « politiques ».

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LIEDERBACH, JOHN CAMPBELL. "POLICING SMALL TOWNS, RURAL PLACES, AND SUBURBAN JURISDICTIONS: OFFICER ACTIVITIES, CITIZEN INTERACTIONS, AND COMMUNITY CONTEXT." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2002. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1010857873.

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Bender, Alexis A. "Patients, Partners, and Practitioners: Interactions and Meaning- Making Following Spinal Cord Injury." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2011. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/sociology_diss/57.

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Sustaining a Spinal Cord Injury at any point in time is life altering – physically, emotionally, and financially – for all persons affected by the injury, but it can place unique challenges on younger married couples. This study examines the transition to injury for 18 couples (ages 21-55). Data were collected using individual interviews with each partner at three time points following injury, as well as observation in the rehabilitation setting (Creekview). This resulted in 96 individual interviews and 300 hours of observation. Using a combination of the life course perspective and cognitive sociology as guiding theoretical frameworks and grounded theory analysis, I examined how the health care institution influenced the couples’ relationships during their rehabilitation stay and the subsequent transition home. Overall, this study found that Creekview shaped a thought community that emphasizes a return to walking and high levels of physical recovery. Patients who achieved these goals constructed positive narratives about the future while those with lower levels of recovery constructed negative narratives over time. Additionally, because of the dominant medical narrative of wait and see regarding physical recovery, many respondents constructed fuzzy narratives about the future that reflect ambiguity about what life would look like following injury. Additionally, Creekview staff and couples accepted and reinforced the dominant cultural narrative that women are natural caregivers, but larger social structures of class, gender, and the division of paid and unpaid labor work together to push some women into caregiving faster or prevent other women from engaging in caregiving. Expanding on Aneshensel et al.’s (1995) caregiving career, this study examines how younger couples move through the caregiving career when the expected outcome is not long-term care placement or death. This study identified three main types of caregivers, each with their own path of caregiving – Naturalized, Constrained, and Resistant caregivers. Overall, the transition to injury is complex for patients and partners and this study highlights some of the ways the marital relationship is affected by a non-normative, unexpected transition.

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Gårdh, Emil, and Felix Åberg. "A PUGs Life : A study on social interactions in Classic and RetailWorld of Warcraft Pickup Groups." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för speldesign, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-446457.

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This paper investigates how players interact in classic and retail World of Warcraft by conducting a participant observation study by joining Pickup Groups (PUGs) to play through dungeons. Chat activity is logged and all messages are categorised into different types depending on what is conveyed in an attempt to see if and how social interactions differ between the games. The results indicate that classic players communicate more, both for instrumental value and for purely social reasons. All players met throughout the classic PUGs interacted to some extent through the chat. Most retail players chose not to interact via chat at all. It is speculated that the varying levels of social interaction are connected to the accessibility of the PUGs and dungeons. Dungeons that required more effort to access and had challenges that required an irregular strategy generally had a higher level of social interaction within them. Groups that established a positive atmosphere through social interaction had players that responded to potentially frustrating events by reassuring the other players in order to uphold this atmosphere. Groups that did not establish such an atmosphere responded with frustration instead in similar situations.
Denna uppsats undersöker hur spelare interagerar i klassiska och moderna World of Warcraft genom att utföra en deltagande observation av “Pickup Groups” (PUGs) i så kallade “dungeons”. Chatt-aktiviteten loggades och alla meddelanden kategoriseras i olika typer beroende på vad som förmedlas i ett försök att se om och hur sociala interaktioner skiljer sig mellan de två versionerna. Resultaten visar att spelare av den klassiska versionen kommunicerar mer, både för instrumentellt värde och av rent sociala skäl. Alla spelare som möttes under de klassiska PUG: erna interagerade till viss del genom chatten. De flesta spelare av den moderna versionen valde att inte interagera via chatten alls. Det spekuleras att de olika nivåerna av social interaktion är kopplat till tillgängligheten av PUG:er och Dungeons. Dungeons som krävde mer ansträngningar för att få tillgång till och hade utmaningar som krävde en annorlunda strategi hade i allmänhet en högre nivå av social interaktion inom sig. Grupper som etablerade en positiv atmosfär genom social interaktion hade spelare som reagerade på potentiellt frustrerande händelser genom att uppmuntra de andra spelarna för att upprätthålla denna atmosfär. Grupper som inte etablerade en sådan atmosfär reagerade istället med frustration i liknande situationer.

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Bonaldi, Eduardo Vilar. "Tentando chegar lá: as experiências sociais de jovens em um cursinho popular de São Paulo." Universidade de São Paulo, 2016. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8132/tde-09052016-105247/.

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Esta pesquisa visa reconstituir as dinâmicas de acesso ao Ensino Superior de jovens de frações relativamente privilegiadas das camadas populares, ingressantes em um cursinho popular localizado na zona norte da cidade de São Paulo. Em primeiro lugar, o estudo busca delinear e compreender a gênese social tanto das aspirações de ingresso no Ensino Superior quanto das dificuldades e barreiras subjetivamente experienciadas por esses jovens ao longo de suas tentativas de acesso ao sistema universitário. Além de evidenciar quais condicionamentos e modulações específicas dos processos de socialização e de escolarização, a que esses jovens foram submetidos, podem enraizar trajetórias bem sucedidas de acesso ao nível universitário, o estudo busca, igualmente, demonstrar como as diferentes redes de relações em que esses jovens encontram-se inseridos podem se refletir em diferentes estilizações de seus modos de experimentação da condição juvenil. Por fim, a natureza eminentemente política da iniciativa também conduziu o estudo à investigação dos modos como afinidades ou dissonâncias entre as origens e trajetórias dos professores e alunos do cursinho estruturam as dinâmicas interacionais a partir das quais pode ocorrer a transmissão das visões políticas de mundo e dos destinos universitários e ocupacionais que esses professores buscam projetar sobre seus alunos.
This work aims to reconstruct the educational and social trajectories of underprivileged students in their attempts to access Higher Education by attending a free-tuition prep course, located in the north of the city of Sao Paulo. First, the study seeks to delineate and understand the social genesis of both the aspirations towards Higher Education and the difficulties and barriers subjectively experienced by these students. Besides evidencing the specific conditions that might pave the way of these students towards what they acknowledge as successful paths, the study also seeks to demonstrate how the different peer groups in which they are engaged can be reflected in their different ways of experiencing their transitions to adulthood. Finally, the thick political atmosphere that characterizes the initiative has also conducted the study to investigate how affinities or dissonance between the origins and trajectories of the students, on one side, and the teacher of this prep course, on the other structure the interactional dynamics from which the transmission of political dispositions, as well as the inclinations towards determined career paths (in both the university system and the job market), can be observed.

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Vegdanpak, Nasim, and Tamara Glogovac. "Genus i förskolan : En kvalitativ studie om förskolepedagogernas arbete med genus på förskolan." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Institutionen för samhällsvetenskaper, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-39939.

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The purpose of this study is to gain a deeper understanding of what preschool educators think about gender work and how they work with gender in preschool. The aim is also to contribute to a broader understanding of the educators way of promoting gender equality in preschool. The study is based on a qualitative method were eight preschool educators were interviewed. Previous research has also highlighted gender, which has also been our central research area. The theory is based on West and Zimmerman's “Doing Gender” theory and Connell's theory "About Gender". The results of the study show different ways of working with gender and the importance of gender work in preschool. Gender work at preschool was evident through conversations with the children, language usage and preschool materials. The importance of gender work was expressed through the educators' norm-critical approach and their approach to non-gender-aware colleagues. The final discussion shows a link between previous research and our results, but also how a gender perspective in the work with the children benefits society as a whole.

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Kunwar, Ripu Mardhan. "Ethnobotany in the Kailash Sacred Landscape, Nepal| Implications for Conservation through Interactions of Plants, People, Culture and Geography." Thesis, Florida Atlantic University, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10846076.

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Little is known about the vegetation, forests, useful plants and their patterns of use at the gradients of climate, geography and culture in Baitadi and Darchula districts, far western Nepal. The interactions among plants-people-places were analyzed using data from phyto-sociological studies, community interviews, and literature. Ecological sampling, participant observation, semistructured interviews, and informal discussions were held between February and September 2017. We compared plant collection, use and management of two culturally distinct groups (Baitadi and Darchula), who inhabit different physiographic regions, yet share the same ecological landscape, environmental resources and livelihood challenges. We hypothesized that the salient (visible, apparent and accessible) plants and places are likely to be more frequently foraged than the non-salient ones. We also hypothesized that the elderly, native and traditional healers living in rural and remote physiographic conditions possess more diverse and detailed knowledge of plant use and conservation than young, non-native and non-healer people. A total of 18 forest types including eight from the study districts showed that the study area is rich in forests and plants. A total of 975 plant species including 82 new species records and 23 new use reports to Baitadi and Darchula districts were recorded. There were 305 (31%) useful plant species including 122 useful reported in the present study. The people of study area showed a large repertoire of knowledge that helps them execute different strategies of plant use suited to their environment and geography. The knowledge of plant use follows a pattern according to ecological conditions (availability) as well as the cultural significance (transhumance, settlement) of the landscape. However, the latter prevails. Predominate foraging by the agro-pastoral communities from the remote undisturbed forests for quality products and medicines in Darchula district was divergent from the collections from ruderal areas in Baitadi district by generalist collectors for ritual purposes. The extensive usage of plants for socio-economic reasons, livelihood and rituals indicates that the plants and culture are inseparable. Conservation measures with acknowledgement of human, cultural, geographical and environmental variables, are therefore encouraged for sustainable management of the natural resources and traditional knowledge of the Baitadi and Darchula districts.

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Debouche, Sonia. "Façons de faire, façons de parler : pratiques et interactions verbales en brocante." Paris 10, 2002. http://www.theses.fr/2002PA100093.

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A travers la description et l'analyse détaillées des pratiques professionnelles des brocanteurs, sur les sites de brocante, notre étude cherche à mettre en lumière l'existence de disparités dans les façons de travailler, d'exercer le métier de brocanteur. Ces différences concernent tant les façons de faire, c'est-à-dire les modalités de réalisation des différentes activités (conditions d'approvisionnement, conditions d'écoulement, modes de déballage et de mise en place des objets, modalités de vente), que les façons de parler, c'est-à-dire le fonctionnement et le contenu des interactions verbales brocanteur/client (organisation globale sous-jacente ou script ; formes langagières employées et langage ritualisé de la brocante, notamment en matière de marchandage ; rituels interpersonnels mis en œuvre). Ce travail cherche précisément à comprendre les enjeux de ces différences, en liant types de pratiques marchandes et manifestations langagières, dans une perspective articulant approche ethnographique et micro-analyses. La matière de ce travail est donc essentiellement ethnographique et se fonde à la fois sur des observations in situ et des enregistrements audio de transactions commerciales (entre professionnels d'une part, et entre brocanteurs et clients particuliers d'autre part).

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Kallmeyer, Robert J. "How Social Interactions Impact the Effectiveness of Learning Communities." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1243320019.

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De, Tezanos-Pinto Pablo Andres. "A normative approach to intergroup contact : the role of ingroup norms regarding interactions with members of the outgroup." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2011. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/7353/.

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The main argument developed in this thesis is that individuals are not only affected by their own experiences of intergroup contact, but also by the contact they perceive is occurring around them. A pivotal reason for this is a change in the perception of ingroup norms regarding intergroup interactions, which can shape intergroup attitudes and make future positive intergroup contact experiences more likely. Chapter 1 provides a review of the literature of intergroup contact and makes the case for the necessity of a normative perspective on intergroup contact research. I Chapter 2, I provide a brief overview of the literature regarding the effect of social norms in intergroup relations, and describe in more detail the theoretical model proposed. Chapters 3 and 4 provide some initial evidence for the model using cross-sectional studies, showing that ingroup norms are associated with attitudes and with the intention of having intergroup contact, and that direct and indirect contact rely on different mechanisms to improve attitudes towards the outgroup. The effect of indirect contact is of a normative nature while the effect of direct contact is more emotional. Chapter 5 focuses on the distinction between ingroup norms about contact and ingroup norms about expressing prejudice, and the evaluation of moderators of the effect in ingroup norms. Chapter 6 reports two longitudinal studies, providing some evidence in support for a causal effect of ingroup norms about contact on several outcomes; and Chapter 7 reports a series of experiments, including results showing that ingroup norms predict the success of an actual interaction with outgroup members. In Chapter 8, I summarise the evidence for the theoretical model proposed and discuss some promising directions for future research, as well as the implications of these results for the reduction of segregation and the improvement of intergroup relations in general.

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