Qualitative Sociology Review: Ostatnio dodane
Wyświetlanie pozycji 141-160 z 243
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Body, Beauty, and Death in an Andean Context: A Self-Ethnographic Narration
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-08-07)With this article I seek to build bridges between the different narrative elements where the body is situated as a central language, of experiences as a researcher in socio-cultural contexts of Bolivian indigenous peoples ... -
Meetings or Power Weeks? Boundary Work in a Transnational Police Project
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-08-07)Meetings are common in contemporary working life, but they are often overlooked in academic studies and sometimes defined as empty or boring by employees. Yet, the meeting society is being reproduced again and again. There ... -
Othering of Full-Time and Volunteer Women Firefighters in the Canadian Fire Services
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-08-07)Being discriminated against because of factors such as gender, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, and stature (i.e., height and weight) has been a common experience for women in traditionally men-dominated/identified ... -
Trees as Dialogue: Negotiating Boundaries with the Anne Frank Sapling Project
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-08-07)My qualitative research paper focuses on the Anne Frank sapling installation at the Clinton Presidential Museum and Library in Little Rock, Arkansas. Saplings grafted from the tree that grew outside Anne Frank’s window in ... -
Exploring Other-Than-Human Identity: A Narrative Approach to Otherkin, Therianthropes, and Vampires
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-08-07)Drawing on in-depth, narrative interviews with 24 self-identified Otherkin, Therianthropes, and Vampires, we explore how members of these communities navigate Bamberg’s three “dilemmatic spaces” or tensions of continuity/change, ... -
An Introduction to the Special Issue from 2018’s Qualitative Analysis Conference: "Creating, Negotiating, and Transcending Social Boundaries in Everyday Life"
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Active Interview Tactics Revisited: A Multigenerational Perspective
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-04-30)William (Billy) Shaffir taught about what it means to be a true empiricist, a sociologist committed to naturalistic observation as the most incisive method in our scientific toolbox. His inspiration still resonates, two ... -
Piecing Together the Meaning of “Dirty Work”
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-04-30)I reflect upon Dr. William Shaffir’s influence on my approach to ethnographic research and my study of homeless shelter workers. Dr. Shaffir introduced me to his own brand of the craft of qualitative field work, but also ... -
Feigning Incompetence in the Field
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-04-30)A basic feature of professions is specialized competence. Indeed, expertise grants professions and their members privileged, prestigious, and protected statuses. Members of professions thus face interactional pressure to ... -
Agnostic Interactionism and Sensitizing Concepts in the 21st Century: Developing Shaffirian Theory-Work in Ethnographic Research
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-04-30)In this paper, we reflect upon our experiences taking a graduate qualitative methodology course with Dr. William (Billy) Shaffir. We highlight Billy’s approach to ethnographic research and his declaration to “just do it.” ... -
The Gift of a Vocation: Learning, Writing, and Teaching Sociology
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-04-30)To write a sociological festschrift for a scholar necessarily means looking at a chain of influence instead of one person. In this essay, I honor William Shaffir, Emeritus Professor of Sociology at McMaster University, who ... -
Journeying into Academia via Immersion into Qualitative Research: Professor Shaffir as a Master Guide
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-04-30)The choice of a work career is one of the most important events in a person’s life course and typically involves secondary socialization and identification with role models. This paper is concerned with the crucial role ... -
The Virtue of Patience
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-04-30)Shaffir (1998:63) writes, “We must learn to reclaim the virtue of patience. When we enhance the pace of doing research, it is often at the expense of acquiring a deep appreciation of the research problem.” This paper engages ... -
The Hughesian Legacy: William Shaffir—A Principal Interpreter of the Chicago School Diaspora in Canada
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-04-30)In this paper, I discuss the invaluable role played by William Shaffir, my mentor and doctoral supervisor, who shaped my approach to interpretive fieldwork and deepened my understanding of symbolic interactionist theory. ... -
Editorial. A Festschrift for William Shaffir: Guest Editors’ Introduction
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Dealing with Feeling: Emotion, Affect, and the Qualitative Research Encounter
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-01-31)Emotion and affect are different, yet intricately interwoven. Emotions such as fear, joy, or sadness are biological in as far as they are physically felt, but they are relational in as far as they are more fully experienced. ... -
Emotional Education Discourses: Between Developing Competences and Deepening Emotional (Co-)Understanding
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-01-31)The article addresses an issue important in educational sciences which is emotional education understood as an activity for human emotional development. It is important in the context of lifelong learning, that is, both ... -
“Living with Illegal Feelings”—Analysis of the Internet Discourse on Negative Emotions towards Children and Motherhood
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-01-31)The aim of the article is to show the socio-cultural conditions influencing the ways of expressing emotions and feelings by mothers. It presents the results of the analysis of the Internet discourse on negative attitudes ... -
The Disappearance of the Other: A Note on the Distortion of Love
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-01-31)Against the backdrop of contemporary sociological theories of love, this article explores the disappearance of the other in contemporary love relationships by focusing on the relationship between love and depression. The ... -
Pride in Teachers’ Everyday Work. Conditions and Contexts
Pawłowska, Beata
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-01-31)
The aim of this article is to elaborate on the reasons behind feeling the emotion of pride within the professional context of actions undertaken by contemporary Polish teachers. The article attempts to answer the question ...