Pub Date : 2022-01-10DOI: 10.18778/1733-8077.4.1.10
P. Nugus
This paper shows how the theory of symbolic interactionism shaped a grounded investigation of the organizational labor of Australian Emergency Department (ED) clinicians. Further, it shows how symbolic interactionism supports reflexive criteria for validating grounded research. Using ethnographic methods across two metropolitan EDs, interactionism’s emphasis on roles applied equally to the relationship between researcher and participants as to the relationships among participants. Specifically, the researcher generated data by positioning interactionism as the mediator of the emergent relationship between researcher and participants. The results of this positioning were: a traceable path from understanding to interpretation and the search for consequentiality rather than truth. Interactionism facilitated the co-production by the researcher and participants of limits on the generalizability of the data. The paper is an argument for symbolic interactionism as a means not merely to generate sociological findings, but to conceptualize the impact of the researcher on the grounded research process.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-10DOI: 10.18778/1733-8077.3.3.12
M. Skomorowski
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Pub Date : 2021-12-27DOI: 10.18778/1733-8077.7.3.04
D. Mortelmans, W. Verheyen
Many empirical studies have focused on the quantitative changes in the social networks of divorced and separated people. In this qualitative study, we use interviews with dyads to construct a two-sided view of the support network after separation. The aim of the study is to gain insight into the needs for support after a relational breakup. Including a network member in the analysis enables a more detailed view on the interaction at hand in the bond between these women and their supportive network members. The results show that personal coping resources are left untouched. Giving advice on ones daily activities is counter-productive. This is better understood by non family members compared to the women’s parents (especially the mother). With respect to the reciprocity in these relationships, network members do not expect a return in the period after the separation.
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Pub Date : 2021-12-27DOI: 10.18778/1733-8077.6.1.04
Sheying Chen
This article begins with a review of methods that gerontologists use in social and behavioral research. The value and focus of qualitative research are highlighted with their epistemological roots. Qualitative approaches and their uses are summarized in terms of “interpretive” and “critical” social sciences that draw the insights of sociological paradigms. With a further review of qualitative research on aging and gerontological studies in China, the article focuses on an integrated micro-macro model by illuminating the ideas of clinical sociology and the general public policy framework of an “economic state in transition.” Implications to social policy study (particularly on aging in China) are discussed.
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Pub Date : 2021-12-27DOI: 10.18778/1733-8077.7.3.03
M. Asadi
My purpose in this paper is to link the larger social context that structurally necessitates „wars without end” perpetrated by the U.S. elite with the rhetoric that legitimizes them so as to sociologically situate the rhetoric, the vocabularies of motive within a historically formed war-centric social structure that reveals an easily discernible pattern in the use of language. I consider Franklin D. Roosevelt’s speech of December 8, 1941 announcing U.S. entry into World War II to be the rhetorical “Master Frame”, the blueprint in this regard that was subsequently incorporated by later presidents to justify all wars without end. I compared dissected components of this rhetorical Master Frame to war speeches made by different U.S. presidents in the pre- and post-World War II era to reveal the qualitative difference between war rhetoric of a peace-time social structure where war is an aberration and the permanent war based social structure of the post-World War II U.S., when war became the taken for granted norm.
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Pub Date : 2021-12-27DOI: 10.18778/1733-8077.7.3.05
Krzysztof T. Konecki
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Pub Date : 2021-12-27DOI: 10.18778/1733-8077.7.3.07
S. Magala
The book in question has been published within the series edited by the IMISCOE program (International Migration, Integration and Social Cohesion in Europe), which had been established in 2004 as a Network of Excellence and became “an independent, self-funding endeavour open to qualified researchers and research institutes worldwide” in 2009. Liza Mügge is a political scientist from Amsterdam and she has focused on three groups of migrants in the contemporary Netherlands: the Surinamese, Turkish and Kurdish ones. Her research questions are concerned with the emergence of transnational migrant politics, the evolution of political participation of migrants over time (especially the “coming of age” of a second generation, which grew up entirely or almost entirely in the country of settlement and, well, the third question is unintelligible because of poor English and minimalist editing effort (see p. 22) third bulleted point, but we may guess that she is interested in cross-influences between the social response to migrants‟ political activism and their willingness to continue transnational politics. The author mentions all relevant literature, including Kearney, Vertovec, Granovetter and an Erasmus University colleague, Engbersen, or a Surinamese colleague of mine from Tilburg University, Gowricharn, but her strength is in empirical studies of three selected minorities in the contemporary Kingdom of the Netherlands. The topic is not entirely of a theoretical and methodological interest to me. I share some of the dilemmas with the subjects of her study. As a Polish migrant to the Netherlands, I participate in both Dutch and Polish national politics, by voting in respective national elections, though I have to choose between the two on those days when elections to the European Parliament are held (I usually vote for the Polish representatives with my wife and my children vote for the Dutch ones). What did the author find out? First, that there were significant differences between the three groups of migrants. The Surinamese went mostly for the homeland-directed activities (they were the only group of migrants, who came from the former Dutch colony, with a painful record of corrupt deals between the postcolonial Surinamese and Dutch political elites). The Turks and the Kurds shared their focus on transplanted homeland politics (revived in a foreign setting), but they differed in that the Turks
这本书是在欧洲国际移民、融合和社会凝聚力方案(IMISCOE)编辑的丛书中出版的，该方案于2004年成立，是一个卓越网络，并于2009年成为“向全世界合格的研究人员和研究机构开放的独立、自筹资金的努力”。Liza m gge是来自阿姆斯特丹的政治学家，她关注当代荷兰的三个移民群体:苏里南人、土耳其人和库尔德人。她的研究问题涉及跨国移民政治的出现，随着时间的推移，移民政治参与的演变(特别是第二代的“成年”，他们完全或几乎完全在定居的国家长大，好吧，第三个问题是难以理解的，因为糟糕的英语和极简的编辑努力(见第22页)第三点，但我们可以猜测，她感兴趣的是社会对移民政治激进主义的反应与他们继续跨国政治的意愿之间的交叉影响。作者提到了所有相关文献，包括Kearney, Vertovec, Granovetter和Erasmus大学的同事Engbersen，或我在Tilburg大学的苏里南同事Gowricharn，但她的优势在于对当代荷兰王国三个选定的少数民族的实证研究。这个话题对我来说不完全是理论和方法论上的兴趣。我和她的研究对象有一些共同的困境。作为一名移民到荷兰的波兰人，我通过在各自的国家选举中投票来参与荷兰和波兰的国家政治，尽管在欧洲议会选举的日子里，我必须在两者之间做出选择(我通常投票给波兰代表，而我的妻子和孩子投票给荷兰代表)。作者发现了什么?首先，三组移民之间存在显著差异。苏里南人大多参加了本国的活动(他们是唯一的移民群体，他们来自前荷兰殖民地，有着后殖民时期苏里南人和荷兰政治精英之间腐败交易的痛苦记录)。土耳其人和库尔德人都专注于移植的本土政治(在外国环境中复活)，但他们的不同之处在于土耳其人
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Pub Date : 2021-12-27DOI: 10.18778/1733-8077.7.3.02
J. Coetzee
Memory is the ability to store, maintain and recall information and experiences. Although predominantly an individual attribute, memory coincides with the life-world, with consciousness and with the ability to define reality – all of which are shared with others. When analysing narratives the sociologist needs to situate individual memory within its broader context. The article follows the argument that individuals acquire their memories within a broader social context. They also recall and localise their memories within a broader social context. This article interprets a remarkable testimony: the story of a former political prisoner who circumcised a large number of young fellow inmates in the notorious prison on Robben Island, South Africa, during the period of Nelson Mandela‟s incarceration. The article relates the narrative in question to the life-world of the narrator and to his experiences whilst serving his 18-year prison sentence. It reflects on the epistemological questions regarding memories. Memory as recollection, as reconstruction of events and information, and as process of re-membering come under the spotlight. Narratives that are often repeated start taking on a life of their own – particularly in the case of trauma memories. When analysing these narratives, the sociologist needs to distinguish between objective markers and subjective interpretation. Memory does not constitute pure recall by the individual. The article illustrates the effect of intersubjective and collective factors on the process of remembering. It calls for a reflexive process to identify, re-interpret and unpack the process of remembering.
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Pub Date : 2021-12-27DOI: 10.18778/1733-8077.6.1.01
J. Powell
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