Value orientations and action conflicts in students’ everyday life: An interview study

2005 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 243-257 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sebastian Schmid ◽  
Manfred Hofer ◽  
Franziska Dietz ◽  
Heinz Reinders ◽  
Stefan Fries
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Interview Study ◽  
Value Orientations

Everyday life for users of electric wheelchairs – a qualitative interview study

2012 ◽  
Vol 7 (5) ◽  
pp. 399-407 ◽  
Author(s):  
Camilla Blach Rossen ◽  
Bodil Sørensen ◽  
Bente Würtz Jochumsen ◽  
Gitte Wind
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Qualitative Interview ◽  
Interview Study ◽  
Qualitative Interview Study

scholarly journals The Attraction of the Mundane – How everyday life contributes to destination attractiveness in the Nordic region

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 467-484
Author(s):  
Matias Thuen Jørgensen
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Qualitative Interview ◽  
Interview Study ◽  
Tour Guides ◽  
Nordic Region ◽  
Qualitative Interview Study ◽  
Tourism Studies ◽  
Destination Attractiveness ◽  
Chinese Tourists

The paper exhibits how environments, lifestyles and institutions that are considered as mundane parts of everyday life for locals, play an important role for Chinese tourists visiting the Nordic region – as motivators to visit and as tangible or intangible attractions during the visit. It contributes to ongoing discussions about the role of mundane everyday life in tourism studies, as it highlights that tourist do not only bring their everyday lives to destinations, they also travel to experience tangible and intangible elements that locals may regard as mundane. Based on these findings, the paper aims to position such mundane destination elements not only as a supplement to, but in line with traditional attractions, in terms of their contribution to destination attractiveness. The paper is based on the findings of a qualitative interview study on Chinese tourism to the Nordic region. The interviewees include fourteen Chinese tourists, sixteen representatives of Chinese tourism intermediaries and six tour guides.

scholarly journals SUBJECTS OF HOUSEHOLD AND PERSONAL ITEMSAS A SOURCE FOR STUDYING THE URBAN EVERYDAY LIFE OF THE LATE IMPERIAL ERA

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 108-117
Author(s):  
O.N. Yakhno ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Value Orientations ◽  
Communication Styles ◽  
Russian History ◽  
Critical Periods ◽  
Late Imperial ◽  
The People ◽  
History Of ◽  
Almost All

The author discusses the need to expand the source base for studying the history of everyday life. It is noted that a solid pool of historiographic works has already been accumulated in this area of research. Recent publications focusing on the reconstruction of everyday life in national capitals and provincial centers contain extensive generalizations and conclusions. At the same time, almost all studies are based on various legal acts, current records, statistical materials, publications in periodicals of a relevant period, and written sources of private origin. Subjects of material culture, the "world of things" that surrounds people in their everyday life, receive much less attention as a potential source of research. The article demonstrates in what way the analysis of numerous household items, various accessories for hobbies and pastime, as well as personal care items, may contribute to a better understanding of both the material side of everyday life and the diversity of individual and group preferences, behavioral and communication styles, and value orientations of the people. The author draws a conclusion that this approach is particularly important for studying the changes in everyday life observed in critical periods in the Russian history characteristic of the early 20th century.

The enhanced participant-driven photo elicitation method for everyday life health information behaviour research

2019 ◽  
Vol 71 (6) ◽  
pp. 720-738
Author(s):  
Yuanyuan Feng
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Health Information ◽  
Qualitative Interview ◽  
Interview Study ◽  
Photo Elicitation ◽  
Elicitation Method ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Information Behaviour ◽  
Qualitative Interview Study ◽  
Research Findings

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to report the design and implementation of the enhanced participant-driven photo elicitation method in a qualitative interview study, to assess the performance of the method to investigate a research topic in everyday life health information behaviour and to provide insights on how to effectively use this method in future research. Design/methodology/approach The author embedded the enhanced participant-driven photo elicitation in a qualitative interview study to examine people’s everyday life health information behaviour with activity tracking technology. The author assessed the types of visual data collected by the method, categories of elicitation enabled by the method and how the method contributed to key research findings of the interview study. Findings The enhanced participant-driven photo elicitation generated rich, unique and meaningful data that would be otherwise difficult to collect through conventional qualitative interviews. The method also elicited explanation, rationalisation and reflection during the interviews, which enriched and triangulated key research findings. This work validated the benefits of the general photo elicitation method such as aiding participants’ recall of experiences, enriching research findings and improving research validity. It also demonstrated that the enhancement techniques used in this study could generate rich and even research data across interviews. Originality/value This paper describes the design and implementation of the enhanced participant-driven photo elicitation method to augment a qualitative interview study with activity tracker users. The author provides recommendations for researchers to take full advantage of the method in future everyday life health information behaviour research.

scholarly journals Everyday life in a Swedish nursing home during the COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative interview study with persons 85 to 100 years

BMJ Open ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. e048503
Author(s):  
Qarin Lood ◽  
Maria Haak ◽  
Synneve Dahlin-Ivanoff
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Home ◽  
Nursing Homes ◽  
Older People ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Older Persons ◽  
Qualitative Interview ◽  
Interview Study ◽  
Main Theme ◽  
Qualitative Interview Study ◽  
The Impact

ObjectiveTo understand and report on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the everyday lives of frail older persons living in nursing homes by exploring their experiences of how the pandemic-related restrictions had influenced them and in what way.DesignEmpirical qualitative interview study.SettingA publicly run nursing home in an urban area in Sweden in June 2020. The nursing home had visitor restrictions, cancelled activities and physical distancing requirements since March 2020.ParticipantsA total of 10 persons, 85–100 years, living in a Swedish nursing home during the COVID-19 pandemic, were recruited through nursing home management and interviewed in June 2020 using medically approved visors and physical distancing.AnalysisInterviews were analysed using thematic analysis, which involves familiarisation, coding and definition of themes. Transcripts were coded into data-driven categories before being organised into categories that described and explained the data.ResultsThe analysis resulted in the main theme ‘It is like living in a bubble’, that describes everyday life in the nursing home during the pandemic as a world of its own in which the older persons felt both protected and isolated. This is described in four subthemes: living 1 day at a time, without fear of the virus; feeling taken care of; having limited freedom and missing out on the little extras.ConclusionsContributing to the growing area of COVID-19-related research, our findings provide novel insights into how pandemic-related restrictions in nursing homes represent a risk of isolating older people from the outside world and diminishing their freedom. Put in relation to the previous research, these findings could be applied beyond the pandemic, to develop research and practice that puts focus on how to support older people to decide for themselves how to spend the rest of their lives.

Everyday Life and Lifestyles of Social Classes in Montenegro

Südosteuropa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 66 (2) ◽  
pp. 182-202
Author(s):  
Borislav Djukanović
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Mass Culture ◽  
Time Management ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
Value Orientations ◽  
Social Classes ◽  
High Deprivation ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Stratified Sample

Abstract The author analyses the everyday life and lifestyles of social classes in Montenegro based on a survey conducted on a randomized, proportional, and stratified sample of 805 respondents. The survey covers the topics: consumption; family and professional life; citizens’ attitudes towards society and the state; leisure time; cultural practices; value orientations; time management; and general satisfaction with various aspects of life. The theoretical approach accords with Pierre Bourdieu’s. The everyday life of the Montenegrins emerges as having the following characteristics: restriction to necessities only in purchases; high deprivation; family conflicts brought about by poor financial circumstances; stereotypical leisuretime activities; a low opinion of governmental and social institutions fuelled by perceptions of nepotism and job allocation based on political party membership; differentiation of cultural practices from the dominant mass culture; value confusion; and a focus on everyday routines. The basic line of differentiation turns out to be social class, as all the listed characteristics are much more pronounced in the lower social strata.

scholarly journals Sacralization of Everyday Cultural Practices

2019 ◽  
pp. 164-174
Author(s):  
Halyna Miednikova
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Value Orientations ◽  
Symbolic System ◽  
Mass Behavior ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Culinary Practices

The concept of ‘cultural practices’ makes it possible to explore the behavior of the individual in the different socio-cultural coordinates, to search a complex set of value-meaning installations, to study the sign-symbolic system, ways of communication, as well as artistic realities of everyday life. The article considers the content of such new cultural practices as culinary practices, night cultural and entertainment practices, participation in festive activities (Kyiv City Day, Independence Day, embroidery holiday, borsch, dumplings, Bouquet Kyiv Stage, etc.). These projects capture the transformation of the individuals’ value orientations in the styles of mass behavior, focusing on such important attributes as the sacralization of everyday life. In the article, the methodology for the study of cultural practices is systematized: cultural studies, cultural studies of everyday life, ‘meta-practice’ of everyday life of M. Epstein, outlined the strategy of sacralization in new cultural practices.

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