scholarly journals Making Sense of Stigmatized Organizations: Labelling Contests and Power Dynamics in Social Evaluation Processes

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gro Kvåle ◽  
Zuzana Murdoch
Keyword(s):  
Moral Panic ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
Ethical Standards ◽  
Social Evaluation ◽  
Ethical Concerns ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Hells Angels ◽  
Multiple Audiences ◽  
Event Based ◽  
Power Play

AbstractHow do social audiences negotiate and handle stigmatized organizations? What role do their heterogenous values, norms and power play in this process? Addressing these questions is important from a business ethics perspective to improve our understanding of the ethical standards against which organizations are judged as well as the involved prosecutorial incentives. Moreover, it illuminates ethical concerns about when and how (the exploitation of) power imbalances may induce inequity in the burdens imposed by such social evaluations. We address these questions building on two event-based case studies involving Hells Angels Motorcycle Club Norway, and contribute to organizational stigma theory in three ways. First, social evaluations of a stigmatized organization by multiple audiences are found to interact, collide and combine in a labelling contest. Second, we show that labels employed in this contest are pushed to either negative extremes (‘moral panic’) or positive extremes (‘moral patronage’). Finally, we show when and how power represents a double-edged sword in social evaluation processes, which can be wielded either to the benefit or to the detriment of the actors under evaluation.

Ethical Standards

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Burnham
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Engineering ◽  
Medical Ethics ◽  
Uneven Distribution ◽  
Ethical Standards ◽  
Ethical Concerns ◽  
The Universe ◽  
Ethical Responsibilities

This chapter examines Greg Egan's view of ethics, which can be seen from his earliest breakout story, “The Cutie” (1989). It looks at several facets of ethical concerns, including medical ethics as seen in “Blood Sisters” (1991) and “Cocoon” (1994). It also covers the uneven distribution of technological benefits, best illustrated by “Yeyuka” (1997) and the genetic engineering piracy shown in Distress (1995). Finally, it focuses on our ethical responsibilities to life that we create and to alien life that we may find out in the universe.

Ethics

2021 ◽  
pp. 323-335
Author(s):  
Jack C. Watson II ◽  
Brandonn S. Harris ◽  
Megan Byrd
Keyword(s):  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Ethical Standards ◽  
Performance Psychology ◽  
Vital Importance ◽  
Ethical Concerns ◽  
Ethical Decisions ◽  
The Common ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Area Of Study

The study of ethics in sport, exercise, and performance psychology (SEPP) has traditionally focused upon the provision of practical suggestions to help practitioners avoid ethical issues. These suggestions stem from reviews of SEPP ethical standards that have been derived from the parent field of psychology. This area of study has been primarily nonempirically based. Therefore, the primary suggestion of this chapter is for the development of a more empirically based study of ethics. There is a need to empirically understand the structural issues that are commonly associated with ethical concerns, the common ethical beliefs and behaviors of practitioners, and the methods used by practitioners to make ethical decisions. The authors propose research questions to be of vital importance to the study of ethics in SEPP.

scholarly journals Making Sense of Family Deaths in Urban Senegal: Diversities, Contexts, and Comparisons

2018 ◽  
Vol 82 (2) ◽  
pp. 230-260 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane Ribbens McCarthy ◽  
Ruth Evans ◽  
Sophie Bowlby ◽  
Joséphine Wouango
Keyword(s):  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
Emotional Pain ◽  
Beliefs And Practices ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Personal Significance ◽  
Cultural Research ◽  
Cross Cultural Research ◽  
Common Response ◽  
Death And Loss

Despite calls for cross-cultural research, Minority world perspectives still dominate death and bereavement studies, emphasizing individualized emotions and neglecting contextual diversities. In research concerned with contemporary African societies, on the other hand, death and loss are generally subsumed within concerns about AIDS or poverty, with little attention paid to the emotional and personal significance of a death. Here, we draw on interactionist sociology to present major themes from a qualitative study of family deaths in urban Senegal, theoretically framed through the duality of meanings-in-context. Such themes included family and community as support and motivation; religious beliefs and practices as frameworks for solace and (regulatory) meaning; and material circumstances as these are intrinsically bound up with emotions. Although we identify the experience of (embodied, emotional) pain as a common response across Minority and Majority worlds, we also explore significant divergencies, varying according to localized contexts and broader power dynamics.

scholarly journals Over research and ethics dumping in international archaeology

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ben Marwick ◽  
Son Thanh Pham ◽  
May Su Ko
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Home Country ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Host Community ◽  
Special Consideration ◽  
Ethical Standards ◽  
Research Activity ◽  
Ethical Concerns ◽  
Specific Activities

Among public health researchers two ethical concerns have recently stimulated discussion: “over-research” and “ethics dumping”. Over-research refers to a situation where the host community are not benefiting from research activity conducted by outsiders. Ethics dumping refers to doing research deemed unethical in a researcher’s home country in a foreign setting with laxer ethical rules. We briefly review the origins of these terms and explore their relevance for archaeology, with special consideration of Southeast Asia. To minimize over-research and ethics dumping in archaeology we propose some modest, specific activities that should be possible for all archaeologists to do to increase the benefit of their research to local communities, and to ensure their work is consistent with international ethical standards.

Addressing Ethical Concerns of Big Data as a Prerequisite for a Sustainable Big Data Industry

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 33-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Izabella V. Lokshina ◽  
Cees J.M. Lanting
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Ethical Standards ◽  
Business Practices ◽  
Industrial Activity ◽  
Data Services ◽  
Ethical Concerns ◽  
Services Industry ◽  
Current Business

Big Data combines information from diverse sources to create knowledge, make better predictions and tailor services. This article analyzes Big Data both as a technology and an industrial activity, and identifies the points of weakness and ethical concerns created by current business practices. Potential solutions for these concerns are proposed in order to build and maintain business practices respecting ethical standards as a prerequisite for a sustainable Big Data industry. This article covers both the usage of Big Data by industry and the development of a sustainable Big Data services industry.

Power Play: An Assistant Principal’s Dilemma and Unexpected Rise to School Leadership

2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 68-84
Author(s):  
Miguel M. Gonzales
Keyword(s):  
School Climate ◽  
School Leadership ◽  
Assistant Principal ◽  
School Principal ◽  
Positive Relationships ◽  
Ethical Concerns ◽  
Daunting Task ◽  
Power Play

This case describes the dilemma of recently hired assistant principal, Fred Bates, who finds himself in a school with a negative and unsupportive school climate. There are significant trust issues between the teachers and principal. Bates struggles to navigate various obstacles and works to establish positive relationships with both his principal and the teachers. He begins to question his loyalty to the principal, and has ethical concerns as he realizes that the school principal has abused his power and damaged, at times intentionally, the trust and respect of the teachers. The principal reaps the repercussions of his unethical actions and is dismissed from the school. Bates is then appointed as the new interim principal, and he is left with the daunting task of rebuilding the trust and confidence of the teachers.

scholarly journals Making Sense of Shame

Philosophy ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-23
Author(s):  
James Laing
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
Social Evaluation ◽  
Self Evaluation ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
The Social ◽  
The One ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Sense Of Shame ◽  
The Way

Abstract In this paper, I argue that we face a challenge in understanding the relationship between the ‘value-oriented’ and ‘other-oriented’ dimensions of shame. On the one hand, an emphasis on shame's value-oriented dimension leads naturally to ‘The Self-Evaluation View’, an account which faces a challenge in explaining shame's other-oriented dimension. This is liable to push us towards ‘The Social Evaluation View’. However The Social Evaluation View faces the opposite challenge of convincingly accommodating shame's ‘value-oriented’ dimension. After rejecting one attempt to chart a middle course between these extremes, I argue that progress can be made if we reject the widespread assumption that the other-oriented dimension of shame is best understood primarily terms of our concern with the way we appear to others. Instead, I outline an account which treats shame as manifesting our desire primarily for interpersonal connection and which elucidates the property of shamefulness in terms of merited avoidance (or rejection).

scholarly journals Making Sense of Kids' Technology Use

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefanie Mollborn ◽  
Paula Fomby
Keyword(s):  
Social Relationships ◽  
Technology Use ◽  
Moral Panic ◽  
Electronic Devices ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
The Future

Portable electronic devices are everywhere. Kids love them, and schools are sending them into homes. This accessibility challenges parents, who want to balance dangers like addiction, bullying, and strangers against benefits for social relationships and future careers. How are these pressures affecting kids, families, and society? Is this a new “moral panic?” What does the future hold?

scholarly journals Power play: The dynamics of power and interpersonal communication in higher education as reflected in David Mamet’s Oleanna

2014 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-51
Author(s):  
Peter Chiaramonte
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Sexual Harassment ◽  
Interpersonal Communication ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
Social Environments ◽  
Power Of Language ◽  
Power Play

David Mamet’s play Oleanna may be infamous for reasons that do not do justice to the play’s real accomplishments. One reason for the controversy is the author’s apparent focus on sexual harassment. The play is not about sexual harassment. It is about power. And in particular the power of language to shape relationships within social environments such as universities. First published and performed in 1992 - at a time when many were outraged by the Clarence Thomas - Anita Hill debate - the playwright himself was compelled to deny his play was about sexual aggravation. Mamet’s Oleanna serves to instruct us about the power dynamics within one of our most vital institutions. The aim of this article is to take a dedicated look at this dramatic spectacle to see if we cannot uncover something about leadership and the mechanics of power and communication in higher education that is intellectually riveting, as well as socially constructive.    

scholarly journals Making sense of the lack of evidence discourse, power and knowledge in the field of sport for development

2014 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 140-151 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Adams ◽  
Kevin Harris
Keyword(s):  
Interest Groups ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Sport For Development ◽  
Key Questions ◽  
The Way

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore and analyse the power dynamics and vested interest groups that shape the lack of evidence discourse, which is critical of the way evidence is produced within and for the sport for development (SFD) field. This examination recognises that an understanding of the dominant neoliberal context within which SFD is located is critical. Design/methodology/approach – Using a Foucauldian conceptual framework, power, knowledge and discourse relating to political actors in SFD – funders, policy makers, academics and sport development practitioners (SDPs) – are assessed. This paper addresses two key questions: How is the lack of evidence discourse constructed, and what is its impact? And whose interests are served in the interpretation, generation and reporting of evidence? Findings – This paper concludes that although in a Foucauldian sense power surrounding evidence is everywhere, the neo liberal context, which situates SFD, favours the privileging of evidence discourses associated with and derived from funding organisations, political and academic interest groups to the detriment of evidence discourses associated with SDPs. Clearly then there is a major tension concerning knowledge transfer, power and process, and the way that evidence can be used to inform practice. Originality/value – The paper attempts to highlight the power dynamics influencing the way evidence is produced within SFD and that much is needed to move the field forward in a more united approach for what counts as evidence for all political actors.

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