scholarly journals Micro-processes of Moral Normative Engagement with CSR Tensions: The Role of Spirituality in Justification Work

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hyemi Shin ◽  
Mai Chi Vu ◽  
Nicholas Burton
Keyword(s):  
Structured Interview ◽  
Moral Values ◽  
Interview Data ◽  
Moral Dimension ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Micro Level

AbstractAlthough CSR scholarship has highlighted how tensions in CSR implementation are negotiated, little is known about its normative and moral dimension at a micro-level. Drawing upon the economies of worth framework, we explore how spirituality influences the negotiation of CSR tensions at an individual level, and what types of justification work they engage in when experiencing tensions. Our analysis of semi-structured interview data from individuals who described themselves as Buddhist and were in charge of CSR implementations for their organizations shows that spirituality influences how they compromise among competing moral values by identifying two forms of justification work: compartmentalizing work and contextualizing work, which help spiritual practitioners minimize moral dissonance.

Using the musical score to perform: A study with Spanish flute students

2012 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 193-212 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristina Marín ◽  
Ma Puy Pérez Echeverría ◽  
Susan Hallam
Keyword(s):  
Performance Practice ◽  
Rating Scale ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Interview Data ◽  
Musical Score ◽  
Instrumental Performance ◽  
Categorical Analysis ◽  
Musical Scores ◽  
Education Levels

Musical scores constitute a key element in the development of expertise in musicians from western tonal traditions, since they act as a mediator between the performer and the music itself. Our aim was to study the role of musical scores in instrumental performance practice by analysing the process of learning a new piece of music, as well as the frequency of activities related to that score, taking account of situations when studying alone and with a teacher. Sixteen flute students at two different education levels from conservatoires in Madrid participated in an individual semi-structured interview and completed a rating-scale questionnaire. Categorical analysis from interview data revealed differences between levels in relation to the activities they stated that they engaged in when learning new pieces. Results from the questionnaires showed that although students at both levels worked on playing the musical score correctly, higher-level students seemed to pay special attention to artistic issues. The findings are discussed in relation to previous research, as well as their implications for education.

scholarly journals Using Online Self-Management Diaries for Qualitative Research

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
pp. 160940692110388
Author(s):  
Seyedehtanaz Saeidzadeh ◽  
Stephanie Gilbertson-White ◽  
Kristine L. Kwekkeboom ◽  
Faezeh Babaieasl ◽  
Aaron T. Seaman
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Cancer Survivors ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Primary Treatment ◽  
Interview Data ◽  
Self Management ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Time Data ◽  
Individual Level

Diaries are an underutilized tool in qualitative research addressing self-management. The “real time” data offered by the diaries provide an opportunity to capture details of self-management that otherwise may be missed during an interview. The purpose of this study is to describe the feasibility of using diaries for capturing self-management of post-treatment cancer survivors. The research questions are (1) how did participants engage with the diary? (2) what were participants’ evaluations of the self-management diary? and (3) how did the use of self-management diaries affect qualitative interviews and the interview data collected? We conducted a qualitative descriptive study, which comprised diary and semi-structured interview components to explore cancer survivors’ self-management activities. Participants were individuals diagnosed with head and neck or colorectal cancers at ages ≥18 years old who had completed primary treatment between 2–10 years prior. The diary instructions directed participants to document their self-management activities daily for 1 week before a scheduled interview. Data were analyzed using thematic analysis. The results showed (1) fifteen participants completed the diary and n = 9 completed all 7 days with detailed information regarding self-management. (2) A majority of the participants ( n = 13) found the diary easy to use. A few participants ( n = 3) shared individual-level challenges including preferring to document over several months, difficulty finding time to document, and difficulty putting thoughts into words. Suggestions to promote diary completion in future research included allowing participants to either document for only 1 day or allowing them to provide a summary of their weekly routine activities, sending reminders, and having more specific prompts. (3) For participants who completed the diary, we were able to customize the interview questions, which enhanced the richness of the interview data and captured greater complexity of self-management activities over time. Using diaries can promote the customization of interview questions and facilitate capturing rich interview data.

How Do Friends Manage Income Differences? The Role of Lay Concepts of Justice in the Erosion of Income-Bridging Friendships and Social Segregation

Sociology ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 51 (3) ◽  
pp. 592-607 ◽  
Author(s):  
Léna Pellandini-Simányi
Keyword(s):  
Intimate Relationships ◽  
Interview Data ◽  
Social Classes ◽  
Macro Level ◽  
Income Differences ◽  
Lay Conceptions ◽  
Social Segregation ◽  
Micro Level

When maintaining status-bridging friendships, people encounter inequalities in the context of their most intimate relationships. Using interview data on how people manage friendships with significantly poorer and richer friends in Hungary, this article explores lay discourses of inequality and justice, and the processes through which they lead to the decay (or the preservation) of income-bridging friendships at the micro level and to social segregation at the macro level. It shows, first, that different – egalitarian versus meritocratic – lay conceptions of inequality and justice translate into different everyday strategies of managing income-bridging friendships, focused on the hiding versus legitimization of inequalities, respectively. Second, it traces how both of these strategies, which are aimed at maintaining income-bridging friendships, eventually lead to their decay and to growing segregation between social classes.

The Role of Interpersonal Communication in Students’ Self-control to Avoid Substance Abuse

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 84-94
Author(s):  
Ade Tuti Turistiati ◽  
Baby Poernomo
Keyword(s):  
High School Students ◽  
Drug Abuse ◽  
Interpersonal Communication ◽  
Junior High School ◽  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Self Control ◽  
School Students ◽  
Qualitative Research Design

This study aims at answering the questions what causes many junior high school students fall into drug abuse, and what kind of treatment  must be done so that students have self-control and are not subject to drug abuse. This study employed a phenomenological approach of a qualitative research design.  In this study a semi-structured interview is used to understand how participants experienced the phenomenon. The research revealed that the interpersonal communication has a major role in students' self-control so as not to fall into drug abuse. This study contributes significantly to educational field particularly teachers in secondary schools so that it can be used as a reference to provide counseling to parents about the importance of interpersonal communication to build students’ self-control to prevent teens from falling into drug abuse.

Cultural knowledge and treatment of childhood illness

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (09) ◽  
pp. 4802
Author(s):  
Izabel Cristina Santiago Lemos ◽  
Giovana Mendes De Lacerda ◽  
Maysa de Oliveira Barbosa ◽  
Gyllyandeson de Araújo Delmondes ◽  
Patrícia Rosane Leite de Figueiredo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Traditional Knowledge ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Respiratory Infections ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Cultural Knowledge ◽  
Childhood Illness ◽  
Care Practice ◽  
Childhood Illnesses ◽  
Popular Knowledge

Traditional knowledge emerges as a relevant figure in care used by mothers and caregivers for the management of acute respiratory infections, diarrhea and anemia. To understand the meaning given to the use of traditional knowledge by mothers or caregivers for the treatment of these illnesses, their reflexes to conventional treatment, as well as discuss the role of health professionals with regard to the use of plants and animals by mothers or responsible for the management the respiratory infections; diarrhea and anemia. The research was conducted in Santo Antônio community (Barbalha - CE). Techniques as “rapport” and “Snowball” were used for data collection, and a closed questionnaire and semi-structured interview were applied. For data analysis, the Collective Subject Discourse (CSD) was used. The sample included 54 informants. There were 19 key ideas identified, which revealed an appreciation of the use of natural resources to treat the respiratory infections; diarrhea and anemia, an association between conventional and traditional medicine in the management these common childhood illnesses and the need for health professionals value the popular knowledge in assistance provided. Health professionals are encouraged to include behaviors in their care practice that allow greater contact with local cultures, being able to measure what resources are used and how they can interfere on the prescribed therapy.

Becoming the Demon Woman

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Per Faxneld
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
Silent Film ◽  
Femme Fatale ◽  
Individual Level

Chapter9 analyses individuals who, both on and off the stage, actively assumed the role of the demon woman. Three persons are considered in detail: Sarah Bernhardt, the Italian marchioness Luisa Casati, and silent film actress Theda Bara. They chose—or, in Bara’s case, were chosen—to embody the (more or less supernatural or occult) femme fatale, as constructed mostly by male authors and artists. Seemingly, they felt this was empowering or useful for commercial, subversive, or other purposes. The analysis attempts to tease out some of the implications this enactment of a disquieting stereotype had on an individual level as well as in a broader cultural context. This also applies to the unknown women who wore jewellery depicting devils, demons, or Eve—a rebellious token clearly drawing on motifs familiar from Satanic feminism.

Aesthetics

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael N. Forster
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Approach ◽  
Semantic Content ◽  
Moral Values ◽  
Science And Religion ◽  
Individual Variability ◽  
German Romanticism ◽  
Philosophy Of Literature ◽  
Aesthetic Values

Aesthetics, or the philosophy of literature and art, was one of Herder’s main focuses. By valorizing these areas of culture (in comparison with others such as science and religion) and in several other ways he prepared the ground for German Romanticism. He also established many principles of great intrinsic importance: rejecting apriorism and systematization in aesthetics in favor of an empirical, non-systematic approach; insisting that arts such as sculpture and painting express meanings and therefore require interpretation; recognizing the central role of genre not only in literature but also in such arts; perceiving the deep historical, cultural, and even individual variability of literature and art in respect of semantic content, genre, moral values, and aesthetic values, plus the major implications this variability has for both interpretation and evaluation; developing a set of radical views concerning beauty; and emphasizing the importance of literature and art as means of moral pedagogy.

Creativity in Sociocultural Systems

2019 ◽  
pp. 269-284
Author(s):  
Dean Keith Simonton
Keyword(s):  
Macro Level ◽  
Historical Overview ◽  
Creative Activity ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Short And Long Term ◽  
The Cross ◽  
Sociocultural Systems

Although psychologists typically see creativity as an individual-level event, sociologists and cultural anthropologists are more likely to view it as a sociocultural phenomenon. This phenomenon takes place at the level of relatively large and enduring collectives, such as cultures, nations, and even whole civilizations. This chapter reviews the extensive research on such macro-level creativity. The review begins with a historical overview before turning to the cross-sectional research on the creative Ortgeist, a subject that encompasses the factors that influence the relative creativity of both preliterate cultures and entire modern nations. From there the chapter turns to role of the Zeitgeist in affecting the creativity of civilizations across time—the rise and fall of creative activity. This research examines both quantitative and qualitative causes that operate both short- and long-term.

The role of the clinical pharmacist in guiding adjuvant hormonal therapy in patients with breast cancer

2021 ◽  
pp. 107815522110293
Author(s):  
Amanda V Pirolli ◽  
Tatiana Brusamarello ◽  
Stella S Everton ◽  
Vânia M S Andrzejevski
Keyword(s):  
Breast Cancer ◽  
Hormone Therapy ◽  
Hormonal Therapy ◽  
Clinical Pharmacist ◽  
Tertiary Care ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Care Hospital ◽  
Adjuvant Hormonal Therapy ◽  
Breast Cancers

Breast cancer is the most prevalent type of cancer among women, affecting about 2.1 million worldwide and is responsible for the highest number of cancer-related deaths among women. Approximately 80% of breast cancers express on the surface of hormone receptor cells, such as progesterone and estrogen. In these cases, Adjuvant Hormonal Therapy (AHT) is indicated for a period of five to ten years and consists of taking a daily oral pill. The two most used drugs in AHT are tamoxifen and Aromatase Inhibitors. One of the issues most faced by individuals who are subjected to long periods of treatment is the lack of medication adherence and, consequently, therapeutic inefficiency. It is believed that the monitoring by the pharmacist can contribute to the reduction of errors inherent to the medication, making the treatment more effective and improving the patient's quality of life. The present study aimed to know the perception of patients who live with breast cancer and who do AHT in relation to the educational performance of the clinical pharmacist. This is a qualitative, descriptive and exploratory study, carried out from March to October 2020, with 15 women undergoing treatment at the oncology unit of a tertiary-care hospital in south of Brazil. The data were obtained through a semi-structured interview using an instrument composed of two parts, one referring to the characterization of the participants and the other with the guiding question of the research: "How do you perceive the role of the pharmacist in relation to the guidelines for the use of adjuvant hormonal therapy?". The method of theoretical saturation was used to perform the sample closure and the thematic analysis was used to analyze the data. The participants were between 32 and 74 years old, seven were on tamoxifen therapy and eight on anastrozole, ten were on the first year of treatment, two on the second and three on the third year. The themes that emerged were: pharmacist-patient interaction as a safety factor in hormone therapy; role of the pharmacist in the development of strategies for self-management of the patients during hormone therapy; and, challenges for the pharmacist in relation to hormone therapy through continued guidance. It was evident that the pharmacist's educational action encouraged the participants to carry out the treatment in a more confident and assertive manner according to their particularities and beliefs.

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