“As a friend, that’s the one thing I always am very conscious not to do”

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victoria Surtees
Keyword(s):  
Host Community ◽  
Western Canada ◽  
Local Identity ◽  
Exchange Students ◽  
Membership Categorization Analysis ◽  
Membership Categorization ◽  
Scant Attention ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
The One ◽  
Insight Into

Abstract The field of study abroad (SA) research has paid scant attention to the perspectives of people with whom SA students interact in the host community (e.g., Kinginger, 2012), particularly to the perspectives of peers. This paper analyzes interviews conducted with eight English-speaking peers of Japanese SA students sojourning in Western Canada. Using membership categorization analysis (MCA) (Housley & Fitzgerald, 2015), it examines how peers used category-based rationales to claim or resist responsibilities related to the SA students’ language development. Findings point to the relevance of two local identity categories: friends and exchange students. Exchange students were constructed as responsible for ‘asking for help’ while peers constructed their own role as ‘helping when asked’. Peers also treated correction as an ‘unfriendly’ practice. In addition to providing insight into peers’ understandings of their roles in students’ learning, the analyses demonstrate how interview questions can shape the participants responses in meaningful ways.

scholarly journals Dissonant roles: the experience of Maori in cancer care.

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin Dew ◽  
L Signal ◽  
C Davies ◽  
T Huia ◽  
C Hooper ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Survival Rates ◽  
Quality Of Healthcare ◽  
Sick Role ◽  
Membership Categorization Analysis ◽  
Care Access ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
Membership Categorization ◽  
Alternative Approaches ◽  
Insight Into

© 2015 Elsevier Ltd. Indigenous peoples have poorer health outcomes than their non-indigenous counterparts and this applies to cancer outcomes for Maori in Aotearoa/New Zealand. Differential access to and quality of healthcare contributes to poorer survival rates for Maori. This research provides insight into some of the mechanisms that hinder and facilitate care access. Thirty four people who had undergone cancer treatment (19Maori and 15 non-Maori) were interviewed by two Maori researchers. The analysis of the interview transcripts was informed by membership categorization analysis. This form of analysis attends to the categories that are used and the activities and characteristics associated with those categories. From this analysis it is argued that the classical patient role, or sick role, inadequately captures the kind of role that some Maori take in relation to their healthcare. Maori can also have culturally specific family (whanau) influences and a greater draw towards alternative approaches to healthcare. Dissonant roles contribute to a different experience for Maori. A better understanding of the categories and roles that are relevant to those who have cancer provides opportunities to attenuate the monocultural impacts of healthcare.

scholarly journals Dissonant roles: the experience of Maori in cancer care.

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin Dew ◽  
L Signal ◽  
C Davies ◽  
T Huia ◽  
C Hooper ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Survival Rates ◽  
Quality Of Healthcare ◽  
Sick Role ◽  
Membership Categorization Analysis ◽  
Care Access ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
Membership Categorization ◽  
Alternative Approaches ◽  
Insight Into

© 2015 Elsevier Ltd. Indigenous peoples have poorer health outcomes than their non-indigenous counterparts and this applies to cancer outcomes for Maori in Aotearoa/New Zealand. Differential access to and quality of healthcare contributes to poorer survival rates for Maori. This research provides insight into some of the mechanisms that hinder and facilitate care access. Thirty four people who had undergone cancer treatment (19Maori and 15 non-Maori) were interviewed by two Maori researchers. The analysis of the interview transcripts was informed by membership categorization analysis. This form of analysis attends to the categories that are used and the activities and characteristics associated with those categories. From this analysis it is argued that the classical patient role, or sick role, inadequately captures the kind of role that some Maori take in relation to their healthcare. Maori can also have culturally specific family (whanau) influences and a greater draw towards alternative approaches to healthcare. Dissonant roles contribute to a different experience for Maori. A better understanding of the categories and roles that are relevant to those who have cancer provides opportunities to attenuate the monocultural impacts of healthcare.

Membership categorization analysis of racism in an online discussion among neighbors

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Natasha Shrikant
Keyword(s):  
Language Use ◽  
Online Discussion ◽  
Reported Speech ◽  
Racially Diverse ◽  
Membership Categorization Analysis ◽  
Online Interactions ◽  
Discursive Strategies ◽  
Membership Categorization ◽  
Diverse Groups ◽  
Insight Into

Abstract This article addresses relationships between micro and macro aspects of language use through analyzing online interactions among neighbors discussing racism in their neighborhood. Membership categorization analysis supplemented with critical theory highlights how the ways neighbors name, characterize, and position categories orients to their rhetorical and identity goals (to construct reasonable stances, to seem not racist), which in turn motivates alignment with critical, folk, or colorblind ideologies of racism. Thus, ideologies do not determine interactional choices participants make, but rather are constituted by those choices. Findings also illustrate how discursive strategies such as reported speech, absurdity, three-part lists, and metadiscourse support ways that neighbors organize categories and achieve their aims. Additional contributions to this study include demonstrating the utility of membership categorization analysis for analyzing discourses of racism and providing practical insight into how racially diverse groups can have productive conversations about racism. (Racism, ideology, membership categorization analysis)*

“I am an adult now”

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 423-451 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew T. Prior
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
North America ◽  
Childhood Abuse ◽  
Narrative Research ◽  
Membership Categorization Analysis ◽  
Immigrant Identity ◽  
Membership Categorization ◽  
Research Interview ◽  
Young Old ◽  
Insight Into

Abstract This narrative-based study employs membership categorization analysis to address the following question: How does a victim of abuse formulate and manage various categories and related descriptive details to story past trauma in ways that bring about new endings or insights in the present? Drawing on data taken from a larger research project on immigrant identity, the analysis centers on a Cambodian-Vietnamese man’s narrative of childhood abuse and adulthood confrontation. It shows how the teller, by recalibrating person (e.g., ‘father-son’, ‘victim-abuser’), age (e.g., ‘young-old’), place (e.g., ‘North America-Vietnam’), and other categorial resources, re-stories people and events and their psycho-social and moral inferences and outcomes. By tracing how this narrative teller reconstitutes himself from ‘victim’ to ‘hero’, this study offers insight into how a local interactional event (e.g., a research interview) may be transformed into a therapeutic exchange. Insights for therapeutic (re)storying, narrative research, and second language (L2) research are discussed.

Southeast Asia—Some Anthropological Aspects

1951 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-15
Author(s):  
Justus van der Kroef
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Political Theory ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Additional Insight ◽  
The Past ◽  
Two Factors ◽  
Scant Attention ◽  
The One ◽  
Insight Into

The political unrest manifest in Southeast Asia today is primarily due to two factors. On the one hand, it is the result of a collision between the forces of modern nationalism and social and economic equalitarianism, and on the other, to the inertia of a traditional indigenous ethos, often buttressed by a long period of colonial domination. Studies of the specific political, socio-economic or ethnic problems that contribute to instability (for example the Viet Minh front in Indo-China, the Hukbalahap movement in the Philippines, the Karen insurrection in Burma, or the sectional strife and communalism in Indonesia) give only scant attention to certain significant anthropological features of modern Southeast Asia. Yet these features bear the closest relationship to the tenor of extremism, the character of and susceptibility to Marxist propaganda (in conjunction with the development of nationalism), and to the demand for renovation of the existing economic order now prevailing in this area. Recognition of dominant cultural values and general anthropological conditions in the solving of specific contemporary problems affords additional insight into the popular needs and political motivations of Southeast Asia, an area which has suffered from scholarly neglect. The dangers of such an anthropological approach are ever imminent in a study of distinct political problems. But a too rigid, two-dimensional adherence to Western political theory or surface economic analysis seems equally fallacious and has, in the past, often led to facile comparisons and generalizations, based on selective or inadequate factual foundations.

When Romania met the Cohesion Policy. Regional governance in-between national conventions and European ideals

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 127-148 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandru Brad
Keyword(s):  
Regional Policy ◽  
Development Planning ◽  
Regional Governance ◽  
Theoretical Ground ◽  
Cohesion Policy ◽  
Redistributive Policy ◽  
Policy Context ◽  
Core Areas ◽  
The One ◽  
Insight Into

This article is about the practice of territorial governance emerging at the junction of European Union-sanctioned ideals and Romanian development-planning traditions. On the one hand, the European agenda emphasises a smart, inclusive, sustainable model of economic growth. However, the persisting centralised workings of the Romanian state significantly alters the scope of regional interventions. As such, while core cities grew their economies swiftly, peripheral places were left in an unrelenting stagnation. My first aim is to provide a theoretical ground for a practicecentred approach to understanding territorial governance. Second, by drawing on Romania’s regional policy context as an example, I give an insight into how practices of partnership and competition fare in a context of ongoing territorial polarisation. I conclude by emphasising the need for a regional redistributive policy mechanism, one which should enable and assist non-core areas to access capacities for defining and implementing development projects.

Marx, Silk Poems, and the Pretext of Qualities

2020 ◽  
Vol 151 (1) ◽  
pp. 96-126
Author(s):  
Kathryn Crim
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Use Value ◽  
Working Day ◽  
The One ◽  
Insight Into

Karl Marx’s comments on silk manufacture in “The Working Day” chapter of Capital, volume 1, demonstrate how “quality”—usually associated with “use value”—has been mobilized by capital to naturalize industrialized labor. Putting his insight into conversation with a recent multimedia poetic project, Jen Bervin’s Silk Poems (2016–17), this essay examines the homology between, on the one hand, poetry’s avowed task of fitting form to content and, on the other, the ideology of labor that fits specific bodies to certain materials and tasks.

“Are You Religious or are You Saved?”

2012 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-63
Author(s):  
Stephen Pihlaja
Keyword(s):  
Multimodal Approach ◽  
Membership Categorization Analysis ◽  
Evangelical Christian ◽  
Video Images ◽  
User Comments ◽  
Membership Categorization ◽  
Longitudinal Observation

Using membership categorization analysis, this article investigates membership categories in a YouTube video made by an Evangelical Christian in which he differentiates between “saved” and “religious” users. Analysis will take a discourse-centred, multimodal approach grounded in longitudinal observation, using analysis of video discourse to instruct analysis of video images and user comments. Findings will show that categorization is accomplished by using recognized categories with ambiguous descriptions of category-bound activities that include metaphors, such as “being hungry for God” and not “hanging out with atheists.” These categories are recognized by commenters on the video, but the category bound activities applied to the category members are disputed. Findings will also show that scriptural reference plays an important role in categorization in the video, drawing on direct Bible quotes as well as paraphrases of key passages.

Relational Chase Procedures Interpreted as Resolution with Paramodulation1

1991 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 123-138
Author(s):  
Joachim Biskup ◽  
Bernhard Convent
Keyword(s):  
Alternative Interpretation ◽  
Order Logic ◽  
First Order Logic ◽  
Inference Problem ◽  
First Order ◽  
Inference Problems ◽  
The One ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Theoretical Foundations ◽  
Insight Into

In this paper the relationship between dependency theory and first-order logic is explored in order to show how relational chase procedures (i.e., algorithms to decide inference problems for dependencies) can be interpreted as clever implementations of well known refutation procedures of first-order logic with resolution and paramodulation. On the one hand this alternative interpretation provides a deeper insight into the theoretical foundations of chase procedures, whereas on the other hand it makes available an already well established theory with a great amount of known results and techniques to be used for further investigations of the inference problem for dependencies. Our presentation is a detailed and careful elaboration of an idea formerly outlined by Grant and Jacobs which up to now seems to be disregarded by the database community although it definitely deserves more attention.

Undoing the Legal Capacities of a Military Object: A Case Study on the (In)Visibility of Civilians

2017 ◽  
Vol 42 (02) ◽  
pp. 377-397 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martina Kolanoski
Keyword(s):  
Armed Conflicts ◽  
Membership Categorization Analysis ◽  
Sequential Approach ◽  
Object A ◽  
Legal Documents ◽  
Membership Categorization ◽  
Field Notes ◽  
Civil Proceeding ◽  
The Military

International law dictates that actors in armed conflicts must distinguish between combatants and civilians. But how do legal actors assess the legality of a military operation after the fact? I analyze a civil proceeding for compensation by victims of a German-led airstrike in Afghanistan. The court treated military video as key evidence. I show how lawyers, judges, and expert witnesses categorized those involved by asking what a “military viewer” would make of the pictures. During the hearing, they avoided the categories of combatants/civilians; the military object resisted legal coding. I examine the decision in its procedural context, using ethnographic field notes and legal documents. I combine two ethnomethodological analytics: a trans-sequential approach and membership categorization analysis. I show the value of this combination for the sociological analysis of legal practice. I also propose that legal practitioners should use this approach to assess military viewing as a concerted, situated activity.

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