Anti-Semitism in Poland: survey results and a qualitative study of Catholic communities

2014 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 8-36
Author(s):  
Marek Kucia ◽  
Marta Duch-Dyngosz ◽  
Mateusz Magierowski
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Jewish History ◽  
Survey Method ◽  
Focus Group Interviews ◽  
Anti Semitism ◽  
History Of ◽  
Survey Results ◽  
Group Contact ◽  
Group Interviews

After first outlining the notion of anti-Semitism, the predominant survey method used for researching it, and the history of the presence and the current (near) absence of Jews in Poland, this article gives the results of different surveys of various kinds of anti-Semitism in this country, including the authors’ own, and discusses the findings of their qualitative study – focus group interviews with members of three different Catholic communities from three different cities. The qualitative study confirmed the hypothesis that imagined and stereotypical rather than real Jews are the objects of modern anti-Semitism in Poland, while real historical and stereotypically perceived Jews are the objects of its religious and post-Holocaust variants. The roots of religious anti-Semitism lie in the not entirely absorbed teachings of the Catholic Church on the Jewish deicide charge. Religious anti-Semitism supports modern and post-Holocaust kinds of anti-Semitism. Modern anti-Semitism is rooted in poor education, lack of interest in the Jewish history of Poland, lack of inter-group contact, and persisting stereotypes of Jews. Among the various Catholic communities of Poles, there are considerable differences in attitudes to Jews. The qualitative study also revealed a methodological deficiency in the standard survey questions intended to measure anti-Semitism, which are sometimes understood as questions about facts rather than about opinions.

scholarly journals Pelantikan Mufti Wanita di Malaysia: Analisis Pandangan Jabatan Mufti

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-85
Author(s):  
Irwan Mohd Subri ◽  
Ahmad Wifaq Mokhtar ◽  
Azman Ab Rahman ◽  
Hishomudin Ahmad ◽  
Norzulaili Mohd Ghazali ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Focus Group ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Islamic Law ◽  
Focus Group Interviews ◽  
Written Comments ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of ◽  
Group Interviews

The appointment of a mufti amongst the women is a new issue to be discussed. Throughout the history of the institution of fatwa in Malaysia, woman has never been appointed as mufti even though there is no prohibition either in Islamic law and the laws of Malaysia which states that women cannot be appointed as mufti. This article aims to seek the views of fatwa members on the appointment of female mufti. This study is a form of qualitative study by conducting focus group interviews method on 4 persons from fatwa members namely a mufti, two deputy muftis and an officer in mufti department. Their views on the appointment of female mufti in Malaysia also obtained in form of written comments. The results from the analysis of fatwa members’ views found that women can become a mufti but the job scopes of a mufti should be defined further and adapted to the feasibility of a woman from the point of Islamic law. The appointment of female mufti also need to consider ‘uruf or custom in Malaysia. Thus, the authors concluded that a model of female mufti’s job scopes should be construct with modification from existing mufti’s jobscope if woman be appointed as a mufti in the future. Keywords: Mufti, female, analysis, department of mufti. Abstrak Pelantikan mufti daripada kalangan wanita merupakan satu isu yang baru. Sepanjang sejarah institusi fatwa di Malaysia, belum pernah wanita dilantik menjadi mufti sedangkan tiada larangan yang jelas sama ada dalam hukum syarak dan undang-undang Malaysia yang menyatakan bahawa wanita tidak boleh dilantik sebagai mufti. Artikel ini bertujuan untuk menganalisa pandangan beberapa jabatan mufti berkenaan pelantikan mufti di Malaysia daripada kalangan wanita. Kajian ini merupakan kajian berbentuk kualitatif dengan melaksanakan kaedah temubual secara kumpulan fokus terhadap 4 orang utama di jabatan mufti iaitu seorang mufti, dua orang timbalan mufti dan seorang pegawai di jabatan mufti. Pandangan mereka terhadap terhadap isu pelantikan mufti wanita di Malaysia juga diperolehi secara bertulis. Hasil analisis pandangan pakar melalui temubual dan secara bertulis mendapati bahawa wanita boleh menjadi mufti namun bidang tugas seorang mufti perlu didefinisikan dengan lebih lanjut dan disesuaikan dengan kelayakan seorang wanita dari sudut syarak. Pelantikan mufti wanita juga perlu mengambil kira uruf dan adat di Malaysia. Justeru, penulis membuat kesimpulan bahawa satu model bidang kuasa mufti wanita perlu dibina dengan pengubahsuaian bidang kuasa mufti yang sedia ada sekiranya wanita dilantik menjadi mufti pada masa akan datang. Kata kunci: Mufti, wanita, analisis, jabatan, mufti.

scholarly journals “Just Be Strong, You Will Get through It” a Qualitative Study of Young Migrants’ Experiences of Settling in New Zealand

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 1292
Author(s):  
Enoka De Jacolyn ◽  
Karolina Stasiak ◽  
Judith McCool
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Inductive Method ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Focus Group Interviews ◽  
Acculturation Process ◽  
Migrant Youth ◽  
Support Seeking ◽  
New Beginnings ◽  
Group Interviews

Migration, when it occurs during adolescence, is particularly challenging as it coincides with a myriad of other developmental and social changes. The present study set out to explore recent young migrants’ experiences of settling in New Zealand. The qualitative study aimed to identify areas of particular challenge, examples of resilience and new insights into the acculturation process. Focus group interviews were conducted with migrant youth aged 16–19 from three urban secondary schools in Auckland The interviews were audio-recorded, transcribed and analyzed using a general inductive method. Key themes centered on new beginnings, confronting new realities, acceptance, support seeking and overcoming challenges. Young migrants in this study shared similar challenges during the early post-migration period. They were often faced with additional responsibility, being caught between two cultures while struggling with communication and language. However, they were able to draw on their own self-growth, gratitude, and social connections. This study provides an insight into experiences of young migrants in New Zealand, and offers suggestions for developing culturally relevant support to foster migrant youth wellbeing.

scholarly journals A Qualitative Study on Employees’ Experiences of a Support model for Systematic Work Environment Management

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (19) ◽  
pp. 3551 ◽  
Author(s):  
Therese Hellman ◽  
Fredrik Molin ◽  
Magnus Svartengren
Keyword(s):  
Focus Group ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Work Environment ◽  
Work Groups ◽  
Comparative Method ◽  
Focus Group Interviews ◽  
Environment Management ◽  
Group Interviews ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Support Model

Background: The aim is to explore how an organisational work environment support model, the Stamina model, influences employees’ work situations and the development of sustainable work systems. Methods: It was a qualitative study with semi-structured, focus-group interviews, including 45 employees from six work groups. Eighteen focus group interviews were conducted over a period of two years. Data were analysed with constant comparative method. Results: The core category, shifting focus from an individual to an organisational perspective of work, illustrated how communication and increased understanding of one’s work tasks changed over time and contributed to deeper focus on the actual operation. These insights were implemented at different time points among the work groups during the two-year process. Conclusions: Our results indicate that working with the model engages employees in the work environment management, puts emphasis on reflections and discussions about the meaning and purpose of the operations and enables a shared platform for communication. These are important features that need to continue over time in order to create a sustainable work system. The Stamina model, thus seems to have the potential to promote productive and healthy work places.

How accessible are grocery shops for people with dementia? A qualitative study using photo documentation and focus group interviews

Dementia ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (6) ◽  
pp. 1872-1888 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Brorsson ◽  
Annika Öhman ◽  
Stefan Lundberg ◽  
Malcolm P Cutchin ◽  
Louise Nygård
Keyword(s):  
Grounded Theory ◽  
Focus Group ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Grocery Shopping ◽  
Theory Approach ◽  
Focus Group Interviews ◽  
People With Dementia ◽  
Photo Documentation ◽  
Group Interviews ◽  
Grounded Theory Approach

Background People with dementia who live in ordinary housing need to perform activities outside the home such as visiting friends, talking walks and doing grocery shopping. This article identifies and examines characteristics that may influence accessibility in the space of a grocery shop as perceived by people with dementia. Methods This is a qualitative study with a grounded theory approach. The data collection was done with two different methods. It started with photo documentation and continued with focus group interviews in combination with photo elicitation. Data from both photo documentation and focus groups were analysed according to a grounded theory approach. Results The categories “illogical arrangement”, “overload of products, information and people”, “visual illusions” and “intrusive auditory stimuli” showed characteristics in the grocery shop that influenced how accessible and usable the informants experienced a shop to be. Furthermore, personal capacities in relation to the specific characteristics of the grocery shop space had an influence on how accessible and usable the informants experienced the grocery shop to be. Capacities to find, stay focused and concentrated, meet stress, remember, interpret and discriminate sensory impressions through hearing and sight came to the fore as important. Conclusions Characteristics of both the shop and the person need to be taken into account when supporting people with dementia in grocery shopping.

scholarly journals Different forms of informal coercion in psychiatry – a qualitative study

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Veikko Pelto-Piri ◽  
Lars Kjellin ◽  
Ulrika Hylén ◽  
Emanuele Valenti ◽  
Stefan Priebe
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Focus Group ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Mental Health Professionals ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Focus Group Interviews ◽  
Informal Coercion ◽  
Group Interviews

Abstract Objectives The objective of the study was to investigate how mental health professionals describe and reflect upon different forms of informal coercion. Results In a deductive qualitative content analysis of focus group interviews, several examples of persuasion, interpersonal leverage, inducements, and threats were found. Persuasion was sometimes described as being more like a negotiation. Some participants worried about that the use of interpersonal leverage and inducements risked to pass into blackmail in some situations. In a following inductive analysis, three more categories of informal coercion was found: cheating, using a disciplinary style and referring to rules and routines. Participants also described situations of coercion from other stakeholders: relatives and other authorities than psychiatry. The results indicate that informal coercion includes forms that are not obviously arranged in a hierarchy, and that its use is complex with a variety of pathways between different forms before treatment is accepted by the patient or compulsion is imposed.

Perception of customer retail experiences in Poland

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Kacprzak ◽  
Katarzyna Dziewanowska
Keyword(s):  
Generational Differences ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Economic Transition ◽  
Transition Period ◽  
Cultural Trauma ◽  
Focus Group Interviews ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Survey Results ◽  
Group Interviews ◽  
New Perspective

Purpose Poland’s political and economic transition of 1989 resulted in a cultural trauma experienced by consumers, which has influenced their perception of the retail experience. However, younger Polish consumers can remember neither communism nor the transition period. Therefore, this study aims to investigate the differences in perception of customer experiences in retail between Poland’s pre- and post-transitional generations. Design/methodology/approach A quantitative survey is first conducted with a sample of 1,045 Polish consumers measuring their perception of utilitarian and hedonic customer experiences in retail environments. Then, five qualitative focus group interviews with 29 participants provide an in-depth understanding of the survey results. Findings The quantitative study suggests that the pre-transitional generation is focused on utilitarian experiences, whereas the post-transitional generation is attracted to hedonic experiences in retail environments. The qualitative study provides an understanding of how the utilitarian and hedonic aspects of customer retail experiences are perceived and how the cultural trauma manifests in consumers’ values. Originality/value The study provides a new perspective on the customer experience in retail contexts from a society that has undergone a cultural trauma. The findings focus on generational differences in consumer attitudes toward hedonic and utilitarian experiences in a post-transition society and expand the theory of cultural trauma into the field of customer retail experience.

scholarly journals Nurses’ Experiences of Blood Sample Collection from Children: A Qualitative Study from Swedish Paediatric Hospital Care

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henrik Hjelmgren ◽  
Britt-Marie Ygge ◽  
Björn Nordlund ◽  
Nina Andersson
Keyword(s):  
Focus Group ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Blood Sample ◽  
Hospital Care ◽  
Blood Sampling ◽  
Sample Collection ◽  
Focus Group Interviews ◽  
Paediatric Hospital ◽  
Group Interviews ◽  
Analytical Errors

Abstract Background: Blood sampling collections are necessary and important for diagnosis and treatment in paediatric hospital care. Nurses play an active role in helping the children with the blood sampling experience. Unfortunately, the blood sampling collection procedure is often affected by pre-analytical errors, leading to consequences such as delayed diagnosis, treatment and hospital stay, as well as repeated sampling. Moreover, children state that needle procedures are the worst experience of their hospital stay. Nurses working in children’s hospitals are responsible for conducting most of the needle related procedures but their experience of errors occurring during blood sample collection is unknown. The aim of this study therefore was to describe paediatric nurses’ experiences of blood sampling collections from children. Method: We used a qualitative study design with a (reflexive) thematic analysis (TA) method. Three focus group interviews were conducted, with 19 nurses from Sweden working at two different paediatric hospitals, focusing on their experiences of the blood sample collection procedure. Results: From the three focus group interviews we analysed patterns and meanings of the following themes: Paediatric blood sampling is a challenge for the nurses, Nurses’ feelings of frustration with unsuccessful samplings, Nurses believe in team work, Venous blood sampling was experienced as the best option, and Nurses’ thoughts and needs regarding skills development in paediatric blood sampling. Conclusion: The narrative results of this study illustrate that nurses working in paediatric hospital care face a big challenge in blood sampling collection from children. The nurses felt frustrated due to unsuccessful blood samplings and frequently could not understand why pre-analytical errors occurred. Nevertheless, they felt strengthened by colleagues in their team and shared feelings of responsibility to help each other with this complex procedure. The implications of this study are that paediatric hospital care needs to focus on improving guidelines for and increasing competence in blood sampling children and helping nurses to understand why samplings may be unsuccessful and how this can be avoided.

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