Introduction

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-25
Author(s):  
Sylvia Sierra
Keyword(s):  
Identity Construction ◽  
Field Work ◽  
Key Concepts

This introductory chapter, “Intertextual Media References in Millennial Friend Discourse,” begins with a brief “field work narrative,” which includes an explanation of how the author began to record conversations among Millennials in their late twenties for this study, the crystallization of the topic, and the events that occurred before and afterwards that would make their way into the recorded conversations, in which Millennial friends use media references to navigate awkward or difficult moments in talk. Included in this chapter is the purpose of the book, followed by a brief review of the key concepts: knowledge (intertextuality and epistemics), framing, and identity construction. The chapter concludes with an explanation of the interactional sociolinguistic methodology and conversational data and a preview of each following chapter.

What Are Networks for Social Impact?

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-41
Author(s):  
Michelle Shumate ◽  
Katherine R. Cooper
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Network Governance ◽  
Relationship Type ◽  
Systems Perspective ◽  
Key Concepts

This introductory chapter describes the key concepts and approaches used throughout the rest of the book. First, it defines social impact and distinguishes it from individual, organizational, and network outcomes. Second, it defines networks as arrangements of organizations characterized by autonomy and interdependence. Further, the chapter unpacks the dimensions of networks for social impact, including organizational composition, number of organizations, relationship type, network governance, type of social impact, and longevity. Third, the chapter introduces the systems perspective and axioms used throughout the book, contrasting it with configurational and process approaches. Finally, it describes the research and case studies that are foundational to the claims of the book.

Intimate Partner Violence outside the Binary

Transgressed ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 1-23
Author(s):  
Xavier L. Guadalupe-Diaz
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Intimate Partner Violence ◽  
Social Problem ◽  
Partner Violence ◽  
The United States ◽  
Intimate Partner ◽  
Gender Binary ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
Theoretical Overview

The introductory chapter situates the discussion of intimate partner violence within its current rigidly gendered framework. The chapter introduces the reader to the historical backdrop of how we have come to acknowledge IPV as a social problem and how dominant forms of thinking within the genderist and heteronormative frameworks have marginalized those who exist outside the gender binary. This chapter presents a theoretical overview of the state of IPV in the United States and introduces the key concepts of the gender binary, heteronormativity, genderism, and transphobia as they relate to understanding the survivors’ stories. Finally, the first chapter introduces the study that the book is based on and provides a summary of the study design and a table of participants.

Introduction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tom Adam Davies
Keyword(s):  
African Americans ◽  
Black Power ◽  
Public Policies ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Community Activism ◽  
War On Poverty ◽  
Urban Crisis ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
Key Concepts

This introductory chapter briefly captures the major themes covered in this book. It explores three key concepts regarding Black Power: how the ideas, tactics, and language readily associated with Black Power permeated the community activism, and everyday lives, of ordinary African Americans at the local level; how and why mainstream politicians and institutions exploited Black Power's flexibility as an ideology and organizing tool in their efforts to guide the course of black advancement; and the subsequent impact and meaning of those efforts. The chapter examines how public policies intended to engage, modify, and sublimate the Black Power impulse evolved as a response not only to the deepening urban crisis and growing black radicalism but also to the Johnson administration's troubled War on Poverty.

Working in a School Setting

2021 ◽  
pp. 3-12
Author(s):  
Patrick Mulkern ◽  
Cindy Reide Combs ◽  
Jacqueline Cordova-Rodriguez ◽  
Susan Stone
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Public School ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
School Setting ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
School Social Workers ◽  
New School ◽  
The Public ◽  
Key Concepts

The introductory chapter sets the stage for understanding the roles, responsibilities, and all other relevant information necessary for the success of school social workers within the public school setting. The chapter begins with a review of the key concepts related to the practice of school social work. It also discusses enduring practice tensions, policy domains that influence practice, seven domains of knowledge, values, and skills relevant to the success of new school social workers. The roles of school social workers and the factors that shape these roles are examined. Finally, the chapter discusses the importance and use of student and school assessments.

scholarly journals A Journey to the West. Observations on the Chinese Migration to Italy

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valentina Pedone
Keyword(s):  
Identity Construction ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Scientific Literature ◽  
The West ◽  
Migration Flow ◽  
Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽  
Chinese Migrants ◽  
Chinese Migration ◽  
Chinese Trade

This volume presents the results of a number of studies about Chinese migration to Italy carried out between 2003 and 2013. The data discussed in the different chapters were collected mostly through ethnographic fieldwork carried out both in China and in Italy. Covered topics include: the organization of Chinese trade activities in Italy, the perception of Italy as a country of migration, identity construction among Italian-born Chinese, language use among Chinese migrants in Italy and literary works written by Chinese in Italy. In addition to the chapters devoted to the discussion of data gathered from fieldwork, an introductory chapter based on a review of the scientific literature is offered in order to provide the reader with a basic background about the characteristics of a migration flow that has lasted nearly a century.

The Case for Shared Community Stories

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Andrea Wenzel
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Civic Participation ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Community Groups ◽  
Local Media ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
Communication Infrastructure Theory ◽  
Solutions Journalism ◽  
Local News Media

This introductory chapter offers an overview of key concepts and the book’s argument for a model of community-centered journalism to build trust between local news media and communities. It outlines how the book conceptualizes trust (looking at factors including perceived representation and motives), solutions journalism (reporting focused on responses to social problems), and engaged journalism (practices that involve community members in journalistic production). It then sets out key questions tackled by other portions of the book, including how place-based interventions using engaged and solutions journalism practices can present boundary challenges to journalism norms and influence what communication infrastructure theory (CIT) calls community “storytelling networks”—the links between residents, community groups, and local media which can be indicators of an area’s communication health and predictors of civic participation. Finally, it offers an outline of the chapters that follow.

Introduction, Concepts and Definitions

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raphaela Stadler
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Knowledge Based Economy ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Organisational Level ◽  
Over Time

During the late 1990s and early 2000s, the belief in a knowledge-based economy has grown; not just amongst academics, but also policy makers, consultants and managers. Nonaka and Takeuchi’s (1995) work The Knowledge Creating Company was among the first to recognise that organisations that manage their knowledge efficiently, have a competitive advantage over organisations that do not succeed in doing so. Based on this understanding, a number of knowledge management frameworks and models have emerged which highlight how to improve the identification, creation, transfer, and documentation of knowledge. These will be discussed further in Chapter 3. This introductory chapter starts with a definition of key concepts and terms, including data, information and knowledge; explicit and tacit knowledge; and the three levels of where knowledge resides (the individual, group, and organisational level). It also briefly explains how processes of managing knowledge at an organisational level can help organisations learn over time, create an organisational memory, and build on what has or has not worked in the past. The concept of knowledge management is thus linked to organisational learning and innovation (Argyris & Schoen, 1978; Gorelick et al., 2004; Senge, 2006). The final section of the chapter provides a range of knowledge management definitions and an overview of the ‘three generations’ of knowledge management.

Introduction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mike Rayner ◽  
Kremlin Wickramasinghe ◽  
Julianne Williams ◽  
Karen McColl ◽  
Shanthi Mendis
Keyword(s):  
Population Level ◽  
Communicable Diseases ◽  
Policy Cycle ◽  
Non Communicable Diseases ◽  
Key Concepts

This is a short chapter which describes the aims and the terminology of this book. This introductory chapter explains how the book is structured into five sections and which key concepts are included. It introduces the policy cycle, principles of prevention, and population-level approaches to prevention of non-communicable diseases (NCDs). It is important to recognize that it is neither feasible nor desirable to devote all resources to prevention. This chapter shows that there are considerable areas of overlap and prevention; cure and care can be seen to exist on a continuum of activities that are needed to successfully tackle any disease, including NCDs.

Choral Pedagogy and the Construction of Identity

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liz Garnett
Keyword(s):  
Identity Construction ◽  
Cultural Environment ◽  
Social Categories ◽  
Musical Identity ◽  
Cultural Discourses ◽  
Choral Pedagogy ◽  
The Third ◽  
Construction Of Identity ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter examines how theories of identity construction can usefully inform choral praxis. It starts with an outline of key concepts in theories of identity and how they can help us understand the processes by which choirs inculcate their members into their particular choral culture. It then examines three areas particularly salient for the choral leader. The first is the phenomenon of “non-singers”: how they emerge as a by-product of western cultural discourses, and what can be done to rehabilitate them. The second is the interpenetration of social and musical identity categories: how elements we may think of as “purely” musical are constructed in terms of wider social categories, including the habitus of the cultural environment, and the implications for how we frame the choral techniques we use. The third is the relationship between individual and group: how an ensemble establishes a corporate, supra-personal identity, and ways to facilitate this.

Introduction

Dear China ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Gregor Benton ◽  
Hong Liu
Keyword(s):  
Modern Society ◽  
Chinese History ◽  
Late Qing ◽  
Post Offices ◽  
Modern Chinese ◽  
Modern Chinese History ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
Chinese Overseas ◽  
The Republic

This introductory chapter provides a detailed account of the origins of qiaopi and their significance for Chinese international migration and modern Chinese history. Emigrants’ letters and remittances home were an important link between China and Chinese overseas, who were tied—emotionally, socially, and economically—with a China in transition to a modern society and state. During the period of the qiaopi trade, from the late Qing and the Republic through to the People’s Republic, modern mechanisms and institutions of finance and communication such as banks and post offices became a cornerstone of the modern Chinese state, and the qiaopi trade in South China played a part in that process. This chapter also introduces key concepts, terminologies, and usages concerning qiaopi and qiaopi trade.

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