scholarly journals Sensory sociological phenomenology, somatic learning and ‘lived’ temperature in competitive pool swimming

2020 ◽  
pp. 003802612091514
Author(s):  
Gareth McNarry ◽  
Jacquelyn Allen-Collinson ◽  
Adam B. Evans
Keyword(s):  
Aquatic Environment ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
The Senses ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Somatic Learning ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Competitive Swimmers

In this article, we address an existing lacuna in the sociology of the senses, by employing sociological phenomenology to illuminate the under-researched sense of temperature, as lived by a social group for whom water temperature is particularly salient: competitive pool swimmers. The research contributes to a developing ‘sensory sociology’ that highlights the importance of the socio-cultural framing of the senses and ‘sensory work’, but where there remains a dearth of sociological exploration into senses extending beyond the ‘classic five’ sensorium. Drawing on data from a three-year ethnographic study of competitive swimmers in the UK, our analysis explores the rich sensuousities of swimming, and highlights the role of temperature as fundamentally affecting the affordances offered by the aquatic environment. The article contributes original theoretical perspectives to the sociology of the senses and of sport in addressing the ways in which social actors in the aquatic environment interact, both intersubjectively and intercorporeally, as thermal beings.

scholarly journals Social Construction of Language Learners: A Bakhtinian Analysis of EFL Learners’ Subjectivity in the Multilingual Context of Pakistan

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-35
Author(s):  
Imdad Ullah Khan ◽  
Ayesha Perveen ◽  
Akifa Imtiaz
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Language Learners ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
English Learning ◽  
Learning Trajectories ◽  
Language Policies ◽  
Efl Learners ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Family Language

ESL/EFL scholarship has traditionally adopted a cognitivist andpsychoanalytical approach towards learning a language based on the premisethat languages are abstract unitary systems. In recent decades, however, therehas been a greater emphasis on the role of social, cultural, andautobiographical factors in language learning. Bakhtin’s socially-orientedphilosophy of language offers a useful lens to view EFL learning as a situatedactivity and EFL learners as multidimensional social actors who configuretheir English learning trajectories within broader social and institutionalfactors. Based on a broader ethnographic study, analysis in this article takes aBakhtinian perspective to understand how multilingual EFL learners innorthern Pakistan construct their identity at the intersection of social,domestic, and future-oriented factors. The analysis shows that locallanguages, school, and family language policies, and imagined Englishspeaking communities have significant implications for learners' orientationand motivation towards learning EFL. The article suggests that responding tothe social turn in applied linguistics, EFL classroom, and pedagogy inPakistan needs to broaden its purview to support individual learnerseffectively negotiate their complex learning trajectories and build empoweringlearner identities.

scholarly journals Receptionists’ role in new approaches to consultations in primary care: a focused ethnographic study

2018 ◽  
Vol 68 (672) ◽  
pp. e478-e486 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heather Dawn Brant ◽  
Helen Atherton ◽  
Annemieke Bikker ◽  
Tania Porqueddu ◽  
Chris Salisbury ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Primary Care ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
New Approaches ◽  
General Practices ◽  
Alternative Approaches ◽  
The Uk

BackgroundThe receptionist is pivotal to the smooth running of general practice in the UK, communicating with patients and booking appointments.AimThe authors aimed to explore the role of the receptionist in the implementation of new approaches to consultations in primary care.Design and settingThe authors conducted a team-based focused ethnography. Three researchers observed eight general practices across England and Scotland between June 2015 and May 2016.MethodInterviews were conducted with 39 patients and 45 staff in the practices, all of which had adopted one or more methods (telephone, email, e-consultation, or internet video) for providing an alternative to face-to-face consultation.ResultsReceptionists have a key role in facilitating patient awareness regarding new approaches to consultations in primary care, while at the same time ensuring that patients receive a consultation appropriate to their needs. In this study, receptionists’ involvement in implementation and planning for the introduction of alternative approaches to face-to-face consultations was minimal, despite the expectation that they would be involved in delivery.ConclusionA shared understanding within practices of the potential difficulties and extra work that might ensue for reception staff was lacking. This might contribute to the low uptake by patients of potentially important innovations in service delivery. Involvement of the wider practice team in planning and piloting changes, supporting team members through service reconfiguration, and providing an opportunity to discuss and contribute to modifications of any new system would ensure that reception staff are suitably prepared to support the introduction of a new approach to consultations.

scholarly journals Correcting the Underestimation of Capital Incomes in Inequality Indicators: with an Application to the UK, 1997–2016

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tahnee Christelle Ooms
Keyword(s):  
Estimation Error ◽  
Household Survey ◽  
Capital Income ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Adjusted Indicators ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Personal Incomes

AbstractThis paper proposes a methodological framework to better incorporate non-labour income into existing top adjusted indicators of economic inequality. Surveys are known to miss the rich, receiving disproportionate amounts of capital income. There has been a surge in top harmonisation methodologies, which complement survey-based estimates of inequality with information from the rich reported in tax administrative sources. These harmonisation methods are found to have a significant upward effect on inequality indicators. This analysis uses the Family Resources Survey (household survey) and the Survey of Personal Incomes (tax data) to explore the extent to which existing UK harmonisation methodology corrects for capital income. First, this analysis finds that the FRS has experienced a significant decline in capital income measurement over the past 20 years (1997–2016), taking reported levels of capital income in the SPI as benchmark. Second, the top harmonisation methodology is found to only partially correct for this decline. Third, in response, the paper proposes a multi-step capital income correction to allocate the remaining capital income missing from top adjusted inequality indicators. The adjustment accounts for both under-coverage and under-estimation error of capital income across the income distribution. Poor measurement of capital incomes in household surveys has long been acknowledged but attempts to correct for this have remained few. This paper highlights the need for decomposable top adjusted indicators of inequality to give a better picture of the role of capital incomes in driving inequality. Surveys are traditionally used to produce inequality indicators used by governments, statistical offices and policy makers. The policy implication is that income missing from indicators structurally falls out of inequality debates, which has arguably been the case for capital incomes.

scholarly journals ‘Doing’ competitive swimming: Exploring the skilled practices of the competitive swimming lifeworld

2020 ◽  
pp. 101269021989493 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gareth McNarry ◽  
Jacquelyn Allen-Collinson ◽  
Adam B Evans
Keyword(s):  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Competitive Swimming ◽  
Theoretical Literature ◽  
Cultural Domain ◽  
Body Techniques ◽  
Sporting Activities ◽  
Analyse Data ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Competitive Swimmers ◽  
Over Time

Despite a developing literature on various facets of sporting embodiment, there is currently a research lacuna with regard to in-depth analyses of actually ‘doing’ sporting activities within specific physical cultures. In this article, we address that gap by drawing on a developing theoretical literature in sociological phenomenology to investigate a particular physical–cultural domain. Here, we present and analyse data from an ethnographic study of competitive swimmers undertaken in the UK. Responding to calls to explore the domain of ‘body pedagogics’, we investigate the embodied work involved in the skilled practice of ‘doing’ and learning how to ‘do’ competitive swimming. This embodied work plays a key part in the swimmers’ ability to inhabit the competitive swimming lifeworld. In the analysis, we highlight how the acquisition and ‘habituation’ of these body techniques and skilled behaviours are not achieved simply through the repetitive rehearsal of coherent movements over time. These processes are complex, demanding practical experimentation, discovery and the ability to adapt constantly to changes in the environment and the swimmer’s own corporeality.

scholarly journals Institutionalizing Women’s Enterprise Policy: A Legitimacy-Based Perspective

2018 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 553-581 ◽  
Author(s):  
Norin Arshed ◽  
Dominic Chalmers ◽  
Russell Matthews
Keyword(s):  
Policy Process ◽  
Multilevel Model ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Enterprise Policy

Despite efforts to increase the quantity and quality of women-owned businesses, enterprise policy has enjoyed only modest success. This article explores the role of legitimacy in these outcomes by examining how and when individual stakeholders evaluate and then influence the legitimacy of women’s enterprise policy. We draw on 45 interviews with actors in the UK enterprise policy ecosystem and an ethnographic study of the policy process. We present a multilevel model of two opposing legitimacy processes: a legitimacy repair loop and a delegitimizing loop. In doing so, we provide a novel perspective on policy institutionalizing.

scholarly journals Construction of Baloch Ethnic Identity through Ethnolinguistic Awareness and Cultural Dynamics

2020 ◽  
Vol V (I) ◽  
pp. 84-91
Author(s):  
Fouzia Rehman Khan ◽  
Mehwish Malghani ◽  
Shazia Ayaz
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Identity ◽  
Mother Tongue ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Cultural Dynamics ◽  
Group Members ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Group Interviews ◽  
Rich Data

The paper is based on a qualitative ethnographic study to explore the role of ethnolinguistic awareness and cultural dynamics in the construction of the ethnic identity of Baloch. The data was collected through focussed group interviews of twenty participants who were sampled through non-random criterion sampling and they belonged to at least thirteen different tribes of Baloch. The study was conducted within the theoretical perspective of Smolicz Core Value. The analysis of the rich data found the group members to be consciously self-aware of their distinct ethnic identity and more so in the present political situation of the province. The group members were also found to express their ethnicity through cultural dynamics such as common traditional dress and Balochi as the group language even though Balochi was not the mother tongue of all the participants as they are an ethnic group that speaks at least four different languages.

scholarly journals Authenticity and the interview: a positive response to a radical critique

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (6) ◽  
pp. 619-634 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emilie Morwenna Whitaker ◽  
Paul Atkinson
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Single Case ◽  
Formal Analysis ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Critical Commentary ◽  
Radical Critique ◽  
The Social ◽  
Authentic Voice ◽  
The Uk

We respond to recent discussions of the interview, and the ‘radical critique’ of interviewing, as reiterated in publications by Silverman and Hammersley. Reviewing and extending the critical commentary on the social life of the interview and its implications for qualitative research, we endorse criticism of the Romantic view of the informant as a speaking subject, arguing that the interview does not give access to the interiority or private emotions of social actors. We focus especially on the search for the ‘authentic’ voice of experience and feeling, arguing that the expression of authenticity is performative, and that such interviews need to be analysed for their performative features. The biographical work of the interview demands close, formal analysis, and not mere celebration. The argument is illustrated with a single case-study, derived from an ethnographic study of a social-work service in the UK. We suggest that it is possible to derive constructive responses to the radical critique, by adopting an analytic stance towards respondents’ biographical work, as expressed through extended, qualitative interviewing. The speaker’s use of positioning rhetoric is discussed.

scholarly journals Diamond Light Source: status and perspectives

2015 ◽  
Vol 373 (2036) ◽  
pp. 20130161 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerhard Materlik ◽  
Trevor Rayment ◽  
David I. Stuart
Keyword(s):  
Synchrotron Radiation ◽  
Light Source ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
10Th Anniversary ◽  
Rich Diversity ◽  
User Facility ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The Uk

Diamond Light Source, a third-generation synchrotron radiation (SR) facility in the UK, celebrated its 10th anniversary in 2012. A private limited company was set up in April 2002 to plan, construct and operate the new user-oriented SR facility, called in brief Diamond. It succeeded the Synchrotron Radiation Source in Daresbury, a second-generation synchrotron that opened in 1980 as the world's first dedicated X-ray-providing facility, closing finally in 2008, by which time Diamond's accelerators and first beamlines were operating and user experiments were under way. This theme issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A gives some examples of the rich diversity of research done in the initial five years, with some glimpses of activity up to 2014. Speakers at the 10 year anniversary symposium were drawn from a small number of major thematic areas and each theme was elaborated by a few speakers whose contributions were placed into a broader context by a leading member of the UK academic community in the role of rapporteur. This introduction gives a summary of the design choices and strategic planning of Diamond as a coherent user facility, a snapshot of its present status and some consideration of future perspectives.

Adoption of Smart TV in UK and the Moderating Role of Viewer Classification

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
Roya Gholami ◽  
Farid Shirazi ◽  
Daniel Arnold
Keyword(s):  
Mass Communication ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
It Adoption ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Segmentation Strategy ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
Smart Tv ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Adoption Intention

The UK TV market is a dynamic and rapidly evolving industry. This article investigates the factors affecting adoption intention of Smart TV in UK, and whether the customer's perception varies according to their viewing behavior and motivation. The proposed research model is empirically verified through an online survey of early adopters. Previous research has highlighted the gap in Smart TV research which is the consumer behavior perspective. The current study addresses this gap by integrating different theoretical perspectives from IT adoption and mass communication literature, providing a better explanation of Smart TV adoption and viewing behavior by end users. The findings also provide practical insight for marketers and policymakers of Smart TV devices and content providers in order to develop successful segmentation strategy.

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