When Caring and Surveillance Technology Meet

2010 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 404-432 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth Brown ◽  
Marek Korczynski
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Care Work ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Important Research ◽  
Discretionary Effort ◽  
Quantitative And Qualitative Research ◽  
Surveillance Technology ◽  
The Social ◽  
Research Gap

There is an important research gap regarding how the service triangle in care work is affected by the use of surveillance technology. This article addresses this gap by reporting quantitative and qualitative research undertaken in three U.K. local government home care organizations. Through regression analysis, it is found that discretionary effort is positively related, and organizational commitment negatively related, to information technology as a controlling force and management hindering the delivery of client services. The qualitative research triangulates these findings and offers complementarity by showing that workers continued to give discretionary effort in order to maintain the delivery of meaningful care to clients, even as they lowered their commitment to the organization. The conclusion draws out the implications of these findings for understanding of the social relations of the service triangle in contemporary society.

Intellectual Property and Behavioural Studies: Methodological Perspectives

2021 ◽  
pp. 570-585
Author(s):  
Elfriede Penz ◽  
Eva Hofmann
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Institutional Environment ◽  
Legal Aspect ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Computer Assisted ◽  
Expert Interviews ◽  
Quantitative And Qualitative Research ◽  
The Social ◽  
Research Questions

Intellectual property (IP) infringement is widely researched in behavioural studies with manifold quantitative and qualitative research. The current chapter focuses on qualitative research and gives an introduction to how data from expert interviews and websites of relevant stakeholders can be analysed to understand and interpret IP infringement applying triangulation. This chapter selects the comprehensive perspective of the entire business and institutional environment in an international context, focusing on the social-cultural, legal, economic, political, and technological framework in different countries, which determines business activities. It answers three research questions on past, current, and future activities regarding IP with data from forty-six organizations (expert interviews, website analyses). The analysis of the data with Computer Assisted/Aided Qualitative Data AnalysiS (CAQDAS) follows four steps: (1) organizing the material; (2) coding; (3) searching; and (4) modelling and interpreting. The analysis revealed that first, there were several activities regarding IP that have been applied by different stakeholders, second, the present status of IP from the point of view of the different stakeholders has a strong legal aspect, and third, a cross-national collaboration for enforcement and harmonizing legislation is seen important for the future of IP specifically by governmental bodies. Overall, these findings allow for recommendations not only for legislators but also for industry and organizations lobbying for more lenient IP rights leading to a bright future for IP.

scholarly journals Everyday Aesthetics, Locality and Racialisation

2020 ◽  
pp. 174997552094942
Author(s):  
Andrew Smith ◽  
Bridget Byrne ◽  
Lindsey Garratt ◽  
Bethan Harries
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Aesthetic Responses ◽  
Order And Disorder ◽  
The Social ◽  
Everyday Aesthetics ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Local Space ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Made In

In this essay we reflect on the relationship between aesthetic practices and racialised conceptions of belonging. In particular, we explore attributions of beauty and ugliness, order and disorder, as these are made in relation to local space, and we consider how these attributions can be linked to proprietorial claims about who is welcome in those spaces. Our focus is thus on the everyday aesthetics of location: the ways in which aesthetic judgements are tied to the inhabitation of space and, in this case, the exclusionary potential of ‘ways of looking’ at such spaces and at the social relations which exist within them. Drawing on data from qualitative research in two adjoining neighbourhoods in Glasgow’s Southside, we make three analytical contributions. First, we consider the racialising potential of everyday aesthetic responses to local space. Second, we explore the ways in which local social relations themselves can be aesthetically interpreted. Third, we reflect on forms of everyday aesthetic resistance.

Mobility in the Margins

Transfers ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 62-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gopa Samanta ◽  
Sumita Roy
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Status ◽  
Informal Economy ◽  
The State ◽  
Quantitative And Qualitative Research ◽  
The Social ◽  
Marginal Status ◽  
Kolkata City

This article examines the marginal mobilities of hand-pulled rickshaws and rickshaw-pullers in Kolkata, India. It traces the politics of rickshaw mobilities, showing how debates about modernity and the informal economy frequently overshadow the experience of the marginalized community of hand-rickshaw pullers. It shows how the hand-pulled rickshaw rarely becomes the focus of research or debate because of its marginal status—technologically (being more primitive than the cycle rickshaw); geographically (operating only in Kolkata city); and in terms of the social status of the operators (the majority being Bihari migrants in Kolkata). Drawing upon both quantitative and qualitative research, this study focuses on the backgrounds of the rickshaw-pullers, their strategies for earning livelihoods, the role of social networks in their life and work, and their perceptions of the profession—including their views of the state government's policy of seeking to abolish hand-pulled rickshaws. The article concludes by addressing the question of subalternity.

scholarly journals Autonomy and Control when Working with Humans—A Reflection on Sociotechnical Concepts

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nina Amble
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Support Point ◽  
Care Work ◽  
Service Work ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Mutual Support ◽  
Sociotechnical System ◽  
The Social ◽  
Health Quality ◽  
And Control

The sociotechnical concepts of responsible autonomy and to be in control were originally developed from men’s work in order to describe and develop mostly industrial work. This article explores how these conceptions may be useful in modern service work, when working with humans. It is based on a set of development projects in mainly municipal care institutions in Norway, between 2000 and 2011. The projects were theoretically grounded in the Norwegian and international sociotechnical system theory (STS) tradition. It argues that there are many valuable lessons to be learnt from this tradition also concerning nursing and care work in the municipalities. However, the article points to a need for development of the concept control as autonomy to embrace “working with humans.” A central finding is that assistance and support from and to colleagues are prerequisites for “being in control.” Moreover, that development of trust through communication alongside work is necessary in order to establish relations of mutual support. Trust and mutual support point to the social relations at work; so in this way it takes the concept control as autonomy from an individual to a more collective concept as Trist et al. (1963) and Herbst (1974/1993) defined their concept of control as collective responsible autonomy. In a prospective perspective, the article sets up the hypothesis that an organization that combines the two, an individual together with a more collective scope on autonomy when working with humans, will meet what Kira (2006) calls as regenerative work. This means sustainability—in resources involved; health, quality, and milieu—through the staff ’s dominion over the conditions of their work.

Fighting or mixing: quantitative and qualitative research

2020 ◽  
pp. 111-134
Author(s):  
Paul Thompson ◽  
Ken Plummer ◽  
Neli Demireva
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Quantitative Method ◽  
Middle Ground ◽  
Quantitative And Qualitative Research ◽  
Conscious Decision ◽  
The Social ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter focuses on the age-old debate in the social sciences about the primacy of methods and the relationship of our pioneers to one of the main ideological battles blighting disciplines such as sociology. Every researcher makes a conscious decision to adopt a qualitative or quantitative method in their social enquiry, or sometimes to even mix them both, and it would have been extremely unusual for the pioneers not to engage sometimes with the oppressive responsibility to pick a 'side'. The chapter explores the extremes in this debate, as well as less-entrenched positions that advocate a middle-ground approach.

scholarly journals Is vulnerability to climate change gendered? And how? Insights from Egypt

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mona Daoud
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Ethnically Diverse ◽  
Gender Analysis ◽  
Important Research ◽  
Community Influence ◽  
Vulnerability To Climate Change ◽  
Research Gap ◽  
Gendered Ideologies

AbstractMost climate change literature tends to downplay the gendered nature of vulnerability. At best, gender is discussed in terms of the male-female binary, seen as opposing forces rather than in varying relations of interdependency. Such construction can result in the adoption of maladaptive culturally unfit gender-blind policy and interventions. In Egypt, which is highly vulnerable to climate change, gender analysis of vulnerability is almost non-existent. This paper addresses this important research gap by asking and drawing on a rural Egyptian context ‘How do the gendered relational aspects of men’s and women’s livelihoods in the household and community influence vulnerability to climate change?’. To answer this question, I draw on gender analysis of social relations, framed within an understanding of sustainable livelihoods. During 16 months of fieldwork, I used multiple ethnographic methods to collect data from two culturally and ethnically diverse low-income villages in Egypt. My main argument is that experiences of climate change are closely intertwined with gender and wider social relations in the household and community. These are shaped by local gendered ideologies and cultures that are embedded in conjugal relations, kinship and relationship to the environment, as compared across the two villages. In this paper, I strongly argue that vulnerability to climate change is highly gendered and therefore gender analysis should be at the heart of climate change discourses, policy and interventions.

Editor's Note

2001 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. i-ii
Author(s):  
Otis Scott
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Ethnic Studies ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
Qualitative Research Methods ◽  
Literary Analysis ◽  
People Of Color ◽  
Social Spaces ◽  
Quantitative And Qualitative Research ◽  
The Social

The articles in this volume represent the interpretative and analytical traditions in ethnic studies scholarship. The first three contributions draw attention to how the tools of literary analysis and inquiry add new perspectives to our understanding of the social realities framing the lives of people of color. The remaining articles using both quantitative and qualitative research methods similarly inform the complex life experiences of people of color. In common these seemingly disparate sets of articles provide sharp and in a couple of instances challenging commentaries on life and living on the margin and the wider social spaces that are circumscribed by color lines.

Conclusion

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary Goertz ◽  
James Mahoney
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Data Analysis ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Causal Models ◽  
Methodological Pluralism ◽  
Mutual Respect ◽  
Design Data ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
Quantitative And Qualitative Research ◽  
The Social

This book concludes by reemphasizing important differences in the nature of qualitative and quantitative research—differences that extend across research design, data analysis, and causal inference. While their differences are considerable, the book argues that both research cultures can complement one another in terms of explaining the social and political world. However, a fruitful collaboration between quantitative and qualitative research—one built around mutual respect and appreciation—is possible only if scholars of both traditions understand and acknowledge their differences. These differences, summarized in tables, come in the areas of individual cases, causality and causal models, populations and data, concepts and measurement, and asymmetry. The book also contends that mixing the qualitative and quantitative cultures will contribute to methodological pluralism in the social sciences.

Introduction

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary Goertz ◽  
James Mahoney
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Quantitative And Qualitative Research ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Two Cultures ◽  
Mathematical Foundations ◽  
The Relationship

This book investigates the relationship between the quantitative and qualitative research traditions in the social sciences, with a particular focus on political science and sociology. It argues that the two traditions are alternative cultures with distinctive research procedures and practices, each having its own values, beliefs, and norms. The book considers the ways in which the traditions differ in terms of methodology, such as type of research question, mode of data analysis, and method of inference. It suggests that the two traditions draw on alternative mathematical foundations: quantitative research is grounded in inferential statistics (that is, probability and statistical theory), whereas qualitative research is (often implicitly) rooted in logic and set theory. This chapter discusses the book's approach to characterizing and comparing the two cultures of social science research and explains what is distinctive about qualitative research.

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