Disentangling Antifeminist Paradoxes: Alternative Organizing in Antifeminist Online Spaces

2020 ◽  
pp. 089331892097264
Author(s):  
Caitlyn M. Jarvis ◽  
Sean M. Eddington
Keyword(s):  
Online Community ◽  
Semantic Network ◽  
Comparative Method ◽  
Dialectical Tensions ◽  
Semantic Network Analysis ◽  
Women's Participation ◽  
The Social ◽  
Constant Comparative Method ◽  
Online Spaces ◽  
Feminist Organizing

In this study, we revisit alternative feminist organizing in order to identify the dialectical tensions, paradoxical discourses, and agentic qualities of women’s participation in an online antifeminist space. We engage in text mining, semantic network analysis, and the constant comparative method to identify dialogical tensions and the paradoxical organizing strategies of Red Pill Women, an online community on the social networking platform, Reddit. Through analyzing Red Pill Women as an antifeminist space constituted through postfeminist logics, we identify three paradoxical tensions, begin to disentangle postfeminism from antifeminism, and build on alternative organizing theory with recent work on hidden and invisible organizations to further theorize gendered (in)visibility and (anti)feminist organizing practices.

scholarly journals Care of Children With Disabilities in Rural Areas: Meanings and Impact on Everyday life and Health. Study Protocol

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 ◽  
pp. 160940692094760
Author(s):  
Pablo A. Cantero-Garlito ◽  
Juan Antonio Flores-Martos ◽  
Pedro Moruno-Miralles
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Children With Disabilities ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Comparative Method ◽  
Health Study ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
The Social ◽  
Maternal Caregiving ◽  
Constant Comparative Method ◽  
The Impact

The general objective of this study is to describe and analyze the meanings that participants gave to the experience related to maternal caregiving activities of children with disabilities in the rural context and their impact on daily life and health. In order to achieve this general objective, the following specific objectives were established: (1) To describe the meanings given to experiences related to caregiving activities of children with disabilities; (2) To analyze the impact on daily life and health that these mothers attribute to those activities; (3) To describe how they experience the support provided by the social and healthcare system in rural areas. An interpretative paradigm was selected, using a qualitative approach and a phenomenological design. Twelve mothers were included. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews. A discourse analysis of the narrative information was performed using open, axial, and selective coding processes and the constant comparative method.

A Qualitative Study of Teachers' Understanding of Sustainability

2015 ◽  
pp. 206-234 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hsiaowei Cristina Chang ◽  
Resa Marie Kelly ◽  
Ellen P. Metzger
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Real World ◽  
Comparative Method ◽  
Social Equity ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Teachers Perceptions ◽  
The Social ◽  
Constant Comparative Method ◽  
Constant Comparative

This qualitative study was focused on exploring how in-service teachers' who were attending a three-day “Educating for Sustainability” workshop made sense of sustainability. Another goal of this study was to examine teachers' perceptions of the portrayal of the three dimensions of sustainability (environment, economy and social equity) in short movies that served as “real world” exemplars of sustainability that were freely available online through YouTube or other websites. Data was collected largely through individual semi-structured interviews, but also through questionnaires and written and drawn documentation. The findings, obtained through the constant-comparative method of coding, indicated that teachers' spontaneous descriptions of sustainability emphasized the environmental and economic dimensions of sustainability, but overlooked the equity dimension of sustainability. The videos helped teachers incorporate the 3E's into their sustainability discussions when all three dimensions were addressed, but when the social equity dimension was missing, then it tended to go unnoticed.

scholarly journals Stigma and prejudice: the experience of crack users

2016 ◽  
Vol 24 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nathália Duarte Bard ◽  
Beatriz Antunes ◽  
Cristine Moraes Roos ◽  
Agnes Olschowsky ◽  
Leandro Barbosa de Pinho
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Method ◽  
Evaluation Process ◽  
Fourth Generation ◽  
Social Imaginary ◽  
Chemically Dependent ◽  
The Social ◽  
Constant Comparative Method ◽  
Formal Employment ◽  
Fourth Generation Evaluation ◽  
Crack Users

Objective to evaluate the stigma and prejudice experienced by crack users in their social context. Method a qualitative study developed through the Fourth Generation Evaluation, conducted with four interest groups (ten users, eleven families, eight employees, and seven managers), components of the mental health care network. For data collection, we used observation and individual interview. The analysis was performed through the constant comparative method. Results crack users suffer prejudice and are stigmatized as those who do not fit in the systems established by society (without family links, formal employment and dwelling), and are thus excluded. They exhibit undisciplined behavior and, therefore, are discriminated, marginalized and considered as criminals, losing their uniqueness and living in vulnerable situations. Conclusion the evaluation process emphasized the need to demystify the social imaginary that demonizes the chemically dependent, being thus important to develop public policies with actions focused on health, prevention, information and combat to stigma.

scholarly journals Development of Bisexual Identity

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (5) ◽  
pp. 1669-1678
Author(s):  
Juan Pablo Perera Gómez ◽  
Ysamary Arenas
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Method ◽  
Social Reality ◽  
One Dimension ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
The Social ◽  
Constant Comparative Method ◽  
Physical Attraction ◽  
Constant Comparative ◽  
Bisexual Identity ◽  
Major Project

Abstract Bisexuality is the sexual, romantic, emotional and physical attraction that a person experiments for both of the biological sexes (men and women). Since the Venezuelan society is built under a heteronormative paradigm sometimes is considered that those sexualities, that drift apart from the social reality, are not comprehended thus generating a reject. Therefore, we conducted a study that was titled “Construction of Bisexual Identity in Venezuelan Adults: ‘It is Not a transition, I Just Simply Am Like That’” that had as a general objective the understanding of the bisexual identity in Venezuelan adults. This article contemplates one dimension of this major project degree. In-depths interviews were carried out to willing participants and the obtained data were analyzed with the constant comparative method following an emerging design. Among the results four major categories were described, however, in this article we will be only focusing on the development of the bisexual identity.

scholarly journals THE PRINCIPALS’ EFFORTS IN FACILITATING THE FREEDOM TO LEARN BY ENHANCING COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN INDONESIA

2021 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 196-207
Author(s):  
Maisyaroh Maisyaroh ◽  
Juharyanto Juharyanto ◽  
Ibrahim Bafadal ◽  
Bambang Budi Wiyono ◽  
Nova Syafira Ariyanti ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Community Participation ◽  
Role Models ◽  
Comparative Method ◽  
Community Empowerment ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
The Social ◽  
Constant Comparative Method ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Case Data

The latest ‘freedom to learn’ policy, issued by the Minister of Education and Culture of the Republic of Indonesia, must be implemented by educational institutions at various levels. The principals played significant roles such as community empowerment to utilize all resources in the schools to support the policy. The research aimed to describe the principals’ efforts in improving community participation in the school and to describe the social involvement in facilitating the freedom to learn at schools. This study employed a qualitative approach with a multi-case research design, and it was conducted in Indonesia, particularly in Tana Tidung Regency in North Kalimantan, Bondowoso Regency in East Java, and Malang City in East Java. The data collection techniques included in-depth interviews and document studies, and to validate the data used a credibility technique. The data validation through the credibility technique was carried out by conducting triangulation, checking members, and improving the persistence and adequacy of reference materials. The cross-case data analysis in this study applied a constant comparative method. The analysis was conducted in all three cases resulted in the provisional findings, continued by data comparison that would later be found by the three cases. The results of this research were the principals’ efforts in enhancing community participation through cooperation with several related parties. The principals were regarded as role models in supporting the ‘freedom to learn’ policy and building cooperation with related partners. The kind of community participation varied based on the uniqueness of each region.

scholarly journals Networked partisanship and framing: A socio-semantic network analysis of the Italian debate on migration

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (8) ◽  
pp. e0256705 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tommaso Radicioni ◽  
Tiziano Squartini ◽  
Elena Pavan ◽  
Fabio Saracco
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Analysis ◽  
Semantic Network ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Political Orientation ◽  
External Information ◽  
Semantic Network Analysis ◽  
Political Processes ◽  
Mesoscale Structure ◽  
Political Alliances ◽  
The Social

The huge amount of data made available by the massive usage of social media has opened up the unprecedented possibility to carry out a data-driven study of political processes. While particular attention has been paid to phenomena like elite and mass polarization during online debates and echo-chambers formation, the interplay between online partisanship and framing practices, jointly sustaining adversarial dynamics, still remains overlooked. With the present paper, we carry out a socio-semantic analysis of the debate about migration policies observed on the Italian Twittersphere, across the period May-November 2019. As regards the social analysis, our methodology allows us to extract relevant information about the political orientation of the communities of users—hereby called partisan communities—without resorting upon any external information. Remarkably, our community detection technique is sensitive enough to clearly highlight the dynamics characterizing the relationship among different political forces. As regards the semantic analysis, our networks of hashtags display a mesoscale structure organized in a core-periphery fashion, across the entire observation period. Taken altogether, our results point at different, yet overlapping, trajectories of conflict played out using migration issues as a backdrop. A first line opposes communities discussing substantively of migration to communities approaching this issue just to fuel hostility against political opponents; within the second line, a mechanism of distancing between partisan communities reflects shifting political alliances within the governmental coalition. Ultimately, our results contribute to shed light on the complexity of the Italian political context characterized by multiple poles of partisan alignment.

Towards a theory of therapeutic processes in crisis intervention: A grounded qualitative perspective

2015 ◽  
Vol 30 (S2) ◽  
pp. S147-S147
Author(s):  
J. Denis ◽  
S. Hendrick ◽  
R. Bruffaerts
Keyword(s):  
Crisis Intervention ◽  
Comparative Method ◽  
Political Support ◽  
Psychological Services ◽  
Therapeutic Interventions ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
The Social ◽  
Constant Comparative Method ◽  
Therapeutic Processes ◽  
Psychic Functioning

To provide an effective crisis intervention, there is a need to better understand how these interventions work. The aim of this study was to develop an explanatory theory of therapeutic processes implied in the psychological process of crisis intervention.ObjectivesWe aimed to reduce the gap between clinicians and researchers by showing how a qualitative method may reveal experiences about how professionals explained their clinical practice in crisis intervention and what their representation are of people in crisis.MethodIn depth, semi-structured interviews were conducted, transcribed and independently reviewed by using Grounded Theory Methodology (GTM). Data were analyzed with the constant comparative method. The study was conducted in crisis experts in Psychiatric Emergency Room (PER). A purposive sample of 17 professionals in crisis intervention included in our study.ResultsResults showed that therapeutic processes are managed in multiple interactions and regulations. Crisis intervention is an opportunity to highlight the psychic functioning. There are multiple settings of interventions oriented by the context of the institution and theorical background of professionals. The social realities slow down the possibility to elaborate the end of the intervention.ConclusionThis study illuminates that clinicians and professionals in crisis intervention need guidelines to better improve their therapeutic interventions. They also need a political support to create specialized training and develop medical and psychological services to take in charge people in crisis. This research contributes to show the discrepancy between what the professional thinks to do in their interventions and what he really do.

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