Exploring the Temporal Dimension in Cancer Patients' Experiences of Nonbiomedical Therapeutics

To date, research on complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) use by cancer patients has tended to provide a “snapshot” of experience, with little attention given to the evolution of experience over time. Drawing on data from solicited diaries, this article examines individual cancer patients' temporal experiences of CAM. Our findings suggest that experiences of CAM are variable over time and space, and furthermore, that the everyday act of “doing CAM” is considerably more problematic than is often reported in face-to-face interview or survey studies. This is explored in relation to the tension between the perceived need for restrictive self-discipline alongside a sense of the emancipatory potential of CAM; the role of CAM therapists in reconceptualizing disease; and the complex interplay between CAM-derived notions of self-healing and acceptance of individual mortality. We argue that an emphasis on the temporality of cancer patients' CAM engagement is necessary to access a more nuanced understanding of the lived experiences of cancer patients.

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Boundary objects, power, and learning: The matter of developing sustainable practice in organizations

Management Learning ◽

10.1177/1350507616677199 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 48 (3) ◽

pp. 292-310 ◽

Cited By ~ 12

Author(s):

Beverley Hawkins ◽

Annie Pye ◽

Fernando Correia

Keyword(s):

Power Relations ◽

Middle Managers ◽

Boundary Objects ◽

Nuanced Understanding ◽

Over Time ◽

Sustainable Practice

This article develops an understanding of the agential role of boundary objects in generating and politicizing learning in organizations, as it emerges from the entangled actions of humans and non-humans. We offer two empirical vignettes in which middle managers seek to develop more sustainable ways of working. Informed by Foucault’s writing on power, our work highlights how power relations enable and foreclose the affordances, or possibilities for action, associated with boundary objects. Our data demonstrate how this impacts the learning that emerges as boundary objects are configured and unraveled over time. In so doing, we illustrate how boundary objects are not fixed entities, but are mutable, relational, and politicized in nature. Connecting boundary objects to affordances within a Foucauldian perspective on power offers a more nuanced understanding of how ‘the material’ plays an agential role in consolidating and disrupting understandings in the accomplishment of learning.

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Tüketimin Değişen Yüzü: Elektronik Ticaret Uygulamaları ve Sosyal Paylaşım Ağlarının Rolü / The Changing Face of Consumption: E-Commerce Applications And The Role of Social Networks

Journal of History Culture and Art Research ◽

10.7596/taksad.v1i4.102 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 1 (4) ◽

pp. 149 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Büşra Halis

Keyword(s):

Social Networks ◽

Physical Space ◽

The Internet ◽

Human History ◽

Conceptual Content ◽

Face To Face ◽

The Past ◽

Over Time

İnsanlık tarihi kadar eski olan tüketim, zaman içerisinde yaşanan değişim ve dönüşümlerle birlikte yeni bir boyut kazanmıştır. Eskinin, ihtiyacı kadar almak ve çalışmak gibi fenemonlerinin yerini, günümüzde daha çok satın almak için çalışmak, tükettiğinin ölçüsünde var olabilmek ya da olamamak almıştır. Tüketimin soyut anlamda kavramsal içeriğinin farklılaşmasının yanı sıra, tüketim araçları da farklılaşmıştır. Artık, yüz yüze görüşmeler yoluyla yapılan alışverişlerin yerini; fiziki mekândan bağımsız, internet üzerinden e-ticaret yoluyla ve birtakım paylaşım ağları aracılığıyla yapılan alışverişler almıştır. Bu çalışmada da, tüketimin ve tüketimde kullanılan araçların geçmişten bugüne değişen anlamı ve bu değişimi körükleyen sosyal ağ paradigması tartışılmaktadır. The Changing Face of Consumption: E-Commerce Applications And The Role of Social Networks Consumption, which is as old as human history has gained a new dimension with changes and transformations in the course of time. In the past, people bought and worked as they needed, but now, they work to buy more things except necessity and they be or not to be until they consumed. Over time, the conceptual content and tools of the consumption has changed. Shopping, which is done independent of the physical space, via the internet through e-commerce replaced shopping made by face to face. In this work, the changing meaning and tools of consumption from past to present and the paradigm of social networks which encouraging this change is to be held.

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Support for the Death Penalty in Taiwan?: a Study of Value Conflict and Ambivalence

Asian Journal of Criminology ◽

10.1007/s11417-019-09305-z ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 15 (2) ◽

pp. 163-183 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Susyan Jou ◽

Bill Hebenton

Keyword(s):

Public Opinion ◽

Moral Psychology ◽

Death Penalty ◽

Public Attitudes ◽

Empirical Studies ◽

Value Conflict ◽

Face To Face ◽

The Usa ◽

Nuanced Understanding

AbstractWhile a substantial number of studies have examined public opinion on the death penalty in the USA, and more recently parts of Asia, including China, very few empirical studies have considered support for the death penalty in Taiwan. This paper examines public attitudes in Taiwan and the role of ‘value conflict’ in attitudes to both death penalty abolition and in the context of alternatives. Using the results of 1016 respondents drawn from a national face-to-face sample (n = 2039) survey conducted by the Taiwan Alliance to End the Death Penalty (TAEDP) in 2014, we demonstrate that public attitudes in Taiwan are simultaneously committed to many underlying values in conflict. The results also indicate that value conflict exists among the majority of the sample (more than 60 per cent) who are prepared to accept alternatives to abolition, and whom we can describe as ambivalent. Recognition of value conflict, ambivalence and the moral psychology underpinning public attitudes to the death penalty is essential, not only conceptually but to allow for a more appropriate and nuanced understanding of the abolitionist/retentionist debate.

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Retrospective economic judgments predict individual-level changes in vote preference in the US

Journal of Social and Political Psychology ◽

10.5964/jspp.6755 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 9 (1) ◽

pp. 272-289

Author(s):

Hui Bai ◽

Christopher M. Federico

Keyword(s):

Economic Voting ◽

Reciprocal Effects ◽

Temporal Dimension ◽

Individual Level ◽

Political Preferences ◽

The Us ◽

Vote Preference ◽

Level Shifts ◽

Over Time

While many studies have investigated what predicts citizens’ vote preferences, less is known about what predicts change in citizens’ vote preferences over time. This paper focuses on the role of judgments about national economy in the recent past (i.e., “sociotropic economic retrospections”). Two longitudinal studies show that sociotropic economic retrospections (along with partisanship, ideology, and whether incumbent is running for re-election) at a given time point predict within-person changes in vote choice over time. Furthermore, cross-lagged panel analyses found that sociotropic economic retrospections and political preferences may have reciprocal effects on each other. Together, these results illustrate the temporal dimension of economic voting by suggesting that sociotropic economic retrospections not only predict votes at single points in time, but also individual-level shifts in vote preference over time. As such, the association between sociotropic economic retrospections and vote preference is more dynamic than past literature suggests.

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Informal relationships in a company’s internationalization process

Journal of Business and Industrial Marketing ◽

10.1108/jbim-11-2018-0363 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 34 (5) ◽

pp. 1054-1065 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Adam Dymitrowski ◽

Krzysztof Fonfara ◽

Bartosz Deszczyński

Keyword(s):

Qualitative Research ◽

Design Methodology ◽

Internationalization Process ◽

Positive Role ◽

Content Type ◽

Face To Face ◽

External Actors ◽

A Company ◽

Over Time

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to identify the role of a company’s external informal relationships in the internationalization process.Design/methodology/approachTo achieve the aim of this paper, a qualitative research was undertaken. The data used for analysis were obtained through face-to-face interviews with representatives of 20 companies.FindingsThere are two main findings of the research. First, on the basis of the analysis of the interviews, it was possible to identify 14 different outcomes of informal relationships with external actors in the internationalization process. Second, the outcomes have been assigned to different stages of the internationalization process, thereby covering the whole range of a company’s development timeline.Originality/valueThis paper illustrates and confirms the important and positive role of the informal relationships developed by a company with external actors in the internationalization process and indicates that it can change over time depending on the stage of the internationalization.

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Making a Microaggression: Using Big Data and Qualitative Analysis to Map the Reproduction and Disruption of Microaggressions through Social Media

Social Media + Society ◽

10.1177/2056305120975716 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 6 (4) ◽

pp. 205630512097571

Author(s):

Rob Eschmann ◽

Jacob Groshek ◽

Rachel Chanderdatt ◽

Khea Chang ◽

Maysa Whyte

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Qualitative Analysis ◽

Racial Microaggressions ◽

Face To Face ◽

Online Social Media ◽

Common Response ◽

Drastic Increase ◽

Purposive Sample ◽

Over Time

Racial microaggressions are defined as subtle racial slights that can be offensive or hurtful. One of the defining characteristics of racial microaggressions is how difficult they can be to respond to, and the literature reports that not responding may be the most common response to microaggressions. This study addresses a vital gap in the existing literature by examining the extent to which the silence that characterizes face-to-face experiences with microaggressions extends into online social media spaces. Drawing on a dataset of 254,964 tweets over an 8-year period, we present and examine trends in the usage of the term “microaggressions” over time. Furthermore, we then generate a purposive sample of 1,038 of the most influential tweets to explore discussions and content themes through an in-depth qualitative analysis of these messages. Here, we find both a drastic increase in the usage of the term microaggression on Twitter over time and an intense contestation over its meaning and repercussions for both individuals and society. Implications of these findings in understanding the role of online social media discourse in challenging or reproducing hegemonic racial structures is discussed.

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Enacting citizenship through participation in a technological society: a longitudinal three-year study among people with dementia in Sweden

Ageing and Society ◽

10.1017/s0144686x21000544 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-22

Author(s):

Sophie Nadia Gaber ◽

Louise Nygård ◽

Camilla Malinowsky ◽

Anna Brorsson ◽

Anders Kottorp ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Public Space ◽

Technology Use ◽

Descriptive Statistics ◽

Structured Interviews ◽

Random Intercept ◽

People With Dementia ◽

The Everyday ◽

Longitudinal Study Design ◽

Over Time

Abstract The role of Everyday Technology (ET) use is presented as subsidiary or neutral in policy for age- and dementia-friendly communities; and yet, research suggests that older people, especially those with dementia, experience increased challenges using ET in their everyday lives. Through the lens of micro-citizenship, the study aims to deepen the knowledge about how use of ET outside the home, including portable ETs, relates to participation in places visited within public space among people with dementia over time. Using a longitudinal study design, 35 people with dementia were recruited at baseline and followed over three years. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews using standardised questionnaires: the Participation in ACTivities and Places OUTside Home Questionnaire (ACT-OUT) and the Everyday Technology Use Questionnaire (ETUQ). Random intercept modelling and descriptive statistics were used to analyse the data. Throughout the three-year study, decreasing use of ET outside the home, including portable ETs, was associated with decreasing participation in places visited within public space, in a statistically significant way when controlling for age (F = 7.59, p = 0.01). The findings indicate that facilitating access and use of ET outside the home, among people with dementia, should be integral to promoting and maintaining participation in age- and dementia-friendly communities.

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Calgary’s Chinese Kinship Associations: Their Role in Chinese Canadian Integration

Journal of Chinese Overseas ◽

10.1163/17932548-12341249 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 9 (1) ◽

pp. 59-86 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Lloyd Sciban ◽

Lloyd Wong

Keyword(s):

Chinese Immigrants ◽

Canadian Society ◽

Chinese Community ◽

Face To Face ◽

The Face ◽

Mainstream Society ◽

Chinese Canadian ◽

The City ◽

Over Time

Abstract The kinship associations in Calgary’s Chinese community were formed to assist Chinese immigrants in meeting their needs, such as housing and moral support, in the face of the discrimination they encountered during their early days of settlement in the city. In providing for these needs the kinship associations helped Chinese immigrants establish themselves, and thus, integrate into Canadian society. However, over time the opportunities to integrate into the Canadian society have increased and the question arises whether the kinship associations have been willing or able to take advantage of these opportunities. The purpose of this paper is to determine whether kinship associations in Calgary’s Chinese community are effectively promoting Chinese Canadian integration into mainstream society. Personal face-to-face interviews revealed the records of the kinship associations in integrating their members into Canadian society; these records were then compared with those of newer, non-kinship Chinese Canadian associations. The authors conclude that the integration efforts by the kinship associations are inadequate as compared to newer Calgary Chinese organisations, and that the integrative role of these kinship associations has diminished over time.

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THE PROBLEM OF ADAPTATION OF THE RUSSIAN EMIGRANTS OF THE FIRST WAVE IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA: THE LANGUAGE ASPECT

RSUH/RGGU Bulletin Series Political Science History International Relations Area Studies Oriental Studies ◽

10.28995/2073-6339-2020-4-110-121 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 110-121

Author(s):

Mariya E. Gorokhova ◽

Keyword(s):

Interwar Period ◽

Host Country ◽

National Unity ◽

Language And Culture ◽

Cultural Legacy ◽

First Republic ◽

The Everyday ◽

Foreign Land ◽

Over Time

Nowadays there exist many works dedicated to the Russian Abroad and its multifaceted cultural heritage. The Russian documentary historical and cultural legacy brought by Russian emigrants is the most striking evidence of the spirituality of the Russian emigration; it also demonstrates its significance in preserving the national unity in the emigrant community. Moreover, by reviewing those sources, we can evaluate the role of the Russian emigration in maintaining the historical traditions of the Russian Diaspora. This article will analyze the data connected with the language adaptation of the Russian emigrants of the first wave in the First Republic of Czechoslovakia; it is this aspect that can allow us a deeper look at all the aspects of emigration, as well as provide a possibility to learn about the everyday life of our compatriots in a foreign land. The aim of the research is to study the linguistic adaptation of the Russian emigrants in Czechoslovakia in the interwar period, to reveal their attitude towards the necessity to learn the Czech and Slovak languages and to analyze the methods of mastering those languages. As a result of the study, the author comes to the conclusion that not all emigrants wanted to learn the Czech and Slovak languages; they did not see any need for that, since they were confident they would return to their motherland. However, over time and with no hope of returning, the emigrants who had remained in Czechoslovakia started displaying a growing interest in learning the language and culture of the host country that was to become their second motherland.

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