The Ethnographer as Community Manager: Language Translation and User Negotiation

2012 ◽  
Vol 145 (1) ◽  
pp. 112-122 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathon Hutchinson
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Language Translation ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Cooperative Approach ◽  
The Social ◽  
True Representation ◽  
Community Manager

This article investigates the ethnographic methodological question of how the researcher observes objectively while being part of the problem they are observing. It uses a case study of ABC Pool to argue a cooperative approach that combines the role of the ethnographer with that of a community manager who assists in constructing a true representation of the researched environment. By using reflexivity as a research tool, the ethnographer engages in a process to self-check their personal presumptions and prejudices, and to strengthen the constructed representation of the researched environment. This article also suggests combining management and expertise research from the social sciences with ethnography, to understand and engage with the research field participants more intimately – which, ultimately, assists in gathering and analysing richer qualitative data.

scholarly journals The Role of Internal Customer in Improving the Quality of Hotel Services in Jordan: A Case Study of the Marriott International Hotel in Amman

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ali Falah Al-Zoubi ◽  
Mazen Alomari
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Internal Customer ◽  
Independent Variables ◽  
Internal Customers ◽  
The Social ◽  
Training Motivation ◽  
Future Vision

The present study aims to examine the role of internal customer in improving the quality of hotel services in order to provide distinguished and high-quality hotel services seeking to gain the satisfaction of the hotel customers in the light of local and international competition. This study also focused on the internal customer represented by hotel staff from various levels of employment through a set of independent variables such as selection, training, motivation and participation in decision making for improving the quality of hotel services. The sample of this study includes all directors (13) and employees (44) from different parts of the Marriott International Hotel in Amman. The study instrument was designed as a questionnaire for collecting data which consisted of (35) paragraphs according to five- dimensional scale of Likert. In addition, this study used Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) to test the hypotheses. The most important findings and recommendations of the present study were that the management officials of the Marriott International Hotel in Amman should develop their knowledge and skills in terms of interest in the internal customers and gain a future vision to determine their needs of human resources and that there is a significant positive relationship between the role of internal customer and the improvement of the quality of hotel services.

scholarly journals THE ROLE OF MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS IN COUNTERING TERRORISM: THE CASE OF TELEGRAM IN INDONESIA

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 125
Author(s):  
Risnanda P. Irawan ◽  
Fahri S. Altakwa ◽  
Victoria M. Pakpahan
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
International Trade ◽  
Multinational Corporations ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Proactive Approach ◽  
Strategic Commitment ◽  
The Social

In this globalization era, there are new emerging actors especially in international trade which is the multinational corporations (MNCs). On the other side, there is terrorism which has evolved throughout history. It is perceived that globalization and international trade can be a factor of terrorist establishment, while massive destructions by terrorism is crucial as a factor for the international business and multinational corporations to operate. One of the product by multinational corporations is in social media sector, and nowadays,terrorist also can use the social media to recruit their member which challenging multinational corporations. In explaining this phenomenon, this paper will use the case study of Telegram in Indonesia. This paper will cover the correlations between terrorism and MNCs, the particular case study of Telegram, and addressing the role of MNCs in countering terrorism through qualitative data gathered from various books, journals, and news. In conclusion, the MNCs should play role as a proactive approach in the long term to counter terrorism through cooperation with government and its own strategic commitment in contributing to a secure society.   Keywords: Multinational Corporations; Terrorism; Social Media;     Abstract   Pada era globalisasi, hadir aktor-aktor baru dalam perdagangan internasional, atau yang kita kenal sebagai perusahaan multinasional. Di sisi lain, terorisme terus berkembang seiring zaman. Berhubungan dengan hal ini, terdapat gagasan bahwa globalisasi dan perdagangan internasional dapat menjadi faktor dalam kemunculan kelompok-kelompok teroris, sebaliknya kerusakan dan dampak yang ditimbulkan oleh kegiatan terorisme juga merupakan faktor yang penting bagi bisnis internasional dan perusahaan multinasional dalam menjalankan kegiatan operasionalnya. Salah satu produk dari perusahaan multinasional adalah sektor media sosial, dan dalam perkembangannya, teroris juga dapat menggunakan media sosial untuk merekrut anggota dan menjalankan kegiatan mereka, di mana hal ini menimbulkan tantangan baru bagi perusahaan multinasional tersebut. Dalam menjelaskan fenomena ini, makalah ini akan menggunakan kasus Telegram di Indonesia sebagai studi kasus. Di dalamnya akan mencakup korelasi antara terorisme dan perusahaan multinasional, pembahasan spesifik mengenai kasus Telegram, dan bagaimana perusahaan multinasional dapat mengambil peran dalam mengatasi masalah terorisme. Pembahasan makalah ini akan menggunakan metode kualitatif melalui data yang dikumpulkan dari buku, jurnal, dan berita. Sebagai kesimpulan, perusahaan multinasional diharapkan untuk dapat berperan proaktif terutama dalam pemberantasan terorisme dalam jangka panjang melalui kerja-sama dengan pemerintah dan melalui implementasi komitmen perusahaan dalam membangun masyarakat dan lingkungan yang aman.   Keywords: Perusahaan Multinasional; Terorisme; Media Sosial;  

Resonant voices: The poetic register in exegetical writing for creative practice

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 121-141 ◽  
Author(s):  
Welby Ings
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Academic Writing ◽  
Emotional Response ◽  
Doctoral Graduates ◽  
Art And Design ◽  
Poetic Inquiry ◽  
Creative Practice ◽  
The Social

Quality, exegetical writing can be constrained when students marginalize poetic ways of thinking and replace them with carefully edited accounts that reshape the role and nature of emotional response. In the pursuit of rational, theoretically groomed accounts of practice, they can sometimes end up misrepresenting the embodied nature of their inquiries. Considering burgeoning research into poetic inquiry (PI) in the social sciences, this article employs a case study of five doctoral graduates in art and design who have articulated the role of poetic thinking in their creative practice theses. In addition to offering illustrations of how practice-led researchers use PI, the examples demonstrate ways in which poetic approaches can be employed to enhance communicative clarity beyond the constraints of conventional academic writing. Specifically, the examples demonstrate how poetic writing is used to process and articulate indigenous knowledge, enhance embodied thinking and inquiry and deepen levels of reflection and understanding. Such uses can cause a researcher to view the world differently and by extension, expand the nature of what it means to conduct research. In discussing the nature of poetic writing, the article considers three distinct profiles: exegetical writing employed when the nature of the practice is poetic; poetic writing that draws on indigenous approaches to scholarship and poetic writing used as a method for reflection.

scholarly journals ¿Artesanía o cazador tras la huella?. Reflexiones para el análisis cualitativo de datos

2018 ◽  
pp. 65
Author(s):  
Daniel San Martín Cantero
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Research Process ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Object Of Study ◽  
And Training

En las ciencias sociales se generan debates metodológicos que contribuyen a las formas de comprender la investigación social. En este ensayo se discute el modo de entender el rol del investigador frente a la aproximación y análisis del objeto/sujeto de estudio. El objetivo es cuestionar el uso de la metáfora del investigador como artesano. Esta imagen aparece en los años 50 para explicar la creatividad que requiere el proceso de investigación y análisis cualitativo de datos. Sin embargo, la metáfora del artesano representa una aproximación deductiva del investigador al sujeto/objeto de estudio. Por el contrario, el análisis cualitativo está orientado por procedimientos inductivos. Entonces, se propone la metáfora del cazador tras la presa, como un recurso con consistencia paradigmática y epistemológica que aporta a la comprensión y formación en investigación cualitativa.Within the social sciences, methodological debates contribute to the understanding of social research. This paper discusses one way of understanding the role of the investigator in relation to the approach and analysis of the object/subject of study. The objective is to question the use of the researcher's metaphor as a craftsman. This image appears in the 1950s in order to explain the creativity required by the research process and qualitative data analysis. However, the artisan's metaphor represents a deductive approximation of the researcher to the subject/object of study. On the contrary, the qualitative analysis is oriented by inductive procedures. The metaphor of the hunter after the prey is then proposed as a resource with a paradigmatic and epistemological consistency that contributes to the understanding and training in the qualitative research.

Endangered Butterflies and their Non-Native Host Plants: Examining Shifting Values of Belonging in Restoration

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Robert M. Anderson ◽  
Amy M. Lambert
Keyword(s):  
Ecological Restoration ◽  
Native Species ◽  
Puget Sound ◽  
A Value ◽  
The Social ◽  
Remote Island ◽  
Scientific Truth ◽  
Native Host

The island marble butterfly (Euchloe ausonides insulanus), thought to be extinct throughout the 20th century until re-discovered on a single remote island in Puget Sound in 1998, has become the focus of a concerted protection effort to prevent its extinction. However, efforts to “restore” island marble habitat conflict with efforts to “restore” the prairie ecosystem where it lives, because of the butterfly’s use of a non-native “weedy” host plant. Through a case study of the island marble project, we examine the practice of ecological restoration as the enactment of particular norms that define which species are understood to belong in the place being restored. We contextualize this case study within ongoing debates over the value of “native” species, indicative of deep-seated uncertainties and anxieties about the role of human intervention to alter or manage landscapes and ecosystems, in the time commonly described as the “Anthropocene.” We interpret the question of “what plants and animals belong in a particular place?” as not a question of scientific truth, but a value-laden construct of environmental management in practice, and we argue for deeper reflexivity on the part of environmental scientists and managers about the social values that inform ecological restoration.

THE ROLE OF LOCAL SOCIAL INSTITUTION IN COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT IN BANDUNG REGENCY, INDONESIA

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Helly Ocktilia
Keyword(s):  
Leadership Style ◽  
Social Institution ◽  
Community Empowerment ◽  
Board Members ◽  
Supportive Leadership ◽  
Community Institutions ◽  
The Social ◽  
Descriptive Method

This study aims to gain a deeper understanding of the existence of the local social organization in conducting community empowerment. The experiment was conducted at Community Empowerment Institution (In Indonesia it is referred to as Lembaga Pemberdayaan Masyarakat/LPM). LPM Cibeunying as one of the local social institution in Bandung regency. Aspects reviewed in the study include the style of leadership, processes, and stages of community empowerment, as well as the LPM network. The research method used is a case study with the descriptive method and qualitative approach. Data collection was conducted against five informants consisting of the Chairman and LPM’s Board members, village officials, and community leaders. The results show that the dominant leadership style is participative, in addition to that, a supportive leadership style and directive leadership style are also used in certain situations. The empowerment process carried out per the stages of the empowerment process is identifying and assessing the potential of the region, problems, and opportunities-chances; arranging a participative activity plan; implementing the activity plan; and monitoring and evaluating the process and results of activities. The social networking of LPM leads to a social network of power in which LPM can influence the behavior of communities and community institutions in utilizing and managing community empowerment programs. From the research, it can be concluded that the model of community empowerment implemented by LPM Cibeunying Village is enabling, empowering, and protecting.

Concluding Summary

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carrie Figdor
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
External Factors ◽  
Cognitive Capacity ◽  
Human Cognition ◽  
Conceptual Foundation ◽  
The Social ◽  
New Research ◽  
Internal And External Factors ◽  
Conceptual Confusion

Chapter 10 provides a summary of the argument of the book. It elaborates some of the benefits of Literalism, such as less conceptual confusion and an expanded range of entities for research that might illuminate human cognition. It motivates distinguishing the questions of whether something has a cognitive capacity from whether it is intuitively like us. It provides a conceptual foundation for the social sciences appropriate for the increasing role of modeling in these sciences. It also promotes convergence in terms of the roles of internal and external factors in explaining both human and nonhuman behavior. Finally, it sketches some of the areas of new research that it supports, including group cognition and artificial intelligence.

A Phenomenology of Rhythm

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lexi Eikelboom
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Interactions ◽  
Henri Lefebvre ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
The Social ◽  
Analytical Importance ◽  
Jazz Performance

This chapter proposes a framework for approaching the theological significance of rhythm through phenomenology, prosody, and the social sciences. In accordance with the general categories of phenomenology established by Merleau-Ponty and the “rhythmanalysis” of Henri Lefebvre, the chapter investigates two experiences of rhythm: approaches to analysing the human encounter with rhythm in the reading of poetry and the role of rhythm in social interactions introduced through commonalities between rhythm in conversation and in jazz performance. These explorations establish two features of rhythm that are of analytical importance for the chapters that follow: (1) the synchronic and the diachronic as two necessary but distinct theoretical perspectives on rhythm, each of which emphasizes different features of rhythm and (2) the importance of interruption for understanding rhythm’s significance.

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