scholarly journals Gossip as evaluative sensemaking and the concealment of confidential gossip in the everyday life of organizations

2021 ◽  
pp. 135050762097936
Author(s):  
Ziyun Fan ◽  
Patrick Dawson
Keyword(s):  
Power Relations ◽  
Daily Practice ◽  
Cultural Norms ◽  
Distinct Form ◽  
Organization Studies ◽  
Learning Paradox ◽  
Espoused Values ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Scant Attention ◽  
And Behavior

Gossip is pervasive at the workplace, yet receives scant attention in the sensemaking literature and stands on the periphery of organization studies. We seek to reveal the non-triviality of gossip in processes of sensemaking. In drawing on empirical data from an observational study of a British Media firm, we adopt a processual perspective in showing how people produce, understand, and enact their sense of what is occurring through gossip as an evaluative and distinct form of informal communication. Our research draws attention to the importance of gossip in the routines of daily practice and the need to differentiate general from confidential gossip. We discuss how gossip continuously informs learning as evaluative sensemaking processes that encourages critiques and evaluation to shape future action and behavior. Within this, we argue how confidential gossip can challenge power relations while remaining part of formal authority structures, constituting forms of pragmatic and micro-resistance. This shadowland resistance provides terrain for learning that both criticizes and preserves espoused values and cultural norms. We conclude that confidential gossip as an evaluative and secretive process provokes a learning paradox that both enables and constrains forms of resistance in reinforcing and simultaneously questioning power relations at work.

Culture, names and economic development

2016 ◽  
pp. 81-106
Author(s):  
E. Borisova ◽  
A. Kulkova
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Economic Research ◽  
Cultural Norms ◽  
Individual Values ◽  
Personal Names ◽  
Economic Significance ◽  
And Behavior

Various components of culture have long been in the focus of economic research. Numerous empirical studies show that cultural norms, as well as religion and language, matter for economic development and have not only statistical but also economic significance. This paper considers various examples of how culture can affect individual values and behavior. It also deals with personal names as a key marker of one’s cultural identity. Overall, the paper contributes to the more profound understanding of a famous notion that "culture matters", and helps clarify the mechanisms through which culture exerts its influence.

scholarly journals The Milan System, from Its Introduction to Its Current Adoption in the Diagnosis of Salivary Gland Cytology

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 114-122
Author(s):  
Esther Diana Rossi
Keyword(s):  
Salivary Gland ◽  
Daily Practice ◽  
Needle Aspiration ◽  
Classification Systems ◽  
Diagnostic Categories ◽  
International Group ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Neoplastic Process ◽  
Risk Of Malignancy ◽  
Well Differentiated

Salivary gland masses are often encountered in the everyday practice of cytopathology. It is commonly known that the cytologic interpretation of these lesions can pose diagnostic problems due to overlapping cytomorphologic features. Fine needle aspiration (FNA) of salivary lesions shows good to excellent sensitivity and specificity in differentiating a neoplastic from a non-neoplastic process and in diagnosing common tumors such as pleomorphic adenoma. However, its value is limited in diagnosing specific neoplastic entities especially those with well-differentiated morphology. In light of this gap, an international group of pathologists has proposed a management-oriented, tiered classification for reporting salivary gland FNA specimens, “The Milan System for Reporting Salivary Gland Cytopathology (MSRSGC)”. Similar to other classification systems, the MSRSGC scheme comprises six diagnostic categories, which were linked with a specific risk of malignancy (ROM) and management. In this review article, the author evaluated the published literature on FNA in diagnosing salivary gland lesions with the adoption of the Milan system since its introduction in the daily practice of salivary cytopathology.

scholarly journals A formação sacerdotal. Contradições teórico-práticas no cotidiano do Seminário

2019 ◽  
Vol 70 (277) ◽  
pp. 98
Author(s):  
Sílvio José Benelli
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Field Data ◽  
Educational Institution ◽  
Critical Reading ◽  
The Everyday

Procuramos fazer uma leitura crítica do Seminário católico como instituição educativa, a partir dos estudos de Marmilicz. Discutimos as possibilidades ambíguas do processo pedagógico em geral, destacando as relações de poder que o atravessam, produzindo, inclusive, efeitos inesperados. Explicitamos como as dimensões da formação sacerdotal também implicam questões políticas, psicológicas e normalizadoras. Estudamos as possibilidades e os limites da “formação participativa”, analisando a organização das relações de poder na formação presbiteral. Tratamos da sexualidade no processo formativo, tomando o corpo sexuado como objeto da formação do sacerdote celibatário. Finalmente, comentamos os dados de campo coletados por Marmilicz e indicamos como eles são compatíveis com a literatura específica sobre o tema. Tal como o autor, também notamos contradições teórico-práticas na formação sacerdotal no cotidiano do seminário.Abstract: We try to do a critical reading of the Catholic Seminary as an educational institution on the bases of Marmilicz’studies. We discuss the ambiguous possibilities of the pedagogical process in general, emphasizing the power relations that cross it and that may produce unexpected results. We explain how the dimensions of the priests’ training also involve political, psychological and normalizing issues. We examine the possibilities and the limits of “participative education” analyzing the organization of the power relations in the presbyteral education. We deal with sexuality in the formative process taking the sexualized body as the object of the celibate priest’s education. Finally, we commented on the field data collected by Marmilicz and pointed out how they are compatible with the specific literature about this theme. Like the author, we also noticed theoretical-practical contradictions in the education of priests in the everyday life of the seminary.

Negotiating Identity and Power during a Crisis: An Analysis of ‘Small Stories’ Told by Australian Christian Priests during the COVID-19 Health Crisis

2021 ◽  
Vol 34 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 25-43
Author(s):  
Margo Louise Turnbull
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Structural Features ◽  
Social Constructionist ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Crisis Period ◽  
Everyday Activities ◽  
Depth Interview ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Small Stories

Abstract The COVID-19 outbreak in 2020 and localised government responses have led to fundamental changes in the conditions in which organisations operate. This article draws on a social constructionist understanding of identity as multiple and performed (Angouri 2016; Butler 1990) to explore the experiences of a group of six Australian Christian priests during this crisis period. Drawing on in-depth interview data, the article presents a narrative analysis of the storying of identities and power relations within church communities whose everyday activities were suddenly curtailed. In contrast to linguistic studies of narrative which often focus on structural features of canonical discourse ‘events’, this article takes up Bamberg and Georgakopoulou’s (2008) extension of narrative analysis to focus on ‘small stories’ which reflect the everyday, situated practices in which identities and power relations are negotiated and performed. This article contributes unique insights into the operation and practices of religious organisations in a crisis context.

“The American Prayer”

2019 ◽  
pp. 50-77
Author(s):  
John O'Brien
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Religious Tradition ◽  
Religious Authority ◽  
Personal Agency ◽  
Muslim American ◽  
Individual Agency ◽  
Behavioral Expectations ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
And Behavior

This chapter details the everyday practices used by the Legendz and their friends to manage a specific cultural dilemma faced by Muslim American youth: how to participate in a religious tradition that carries expectations of deference to external religious authority and obligation within a modern American cultural landscape in which personal agency, autonomy, and reflexivity are core social values and widely held behavioral expectations. The Legendz responded to this challenge by engaging in practices associated with one particular cultural rubric (religious Islam) while applying discourses and behavior associated with the other (American individualism). In this way, they attempted to present themselves as agentive, autonomous, and self-reflexive American youth despite their regular fulfillment of externally imposed Islamic obligations. In altering the specifics of prayer through visible temporal delays, the boys attempted to demonstrate an autonomous yet Islamic self to themselves and each other. By invoking the specter of the “extreme Muslim” in conversation, they presented themselves as self-reflexive Islamic individuals—ones not unthinkingly beholden to strict religious requirements—while protecting the autonomy of their peers by displacing religious authority in interaction. In applying the speech patterns of urban braggadocio when recounting their participation in Muslim moral behavior, they attempted to infuse communally rooted norms with a sense of individual agency.

Commemorating alternative organizations and marginalized spaces: The case of forgotten Finntowns

Organization ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 90-113 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diane M. Rodgers ◽  
Jessica Petersen ◽  
Jill Sanderson
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Theory ◽  
Organization Theory ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Organization Studies ◽  
The Past ◽  
Dominant Narratives ◽  
Alternative Organizations

Alternative organizations have become increasingly of interest in organizational theory. Previously understudied, these organizations have also been ignored or forgotten in the dominant narratives and spaces of commemoration. This further limits what we know about the past and the potential of alternative organizations. To illustrate this problem, we offer a specific case study of the forgotten alternative organizations and marginalized space of a former Finntown alongside the commemorative narratives and practices of capitalist entrepreneur heritage spaces. Extending organization theory on memory and forgetting, we detail how commemoration not only tends to legitimate capitalist forms of organizing, but also excludes alternatives. Finntowns, with their emphasis on cooperative organizations and community, provide a unique opportunity for organization studies to explore commemoration and forgetting in terms of power relations, time, and space. These marginalized spaces contained alternative organizations coexisting and contrasting with dominant capitalist organizations. Remembering their contributions means taking alternative organizations seriously, acknowledging their historic importance as well as their ability to be models for contemporary organizations.

A Qualitative Analysis on What Brazilian Psychiatrists Want from Current Diagnostic Classifications

2009 ◽  
Vol 24 (S1) ◽  
pp. 1-1 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Santos Júnior ◽  
L.F.A.L. Silva ◽  
C.E.M. Banzato ◽  
M.E.C. Pereira
Keyword(s):  
Daily Practice ◽  
Diagnostic Systems ◽  
Diagnostic Categories ◽  
Frequent Use ◽  
Open Questions ◽  
Dsm V ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Icd 10 ◽  
Axis I ◽  
Dsm Iv

Aims:To analyze the qualitative answers profile of an anonymous standardized survey, with qualitative and quantitative questions, about the Brazilian psychiatrists' perceptions on their use of the multiaxial diagnostic systems ICD 10 and DSM-IV and on their expectations about future revisions of these classifications (ICD-11 and DSM-V).Method:the questionnaire, elaborated by Graham Mellsop (New Zealand), was translated into Portuguese and sent through mail to 1050 psychiatrists affiliated to the Brazilian Psychiatry Association. The quantitative analysis is presented elsewhere.Results:One hundred and sixty questionaries returned (15,2%). From these, 71,1% of the open questions where answered. The most needed and/or desirable qualities in a psychiatric classification were found to be: simplicity, criteria clarity, objectivity, comprehensibility, reliability and ease to use. The axis I of the ICD-10 was reported to be the most used due to its instrumental character in addition to being the official classification, including for legal and bureaucratic purposes. The DSM-IV was also used in the everyday practice, mostly for education and research purposes, by psychiatrists with academic affiliations. The less frequent use of the multiaxial systems was justified by the lack of training and familiarity, the overload of information and by the fact they are not mandatory. It was evaluated that some diagnostic categories must be reviewed, like: mental retardation, eating disorders, personality disorders, sleeping disorders, child and adolescence disorders, affective and schizoaffective disorders.Conclusion:This material offers a systematic panorama about the psychiatrists' opinions and expectations concerning the diagnostic instruments used in the daily practice.

Masters of the Universe: Power and Elites in Organization Studies

2012 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 203-221 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael I. Reed
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Approach ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Central Theme ◽  
Case Histories ◽  
Complex Interplay ◽  
Organization Studies ◽  
Hybrid Governance ◽  
And Control ◽  
The Universe

Elite analysis has re-emerged as a central theme in contemporary organization studies. This paper builds on recent contributions to this revitalized field by developing a distinctive theoretical approach and substantive agenda for the study of power relations and elite ruling in organization studies. By drawing on a realist/materialist ontology and a neo-Weberian analytical framework, the paper identifies the idea of ‘command situations’ as the key concept for identifying changing mechanisms and forms of elite domination and control in contemporary socio-political orders. Three case histories are subsequently discussed in order to provide illustrative examples of the way in which this analytical framework can enhance our understanding of the complex interplay between ‘institutional’ and ‘interstitial’ power as it shapes the emergence of hybrid governance regimes through which contemporary regimes of elite domination and rule become organized.

scholarly journals Crisis, Power, and Policymaking in the New Europe

2014 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Bilge Firat
Keyword(s):  
Member State ◽  
European Integration ◽  
Review Essay ◽  
Public Policies ◽  
State Governments ◽  
Governance Model ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The World ◽  
Scant Attention ◽  
The Eu

At a time when European integration faces many crises, the efficacy of public policies decided in Brussels, and in member state capitals, for managing the everyday lives of average Europeans demands scrutiny. Most attuned to how global uncertainties interact with local realities, anthropologists and ethnographers have paid scant attention to public policies that are created by the EU, by member state governments and by local authorities, and to the collective, organised, and individual responses they elicit in this part of the world. Our critical faculties and means to test out established relations between global–local, centre–periphery, macro–micro are crucial to see how far the EU's normative power and European integration as a governance model permeates peoples' and states' lives in Europe, broadly defined. Identifying the strengths and shortcomings in the literature, this review essay scrutinises anthropological scholarship on culture, power and policy in a post-Foucaultian Europe.

scholarly journals Distant places in children’s everyday activities: Multiple worlds in an Australian preschool

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 133-153 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zsuzsa Millei
Keyword(s):  
Young Children ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Everyday Activities ◽  
Global Flows ◽  
Multiple Worlds ◽  
Global Power ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Critical Pedagogies ◽  
Ethnographic Data

Abstract Global flows and their geopolitical power relations powerfully shape the environments in which children lead their everyday lives. Children’s images, imaginations and ideas of distant places are part of these global flows and the everyday activities children perform in preschool. Research explores how through curricula young children are moulded into global and cosmopolitan citizens and how children make sense of distant places through globally circulating ideas, images and imaginations. How these ideas, images and imaginations form an unproblematised part of young children’s everyday preschool activities and identity formation has been much less explored, if at all. I use Massey’s (2005) concept of a ‘global sense of place’ in my analysis of ethnographic data collected in an Australian preschool to explore how children produce global qualities of preschool places and form and perform identities by relating to distant places. I pay special attention to how place, objects and children become entangled, and to the sensory aspects of their emplaced experiences, as distant spatialities embed in and as children’s bodies inhabit the preschool place. To conclude, I call for critical pedagogies to engage with children’s use of these constructions to draw similarities or contrast aspects of distant places and self, potentially reproducing global power relations by fixing representations of places and through uncritically enacting stereotypes.

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