Professional adventure tourists: Producing and selling stories of ‘authentic’ identity

2012 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 268-286 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maurice J Kane
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Role Model ◽  
Social Identities ◽  
Study Tour ◽  
Authentic Identity

The ability to experience distinctive adventure appears limited today in comparison to the accounts of past exploring heroes. Even with these perceived limitations, there is continued growth in remote adventure tours. Guided by a Bourdieusian lens, this article examines the negotiation of authenticity, distinction and identity in the websites and blogs of companies and tourists during the 2010 spring Mt Everest climbing season. The interpretation suggests company blogs offer tourists an experience framed in mountaineering myth. The mountaineering guides’ capital derived from skill, experience and decision making ability make this experience possible. The tourists’ blogs offer authentically, recognisable environments, practices, and emotions disguising their limited mountaineering abilities. Tourist’s existential stories seek to transcend and appropriate mountaineering capital. For the females in this study, tour experience has supported careers based on mountaineering adventurer social identities. The companies’ tourism products facilitate the professional adventure tourist’s role model claims to ‘authentic’ adventurer identities.

Family Decision-Making: A Developmental Sex Role Model.

1983 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 192
Author(s):  
Charles Lee Cole ◽  
John Scanzoni ◽  
Maximiliane Szinovacz
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Role Model ◽  
Sex Role ◽  
Family Decision ◽  
Family Decision Making

scholarly journals Recruiting Quality Academics: The Relationship of Passion, Role Model, Workplace Flexibility, and Career Decision-Making Self-Efficacy

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-37
Author(s):  
Jakaria Dasan ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Role Models ◽  
Role Model ◽  
Academic Career ◽  
Career Decision ◽  
Career Decision Making ◽  
Workplace Flexibility ◽  
Supportive Role ◽  
Relationship Of

Quality academics are crucial to enhance universities’ visibility in attracting more international students to pursue their tertiary education. Consequently, this may lead to the nation aspiration of becoming higher education hub in the region. Thus, understanding individuals’ interest towards pursuing academic career may lead to the recruitment of quality academics. A quantitative study was carried out involving 463 third year undergraduate students in selected universities. Passion, role model, and workplace flexibility had been found to significantly predict the intention to pursue academic career based on social cognitive career theory. In addition, career decision-making self-efficacy was found to be a significant intervening role that motivate further one’s confidence in pursuing academic career. Factor analyses led to the identification of new variables which significantly predict the criterion variables. However, the strength of relationship between each variable to criterion variable differs. Passion, supportive role models, and perceived workplace flexibility were found to be significantly predicting intention to pursue academic career. On the other hand, perceived workplace flexibility was found to have less influence when compared to the other two variables. Meanwhile, career decision-making self-efficacy of assessing personal and occupational features and career decision-making self-efficacy of gathering occupational information were well reported to partially mediate the relationship of passion and supportive role models, and the criterion variable.

The lives and identities of UK Black and South Asian head teachers

2017 ◽  
Vol 45 (5) ◽  
pp. 842-862 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lauri Johnson
Keyword(s):  
South Asian ◽  
Life Histories ◽  
Role Model ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
Social Identities ◽  
Head Teachers ◽  
Policy Context ◽  
History Approach ◽  
Changing Attitudes ◽  
Minority Ethnic

This article reports on the preliminary findings from a national UK study of the life histories of 28 Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) educators who led schools across a 47-year period (1968–2015). BAME head teachers were grouped by generations (i.e. pioneer, experienced, and novice) and questioned about the critical life experiences that influenced their path to leadership, the intersection of their professional and social identities, and their metaphors for leadership. Participants claimed leadership metaphors which included the head teacher as parent, ambassador, moral steward, role model, and community advocate. Pioneer Black and South Asian headteachers narrated more collectivist identities as community leaders and race equality activists, while current BAME headteachers appear more individually focused on raising attainment for students who have been marginalized. A life history approach across generations emphasizes the influence of changing attitudes toward race and the shifting policy context on professional identities.

scholarly journals Modeling Parental Influence on Food Consumption among Chinese Adolescents through Self-Efficacy: A Path Analysis

Nutrients ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (12) ◽  
pp. 4454
Author(s):  
Jialin Fu ◽  
Fang Liang ◽  
Yechuang Wang ◽  
Nan Qiu ◽  
Kai Ding ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Path Analysis ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Role Model ◽  
Parental Influence ◽  
Parental Control ◽  
Ordinary Least Squares ◽  
Chinese Adolescents ◽  
Parental Modeling ◽  
Negatively Associated

This study aimed to investigate the associations between perceived parental control, perceived parental modeling and parent–teen co-decision making, and fruit and vegetable (F&V) and sugar-sweetened beverage and junk food (S&J) consumption among Chinese adolescents, and examine whether self-efficacy mediates the associations. Data were collected in a cross-sectional survey of Chinese adolescents carried out in the fall of 2019. The questionnaires were adapted from the Family Life, Activity, Sun, Health, and Eating (FLASHE) Study. Ordinary least-squares regressions and a path analysis were performed to evaluate the hypothesized associations. The final sample included 3595 Chinese adolescents (mean (SD) age, 14.67 (1.73) years; 52.82% (n = 1899) males). Perceived parental control was positively associated with adolescents’ F&V consumption, and was negatively associated with adolescents’ S&J consumption. Perceived parental modeling and parent–teen co-decision making were both positively associated with adolescents’ F&V consumption and negatively associated with their S&J consumption. Adolescents’ self-efficacy was positively associated with F&V consumption and negatively associated with S&J consumption. These results suggest that serving as a positive role model, having adolescents participate in the decision-making process, and increasing adolescents’ self-efficacy can be feasible and efficacious strategies to improve the nutritional quality of Chinese adolescents’ diets.

Stereotypes at Work

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katina Sawyer ◽  
Judith A. Clair
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Group Membership ◽  
Social Identities ◽  
Central Concern ◽  
Workplace Fairness

Stereotypes are a central concern in society and in the workplace. Stereotypes are cognitions that drive what individuals know, believe, and expect from others as a result of their social identities. Stereotypes predict how individuals view and treat one another at work, often resulting in inaccurate generalizations about individuals based on their group membership. As such, it’s important to break down and combat the use of stereotypes in decision-making at work. If stereotypes can be overcome in the workplace, fairness and equity in organizations becomes more likely.

Norwegian and French Women in high Leadership Positions

1993 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 409-429 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erika Apfelbaum
Keyword(s):  
Women Leaders ◽  
Role Model ◽  
Total Sample ◽  
Social Identities ◽  
Professional Lives ◽  
Cultural Perspective ◽  
Leadership Positions ◽  
Gender Consciousness ◽  
Semistructured Interviews ◽  
Different Cultures

This analysis of 50 French and Norwegian women in high positions of leadership stresses how gendered relations structuring private and professional lives will vary in different cultures according to their socio-historical contexts. The specific contexts of two Western European democracies, France and Norway, reveal a number of differences impacting on the careers and the construction of the personal and social identities of women leaders. Interviews were held with French women who (a) assumed pioneering leadership positions in the 1970s ( n = 10) and (b) who followed in the 1980s ( n = 20) and with Norwegian women leaders ( n = 20). Sixty percent of the total sample had held posts as cabinet or subcabinet ministers. Illustrations from their narratives, collected through semistructured interviews about their personal and professional itineraries, are used to discuss a number of questions from a comparative cultural perspective: the sense of double marginality, extraneity, lack of entitlement and vulnerability; role-model legitimation; feminism and the women's movement; political parity/mixity; gender consciousness and solidarity; and family and female—male interactions.

Business Applications of Fuzzy Logic

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Petr Dostál ◽  
Chia-Yang Lin
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Fuzzy Logic ◽  
Soft Computing ◽  
Role Model ◽  
Human Mind ◽  
Guiding Principle ◽  
Business Applications ◽  
Partial Truth

The chapter focuses on the use of fuzzy logic, or soft computing, among the different methods used as supports for decision making in business applications. The processes are focused on private corporate attempts at making money or decreasing expenses; therefore, the details of applications, successful or not, are not published very often. Fuzzy logic helps in decentralization of decisionmaking processes that are to be standardized, reproduced, and documented. Fuzzy logic plays very important roles, especially in business, because it helps reduce costs. It differs from conventional (hard) computing in that it is tolerant of imprecision, uncertainty, partial truth, and approximation. In effect, the role model for fuzzy logic is the human mind. The guiding principle of fuzzy logic is to exploit this tolerance to achieve tractability, robustness, and low solution cost.

Learning, Decisions and Transformation in Critical Care Nursing Practice

2008 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 322-331 ◽  
Author(s):  
M Catherine Hough
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Critical Care ◽  
Role Model ◽  
Ethical Decision ◽  
Ethical Decision Making ◽  
Critical Care Nurses ◽  
Care Practice ◽  
Theoretical Concepts ◽  
Education Levels ◽  
High Acuity

Critical care nurses are key providers in a high acuity environment. This qualitative research study explored ethical decision making in a critical care practice setting. Fifteen critical care nurses with varying experience and education levels were purposively sampled to assure the representativeness of the data. The theoretical concepts of experiential learning, perspective transformation, reflection-in-action and principle-based ethics were used as a framework for eliciting information from the participants. A new model of focused reflection in ethical decision making was developed. Findings showed that having a role model or mentor to help guide the ethical decision-making process was critical for focused ethical discourse and the decision making.

scholarly journals Risk Culture and the Role Model of the Honorable Merchant

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 40
Author(s):  
Jürgen Bott ◽  
Udo Milkau
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Probability Distribution ◽  
Financial Services ◽  
Role Model ◽  
Time Lag ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Financial Industry ◽  
Ex Post ◽  
Risk Culture ◽  
Uncertain Future

The current discussion about a “risk culture” in financial services was triggered by the recent series of financial crises. The last decade saw a long list of hubris, misconduct and criminal activities by human beings on a single or even a collective basis in banks, in the industry or in the whole economy. As a counter-reaction, financial authorities called for a guidance by a “new” risk culture in financial institutions based on a set of abstract, formal, and normative governance processes. While traditional risk research in economics and in banking was focused on the statistical aspects of risk as the probability of loss multiplied by the amount of loss, culture is a paraphrase for the behavior in collectives and dynamics of organization found in human societies. Therefore, a “risk culture” should link the normative concepts of risk with the positive “real-world” decision-making in financial services. This paper will describe a novel view on “risk culture” from the perspective of human beings interacting in dynamical and intertemporal commercial relations. In this context “risk” is perceived by economic agents ex−ante as the consequence of the time lag between the present and the uncertain future development (compared to a probability distribution calculated by observers ex−post). For all those individual decisions—to be made under uncertainty—future “risk” includes the so-called “normal accidents”, i.e., failures that will happen at some uncertain point in time but are inevitable, and the only questions are when failure will happen and how to maintain function in the first line of defense. Finally, the shift from an abstract definition of “risk” as a probability distribution to a role model of “honorable merchants” as a benchmark for significant individual decision-making with individual responsibilities for the uncertain future outcome provides a new framework to discuss the responsibilities in the financial industry.

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