scholarly journals Elements of practice in the analysis of auto-ethnographical cooking videos

2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 543-562 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kaisa Torkkeli ◽  
Johanna Mäkelä ◽  
Mari Niva
Keyword(s):  
Video Analysis ◽  
Theoretical Approach ◽  
Practice Theory ◽  
Food Studies ◽  
Current Understanding ◽  
Analysis Program ◽  
Empirical Application ◽  
Mundane Practice ◽  
At Home

This article analyses cooking videos recorded at home by means of the practice-theoretical approach. It employs two conceptualisations of the elements of practice that have stood out in recent applications of practice theories in sociological consumption and food studies. The first conceptualisation comprises understandings, procedures and engagements and the second materials, competences and meanings. To study cooking as a situationally performed mundane practice, auto-ethnographical videos of cooking were filmed using the first author’s family. To analyse the practice of cooking as a composition of doings and sayings, the videos were coded with a video analysis program, Interact, into visual charts, and the discussions related to cooking performances were transcribed. The analysis suggests that the cooking practice involves interplay among the elements of the two conceptualisations: procedures join materials with competences, engagements link competences with meanings and understandings connect meanings with materials. This is visualised as a triangle in which understandings, procedures and engagements represent the sides of the triangle between the apexes of materials, competences and meanings. By combining an auto-ethnographical perspective with a video method and by analysing the practice of cooking as a situational and embodied performance, the study contributes to the current understanding of the elements of practice and introduces a novel empirical application of practice theory.

Parental Obligation and Medical Neglect in Childhood Obesity

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-54
Author(s):  
Jessica M. Meister Berger ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Childhood Obesity ◽  
Tort Law ◽  
Current Understanding ◽  
Individual Autonomy ◽  
Rapid Progression ◽  
Individual Choice ◽  
Lifestyle Choices ◽  
Medical Neglect ◽  
Do So ◽  
At Home

Despite unprecedented medical advancements and the near eradi­cation of many serious diseases, there are growing epidemics of preventable illness brought about in part by the overemphasis on individual autonomy and the neglect of obligations to others. Insofar as these diseases develop because of individual choice, this permissiveness hampers the moral analysis of growing epidemics like childhood obesity. While society has contributed to its rapid progression, childhood obesity finds its origins in lifestyle choices implemented at home. Consequently, parents have an unparalleled duty to prevent and correct obesity and unhealthy lifestyles in their children. Failure to do so undoubtedly violates a parent’s duty and suggests medical neglect. However, our current understanding of medical neglect is too narrow to be applicable to chronic, preventable illnesses. Relevant principles of tort law may broaden our understanding of neglect to better reflect the nature of parental and societal liability in preventable illnesses.

scholarly journals “The Typical Ghadar Outlook”: Udham Singh, Diaspora Radicalism, and Punjabi Anticolonialism in Britain (1938-1947)

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 34
Author(s):  
Silas Webb
Keyword(s):  
Labor Migration ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Current Understanding ◽  
Economic Opportunity ◽  
World War ◽  
Second World ◽  
Interwar Britain ◽  
At Home

Punjabis in interwar Britain, who had migrated for economic opportunity but had been politicized during successive upheavals at home, admired Ghadar’s radical solidarities with nationalist and anticolonial movements. This article focuses on peripatetic Punjabi radicals, often working as pedlars and sailors, to enhance the current understanding of the vibrant relationship between the Ghadar Party and Punjabis in Britain. This article contextualizes Udham Singh’s martyrdom by examining the uses to which his name and image were put in radical publications. Furthermore, the Indian Workers’ Association, formed in the midst of the Second World War, was integral to articulating a Ghadarite anticolonialism in Britain, which was animated by the trial and memorialization of Udham Singh. Thus, this article argues that labor migration and the global transmission of Ghadar Party publications was integral to the Ghadar movement’s influence on the struggle against imperialism in Britain in the 1930s and 1940s.

A Practice Theory of Legal Pluralism: Hart’s (inadvertent) defence of the indistinctiveness of law

2014 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mariano Croce
Keyword(s):  
Distinctive Feature ◽  
Theoretical Approach ◽  
Practice Theory ◽  
Legal Pluralism ◽  
The State ◽  
State Law ◽  
General Phenomenon ◽  
Contentious Issue ◽  
Hans Kelsen ◽  
Legal Normativity

This article claims that H.L.A. Hart’s theory may be regarded as a sound vindication of what today is known as legal pluralism. In short, Hart’s practice theory of norms attests to the fact that state law is only one system of rules among many others, and that it does not exhibit any distinctive feature that may distinguish it from those others. I will depict this as an inadvertent but extremely valuable outcome of the practice theory. Indeed, Hart’s battle against the claimed connection between law and coercion and his firm conviction that legal normativity should be understood in light of the broader phenomenon of social normativity make his practice theory of rules a sound and fertile vindication of legal pluralism as atheoretical approachto legal phenomena. As a result, even though Hart was a legal centralist and a legal monist, his theorizing ends up dismantling the identity between thegeneral phenomenon of lawand thelaw of the state. I will proceed as follows: I will first look at the contentious issue of the relation between law and coercion by examining how two prominent legal scholars, Hans Kelsen and E. Adamson Hoebel, came to the conclusion that the distinguishing mark of law is coercion (sec. 1). This analysis will be instrumental in demonstrating that Hart failed to grasp the relevance and salience of the relation between law and coercion, and in particular, the peculiar role Kelsen and Hoebel attributed to the latter (sec. 2). I will argue that Hart’s discomfort with the emphasis on the notion of coercion was due not to the nature of this notion as such, but to the distortive effect its overemphasis had exerted on positivist legal theorizing. I will claim that Hart’s most insidious adversaries were two (at the time prominent) philosophical and jurisprudential streams, namely, behaviourism and emotivism (sec. 3). I will go on to say that Hart’s arguments against these adversaries are well addressed but inadequate, and will try to reinforce them by drawing on a Wittgensteinian view of practices (sec. 4). I will conclude by showing that the consistent outcome of a “reinforced” practice theory is a highly pluralist view of law (sec. 5).

How risky debt became ordinary: A practice theoretical approach

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 235-254
Author(s):  
Léna Pellandini-Simányi ◽  
Zsuzsanna Vargha
Keyword(s):  
High Risk ◽  
Theoretical Approach ◽  
Energy Use ◽  
Practice Theory ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
The Other ◽  
Mortgage Debt ◽  
Natural Characteristic ◽  
The One ◽  
Risky Debt

Existing research on how consumers experience increasing debt as normal focuses on the shifting moral meanings surrounding debt. Examining rapid mortgage debt escalation in post-socialist Hungary, we propose a different approach. Using practice theory, we identify credit use as ‘ordinary consumption’: a non-expressive practice which enables other, meaningful practices; akin to energy use. Like energy, credit is channelled by background infrastructures, such as mortgage instruments. We find that mortgage debt grew and became ‘naturalized’ through the co-evolution of practices associated with a ‘normal life’ centred on the home on the one hand, and of available mortgage instruments on the other. This process did not change what debt means but stripped its meanings, making debt increasingly unreflected and invisible. We argue that this invisibility is not a natural characteristic of mortgages but a contested quality. High-risk mortgages became invisible through particular selling devices and discourses that positioned mortgages as ‘expert goods’, to be preselected and installed by qualified advisers. Emphasising the socio-material structuring of this process, we conclude by integrating the meaning-laden and unreflected credit practices into a new theoretical framework, as contingent qualities of credit consumption.

scholarly journals Video Analisis untuk Kemampuan Menganalisis dan Memecahkan Masalah Materi Kinematika pada Calon Guru Fisika

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Thoha Firdaus ◽  
A R Sinesis
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Video Analysis ◽  
Environmental Conditions ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Learning Model ◽  
Analysis Program ◽  
Model Learning ◽  
Physics Teachers

There has been a study that demonstrates the ability to analyze and solve the problem of kinematics material in prospective physics teachers. This research uses the qualitative method. There are three techniques of data collection namely; questionnaires from students, interviews from faculty, and observation of campus environmental conditions. The results of this study produce gaps, and it can be concluded that the need for improvement and improvement of the learning model. Learning using the Video analysis program can solve the problem

scholarly journals The Meanings of Practices for Energy Consumption – a Comparison of Homes and Workplaces

2014 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 72-92 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jenny Palm ◽  
Sarah J Darby
Keyword(s):  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Practice Theory ◽  
Design Stage ◽  
Theory Approach ◽  
Passive House ◽  
Ongoing Research ◽  
Observational Material ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
Different Types ◽  
At Home

We examine how building and appliance technologies relate to their use by occupants through practices at home and at work. The aim is to analyse how practices are influenced by buildings and other technologies and by social requirements and to add to ongoing research on how to contribute to a transition to more sustainable everyday practices. Interview, quantitative and observational material are used to compare experiences of occupying and using two different types of buildings, passive housing and large modern research laboratories. We apply the practice theory approach. The passive house case showed that the main project of a liveable, low-impact new building was on a fairly manageable scale, with a viable design and occupants who were prepared to adapt to it. The research lab study showed, however, that the configuration of unsustainable technologies and practices can occur at the design stage, and that most actors had very limited room for manoeuvre.

Unpredictable hypersecretion of cortisol in Cushing's disease: detection by daily salivary cortisol measurements

1993 ◽  
Vol 128 (5) ◽  
pp. 428-432 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ad R Hermus ◽  
Gerlach F Pieters ◽  
George F Borm ◽  
Albert A Verhofstad ◽  
Anthony G Smals ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cluster Analysis ◽  
Cushing’S Syndrome ◽  
Salivary Cortisol ◽  
Signs And Symptoms ◽  
Cushing's Syndrome ◽  
Analysis Program ◽  
Urinary Cortisol ◽  
Urinary Cortisol Excretion ◽  
Cortisol Excretion ◽  
At Home

A 70-year-old man with mild signs and symptoms of Cushing's syndrome due to an ACTH-secreting pituitary adenoma is described. He had a completely unpredictable pattern of urinary excretion of cortisol; 24 h urine for determination of cortisol excretion was collected daily at home on 725 consecutive days. During this period there were eight episodes in which urinary cortisol excretion exceeded the upper limit of normal. Within these episodes the pattern of cortisol secretion was extremely unpredictable, with cortisol excretion ranging from normal to highly elevated. Using a Cluster Analysis Program 61 pulses of cortisol excretion were detected within the eight periods of cortisol hypersecretion. The interval between two pulses varied from 2 to 12 days. Between the periods of cortisol hypersecretion, urinary cortisol excretion was completely normal, lasting from 4 to 102 days. There was no difference in the clinical expression of Cushing's syndrome between the periods of elevated and normal urinary cortisol excretion. During the last 439 days of the observation, cortisol was also measured in saliva collected at home at 09.00 after an overnight fast. The salivary cortisol pattern closely resembled that of urinary cortisol excretion and there was a significant correlation between salivary cortisol levels and 24 h urinary cortisol excretion in the 24 h after (r=0.42, p<0.0001, Spearman) and before saliva collection (r = 0.44, p<0.0001). On 71% of occasions cortisol peaks in saliva, as detected by the Cluster Analysis Program, coincided with urinary cortisol peaks. We conclude that daily measurement of cortisol in saliva, collected at home, is a convenient and reliable method for detecting intermittent hypercortisolism in patients with Cushing's syndrome.

scholarly journals Analysis of the Determinant Factors of the Historical Development of Air Transport: An Empirical Application to Turkey

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 74-90 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kasim Kiraci
Keyword(s):  
Unit Root ◽  
Historical Development ◽  
Structural Breaks ◽  
Structural Changes ◽  
Unit Root Test ◽  
Air Transport ◽  
Empirical Application ◽  
Determinant Factors ◽  
The One ◽  
At Home

Abstract The aim of this study was to empirically examine the development of air transport in Turkey in the period between 1980 and 2015. The study intended, within its scope, to determine the developments experienced in air transport in Turkey and the probable causes of the structural changes. Moreover, it was aimed at highlighting the years in which the structural changes in air transport were realized. In line with this objective, the one-break Zivot Anderews (1992) unit root test, the two-break Clemente-Montañés-Reyes (1998) unit root test, and the one-break and two-break LM were applied to the domestic and international air transport data of the 1980-2015 period. The results of the study show that there were substantial economic and political developments both at home and abroad in the years that the significant structural breaks that affect air transport took place.

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