Ready the Canons: The Role of Canonical Stories in Organizational Sensemaking

2020 ◽  
pp. 232948842091838
Author(s):  
Dan Parrish
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Sensemaking ◽  
Student Access ◽  
Catholic Universities ◽  
Community Narratives ◽  
University Communities ◽  
Specific Meaning

This article examines the role of canonical stories in sensemaking. Canonical stories are known by members of a group; storytellers can refer to the shared narratives as repositories of meaning. While the sensemaking literature includes multiple studies of stories and storytelling, no studies have explicitly examined the role of canonical stories in sensemaking. Interviews with 55 top leaders in U.S. Catholic universities confronting a fraught issue in their institutions (undocumented student access) indicate a variety of ways that canonical stories operate in their sensemaking. Respondents referred to community narratives, canonical stories that hold specific meaning for their university communities. They told generic or stereotypical stories and fragments as shorthand in their communication. They also used counterfactuals as referents for their sensemaking. These findings help us better understand the role and importance of canonical stories in organizational sensemaking.

Tackling Rape Culture in Québec Universities: A Network of Feminist Resistance

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (11) ◽  
pp. 1290-1308 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandrine Ricci ◽  
Manon Bergeron
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Violence ◽  
Significant Contribution ◽  
Political Agenda ◽  
The Political ◽  
Feminist Activism ◽  
University Campuses ◽  
Government Institutions ◽  
University Communities ◽  
Dual Perspective

Québec university communities are facing intensified pressure to address the incidence of sexual violence on campus. The ESSIMU ( Enquête Sexualité, Sécurité et Interactions en Milieu Universitaire) survey (2016) revealed that one third of respondents (students and employees from six universities, all genders combined) reported having experienced at least one form of sexual violence since arriving at university, committed by someone affiliated with the same university. As the issue is becoming increasingly institutionalized, a process that often erodes activism, this article highlights the role feminist activism has played in placing sexual violence on university campuses on the political agenda. From the dual perspective of feminist activists and researchers on the ESSIMU team, the article explores the backdrop of this mobilization, and the network of feminist resistance that fostered the ESSIMU study, itself a significant contribution to the increased recognition of sexual violence in universities. It also considers the role of university and government institutions in (re)producing such violence and the role of media in making it a public issue.

scholarly journals The Role of Elision in Evolutionary Processes

Languages ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 12
Author(s):  
María Azofra Sierra
Keyword(s):  
Language Change ◽  
Evolutionary Process ◽  
Category Membership ◽  
Evolutionary Processes ◽  
Linguistic Change ◽  
Specific Meaning ◽  
Theoretical Overview

Changes by elision—as well as those due to processes of adfunctionalization or refunctionalization—must be taken into account as explanatory mechanisms of linguistic change. In this paper, we study the role of elision in the theoretical overview of explanatory theories of language change by focusing on the evolutionary process of the Spanish adverb aparte. We analyze the consequences of the elision of an initial construction for the development of new functions as an exceptive or additive adverb, and as an additive connector with a specific meaning, conditioned by the evolution of the entire construction. We find that, in this case, the ellipsis of a verbal element has led to important modifications of the preserved item (aparte), not only at the semantic-pragmatic and functional levels but also in its category membership.

The Role of Aggression in Somatic Symptom Formation

1974 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 449-460 ◽  
Author(s):  
Herman Musaph
Keyword(s):  
Somatic Symptom ◽  
Behavior Pattern ◽  
Operational Definition ◽  
Psychosomatic Disorders ◽  
Leading Role ◽  
Specific Meaning ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Symptom Formation ◽  
Critical Consideration

In searching for an operational definition of aggression, five different aspects of the concept of aggression are described: aggression as an instinct, as a behavior pattern, as an emotion, as a trait of character and as a defense. Discussion of the role of aggression is made very difficult because there still exist a great many unsolved fundamental problems in quantifying each aspect of the concept. Behaviorists and psychophysiologists have made important contributions toward solving the problem of quantification. The meaning of aggression for psychosomatic disorders has been intensively studied by psychoanalysts. The psychoanalytic model poses two hypotheses which are subject to critical consideration, namely: 1) the therapeutic meaning of the abreaction of repressed and suppressed strangulated affects [1] and 2) the pensée opératoire [2]. Psychotherapeutic practice is often disappointing in providing answers, but we can look for clarification by studying the specific meaning of patient-doctor relationships in which aggression as an emotion in interaction plays a leading role. In many cases the onset of the somatic symptom may be iatrogenic; the course and recovery may also be dependent on this or analogous relationships.

scholarly journals Past, Present, and Future of Human Rights in Gerontological Education

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 340-341
Author(s):  
Rona Karasik ◽  
Judith Howe
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Older Persons ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
Call To Action ◽  
University Communities ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Core Issues

Abstract The rights of older persons, essential to our work as gerontologists, were discussed in the World Assembly on Aging (1982) and adopted through the United Nations Principles of Older Persons and followed by the Madrid International Plan of Action on Aging (MIPPA) in 2002. Although it has been endorsed by the General Assembly of the United Nations, in contrast to conventions, it is not binding on member states. This paper discusses the rights of older persons and our obligations as educators and researchers to focus on core issues associated with the rights and quality of life of older people. We will review the role of education in meeting this call to action through examples like the UN Decade of Healthy Ageing where education is a required element to accomplish the action areas and the Age-Friendly University movement. Both have involved multiple university communities on a global scale.

The Trouble with the Old-Time Religion

2021 ◽  
pp. 193-214
Author(s):  
George M. Marsden
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Carnegie Foundation ◽  
The Public ◽  
Catholic Universities ◽  
Modern Thought ◽  
Faculty Retirement ◽  
Considerable Controversy ◽  
Syracuse University ◽  
Vanderbilt University

The first decades of the twentieth century saw considerable controversy over the role of more traditional Christianity at major universities. Some popular critics warned the public that universities were becoming hostile to old-time religion. Catholic universities, which were outside the mainstream, remained conservative and strengthened defenses against modern thought with neo-Thomist philosophy. The new Methodist universities had some of the most prominent controversies. Vanderbilt University was moving toward more progressive Christian views, but these were opposed by some archconservative Methodists. The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching put pressure on schools to be nonsectarian and to sever denominational ties if they were to participate in the attractive faculty retirement program. Syracuse University, a Methodist school under Chancellor James R. Day, is the most revealing case of resistance to this pressure.

Multiculturalism: Identity, Language and Culture in Zadie Smith's White Teeth

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 335-347
Author(s):  
Alaal Lateef Alnajm
Keyword(s):  
Black Women ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Multicultural Society ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
Construction Of Identity ◽  
Specific Meaning ◽  
Complex Construction ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
White Teeth

This paper aims at examining the specific meaning of multiculturalism, identity, language and culture in Zadie Smith’s White Teeth, her debut novel. Smith depicts a clear picture of the multicultural society of Britain in general and London in particular. However, the paper studies the ways in which Smith’s novel transcends and promotes the limitations of black women. The study investigates how multicultural society of Britain drawn through the role of each character in the novel; therefore, it shows the complex construction of identity created by Smith to illustrate the relationship built by difference of race, language, and religion. The paper also examines how Zadie Smith in her use of language integrates the linguistic process existed in the intercultural experiences of both the characters and the author herself. This paper aims at examining the specific meaning of multiculturalism, identity, language and culture in Zadie Smith’s White Teeth, her debut novel. Smith depicts a clear picture of the multicultural society of Britain in general and London in particular. However, the paper studies the ways in which Smith’s novel transcends and promotes the limitations of black women. The study investigates how multicultural society of Britain drawn through the role of each character in the novel; therefore, it shows the complex construction of identity created by Smith to illustrate the relationship built by difference of race, language, and religion. The paper also examines how Zadie Smith in her use of language integrates the linguistic process existed in the intercultural experiences of both the characters and the author herself.This paper aims at examining the specific meaning of multiculturalism, identity, language and culture in Zadie Smith’s White Teeth, her debut novel. Smith depicts a clear picture of the multicultural society of Britain in general and London in particular. However, the paper studies the ways in which Smith’s novel transcends and promotes the limitations of black women. The study investigates how multicultural society of Britain drawn through the role of each character in the novel; therefore, it shows the complex construction of identity created by Smith to illustrate the relationship built by difference of race, language, and religion.

History and co-production in the home: documents, artefacts and migrant identities in Rotherham

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Gould ◽  
Mariam Shah
Keyword(s):  
Oral History ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Oral Histories ◽  
Urban Settlement ◽  
The Public ◽  
Specific Meaning

This chapter considers alternative histories of urban settlement through the intersection between family and neighbourhood. It proposes a form of co-production that connects specific small-scale communities not to meta-histories, but to documents that have a specific meaning within their own notions of narrative. The ‘stuff’ of such histories, because they are as much about the private, intimate, and familiar, is about stuff in the home — much of it undiscovered, perhaps only half-realised by families. Many historians have seen this as the ephemera of marginal oral histories. In extension of arguments about the role of oral history made elsewhere, this chapter argues that the connection between the intimate, which includes the material memorabilia and personal documents in homes, and the public community, helps us to explore the ways in which ideas of postcolonial citizenship are related to the idea of the home.

Literary and Rhetorical Form and Structure in the “Epistle to the Hebrews”

2005 ◽  
Vol 102 (2) ◽  
pp. 255-279
Author(s):  
Edgar V. McKnight
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Cognitive Factors ◽  
Conventional View ◽  
Epistle To The Hebrews ◽  
Specific Meaning ◽  
Book Of Hebrews ◽  
Rhetorical Form ◽  
Role Of The Reader ◽  
Creating Meaning

The “riddle” of the form and structure of Hebrews cannot be solved with the conventional view that there is one correct principle and outline around which the author constructed the book of Hebrews. This essay suggests that the role of the reader/hearer is central in Hebrews because of the similarity of the book to didactic and propagandistic literature whose purpose is to communicate a confirmation of values already known to readers. With that sort of literature (such as the thesis novel), the reader participates primarily not in the articulation of a specific meaning but in the articulation of the reader's own situation vis-a-vis that meaning. The different affective and cognitive factors in meaning and the role of readers and/or hearers in the completion of meaning allows different sets of relationships to operate in finding and creating meaning in the text of Hebrews. The essay examines (1) the ways that different views of the genre of Hebrews enable productive readings (covenant literature, letter, Christological treatise, sermon) with the sermon form being able to comprehend the other forms and (2) the different ways that the elements of the sermon (Christological exposition of Scripture and exhortation) may be correlated by different sorts of readers and hearers.

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