scholarly journals Everyday life under the PIDE: A quantitative survey on the relations between ordinary citizens and Salazar’s political police (1955–74)

2021 ◽  
Vol 00 (00) ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Duncan Simpson ◽  
Ana Louceiro
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Small Minority ◽  
Quantitative Survey ◽  
Main Research ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Portuguese Society ◽  
Ordinary Citizens

This article examines the relations between Portuguese society and Salazar’s political police (PIDE) from the perspective of the everyday lives of ordinary citizens – 
in contrast to the small minority of oppositionists that has so far monopolized the attention of historians. It is based on a quantitative survey of 400 respondents in four separate locations across Portugal and addresses two main research questions: To what extent did the sample of ordinary citizens experience the PIDE as a disruptive influence on their daily lives? Was the PIDE ‘normalized’ by them as part of the framework of everyday life? The data analysis calls upon the inputs of the international bibliography of everyday life under dictatorship and critically engages with the existing historiography of the PIDE.

scholarly journals Everyday life under the PIDE: A quantitative survey on the relations between ordinary citizens and Salazar’s political police (1955–74)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Duncan Simpson ◽  
Ana Louceiro
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Small Minority ◽  
Quantitative Survey ◽  
Main Research ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Portuguese Society ◽  
Ordinary Citizens

This article examines the relations between Portuguese society and Salazar’s political police (PIDE) from the perspective of the everyday lives of ordinary citizens – in contrast to the small minority of oppositionists that has so far monopolized the attention of historians. It is based on a quantitative survey of 400 respondents in four separate locations across Portugal and addresses two main research questions: To what extent did the sample of ordinary citizens experience the PIDE as a disruptive influence on their daily lives? Was the PIDE ‘normalized’ by them as part of the framework of everyday life? The data analysis calls upon the inputs of the international bibliography of everyday life under dictatorship and critically engages with the existing historiography of the PIDE.

OUTDOOR CAMP EFFECTS ON ATHLETES: ORIENTEERING EXAMPLE

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (104) ◽  
pp. 55-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kadir Yıldız ◽  
Pınar Güzel ◽  
Fırat Çetinöz ◽  
Tolga Beşikçi
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Data Analysis ◽  
Outdoor Education ◽  
Study Group ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
Data Collection Tool ◽  
Main Research ◽  
Interview Technique ◽  
Content Analysis Method ◽  
Research Questions

Background. In this research, we aimed to investigate the effects of outdoor camps on orienteering athletes. Methods. The study group consisted of 74 athletes (44 males and 30 females, aged 11.94 ± 1.32 years) who participated in Bolu outdoor camp on the 3 rd –13 th of August, 2015. Interview technique, which is one of the qualitative research methods, was used as data collection tool and content analysis method was used for data analysis. Results. Demographic factors were interpreted after the analysis of the obtained data and three main research questions were discussed under the topics of the views of athletes about the concept of Orienteering which is an outdoor sport, themes and codes regarding the purpose of Orienteering by the students who participated in the outdoor camp, and themes and codes about the outcomes of Orienteering for the students who participated in outdoor camps. Conclusion. It is suggested that a policy must be developed within the Ministry of Youth and Sport and Sport Federations in order to disseminate more deliberate and more comprehensive outdoor education among young people and measures should be taken to provide extensive participation.

scholarly journals The Everyday Life of Security: Capturing Space, Practice, and Affect

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonna Nyman
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Conceptual Clarity ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Participatory Photography ◽  
High Politics ◽  
Ordinary Citizens

Abstract Security shapes everyday life, but despite a growing literature on everyday security there is no consensus on the meaning of the “everyday.” At the same time, the research methods that dominate the field are designed to study elites and high politics. This paper does two things. First, it brings together and synthesizes the existing literature on everyday security to argue that we should think about the everyday life of security as constituted across three dimensions: space, practice, and affect. Thus, the paper adds conceptual clarity, demonstrating that the everyday life of security is multifaceted and exists in mundane spaces, routine practices, and affective/lived experiences. Second, it works through the methodological implications of a three-dimensional understanding of everyday security. In order to capture all three dimensions and the ways in which they interact, we need to explore different methods. The paper offers one such method, exploring the everyday life of security in contemporary China through a participatory photography project with six ordinary citizens in Beijing. The central contribution of the paper is capturing—conceptually and methodologically—all three dimensions, in order to develop our understanding of the everyday life of security.

scholarly journals Surveillance on/off: Examining home surveillance systems from the user's perspective

2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-77 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liisa A Mäkinen
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Care Setting ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Surveillance Systems ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Control Devices ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Traditional Understanding

Surveillance equipment, especially cameras and access control devices, are increasingly introduced into homes and other private dwellings. Residents use the equipment in their daily lives in places where they are both operators and targets of these systems. Thus far, the concrete practices of these systems use or the users’ feelings towards them have not been investigated. This article sets out to examine the surveillance produced with home surveillance systems and the meanings and implications of that surveillance to the resident.The data consist of 13 interviews conducted in Finland with people who have installed surveillance systems in their homes. Through qualitative content analysis of the interviews, this article argues that five types of surveillance is produced with these systems. The first two types are comparable to traditional understanding of surveillance motivated by control and care. Besides these two, the equipment is used for recreational and communicational surveillance which are motivated by more playful purposes. The fifth type of surveillance analyzed here is ‘sincere’ surveillance. Domestic surveillance is sincere in the sense that the residents consider it, along with their motives for conducting it, innocent. The users as overseers wish to separate themselves from voyeurs.This article offers important insight into the everyday life practices of surveillance and expands our previous understanding of domestic surveillance. The surveillance produced with home surveillance systems needs to be understood more broadly than in mere control-care-setting. The playful and entertaining usages of the systems, however, do not remove the ambiguities of domestic surveillance. 

scholarly journals CIRCLE DANCING IN THE EVERYDAY LIFE OF THE ELDERLY PERSON

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kelly Maciel Silva ◽  
Rosane Gonçalves Nitschke ◽  
Michelle Kuntz Durand ◽  
Ivonete Teresinha Schülter Buss Heidemann ◽  
Joanara Rozane da Fontoura Winters ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Elderly Person ◽  
Family Care ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Quality Life ◽  
Work Community ◽  
The Everyday

ABSTRACT Objective: to understand the everyday life of the elderly person who practices circle dancing. Method: a interpretative qualitative research based on Comprehensive sociology and the daily life. Data collection occurred between September 2016 and March 2017 through in-depth interviews and participant observation. There was a total of 20 participants, with 17 of them practicing the dancing and three circle dance leaders in the Basic Health Units of a municipality in southern Brazil. Data analysis included preliminary analysis, ordering, key links, coding and categorization. Results: two thematic categories emerged: The daily life of the elderly person; Experiencing circle dancing in everyday life. The daily lives of the elderly are involved in domestic activities, family care, volunteer work, community groups and physical activities. The elderly expressed that circle dancing brought changes, made them more balanced, calm, cheerful, attentive, interactive, with pain relief and improved family and social relationships. Conclusion: circle dancing in the daily life of the elderly person causes emotional, physical, social and, mainly, family changes in their everyday way of living, making them more positive, loving and sensitive, healthier, it also contributes to health promotion and a better quality life.

scholarly journals An Echo from a Footprint: A Step Too Far

2021 ◽  
pp. 397-412
Author(s):  
Steve Webb
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Archaeological Site ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
Ancient People ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Women And Children ◽  
Central Australia ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Last Glacial Maximum

AbstractRarely in archaeology do we see the flesh and blood of ancient people living their lives? In Australia, a unique archaeological site discovered in 2006 allowed us to do just that as people went about their daily lives during the last glacial maximum. The site is a palaeofilm of men, women and children, walking, running and meandering across a wet area that was obviously special to them. While hundreds of footprints displayed this unusual but moving life tapestry, details of their behaviour and other marks they left behind were difficult or impossible to interpret. Moreover, were some of the marks made by humans or just artefacts of nature? Perhaps we were not making the right interpretation and not picking up clues to the everyday life of these people as well as we might. We required interpretative skills we did not have. To help us we needed to partner with people who had such skills. Pintubi people from Central Australia were asked to help, and they were some of the last people contacted by White Australia in the early 1960s. They had the vital skills of tracking, skills that had kept them alive in the harsh Tanami and Gibson deserts of Central Australia. It was possible that they would be able to apply those skills in reaching out to their ancient Dreamtime ancestors. They also brought that Dreamtime to us.

scholarly journals Racism in the everyday life of Finnish children with transnational roots

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Rastas
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Transnational Adoptees ◽  
Vast Area

In the vast area of studies of racism children’s experiences have been overlooked. Questions of racism are often related to immigrants and their children, but in many European countries increasing numbers of children of mixed parentage, as well as children adopted from other continents, confront racism. My ethnographic study of racism in the everyday lives of Finnish children with “transnational roots” focuses on the experiences of transnational adoptees and those young Finnish citizens who have one Finnish-born parent, but whose Finnishness and right to belong is often questioned by others because of their parental ties to other countries and nations. This article explores the different manifestations of racism in their daily lives and concludes with a discussion of the importance of identifying those social and culturalfactors which make it especially difficult for children to talk about and deal with their experiences of racism.

scholarly journals Creating by me, and for me: investigating the use of information creation in everyday life

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lo Lee ◽  
◽  
Melissa Ocepek ◽  
Stephann Makri ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Arts And Crafts ◽  
Grocery Stores ◽  
Grocery Shopping ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Affective Value ◽  
Field Notes

Introduction. We investigate the use of information creation in everyday life, where individuals carry out various commonplace work. While there have been an increasing number of studies on information creation, little research exists on discussing its function and relationship to navigating life activities. Method. To identify the ways information creation facilitates information tasks in the everyday world, we conducted two qualitative studies, each reflecting a particular aspect of our daily lives. We held semi-structured interviews and think-aloud observation in physical grocery stores and on the Pinterest website. A total of twenty-eight participants (eighteen grocery shoppers and ten arts and crafts hobbyists) were recruited for the two studies. Analysis. Transcribed interview data and field notes were analysed inductively. We assigned and refined a series of codes iteratively to identify themes. Results. Findings highlight a variety of circumstances in which participants made use of information creation as an end product to support their ordinary actions (in this case, grocery shopping and idea collecting, respectively). Conclusions. This study gives an in-depth analysis of information creation, underlining its potential functions in efficiently and engagingly aiding the accomplishment of routine activities. We demonstrate the practical and affective value associated with information creation, expanding this concept in information behaviour research.

scholarly journals An Analysis of Illocutionary Acts of Hillary Clinton’s Concession Speech to Donald Trump in Presidential Election

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Muhammad Hudri ◽  
Irwandi Irwandi
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Data Analysis ◽  
Presidential Election ◽  
Speech Acts ◽  
Frequency Of Occurrence ◽  
Donald Trump ◽  
Main Research ◽  
Illocutionary Acts ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Research Questions

Illocutionary Acts is what the speaker wants to achieve by uttering something, and illocutionary acts is an utterance which has a particular conventional force. About this, illocutionary acts in Hillary Clinton’s speech is interesting to be analyzed. The purpose of this research is to analyze the types of illocutionary acts found in Hillary Clinton’s concession speech to Donald Trump. The writer used descriptive qualitative research. The main research instrument was the writer herself supported by the data analysis sheet. The data analysis was performed by categorizing the data based on Searle’s categorization of speech acts (2005) which include assertive, directives, commissives, expressive and declarative speech acts. Each category was thoroughly observed to find the answer of the research questions. The final step was presenting the data and making a conclusion in reference to the findings of the research. The research findings show that the types of illocutionary acts found in Hillary Clinton’s concession speech to Donald Trump consist of assertives, directives, commissives, expressives and declaratives. Assertions have the highest frequency of occurrence 13 types (36.1%). It is followed by directives, commissives, expressives and declaratives which occur 9 types (25%), 3 types (8.3%), 9 types (25%) and 2 types (5.6%) respectively. The dominant illocutionary acts in Hillary Clinton’s speech are assertives. Assertation showed the highest frequency of assertives. So, the total of data were 36 types of illocutionary acts founds in Hillary Clinton’s concession speech to Donald Trump.

scholarly journals Profiles in Exhaustion and Pomposity: the Everyday Life of Komsomol cadres in the 1920s

2014 ◽  
pp. 42
Author(s):  
Sean Guillory
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Local Authority ◽  
Local Population ◽  
Material Base ◽  
Health Attitudes ◽  
Russian Civil War ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Appointment System

The article examines the daily lives of Young Communist League (Komsomol) cadres in the 1920s argue that their ability to establish local authority through consent was often undermined by their everyday conditions. The article treats the emergence of the Komsomol’s nomenklatura and cadre appointment system after the Russian civil war, cadre workload, working conditions, health, attitudes, and the Komsomol leadership’s efforts to subordinate cadre malfeasance and corruption through public scandal. The article demonstrates that without a sturdy material base upon which to generate consent, local Komsomol cadres often relied on domination to exert their authority over their rank and file members and to some extent the local population. This reliance ultimately perpetuated itself. The more cadres employed coercion, the more the means of consent atrophied, which led them to turn time and again to domination. The use of domination over consent had grave implications on the nature of Bolshevik rule. Often Komsomol cadres were the only representative of the Soviet state in rural localities, and their methods of garnering authority were representative of prevailing trends of Bolshevik governance throughout the 1920s.

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