scholarly journals An Analysis of Identity Construction in Interactional Narratives by Women with Turner Syndrome

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 407-420
Author(s):  
Kamila Ciepiela
Keyword(s):  
Turner Syndrome ◽  
Identity Construction ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Genetic Disorder ◽  
Social Identities ◽  
Formal Structure ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
The Social ◽  
Small Story ◽  
Genetically Determined

The study aims to uncover and explore the social identities of women suffering from a genetic disorder called Turner syndrome (TS), and whose main symptoms are a short stature and gonadal dysgenesis. Such a genetically-determined physical appearance is argued to influence the positioning of TS women in the web of social relationships and identities. This linguistic analysis of narratives delivered by Polish women with TS in semi-structured interviews aims to explicate the extent to which they are actors or recipients in creating their own identities. The analysis draws on the assumptions of the ‘small story’ paradigm developed by Michael Bamberg (1997, 2005) who claims that in interaction, narrative is not only used to convey meaning, but also to construct the identities of the interlocutors. Thus, narrative is treated in a functional way, in which its formal structure and content are integrally associated with its use and any deviations are relativized as a consequence of a user’s deliberate activity.

Muslim Women’s Experiences of Higher Education in Britain

2007 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 46-69
Author(s):  
Fauzia Ahmad
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Identity Construction ◽  
South Asian ◽  
Muslim Women ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Women’S Experiences ◽  
Women's Experiences ◽  
It Impacts ◽  
The Social ◽  
University Experiences

I explore British South Asian Muslim women’s experiences of higher education and how it impacts identity construction and negotiation. Through semi-structured interviews with thirty-five undergraduate and post-graduate Muslim female university students, I reflect on their perceived and actual experiences. By stressing how representations of them influence their participation and experiences, I analyze how individual subjectivities are mediated and negotiated while reflecting common experiences. I also consider their accounts of the social and personal benefits they felt that they gained during their studies, as well as to the more disturbing and racialized aspects of their experiences. They differentiated between three overlapping forms of beneficial experience: academic, social, and personal. While instances of anti-Muslim racism were rare or subtle, certain university structures and expectations of what being a mainstream student means often contributed to a noted sense of “othering.” I conclude by highlighting how their accounts of their university experiences directly challenge those stereotypes that misrepresent educated Muslim women as “religious and cultural rebels.”

scholarly journals Janus in governance: Interpellations around an educational policy of community intervention in Portugal

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 ◽  
pp. 27
Author(s):  
Fátima Antunes ◽  
Rosanna Barros
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Community Intervention ◽  
Local Governance ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
State Of Emergency ◽  
The Social ◽  
Governance Practices ◽  
Alternative Spaces

This article intends to empirically document the ambiguity, even ambivalence, of governance practices[1], through the study of a public policy in Portugal, the Programme InovAction, that stimulates intervention projects in ‘local state of emergency’ territories. In this way, we search to contribute to the debate around the reform of the State and public policies, apprehended through metamorphoses in the coordination of collective action in education. Education, State and governance are viewed as social relationships and sites of social practices; governance is understood as a field in which policies, discourses and practices manifest themselves in neo-liberal hegemonic versions or according to contradictory achievements. The data we mobilize were built on documental analysis and on information obtained through semi-structured interviews (to national, regional and local projects Coordinators, technicians and young people). The unfolding discussion illuminates tensions and contradictions in governance practices of Programme InovAction: the strengthening of collective action may occur simultaneously with the construction of routes and alternative spaces of social exclusion; the reduction of the social responsibility of the school with regards to certain audiences challenges approaches to the construction of a public space of education; the privilege given to known interests has gone side by side with practices to broaden  the local governance circle.

scholarly journals The Discourse Analysis of Social Factors Influencing Interest Contention in Business Dispute Settlement: A Perspective of Discourse Information Theory

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 46
Author(s):  
Tingting Guo ◽  
Zhenxia Zhao ◽  
Xinghua Han
Keyword(s):  
Information Theory ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Social Factors ◽  
Dispute Settlement ◽  
Social Identities ◽  
Information Resources ◽  
Whole Process ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
The Social

Interest contention which reflects the nature of business dispute settlement is one of the vital issues to explore in the studies of business dispute and it structures the whole process of business dispute settlement from mediation, negotiation to arbitration and litigation. Under the influence of various factors, litigants with differing interest orientations and interest demands could make good use of a number of information resources for the purpose of communicating, defending and fighting for the interests of their own. Contexts are a socially based mental model dynamically constructed by participants about “the for-them-relevant properties” of communicative situation (van Dijk, 2008). The social factors in the context influences the distribution of discourse information resources in the interest contention in business dispute settlement. In view of this, the present study focuses on the discourse analysis of social factors influencing the interest contention in business dispute settlement at the stage of litigation from the perspective of Discourse Information Theory (DIT) (Du, 2007, 2013, 2015). It can be found that any conflicting party’s lawyer could take advantage of both different social identities and social relationships to attack the counterparty’s loopholes or shortcomings and gain more interests for his own party in the interest contention in business dispute settlement.

Inalienability in social relations: Language, possession, and exchange in Amazonia

2011 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 307-341 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Ball
Keyword(s):  
Social Relationships ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Identities ◽  
Language And Identity ◽  
Body Parts ◽  
Ethnolinguistic Identity ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
Grammatical Categories ◽  
The Social

AbstractThis article describes inalienability in the Wauja (Arawak) language in the context of Brazilian Upper Xinguan culture. Wauja grammar encodes a distinction between alienable and inalienable possession that marks kin, body parts, and other terms and that largely but not perfectly overlaps with a local cultural category of emblematic possessions. I analyze how grammatical and cultural aspects of inalienable possession combine in discourse and exchange to contribute to the social identities of possessors. I present an ethnographic account of the role of inalienability in Wauja grammar and discourse in the disruption and repair of social relationships between groups in Upper Xinguan ritual. I argue for a mutually reinforcing relationship between grammatical categories and sociocultural meaning. I suggest that attention to language and possession, in addition to language and identity, is important for cross culturally comparative sociolinguistic analysis of such connections. (Inalienable possession, grammatical categories, discourse, exchange, Upper Xingu, Wauja (Arawak), ethnolinguistic identity)*

Discourse Elicitation in Aphasia

2018 ◽  
pp. 233-253
Author(s):  
S. P. Goswami ◽  
Brajesh Priyadarshi ◽  
Sharon Mathews
Keyword(s):  
Intervention Program ◽  
Functional Independence ◽  
Social Identities ◽  
Social Model ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Language Therapy ◽  
Personal Traits ◽  
Communication Breakdown ◽  
The Social ◽  
Physical Abilities

Persons with aphasia (PWA) face varying difficulties of communication breakdown through different stages of recovery. With speech-language therapy, significant recovery may be seen at unitary levels, but the ultimate success of therapy is evident when the PWA uses all of the units as a whole and is able to communicate optimally to sustain social identities. An individualized intervention program as the focus, a protocol is proposed with seven semi-structured interviews aimed at eliciting discourse incorporating the philosophies of the social model, LPAA, SCA, AphasiaBank Protocol, and Protocol to Measure Participation of Persons with Aphasia. The interviews with the PWA and their communication partners in individual and joint sessions can help the clinician answer questions regarding the PWA's physical abilities, dietary issues, functional independence, personal traits, relationships at home, different social roles played, and subsequently plan a treatment program, and track the holistic recovery of the PWA.

Muslim Women’s Experiences of Higher Education in Britain

2007 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 46-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fauzia Ahmad
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Identity Construction ◽  
South Asian ◽  
Muslim Women ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Women’S Experiences ◽  
Women's Experiences ◽  
It Impacts ◽  
The Social ◽  
University Experiences

I explore British South Asian Muslim women’s experiences of higher education and how it impacts identity construction and negotiation. Through semi-structured interviews with thirty-five undergraduate and post-graduate Muslim female university students, I reflect on their perceived and actual experiences. By stressing how representations of them influence their participation and experiences, I analyze how individual subjectivities are mediated and negotiated while reflecting common experiences. I also consider their accounts of the social and personal benefits they felt that they gained during their studies, as well as to the more disturbing and racialized aspects of their experiences. They differentiated between three overlapping forms of beneficial experience: academic, social, and personal. While instances of anti-Muslim racism were rare or subtle, certain university structures and expectations of what being a mainstream student means often contributed to a noted sense of “othering.” I conclude by highlighting how their accounts of their university experiences directly challenge those stereotypes that misrepresent educated Muslim women as “religious and cultural rebels.”

scholarly journals Early emerging system for reasoning about the social nature of food

2016 ◽  
Vol 113 (34) ◽  
pp. 9480-9485 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zoe Liberman ◽  
Amanda L. Woodward ◽  
Kathleen R. Sullivan ◽  
Katherine D. Kinzler
Keyword(s):  
Social Relationships ◽  
Food Selection ◽  
Food Preferences ◽  
Food Choices ◽  
Social Identities ◽  
Social Reasoning ◽  
Social Nature ◽  
The Social ◽  
Ancient Problem ◽  
Generalize Information

Selecting appropriate foods is a complex and evolutionarily ancient problem, yet past studies have revealed little evidence of adaptations present in infancy that support sophisticated reasoning about perceptual properties of food. We propose that humans have an early-emerging system for reasoning about the social nature of food selection. Specifically, infants’ reasoning about food choice is tied to their thinking about agents’ intentions and social relationships. Whereas infants do not expect people to like the same objects, infants view food preferences as meaningfully shared across individuals. Infants’ reasoning about food preferences is fundamentally social: They generalize food preferences across individuals who affiliate, or who speak a common language, but not across individuals who socially disengage or who speak different languages. Importantly, infants’ reasoning about food preferences is flexibly calibrated to their own experiences: Tests of bilingual babies reveal that an infant’s sociolinguistic background influences whether she will constrain her generalization of food preferences to people who speak the same language. Additionally, infants’ systems for reasoning about food is differentially responsive to positive and negative information. Infants generalize information about food disgust across all people, regardless of those people’s social identities. Thus, whereas food preferences are seen as embedded within social groups, disgust is interpreted as socially universal, which could help infants avoid potentially dangerous foods. These studies reveal an early-emerging system for thinking about food that incorporates social reasoning about agents and their relationships, and allows infants to make abstract, flexible, adaptive inferences to interpret others’ food choices.

Misunderstood misunderstanding: social identities and public uptake of science

1992 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 281-304 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Wynne
Keyword(s):  
Social Relationships ◽  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Radioactive Fallout ◽  
Social Identities ◽  
The Public ◽  
Scientific Experts ◽  
Scientific Institutions ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Interests

This paper draws general insights into the public reception of scientific knowledge from a case study of Cumbrian sheep farmers' responses to scientific advice about the restrictions introduced after the Chernobyl radioactive fallout. The analysis identifies several substantive factors which influence the credibility of scientific communication. Starting from the now-accepted point that public uptake of science depends primarily upon the trust and credibility public groups are prepared to invest in scientific institutions and representatives, the paper observes that these are contingent upon the social relationships and identities which people feel to be affected by scientific knowledge, which never comes free of social interests or implications. The case study shows laypeople capable of extensive informal reflection upon their social relationships towards scientific experts, and on the epistemological status of their own `local' knowledge in relation to `outside' knowledge. Public uptake of science might be improved if scientific institutions expressed an equivalent reflexive discourse in the public domain.

Islam, Arab women's entrepreneurship and the construal of success

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hayfaa A. Tlaiss ◽  
Maura McAdam
Keyword(s):  
Identity Construction ◽  
Women Entrepreneurs ◽  
Muslim Women ◽  
Social Identities ◽  
Cultural Norms ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Subjective Success ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
And Gender

PurposeThe aim of this paper is to explore how Arab Muslim women entrepreneurs construe success, their identity as successful and the influence of Islam on these construals in the country-specific context of Lebanon.Design/methodology/approachTo achieve our aim, a qualitative interpretative methodology, drawing upon 25 in-depth, semi-structured interviews with Muslim women entrepreneurs was adopted.FindingsEquipped with Islamic feminism, Arab women entrepreneurs experienced Islam as a malleable resource. Islam allowed them to construe success and their identity as successful at the juncture of their lived experiences as business owners, Muslims of good character and standing and Arab females. Ultimately, Islam unfolded as a dynamic religion that supports women's agency in a landscape dominated by deeply entrenched patriarchal societal and cultural norms and gender-based restrictions.Originality/valueFirst, we contribute to research on the effect of Islam on entrepreneurship by demonstrating the influence of Islam on women's identity construction as successful and their construals of success. Second, we contribute to research on how entrepreneurs construe success beyond situating their construals of success in opposing camps of either objective or subjective success. Third, we contribute to research on identity construction and identity work by demonstrating how Muslim women entrepreneurs' identity as successful is construed at the intersection of their personal and social identities.

The Social Identity of Township Youth: An Extension of Social Identity Theory (Part 1)

1995 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 150-159 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine M. Campbell
Keyword(s):  
Social Identity ◽  
Identity Construction ◽  
Social Identity Theory ◽  
Identity Theory ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Important Group ◽  
Life Challenges ◽  
The Social ◽  
Group Memberships

Social Identity Theory in the Bristol tradition has been criticized for paying too little attention to the way in identity is shaped and constrained by a dynamically changing social context. The article develops an extension of Social Identity Theory which aims to address this criticism. Open-ended, semi-structured interviews were conducted with working-class township residents in the Durban area, 20 women and 20 men, aged between 17 and 23 years. Interviews were analysed by means of a coding frame within which identity construction was conceptualized in terms of a trialogue amongst Life Challenges, Group Memberships and Behavioural Options. Twenty key Life Challenges facing township youth are identified, as are the eleven most important Group Memberships providing youth with raw materials with which to construct their identities.

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