ECOLOGICAL DETERMINANTS OF “WHITE ETHNIC” IDENTITY IN ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI

1983 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-57
Author(s):  
Irene Dabrowski
Keyword(s):  
Participant Observation ◽  
Research Participant ◽  
Ecological Framework ◽  
Interaction Patterns ◽  
Ethnic Communities ◽  
Organizational Activity ◽  
White Ethnic ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Group Involvement ◽  
Center Site

A comparative analysis of voluntary group interaction patterns within two “white ethnic” groups in St. Louis was conducted to investigate the relationship between levels of voluntary group participation and geographical sites of respective ethnic centers. Archival research, participant observation, and structured interviewing over a 12-month period were the methods employed to conduct case studies of both the Croatian and Czech ethnic communities. Utilizing an ecological framework, the findings suggest a degree of organizational activity is strongly dependent on the environmental adequacy of the ethnic center site. This paper describes how two varying external locations promote contrasting styles of secondary group involvement. Neighborhood stability supports ongoing participation in one pattern, but in the other, area transiency exacts merely occasional participation.

scholarly journals KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT AND COLLABORATION EFFECTS: SOUTH-SOUTH NGO COLLABORATION: A CASE STUDY ON THE BRAZILIAN INTERDISCIPLINARY AIDS ASSOCIATION DOI:10.7444/fsrj.v4i1.107

2012 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 159-201
Author(s):  
Grace Keeney
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Data Analysis ◽  
Knowledge Creation ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Patent Application ◽  
Research Participant ◽  
Strategic Knowledge ◽  
Organizational Effects ◽  
The Relationship

In June 2008, the Brazilian Interdisciplinary AIDS Association (ABIA) and the Indian NGO SAHARA submitted a joint pre-grant opposition to the patent application of Tenofovir Disoproxil Fumarate in India. This joint action provides a pertinent case model of the potential effects of South-South cooperation between civil society groups. In this study, the aim sought to determine the practicality of the methodology and propositions developed in Resources, Knowledge and Influence: the Organizational Effects of Interorganizational Collaboration (Hardy et al., 2003) in predicting the types of collaboration effects that would result from the degree of “involvement” and “embeddedness” of a collaboration. Data collection came from archival research, participant observation research and interviews. Research tasks included an investigation on South-South Cooperation in the area of IP rights and AIDS, compiling an SLR on knowledge management and collaboration theories, creating a chronology of the collaboration and application of aforementioned methodology. Application included (1) implementation of codification methodology based on “involvement” and “embeddedness” and (2) identification of types of effects in collaboration - strategic, knowledge creation or political. During data analysis, these effects were compared with the aims of collaboration. Results were then tested against propositions (Hardy et al., 2003) of the relationship between involvement and embeddedness and the collaborative effects. Findings support three propositions: (1) Collaborations with high levels of involvement will be positively associated with the acquisition of distinctive resources, (2) Collaborations with high levels of involvement and high levels of embeddedness will be positively associated with the creation of knowledge, (3) Collaborations that are highly embedded will be positively associated with an increase of influence.

TOURISM MOBILITY AT THE SUMMER OLYMPIC GAMES RIO 2016

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amanda Cabral ◽  
Carolin Lusby ◽  
Ricardo Uvinha
Keyword(s):  
Olympic Games ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Bus Rapid Transit ◽  
Rapid Transit ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Tourist Attractions ◽  
Official Sources ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City

Sports Tourism as a segment is growing exponentially in Brazil. The sports mega-events that occurred in the period from 2007 to 2016 helped strengthen this sector significantly. This article examined tourism mobility during the Summer Olympic Games Rio 2016, hosted by the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. This study expands the understanding of the relationship between tourism and city infrastructure, therefore being relevant to academics, professionals of the area and to the whole society due to its multidisciplinary field. The existence of a relationship between means of transportation and the Olympic regions as well as tourist attractions for a possible legacy was observed. Data were collected from official sources, field research and through participant-observation and semi structured interviews. Data were coded and analyzed. The results indicate that the city was overall successful in its execution of sufficient mobility. New means of transportation were added and others updated. BRT's (Bus Rapid Transit) were the main use of mass transport to Olympic sites. However, a lack of public transport access was observed for the touristic sites.

scholarly journals Intersection of the Religious and the Secular: The Cemetery Festival in Latvia

Religions ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 69
Author(s):  
Anita Stasulane
Keyword(s):  
Participant Observation ◽  
Religious Tradition ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
Main Research ◽  
Religious Ritual ◽  
Secular Society ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Ritual Practices ◽  
Research Tools

This article addresses the commemoration of the deceased by examining a peculiar Latvian religious tradition—the cemetery festival. Latvian society is moving down the path to secularization. Participation in religious ritual practices could be expected to decrease in a predominately secular society. Nevertheless, the tradition of the cemetery festival practiced in Latvia shows that the relationship between the religious and the secular is much more complex than simply being in opposition to each other. The analysis is based on data obtained by undertaking fieldwork at cemeteries in Latvia. Participant observation and qualitative in-depth interviews were the main research tools used in the fieldwork. Through an analysis of the fieldwork data, this article explains, first, how honoring of the deceased currently takes place in Latvia; second, the factors which have determined the preservation of the cemetery festival tradition despite the forced secularization of the Soviet period and the general secularization encountered today; third, the relationship between religious and secular activities and their transformation at the cemetery festival.

Language as Symbol System: Islam, Javanese Muslem and Cultural Diplomacy

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mochammad Arief Wicaksono ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
Cultural Diplomacy ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Research Participant ◽  
Symbol System ◽  
Symbolic System ◽  
The Past ◽  
Nahdlatul Ulama ◽  
Great Tradition ◽  
Linguistic Aspect

Islamic diaspora throughout the world has its own characteristics depending on cultural context in each region. Observing the characteristics of the entry process and the rise of Islam in Java in the past, Indonesia can be viewed significantly through a linguistic perspective. By focusing on the narratives of how Islam was constructed in Java by kiai, we will be able to understand that the pattern of the entry process and the rise of Islam in Java emerged through“language diplomacy.” There are various symbols which later became the symbol system in Islamic languages that were contextualized to Javanese language and knowledge systems. In other words, I see that language in this context is a symbol system. These symbols are a strategy of how Islam was “planted” and developed in Java. I will compare the symbol system of the language in the Quran as the Great Tradition of Islam with a symbol system on the narratives that a kiai expressed in Javanese society as the Little Tradition. By taking some narratives that the kiai gave to the Javanese Moslems in East Java region, this paper argues that the linguistic aspect in some narratives and Quran recitation which has the symbolic system of the language have an important role in planting and developing Islam in Java. This paper is based on ethnographic research-participant observation among Nahdlatul Ulama Muslim society in East Java, Indonesia and reviews Islamic narratives in society as an important unit of analysis.

scholarly journals Elite ethnography in an insecure place

Focaal ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 (82) ◽  
pp. 80-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosita Armytage
Keyword(s):  
Participant Observation ◽  
Business Owners ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
The Relationship

Based on ethnographic research conducted with the wealthiest and most powerful business owners and politicians in urban Pakistan from 2013 to 2015, this article examines the particular set of epistemological and interpersonal issues that arise when studying elite actors. In politically unstable contexts like Pakistan, the relationship between the researcher and the elite reveals shifting power dynamics of class, gender, and national background, which are further complicated by the prevalence of rumor and the exceptional ability of elite informants to obscure that which they would prefer remain hidden. Specifically, this article argues that the researcher’s positionality, and the inversion of traditional power dynamics between the researcher and the researched, can ameliorate, as well as exacerbate, the challenges of undertaking participant observation with society’s most powerful.

scholarly journals Interfaces and divisions in the Dublin Docklands 'Smart District'

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liam James Heaphy
Keyword(s):  
Urban Form ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
City Centre ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Social Divisions ◽  
Port Area ◽  
Networking Technologies ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City

The study of physical and social divisions in divided societies has long been an area of study, such as the continued usage of 'peace walls' in Belfast, hostile architecture to prevent anti-social behaviour and rough sleeping, and the securitisation of private spaces. In the context of a new drive to create a smart district, this paper looks at the relationship between smart urbanism and planning, and at the spatial and social divisions between a new 'gentrifying' and well-educated community in the Dublin Docklands and established communities in the area. The Dublin Docklands redevelopment marks a significant break from a pattern of suburbanisation and inner-city decline and repurposes part of the former port area as a city centre extension. The paper accounts for the reshaping of the Dublin Docklands as a ‘smart district’ in collaboration with the city authorities, based on over thirty semi-structured interviews and participant-observation at consultation events. It argues that reductive definitions of smart cities as networking technologies be reworked into broader considerations on urban technologies and the future of cities, with greater emphasis on the relationship between technologies branded as ‘smart’ and the material and digital manifestation of boundaries in urban form.

scholarly journals Organizational and Developmental Dynamics of Project Review Teams in Technology Environment

1997 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony Wilbon
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Development ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Organizational Dynamics ◽  
Quality Work ◽  
Large Organization ◽  
Review Team ◽  
Developmental Dynamics ◽  
Time Frames ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

This paper is the result of a week long participant observation of a technical project review team within a large organization. A detailed log was maintained during the study and the results were analyzed to understand the relationship of the observations to prior research in organizational dynamics. Some of the existing literature implies that the current research on organizational development may be applicable to entities of various sizes. In some cases the observations from this research fell within the framework of the existing theories. However, alterations must be made to the current theories to apply specifically to small work groups who have specific missions and limited working time frames. Understanding the dynamics of these "suborganization" may lead to more effective management and result in a higher quality work product.

scholarly journals RITUAL MAGI DALAM BUDAYA MASYARAKAT MUSLIM BANTEN

2015 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 26-52
Author(s):  
Humaeni Ayatullah
Keyword(s):  
Life Style ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Research Participant ◽  
Functional Approach ◽  
Important Condition ◽  
Anthropological Perspective ◽  
Muslim Society ◽  
Library Research ◽  
Depth Interview

This article discusses various magical rituals and their meaningsfor Muslim society of Banten. How the meanings and functions of rituals; what kinds of magical rituals used and practiced by Muslim society of Banten become two main focuses of this article; besides, it also tries to analyze how Muslim society of Banten understand the various magical rituals. This article is the result of a field research using ethnographical method based on anthropological perspective. To analyze the data, the researcher uses structural-functional approach. Library research, participant-observation, and depth-interview are the methods used to collectthe data. Performing various magical rituals for the practicians of magic in Banten is a very important action that must be conducted by the magicians or someone who learns magical sciences. Magical ritual becomes an important condition for the successfulness of magic. If they do not this, there is a belief that they will fail in obtaining the magical effects. Magical ritual should be also conducted in certain places and certain time withvarious magical formula and magical actions under the supervision of magicians. The use of these magical rituals becomes a portrait of the pragmatical life style of Bantenese society who still believes in magical powers.

scholarly journals The Reconfiguration of the Theatre Space and the Relationship between Public and Private in the Case of Apartment Theatre

2017 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 77
Author(s):  
Andreea Gabriela Lupu
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Investigation ◽  
Spatial Configuration ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Domestic Space ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
Artistic Production ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Artistic Product

<p>This article tackles the means of theatre space reconfiguration in the apartment theater (<em>lorgean theater</em>), simultaneously analyzing the relation between public and private specific to this form of art. Structured around both a theoretical analysis and a qualitative empirical investigation, this paper emphasizes the traits of the theatre space as component of an artistic product received by the audience, and its value in the process of artistic production, within the theatre sector. The case study of <em>lorgean theater, </em>including a participant observation and an individual interview, enables the understanding of these two aspects of the spatial configuration, emphasizing its hybrid nature in terms of spatial configuration and the public-private relation as well as the act of reappropriation of the domestic space through an alternative practice of theatre consumption.</p>

scholarly journals Interaksi Pesantren dengan Sains dan Teknologi

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 53
Author(s):  
Muhammad Abror Rosyidin
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Boarding School ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
Islamic Science ◽  
The Times ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Descriptive Method

However, along with the times, pesantren have not only opened religious-based schools, but also public schools that provide general knowledge (natural, social, and language) to their students. Educational formalities in pesantren were also proposed so that pesantren alumni could continue their education to public schools. There are three main problems in this paper by reconstructing the pesantren education system, as follows; (1) the relationship between pesantren and the outside world, (2) the relationship between pesantren and science and technology, and (3) the epistemology of Islamic Science in Pesantren Sains (Trensains).�The qualitative�descriptive method is the choice in this study. This research is a qualitative field study with case studies. In order to obtain comprehensive data and pay attention to the relationship between the data and the focus and objectives of the research, data collection in this study used three techniques, namely (1) interviews, (2) participant observation: (3) research documentation. Research activities in data analysis include data reduction, data presentation, and drawing conclusions. From this research, it can be found that the interaction of science and technology with science cannot be denied. So pesantren must be prepared to deal with it. There are several Islamic boarding schools that have interacted with science and technology, both of which have greatly influenced the style of education, one of which is the Tebuireng Science Boarding School (Trensains). Santri are invited to study religion (Qur'an) as well as to study the verses of Kauniyah contained in it.Keywords: Interaction, Pesantren, Science, Technology

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