Rise of the Duterte Phenomenon: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benedict Guzman Antazo ◽  
Nancy M Felipe

The Philippines’ 2016 presidential elections led to the development of the Duterte phenomenon constituted by individuals who identify themselves as Dutertards. This study explores the experiences of a single subject, who identifies himself as a Dutertard, of the Duterte phenomenon. A semi-structured interview was used to gather data, which were then analyzed using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis. Four super-ordinate themes emerged from the data: Frustrations with the Status Quo, the roots of the Duterte phenomenon; Duterte as the Liberator, the significance of Duterte for the people called Dutertards; Constructs of a Dutertard, the qualities that constitute the cognitive, affective, and behavioral aspects of such individuals; and lastly, Dutertards as a Microcosm of the Philippine Society, that Dutertards provide a perspective on the general construct of the Filipino interactive process. Furthermore, the findings suggest a connection between this study and motivation literature, particularly with Maslow’s hierarchy of needs and Csikszentmihalyi’s flow theory. Lastly, the findings of the study provide insights not only for understanding these individuals but also to the ever-evolving construct of the Filipino psyche.

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 190-203
Author(s):  
Lukman Nul Hakim

Unlike  the  2014  and  2019  presidential  elections  which  brought  Joko  Widodo  vs. Prabowo Subianto together, according to Professor Kacung Marijan, Ph.D., in 2024 presidential election there will be extensive ‘menus’ that can be offered to the public. Some new candidates are predicted to enliven the 2024 presidential election, including DKI Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan, Central Java Governor Ganjar Pranowo, and East Java Governor Khofifah Indar Parawansa. The writer added two more people on the list, namely Former DKI Jakarta Vice Governor Sandiaga Uno, and West Java Governor Ridwan Kamil. Preliminary knowledge of the psychological profile of the leaders is important as a basis for selecting future leaders for the people of Indonesia. In this study the writer tried to analyze the profile of one of the potential future leader of Indonesia, Ridwan Kamil (n = 1). At-a-distance measurement method is used to do biography analysis and big five analysis. This study concluded that Ridwan Kamil was a person with a high score on the dimensions of openness to experience and extroversion, was middle on conscientiousness, and was low on agreeableness and neuroticism. He doesn’t like the status quo. He likes to challenge the limit, both the limit of himself and his environment. The right words to describe Ridwan Kamil is a status quo breaker.Abstrak Tidak seperti pemilihan presiden (pilpres) tahun 2014 dan 2019 yang mempertemukan Joko  Widodo  vs.  Prabowo  Subianto,  menurut  Profesor  Kacung  Marijan,  Ph.D.,  pada  pilpres tahun 2024 nanti banyak ‘menu’ yang bisa disajikan untuk masyarakat. Beberapa kandidat baru diprediksi akan meramaikan pilpres 2024, di antaranya Gubernur DKI Jakarta Anies Baswedan, Gubernur Jawa Tengah Ganjar Pranowo, dan Gubernur Jawa Timur Khofifah Indar Parawansa. Penulis  menambahkan  dua  orang  dalam  daftar  tersebut,  yaitu  Mantan  Wakil  Gubernur  DKI Jakarta Sandiaga Uno dan Gubernur Jawa Barat Ridwan Kamil. Pengetahuan awal tentang profil psikologis para tokoh tersebut menjadi penting sebagai dasar untuk memilih calon pemimpin masa depan bagi masyarakat Indonesia. Pada penelitian ini, penulis berusaha menganalisis profil salah satu tokoh potensial masa depan Indonesia, yaitu Ridwan Kamil (n=1). Metode pengukuran at-a-distance, digunakan untuk melakukan analisis biografi dan analisis big five. Penelitian ini menyimpulkan  bahwa  Ridwan  Kamil  adalah  seorang  dengan  skor  yang  tinggi  pada  dimensi openness to experience dan extroversion, menengah pada conscientiousness, dan rendah pada agreeableness dan neuroticism. Ia tidak menyukai status quo. Ia suka menantang ambang batas, baik itu ambang batas dirinya maupun lingkungannya. Kata yang tepat untuk menggambarkan Ridwan Kamil adalah seorang pendobrak status quo.


2021 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Fionnuala B. Barnes ◽  
David Fletcher ◽  
Kacey C. Neely

The purpose of this study was to explore growth following the experience of stressors and compare the experiences of elite athletes who exhibit higher and lower levels of growth. Six elite athletes (five female and one male) participated in a semi-structured interview. Three athletes reported experiencing higher levels, and three athletes reported experiencing lower levels of growth. Interpretative phenomenological analysis revealed that understanding of self, development in athletic identity, and social support are key psychological mechanisms, which differentiate elite athletes who reported experiencing higher and lower levels of growth. Athletes higher in reported growth showed greater association with meaningful behavioral actions, ultimately reflecting the modification of previously held beliefs into a new worldview. Athletes lower in reported growth reflected an attempt to maintain beliefs into an already existing worldview, thus hindering growth. The findings show psychological mechanisms that accumulatively promote growth and provide a foundation for subsequent intervention studies.


2016 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 155-166 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brendan M. O'Mahony ◽  
Jane Creaton ◽  
Kevin Smith ◽  
Rebecca Milne

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to find out how intermediaries interpret their role working with vulnerable defendants at court. Design/methodology/approach – In this study six intermediaries who have worked with defendants were interviewed using a semi-structured interview and the interview transcripts were analysed using interpretative phenomenological analysis. Findings – Intermediaries appeared to be trying to make sense of their developing identities as professionals in the courtroom and this theme is conceptualised through social identity complexity theory. Practical implications – Health and care professionals undertaking a new function in the criminal justice sector should receive training about the psychological processes underlying developing professional identities. Such training should reduce the cognitive load when they work in the new environment and failure to undertake this training may lead to less efficient practice. Gaining an understanding of their professional positioning within the court environment may assist with retention of intermediaries in this new role. Originality/value – This is the first published study where intermediaries have been interviewed about their experiences with defendants. Recommendations are made including the requirement for additional training for intermediaries to understand the underlying psychological processes and conflicts they may experience when working with defendant cases.


1999 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 221-239
Author(s):  
Mokgethi B.G. Mothlabi

AbstractThere is a certain paradox inherent in Marx's criticism of morality. On the one hand, he rejects morality as a form of bourgeois ideology which serves mainly to justify the status quo. The status quo in question is one which is mainly detrimental to ordinary working people, while favouring property owners as well as owners of the means of production. In this sense Marx's condemnation of morality resembles his condemnation of religion, which he saw as the opium of the people. On the other hand, Marx employs morally significant language to challenge what he regards as the evils of capitalism and their destructive effects on the working class. It becomes clear from all this that capitalism cannot be seen as purely an economic matter. Insofar as it affects the lives and well-being of people, it is also a moral issue and deserves to be judged accordingly. How Marx steers between his seeming rejection of morality and, at the same time, using it to criticise capitalism is the main concern of this article. In the process, Marx's concept of ideology is explained while the focus and motivation of his social critique is also briefly considered.


2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andreas Heyer

On 10 August 1793, the French nation celebrated the adoption of the Constitution by the people in a gigantic procession. The Constitution of 1793 was not only an attempt to codify the status quo and the achievements of the Revolution, to cast it into a solid and fundamental form, to create a foundation on which to continue developing. It was also a reaction to the present, to the crises and catastrophes, to the internal and external war instigated by the bourgeoisie (the Gironde) and to the capitalist gifts bestowed on the poor and disenfranchised: hunger, need, misery and despair. Last but not least, the Constitution was the result of numerous debates and discussions, but above all of a multifaceted compromise. The democratic and emancipatory ideas of the Jacobin Constitution of 1793 have never again been achieved or implemented in any constituent society. Is this one of the reasons why the Jacobins around Robespierre are mostly demonised and reduced to the terror they supposedly created, in order to discredit the memory of their political visions and their humanist heritage?


2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 146
Author(s):  
Kittiphong Praphan

<p>Diasporic literature functions as an important source which provides the social contexts of the home countries of its authors. Carlos Bulosan’s 'America is in the Heart' and Pira Sudham’s 'Monsoon Country' are among this group of literature representing the voice of the oppressed and exploited farmers in the Philippines and Thailand, respectively home of the authors. The farmers are represented as being exploited by those in power, including colonizers, local officials, landlords, and middlemen. The exploiters can be seen as capitalists who accumulate wealth through the labor and the property of farmers. In their methods of oppression the oppressors employ State Apparatuses and Ideological State Apparatuses to maintain the status quo and reproduce the exploitative system. To transcend the oppression and exploitation, the major characters of the books struggle to obtain education, since they view that ignorance is the most important cause of the exploitation. Education is seen as the only way to eliminate ignorance and liberate themselves as well as their people from the exploitative cycle. 'America Is in the Heart' and 'Monsoon Country' represent the voice of the farmers in the Philippines and Thailand who condemn their exploiters and raise readers’ awareness of the problem.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Keywords: </strong><em>diasporic literature, oppression and exploitation, education, voice</em></p>


2010 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 141-155 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Kellett ◽  
Rebecca Greenhalgh ◽  
Nigel Beail ◽  
Nicola Ridgway

Background: This project aimed to explore the experiences of people who compulsively hoard and how they make sense of their own hoarding behaviours. Method: A total of 11 compulsive hoarders were recruited and interviewed using a simple semi-structured interview format, designed for the purposes of the study. The resulting transcribed interviews were analyzed using interpretive-phenomenological analysis. Results: Four super-ordinate discrete, but interacting, themes were found: (1) childhood factors; (2) the participants' relationship to their hoarded items; (3) cognitive and behavioural avoidance of discard; and (4) the impact of hoarding on self, others and the home environment. The themes as a whole described people entrapped in massively cluttered physical environments of their own making. Efforts at discard appeared consistently sabotaged by cognitive/behavioural avoidance, thereby creating maintaining factors of associated personal distress and environmental decline. Conclusions: The results are discussed in the context of the extant evidence concerning hoarding, the distinct contribution made by the current results and the identified methodological shortcomings of the research approach.


2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rothschild BM ◽  

Physical anthropology embraces a hunger for understanding the ecosphere in which we live, its impact on the life and health and our impact environmental signature. This has been pursued tenaciously, utilizing speculative approaches, with lesser attention to assuring adherence to fundamentals. The resulting perceptions of the environment and of the people therein, both contemporary and ancient, have been subject to a variety of biases. Although many are obvious and discussed in detail in this manuscript, it seems appropriate to question why they have persisted. What benefit does the biased individual gain? Certainly not advancement beyond circular reasoning, which itself reinforces the proponent and their philosophies. It certainly is easy to pursue studies and their promulgation by rote, minimizing cognitive effort expenditure. It is easier to pontificate a technique, than to pursue and assure its independent validation. It is easier to assume that students are performing correctly, without expending the rigor/time of/for actually testing fundamentals and assuring the validity of one’s own techniques. It is easier to stalwartly defend the status quo that has defined one’s life to date, than to subject it to potential modification and thus to consider critical thinking as an existential threat. Perhaps that explains apparent aversion to and attempts to block promulgation of evidence that application of scientific methodology to physical anthropology provides an opportunity for meaningful contributions beyond salvage work. The latter has value, but physical anthropology can offer much more. Extirpating the biases would be a major step in that direction and resurrect logos.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 326
Author(s):  
Rini Sugiarti Sugiarti ◽  
Cahyo Harry Sancoko ◽  
Fendy Suhariadi Suhariadi

This study aims to reveal the happiness of the COVID-19 contact tracer volunteers. A qualitative approach with a phenomenological method was employed. Five volunteers were recruited for this study. Data were collected through semistructured interviews and analyzed using an interpretative phenomenological analysis. From the results of the study, it is concluded that the happiness of being a volunteer arises from positive feelings due to perceived benefits they have given to the people in need primarily people who are recovering from COVID-19. Volunteers’ happiness also arises from the awareness of their positive life compared to people whose life tests are heavier than they have. The involvement and interaction of volunteers with  people who are suffering from COVID-19 makes the volunteers feel more positive and grateful for their life.Keywords: COVID-19 contact tracking, happiness, volunteers Abstrak: Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui kebahagiaan relawan pelacak kontak COVID-19. Penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatan kualitatif dengan metode fenomenologi. Jumlah subjek penelitian ini adalah 5 oang relawan. Pengumpulan data dilakukan melalui wawancara semiterstruktur. Data dianalisis menggunakan interpretative phenomenological analysis. Dari hasil penelitian dapat disimpulkan bahwa kebahagiaan menjadi relawan muncul karena bisa menolong dan merasakan kebahagiaan orang yang sembuh dari COVID-19. Kebahagiaan relawan juga muncul sebagai akibat melihat realita masih banyak orang lain yang ujian hidupnya lebih dari yang dialaminya. Keterlibatan dan interaksi para informan penlitian ini dengan orang yang sedang terkena penyakit COVID-19 telah membuat mereka memandang hidupnya lebih positif dan penuh kesyukuran.


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