Jewish Dating or Niche-making?

2014 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 11-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alina Gromova
Keyword(s):  
Grounded Theory ◽  
Jewish Community ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Theoretical Idea ◽  
Empirical Results ◽  
Ethnographic Interviews ◽  
Religious Couples

In this article I am approaching the topic of Jewish dating among the young Russian-speaking Jews who live in Berlin. Using the analytical concept of space and applying grounded theory, I am presenting data I collected in 2010 using the methods of ethnographic interviews and participant observation. The article is organised around three main questions. Firstly, I am interested in the motivation of my interviewees, who are generally children of inter-ethnic and inter-religious couples, to find a solely Jewish partner. Secondly, I am asking for existing strategies applied within a relatively small Jewish community of around thirty to fifty thousand in Berlin in order to find a Jewish partner. Thirdly, I am looking for the concrete spaces and places used or constructed for the purpose of finding a Jewish girlfriend or boyfriend. Beside these empirical results, I am introducing the theoretical idea of Jewish niches, which is discussed against the background of 'Jewish space' as promulgated by Diana Pinto.

scholarly journals Forging Political Cadres for Re-Peasantization: Escuela de Acción Campesina (Spain)

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (7) ◽  
pp. 4061
Author(s):  
David Gallar-Hernández
Keyword(s):  
Food Sovereignty ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Training Process ◽  
Ethnographic Interviews ◽  
Participatory Workshop ◽  
Global North ◽  
Training Schools ◽  
Ethnographic Methodology ◽  
La Via Campesina

Bolstering the political formation of agrarian organizations has become a priority for La Vía Campesina and the Food Sovereignty Movement. This paper addresses the Spanish case study of the Escuela de Acción Campesina (EAC)—(Peasant Action School), which is a tool for political formation in the Global North in which the philosophical and pedagogical principles of the “peasant pedagogies” of the Training Schools proposed by La Vía Campesina are put into practice within an agrarian organization in Spain and in alliance with the rest of the Spanish Food Sovereignty Movement. The study was carried out over the course of the 10 years of activist research, spanning the entire process for the construction and development of the EAC. Employing an ethnographic methodology, information was collected through participant observation, ethnographic interviews, a participatory workshop, and reviews of internal documents. The paper presents the context in which the EAC arose, its pedagogical dynamics, the structure and the ideological contents implemented for the training of new cadres, and how there are three key areas in the training process: (1) the strengthening of collective union and peasant identity, (2) training in the “peasant” ideological proposal, and (3) the integration of students as new cadres into the organizations’ structures. It is concluded that the EAC is a useful tool in the ideological re-peasantization process of these organizations.

Information transformation: Some missing links

2007 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 157-172
Author(s):  
Ivan P. Vaghely ◽  
Pierre-André Julien ◽  
André Cyr
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Grounded Theory ◽  
Information Processing ◽  
Knowledge Creation ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Human Information Processing ◽  
Process Information ◽  
Information Transformation ◽  
Efficient Information

Using grounded theory along with participant observation and interviews the authors explore how individuals in organizations process information. They build a model of human information processing which links the cognitivist-constructionist perspective to an algorithmic-heuristic continuum. They test this model using non-parametric procedures and find interesting results showing links to efficient information processing outcomes such as contributions to decision-making, knowledge-creation and innovation. They also identify some elements of best practice by efficient human information processing individuals whom they call the “information catalysts”.

Pervasive Technologies and Addiction

2020 ◽  
pp. 125-144
Author(s):  
Laura D. Russell
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Grounded Theory ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Mobile Technologies ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Theory Analysis ◽  
Work Habits ◽  
Symbolic Interactions

Digital media have drastically changed occupational landscapes. Mobile technologies in particular enable employees to work anywhere at any time. Consequently, expectations for when and when not to work have become increasingly uncertain. This chapter focuses on how self-proclaimed workaholics of Workaholics Anonymous (WA) rely on social support. Through participant observation and thematic textual analysis, the author examines the symbolic interactions that shape members' recoveries. A grounded theory analysis of the data reveals how members reconstruct their work habits through introspective reflection, interpersonal dialogue, and communal sense-making. Drawing from a structuration perspective (Giddens, 1979), the author interprets how these findings can be explored in future research and applied by individuals facing personal and occupational pressures associated with work.

Convergence between performance and amateur management of a social organisation

2019 ◽  
Vol 68 (8) ◽  
pp. 1493-1509
Author(s):  
Victor Meyer Jr ◽  
Diórgenes Falcão Mamédio ◽  
Alechssandra Ressetti Oliveira ◽  
Natália Brasil Dib
Keyword(s):  
Performance Management ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Study Data ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Community Values ◽  
Environmental Care ◽  
Ethnographic Interviews ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
And Performance

Purpose Understanding social organisations requires considerable effort because of their complex reality. The purpose of this paper is to analyse the performance and amateur form of management of an organisation of scavengers, with significant results for society. Design/methodology/approach This study is a qualitative in-depth case study. Data were collected through ethnographic interviews, non-participant observation and document analysis. The association of scavengers in question was identified as being strongly representative of the 23 similar associations in Curitiba. The city is the first Brazilian capital to create conditions for direct disposal of selective waste collected by waste pickers, as recommended by the National Solid Waste Policy. Findings Three main aspects of evidence are highlighted in the proposed model: unique features, performance management and multiplicity of practices. The findings showed a strong presence of utilitarian behaviour due to the need of the members of the organisation to generate income for survival, forcing social and environmental concerns into the background. The combination of community values, informal practices, collective learning and amateur management has had a positive effect on the social organisation’s performance. Social implications The outcomes were identified for individuals, the community and society by contributing to social inclusion, economic growth and environmental care. Originality/value The differentiated approach lies in the convergence between performance and amateur management in social organisations, with relevant environmental, economic and social results. A model is proposed to demonstrate the complex relationship between unique features, multiplicity of practices and performance with regard to the amateur management analysed in this study.

The Fathers' Rights Movement

1993 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 592-615 ◽  
Author(s):  
CARL BERTOIA ◽  
JANICE DRAKICH
Keyword(s):  
Family Law ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Document Analysis ◽  
Public Image ◽  
Law Reform ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
Ethnographic Interviews ◽  
New Social Movement ◽  
Equitable Treatment

Family law reforms brought about a new social movement and lobby group—fathers' rights. This article, based on a 2-year study involving participant observation, ethnographic interviews, and document analysis examines the contradictions between the public and private rhetoric of fathers rightists. Thirty-two members from four fathers' rights groups were interviewed about their postdivorce parenting experiences, their personal troubles with family law practices, and their posturing on the fathers' rights' platform. The fatherhood project of family law reform, although viewed as serving all fathers, is primarily driven by fathers' personal stake in the issues and the hope of changing their current situation. The fathers in this study presented a uniform voice in support of the fathers' rights' public image of caring fathers who want men to be recognized as fathers and who are requesting equitable treatment in matters of child custody, support, and access. However, the interviews revealed that individual members did not support the full application of the concept of equality in postdivorce parenting, child care, and responsibilities.

scholarly journals How and Why Interviews Work: Ethnographic Interviews and Meso-level Public Culture

2019 ◽  
pp. 004912411988247 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel Rinaldo ◽  
Jeffrey Guhin
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Methods ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Public Culture ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Meso Level ◽  
Ethnographic Interviews

Recent debates about qualitative methods have discussed the relative limitations and contributions of interviews in comparison to surveys and participant observation. These discussions have rarely considered how ethnographers themselves use interviews as part of their work. We suggest that Lizardo’s discussion of three modes of culture (declarative, nondeclarative, and public) help us to understand the separate contributions of observation and interviews, with ethnographic interviews an especially helpful means of accessing different cultural modes. We also argue that Lizardo’s conception of public culture should be divided into meso- and macrolevels and that this division helps to show the differing contributions of interviews within and without an ethnographic context. Developing our argument with data from the second author’s ethnographic research and analysis of other scholars’ ethnographies, we show how research that uses ethnographic interviews can help sociologists better understand how these four cultural modes interact.

Impacts of Welfare Reform on Families with Haitian Backgrounds

2000 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-30
Author(s):  
Annie Mundeke
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Welfare Reform ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Field Work ◽  
School Experiences ◽  
Tampa Bay ◽  
African Woman ◽  
Bay Area ◽  
Ethnographic Interviews ◽  
Fictive Kin

During 1997 and 1998 I did field work on the influences of social networks on the school experiences of children of Haitian immigrants in the Tampa Bay Area. I had many opportunities to interact regularly with children and their caregivers. Rather than living in one neighborhood, the Haitian community was dispersed in the Tampa Bay area. Welfare reform was not my research topic per se, but still I had opportunities to hear about welfare and gathered some data on the issue. Observation, participant-observation, and ethnographic interviews, mainly through visits and socializing, were strategies used to collect data. The study used social network analysis as tool for research. While I was studying participants' social networks, I met many people and made friends, even fictive kin. Perhaps especially because I am an African woman, the Haitians received me as a sister, a cousin, a daughter, an aunt, and a friend.

Methodological tools for the collection and analysis of participant observation data using grounded theory

2014 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 10-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heleena Laitinen ◽  
Marja Kaunonen ◽  
Päivi Åstedt-Kurki
Keyword(s):  
Grounded Theory ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Observation Data

The Emergence and Management of Role Ambiguity in a Collegiate Basketball Team

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 499-517
Author(s):  
Paul Kang ◽  
David R. Seibold
Keyword(s):  
Role Ambiguity ◽  
National Collegiate Athletic Association ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Team Sports ◽  
Critical Factor ◽  
Men's Basketball ◽  
Ethnographic Interviews ◽  
Basketball Team ◽  
Role Responsibilities

Role ambiguity—the lack of clear, consistent information regarding one’s role, responsibilities, or position—is a critical factor in team sports in which alignment of roles is vital to collective performance and team success. However, how role ambiguity evolves over time and is managed is understudied. This qualitative longitudinal investigation examined how role ambiguities emerged and impacted the members of a National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I collegiate men’s basketball team. Working within the organizational tensions theoretical framework, data on role ambiguity were collected through participant observation and ethnographic interviews and thematically coded and analyzed. Findings indicated that role ambiguities, such as with player leadership, were influenced by numerous contextual factors and recursively influenced the meanings of some of those factors. These complexities also produced tensions, and members’ attempts to manage these tensions produced dualities that further increased role ambiguity. When members realized they could not resolve ambiguities related to their roles, they concocted unorthodox role management strategies to accomplish their responsibilities amidst the ambiguity.

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