Small but Focused

2016 ◽  
pp. 93-122
Author(s):  
Catarina Sales Oliveira ◽  
Nuno Amaral Jerónimo
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Rural Women ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Statistical Data ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Women Empowerment ◽  
Rural Village ◽  
Depth Interviews

In this chapter, we will offer some reflections on ICT accessibility, uses and perceptions by rural women. Using a sociological conceptual framework based on discussions on gender, ICT gap, and women empowerment (Stromquist, 2014; Mezirow, 2006), we will try to understand, in an innovative way, the available statistical data collected in national and international surveys on this subject; we will also add qualitative data collected in an exploratory study, conducted in a Portuguese rural village. This study was a multi-site ethnographic research project (Falzon & Hall, 2009) with participant observation and in-depth interviews. We analysed the infrastructure conditions and constraints, with the aim of giving a voice to the interviewed women, in order to better understand their representations of ICT and the reasons for their use and non-use. The results allow us to advance some possible paths to mitigate some of the constraints to ICT empowerment among rural women.

scholarly journals Sociality and temporality in local experiences of distress and healing: Ethnographic research in northern Rwanda

2020 ◽  
pp. 136346152094967
Author(s):  
Yuko Otake ◽  
Teisi Tamming
Keyword(s):  
Community Involvement ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Idioms Of Distress ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Group Discussions ◽  
The Past ◽  
Post War ◽  
Social Reconnection ◽  
Depth Interviews

Prior studies have traced sociality and temporality as significant features of African healing. However, association between the two has not been explicitly investigated. This paper explores how sociality and temporality are associated in local experiences of distress and healing among northern Rwandans. The ethnographic research, including in-depth interviews, focus-group discussions and participant observation, was conducted in 2015–2016, with 43 participants from the Musanze district who have suffered from not only the genocide but also post-genocide massacres. Findings identified common local idioms of distress: ibikomere (wounded feelings), ihungabana (mental disturbances), ihahamuka (trauma), and kurwara mu mutwe (illness of the head, severe mental illness). One stage of distress was perceived to develop into another, slightly more serious than the previous. Social isolation played a significant role in the development as it activated ‘remembering’ and ‘thinking too much’ about the past and worsened symptoms. Subsequently, healing was experienced through social reconnection and a shift of time orientation from the past to the future; the healing experience traced a process of leaving the past behind, moving forwards and creating a future through community involvement. The experiences of distress and healing in this population were explained by two axes, i.e. sociality (isolation – reconnection) and temporality (past – future), which are associated with each other. Given the sociality–temporality association in African post-war healing, the study highlights that assistant programmes that facilitate social practice and future creation can be therapeutic and be an alternative for people who cannot benefit from talking-based and trauma-focused approaches.

scholarly journals COMMUNICATION IN THE CONTEXT OF FAMILY CAREGIVING: AN EXPLORATORY STUDY OF UGANDAN CHILDREN ON ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY

2015 ◽  
Vol 48 (5) ◽  
pp. 672-693 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Kajubi ◽  
Anne R. Katahoire ◽  
David Kyaddondo ◽  
Susan R. Whyte
Keyword(s):  
Antiretroviral Therapy ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Emotional Support ◽  
Family Caregiving ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Family Dynamics ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Diagnosis And Treatment ◽  
Aids Diagnosis ◽  
Depth Interviews

SummaryIt is important to consider the complexities of family dynamics when deciding when and how to communicate with HIV-infected children about their illness and treatment. Previous research has focused on providers’ and caregivers’ perspectives on whether, when and how to disclose HIV/AIDS diagnosis and treatment to HIV-infected children. From the perspective of HIV-infected children, communication does not mean just giving information about illness and treatment, but also encompasses emotional and material care. This paper places communication within the broader framework of caregiving in family situations. This exploratory study was conducted in Jinja district, Uganda, between November 2011 and December 2012. Through participant observation and in-depth interviews, communication by, and with, HIV-infected children in the context of family situations was explored from the perspectives of 29 HIV-infected children aged 8–17 years on antiretroviral therapy (ART) using content thematic analysis. Children’s communication with caregivers about their illness and treatment varied depending on whom they were living with and the nature of caregiving. Although a mother’s care was considered best, children described others who cared ‘like a mother’. For some, caregiving was distributed among several relatives and non-relatives, while others felt they had hardly anyone to care for them. Caregiving from the children’s perspective involved emotional support, expressed verbally and explicitly in messages of concern, encouragement conveyed in reminders to take medicines, attention when sick and confidential conversations about the challenges of having HIV and taking ART. Caregiving was also communicated implicitly in acts of provision of food/drinks to take with medicines, counting pills to confirm they had taken the medicines and accompanying children to treatment centres. Children’s communication about their health and medicines and the care they received was to a large extent shaped by the nature of their relatedness to their caregivers, the extent to which caregiving was dispersed among several people and who else in the household was infected with HIV and on medication.

scholarly journals MEMAKNAI FENOMENA KETERLAMBATAN PENGELUARAN KAS DAERAH PADA SEKRETARIAT DAERAH KABUPATEN GIANYAR

2017 ◽  
pp. 4069
Author(s):  
I Wayan Budi Mahendra ◽  
I Putu Sudana ◽  
Ni Putu Sri Harta Mimba
Keyword(s):  
Financial Planning ◽  
Financial Management ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Management Training ◽  
Quality Of Leadership ◽  
Interpretive Paradigm ◽  
Accounts Payable ◽  
Depth Interviews

This study aims to find out how the concerned parties understand and interpret such phenomenon. In order to explore the understanding of related parties, phenomenology is used as a methodology, with interpretive paradigm as a study umbrella. The focus of the study taking place at the Regional Secretariat of Gianyar regency of three informants who deal directly with the Regional Accounts Payable process. Qualitative data were collected by conducting in-depth interviews and participant observation. The findings indicate that the leadership has an important role in the process of local cash outlay. The key problem faced is the quality of leadership that ultimately affeects the non-optimal financial planning, competence apparatus and bureaucratic. This study advises that it is required some efforts such as: arranging financial management training, regular meetings to evaluate the performance and implementing shorten bureaucracy policy.

scholarly journals Transnational Involvement: Reading Quantitative Studies in Light of Qualitative Data

2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Erlend Paasche ◽  
Katrine Fangen
Keyword(s):  
Feedback Loop ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Statistical Data ◽  
Life Story ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Qualitative Case Studies ◽  
Quantitative Studies ◽  
Life Story Interviews ◽  
Context Specific ◽  
Adult Immigrants

Studies of migrant transnationalism are dominated by qualitative case studies. To take the field further, there is a need for more quantitative studies and for connecting quantitative and qualitative studies through a reiterative feedback loop. In order to contribute to this, we take two refined and original quantitative studies, one by Snel et al. and one by Portes et al., as a vantage point, commenting on the authors’ organization of analytical categories and their operationalization of key concepts, in light of our own, qualitative data. These data come from a research project, EUMARGINS, where we analyze processes of inclusion and exclusion of young adult immigrants and descendants in seven European countries, using participant observation and life-story interviews in combination with statistical data. We conclude that the process whereby young migrants identify themselves in terms of ethnicity and belonging is context-specific, multidimensional, and hard to study quantitatively.

scholarly journals Assessment of Neonatal Thermal Cares: Practices and Beliefs Among Rural Women in West Guji Zone, South Ethiopia: A Cross-Sectional Study

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wako Golicha Wako ◽  
Belda Negesa Beyene
Keyword(s):  
Rural Women ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Sectional Study ◽  
Focus Group Discussions ◽  
Group Discussions ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Skin To Skin ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Neonatal Hypothermia

Abstract Introduction: A newborn has limited capacity to maintain temperature when exposed to cold environments. Therefore it is important to maintain newborn in optimal thermal environment. Neonatal hypothermia carries higher case fatality rate when concurrently occurs with other neonatal problems. Neonatal hypothermia is common neonatal problem.Objectives: This study assessed neonatal thermal care practices and beliefs among rural women in west Guji Zone, south Ethiopia. Methods and Materials: A community based cross sectional study combined with qualitative study was undertaken in rural areas of west Guji Zone. Randomly selected 388 rural mothers of infants less than 6 months old were participated in quantitative study. Three focus group discussions and three in-depth interviews were conducted among mothers of infants less than 6 months old; and grandmothers and traditional birth attendants respectively. Quantitative data was collected by using structured and pretested Afaan Oromo version questionnaire adapted from relevant literatures. Qualitative data was collected by in-depth interviews and focus group discussions. The qualitative data was cleaned, coded and analyzed by SPSS version 20. Qualitative data was analyzed by thematic approach. Results: Out of 423 women planned for the study, 388 women were successfully interviewed and included into the analysis. In general rural women believe in importance of newborn thermal protection. The findings show that approximately 75% and 85% of women dried and wrapped their newborns respectively after delivery. However in study area drying and wrapping newborn are usually done after first newborn bath. Just over 84% of women bathed their newborns in less than 6 hours of delivery and majority of them used warm water for the bathing. About 69.1% and 57.7% of women put head cover to their newborns immediately after birth and initiated breast feeding within one hour of delivery respectively. Skin to skin care of newborn is non-existent in study area and perceived as odd, frightening and potential dangerous practice. Conclusion: Studied women practice some of recommended neonatal thermal care and believe in their importance in keeping newborn warm. However practice and believes about delayed first bath is against standard recommendation, whereas skin to skin care is non-existent and perceivably odd practice.

Queer (post-)migration experiences: Mexican men’s use of gay dating apps in the USA

Sexualities ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 136346072094459
Author(s):  
Kostia Lennes
Keyword(s):  
Mexico City ◽  
Host Country ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Migration Experience ◽  
Dating Apps ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Migration Experiences ◽  
Depth Interviews

Drawing on an ethnographic research in Mexico City, this article focuses on the use of geo-localized gay dating apps among Mexican queer migrants returning from the USA. Based principally on in-depth interviews and participant observation, this article aims to grasp how the participants have come to use these technologies when arriving in the USA. I argue that gay dating apps impact the trajectories of my informants and that their involvement in these networks is intimately linked to their migration experience. Furthermore, I suggest that these technologies contribute to fill a lack of sociability in the host country and influence queer sexual subjectivities after relocation.

scholarly journals Etnomathematics: Batik Activities In Tancep Batik

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 305
Author(s):  
Heru Wahyudi ◽  
Sri Adi Widodo ◽  
Dafid Slamet Setiana ◽  
Muhammad Irfan
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Data Analysis ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Mathematics Learning ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Data Sources ◽  
Ethnographic Approach ◽  
Depth Interviews

This study aims to examine the ethnomathematics of batik activity in the Batik Tancep Gunungkidul artwork as contextual mathematics learning. This research is a type of qualitative research with an ethnographic approach. The data was obtained in the form of qualitative data, research data sources obtained through observation, interviews, documentation. The instrument in this study was the researcher himself. Data collection is done by participant observation, in-depth interviews, and documentation. The validity of the data is done by triangulation of data collection techniques and then analyzed descriptively qualitatively. Data analysis is reduced based on Bishop's mathematical fundamental activities. The results of data analysis are then explored in mathematical aspects. The results of the study found mathematical aspects of the area of flat wake area, congruence and congruence of flat wake, comparison, translation, multiplication of count numbers, and volume of curved side space. The results of the study show that the batik activity in the Batik Tancep Gunungkidul artwork is one of the real events that can be raised into contextual mathematics learning. Keywords: Ethnomatematics, Tancep Batik, Contextual Mathematics Learning

scholarly journals An exploratory study of a new kink activity: “Pup play”

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liam Wignall ◽  
Mark McCormack
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Sexual Satisfaction ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Leisure Activity ◽  
Gay And Bisexual Men ◽  
Bisexual Men ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
And Bisexual ◽  
Depth Interviews

This study presents the narratives and experiences of 30 gay and bisexual men who participate in a behavior known as “pup play.” Never empirically studied before, we use in-depth interviews and a modified form of grounded theory to describe the dynamics of pup play and develop a conceptual framework with which to understand it. We discuss the dynamics of pup play, demonstrating that it primarily consists of mimicking the behaviors and adopting the role of a dog. We show that the majority of participants use pup play for sexual satisfaction. It is also a form of relaxation, demonstrated primarily through the existence of a “headspace.” We classify pup play as a kink, and find no evidence for the framing of it as a form of zoophilia. We call for further research on pup play as a sexual kink and leisure activity from both qualitative and quantitative perspectives.

“I got this!” A comprehensive framework for customer behaviour during a pandemic crisis

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melika Kordrostami ◽  
Elika Kordrostami
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Negative Emotions ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Customer Behaviour ◽  
Comprehensive Framework ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Shed Light

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected everyone’s lives in various ways. The current qualitative exploratory study is conducted to shed light on how the pandemic has impacted people’s lives. By analysing the results of fifteen in-depth interviews, we offer a coherent conceptual framework which explains the negative emotions that people are dealing with at the time of a pandemic crisis. Self-affirmation theory is used to show how individuals feel at the time of a crisis and how they make different behavioural and emotional decisions to sustain their perceived self-integrity. The framework also demonstrates the different routes people take to sail through those hardships and conquer negativities. Specifically, the presented model shows that people deal with negativities such as denial, uncertainty, anxiety, and concerns and try to overcome these through changes in priorities, hope, taking control and being in charge, and self-awareness.

scholarly journals Digital Ascendancy and Madrasah Education: The Influence of Media Technology on the Life-worlds of Female Madrasah Student

2021 ◽  
Vol VI (I) ◽  
pp. 43-56
Author(s):  
Muneeba Khusnood ◽  
Muhammad Bilal ◽  
Tasmia Jahangir
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Media Influence ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Media Technology ◽  
Educational Backgrounds ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Selection Of

The present research explores the phenomenological reflections on the everyday life of madrasah students to comprehend their life-worlds in the context of growing media technology in Pakistan and how religious personalities on media influence the lifeworlds of madrasah students? This ethnographic research was conducted in Ahl-e-Hadith Madrasah, located in Rawalpindi. The research design employed participant observation (PO) and in-depth interviews of madrasah students and teachers belonging to diverse socio-economic and educational backgrounds. The findings suggest that the teachings and principles of the Ahl-e-Hadith sect taught in madrasah profoundly influence the life-worlds of female madrasah students. The major areas of students' life-worlds that are influenced by madrasah discourses include sectarian associations, selection of spouse, dressing patterns, media aesthetics, the configuration of entertainment, and the influence of ulemas on students' everyday life.

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