The Establishment Strikes Back? The Life and Times of Takafumi Horie

2007 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 261-270 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lorraine Warren
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
Significant Change ◽  
Key Events ◽  
Newspaper Articles

This paper uses newspaper articles to construct an account of the meteoric rise and eventual fall from grace of Takafumi Horie, a Japanese Internet entrepreneur. This trajectory is explored through a qualitative methodology that analyses the content of articles in international newspapers reporting key events in Horie's story. Tracking the representation of Horie as the story develops uncovers the ambiguous nature of the concept of entrepreneurship in Japan, where the enactment of entrepreneurship takes place within and at times against the mainstream of significant change in the nature of work in Japan. The paper concludes by linking Horie's story to the temporal construction of the entrepreneur in a social context in which bureaucratic challenge leads eventually to entrepreneurial marginalization through the likelihood of a jail term. Overall, the paper adds to the literature concerning the mutable and contested nature of the term ‘entrepreneur’.

scholarly journals Evaluación de un programa de deporte escolar mediante la técnica photovoice (Evaluation of an extracurricular school sport program through photovoice)

Retos ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 355-363
Author(s):  
Borja Jiménez Herranz ◽  
Juan Carlos Manrique Arribas ◽  
Víctor Manuel López Pastor
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Primary School ◽  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
Sports Facilities ◽  
School Sport ◽  
Educación Primaria ◽  
The City

En este estudio se pretende conocer la visión del alumnado que participa en un programa de deporte escolar en relación a las instalaciones deportivas. Para la recogida de datos se ha utilizado la técnica photovoice, una metodología cualitativa poco conocida y usada en ámbito del deporte escolar. El estudio se lleva a cabo con cuatro alumnos/as de Educación Primaria. Cada participante tomó fotografías de los materiales e instalaciones utilizadas durante dos semanas. Posteriormente se realizó un grupo de discusión con los cuatro participantes. Los datos obtenidos fueron analizados con el programa Atlas.ti.7.0.83. Los resultados muestran cómo los alumnos/as centran su atención en aspectos relacionados con la seguridad y la estética o apariencia de las instalaciones y materiales deportivos. Las principales conclusiones encontradas parecen señalar que: (1) photovoice puede ser una metodología válida para reflejar las percepciones que el alumnado tiene; (2) la situación de las instalaciones y materiales evaluados por el alumnado es buena en general y no impide la práctica de actividad física; (3) los alumnos/as son capaces de aportar soluciones de mejora a las incidencias detectadas; y (4) el informe remitido a las autoridades municipales propició la realización de cambios en las instalaciones deportivas evaluadas por los alumnos. Abstract. This study aims to understand how participants of an extracurricular school sport program see the sports facilities. Photovoice has been used as a technique to collect data, a qualitative methodology little known in the school sport field. The study developed with four children of Primary School, which belonged to three schools of the city that were participating in the program. Each student took photographs of the facilities and materials where they trained for two weeks. Afterwards a discuss group was conducted with four students. The data obtained was analyzed with Atlas.ti.7.0.83 program. The outcomes show how students focus their attention on issues related with safety and aesthetics or appearance of facilities and equipment. The main conclusions show that: (1) photovoice can be a valid tool to reflect the students´ perceptions about their social context; and (2) the report sent to the municipal authorities led to changes in the facilities evaluated.

Sir Andrew Gourlay Clow

2019 ◽  
pp. 41-88
Author(s):  
Colin R. Alexander
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Colonial India ◽  
Key Events

This chapter seeks to position Clow’s experiences in colonial India against the backdrop of wider issues and trends during the period of his service. The chapter discusses Clow’s recruitment into the ICS, his marriage to Ariadne, and his life after the ICS. What is of interest here is not necessarily the events themselves but the temperament of the man and his attitude to the situations that were before him. Moreover, understanding the historical and social context of Clow’s career allows us to draw stronger conclusions when analysing the key events in the later chapters.

Revolution, culture and society

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fred Powell
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Women's Movement ◽  
Land Ownership ◽  
The Political ◽  
Labour Movement ◽  
Contested Space ◽  
State And Society ◽  
Irish Revolution ◽  
Religion And Nationalism ◽  
Key Events

The chapter critically assesses the representation of the Irish revolution and its social context. It contrasts the modernist influences of both the labour movement and the women's movement with the growing ascendancy of nationalism in both its cultural and political forms. Ultimately, the political set the revolutionary agenda, producing a conservative state and society, shaped by capitalism (mainly based on land ownership), religion, and nationalism. However, other key events in the Irish revolution point to a much more complex narrative. These include the 1913 Lockout of unionised workers in Dublin, the Limerick Soviet in 1919, and the organisation of the women's movement in a variety of forms. The Irish revolutionary narrative was undoubtedly a contested space, even if its memorialisation has largely focused on the 1916 Rising and the nationalist narrative. The chapter argues that there were competing narratives of the Irish revolution that need to be fully acknowledged in its analysis and memorialisation.

Trajectories of Resistance and Shifting Forms of Workers’ Activism in Iran

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
M. Stella Morgana
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Trade Unions ◽  
Theoretical Basis ◽  
Antonio Gramsci ◽  
Islamic Republic ◽  
Labor Activism ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
Key Events ◽  
Over Time

Abstract This article navigates ruptures and transformations in the processes of resistance performed by Iranian workers between two key events of the history of contemporary Iran: the 1979 Revolution and the 2009 Green Movement. It explores how labor activism emerged in the Islamic Republic, and illustrates how it managed to survive. Drawing from the concepts of resistance, collective awareness and counter-conduct as its theoretical basis – between Antonio Gramsci and Michel Foucault – the article details the changing strategies that workers adopted over time and space to cope with the absence of trade unions, monitoring activities, and repression in the workplace. It demonstrates that workers' agency was never fully blocked by the Islamic Republic. However, it tests the limits imposed by the social context to discourage activism, beyond state coercive measures and policies.

Misfortune or Misdeed: An Empirical Study of Public Attitudes Towards Personal Bankruptcy

2017 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Ali ◽  
Lucinda O’Brien ◽  
Ian Ramsay
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Social Context ◽  
Empirical Study ◽  
Public Attitudes ◽  
Personal Bankruptcy ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
Newspaper Articles

While the field of bankruptcy scholarship is well established, there has so far been very little scholarly investigation of the social context in which bankruptcy occurs. Scholars, politicians and other commentators tend to discuss this subject under the rubric of ‘bankruptcy stigma’. Yet these discussions generally draw upon interviews with debtors, or other indirect indicators of public opinion, such as newspaper articles. They are seldom based upon surveys or interviews with members of the public.

scholarly journals Celebrities in Czech politics in 1996–2013

2018 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iva Petrovová ◽  
Otto Eibl
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Czech Republic ◽  
Social Context ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Celebrity Politics ◽  
The Media ◽  
Shed Light ◽  
Newspaper Articles ◽  
Chamber Of Deputies

The paper deals with the phenomenon of celebrity politics in the Czech Republic, particularly the involvement of celebrities in Czech politics between 1996 and 2013. The authors draw from the celebrity politics’ typologies of Paul ‘t Hart and Karen Tindall, and John Street. Employing a content analysis of newspaper articles from the journals MF Dnes and Blesk during the periods preceding the elections of the Chamber of Deputies, the authors shed light on celebrity involvement in Czech politics. Specifically, they trace three categories mentioned in the media: the celebrity expression of political topics in general, celebrity political endorsement and the candidacy of celebrities. Building upon the collected data, the authors interpret the results within the political and social context of the parliamentary period and indicate more general patterns of celebrity involvement in Czech politics.

scholarly journals Realitas Kompetensi Komunikasi antar Budaya pada Proses Adaptasi Pelajar Indonesia di Luar Negeri

Humaniora ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 558
Author(s):  
Amia Luthfia
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Intercultural Communication ◽  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Educational Setting ◽  
Intercultural Communication Competence ◽  
Studying Abroad ◽  
One Year ◽  
Different Cultures ◽  
Depth Interviews

There are more and more Indonesian students studying abroad. Having competence in communicating with people from different cultures is very important in order to avoid conflicts between cultures, and so that the communication occurs effectively and properly. This study examines intercultural communication competence Indonesian people when they are being assigned to study in Australia, with qualitative methodology. The method used is field observations and in-depth interviews. The context of the research is very limited, that examines only one group of students assigned to study for less than one year at the institution which have prepared a special program for them. The results of this study are the students quite competent in intercultural communication, especially in formal social contexts. However, in informal social contexts, they are not competent enough. They can be quite competent in the formal social context as they are aided by educational setting that more accommodative and tolerant of their shortcomings compared to the informal social context.  

scholarly journals Changing Narratives of Survivors of the 2014 Hiroshima Landslide

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 443-456
Author(s):  
Rie Kawasaki ◽  
Atsushi Hikita ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Community Groups ◽  
Disaster Victims ◽  
Significant Change ◽  
Hiroshima City ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Landslide Disaster ◽  
Newspaper Articles ◽  
Narrative Transformation

The purpose of this study is to understand the fluidity of survivors’ narratives and to clarify the changes such narratives undergo after time has elapsed. Nineteen survivors of the landslide disaster that occurred on August 20, 2014 in Hiroshima City were interviewed twice-three years after the disaster and five years after the disaster-and the changes in the content of their narratives were analyzed. In addition, by analyzing the titles of newspaper articles that were published within one month of the disaster, the characteristics of narrative transformation were quantitatively identified. The narratives of disaster victims that were once accepted as “dominant stories” become “personalized” as “alternative stories” with the elapse of time, even though they are told by the same person. Comparisons of two interviews conducted at different times show that the word “evacuation” undergoes a significant change in context over time elapse, while the word “disaster” appears in a new context in the fifth-year interview. While social or community groups are the bearers of “socialized” memories, individuals are the bearers of “personalized” memories which are expected to continue to change as time elapses. It is necessary to examine what should be shared in order to utilize disaster victims’ memories to prevent and mitigate disasters, and how to such memories should be shared.

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