Sense Of Identity, Continuity And Context

2015 ◽  
pp. 39-46
Author(s):  
Pranali Parikh
Keyword(s):  
Identity Continuity ◽  
Sense Of Identity

scholarly journals Identity processes in smokers who want to quit smoking: A longitudinal interpretative phenomenological analysis

2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (5) ◽  
pp. 493-517 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eline Meijer ◽  
Eleni Vangeli ◽  
Winifred A Gebhardt ◽  
Colette van Laar
Keyword(s):  
Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis ◽  
Phenomenological Analysis ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Change Processes ◽  
Identity Conflict ◽  
Identity Change ◽  
Behavioral Strategies ◽  
Identity Processes ◽  
Identity Continuity ◽  
Sense Of Identity

The importance of identity in smoking cessation is increasingly becoming recognized by researchers. This study is the first in-depth longitudinal qualitative investigation of identity change processes among smokers who intend to quit. Participants’ accounts of smoking, attempts to quit and sense of identity were explored over time to examine identity continuity and change. Ten smokers with a quit intention were interviewed three times, approximately 1 month apart, and approached for follow-up 2 years later. Data from 30 in-depth interviews were analyzed using the interpretative phenomenological analysis approach. Two themes of identity change processes are presented: “Identity transition makes it easier to quit” and “Identity conflict resolution is needed when quitting is unsuccessful or not attempted.” Identity transition toward the identity of nonsmoker appeared to be facilitated by permeable identity boundaries, a continuous sense of identity, and a sense of mastery of quitting. Conflicted smoker identities were observed among participants who continued to smoke, along with barriers that appeared to prevent them from identifying with nonsmoking. Among these participants psychological (e.g. using downward comparisons with worse-off smokers) and behavioral strategies (e.g. hiding smoking from others) were seen that may serve to resolve identity conflict and protect a positive sense of identity. Our findings suggest that transition toward a nonsmoker identity may be necessary for successful quitting. Future research investigating ways to help smokers to perceive themselves increasingly as nonsmokers appears indicated.

Hospital pedagogy as support for the construction of identity in chronic hospitalized students, Peru

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 13
Author(s):  
Fernando Ledesma Perez ◽  
Maria Petronila Caycho Avalos ◽  
Juana Cruz Montero ◽  
Silvia Rodriguez Melgar ◽  
Estefany Escudero Mori
Keyword(s):  
Social Development ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Construction Of Identity ◽  
Sense Of Identity

Hospital pedagogy implies the presence of the teacher in the environment in which the sick student is to accompany him in his process of cognitive, affective and social development and contribute the elements of understanding to his current condition and in that sense, the educational process is becomes the support for the construction of the identity of chronic hospitalized students. This research aims to understand hospital pedagogy as a support in the construction of identity in chronic hospitalized students, Lima, 2017, qualitative approach, ethnomethodological method, non-participant observation technique, the semi-structured interview was used and the stories were submitted to the analysis of domains and analysis of categories that allowed the understanding of the cultural scene and the sense of identity and the interpretation of how they construct their identity through practices and values, which are acquired through interaction with their environment; relatives, doctors, nurses, auxiliaries, volunteers and friends.

Musical Preferences and the Imagined Self

2019 ◽  
pp. 249-266
Author(s):  
Alexandra Lamont
Keyword(s):  
Old Age ◽  
Social Dimension ◽  
Childhood And Adolescence ◽  
Musical Identity ◽  
The Social ◽  
Sense Of Identity ◽  
Musical Preferences

Alexandra Lamont discusses how musical preferences are a way to construct, reconstruct, and communicate a sense of identity, indicating aspects of personality, attitudes, and lifestyle. She reviews recent research demonstrating how musical preferences can provide information about age, gender, and personality. In addition to the social dimension, she also touches on aspects of personal musical identity that are developed through imagination. Lamont furthermore considers our imagined relationships with the music itself and the musicians responsible for creating and performing it, taking a lifespan perspective from childhood and adolescence through to old age.

The pragmatics of humor reception: Young people's responses to a newspaper cartoon

2011 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Elisabeth El Refaie
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
Background Knowledge ◽  
Gay Marriage ◽  
Daily Mail ◽  
Humor Appreciation ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Sense Of Identity ◽  
The Individual

AbstractThis paper uses the example of 25 young people's responses to a Daily Mail cartoon on the subject of gay marriage in order to explore the pragmatics of humor reception. The results indicate that the enjoyment of a multimodal joke depends to a large extent on the background knowledge, values and attitudes of the individual. If, for instance, a cartoon is too threatening to someone's core sense of identity, it is likely to create anger and alienation rather than amusement. Humor appreciation is also shown to depend on the broader socio-cultural context in which the cartoon is encountered.

Englishness, Empire and Nostalgia: A Heterodox Religious Community's Appeal in the Inter-War Years

2018 ◽  
Vol 54 ◽  
pp. 374-392
Author(s):  
Jane Shaw
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
World War I ◽  
British Empire ◽  
Belief Networks ◽  
Healing Ministry ◽  
World War ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
The World ◽  
Sense Of Identity ◽  
The Rich

This article looks at the ways in which the Panacea Society – a heterodox, millenarian group based in Bedford during the inter-war years – spread its ideas: through personal, familial and shared belief networks across the British empire; by building new modes of attracting adherents, in particular a global healing ministry; and by shipping its publications widely. It then examines how the society appealed to its (white) members in the empire in three ways: through its theology, which put Britain at the centre of the world; by presuming the necessity and existence of a ‘Greater Britain’ and the British empire, while in so many other quarters these entities were being questioned in the wake of World War I; and by a deliberately cultivated and nostalgic notion of ‘Englishness’. The Panacea Society continued and developed the idea of the British empire as providential at a time when the idea no longer held currency in most circles. The article draws on the rich resource of letters in the Panacea Society archive to contribute to an emerging area of scholarship on migrants’ experience in the early twentieth-century British empire (especially the dominions) and their sense of identity, in this case both religious and British.

The Performative Utterance “I”: Theatricality and Subversion of Identity in the Works of Eyal Weiser

2017 ◽  
Vol 61 (4) ◽  
pp. 22-39
Author(s):  
Sharon Aronson-Lehavi
Keyword(s):  
Performance Art ◽  
Israeli Society ◽  
Performative Utterance ◽  
Performance Artists ◽  
Sense Of Identity

Israeli playwright and director Eyal Weiser challenges the language of performance by creating fictional performance artists who respond to real events in Israel. By reintroducing fiction and theatricality into the autobiographical mode of performance art, Weiser destabilizes a coherent sense of identity and underscores some of the complex issues of history and identity facing Israeli society.

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