scholarly journals On Reflexivity: Tribute to Catherine Kohler Riessman

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. 71-82
Author(s):  
Wendy Luttrell
Keyword(s):  
Feminist Scholarship ◽  
Personal Lives ◽  
Narrative Studies ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Research Relationships

This paper is a tribute to Catherine Kohler Riessman, whose imprint on the field of narrative studies is legendary. It draws on some of her most influential publications to highlight her enduring commitment to and practice of researcher “reflexivity” and how her scholarship has influenced my work. I draw upon several of Cathy’s most influential publications to highlight her model of reflexivity in practice—a tacking back and forth between research questions, the literature, the data we collect and interpretations we make, our intellectual biographies, politics, personal experiences, and research relationships. We can look to Cathy’s scholarship for the power of revisiting, re-feeling, revising and re-envisioning our data. Her brand of feminist scholarship serves as a guide for bringing intellectual labour; historical, political and theoretical change; and personal lives into closer relation.

Introduction

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caroline Gatrell ◽  
Esther Dermott
Keyword(s):  
Social Research ◽  
Visual Methods ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
The Social ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Research Relationships ◽  
The Impact

This introductory chapter explains how different research questions and methods can contribute to better understanding of contemporary fathers, fatherhood, and fathering. Given the enhanced methodological diversity and increased sophistication of methods across the social sciences, embracing qualitative and quantitative approaches, traditional (such as interviewing) and contemporary approaches (such as netnography and visual methods), and general ‘handbooks’ offering basic introductions to social research have limited use for advanced researchers and students. The book aims to link detailed concerns about conducting individual projects to wider methodological debates concerning the value of different forms and sources of data, the negotiation of research relationships, and the impact of research findings on participants, policy makers, employers, and a wider public.

scholarly journals Feminism and the Decade of Behavior

2001 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 267-279 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacquelyn W. White ◽  
Nancy Felipe Russo ◽  
Cheryl Brown Travis
Keyword(s):  
Social Research ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Feminist Scholarship ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
New Methods ◽  
Psychology Of Women ◽  
Traditional Research ◽  
Feminist Perspectives ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Democratic Nation

This Psychology of Women Quarterly special issue argues that the goals of the Decade of Behavior to foster a healthier, safer, better educated, more prosperous, and more democratic nation cannot be achieved without contributions from feminist psychology. Its individual articles reflect feminist perspectives and provide examples of how feminist perspectives can inform behavioral and social research within Decade domains. In this overview, we outline the challenges that gender poses to achieving Decade goals, and discuss four cross-cutting feminist principles for research to address those challenges: Inclusiveness and Diversity, Context, Power and Privilege, and Activism. We discuss specific limitations of traditional research, and emphasize the need for new models that view the world in more complex, context-based ways. We underscore the importance of generating new, diversity-mindful research questions and of developing and accepting new methods to answer them. We discuss policy implications, stressing the need for activism. We hope this work will encourage the expansion of feminist scholarship in the new millennium and be helpful to researchers, educators, and policymakers in working to achieve the goals of the Decade of Behavior.

scholarly journals Experiences matter: Educators’ attitudes toward disability in higher education

2021 ◽  
Vol 51 (4) ◽  
pp. 54-66
Author(s):  
John Freer ◽  
Tanya Kaefer
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Demographic Factors ◽  
Attitudes Toward Disability ◽  
Secondary Educators ◽  
Post Secondary ◽  
Professional Experiences ◽  
Disability Scale ◽  
Demographic Questionnaire ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
Research Questions

This study investigated 128 post-secondary educators’ attitudes toward disability at a college and a university in southwestern Ontario, Canada. The participants completed the Educators’ Attitudes toward Disability Scale (EADS) and a demographic questionnaire that included questions about their experiences with disability. There were three research questions at the heart of this study: (1) What are post-secondary educators’ overall attitudes toward disability? (2) Do demographic factors predict post-secondary educators’ attitudes toward disability? (3) Does exposure to people with disability predict post-secondary educators’ attitudes toward disability? The findings of this study suggest post-secondary educators hold overallpositive attitudes toward disability and there were very few differences observed between groups (e.g., based on age, gender, discipline, etc.). Educators’ experiences with people who have a disability, however, were positively associated with their attitudes. This factor included personal experiences (e.g., friends, family, etc.), but also professional experiences (e.g., students in their classes).

Comment on the Articles by June Nash and James Peacock

1968 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 335-336
Author(s):  
Robert R. Jay
Keyword(s):  
The United States ◽  
Social World ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Religious Organization ◽  
Personal Lives ◽  
Passion Plays ◽  
City Life ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
Personal Attitudes ◽  
Direct Correspondence

The two authors of these papers face in common one very complex and perplexing problem: the place that representations of dramatic art take in the personal lives of their spectators. Enormous effort has been put into this question, particularly in works on the popular forms of dramatic art in the United States. Both authors take the same point of view on the question, that there is a fairly direct correspondence between the content of the dramas they analyze and the content of the personal experiences and social world of the spectators. Nash argues that the differing contents of the passion plays produced in the three towns she examines faithfully reflect the differing local configurations of religious organization and Indian/Ladino relations. Peacock argues that the ways the ludruk dramas characterize the inner, kampung life versus the outer, more modern and worldly city life bias the spectators directly in their personal attitudes and decisions toward rejecting features of kampung life in favor of modes of modern city life.

Methodological Framework for Experiments Related to Bloomery Iron Production Procedures: Ore Preparation and Smelting

2021 ◽  
pp. 233-247
Author(s):  
Tena Karavidović
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Research ◽  
Iron Production ◽  
Smelting Furnace ◽  
Methodological Framework ◽  
Design And Implementation ◽  
Current State ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
Ore Preparation ◽  
Research Questions

Systematic, well-designed experimental research and standardized documentation is a starting point for explaining the outcome of experiments and comparative analyses, whether within single experimental research or a wider frame of comparison with other research. This contribution presents a sequence of research procedures that served as a basis for the design and implementation of experiments related to bloomery iron production procedures. A proposal for the method of documentation is made with the aim of combining all general functional parameters relevant to the procedures of ore preparation and direct process of reduction in the reconstruction of a smelting furnace, based on personal experiences and the current state of experimental research related to iron production. The objective is to give a structured basic template of main parameters that should be recorded and reported when performing experiments related to the mentioned procedures. The hope is to bring forward a layout that should be upgraded and further developed based on specific research questions one could have.

For Our Patients, for Ourselves: The Value of Personal Reflection in Oncology

2017 ◽  
pp. 765-770
Author(s):  
Lidia Schapira ◽  
Jane Lowe Meisel ◽  
Ranjana Srivastava
Keyword(s):  
Medical Practice ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Personal Reflection ◽  
Personal Lives ◽  
Reading And Writing ◽  
Patients With Cancer ◽  
Professional Societies ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
Written Word ◽  
Practicing Physicians

Caring for patients with cancer is a great privilege as well as an emotionally and intellectually challenging task. Stress and burnout are prevalent among oncology clinicians, with serious repercussions for the care of patients. Professional societies must provide guidance for trainees and practicing physicians to mitigate the negative consequences of stress on their personal lives and medical practice. Reflection, reading, and writing about personal experiences provide outlets for fortifying personal reserves and promoting resilience to allow us to recognize the joy and meaning of our work and to forge connections with our peers. Herein, we present some of our own reflections on how and why one might take time to write, and about the power of the written word in oncology and medicine.

scholarly journals Család és/vagy karrier: Fiatal női életutak szociális konstrukciós megközelítésben

2000 ◽  
Vol 55 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-111 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Kende
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
Theoretical Background ◽  
The Body ◽  
Social Constructionist ◽  
Social Expectations ◽  
Value System ◽  
Personal Lives ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
Societal Changes ◽  
Biological Differences

A tanulmány mélyinterjús technikával készült empirikus kutatásról számol be, amely húsz fiatal értelmiségi nő életútján keresztül igyekszik elemezni a nemekkel és nőiséggel kapcsolatos társadalmi elvárásokat és személyes tapasztalatokat. A kutatás hátteréül szolgáló szociális konstrukciós elmélet lehetővé teszi, hogy a biológiai különbségek tárgyalásán túllépve, a nőiség fogalmát a testbe, társadalomba és személyes élményekbe ágyazottan értelmezzük. Az interjúk tartalomelemzése során kiderül, hogy a női szerepekkel kapcsolatos ellentmondásos elvárások közül a csoport tagjainak egy része az egalitáriánus, míg mások a konzervatív szemlélettel azonosulnak, illetve megismerjük, hogy a kiválasztott értékrend harmonikusan vagy konfliktusosan épül-e be az életútba. Az így keletkezett négy csoport jellemzése annak megértéséhez igyekszik hozzájárulni, hogy jelen társadalmi változások milyen hatást gyakorolnak a személyes életutakra a nemi szerepek terén.The article summarizes the results of an empirical study conducted using the method of indepth interviews. Social expectations, as well as personal experiences of gender and femininity are analysed based on the life-routes of twenty young women. Social constructionist theories, providing the theoretical background of the study, enable us to understand the concept of femininity beyond biological differences, as it is embedded in the body, society, and personal experiences. From the content analysis of the interviews we see that part of the group identifies with an egalitarian viewpoint, while others identify with a conservative one in the context of the contradictory social expectations toward gender roles. Furthermore, we can perceive whether the chosen value system in incorporated in a harmonious or conflituous way into the life-route. The characterisation of the four groups that were gained as a result of the categorisation contributes to the understanding of the effects of societal changes on personal lives in the area of gender roles.

The Collaborative Network Approach: a model for advancing patient-centric research for Castleman disease and other rare diseases

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-105
Author(s):  
Mary Zuccato ◽  
Dustin Shilling ◽  
David C. Fajgenbaum
Keyword(s):  
Rare Diseases ◽  
Treatment Options ◽  
Castleman Disease ◽  
High Impact ◽  
Collaborative Network ◽  
Network Approach ◽  
Grant Applications ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Novel Strategy ◽  
Patient Centric

Abstract There are ∼7000 rare diseases affecting 30 000 000 individuals in the U.S.A. 95% of these rare diseases do not have a single Food and Drug Administration-approved therapy. Relatively, limited progress has been made to develop new or repurpose existing therapies for these disorders, in part because traditional funding models are not as effective when applied to rare diseases. Due to the suboptimal research infrastructure and treatment options for Castleman disease, the Castleman Disease Collaborative Network (CDCN), founded in 2012, spearheaded a novel strategy for advancing biomedical research, the ‘Collaborative Network Approach’. At its heart, the Collaborative Network Approach leverages and integrates the entire community of stakeholders — patients, physicians and researchers — to identify and prioritize high-impact research questions. It then recruits the most qualified researchers to conduct these studies. In parallel, patients are empowered to fight back by supporting research through fundraising and providing their biospecimens and clinical data. This approach democratizes research, allowing the entire community to identify the most clinically relevant and pressing questions; any idea can be translated into a study rather than limiting research to the ideas proposed by researchers in grant applications. Preliminary results from the CDCN and other organizations that have followed its Collaborative Network Approach suggest that this model is generalizable across rare diseases.

Factors Influencing Cognate Performance for Young Multilingual Children's Vocabulary: A Research Synthesis

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 2170-2188
Author(s):  
Lindsey R. Squires ◽  
Sara J. Ohlfest ◽  
Kristen E. Santoro ◽  
Jennifer L. Roberts
Keyword(s):  
Test Validity ◽  
Reaction Times ◽  
Bilingual Children ◽  
Second Grade ◽  
High Quality Research ◽  
Word Level ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Word Characteristics ◽  
Study Inclusion ◽  
Task Level

Purpose The purpose of this systematic review was to determine evidence of a cognate effect for young multilingual children (ages 3;0–8;11 [years;months], preschool to second grade) in terms of task-level and child-level factors that may influence cognate performance. Cognates are pairs of vocabulary words that share meaning with similar phonology and/or orthography in more than one language, such as rose – rosa (English–Spanish) or carrot – carotte (English–French). Despite the cognate advantage noted with older bilingual children and bilingual adults, there has been no systematic examination of the cognate research in young multilingual children. Method We conducted searches of multiple electronic databases and hand-searched article bibliographies for studies that examined young multilingual children's performance with cognates based on study inclusion criteria aligned to the research questions. Results The review yielded 16 articles. The majority of the studies (12/16, 75%) demonstrated a positive cognate effect for young multilingual children (measured in higher accuracy, faster reaction times, and doublet translation equivalents on cognates as compared to noncognates). However, not all bilingual children demonstrated a cognate effect. Both task-level factors (cognate definition, type of cognate task, word characteristics) and child-level factors (level of bilingualism, age) appear to influence young bilingual children's performance on cognates. Conclusions Contrary to early 1990s research, current researchers suggest that even young multilingual children may demonstrate sensitivity to cognate vocabulary words. Given the limits in study quality, more high-quality research is needed, particularly to address test validity in cognate assessments, to develop appropriate cognate definitions for children, and to refine word-level features. Only one study included a brief instruction prior to assessment, warranting cognate treatment studies as an area of future need. Supplemental Material https://doi.org/10.23641/asha.12753179

Twitter Usage Using Common Reference to Tinnitus

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 206-217
Author(s):  
Jianyuan Ni ◽  
Monica L. Bellon-Harn ◽  
Jiang Zhang ◽  
Yueqing Li ◽  
Vinaya Manchaiah
Keyword(s):  
Nonprofit Organizations ◽  
Temporal Trends ◽  
Temporal Analysis ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Common Reference ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
Twitter Users ◽  
Sectional Analysis ◽  
Share Information

Objective The objective of the study was to examine specific patterns of Twitter usage using common reference to tinnitus. Method The study used cross-sectional analysis of data generated from Twitter data. Twitter content, language, reach, users, accounts, temporal trends, and social networks were examined. Results Around 70,000 tweets were identified and analyzed from May to October 2018. Of the 100 most active Twitter accounts, organizations owned 52%, individuals owned 44%, and 4% of the accounts were unknown. Commercial/for-profit and nonprofit organizations were the most common organization account owners (i.e., 26% and 16%, respectively). Seven unique tweets were identified with a reach of over 400 Twitter users. The greatest reach exceeded 2,000 users. Temporal analysis identified retweet outliers (> 200 retweets per hour) that corresponded to a widely publicized event involving the response of a Twitter user to another user's joke. Content analysis indicated that Twitter is a platform that primarily functions to advocate, share personal experiences, or share information about management of tinnitus rather than to provide social support and build relationships. Conclusions Twitter accounts owned by organizations outnumbered individual accounts, and commercial/for-profit user accounts were the most frequently active organization account type. Analyses of social media use can be helpful in discovering issues of interest to the tinnitus community as well as determining which users and organizations are dominating social network conversations.

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