März 12, 2013, 12:46 pm, Elizabeth Sharp, Genevieve Durham DeCesaro, Allgemein.
Responding to the need for detailed descriptions of analytical practices in transdisciplinary projects and to showcase a way to use qualitative data in secondary analysis, the authors delineate their respective analytic processes. The social scientist used constructivist grounded theory analysis and the dance choreographer used an innovative kinesthetic analysis. In the authors‘ attempts to integrate their analyses, they discovered a new analytic direction—examination of the „paused“ and/or „rejected“ data.
URN: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs130245
März 12, 2013, 12:37 pm, Gabriela Rubilar, Allgemein.
From the beginning of professional training in social work, qualitative approaches to research have been represented in the curriculum, as they are an important element of the methodological repertoire. In this article, I argue that the instruments and techniques which traditionally have been used for professional social interventions mirror a number of qualitative research perspectives. This is especially true for those types of research which prompt extensive, continuous narratives and discourses initiated by a single research question. Research that yields continuous narratives has presented an analysis of the different professional repertoires used in social interventions and emphasizes approaches and perspectives that begin with questions such as: „Why are you coming?“; „What do you need?“; or, „Just tell me.“ These questions provide social workers with the opportunity to immerse themselves in individuals‘ autobiographical tales.
In the following, I specifically analyze professional repertoires related to social assistance and interventions. This is done by interpreting the configurative elements and the interventions used by this approach. Emphasis is placed on the process dynamics between different participants simultaneously as I discuss the scope for this type of approach, which encourages a face-to-face interaction between the researcher and the individual.
URN: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs130229
März 12, 2013, 12:27 pm, Cigdem Esin, Corinne Squire, Allgemein.
This article reports on how a study of visual autobiographical workshops, conducted with social diverse groups in East London, provides us with insights about the narrative nature of still images, and the co-construction of narratives across a number o…
März 11, 2013, 8:00 pm, Eurozine journals, Allgemein.
Quelle: http://www.eurozine.com/journals/ilmulino/issue/2013-03-11.html
März 11, 2013, 8:00 pm, Eurozine journals, Allgemein.
Quelle: http://www.eurozine.com/journals/varlik/issue/2013-03-11.html
März 11, 2013, 7:20 pm, FABIOLA BALTAR, IGNASI BRUNET ICART, Allgemein.
The aim of this article is to analyse the factors affecting the motivations of immigrant entrepreneurs to generate an entrepreneurial gain (positive impact on home and host countries). We consider that positive reasons for emigrating can increase transnational entrepreneurship and mutual benefits for both societies. To test this hypothesis we present a model using Structural Equation Modelling (SEM). This model explains the relations between motivations, cultural similarities, institutions and transnational linkage potentials. We designed an ad hoc search of Argentinean entrepreneurs established in Spain, both as EU citizens and without legal EU status, using online social networks. We applied an online questionnaire to 214 such entrepreneurs. We conclude that institutional rules (formal and informal) greatly influence the location decisions of firms and immigrant entrepreneurs’ motivations for starting transnational business because they provide the frame for the development of profitable opportunities.
März 11, 2013, 6:00 pm, Eurozine journals, Allgemein.
Quelle: http://www.eurozine.com/journals/blatter/issue/2013-03-11.html
The public has received substantial interpretation pursuant to its function as counterpart to the political development. Following the speaker’s projection, the parliament and the public sphere form an alliance. Literature has been understood all the time as its mediation and realization alike. What remains open, is the very question how the “focus of the public” (Ch.Taylor) is created and to be maintained. In four steps it is explained according to the primary hypothesis that human consciousness relies upon a polar foundation. The first introduces both parts of literary consciousness, the individual and the collective, in relation to truth capability. The second exhibits in an empirical sense the intricacies of polar consciousness as related to varieties of manifestation and peripeteian emphasis. The third relies upon poetological theory in order to explain how collective consciousness and the text are interconnected. Finally the fourth takes novel theory and interpretation (N.Miller) as point of departure for final application and overall summary.
März 11, 2013, 3:59 pm, Manfred Negele,
Community,
Mutuality,
New Forms of the Social,
Personal relationship,
Sociohistorical analysis,
Topics,
Virtual reality.
Nowadays technical devices are used for communication between humans. Communicating by using tech-nical devices effects the way people are co-existing. Does that convey the experience of community, does it maybe lead us to new forms of communities? Or as we rely on technology and the opportunities offered thereby, do we lose the possibility to find people sharing our lives? The article offers the chance to find points of reference framing these essential questions.
März 11, 2013, 11:19 am, Taylor and Francis: Cambridge Review of International Affairs: Table of Contents,
article.
Cambridge Review of International Affairs, Ahead of Print.