März 10, 2015, 3:46 pm, Reinhard Bachleitner, Martin Weichbold, Allgemein.
In this article we analyze the visual ways of perception—seeing, observing, and gazing,—and discuss the double dependence of the process of perception on theory. In doing so we argue that open methodological and epistemological questions can be answered by differentiating the process of perception into three steps: pure vision, cognitive representation, and transformation of perception into words. In addition, the processes of perception have to be further differentiated in conscious and unconscious levels of awareness.
As existing empirical analyses of the influence of diverse variables on the results of perception indicate, the process of visual perception is highly sensible and includes various sources of methodological artifacts. The suggested two-dimensional „visual difference,“ consisting of the difference between image and language as well as of the difference between presentative and discursive symbols, should sensitize researchers towards diverse processes of screening and selection. This concept should therefore be systematically integrated in the interpretation of all processes of perception.
The question of the methodological quality of visual studies remains in the focus of the analyses as it becomes clear that any process of perception is always subject to the individual observer‘s multiple mechanisms of screening and selection. This article therefore constitutes a first attempt to outline consistent „quality criteria“ for visual studies.
URN: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs1502100
März 10, 2015, 3:33 pm, Alexandra König, Miriam Böttner, Allgemein.
Based on video data collected at a children’s university we discuss how generational order is produced and shaped into different constellations. As a theoretical reference point we use the concept of „socialization as generational ordering“ (BÜHLER-NIEDERBERGER, 2011; BÜHLER-NIEDERBERGER & TÜRKYILMAZ, 2014). Analysis of the initial sessions of two different courses at this out-of-school learning facility shows three things: First, how children grasp, work out, and modify rules in such an unfamiliar context and how this makes them accomplices in the production of generational order. Second, how children paradoxically are „doing pupil“ as well in this out-of-school setting, revealing the dominance of „school order.“ Third, by a contrastive analysis of courses, a certain variety of these ordering processes can be found. This variety concerns forms of knowledge and the ways children are addressed; however, the dominance of the „school order“ is hardly challenged.
URN: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs150263
März 10, 2015, 3:05 pm, Lynlee Howard-Payne, Allgemein.
The fact that a researcher forms a critical component of the world that he or she is studying is no more evident than during the gathering and analysis of data that underpins his or her qualitative research study. Having selected a Straussian grounded …
März 10, 2015, 2:59 pm, Paul Badenhorst, Allgemein.
On the occasion of the first anniversary of the death of Nelson Rolihlahla MANDELA, this self-exploratory narrative study utilizes a Butlerian performative theoretical framework to both uncover discursively regulated social practices as generative of raced identity ensconced in belonging, and the undoing of such identity through the redeployment of social practices predicated instead on a Weltanschauung of becoming. While the accountable subject of autoethnographic work is concomitantly problematized, fluid subjectivity is itself demonstrated as crucial to historical accountability. A resultant appeal for white South Africans to actively begin the work of defamiliarizing themselves with the sanitized dominant popular culture representation of the peace icon, this research ultimately calls for new existential reflection upon the face of Nelson MANDELA so as to begin uncovering its deeper historical significance, contemporary relevance, and the future ethical imperative it demands of those who come from a liminal position of, as J.M. COETZEE once wrote, „no longer European, not yet African“ (1988, p.11). In short, it is argued that white South Africans need to move from a condition of belonging predicated on raced identity to one of transracial—and even interracial—African becoming.
URN: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs150223
März 10, 2015, 2:50 pm, Masakuni Tagaki, Allgemein.
The goal of the current study was to examine how Japanese men with long-term spinal cord injuries constructed their post-injury life. To do this, I conducted semi-structured interviews with ten participants who had sustained spinal cord injuries. The i…
März 10, 2015, 2:00 am, trivium, Allgemein.
Laure Bereni ist Forscherin am Centre Maurice Halbwachs (Paris). Sie ist Spezialistin für Geschlechtersoziologie, feministische Bewegungen und Gleichheitspolitiken in den Organisationen.
Laure Bereni est chercheuse au CNRS, membre du Centre Maurice Halbwachs (Paris). Elle est spécialiste de sociologie du genre, des mouvements féministes et des politiques d’égalité dans les organisations.
März 9, 2015, 3:00 pm, Eurozine journals, Allgemein.
März 9, 2015, 3:00 pm, Eurozine journals, Allgemein.
Quelle: http://www.eurozine.com/journals/passage/issue/2015-03-09.html
März 9, 2015, 2:25 pm, Álvaro Morcillo Laiz, Allgemein.
10.1080/09557571.2015.1007336<br/>Álvaro Morcillo Laiz
März 9, 2015, 11:11 am, Annemieke van Drenth, Allgemein.
10.1080/00309230.2015.1019711<br/>Annemieke van Drenth