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Showing 1 to 20 of 40 for “"Boundary Work"”.
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Seed To Sale: Boundary Work In Mississippi Agriculture
… to sale, farm operations thrive on the demanding work of farm labor. However, social research on agriculture does not give adequate attention to issues of labor and work. Through participant observation, interviews, and content analysis, I analyze work from multiple perspectives within Mississippi …
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Boundary -work in United States psychology: A study of three interdisciplinary programs
… and social practices. Psychologists used "boundary-work" as a means to control the influx of these various practices. Boundary-work connotes activities that promote scientists' epistemic authority in society. Boundary-work also serves to demarcate a science's particular collection of …
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Inclusion, Exclusion, and Negotiations: A Study of Escort Workers and Boundary-Work
This study explores the boundary-work accomplished by seventeen female and male escort workers. Escort work, defined as the acceptance of money for spending time with and offering companionship to others, is not illegal; however, social scientific research indicates that escort workers often engage …
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Boundary work in the process of informal job seeking : an ethnographic study of Cape Town roadside workseekers
… members‘ experiences and attitudes towards the work or income-earning opportunities introduced to members by MSR. The overall goal of the report was to assess why a large proportion of the work opportunities introduced to members were not taken up with great enthusiasm. After completion of the …
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"I don't want to go up the hill": Symbolic Boundary Work Among Residents of an Assisted Living Community
In this study I explore boundary work processes that older adults do which influences friendships among residents of a progressive care retirement community. Accounts of boundary work as mechanisms for including some and excluding other residents as potential friends were collected by using a …
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An examination of technology as a food security solution: boundary work in the co-production of science and politics
… toolkit comprising of coproduction and boundary work was developed to allow for commonalities and differences to be registered. This research explored forms of co-production between science, technology and politics in the past, and how this looks in the present. <br/><br/>Interviews were …
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What happens when the university meets the community? : an analysis of service learning as 'boundary work' in higher education
Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-254).
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Investigating UK academics’ professional social media use: a qualitative analysis using the lenses of digital literacy, UTAUT and the concept of boundary work
… with digital disengagement leading to increasing workloads and the blur between personal and professional boundaries. Even so, it is not clear Why and how academics negotiate boundaries related to their professional social media use? What affects academics’ decision-making about their intentions …
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Investigating UK academics’ professional social media use: a qualitative analysis using the lenses of digital literacy, UTAUT and the concept of boundary work
… with digital disengagement leading to increasing workloads and the blur between personal and professional boundaries. Even so, it is not clear Why and how academics negotiate boundaries related to their professional social media use? What affects academics’ decision-making about their intentions …
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Sex! Aliens! Harvard? Rhetorical boundary-work in the media (a case study of the role of journalists in the social construction of scientific authority)
… this case, and journalists played a role in the boundary-work. Employing the sensitizing concept of boundary-work to guide analysis of media content, this case study explores how journalists constructed scientific authority in their coverage of Mack's abduction research, and to what ends, and how …
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Grains of truth : science and the evolution of international desertification policymaking
… in tandem: authorization, inscription, and boundary work. Authorization is the process that determines whose knowledge counts and what methods of knowledge production are valid. Inscription describes the means by which institutional resources and priorities embed problem framings and causal …
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Critical Technologies: The United States Department of Defense Efforts to Shape Technology Development After the Cold War - A Discourse and Network Analysis
… and reinforce power? And, what evidence of boundary work and network construction emerges from the examination? First, I distill from four years of defense technology planning documentation the explicit ideologies, the ideologies masked in metaphor, and the discourse strategies used to …
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Collaborating across boundaries : theoretical, empirical, and simulated explorations
… lines so that people on each side of a boundary learn what they need to practice their discipline effectively in support of interdependent work. My research examines determinants of success and failure to collaborate across intra-organizational lines. The dissertation proposes a …
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Geographies of Home: Adolescent Girls', Trans', Non-Binary Youths' Sexual Wellbeing in the GTA During COVID-19
… using Zoom and coded using an inductive framework with NVivo. Using intersectionality theory and embodiment theory, this research analyzes how youth’s diverse identities shape their understandings and experiences of sexual wellbeing. We found youth needed spaces where they were not only …
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Exploring academics’ lived experience of managing academic and commercially-oriented activities in a UK university
… on theories of ambidexterity, role identity, the boundary work, and self-efficacy, this study examines how academics make sense of different tensions resulting from performing commercialisation activities alongside traditional academic ones, and how the negotiate the boundaries and their role …
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Padri flessibili e madri precarie. Modelli culturali, pratiche quotidiane e processi biografici innovativi in corso di negoziazione.
… tra famiglia e lavoro, le pratiche quotidiane di boundary-work fra gli ambiti di vita e i processi decisionali lungo le esperienze biografiche. La tesi fa luce su come i meccanismi, allo stesso tempo pratici e culturali, collocati in contesti familiari, strutturali e culturali specifici, …
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CONCEPTUALISING THE INTERFACE BETWEEN ENGLISH FURTHER AND HIGHER EDUCATION
… study is concerned with the role and function of boundary organisations and the nature of the exchanges and boundary work that take place between the two sectors. It draws upon theories from political science, economic sociology and the work of anthropologist Mary Douglas to analyse these …
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The work-family balance experiences of production couples operating Chinese Cut, Make and Trim factories in Newcastle, South Africa
… to develop a deep understanding into the unique work family balance experiences of women in production couples in cut, make and trim factories in Newcastle, South Africa. A production couple is first and foremost a business partnership that involves joint ownership of a clothing factory, however …
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Logics of Attention: Watching and Not-Watching Film and Television in Everyday Life
… (including mobile phone use, cooking, sleeping, working, and so on). Interviewing groups of cinephiles, television binge- watchers, and parents of small children, I detail how people try to attend and not attend to aspects of media texts in order to see themselves as “attentive” or “distracted” …
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Embedded Cities, Excluded Citizens: Governance, Housing, and Rroma Marginality in Post-Socialist Romania
… through which Rroma engage in intra-ethnic boundary work, using distinctions of behavior, housing status, and respectability to secure scarce resources under constant scrutiny. Sector-level eligibility screens in Bucharest and points-based rankings in Cluj reorder the queue differently yet …
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