scholarly journals Co-sexuality : the lived experience of organizing around sexuality

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Cristin A. Compton
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Human Sexuality ◽  
Human Experience ◽  
Identity Work ◽  
Master Narrative ◽  
Socially Constructed ◽  
Political Implications ◽  
Sex And Sexuality ◽  
Core Part ◽  
Over Time

Sex and sexuality are a core part of the human experience. What has been socially constructed as "normal" sexuality (e.g., acts, behaviors, preferences, conversation topics, vocabulary, etc.) has changed dramatically over time. Because sex and sexuality are fundamentally acts of power (Foucault, 1978/1990), human sexuality is a highly regulated construct that people organize around. This is particularly true in the context of the workplace, where policies and daily practices both explicitly and implicitly regulate performances of and communication about sexuality. This dissertation explores the process of co-sexuality: how "normal" sexuality is communicatively constructed in the modern Midwestern workplace as well as how people organize around the constructed norm. Participants identifying with a variety of sexualities, genders, and professions drew on the master narrative of the Midwest, the expectation of aggressive sexuality, and acts of silence/ing to describe the process of co-sexuality. Participants also described feeling simultaneously pulled toward and pushed away from the "normal" sexual center and the complex identity work needed to remain effective in the workplace. Implications for theory, sexuality scholarship, and political implications are also discussed.

In Another World: Five Years Later – A Phenomenological Nursing Inquiry Into Meanings, “Essences” of Mothers’ Lived Experience With Perinatal Death of a Wished-For Baby Unfolding Over Time

2002 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-24
Author(s):  
Sarah Steen Lauterbach
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Perinatal Death ◽  
Human Experience ◽  
Original Research ◽  
Nursing Research ◽  
Over Time

This article discusses the author’s qualitative nursing research, which used M. van Manen’s and P. Munhall’s method of phenomenology to investigate mothers’ experience with the death of a wished-for baby. The findings from the original doctoral inquiry are discussed, along with the findings from the 5-year followup with participants from the original research. Further, this paper articulates the first use of a longitudinal perspective to phenomenology and proposes its use when looking at meanings in human experience over time. In addition, there is a discussion of the balancing of therapeutic and research imperatives and the emergence in qualitative research of a caring imperative into sensitive human phenomena.

Socially constructing safety

2009 ◽  
Vol 62 (9) ◽  
pp. 1259-1266 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nick Turner ◽  
Garry C. Gray
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Behavior ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Occupational Safety ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
Organizational Conditions ◽  
Cultural Considerations ◽  
Socially Constructed ◽  
Scientific Disciplines ◽  
Social Scientific

Social scientific perspectives on occupational safety largely characterize it as a disembodied, tangible, and easily quantifiable phenomenon. Recent research efforts have focused on exploring organizational conditions that predict occupational safety outcomes, resulting in top-down, often de-contextualized prescriptions about how to control safety in the workplace (e.g. ‘management should promote a culture of safety’). There is growing interest in how social processes of organizing, wider socio-cultural considerations, and the situated production of safety can contribute to the appreciation of the ‘lived experience’ of life and death at work. This Special Issue focuses on the socially constructed nature of occupational safety and the insight it provides in understanding broader social and organizational processes. In this article, we first describe how various social scientific disciplines share an interest in occupational safety and organizational behavior, yet rarely speak to another. We provide an overview of the five articles that comprise the Special Issue, and briefly highlight some ways forward for studying safety in organizations.

scholarly journals The Placing of Identity and the Identification of Place: “Place-Identity” in Community Lifeboating

2018 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 206-219 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Grey ◽  
Michelle O’Toole
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Concept ◽  
Place Identity ◽  
The Other ◽  
Symbiotic Relationship ◽  
Dynamic Relationship ◽  
Socially Constructed ◽  
Social Meanings ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Place And Identity ◽  
Over Time

This paper explores the symbiotic relationship between place and identity. On one hand, it asks what role place plays in the formation of identity. On the other hand, it asks how place itself is invested with meaning by actors. This theoretical concept of “place-identity” is analyzed through the case of volunteer lifeboaters in the Republic of Ireland, to illustrate how place itself is socially constructed so as to acquire a range of social meanings which interact in a recursive relationship with identity over time. The particularity of dangerous maritime places is shown to shape identity, while those places are shown to be bound up with a mosaic of other factors (such as history, family, and community) which make them meaningful. The paper theorizes a more social, temporal, and dynamic relationship between place and identity than is offered by extant literature and offers refinements to the concept of place-identity.

Sex & Sexuality Module II: Self-Expression, Community and Identity

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-57
Author(s):  
Dawn Behrend
Keyword(s):  
Full Range ◽  
Human Sexuality ◽  
The United States ◽  
Academic Programs ◽  
Global Perspective ◽  
Handwritten Documents ◽  
Handwritten Text ◽  
Handwritten Text Recognition ◽  
Sex And Sexuality ◽  
Keyword Searching

Sex & Sexuality, Module II: Self-Expression, Community, and Identity published by Adam Matthew Digital is a collection of digitized primary sources obtained from archives in the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia with content from the nineteenth to twenty-first centuries “showing the shifting attitudes and varied experiences of sexuality.” While covering the full range of human sexuality, the collection primarily focuses on the LGBTQ+ experience. This module will be a beneficial resource for academic programs studying gender and human sexuality at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Sex and Sexuality makes use of the artificial intelligence capabilities of Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) to enable keyword searching of handwritten documents. The documents and images in the collection have been meticulously digitized by Adam Matthew Digital making them discoverable, visually appealing, and adjustable. The proprietary interface is intuitive to navigate with the product being compatible with a range of browsers and electronic devices. Contract provisions are standard to the product and permit for use across locations and interlibrary loan sharing. As pricing is primarily determined by size and enrollment, the collection may be affordable for libraries of varying sizes. Users seeking more current, global primary and secondary resources on gender, women's, and LGBTQ+ topics may find ProQuest's GenderWatch a more suitable choice. Those seeking information on sexuality from the sixteenth to mid-twentieth centuries, or a more global perspective from the nineteenth to twenty-first centuries, may prefer modules three and four respectively of Gale's Archives of Sexuality & Gender.

The 45-rpm dress revolution: Competing temporalities in 1960s fashion

2021 ◽  
Vol 00 (00) ◽  
pp. 1-23
Author(s):  
Juneko J. Robinson
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Marked Change ◽  
Culture Wars ◽  
Human Potential ◽  
Political Implications ◽  
Experience Of Time ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Age Of Aquarius ◽  
Aesthetic Values

Perhaps no artefact is as evocative of temporality (i.e. the lived experience of time), as fashion and, arguably, no other period in history represents such a marked change in our notions about the relationship between the two as the 1960s did. In contrast to the Platonic-Apollonian fashion ideals of the 1950s, as exemplified by Dior’s New Look, the mod and the hippy came to represent competing bodily ideals. Their Dionysian fashions aestheticized time in three complementary ways: first, the celebration of the now, with its emphasis on the ephemeral, the physically pleasurable and the situated body in motion; second, the re-appropriation of the past, which involved the postmodern rejection or subversion of grand historical narratives that privileged certain iterations of race, class and gender and touted imperialism and cultural hegemony; and third, a utopian optimism about the future based on a belief in the increased possibilities of individual human potential as well as the prospect of societal transformation into a post-bellum, post-racial, post-classist, post-gender ‘Age of Aquarius’. These aesthetic values had political implications. Although the most radical of street fashions was worn by comparatively few 1960s youth, the deeper reasons why they came to be viewed with suspicion and outright anger were not so much due to particular styles, but rather what they revealed about our changing relationships to temporality and the postmodern fracturing of metanarratives concerning the proper existential comportment towards tradition and change, while laying the symbolic groundwork for what would later be referred to as the ‘culture wars’ in popular media.

Introduction

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-39
Author(s):  
Rachel Trousdale
Keyword(s):  
Human Experience ◽  
Mutual Understanding ◽  
Political Implications ◽  
Incongruity Theory ◽  
Immediate Analysis

The introduction examines three major theories of humor: superiority theory, incongruity theory, and release theory. Considering these models with the work of feminist and anti-racist scholars in mind, we see that each is also a theory of what it means to be human, carrying ethical and political implications far beyond any immediate analysis of joking. While incongruity theory is probably the best model from which to approach the poets discussed in this book, no one theory satisfactorily describes their work, and certainly not the human experience of laughter as a whole. A better approach may be to draw on theories of empathy, which many philosophers see as opposed to laughter, to define a new category: “constructive humor.” This form of laughter promotes mutual understanding among joker, listener, and the target of the joke.

The Final Score

2020 ◽  
pp. 201-210
Author(s):  
Steven M. Ortiz
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Longitudinal Research ◽  
Long Term Effects ◽  
Professional Athlete ◽  
The Past ◽  
Personal Empowerment ◽  
Final Score ◽  
Short And Long Term ◽  
Over Time

The conclusion provides some final observations about the longitudinal research itself and its short- and long-term effects on the women involved. It briefly touches on the few areas of the sport marriage that have seen improvement in the past few decades, discusses the conscious decisions the women make to continue normalizing the career-dominated marriage, and reports on how the marriages fared over time. It also describes the women’s personal empowerment as a result of their participation in the research. Finally, it summarizes the advice and suggested keys to a successful sport marriage that the wives in both studies offered, based on their lived experience. This overview essentially describes how and why the wife of a male professional athlete must adapt to realities if she wants her marriage to survive her husband’s career and retirement.

9. Explaining youth crime and youth justice

Criminology ◽  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steve Case ◽  
Phil Johnson ◽  
David Manlow ◽  
Roger Smith ◽  
Kate Williams
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Subsequent Treatment ◽  
Youth Crime ◽  
Youth Justice ◽  
Socially Constructed ◽  
Childhood And Youth ◽  
Crime And Delinquency ◽  
Offending Behaviour ◽  
Over Time

This chapter deals with youth crime and youth justice: offending behaviour committed by children and young people and their subsequent treatment in the justice system. It considers the argument for a bespoke understanding and response to youth and crime as distinct from offending behaviour committed by adults. The discussion begins by looking at how the concepts of ‘childhood’ and ‘youth’ have been theorised and socially constructed over time. The chapter then examines how youth crime and ‘delinquency’ have been explained in individualised, developmental, and agentic terms; how young people may grow into crime, with particular emphasis on the role of culture in deviance; and the link between radicalisation and youth crime. It also describes the dominant formal responses to youth crime before concluding with an overview of progressive, contemporary approaches to delivering youth justice/responding to youth crime, namely, diversion and positive youth justice.

Contributions from Psychology

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brendan Callaghan
Keyword(s):  
Human Sexuality ◽  
Human Experience ◽  
Sexual Drive ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Biological Nature

This chapter presents first a survey of some of the insights that have emerged from a number of theoretical approaches to psychological exploration, and situates them in their respective psychological traditions. This survey then serves as a resource for reflections on ‘what theologians need to know’ if theological work is to be grounded in a dialogue with what psychology has to offer.Key observations include: the pervasiveness of sexuality in human experience (with ‘sexuality’ understood in its widest scope); the fundamentally relational (rather than biological) nature of sexual drive and motivation; the essentially developmental nature of human sexuality; and the great variety of experience and behaviour. It is proposed that theology can benefit from the descriptive work available, even if some of the interpretative and explanatory approaches do not sit easily with classic Christian understandings.

scholarly journals A Chronicle of Sexuality in the Indian Subcontinent

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keya Das ◽  
T. S. Sathyanarayana Rao
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
Bronze Age ◽  
Indian Subcontinent ◽  
Human Sexuality ◽  
Paradigm Shifts ◽  
Ancient India ◽  
Changes Over Time ◽  
The Bronze Age ◽  
Over Time

Human sexuality has been researched, documented, and scrutinized through the centuries but persists in retaining its unfathomable depths in its layers. Sexuality in India has undergone paradigm shifts from the Bronze Age civilization to present-day India. Ever changing facets dependent on the cultural, social, religious, political, regional, and timely aura have resulted in sexuality in India having many hues. The manner of experience and expression has also undergone significant changes over time in individual desires, attitudes to sex, beliefs, values, behaviors, gender roles, and relationships. We chronicle the conceptualization of sexuality in its inception in ancient India and its journey through the ages.

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