scholarly journals TO COOK OR NOT TO COOK; INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS’ FOOD CHOICE STRATEGY

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (18) ◽  
pp. 88-98
Author(s):  
Eshaby Mustafa ◽  
Muhamad Shah Kamal Ideris ◽  
Noor Azimin Zainol
Keyword(s):  
International Students ◽  
Food Choice ◽  
Choice Strategy ◽  
Choice Decision ◽  
Level Of Knowledge ◽  
Individual Decisions ◽  
First Time ◽  
Time Away ◽  
Depth Interviews

The important role of food choices in symbolic, economic and social aspects of life leads to the increased attention given to this area. This role became increasingly important and complicated for international students living in a foreign country for the first time, away from their families, as they are now required to make individual decisions on food choice. Therefore, the food choice strategy as practiced by the international students will receive dedicated attention to this study. This study is set within the academic environment at a local university in Northern Malaysia. Several qualitative methods such as in-depth interviews and observation were used to assess the international students’ food choice strategies and how the local food environment influences their food choice decision. Six international students took part in this study. The findings indicated that most international students resorted to preparing and cooking their own food, mainly to satisfy their cravings and as a cure to homesickness. The food choice strategy also depended on their level of knowledge in food preparation, convenience, and resources available to them. These finding advances the food choice decision process and explicates the food acculturation among international students in Malaysia. Moreover, the findings have direct implications for institutions’ management of international students in assisting and improving their overseas experience.

Motivation trajectory of attending performing arts: the role of knowledge

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-18
Author(s):  
Zakia Obaidalahe ◽  
Nadia Steils
Keyword(s):  
Performing Arts ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
General Knowledge ◽  
Cultural Education ◽  
Specific Knowledge ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Cultural Service ◽  
Level Of Knowledge ◽  
Depth Interviews

Purpose This study concerns the attendance motivations for cultural services based on the audience’s level of knowledge. The purpose of this paper is to define the role played by general knowledge (e.g. cultural education) and specific knowledge (e.g. communication around a cultural product) in the attendance motivation trajectory of a cultural service. Design/methodology/approach The study uses in-depth interviews with 20 visitors to two public theatres, one in Belgium and one in France. Findings The results identify a tripartite motivation in the decision to attend a performance, corresponding to four visitor segments defined according to their level of general and specific knowledge. Originality/value The recommendations arising from the study are that potential audience members be targeted according to their particular profile and that their cultural tastes be developed by raising their level of general knowledge, an element that goes beyond the suggested motivation trajectory.

scholarly journals The Role of Women in Food Provision and Food Choice Decision-Making in Singapore: A Case Study

2014 ◽  
Vol 53 (6) ◽  
pp. 658-677 ◽  
Author(s):  
May C. Wang ◽  
Nasheen Naidoo ◽  
Steve Ferzacca ◽  
Geetha Reddy ◽  
Rob M. Van Dam
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Food Choice ◽  
Choice Decision ◽  
Food Provision ◽  
Role Of Women

scholarly journals UNIVERSITY INSTRUCTORS’ REFLECTIONS ON THEIR FIRST ONLINE TEACHING EXPERIENCES

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dianne Conrad
Keyword(s):  
Social Presence ◽  
Online Teaching ◽  
Graduate Program ◽  
Teaching Experience ◽  
Teaching Online ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
University Instructors ◽  
First Time ◽  
Depth Interviews

Moving from traditional face-to-face teaching to teaching online can be a precarious process for instructors. In this qualitative study, I interviewed instructors who were engaged in online teaching, for the first time, in a graduate program at a Canadian university. All instructors had some postsecondary face-to-face teaching experience. In-depth interviews with the instructors showed that they had very little knowledge of the new medium they were entering and relied heavily on their face-to-face experiences and their own pedagogy. Instructors’ reflections on their performances centered largely on their roles as deliverers of content. They revealed very little awareness of issues of collaborative learning, of learners’ social presence, or of the role of community in online learning environments.

Trade Battles

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tamara Kay ◽  
R.L. Evans
Keyword(s):  
Trade Policy ◽  
Public Access ◽  
State Institutions ◽  
Democratic State ◽  
International Policies ◽  
Using Data ◽  
First Time ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Public Opposition

How did activists create a dynamic broad-based movement during NAFTA negotiations that politicized trade, making it a contentious issue for the first time in history? And how did their NAFTA mobilization influence trade policy and set the stage for future battles over trade? Trade Battles answers these questions using data from over 200 in-depth interviews, contributing to a vibrant and burgeoning literature that tries to understand how civil society shapes state policy. Trade Battles shows how activists created a new set of institutionalized and disruptive strategies around trade that leveraged broader cleavages across state and nonstate arenas. Activists exploited these leverage points by mobilizing across them, which enabled them to politicize trade policy and influence the content of the agreement itself. So powerful was activists’ pushback against NAFTA that future administrations closed many state institutional channels in order to thwart public opposition, curtailing public access, participation, and input. This forced activists to try to kill many subsequent trade agreements whole cloth rather than improve them, as they did during the NAFTA struggle. The analysis in Trade Battles therefore shows that the NAFTA battle was less about trade policy than the role of democratic state institutions in policymaking. By exposing the linkages between institutional opportunities and democratic practices, Trade Battles reveals how critical state institutions are for activists’ efforts to shape not only trade policy, but a plethora of international policies from climate change to migration. When the state closes institutions, it effectively severs policymaking from democratic intervention.

On Ukrainian Citizens as taxpayers in sociological measurements

2021 ◽  
pp. 156-180
Author(s):  
OLHA IVASHCHENKO ◽  
DMYTRO BOYARCHUK ◽  
YEVGEN SHULGA
Keyword(s):  
Financial Literacy ◽  
Sociological Research ◽  
Third Wave ◽  
State Budget ◽  
Level Of Knowledge ◽  
The Right ◽  
Taxation System ◽  
First Time ◽  
Second Wave

The article deals with the results of first special sociological research on taxpaying thematic undertaken in Ukraine. Three waves of national wide survey (N1 = 2038 F2F; N2/3 = 2000 CATI) during 2020 by means of questionnaire with 5 basic questions regarding the taxpaying theme: budget structure, main expenses clauses, evaluated free of charge state services, equitable tax level, taxes for purchases and services. The provided analyses gave opportunity to choose most valuable questions concerning the Ukrainian citizens financial literacy in order to construct the Index of taxation erudition which revealed extremely low level of knowledge of Ukrainians as taxpayers about active tax system, particularly the role of taxpayers in state budget formation, when only 32% in the first wave and 43% in third wave pointed the citizen’s contribution, 54% respondents has no idea about the type of acting taxation system on the background of 52% in first wave and 39% in second wave, who pointed the 10% personal tax fee dimension as desirable and equitable. Only 20% citizens pointed the right figures of tax paying for purchases and services, when 36,5% have no knowledge about this tax at all, Sociologically was first time noticed important fixation of 56% readiness for paying less taxes and needed service accounts by own, especially for medical care and education, in such way it was acknowledged that constitutional article of social state is under civic scrutiny. As final research task the algorithm of Index of taxpayer’s knowledge ability has been proposed for regular monitoring as also recommendation for further special thematic research development with proper media involvements.

Sensemaking Through Metaphors: The Role of Imaginative Metaphor Elicitation in Constructing New Understandings

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
pp. 160940692110195
Author(s):  
Luciara Nardon ◽  
Amrita Hari
Keyword(s):  
International Students ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Difficult Situation ◽  
And Behaviors ◽  
Rich Data ◽  
Depth Interviews

Drawing on in-depth interviews with exchange and international students during the COVID-19 pandemic, we elaborate on the role of Imaginative Metaphor Elicitation (IME) to generate knowledge about participants’ experiences while helping them make sense of and cope with a difficult situation. Imaginative metaphors allow participants to explore feelings, assumptions, and behaviors in non-threatening ways and facilitate introspection and self-awareness. We propose that imaginative metaphors help participants make their experience tangible and accessible, identify problematic assumptions, behaviors, as well as resources available to them. Some reported gaining a renewed sense of empowerment. Simultaneously, IME provides an opportunity to collect rich data while co-creating solutions for and with participants. We contribute to calls for embedding social impact in the research design by highlighting the value of IME in gaining deeper access to participants’ experiences while supporting them in taking an active role in their situations.

New national re-encounters since 1948

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 504-521 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kussai Haj-Yehia ◽  
Khalid Arar
Keyword(s):  
International Students ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
The Other ◽  
University Campus ◽  
Content Type ◽  
American University ◽  
The World ◽  
First Time ◽  
Depth Interviews

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to discuss the factors that attract (pull) or discourage (push) Palestinian students from Israel (PSI) to study at a Palestinian university, the Arab American University in Jenin (AAUJ), for the first time since the establishment of Israel in 1948. Design/methodology/approach A qualitative research method using in-depth interviews with 15 PSI who study at AAUJ attempts to define the motivations behind PSI preferring AAUJ, on one hand, and constraints, on the other hand. Findings The findings of the study show factors that attract PSI to study at the AAUJ and what subjects they choose to study there, the encounter with a similar culture and nationalism in a Palestinian campus in the occupied West Bank; the most significant difficulties and impediments they face there, whether economic or political, are discussed. This paper contributes to an understanding of the new national re-encounter between two Palestinian groups in a university campus, one under Israel’s occupation and the other that has Israeli citizenship. Originality/value It is a unique phenomenon in the trends of international students’ mobility in the world.

Corporate Responsibility And Motivating Corporate Zakat Payment

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 123
Author(s):  
Siti Maziah Ab Rahman ◽  
Mariam Setapa ◽  
Iman Nur Amirah Rusli ◽  
Muhsin Nor Paizin ◽  
Mohd Hafeez Al-Amin Abdul Wahab
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Responsibility ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Study Data ◽  
Resource Based View ◽  
Level Of Knowledge ◽  
Islamic Faith ◽  
Depth Interviews

Zakat is one of the five pillars of the Islamic faith, which is an obligatory form of "charity", and every Muslim is expected to contribute. The use of zakat is not only to purify property but to purify the hearts of zakat payers from selfishness and wealth greed. Although it is part of Muslims obligation to pay zakat, the amount collected recorded is still lower and not optimal. The issue on zakat business payment is not often debated particularly on how to increase the number of business zakat payer. This is because zakat on wealth is more than total zakat on the business. Malaysian zakat institution still faces several obstacles to increase the collection of business zakat. Most of the previous studies on this issue they do not explain more detail about the factor of knowledge of payers on business zakat payment and also the role of zakat institution. Hence, the purpose of this research is to identify corporate responsibility and motivating corporate zakat payment. This research also used the Resource-Based View (RBV) Theory. For this study, data were collected using in-depth interviews as a method of collecting data which is a qualitative method. The reason influenced corporate responsibility and motivating corporate zakat payment are "level of knowledge", and "leadership of zakat institution". The case study is using Hotel Perdana Kota Bharu.

scholarly journals Самопрезентация людей с инвалидностью в Казахстане: общее и особенное

2021 ◽  
pp. 80-90
Author(s):  
Игорь Сергеевич Савин
Keyword(s):  
Religious Affiliation ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Demographic Characteristics ◽  
The Self ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Common ◽  
First Time ◽  
Depth Interviews

В статье на примере Республики Казахстан (РК) рассматриваются особенности инвалидности как социального феномена. Поскольку подобные задачи решаются впервые на казахстанском материале, то на первом этапе исследования автор только сравнивает специфические черты саморепрезентации людей с особенностями развития в Казахстане и в России, где этот вопрос достаточно хорошо изучен. Эмпирической базой исследования служат глубинные интервью жителей Алматы, Уральска и Шымкента (РК) – в условиях карантина из-за пандемии интервью были проведены по телефону в апреле–мае 2020 г. Предварительно автор рассматривает социально-демографические характеристики людей с инвалидностью в двух странах и проводит на этом фоне сравнение черт саморепрезентации инвалидов в Казахстане и России. Выявлены как те, что оказываются очень сходными между собой, так и заметно отличающиеся. В основе сходства, скорее всего, лежит общность истории становления системы поддержки людей с инвалидностью и формирующейся вокруг них социальной атмосферы во всех постсоветских странах. Базой для выявленных на первом этапе исследования различий является, вероятнее всего, неодинаковая роль этнической и конфессиональной принадлежности в доминирующем дискурсе, в сфере политики и идеологии. The article examines disability as a social phenomenon on the example of Kazakhstan. Since such tasks are being solved on the basis of Kazakhstani material for the first time, the article studies only the self-representation of disabled people in Kazakhstan in comparison with Russia, where its specific features have already been identified by researchers. The empirical base of the study is in-depth interviews with residents of three cities of Kazakhstan, which were conducted by phone in April-May 2020 during the quarantine from the pandemic. Having previously considered the socio-demographic characteristics of people with disabilities in Kazakhstan and Russia, the author compares self-representation of people with disabilities in the two countries, identified as those that are very similar to each other, and those that are noticeably different. The similarity is most likely explained by the common history of the creation of the system for assistance to people with disabilities and specific social atmosphere around them in all post-Soviet countries. The basis for the differences identified is the supposedly different role of ethnic and religious affiliation in the dominant discourse, in the sphere of politics and ideology in Kazakhstan.

Psychological Resilience Provides No Independent Protection From Suicidal Risk

Crisis ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 130-139 ◽  
Author(s):  
Danica W. Y. Liu ◽  
A. Kate Fairweather-Schmidt ◽  
Richard Burns ◽  
Rachel M. Roberts ◽  
Kaarin J. Anstey
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Psychological Resilience ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Life Project ◽  
Resilience Factors ◽  
First Time

Abstract. Background: Little is known about the role of resilience in the likelihood of suicidal ideation (SI) over time. Aims: We examined the association between resilience and SI in a young-adult cohort over 4 years. Our objectives were to determine whether resilience was associated with SI at follow-up or, conversely, whether SI was associated with lowered resilience at follow-up. Method: Participants were selected from the Personality and Total Health (PATH) Through Life Project from Canberra and Queanbeyan, Australia, aged 28–32 years at the first time point and 32–36 at the second. Multinomial, linear, and binary regression analyses explored the association between resilience and SI over two time points. Models were adjusted for suicidality risk factors. Results: While unadjusted analyses identified associations between resilience and SI, these effects were fully explained by the inclusion of other suicidality risk factors. Conclusion: Despite strong cross-sectional associations, resilience and SI appear to be unrelated in a longitudinal context, once risk/resilience factors are controlled for. As independent indicators of psychological well-being, suicidality and resilience are essential if current status is to be captured. However, the addition of other factors (e.g., support, mastery) makes this association tenuous. Consequently, resilience per se may not be protective of SI.

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