scholarly journals When normal and deviant identities collide: Methodological considerations of the pregnant acafan

2010 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Ingram-Waters
Keyword(s):  
Pregnant Woman ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Harry Potter ◽  
Fan Fiction ◽  
Field Notes ◽  
Male Pregnancy ◽  
Methodological Considerations

In this article, I examine how my visibly pregnant body influenced my experience as a field researcher at a fan convention, interviewing amateur fan fiction authors who write Harry Potter male-pregnancy fan fiction. Despite my efforts at carefully cultivating an identity as an acafan (a researcher who identifies as both a fan and a scholar of fandom), my identity as a pregnant woman was most salient throughout my fieldwork. I argue that because of the particular genre of fan fiction, male pregnancy (mpreg), which my participants engaged with, my status as a normative, heterosexual, publicly pregnant woman negatively affected the research process: my interactions with my interviewees deviated from my expectations in ways that shaped the data I collected. When I analyzed my field notes, I found a strong correlation between interviewees' recognition of my pregnancy and interviewees' experience of stigma associated with authors of mpreg. This research contributes to several bodies of work: the interplay between online and real-life identities, the role of the researcher in field research, and the role of pregnant researchers.

scholarly journals The Role of a Learning Approach in Building an Interorganizational Network Aiming for Collaborative Innovation

2018 ◽  
Vol 55 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Yström ◽  
Susanne Ollila ◽  
Marine Agogué ◽  
David Coghlan
Keyword(s):  
Action Learning ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Learning Approach ◽  
Interorganizational Network ◽  
Collective Knowledge ◽  
Life Problems ◽  
Collaborative Innovation ◽  
Collaborative Exploration

Collaboration has become a common way for organizational actors to engage in problem solving and innovation. Yet shifting from strategic interactions (driven by reduction of transaction costs) to transformational interaction (driven by collaborative transorganizational development) appears to be difficult to achieve in practice in a network setting. This article argues that such a shift can be enhanced by adopting an action learning approach, which entails working on real-life problems without clear solutions and collectively working to resolve them. Based on an action learning research process, this article therefore explores ways to support collective knowledge creation within an interorganizational network setting. It provides rich illustrations of how the interactions in the network changed through the process, and the participants moved from a space of territorial protection to a space for collaborative exploration. From this case, the article outlines a model for learning in interorganizational networks and discusses related challenges.

scholarly journals Alienation in Harry Potter

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ayman Khaled Hussein ◽  
Mohd Nazri Latiff Azmi ◽  
Mohammad Nusr Mohammad Al-Subaihi
Keyword(s):  
Racial Discrimination ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Harry Potter ◽  
The Other ◽  
Social Discrimination ◽  
Book Series ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Postcolonial Discourse ◽  
The One

This is a thematic study of Harry Potter (1997-2007) concerning the theme of alienation. Joanne Rowling is a British novelist famous for writing her best-known fantasy book series, Harry Potter (1997-2007). This study argues that Rowling employs fantastical elements in Harry Potter to present symbolic and real-life themes that summon the postcolonial discourse of alienation. In addition, the study aims to raise the role of fantasy in serving Humanity and the dignity of people and understanding the conflicts among the members of society. Moreover, this study investigates how racial discrimination and postcolonialism work against the Humanity of heroes and their companions in their community. Therefore, that relationship causes a realistic commentary on real-life situations. The theoretical platform deployed in this study is a postcolonial perspective that purports to grasp the striking overlaps between the theme of alienation and the insights of the racial and social postcolonial discourse. The findings achieved in this paper prove the juxtaposition between alienation on the one hand and racial and social discrimination on the other hand. The researcher seeks to demonstrate that Harry Potter reflects the suffering and alienation of characters.

Challenges in accessing research sites in Ghana: a research note

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 410-427
Author(s):  
Theophilus Azungah
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Multinational Enterprises ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Overseas Students ◽  
Ethical Approval ◽  
Field Notes ◽  
Conducting Research

Purpose Despite the crucial role of gaining access for successful research in social and management studies, very little has been written on issues and challenges associated with gaining access particularly in an undeveloped research context such as Ghana. The purpose of this paper is to share the experience with other researchers and practitioners for them to recognise the common challenges associated with gaining access to research sites and the significance of critical reflection and reflexivity on how a researcher’s positionality affects knowledge production. The paper emphasises the need for researchers to appreciate the taken-for-granted interactions that can contribute to critical thinking about identities and reflexivity in research. The paper adds to the paucity of voices particularly overseas students and researchers returning home (to country of origin) from Euro-American institutions to carry out field research. Design/methodology/approach The paper draws on the field notes relating to the PhD fieldwork experiences in accessing subsidiaries of western multinational enterprises in Ghana. The author discussed how gatekeepers hindered access to key organisational members and the need to identify helpful networks through snowballing in order to access organisations and participants. Findings Considerable challenges such as denial of access, physical and psychological distress were encountered in the process of accessing organisations which often led to abandoning certain sites for others, even though those originally chosen were potentially rich sources of information. Also, positionality and the manner in which a researcher is perceived by participants certainly influence the knowledge one produces. Sufficient time is needed to negotiate and build relationships of trust with gatekeepers, which often resulted in delays in data collection. In this present study, gatekeepers often denied, limited or delayed access to potential participants and sites despite institutional ethical approval. Practical implications The experiences highlighted in this paper can serve as a toolkit for qualitative researchers interested in conducting research in Ghana with regard to what to expect and how to manoeuvre through in the field. Originality/value The paper contributes to the dearth of the methodology literature on issues relating to challenges to access, positionality, insider/outsider status of the researcher and their influences on knowledge production in an under-researched context, Ghana.

scholarly journals PERANAN BAITUL MAAL WAT TAMWIL DALAM MENINGKATKAN USAHA MIKRO MELALUI PEMBIAYAAN MUDHARABAH (Studi Kasus BMT Fajar Cabang Cileungsi Bogor Periode 2018-2019)

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (01) ◽  
pp. 47-54
Author(s):  
Sarwo Edy Sarwo ◽  
Rayuningsih
Keyword(s):  
Small And Medium Enterprises ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Profit Sharing ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Microfinance Institutions ◽  
Library Research ◽  
The People ◽  
Medium Enterprises

This research is motivated by the presence of Islamic Microfinance Institutions in the form of BMT, namely BMT Fajar in the community, especially the people of Cileungsi-Bogor, is expected to bring changes in various aspects of people's lives. In the case of the people of Cileungsi Village, Bogor Regency, where the community is not familiar with Sharia Microfinance Institutions such as BMTs well. Until finally people prefer to make loans to Mobile Banks or so-called loan sharks with interest that are not small as business financing capital, it is the habit of borrowing capital to loan sharks that is the problem and attracts the author's interest to do research. This study aims to determine the background of BMT Fajar in providing mudharabah financing, to know the mudharabah financing procedure, and to determine the role of mudharabah financing in BMT Fajar. The methodology used in this study used a qualitative approach, namely field research and library research. Field research is data collection techniques using observation, interview and documentation methods with Branch Heads, BMT Fajar Cileungsi-Bogor UMKM entrepreneurs, and their business customers. So as to get accurate data on the research process, and library research data, namely by means of data analysis using inductive, deductive and comparative. Through interviews and observations, it can be seen that based on the results of the research it can be concluded that the role of BMT Fajar's Cileungsi branch in improving micro-businesses is by BMT Fajar to provide financing products that are not difficult in terms of capital, which do not apply the usury system in the operational system, but are replaced with a profit sharing system. between BMT and members in accordance with Islamic Sharia. One of them is through Mudharabah financing. Because they saw many Little Pengusa who had gone out of business. Whereas Small and Medium Enterprises have the potential for development in facing the Economic Crisis.

scholarly journals What's Rapport Got To Do With It? The Practical Accomplishment of Fieldwork Relations Between Young Female Researchers and Socially Marginalised Older Men

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cherry Russell ◽  
Denise Touchard ◽  
Maree Porter
Keyword(s):  
Field Research ◽  
Older Men ◽  
Young Female ◽  
Social Worlds ◽  
Socially Disadvantaged ◽  
Rich Description ◽  
The Social ◽  
Field Notes ◽  
Personal Reflections

Drawing on field notes, interview transcripts and personal reflections, this paper describes an ethnographic research project as a practical accomplishment. The project has employed two young female fieldworkers in negotiating and documenting the social worlds of socially disadvantaged and marginalised older men in inner city Sydney, Australia. We provide a rich description of the various processes involved in this kind of research such as gaining entry, recruiting participants, obtaining consent and conducting interviews. Our analytical and interpretive focus is on the social relationships of fieldwork and the problematic role of rapport as the ideal (or only) basis for such relationships. We show how these relationships and the information they generate have been variably and situationally accomplished in our project. Our findings suggest that communicative relationships in field research can take a variety of forms that produce useful data but that these are not necessarily illustrative of rapport between researcher and researched. We conclude by arguing the need for the methodological literature of ethnography to develop a new analytical vocabulary for describing research practice and a conceptual framework that moves beyond neo-positivist and normative prescriptions for doing 'good' fieldwork.

scholarly journals PERAN GURU PAI DALAM PEMBENTUKAN KARAKTER SISWA DI ERA REVOLUSI INDUSTRI 4.0

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-36
Author(s):  
Salamah Salamah
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Religious Education ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Hard Work ◽  
Comprehensive Approach ◽  
Learning Material ◽  
Huge Impact ◽  
Field Notes

Globalization has had such a huge impact on the nation's generation, one ofwhich is the degradation of characters who are increasingly unstoppable among students.The role of Islamic Religious Education teachers is increasingly complex in the IndustrialRevolution era 4.0. The teacher is not only required to master the learning material, butthe teacher is required to instill character. From this background gives encouragement tothe author to conduct research on how the Role of Islamic Religious Education Teachersin the Formation of Student Character in the Era of the Industrial Revolution 4.0Revolution. This type of research is a descriptive qualitative field research. The datacollection method is by interview, observation, or field notes, and communication.Whereas data analysis uses descriptive analytic and finally conclusions. The purpose ofthis study was to ditermine the role of islamic religious education teachers in shapingstudent characte. The results showed that in forming the character of students of SMAN 9Kerinci used a comprehensive approach. As for the character values possessed namelyreligious, responsibility, honesty, creative, democratic, disciplined, independent, tolerance,hard work, caring for the environment, polite, and simple.

TOWARDS A FRAMEWORK FOR LIGHT-DOSIMETRY STUDIES: METHODOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
S.L. Hartmeyer ◽  
F.S. Webler ◽  
M. Andersen
Keyword(s):  
Light Exposure ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Visual Effects ◽  
Light Dosimetry ◽  
Large Variability ◽  
Exposure Data ◽  
Methodological Considerations ◽  
Visual Light

For field research of non-visual effects of light, accurate measurement of personal light exposure is required. A consensus framework for light-dosimetry could improve non-visual field research and ensure comparability between studies. Here we present a review of methodologies used in non-visual light-dosimetry studies published to date, focussing on considerations regarding the measurement and preparation of personal light exposure data. Overall, a large variability in the studies’ methodologies is observed, highlighting the need for a consensus framework. We propose methodological considerations that should be included in such a framework and that can guide future studies. Furthermore, we highlight important points that should be addressed in future research to ensure compatibility between different dosimetry studies. Taken together, this review effort underlines the importance of a systematic approach to light-dosimetry in order to harness all the power of integrative lighting research in real-life.

scholarly journals Alienation in Harry Potter

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 27-39
Author(s):  
Ayman Khaled Hussein ◽  
Mohd Nazri bin Latiff Azmi ◽  
Mohammad Nusr Mohammad Al-Subaihi
Keyword(s):  
Racial Discrimination ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Harry Potter ◽  
The Other ◽  
Social Discrimination ◽  
Book Series ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Postcolonial Discourse ◽  
The One

This is a thematic study of Harry Potter (1997-2007) concerning the theme of alienation. Joanne Rowling is a British novelist famous for writing her best-known fantasy book series, Harry Potter (1997-2007). This study argues that Rowling employs fantastical elements in Harry Potter to present symbolic and real-life themes that summon the postcolonial discourse of alienation. In addition, the study aims to raise the role of fantasy in serving Humanity and the dignity of people and understanding the conflicts among the members of society. Moreover, this study investigates how racial discrimination and postcolonialism work against the Humanity of heroes and their companions in their community. Therefore, that relationship causes a realistic commentary on real-life situations. The theoretical platform deployed in this study is a postcolonial perspective that purports to grasp the striking overlaps between the theme of alienation and the insights of the racial and social postcolonial discourse. The findings achieved in this paper prove the juxtaposition between alienation on the one hand and racial and social discrimination on the other hand. The researcher seeks to demonstrate that Harry Potter reflects the suffering and alienation of characters.

Maternal Perception of Infants’ Expressions of Emotion

2010 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 173-185 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Krippl ◽  
Stephanie Ast-Scheitenberger ◽  
Ina Bovenschen ◽  
Gottfried Spangler
Keyword(s):  
Response Pattern ◽  
Electrodermal Activity ◽  
Startle Amplitude ◽  
Caregiving System ◽  
Parental Caregiving ◽  
Opponent Process ◽  
Opponent Process Theory ◽  
Valence And Arousal ◽  
Methodological Considerations

In light of Lang’s differentiation of the aversive and the approach system – and assumptions stemming from attachment theory – this study investigates the role of the approach or caregiving system for processing infant emotional stimuli by comparing IAPS pictures, infant pictures, and videos. IAPS pictures, infant pictures, and infant videos of positive, neutral, or negative content were presented to 69 mothers, accompanied by randomized startle probes. The assessment of emotional responses included subjective ratings of valence and arousal, corrugator activity, the startle amplitude, and electrodermal activity. In line with Lang’s original conception, the typical startle response pattern was found for IAPS pictures, whereas no startle modulation was observed for infant pictures. Moreover, the startle amplitudes during negative video scenes depicting crying infants were reduced. The results are discussed with respect to several theoretical and methodological considerations, including Lang’s theory, emotion regulation, opponent process theory, and the parental caregiving system.

Challenges of Fear Conditioning Research in the Age of RDoC

2017 ◽  
Vol 225 (3) ◽  
pp. 189-199 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tina B. Lonsdorf ◽  
Jan Richter
Keyword(s):  
Fear Conditioning ◽  
Clinical Diagnosis ◽  
Research Domain Criteria ◽  
Major Focus ◽  
The Future ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Methodological Considerations ◽  
Research Domain

Abstract. As the criticism of the definition of the phenotype (i.e., clinical diagnosis) represents the major focus of the Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) initiative, it is somewhat surprising that discussions have not yet focused more on specific conceptual and procedural considerations of the suggested RDoC constructs, sub-constructs, and associated paradigms. We argue that we need more precise thinking as well as a conceptual and methodological discussion of RDoC domains and constructs, their interrelationships as well as their experimental operationalization and nomenclature. The present work is intended to start such a debate using fear conditioning as an example. Thereby, we aim to provide thought-provoking impulses on the role of fear conditioning in the age of RDoC as well as conceptual and methodological considerations and suggestions to guide RDoC-based fear conditioning research in the future.

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