scholarly journals Gamblers, grinders, and mavericks: The use of membership categorisation to manage identity by professional poker players

2011 ◽  
pp. 30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Breigh Radburn ◽  
Rachel Horsley
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Membership Categorization Analysis ◽  
Poker Player ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Membership Categorization ◽  
Social Meanings ◽  
Semistructured Interviews ◽  
And Control ◽  
Frequent Gamblers ◽  
Poker Players

Historically, gambling has varied considerably regarding its moral and social meanings. Whilst frequent gambling is often constructed as deviant, professional poker playing can be argued to occupy the conflicting position of both deviant and legitimate. This study explored how professional poker players negotiate this potentially troubled aspect of their identities. Semistructured interviews were conducted with four men from the United Kingdom who played casino poker. The data were analysed using membership categorization analysis. The following membership categorisations were in use within participants' accounts: gambler, grinder, maverick, and nongambler, as well as the central categorisation of professional poker player. Participants constructed themselves as stigmatised because they were frequent gamblers and poker players. Thus professional poker players utilised membership categorisation to distance themselves from other membership categories, particularly gamblers, which was achieved primarily through claims warranted by reference to skill and control.

scholarly journals “I Just Go on Wi-Fi”: Imagining Worlds Through Professional Basketball Migrants’ Deployment of Information and Communication Technology

2019 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 195-218
Author(s):  
Christopher Faulkner ◽  
Gyozo Molnar ◽  
Geoff Kohe
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Information And Communication Technology ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Relationship Building ◽  
Professional Basketball ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Semistructured Interviews ◽  
Information And Communication

The connection between athletes and technology has developed in recent years, with the focus on how lives are augmented and presented through this relationship. Building on previous reflections concerning the use of information and communication technology (ICT) to support the sometimes fractious experiences of sport migration, we suggest a need to develop our understandings of migrant athletes’ use of ICT by interrogating socially-embedded processes driving its usage. In so doing, we draw on 18 semistructured interviews with professional basketball migrants based (at the time) in the United Kingdom but whose seasonal work moves them frequently across the globe. We explore these participants’ experiences through the lens of Appadurai’s model of scapes and disjuncture. With this framework we explore themes of negotiation, need, expectation, and barriers. Consequently, we propose expanding how we understand migrant athletes’ relationships with technology.

Autonomy, Power, and Control in Palliative Care

1999 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 139-147 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. ANNE SCOTT
Keyword(s):  
Palliative Care ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Terminally Ill ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Power And Control ◽  
And Control

A review of the literature on palliative care in the United Kingdom over the last fifteen years suggests that elements such as the development of the modern hospice, on the model developed by Cicely Saunders (at St. Christopher's Hospice, London), have led to major improvements in the lot of the terminally ill.

the wishes of the Government expressed in the form of legislation, or the extent to which it can interfere with the pursuit of those wishes. Until now it has been a commonplace of political thought that although the United Kingdom might not have a written constitution its unwritten constitution was nonetheless based on fundamental principles. Amongst these principles were the sovereignty of Parliament and the Rule of Law. The centrality within the United Kingdom constitution of the doctrine of Parliamentary sovereignty has traditionally meant that Parliament can make such law as it determines, but the validity of such an interpretation has been questioned by some. The justifications for such challenges to absolute Parliamentary sovereignty are based on the United Kingdom's membership of both the European Union and the Council of Europe with the implications of higher authorities than Parliament, in the former's legislation and the latter's endorsement of inalienable individual rights. As for the Rule of Law, although it is a notoriously amorphous concept, it has provided the courts with scope for challenging the actions of the executive and, indeed, to a more limited degree, the legislature. The mechanism through which the courts have previously exercised their burgeoning constitutional and, by definition, political role is judicial review by means of which they have asserted the right to subject the actions and operations of the executive to the gaze and control of the law in such a way as to prevent the executive from abusing its power. However, such power has been greatly extended by the enactment of the Human Rights Act (HRA) 1998. The Act only came into effect in October 2000 so the question remains as to how the courts will use the powers given to them under that Act. The remaining articles in this chapter will consider the wider political context within which the judiciary operate as well as focusing on the Rule of Law and the HRA 1998. In an article 'Law and democracy', published in the Spring 1995 edition of Public Law, Sir John Laws, Justice of the High Court, Queen's Bench Division, considered the appropriate role of judges within the constitution from the perspective of the judge (footnotes omitted).

2012 ◽  
pp. 54-65
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Rule Of Law ◽  
The European Union ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
Political Role ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Parliamentary Sovereignty ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Right ◽  
And Control

The supervision and control of pension funding in the United Kingdom

1993 ◽  
Vol 120 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-129
Author(s):  
D. J. D. McLeish ◽  
C. M. Stewart
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Defined Benefit ◽  
Pension Funding ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Pension Schemes ◽  
And Control

AbstractThis paper looks at the existing controls on minimum funding standards and the solvency of defined benefit pension schemes in the United Kingdom. It considers the definition and disclosure of solvency margins and then goes on to look at the operation of a ‘Pensioners’ Protection Fund which would underwrite the solvency of schemes in a winding-up. With submissions due to the Goode Committee before the end of 1992, this paper will provide a well-timed opportunity to discuss some of the issues to be addressed by that Committee.

scholarly journals Effects of Tinnitus on Cochlear Implant Programming

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
pp. 233121651983662 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert H. Pierzycki ◽  
Charlotte Corner ◽  
Claire A. Fielden ◽  
Pádraig T. Kitterick
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Speech Perception ◽  
Cochlear Implant ◽  
Cochlear Implants ◽  
Time Course ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Clinical Observations ◽  
Semistructured Interviews ◽  
Potential Impact

Clinical observations suggest that tinnitus may interfere with programming cochlear implants (CIs), the process of optimizing the transmission of acoustic information to support speech perception with a CI. Despite tinnitus being highly prevalent among CI users, its effects and impact on CI programming are obscure. This study characterized the nature, time-course, and impact of tinnitus effects encountered by audiologists and patients during programming appointments. Semistructured interviews with six CI audiologists were analyzed thematically to identify tinnitus effects on programming and related coping strategies. Cross-sectional surveys with 67 adult CI patients with tinnitus and 20 CI audiologists in the United Kingdom examined the prevalence and time-course of those effects. Programming parameters established at CI activation appointments of 10 patients with tinnitus were compared with those of 10 patients without tinnitus. On average, 80% of audiologists and 45% of patients reported that tinnitus makes measurements of threshold (T) levels more difficult because patients confuse their tinnitus with CI stimulation. Difficulties appeared most common at CI activation appointments, at which T levels were significantly higher in patients with tinnitus. On average, 26% of patients reported being afraid of “loud” CI stimulation worsening tinnitus, affecting measurements of loudest comfortable (C) stimulation levels, and 34% of audiologists reported observing similar effects. Patients and audiologists reported that tinnitus makes programming appointments more difficult and tiresome for patients. The findings suggest that specific programming strategies may be needed during CI programming with tinnitus, but further research is required to assess the potential impact on outcomes including speech perception.

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