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2. Childhood‐Grounded Explanations for Personal Troubles: Social Problems Work in Radio Counseling
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Nataliya Thell
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Social Work ,Sociology and Political Science ,Social Psychology ,Social work ,Communication ,General Social Sciences ,Social issues ,social problems work, radio counseling, childhood asexplanatory framework, membership categorization, conversationanalysis ,GeneralLiterature_MISCELLANEOUS ,Education ,Conversation analysis ,Categorization ,Work (electrical) ,Radio program ,Psychology ,Social psychology ,General Nursing - Abstract
This paper examines how images of unfortunate childhoods are invoked to make sense of psychological problems in adulthood. I use conversation analysis and membership categorization analysis to study a Swedish radio program in which a psychotherapist talks to people about their personal troubles. The findings suggest that, on one hand, the image of an unfortunate childhood was used as an explanatory framework for individuals' problematic experiences. On the other hand, the childhood‐grounded reasoning, applied to individual cases, illustrated the explanatory framework and reaffirmed it as a commonsense way of reasoning about personal troubles.
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- 2020
3. Comiendo Bien: The Production of
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Airín D, Martínez
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Utilizing a bricolage of interactionist cultural studies, ethnic foodways, and situational analysis this paper examines how Latino immigrants, representing six countries and multiple preimmigration class positions, come to perform Latinidad through the lay health practice of comiendo bien (eating well). Comiendo bien was examined through participant observation of 15 families living in San Francisco and 27 key informant interviews. Comiendo bien is a performance that exists through the convergence of multiple identity positions. Latina/o immigrants not only enact the Latinidad in the United States through artistic expression or political strategizing, but also by sharing an idealized practice of healthy eating.
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- 2020
4. 'It's Only Sport'-The Symbolic Neutralization of 'Violence'
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Christopher R. Matthews and Alex Channon
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Sociology and Political Science ,Social Psychology ,biology ,Commodification ,Athletes ,Communication ,05 social sciences ,Spectacle ,General Social Sciences ,030229 sport sciences ,biology.organism_classification ,Education ,03 medical and health sciences ,Ice hockey ,0302 clinical medicine ,Action (philosophy) ,0502 economics and business ,The Symbolic ,Salary ,Psychology ,Database transaction ,Social psychology ,050212 sport, leisure & tourism ,General Nursing - Abstract
Within the commodified world of professional ice hockey, athletes sell their bodily performances in return for a salary. A central feature of this transaction is the very real risk of physical injury – a risk inherent within most contact sports, but particularly so within those that feature seemingly ‘violent’ confrontations between competitors, as ice hockey is widely reputed to do. Yet within the spectacle of sport, where physicality can be constructed as playful and unserious, it is possible for the consequences of such action to be concealed behind a symbolic, ludic veneer. Within this paper we explore this process with a particular focus on ice hockey spectators, for whom notions of sport violence as in some important way ‘mimetic’ of the ‘real’ enabled their propensity to both enjoy, and find moral validation through, potentially deleterious behaviours among athletes.
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- 2016
5. Comiendo Bien: The Production ofLatinidadthrough the Performance of Healthy Eating among Latino Immigrant Families in San Francisco
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Airín D. Martínez
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0301 basic medicine ,050402 sociology ,030109 nutrition & dietetics ,Sociology and Political Science ,Social Psychology ,Communication ,media_common.quotation_subject ,05 social sciences ,Immigration ,Ethnic group ,Foodways ,General Social Sciences ,Identity (social science) ,Gender studies ,Participant observation ,Education ,Bricolage ,03 medical and health sciences ,0504 sociology ,Cultural studies ,Sociology ,Identity formation ,General Nursing ,media_common - Abstract
Utilizing a bricolage of interactionist cultural studies, ethnic foodways, and situational analysis this paper examines how Latino immigrants, representing six countries and multiple preimmigration class positions, come to perform Latinidad through the lay health practice of comiendo bien (eating well). Comiendo bien was examined through participant observation of 15 families living in San Francisco and 27 key informant interviews. Comiendo bien is a performance that exists through the convergence of multiple identity positions. Latina/o immigrants not only enact the Latinidad in the United States through artistic expression or political strategizing, but also by sharing an idealized practice of healthy eating.
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- 2016
6. Talking about Beauty: A Study of Everyday Aesthetics among Low-Income Citizens of Milan
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Neil Jenkings and Lucia Ruggerone
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Sociology and Political Science ,Social Psychology ,Poverty ,Art criticism ,Communication ,media_common.quotation_subject ,General Social Sciences ,Identity (social science) ,Sociology of art ,Everyday Aesthetics ,Education ,Phenomenology (philosophy) ,Aesthetics ,Beauty ,Sociology ,General Nursing ,Natural language ,media_common - Abstract
This paper reports on research undertaken into the aesthetics of the everyday. As well as the subject matter of aesthetic philosophy, art criticism and of the sociology of art, beauty, and beautiful are of course very ordinary matters too. To shed light on the meanings of beauty as used in everyday settings and in natural language, we use the data collected in a study conducted with a group of low-income residents of the city of Milan. In this study we were interested in analyzing their lifestyle in terms of their relationship with aesthetics, i.e., with 'beautiful' objects and/or experiences. Participants' self-reported aesthetic appreciations suggest that conceptions of 'beauty' are used as devices to narrate pieces of identity, memories, experiences, etc. Their aesthetic judgements take on an anthropological function, creating a framework of meanings that help the participants make sense of the world of objects and of their own lives with/through them.
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- 2015
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