AIM To study the objectives, processes, and ideologies expressed during participatory design of information systems (PDIS) in health care. DESIGN Longitudinal documentation of project meetings by video recording. Grounded theory development in three steps. SETTING Systems development project in primary care. RESULTS The developing system was discussed mainly from a clinical and practical,...

The 20th century saw the Soviet and Francoist regimes enforce their respective ideologies in Estonia and the Catalan-speaking territories in Spain. In both cases, the autochthonous language suffered under the stringent control of the mechanisms of censorship and repression. In fact, Soviet and Spanish leaders—representing both extremes of the political spectrum—tried to replace the use of the a...

Theory and research suggest that members of high-status groups feel more positively about their own group than members of low-status groups feel about their group. The studies presented here test two hypotheses derived from this general idea (1) that members of high-status groups will show greater bias in favor of the in-group when they believe that others perceive the status difference between...

The media has been employed to increase uptake of Family Planning through behaviour change communication (BCC). Understanding the barriers encountered in effectively undertaking this function would increase the strategy's effectiveness. Sixty journalists from East Africa participated in trainings to enhance their BCC skills for Family Planning in which a qualitative study was nested to identify...

This paper identifies how the different ideologies of patriarchy, technology, capitalism, race and feminism shape how we see breastfeeding and the breastfeeding mother with child. Ultimately, while we can make good strong arguments for breastfeeding from the perspective of health, of outcome, of good scientific data, we need to appreciate that they are only rationalizations for a shared belief ...

Historical and archaeological studies of Australian convictism have embraced a variety of themes and directions, from exploration of the ideologies and mechanisms of punishment and reform (e.g. Kerr 1984, 1988), to investigations of convicts as part of broader colonizing strategies and a means of creating industrial workforces (e.g. Blair and Claoué-Long 1993). It is increasingly apparent that ...

According to the system justification theory (SJT), stereotypes can be conceptualized as tools of system justification. Because relatively few studies have directly examined this assumption, we conducted two studies in which the relationships between stereotype endorsement of various disadvantaged groups (i.e. women, Arabs, the poor and Gypsies) and system justification ideologies were explored...

Abstract Although various attempts to confront non-native teachers of English (NNESTs) marginalisation in the language teaching profession have taken place over past few years, (ELT) domain clearly demonstrates quite opposite; remaining structured and articulated by boundaries that are shaped ideologies, it marks an exclusion from participating field foreign on equal terms with native English-s...

This study draws on a comparative framework to evaluate the translation of political implications in three Persian translations of the novellaAnimal Farm (by George Orwell), using  Fairclough’scritical discourse analysis (CDA) model. The study regards political implications and ideologies as a mode of background knowledge shared by writers and audiences in the source language. Fairclough’s mode...