The present study aimed to understand patients experience with osteoporosis treatment. The methodological and theoretical frameworks were, respectively, the Grounded Theory and Symbolic Interactionism. The research subjects were 12 patients monitored in a specialized outpatient unit. The obtained statements were transcribed and analyzed, leading to a synthesis of the described themes. From the ...

Abstract This article explores the soccer career of ex-Fiji national-team player, Henry Dyer, and his post-retirement struggles. He experiences ‘fragmentation’ because two ‘epiphanies’ (traumatic life-events)—his failure to get an elite coaching job after retirement secure overseas playing-contract. After a period fragmentation, when he cut all ties with sport, has reinvented himself as caring ...

Agricultural discourse is the result of conveying a message to increase agrarian literacy community become agriculturally literate. The goal this research obtain an objective picture about text structures, social cognition, and contexts used in construction agricultural establish farmers. uses qualitative method with symbolic interactionism design study way interaction constructed developed. da...

This study develops a theoretical model concerning the experience of families of children with Down syndrome in preschool and school age. The frameworks used were Symbolic Interactionism and Grounded Theory. Semi-structured interviews were used as the instrument of investigation and ten families participated in the study. The Theoretical Model "Seeking the child's independence and autonomy thro...

Both “actions” and “interactions” are micro-operations that can be aggregated from a system’s perspective. Whereas “actions” operate historically, “interactions” provide the events with “meaning” from a hindsight perspective. Luhmann’s sociology of communication systems adds to the approach of symbolic interactionism the question what global dimensions of communication mean for local interactio...

User experience is becoming a key term in the world of interactive product design. The term itself lacks proper theoretical definition and is used in many different, even contradictory, ways. This paper reviews various existing approaches to understanding user experience and describes three main approaches and their differences. A missing perspective is noted in all three: their focus is on onl...

Based on more than 14 months' ethnographic research in China, this article brings in culture and symbolic interactionism to understand the social embeddedness of economic transactions. First, an analytic frame linking tie strengths to defining principles, relational properties, and interactions is constructed and applied to changes in life insurance transactions in China. The data suggest that ...