Objective: To understand the meanings of cancer within the experience of rural families and how such meanings influence family dynamics. Method: Qualitative study guided by Symbolic Interactionism as a theoretical framework and Grounded Theory as a methodological framework. Six rural families (18 participants) undergoing the experience of having a relative with cancer participated in the inte...

Este ensayo parte de una experiencia disruptiva en un aula bachillerato instituto español. En el transcurso clase ordinaria filosofía, incidente inesperado rompe la definición situación, haciendo añicos consenso trabajo entre los alumnos y profesor. Para reconstruir su trasfondo expectativas, se ven forzados a emplear estrategias acomodación normalización. análisis esta convergen fenomenología ...

Educational personnel are seen as agents of change toward inclusive schools. This research aims to examine the daily-based interactions through which inclusion is experienced by support teachers and how their social identity constructed within a secondary school in northern Italy province. The theoretical basis this formed conceptual contributions approach symbolic interactionism understand sel...

This paper problematizes gift relations in criminal organizations. It adopts a symbolic interaction perspective to focus scholarly attention on the way which actants skillfully maneuver within social expectations inherent gift‐giving relations. The study is based insights from twenty interviews with ex‐convicts and ten police officers or associates, an in‐depth analysis of memoirs, reports, new...

Historically, non-Indigenous researchers have contributed to colonisation by research based on Western positivistic philosophical frameworks. This approach led disembodying knowledge from Indigenous people’s histories, worldviews, and cultural social practices, thus perpetuating a deficit-based discourse which situates the responsibility of problems within peoples ignores larger socio-economic ...

Examination malpractice is any act carried out by anybody that defies the rules that guides a student whose knowledge or ability is being tested in a particular knowledge or skill with the aim of distorting the student’s true knowledge or ability. This article employs three classical major sociological perspectives in analyzing examination malpractice in Nigerian Universities. The structural-fu...

This study aims to conceptualize business excellence model and identify its variables and indicators. The philosophical foundations of the pragmatic, humanistic theory of symbolic interactionism has been, quietly and the strategy of grand theory deal with open, axial and selective coding; whose output is a new concept. Data collection is based on documentation studies on excellence models. The ...

ABSTRACT Objective to describe the meaning attributed use of a game as an educational technology for involvement companions in pediatric patient safety. Method qualitative study carried out with 16 children admitted Pediatric Unit public hospital Minas Gerais, Brazil. Data collection took place from October December 2019, through semi-structured interviews, after using technology. Symbolic Inte...

This paper analyzes how labor inspectors deal with ambiguous legal boundaries between those who can and cannot be identified as a exploitation victim. Street-level bureaucracy research has largely overlooked frontline officers victims. We combine the street-level framework insights from symbolic interactionism criminology about ‘ideal/iconic victims’ to explain use heuristics based on societal ...