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Accounting for Friendlessness: Stigma and the Quest for an Honorable Self

open access: yesSymbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
How do people who identify as friendless make sense of their condition in a moment when friendship is extolled for the support and satisfaction it offers? This article draws on interviews with 21 adults in an Atlantic Canadian city. We argue that our interviewees were rarely at ease with their friendlessness and were at pains to recover an honorable ...
Laura Eramian, Peter Mallory
wiley   +1 more source

“Do You Want to Continue?”—Coordinating the Closing of Conversations and Managing Face Concerns

open access: yesSymbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
This study investigates how participants manage the decision to end or continue their conversation when directly asked about their preferences. The dataset consists of 19 conversations where the researcher explicitly asked if the two participants wanted to continue their conversation, thus causing some potential interactional trouble for the ...
Emmi Koskinen
wiley   +1 more source

Angry Place Claims and the Deceptive Female Body

open access: yesSymbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
In this article, we explore bodily challenges women can experience when making angry place claims in social interactions based on interviews with 47 women across two generations and Candace Clark's concepts of social place claims and micro‐hierarchy. Our empirical analysis explores situations where women experience that their bodies negatively affect ...
Morten Kyed, Betül Özkaya
wiley   +1 more source

Teaching Through Trauma: English Teachers Navigating Affective Regimes in Post‐Earthquake Türkiye

open access: yesTESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This study explores how English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teachers in post‐earthquake Türkiye narrated their experiences of loss, survival, and teaching within state‐imposed affective regimes. Drawing on an affective–discursive analysis of Ministry of National Education (MoNE) documents and media texts, the study first investigates how ...
Merve Özçelik
wiley   +1 more source

Academics’ Career Motivations and External Engagement Activity Amid Conflicting Identifications: An Employee Engagement Perspective

open access: yesBritish Journal of Management, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper examines the motivational foundations of academics’ external engagement within the evolving context of the entrepreneurial university. While prior research has explored specific forms of academic entrepreneurship, broader engagement with external organizations has only recently been recognized as both entrepreneurial and value ...
Samuel Mwaura   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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