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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

“I'm a Good Guy Who Deserves Better, Yet Nobody Wants to Give me Better”: The Accounts of Nice Guys

open access: yesSymbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
Within Western popular culture and online discourse, a “Nice Guy” is someone who enacts niceness for which they believe they are owed, deserving of, or entitled to something in return—especially the romantic or sexual attention of women. In this study, we examine the use of accounts in personal narratives told in an anonymous online discussion forum ...
Brooke Weinmann, Dennis D. Waskul
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More than scientists: How message and messenger attributes influence viewers' climate change intentions. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS One
Hine DW   +7 more
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Performing Integrity: Managing Misalignment while Researching Transgressive Social Worlds

open access: yesSymbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
The qualitative literature criticizing REBs suggests that researchers should develop an approach to research ethics that does justice to their daily practice of fieldwork. In this article, I contribute to this exploration by presenting three cases of negotiating research ethics while researching transgressive social worlds.
Thaddeus Müller
wiley   +1 more source

Formation of Distance‐Based Orientation: Political Identity through Relational Positioning in Israel

open access: yesSymbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
Distance‐based orientation describes how pejorative labels may serve as anchor points for political identity. Existing research on political labeling has largely emphasized stigmatization, overlooking how labels may acquire durability and orienting capacity without losing pejorative force. Drawing on publicly circulating discourse, we trace positioning
Tammar Friedman, Asaf Saadon
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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

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