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Investing Aura: Making Value at an Emirati Art Center
Economic Anthropology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The article examines the politics and processes of establishing value for artworks, highlighting the continued belief in Walter Benjamin's idea of aura and describing the value aura generates as “auratic value.” Focusing on an artist residency program in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) during the country's arts boom, I analyze contestations ...
Beth Derderian
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Accomplishing Ethics‐Work as a Generic Social Process
Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.Existing systems of university research ethics are often criticized by those in the qualitative research tradition. A common thread is that ethics cannot be fully anticipated before the research begins, as is expected by most institutional review boards.
Deana Simonetto, Antony Puddephatt
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An Outline of a Theory of Play
Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.Play is often dismissed as trivial, yet it is a fundamental and adaptive aspect of human and mammalian life. This paper develops a sociological theory of play, treating it as a total social fact that spans biological, psychological, and social dimensions.
Seth Abrutyn
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El espacio social y la génesis de las "clases"
Estudios sobre las Culturas Contemporáneas, 1989 An acute reflection and critical analysis of socially produced classification systems. The marxist concept of social classes, which tends to reduce the complex multi-dimensionality of society to the ´economic´ and to confuse scientific classifications
Pierre Bourdieu
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Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.What happens when stories refuse coherence? This article examines ambiguous loss among mothers of combat soldiers, focusing on how prolonged waiting and uncertainty infiltrate everyday life, eroding sensemaking. Drawing on ethnographic interviews, it explores how mothers experience the contraction of time and space—manifested in suspended routines ...
Shirly Bar‐Lev +2 more
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Supporting Pathways into College and Careers: The Case of Adult Education ESL in Community Colleges
TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Research has increasingly focused on the importance of college preparation and career and technical education (CTE) for multilingual learners (MLs), many of them classified as “English Learners,” in K‐12 schools. Less attention, however, has been paid to the collegiate and professional aspirations of another significant population of MLs in ...
Kylie A. Kenner +2 more
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TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract This paper focuses on integration in the data analysis of a qualitatively oriented mixed methods study, illustrating this process through a worked example of interactions with social actors shaping a TESOL graduate's professional experiences. The paper outlines our analysis of visual and textual data from interviews that employed an embedded ...
Yi Sun, Xuesong (Andy) Gao
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TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract English learners (ELs) in US K–12 schools face systemic barriers that constrain their college and career readiness. Although research has richly documented ELs' limited opportunities to learn in high school and barriers to postsecondary education, much less is known about how late‐arriving ELs move from high school to community college (CC ...
Kuang Li, Yasuko Kanno
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Pensamiento. Revista de Investigación e Información FilosóficaEn su conocida monografía sobre Richard Rorty, publicada en 2008, el sociólogo de la filosofía Neill Gross, formuló, con la intención de corregir los modelos de «sociofilosofía» propuestos por Randall Collins y Pierre Bourdieu, una teoría acerca del ...
Francisco Vázquez García
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