The Tea-Steeping Metaphor: Origin, Application, Advantages, Disadvantages, and Impact on Forensic Medicine Teaching. [PDF]
Parmar P, Rathod G.
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This article introduces the concept of excluded participation to examine how inclusion and exclusion are negotiated in real time within a Danish fifth‐grade classroom. Using a micro‐sociological framework, particularly the work of Erving Goffman, the study focuses on the case of Anders, a student whose participation is symbolically recognized yet ...
Jørn Bjerre
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The body in language, the language beyond the body: embrainment and graded embodiment in the evolution and use of language. [PDF]
Arbib MA, Cuccio V.
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“I'm a Good Guy Who Deserves Better, Yet Nobody Wants to Give me Better”: The Accounts of Nice Guys
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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Black-White Color Metaphors of Justice: Two Experiments on Justice as a Legal Value. [PDF]
Xu S, Sun W, Zhang K.
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Accomplishing Ethics‐Work as a Generic Social Process
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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Is explaining more like showing or more like building?-Agency in metaphors of explaining. [PDF]
Porwol P, Scharlau I.
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Formation of Distance‐Based Orientation: Political Identity through Relational Positioning in Israel
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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An Image Schematic Analysis of Conceptual Metaphors of Adolescents' Lived Experiences of Depression. [PDF]
Liang Y, Deng Y.
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An Outline of a Theory of Play
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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