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Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The importance of business families is increasingly gaining attention. However, to truly understand business families and their dynamics, they must be viewed as distinct systems. Since this area has received limited scholarly focus, we argue that forming a new system is more than just an extension.
Heiko Kleve +2 more
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Erving Goffman at 100: A Chameleon Seen as a Rorschach Test within a Kaleidoscope
Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.The 100th anniversary of Erving Goffman's birth was in 2022. Drawing on his work, the Goffman archives, the secondary literature, and personal experiences with him and those in his university of Chicago cohort, I reflect on some implications of his work and life, and the inseparable issues of understanding society.
Gary T. Marx
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Relationship between consanguineous marriage and spontaneous abortion and stillbirth
Payesh, 2018 Objective (s): spontaneous abortion and stillbirth has always been a devastating experience for the mother and of concern in clinical practice. Since consanguineous marriage is common in Iran, high rates of congenital malformations and genetic diseases ...
Mehri Shams Ghahfarokhi
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Accounting for Friendlessness: Stigma and the Quest for an Honorable Self
Symbolic 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
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Narrative‐Style Transcription: Optimizing Inference of Dialogic Discourse
TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract In qualitative research, transcription is a significant stage of the data collection process often employed as a method of language data analysis. In this account, however, I underscore the interpretive dimension of transcription in the context of classroom practitioner research, and the decision‐making entailed in this approach. To illustrate
Clifford Kast
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The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract The 2024 UK general election saw candidates make frequent rhetorical references to parents and grandparents. But what are the political functions and implications of such references? Drawing together recent research in political psychology and sociology, this article interprets such references as attempts to articulate ‘vicarious identities ...
Joseph Haigh
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The Pattern of Female Nuptiality in Oman
Sultan Qaboos University Medical Journal, 2013 The purpose of this study was to examine Omani patterns of female nuptiality, including the timing of marriage and determinants of age at a woman’s first marriage. Methods: The study utilised data from the 2000 Oman National Health Survey.
M. Mazharul Islam +2 more
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Drawing on the ethnography of migrant care workers in eldercare in Shanghai, this article reveals the evolving landscape of caregiving and kinship practices in contemporary China. The ethnography presents the emic perspective of care workers, who actively develop symbolic trajectories for claiming kinship through ‘filial heart’ in caregiving.
Xinyuan Wang
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Health Awareness and Consequences of Consanguineous Marriages
Journal of Primary Care & Community Health, 2015 Objectives: This community-based study was done to assess the awareness of people regarding the ill effects of consanguinity and to observe its association with various sociodemographic variables and complications among children.
Nitin Joseph +5 more
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Chinese Medical Journal, 2016 Background: Cardiovascular diseases, including dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) and hypertension, are the leading cause of death worldwide. The role of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) in the pathogenesis of these diseases has not been completely clarified. In this
Ye Zhu, Xiang Gu, Chao Xu
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