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The challenges of "upstream" communication and public engagement for Irish nanotechnology [PDF]
, 2009 This paper sets out some challenges for Ireland’s contribution to nanotechnology public engagement in the context of current STS and science communication theoretical practice approaches.
Murphy, Padraig
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Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.In this article, I analyze my interviews with Mark (pseudonym), a social scientist who committed major academic fraud in over 50 top‐tier journal articles in the first decade of this century. I explain how stigma played a central role in how Mark and I shaped our interaction. I focus on how Mark, a former Professor and Dean with a distinguished career,
Thaddeus Müller
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The Trajectory of an Agreement: Tracing Objectivated Knowledge Across a Series of Mundane Encounters
Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.This article adds to the sociological study of time and temporality in everyday life by building on recent longitudinal developments within conversation analysis. It investigates members' methods to bring about change within their shared (life) world. It examines how, as part of an extended project of action, one agreement made early on is continually ...
Sarah Hitzler, Jonas Kramer
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Types of Struggles in Disrupted Interaction: A Case of Hard‐of‐Hearing Employees
Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.Everyone experiences disrupted interactions in their everyday life. However, research indicates that people with functional impairments are particularly exposed to patterns of interactional inequality at work. Despite this, little is known about the specific disrupted interactions in everyday life and the various types of interactional struggles this ...
Ida Friis Thing
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Constructing Difference: Maternal Boundary‐Work in Science‐Based and Natural Mom Groups on Facebook
Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.Boundary‐work describes the activities of social groups as they seek to differentiate themselves from others to establish credibility, authority, or to protect their interests. While a growing body of literature explores occupational boundary‐work in health care, limited research has focused on how lay actors practice boundary‐work online.
Darryn DiFrancesco
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Patterns in the modification of animal and human bones in Iron Age Wessex: revisiting the excarnation debate [PDF]
, 2008 Social practices concerning the treatment of human and animal remains in the Iron Age have long been a focus of debate in archaeological literature. The absence of evidence of a formal burial rite and the regular retrieval of human remains from ‘special’
Madgwick, Richard
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Comparing the success and failure of the Murray–Darling Basin Plan's water recovery programs
Australian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.Abstract The Murray–Darling Basin (MDB) Plan is held up by some as an exemplar for world‐leading water policy, whilst others have called it a failure. Total proposed recovery was to return 3200 GL of consumptive (e.g. namely irrigation) water use to non‐consumptive (e.g.
Sarah Ann Wheeler
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Building Alliances: Collaboration between CAUSA and the Rural Organizing Project in Oregon [PDF]
, 2006 This ethnography examines the components that allow quality solidarity work to happen between organizations with leadership and constituencies that are primarily people of color and primarily white, respectively. CAUSA (an immigrant rights coalition) and
Jan Ramirez +3 more
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Planning and Solar Farms: A Front Line in Net Zero Disputes?
The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Solar power is rapidly increasing in importance as a source of UK renewable energy. However, planning applications for solar farms have emerged as a new cleavage in what was previously a consensus policy area of acting to counter climate change.
David Toke +4 more
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De l’acteur à l’institution. Esquisse d’une sociologie de l’action d’aide
Sociologies, 2014 The ethnographic approach initiated by Jeanne Favret-Saada has allowed to re-examine the mode of participation of researchers in their proper field of inquiry.
Maëlle Meigniez
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