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Preparing to work: dramaturgy, cynicism and normative ‘remote’ control in the socialization of graduate recruits in management consulting [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
online) This paper examines the socialization of graduate recruits into a knowledge intensive labour process and organizational culture. Theoretically the paper draws upon the idea of ‘preparing for work’ to position this early socialization as a crucial
Ackroyd S.   +29 more
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Emotion management as struggle in dirty work: the experiences of exotic dancers [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
We further the research to date on ambiguity, ambivalence and contradiction in organisation studies by integrating the dirty work and emotion management literatures. Our intent is to better understand the complex cognitive processes underpinning everyday
Grandy, Gina, Mavin, Sharon
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Empirical Challenges in Organizational Aesthetics Research: Towards a Sensual Methodology [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Despite growing scholarly interest in aesthetic dimensions of organizational life, there is a lack of literature expressly engaging with the methodological mechanics of 'doing aesthetics research'. This article addresses that gap.
Alfonso, Ana-Isobel   +31 more
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Social Criticism through Humour in the Digital Age [PDF]

open access: yesEuropean Comic Art, 2018
Numerous authors of comics and graphic novels have used the economic crisis in the Iberian Peninsula as a narrative frame for social criticism. Prominent amongst them is the Catalan cartoonist Aleix Saló, who burst onto the comics scene with his animated YouTube video Españistán, a book trailer for his graphic novel Españistán: Este país se va a la ...
Javier Muñoz-Basols   +1 more
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Political ridicule and humour under socialism [PDF]

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Humour Research, 2014
Socialism produces distinct forms of humorous ridicule that are relatively rare in capitalist, bourgeois democracies. These forms are arranged in a hierarchy that reflects the distribution of power in this type of social and political order, one which differs markedly from a bourgeois democracy or indeed even a traditional or dictatorial authoritarian ...
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Community building through play: Development and design of a board game for review in an undergraduate anatomy course

open access: yesAnatomical Sciences Education, EarlyView.
Abstract Engaging students and fostering interactions can be a challenge in large enrollment, foundational‐level, undergraduate anatomy classes. Despite the active learning environment of the anatomy laboratory, students often struggle to find study partners or even speak to fellow learners in a large classroom.
Kristin Stover   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Depression, Anxiety and Stress Reduction in Medical Education: Humor as an Intervention [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Background: In recent years there has been a growing appreciation of the issues of quality of life and stresses involved in medical training as this may affect their learning and academic performance.
Chaudhary, V   +3 more
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Teilhard de Chardin on Insects in "The Phenomenon of Man" [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
The year 2009 saw the publication of a curious work bearing the title The Secret Life of Insects: An Entomological Alphabet (New Brunswick and London: Transaction Publishers). The author, Peter Milward (b. 1925), excels in having combined together humour
Scerri, Hector
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Assessing the what is beautiful is good stereotype and the influence of moderately attractive and less attractive advertising models on self-perception, ad attitudes, and purchase intentions of 8–13-year-old children [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This paper investigates (1) whether the physical attractiveness stereotype applies to children, (2) whether children’s self-perception is influenced by the attractiveness of an advertising model, (3) whether children’s attitudes towards an ad and buying ...
Van de Sompel, Dieneke, Vermeir, Iris
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Researching in-between experience and reality [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
In this article, we draw on LORENZER's method in our analysis of a single case data extract derived from a research project generating data through the Tavistock Infant Observation tradition.
Froggett, Lynn, Holloway, Wendy
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