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Empirical Musicology Review, 2012 This paper situates musical meaning in culture, addressing music as social symbol and as ongoing process of meaning creation. Three examples of non- Western musical practice are used to illustrate the embedding of musical meaning in cultural context. The
Richard Widdess
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When Saving Time becomes Labor: Time, Work, and Technology in Homecare
Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2018 The article shows how sociomaterial practices of ordering temporality can become part of labor and workers identities, when homecare workers who work with ‘time-saving’ technology experience a lack of sufficient time to do their work.
Jenny M. Bergschöld
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Material Construction of Care Workers’ Identity
Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2016 This article takes a critical look at the unconscious and unnoticed effects of materiality on care workers’ identity. The data was collected through nonactive role-playing using written accounts, in which the respondents described how they felt about ...
Sanna Laulainen, Anneli Hujala
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Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2013 The dominant research strands into social interaction in culturally diverse workplaces have focused on issues of organizational efficiency and discrimination, and they have treated cultural identity as static, monolithic, and universally shared.
Malgorzata Lahti
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Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2016 Neoliberal policies such as new public management (NPM) have been pivotal to the Swedish elderly care system for two decades. This article explores the discourses of NPM and work by focusing on how a good workplace is represented by professionals and ...
Britt-Inger Keisu +2 more
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Making Materials Matter—A Contribution to a Sociomaterial Perspective on Work Environment
Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2013 This paper aims to discuss the implications of adopting an STS (science and technology studies)- based conceptualization of the psychosocial work environment.
Johan Simonsen Abildgaard +1 more
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THE LABORATORY AS A MEANS OF CULTURE [PDF]
School Science and Mathematics, 1901 n ...
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THE MEANING OF CULTURAL FESTIVALS
International Journal of Cultural Policy, 2007 Cultural festivals and events are increasingly becoming arenas of discourse enabling people to express their views on wider cultural, social and political issues. Often the debates polarise into those advocating change and those wishing to preserve “traditional” or “local” culture in the face of modernisation and globalisation.
Crespi Vallbona, Montserrat +1 more
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Unnoticed Professional Competence in Day Care Work
Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2013 This article presents a double perspective on social educators’ professional competence: It discusses how everyday life in day care centres (preschools) is dependent on professional competences that can be conceived as “unnoticed.” These aspects of ...
Annegrethe Ahrenkiel +4 more
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Changing Occupational Roles in Audit Society—The Case of Swedish Student Aid Officials
Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2015 This article is about occupational change concerning a non-professional group of Street Level Bureaucrats—student aid officials at the Swedish Board for Study Support (SBSS).
Anders Bruhn
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