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“Being Nice” as Modus Vivendi in Classrooms: A Collective Behavior Approach to Deviant Behavior in Primary Schools

open access: yesSymbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
This study of first‐year primary school draws on Goffman's concept of “collective behavior” to examine how order is established and disrupted through the mutual adjustment of all participants' actions. We employed a multi‐method longitudinal design, using semi‐standardized observations and qualitative interviews with teachers and children at three ...
Doris Bühler‐Niederberger   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

“I'm a Good Guy Who Deserves Better, Yet Nobody Wants to Give me Better”: The Accounts of Nice Guys

open access: yesSymbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Performing Integrity: Managing Misalignment while Researching Transgressive Social Worlds

open access: yesSymbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
The qualitative literature criticizing REBs suggests that researchers should develop an approach to research ethics that does justice to their daily practice of fieldwork. In this article, I contribute to this exploration by presenting three cases of negotiating research ethics while researching transgressive social worlds.
Thaddeus Müller
wiley   +1 more source

Becoming a TESOL Practitioner: Disciplinary Languaging and the Socialization of International Students in UK Higher Education

open access: yesTESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This article proposes the concept of disciplinary languaging to account for the regulated forms of communication that are characteristic of TESOL master's preparatory programs in the UK. It does so with a view to the effects on the socialization of international students who are attracted by the global promotion of such programs and the ...
Yunpeng Du, Miguel Pérez‐Milans
wiley   +1 more source

Big data in veterinary medicines regulation: A data landscape analysis to support regulatory activities

open access: yesVeterinary Record, EarlyView.
Abstract Background This study describes the development of a data landscape analysis protocol that identifies and characterises animal health data sources to support key regulatory activities throughout the life cycle of veterinary medicines. Methods The protocol included: development of criteria to identify data sources; selection of variables to ...
Ewa Pacholewicz   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

ORGANISATIONAL AND LEGAL FRAMEWORK FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION AND FINANCIAL SUPPORT OF INTERACTION BETWEEN LOCAL SELF-GOVERNMENT BODIES AND THE POLICE UNDER MARTIAL LAW

open access: yesBaltic Journal of Economic Studies
The article examines the organisational and legal framework for implementing certain projects of interaction between local self-government bodies and the police under martial law, and identifies the specifics of their financial support.
Andriy Basko   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Phenological responses to climate change: advancing mating and calving in wild and semi‐captive Caspian red deer

open access: yesWildlife Biology, EarlyView.
Species respond to climate change through phenological and spatial shifts. Herbivorous mammals, in particular, are vulnerable due to their direct dependence on seasonal vegetation and the potential misalignment between their reproductive cycles and shifting food availability.
Farid Salmanpour   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

The effect of simulated intergroup encounters on movement patterns and home range use in banded mongooses

open access: yesWildlife Biology, EarlyView.
Intergroup conflicts have a wide range of impacts, including affecting movement and ranging patterns. Previous studies found contrasting movement responses to intergroup conflicts, but no explanation for these differences has been suggested. However, these can be broadly grouped into ‘conflict avoidance' responses: avoiding areas close to the fight ...
Elizabeth F. R. Preston   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Proposal for an NYPD Inspector General [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
This report focuses on oversight of the NYPD's intelligence operations. Although a number of substantive legal rules set the boundaries of these types of programs, history has shown that it is exceedingly difficult to ensure that intelligence agencies ...
Andrew Sullivan, Faiza Patel
core  

Plasticity in parental care: Interspecific competitor cues shape biparental cooperation in a burying beetle

open access: yesJournal of Animal Ecology, EarlyView.
Our study contributes to our understanding of the effects of interspecific competition in species with biparental care where male and female parents must somehow coordinate their response to interspecific competition. Abstract Interspecific competition is an important evolutionary driver of many species' life histories and behaviours, arising wherever ...
Casey Patmore, Per T. Smiseth
wiley   +1 more source

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