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Reification and the Critical Theory of Contemporary Society
This article concerns how a critical theory of reification should be conceptualized to grasp the 2007 crisis, state-imposed austerity, and the rise of right-wing authoritarian populism. It argues that Jürgen Habermas’s, Axel Honneth’s, and Georg Lukacs’s
O\u27Kane, Chris
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Contrastive Self‐Categorization as a Resource for Defending Cultural Stereotypes
This study explores how speakers defend morally sanctionable cultural stereotypes from challenges in adult second language classrooms. Within the conversation analysis and membership categorization analysis frameworks, I examine two extended video‐recorded class discussions in which students maintain face‐threatening, stereotypical portrayals of ...
Nadja Tadic
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This paper presents a theoretical and methodological discusssion on a visual etnography that took place in a sports training. We propose an integrated model of expert knowledge that explains the swimmers’ and trainers decisión-making as part of the ...
Dafne Muntanyola
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“I'm a Good Guy Who Deserves Better, Yet Nobody Wants to Give me Better”: The Accounts of Nice Guys
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
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Performing Integrity: Managing Misalignment while Researching Transgressive Social Worlds
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
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Reification as an Ontological Concept [PDF]
In this paper, I outline the ways that reification as a pathology of what I call “cybernetic society” shapes the fundamental structures of the self and our shared social reality.
Thompson, Michael J.
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From the Culch: Lost in the Archives, Found in the Community
The author’s documentary From the Culch1 is the central case study in a practice-based research enquiry into archival filmmaking in the vernacular tradition.
Paul Mulraney
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Construction of Social Reality in Fiction and Phenomenology of Everyday Life
The idea of the constructed character of social reality implies human contribution to institutional arrangements and cultural patterns that determine the shape of collective existence.
S. V. Rudanovskaya
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Supporting Pathways into College and Careers: The Case of Adult Education ESL in Community Colleges
Abstract Research has increasingly focused on the importance of college preparation and career and technical education (CTE) for multilingual learners (MLs), many of them classified as “English Learners,” in K‐12 schools. Less attention, however, has been paid to the collegiate and professional aspirations of another significant population of MLs in ...
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Realism, Reification, Pragmatism [PDF]
Pointing out en route that the Spanish verb for ‘reify’ is, cosificar, to ‘thingify’, Timothy Bewes, in his 2002 Reification or the Anxiety of Late Capitalism, coined the term ‘thingitude’ to take forward, after Lukács, discourse on reification.
Neil, Ken
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