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Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.In the aftermath of the 2020 U.S. election, the boundary between activism and extremism blurred, with election officials reporting violent threats and false accusations of election fraud. From a symbolic interactionist perspective, these attacks provide a unique lens for examining the consequences of being falsely labeled a criminal.
Steven Windisch
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“Time‐Tripping” and Memory‐Making: A Grounded Theory of Grounded Theory
Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.This paper explores the development of grounded theory methodology through the lens of memory studies, introducing the concept of “time‐tripping” as a key generic social process. The paper identifies several sub‐processes of time‐tripping, including “reclaiming,” “resisting,” “retro‐casting,” and “landscaping,” which shape the methodological “imaginary.
Barry John Gibson +2 more
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The Case of ‘Autistic’: Pejorative Uses and Reclamation
Ergo, An Open Access Journal of PhilosophyIn addition to its descriptive uses, ‘autistic’—originally a medical label—is also used pejoratively (against ingroups and outgroups), and has recently been proudly reclaimed, especially in connection with neurodiversity movements. This phenomenon raises
Bianca Cepollaro +2 more
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Grazer Philosophische Studien, 2020 Sometimes speakers within a linguistic community use a term that they do not conceptualize as a slur, but which other members of that community do. Sometimes these speakers are ignorant or naïve, but not always. This article explores a puzzle raised when some speakers stubbornly maintain that a contested term t is not derogatory.
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Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.In this paper, we use Goffman's notion of “face work” to examine how pipeline engineers perform and present their working selves as competent experts. Our analysis identifies various faces and face work tactics, including a focus on professional judgment, actively selling one's expertise relative to others, protective self‐deprecatory strategies, and ...
Sarah Maslen +2 more
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Pour une lecture continue de Hugo Dingler
Philosophia Scientiæ, 2014 Given the considerable interest in certain aspects of Hugo Dingler’s thought, esp. for foundational questions of the experimental sciences, on the one hand, and the national-socialist slurs in his publications and activities from 1933 through 1945, the ...
Norbert Schappacher
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Formation of Distance‐Based Orientation: Political Identity through Relational Positioning in Israel
Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.Distance‐based orientation describes how pejorative labels may serve as anchor points for political identity. Existing research on political labeling has largely emphasized stigmatization, overlooking how labels may acquire durability and orienting capacity without losing pejorative force. Drawing on publicly circulating discourse, we trace positioning
Tammar Friedman, Asaf Saadon
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Lexis: Journal in English LexicologyThe preliminary study presented in this article uses the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) to study how the different meanings of the word “pussy” interrelate.
Aure Espilondo
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Queers Queering STEM: Reimagining Inclusive STEM Education
Journal of Research in Science Teaching, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Grounded in queer theory, this study explores the intersections of queerness and STEM trajectories through the lived experiences of three queer adults with postgraduate degrees in STEM and contributes their insights for queering STEM education.
Nelly K. M. Marosi +2 more
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TopoiWhen we think of slurs in English – like the N-word, the F-word, and others – we tend to think of nouns rather than verbs or adjectives. This is probably not an accident: paradigm examples of slurs are indeed nominal in nature, and slurs exhibit a cross-linguistically robust tendency to concentrate in the grammatical class of nouns. But why?
Schaden, Gerhard, Gasparri, Luca
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