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What Program for Love in the 21st Century? Thinking With and Beyond Luhmann

open access: yesSystems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT From a sociological perspective, the paper examines how normative frameworks for intimate relationships have changed since the publication of Luhmann's Love as Passion (1982). Building on Luhmann's notion of a program for love, we discuss his claim that late 20th century love semantics were organized around a program of understanding. We argue
Chiara Piazzesi, Martin Blais
wiley   +1 more source

Meeting the Basic Needs of International Students

open access: yesNew Directions for Student Services, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Following the COVID‐19 pandemic, many International Student Services offices are exploring and expanding the ways in which they support the basic needs of students, from food, housing, transportation, childcare, health care to mental health and wellbeing to financial assistance.
Judith Pennywell   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Goffman's Tempting the Devil in Stigma: A Close Rereading of Goffman's “Subversive” Construct of “the Normals” Versus “the Stigmatized”

open access: yesSymbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
This article engages in a close rereading of Stigma, relating it to Goffman's biography as a person who faced stigma. Exploring his biography helps us to recognize the ways Goffman applies stigma strategies in how he represents himself as the author in Stigma.
Thaddeus Müller
wiley   +1 more source

When Time Stands Still: The Destructive Experience of Ambiguous Loss among Mothers of Combat Soldiers

open access: yesSymbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
What happens when stories refuse coherence? This article examines ambiguous loss among mothers of combat soldiers, focusing on how prolonged waiting and uncertainty infiltrate everyday life, eroding sensemaking. Drawing on ethnographic interviews, it explores how mothers experience the contraction of time and space—manifested in suspended routines ...
Shirly Bar‐Lev   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

“Who Is Watching me?”: Recovering the Grammar of Stigma in Interaction

open access: yesSymbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
This article offers a praxeological respecification of stigma. I argue that the term “stigma” is a category term and glossing device, used to gather together and stand in for a diverse range of interactional experiences, including, but not limited to, degradation, discrediting, discrimination, marginalization, and being demeaned.
Phil Hutchinson
wiley   +1 more source

The Couch: Belonging, Memory, and the Making of the Self—A Heartfelt Autoethnography

open access: yesSymbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
This heartfelt retrospective autoethnography explores a personal episode of adolescence through the lens of ritual, memory, and symbolic interaction. At the age of 14, after returning to Italy following years abroad, I found myself on the margins of a gang of boys whose shared language, stories, and music represented the codes of belonging I yearned to
Alessandro Porrovecchio
wiley   +1 more source

Myth of Pvdu with English Subtitles

open access: yes
The speaker narrates the myth related to ...
Yami, Taba
core  

Navigating Between the Scylla and Charybdis of Hype and Fear: Decolonizing ELT Materials Through Generative Artificial Intelligence

open access: yesTESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Despite calls from critical applied linguists to decolonize ELT materials that reproduce colonial ideologies, teachers working under neoliberal constraints and attendant time pressures often have to deliver textbook content as is rather than revising it.
Steven Yeung, John Gray
wiley   +1 more source

Myths and legends: The reality of rape offences reported to a UK police force

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Psychology Applied to Legal Context, 2016
Rape myths affect many aspects of the investigative and criminal justice systems. One such myth, the ‘real rape’ myth, states that most rapes involve a stranger using a weapon attacking a woman violently at night in an isolated, outdoor area, and that ...
Genevieve F. Waterhouse   +2 more
doaj  

A South African Language Teacher Educator's Reflective Journey Through Sociocultural Theory and Asset‐Based Mediation

open access: yesTESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This reflective article chronicles a South African English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI) university teacher educator's journey from professional disillusionment toward a more intentional, transformative praxis. The catalyst for this journey was the recurring observation of novice teachers abandoning dialogic, asset‐based pedagogies learned ...
Nhlanhla Mpofu
wiley   +1 more source

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