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Same but different? The Democratic Unionist Party and Ulster Unionist Party compared
Northern Ireland’s two main unionist parties, the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) and Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) have undergone divergent fortunes since the 1998 Good Friday Agreement (GFA) as the DUP has prospered whilst the...
An analysis of corporate social responsibility at credit line
This paper presents the results of an inductive, interpretive case study. We have adopted a narrative approach to the analysis of organizational processes in order to explore how individuals in a financial institution dealt with...
Identity Work and Organizational Identification
Andrew D. Brown
Jul 23, 2017
In this paper, I analyse five approaches to identity work - discursive, dramaturgical, symbolic, socio-cognitive, and psychodynamic - and show how these are helpful in exploring the ways people draw on their membership of...
Identity and Group Conflict
We experimentally investigate the effects of real and minimal identities on group conflict. In turn we provide a direct empirical test of the hypotheses coined by Amartya Sen that the salience of a real identity escalates...
Family History and the Global Politics of DNA
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The global DNA ancestry industry appeals to various “markets”: diasporic groups seeking to reconstruct lost kinship links; adoptees looking for biological relatives;...
Psychometric Validation of Four-Item Exercise Identity and Healthy-Eater Identity Scales and Applications in Weight Loss Maintenance
Background: Identifying as someone who engages in health promoting behaviors like healthy eating and exercising may be associated with sustained engagement in those behaviors, but reliable and valid instruments are needed to...
Exercise Health Promotion Healthy eating Identity Weight loss maintenance /dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/2900/2916 name=Nutrition and Dietetics /dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/3600/3612 name=Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation /dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/2700/2701 name=Medicine (miscellaneous)
Identity and Memory
Ryley Hinton
Jan 01, 0001
For my Summer Fellows project, I researched personal identity in a philosophical way. The goal was to disambiguate the concept of self-identity, understand what the main notions of identity are, and look at how they apply in...
Published by: Ursinus College
Exploring social constructions of bereaved people’s identity in mainland China:
Chao Fang
Jan 01, 0001
The context of mainland China remains under-researched in the bereavement literature. This article reports on a qualitative study on bereaved people’s experience in mainland China in light of their relational beings, uncovering...
What is Fast Fashion?
Morgan Laster
Jan 01, 0001
When most people think of fast fashion, they probably picture a company like Shein or Forever21. But what exactly is fast fashion? And when did it first emerge as a term? I tracked the evolution of what is called fast fashion by...
fast fashion Identity Georg Simmel Herbert Blumer definitions Self-concept Fashion Business Social and Behavioral Sciences Sociology Sociology of Culture
Published by: Ursinus College
Stigma, identity and power
We analyse how men incarcerated in Helsinki Prison managed through talk their stigmatized identities as prisoners. Three strategies are identified: ‘appropriation’ of the label ‘prisoner’; claiming coveted social identities; and...
Pathways to identity
Joe Bruce, Jean Scholtz, Duncan Hodges, Lia Emanuel, Danae Stanton Fraser, Sadie Creese, Oriana Love
Sep 01, 2014
The nature of identity has changed dramatically in recent years and has grown in complexity. Identities are defined in multiple domains: biological and psychological elements strongly contribute, but biographical and cyber...
Misplaced States and the Politics of Regional Identity
Wali Aslam, Leslie Wehner, Kei Koga, Janis van der Westhuizen, Cameron Thies, Feliciano de Sá Guimarães
Jul 03, 2020
Whilst there is no shortage of analyses on the politics of regions in International Relations, little attention has been paid to states who perceive that they do not properly fit in the regions they happen to be located in....
"Black people don't love nature"
Matthew W Hughey
Dec 22, 2022
I examine how white British members of a London-area environmental group conceptualize race in relation to ecological disasters. Based on a five-year (2018-2022) ethnographic study, members employed racialized narratives and...
Disciplinary mechanisms and the discourse of identity
Organization studies research exposes the need to examine power relations embedded within the design of organizations, the construction of normative behaviour, and the production of socially constructed meanings that lead to the...
An analysis of corporate social responsibility at credit line
This paper presents the results of an inductive, interpretive case study. We have adopted a narrative approach to the analysis of organizational processes in order to explore how individuals in a financial institution dealt with...
Goblin: Microaffirmations, a Theory of Communication
Haunt Pitcher
Jan 01, 0001
This project is a study of nonbinary identity and the ways in which nonbinary individuals find validation from nonbinary communities, cisgender friends and family members, and themselves. It advances a theory of...
transgender nonbinary Gender communication LGBTQ affirmation Identity communication Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Ethnicity in Communication Interpersonal and Small Group Communication Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies Social and Behavioral Sciences
Published by: Ursinus College
Identities in Organization Studies
Andrew D. Brown
Jan 01, 2019
Identities scholarship, in particular that focused on self-identities, has burgeoned in recent years. With dozens of papers on identities in organizations published in this journal by a substantial community, doubtless with...
Identity identity construction identity work Self-Identity /dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/1400/1408 name=Strategy and Management /dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/1400/1407 name=Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management /dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/1400/1405 name=Management of Technology and Innovation
Understanding the excess psychosis risk in ethnic minorities
PURPOSE: Psychotic disorders, which are associated with substantially increased morbidity and mortality, are up to five times more common in some ethnic minority groups compared with the white majority in Western countries. This...
Temporary multi-organizations
This article applies organizational identity theory to explore how temporary multi-organizations (TMOs) construct their identities as learning organizations. The study draws on 33 in-depth interviews from TMOs in the UK...
Identity Regulation, Identity Work and Phronesis
How do corporations attempt to regulate the ways middle managers draw on discourses centred on 'effectiveness' and 'ethics' in their identity work, and how do these individuals respond? We analyse the discursive struggle over...
Identities, discipline and routines
This paper analyses how people's subjectively construed identities are disciplined by, and appropriated from, their talk about organizational routines. Identity work, we argue, is not just an expression of agency but also of...
From What We Eat, We Define Ourselves: The Creative Fictions and Nonfictions of Contemporary Food
Dr. Ephraim Scott Sommers, Dr. Dustin M. Hoffman, Laura-Gray Hopkins, Jesse Motte, Rebekah Daniel
Jan 01, 0001
This panel, made up of current and former Winthrop writing students and of current Winthrop faculty seeks to look creatively at the myriad of ways in which the food we eat might offer another helpful entrance point into defining...
Published by: Winthrop University
The Colonization of Identity and Oral Culture Within the Leni Lenape
Emily Gurganus
Jan 01, 0001
What defines "Identity?" What, or who, defines yours? Do you? Do the people around you? The many variables that affect racial, ethnic, and cultural identity are complicated and nuanced. This fact is true of everyone, but the...
Native American Studies Identity Lenape Delaware Anthropology Native American Studies Social and Behavioral Sciences
Published by: Ursinus College
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