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- Fine, Gary Alan
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Shopfloor Cultures : The Idioculture of Production in Operational Meteorology
- 2006
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Ingår i: The Sociological Quarterly. - : Routledge. - 0038-0253 .- 1533-8525. ; 47:1, s. 1-19
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Each workplace operates within a cultural context in which local features of interaction influence how employees conceptualize their workplace self. Building on small-group research, I argue that understanding these idiocultures as action arenas helps to specify how group knowledge, practices, and beliefs are expressed and affect occupational identity. To demonstrate the power of microcultures, I analyzed local offices of the National Weather Service (NWS) through ethnographic methods. I focused on the Chicago office, demonstrating how its culture, which emphasizes autonomy and resistance to authority, shapes the staff’s images of scientific practice and the contours of being a scientist. The culture is revealed in their joking relations as well as in other office traditions. I then compared this culture with that of Flowerland, a spin-up office established in the 1990s. These two offices use their cultures to differentiate themselves, creating distinct work practices. As all work groups have local cultures, giving greater attention to small-group dynamics helps us understand how workers define themselves, how cultures differ, and how the effects of these differences shape the experience of work.
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- Coe, Anna-Britt, 1967-
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Social Processes Underlying Movement Influence : Young Adult Feminist Activists’ Interactions with Professionalized Feminist Organizations in Ecuador and Peru
- 2021
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Ingår i: The Sociological Quarterly. - : Routledge. - 0038-0253 .- 1533-8525. ; 62:1, s. 15-35
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Despite extensive research on the influence between social movements, knowledge remains limited to the basic social processes by which this occurs. This article locates these social processes in the accounts among young adult feminist activists in Ecuador and Peru. Qualitative interviews were conducted and analyzed among 21 young adult feminist activists from eight groups. The findings show how their feminist mobilizing was influenced by interactions with professionalized feminist organizations that were simultaneously inclusive and exclusionary. Three in/exclusionary interactions captured basic social processes whereby young adult feminist activists struggled to define modes of participation, organizational practices, and targets of engagement.
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- Fittante, Daniel
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Ethnic Intermediation in Contemporary Buenos Aires
- 2020
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Ingår i: The Sociological Quarterly. - : Taylor & Francis. - 0038-0253 .- 1533-8525. ; 61:1, s. 42-60
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Scholarship on ethnic intermediation has paid much attention to how demographically important but socioeconomically disenfranchised groups broker power within various geopolitical contexts. But it has not yet unpacked how intermediation operates among electorally small yet economically prosperous communities. Contemporary Buenos Aires offers a series of case studies in which visible, affluent ethnodiasporas have had considerable success making sustained claims and reallocating state resources. Drawing from extensive fieldwork and over 35 interviews with community leaders, this article argues that small, well-organized groups rely on ethnic elite intermediaries - that is, ethnic activists who serve in executive-appointed, non-elected positions - to make sustained claims and reallocate state resources on behalf of ethnic organizational interests. The analysis introduces ethnic elite intermediaries in the context of Armenian and Jewish Argentines during the Kirchner and Macri presidencies, respectively.
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- Fröhlich, Christian, 1978, et al.
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States Shaping Civic Activism : Comparing Animal Rights Activism in Poland and Russia
- 2017
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Ingår i: The Sociological quarterly. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0038-0253 .- 1533-8525. ; 58:2, s. 182-201
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article offers a comparative study of animal rights and animal welfare activism in Poland and Russia. It investigates how an East European democratic state, on the one hand, and a post-Soviet semiauthoritarian state, on the other hand, steer civic activism and how different state–society relationships affect the forms that activism takes. The analysis aims at identifying the specific institutional mechanisms by which steering operates in the two cases, thus explaining some notable similarities between the movements in the two countries, such as the focus on noncontentious animal welfare issues, but also the differences between them. Although facing a more repressive context, the contentious radical flank of the Russian movement is more active than the Polish one.
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