Different Levels Of Identity Research Articles

?Did you solve it yourself??: Evaluation of self narratives of discrimination by people with ?learning difficulties?

Narratives about personal experience are shaped by the interactional context, and people are required to tell their own stories in a variety of social contexts. For people with 'learning difficulties', veracity is a particular and paradoxical problem. New policies and strategies require them to take part in public debates, while they are traditionally judged to be incompetent to be witnesses to the 'truth'. Presenting data from an inclusive research project, this paper analyses some of the micro strategies by which people with 'learning difficulties' create their own research interviews by asking questions, telling stories and evaluating their own narratives about discrimination. The interplay of different levels of identity in the data and the concept of interactional rights were found to be useful analytical tools. By doing research and speaking up for themselves, people with 'learning difficulties' can collaborate to take on new situational identities; in this context, this paper shows precisely how they evaluate their own narratives to focus on various aspects of their own more permanent identity. Practical conclusions are drawn, both for people with 'learning difficulties' and for their interlocutors, challenging assumptions of blanket incompetence.

Identity in motion: The process of Finland-Swedish migration to Sweden

This article examines how identities among Finland-Swedish migrants change in the process of contemporary migration between Finland and Sweden. An approach of mixed methods is adopted in order to reveal both patterns of settling in Sweden or returning to Finland and mechanisms of the migrants’ identity construction. Through migration, identifications are contested. The findings suggest that in Sweden the Finlandian national identity initially grows stronger, but weakens over time. Finland-Swedish identity is transformed into an important feature on the personal, instead of the ethnic group, level. For the returnees, the Finland-Swedish ethnic identity is often enhanced. The migrants’ different levels of identity are found to be linked to various scales of space, underlining the regionally distinct characteristics of the Finland-Swedish identity.

Phylogenetic analysis of different isolates of Sulfobacillus spp. isolated from uranium-rich environments and recovery of genes using integron-specific primers.

The isolation and phylogenetic characterization of acidophilic moderate thermophilic bacteria from different locations of uranium mines and a uranium processing mill in Pakistan is reported. The dominant culturable bacteria found were related to Sulfobacillus thermosulfidooxidans in all the samples analyzed. Different strains displayed different levels of identity (95-97%) to 16S rDNA of known strains of this species, indicating group heterogeneity. Genomic DNA from five isolates was subjected to amplification using integron-specific primers HS286 and HS287. Recovery of different integron-linked genes from one of the isolates indicated the usefulness of this approach for gene mining in place of traditional gene recovery methodologies.

L'identité comme arme dans le combat de la vie: Le “Nouvel Age” dans le cadre de la théorie de la civilisation

If considered in the light of Norbert Elias's theory of civilization, the popularity of practices associated with “New Age” appears to be due less to their religious or esoteric content than supposed in many sociological analyses. A dialectical-semiotic analysis of the ideas and practices of “New Agers” reveals underlying structures in their discourses which touch directly on the characteristic day-to-day problems of people living in the midst of the complex, interdependent networks of a society in a phase of “reflexive civilization” (Hans Peter Waldhoff). This phase demands an ever greater differentiation of psychological structures if one is to be well prepared for daily interactions. “New Age” practices offer individuals ways of self-development at different levels of identity, allowing them a safe context in which to experiment with new social behaviours.

Characterization of Membrane-Bound Small GTP-Binding Proteins from Nicotiana tabacum

We have cloned nine cDNAs encoding small GTP-binding proteins from leaf cDNA libraries of tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum). These cDNAs encode distinct proteins (22-25 kD) that display different levels of identity with members of the mammalian Rab family: Nt-Rab6 with Rab6 (83%), Nt-Rab7a-c with Rab7 (63-70%), and Nt-Rab11a-e with Rab11 (53-69%). Functionally important regions of these proteins, including the "effector binding" domain, the C-terminal Cys residues for membrane attachment, and the four regions involved in GTP-binding and hydrolysis, are highly conserved. Northern and western blot analyses show that these genes are expressed, although at slightly different levels, in all plant tissues examined. We demonstrate that the plant Rab5, Rab6, and Rab11 proteins, similar to their mammalian and yeast counterparts, are tightly bound to membranes and that they exhibit different solubilization characteristics. Furthermore, we show that the yeast GTPase-activating protein Gyp6, shown to be specifically required to control the GTP hydrolysis of the yeast Ypt6 protein, could interact with tobacco GTP-binding proteins. It increases in vitro the GTP hydrolysis rate of the wild-type Nt-Rab7 protein. In addition, it also increases, at different levels, the GTP hydrolysis rates of a Nt-Rab7m protein with a Rab6 effector domain and of two other chimaeric Nt-Rab6/Nt-Rab7 proteins. However, it does not interact with the wild-type Nt-Rab6 protein, which is most similar to the yeast Ypt6 protein.

Development and test of an occupational taxonomy based on job characteristics theory

The use of occupational classification systems has enjoyed a long tradition in vocational behavior. This study attempted to develop a new classification of occupations based on the degree of variety, identity, autonomy, significance, and feedback—major job characteristics often identified with the motivational potential of jobs. Based on two randomly drawn samples from 1515 respondents in the Quality of Employment Survey, 1977: Cross-Section ( R. Quinn & G. Staines, 1979, Survey Research Center, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI), a cluster analysis revealed 10 relatively homogeneous clusters of jobs across both samples. Additional analysis suggested further support for the taxonomy when between-cluster differences appeared to explain the relationship between the job characteristics and job satisfaction, organizational size, and prestige while within-cluster effects for these same variables were nonsystematic. Interpretation of the taxonomy centers on differences between levels of variety and autonomy versus different levels of identity, significance, and feedback across the 10 profiles. The taxonomy is also interpreted using the 15 most frequently occurring occupations in the study sample. Finally, the counseling implications of the results are discussed; limitations of the study are noted and the need for additional research is suggested.