Configuration Of Identity Research Articles

The Configuration of Da'wah in Indonesia on Technoreligion: A Communication Theory of Identity (CTI) Approach

The construction of da'wah identity on the technoreligion sphere has diametrical forms of discourse. These identities are later configured in several forms, such as theological, cultural, and structural da’wah represented by religious sects and organizations. The configuration of religious identity transmitted in social media becomes a form of self-expression of the preachers (asātiż) in their beliefs, apart from its subjective dimension. The research concludes that the configuration of religious identities of the Indonesian charismatic figures contains meanings that have been transmitted for a long time, not instantaneously, and form their identity which is then projected onto their audiences (mad’ū) in multiperson layers. This article argues that theda’wah identity becomes an existential reflection of a preacher, whether they can be the role models, is depending on the success of each in managing their identities.

The High, Low, and Turning Points of College: First Generation Students’ Identity Negotiations and Configurations

ABSTRACT This retrospective study assessed how first-generation college students (FGCS) configured their relational and academic/career identities. Forty-one FGCS completed a lifeline mapping their academic and relational high points, low points, and turning points in high school and college. They then explained these points in a semi-structured interview. While most FGCS experienced a high point after being admitted to college, during their first year they coped with academic and relational low points. We used thematic analysis to derive codes for these experiences and then, holistically classified participants into identity configurations. As predicted, the identity synthesis/assimilation configuration was most frequent. The results are discussed in the context of identity development in college-going FGCS and how their multiple identities support or challenge their academic persistence.

Канфігурацыі ідэнтычнасці і герменеўтычныя перспектывы Carmen de Bisonte: да 500-годдзя апублікавання паэмы Мікалая Гусоўскага

The study summarizes a wealth of scholarly information modeling different, often antagonistic, configurations of identity in relation to the poem Carmen de bisonte (Cracow, 1523), as well as its author Nicolaus Hussovianus. The methodological reference point is the notion of cultural capital, as well as the notion of the pragmatic setting of the text. Conclusions are made about the close connection between Nicolaus Hussovianus’s work to the traditions of the Northern Renaissance, which are embodied in the artistic texture of the poem.

음식 서사와 문화 정서: 허수경과 마르셀 프루스트 비교

As a sign, each national food closely connects the collective unconscious to unique historical experiences and social norms and thus contributes to the configuration of a distinctive cultural identity. In this respect, this paper compares Marcel Proust’s narrative of the madeleine in In Search of Lost Time and Sukyeong Huh’s narrative of Gukbap in Global Blues and sheds light on how each national food unfolds a specific network of emotions and feelings and connotes each individual style and aesthetic sensibility. Considering that the two writers belong to different symbolic systems in the East and the West, it would be very interesting to examine how differently each writer reveals a unique socio-psychological sentiment in the attempt to restore a sense of ‘being oneself’ in the face of the loss of social presence.

Iuno Regina in Aeneid 12: Evocatio and Reconciliation

This paper aims to examine the dialogue between Juno and Jupiter in Aen. 12.791-842 in terms of a rite of evocatio. The reconciliation of Juno with her husband has been analyzed by D. Feeney in his classic 1984 article, in which it is argued that in this passage Virgil follows the Ennian tradition, according to which Juno is finally placated by Scipio’s sacrifices at the end of the Third Punic War. In this passage it is possible to see an allusion not only to the Punic Wars, but also to the conflicts between Rome and other Italian cities during its expansion in the Republican period – in particular, to the episode of the conquest of the Etruscan city of Veii. It is argued here that this episode of evocatio is especially remembered in Aeneid 12, considering that in the second half of the poem Juno is described mostly as an Italian deity, and that in this dialogue she asks Jupiter to ensure the pre-eminence of the Italic characters in the configuration of the future Roman identity.

Escritura y subjetivación: configuración de la identidad en El libro vacío de Josefina Vicens

The narrator’s subjectivation process is analyzed in El libro vacío by Josefina Vicens. Throughout the notes of the fictional diary that make up the novel, the modeling of the writing that José García sets in motion is followed from the dilemma of the writer called and that same time prevented from carrying out his work, especially, as long as it is configured in parallel the identity of the subject who writes. From the subjective turn and beyond the individual’s fading that has been noticed under an existentialist reading of the work, it is proposed to address the configuration of identity that is implicit in writing as a way of structuring one’s life.

Tracking Real-Time Changes in Configurating Identity Elements in A Life-Story Interview: An Exploratory Case Study

ABSTRACT In this paper, we present an exploratory analysis of real-time micro-changes in identity configurations occurring within the span of one life-story style interview. We examined how one interviewee – a woman who is both religious and a high school counselor in a non-religious school – when prompted to narrate a life-story incorporating the two domains of religious and occupational identity, presents different consecutive ways of configurating the relations between these potentially disparate identity elements. We followed these changes across the interview, and identified four identity goals that seemingly trigger identity reflection and the reconfiguration of identity elements in real-time: the goals of internal integration and coherence; comprehensiveness; ownership of identity, and securing social recognition and affiliation. The possible implications of research focusing on the real-time challenge of configurating identity, rather than on exploration and commitment, is discussed.

Language Teachers' Identity Configurations and Their Resolution Strategies for Imposed Identity

Identity conflict resolution is an essential stage in teachers' identity construction. As there seems to be no tool to measure resolution strategies for overcoming the imposed identity, we developed an 18-item questionnaire based on a previously validated imposed identity questionnaire. It included four options of resolution strategies for coping with imposed identity adopted by four identity configurations of teachers, namely Rebellious, Submissive, Harmonious, and Duplicitous. he analysis of the data which were collected from 42 EFL teachers through the resolution strategies questionnaire indicated the dominant types of configuration the teachers projected in coping with mandates by managers, supervisors, and learners as three sources of imposition. Faced with institute managers' imposition, most teachers manifested a Harmonious identity except when managers treated teachers based on their personal attitudes rather than teachers' professional abilities. To deal with supervisors' imposition, the teachers tended to be mostly Submissive or Harmonious. As to learner-driven imposition, the teachers opted for Rebellious and Harmonious strategies to resolve most of the impositions. The findings indicate how identity may be imposed, changed, and managed. Supervisors, managers, and EFL teachers need to consider how identity conflict resolution can lead to a desirable EFL environment for teaching.

Global and local identities on the balance scale: Predicting transformational leadership and effectiveness in multicultural teams.

The performance of multicultural teams depends, to a great extent, on the effectiveness of their leaders. Transformational leadership is thought to be effective across organizational contexts and national cultures; yet we know little about what shapes these leadership behaviors. This study argues that leaders’ social identity configurations influence their transformational leadership behaviors and leadership effectiveness in multicultural settings. Building upon the global acculturation model, we test the effects of four identity configurations, based on the relative strength and balance of identification with the global and local cultures. We suggest that multicultural team leaders with balanced identity configurations, either glocal (high global, high local) or marginal (low global, low local), demonstrate more transformational leadership and consequently are more effective than leaders with unbalanced (dominant global or dominant local) configurations. Data were collected from 298 MBA students who worked on a four-week project in 77 multicultural teams. We used polynomial regression to capture how the discrepancy between the global and local components of leaders’ identity configurations affects transformational leadership behaviors and effectiveness. The results generally support the theoretical model, showing that the most transformational and effective leaders are those with balanced identity configurations. Theoretical and practical implications of the findings are discussed.

Narratives of Czechoslovak Prison Staff from the Communist Era

Abstract The Czechoslovak prison system is closely bound up with the political situation, and period before the year 1989 was no exception. Its transformation reflects changes in society and politics. The role of the prison system, attitudes to prisoners, as well as modernising trends are all a reflection of the dominant master narratives of that time. This study examines how university-educated employees who were in expert positions within the prison system (psychologists, doctors, a librarian, educators, top management) between 1965 and 1992 adapted to the prison system in place or tried to transform it at the time, and how they reflect on their engagement with it at present. By exploring these questions, we are ultimately asking how their experience as prison staff in communist prisons influenced their professional (narrative) identity and course of life, and how dominant social and political narratives under the communist rule impacted their individual lives. The study adopts a qualitative, idiographic and social constructivist narrative engagement approach to capture the interplay between the prison system and individuals within it. It finds that former employees constructed three different identity configurations reflecting their engagement with the prison system. The consequences of these configurations for prison employees, prison system and society in general are discussed.

Triangular Dynamics and Triangular Space: A Response to Shelley Nathans’ “Oedipus for Everyone: Revitalizing the Model for LGBTQ Couples and Single Parent Families”

ABSTRACT This paper elaborates the post-Kleinian understanding of the Oedipal Complex. It considers the idea of the development of ‘triangular space’ as an outcome of the Oedipal situation and concurs with Nathans (this issue) that this development can take place regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity, or couple and family configuration. Psychic development can be conceptualized in linear terms but in reality it involves much returning to earlier stages or reworking them from later positions. This reworking is seen in the interplay between triangulation, triadic, as well as dyadic relating, in all three of Nathans’s clinical examples. Creative couple relating is seen as one manifestation of the development of triangular space and it is suggested that being able to function creatively in couple and family relationships can be challenging and depends on a capacity for negative capability, managing difference and otherness, and managing hate in the context of love.

University didactics and their relationship with the development of research skills in students of the National University of San Martín

The study was carried out with a sample of 30 teachers and 30 speakers from the VIII, IX and X cycle of the Language Studies Program of the Faculty of Education and Humanities of the National University of San Martín, Tarapoto. In this context, implementing scientific ally conceived university didactics is a fundamental element of professional transformation of teachers and the improvement of the training practice they develop. One of the fundamental conditions for improving the quality of university teaching lies, in our view, in making possible a substantive change in the configuration of the professional identity of university teachers. In the light of these considerations, studies that provide theoretical modelling on investigative skills are insufficient since most theoretical and empirical results focus, specifically, on the training of a profession. The careers with the greatest presence in the subject are Medicine and Bachelor of Education. In the case of the latter, the most repeated object of study is initial investigative or postgraduate training. In the research, it was raised that the act of the situation between university didactics at the National University of San Martín–Tarapoto and the development of research skills inherent in students of the VIII, IX and X cycle of the Language Studies Program are significantly related. A correlational descriptive study was conducted; theoretical methods of induction, analysis, synthesis, as well as empirical measurement methods were used, as well as statistical methods and individual survey techniques. For statistical contrast of the hypothesis, Pearson's statistical correlation technique was used; hypothesis test, there is statistical evidence with a significance level of 5%. The conclusions shape the validity of the hypotheses.

Balancing out bonding and bridging capital: Social network correlates of multicultural identity configurations among Russian migrants to Canada

ABSTRACT Compartmentalization (keeping identities separate) and integration (creating a single overarching identity) are two ways in which people can manage their multiple cultural identities. This study examined social network correlates of these two configurations among immigrants from the Former Soviet Union to Canada (N= 137). Drawing on sociological theories, we focused on egocentric network indices reflecting bonding capital – the benefits from being embedded in a community – and bridging capital – the benefits from outward-looking social connections. Further, we considered the differential role of three culturally-defined subnetworks: mainstream, heritage, and third-culture connections. The latter played in critical role in fostering identity integration. Network configurations striking a balance between boosting mainstream density and limiting heritage density seemed to be optimally related to identity integration.

Negotiating Self: Navigating Feminist and Submissive Identities

ABSTRACT As women navigate the intersecting meanings of feminism and submission, some struggle to reconcile their feminist politics and submissive practice (e.g., belief in equality and desire to yield authority). Bondage/discipline, dominance/submission, and sadism/masochism (BDSM) has been examined through diverse feminist lenses, including radical feminism. However, scant empirical research focuses on the intersection of feminist and submissive identities. The purpose of this phenomenological study was to understand how women in the BDSM community who identify as feminist and submissive navigate their identity. Data were collected through interviews with 23 feminist and submissive women. Findings revealed these women shared experiences related to identity conflict, identity compartmentalization and identity coherence living as submissive feminists. Themes related to their struggles and navigation strategies are presented within the broader structure of identity configuration. This project advances discourse about feminism, sexuality, BDSM, and identity.

Who are the Zhongxing Nu Hai? Gender, sexuality, and the configuration of gender-neutral identity in contemporary Taiwan

ABSTRACT The rise of the zhongxing (“gender in between”) phenomenon has attracted considerable attention in contemporary Taiwanese society. In spite of this increased cultural visibility, however, questions of how young women who identify as zhongxing establish and develop their identities remain unexplored. This study aims to bridge this gap, based on in-depth interviews with 15 young women who self-identify as zhongxing, and designed to capture their subjective experiences and practices. The resulting data will be used to investigate the diverse ways in which young zhongxing women in contemporary Taiwan enact this identity in relation to their female bodies and sexual identities. One key finding is that these women are reconfiguring the linear idea of a gender spectrum, insofar as they perceive and practice gender neutrality through unexpected collage and juxtaposition of binary gender traits. Moreover, in contrast to the common fixed association between female masculinity and lesbian sexuality, the sampled young Taiwanese zhongxing women characterize their sexual identification as contingent and fluid, as a result of the ambivalent status of zhongxing as a gender identity. Our analysis emphasizes the creative and disruptive agency of younger generations of women to develop and configure non-binary gender identities that are capable of mediating and resisting heteronormative assumptions of non-normative gender and sexuality.

Identity of the Teaching Staff: Significant Events in Its Construction from the Practice of University Teaching

At present, higher education plays a crucial role in the transformation, construction, and development of societies. Spending time on exploring the identity configuration of teachers could generate instruction and guidance processes that should take into account their cognitive representations, discourses, and actions within their teaching practice at a personal level; The objective and intention of this study are to demonstrate how significant events of university professors have over time influenced and determined their professional identity. This research is qualitative as it follows the principles and postulates of grounded theory, which permitted the analysis and description of these events. Data collection was carried out using the SCM (self-confrontation method) through a structured interview applied professors of the faculty of education, science, and technology that voluntarily took part in this research. As part of this research, the past, present, and future of those who took part in it were explored. The speeches of these professors were analyzed under established and emerging categories with the support of the MQDA2018. The results show how significant events and people throughout both their instruction and within their professional practice have been building their identity based on these interactions. In many cases, it revealed how the discourses learned have modified in some way the development and evolution of their teaching practice, as well as within significant events, the instruction processes are unmentioned, which theoretically should help and support this preparation process of the teaching staff.

The Survey Measurement of Sexual Orientation: Configurations of Sexual Identity and Attraction and Associations with Mental Health.

Purpose: This study aimed to examine how configurations of sexual identity and attraction are associated with mental health outcomes. Methods: Data came from the 2015, 2016, and 2017 waves of the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, one of the few nationally representative surveys to ask about sexual attraction. Sexual identity and attraction were combined into groups that are coincident (heterosexual-opposite gender attraction, gay/lesbian-same gender attraction, or bisexual-any multiple gender attraction) or branched (heterosexual-any same gender attraction, gay/lesbian-any opposite gender attraction, bisexual-only same or opposite gender attraction). The association between these configurations and various measures of mental health and well-being-severe psychological distress, major depressive episode, suicidal ideation, and suicide plan or attempt-was examined. Results: Heterosexual coincidence-being heterosexual and only attracted to the opposite gender-was associated with lower mental health risks than all other configurations of sexual identity and attraction. In addition, bisexual with coincident attraction was often associated with worse mental health outcomes than other configurations of identity and attraction, whereas bisexual with branched attraction did not necessarily follow this pattern. Finally, heterosexual with branched attraction was associated with worse mental health outcomes than heterosexual with coincident attraction, but better mental health outcomes than some of the other sexual identity and attraction configurations. Conclusion: Including one question on sexual attraction and its intersection with sexual identity adds nuance to our understanding of disparities in mental health and well-being among previously identified sexual minority and majority groups.

Neurog2 directly converts astrocytes into functional neurons in midbrain and spinal cord

Conversion of astrocytes into neurons in vivo offers an alternative therapeutic approach for neuronal loss after injury or disease. However, not only the efficiency of the conversion of astrocytes into functional neurons by single Neurog2, but also the conundrum that whether Neurog2-induced neuronal cells (Neurog2-iNs) are further functionally integrated into existing matured neural circuits remains unknown. Here, we adopted the AAV(2/8) delivery system to overexpress single factor Neurog2 into astrocytes and found that the majority of astrocytes were successfully converted into neuronal cells in multiple brain regions, including the midbrain and spinal cord. In the midbrain, Neurog2-induced neuronal cells (Neurog2-iNs) exhibit neuronal morphology, mature electrophysiological properties, glutamatergic identity (about 60%), and synapse-like configuration local circuits. In the spinal cord, astrocytes from both the intact and lesioned sources could be converted into functional neurons with ectopic expression of Neurog2 alone. Notably, further evidence from our study also proves that Neurog2-iNs in the intact spinal cord are capable of responding to diverse afferent inputs from dorsal root ganglion (DRG). Together, this study does not merely demonstrate the feasibility of Neurog2 for efficient in vivo reprogramming, it gives an indication for the Neurog2-iNs as a functional and potential factor in cell-replacement therapy.

A Dance from Iglau: Gustav Mahler, Bohemia, and the Complexities of Austrian Identity

A survey of Mahler’s correspondents, especially his classmates at the University of Vienna in the 1870s, reveals a multifaceted identity he shared with them. Most of his fellow members of the Pernerstorfer Circle, young intellectuals who met to discuss art and politics during their university years, had a similar background: German-speakers with a Jewish heritage and an upbringing in one of the Eastern minority communities of the Habsburg Empire. While some of Mahler’s music has been examined with respect to his Jewish background, little has been said about the influence of Bohemia on the composer, and even less about how this Austrian configuration of identity influenced his worldview and composition. We often repeat Mahler’s famous quote that he was thrice homeless, as a Bohemian in Austria, as an Austrian among Germans, and as a Jew throughout the world, yet the meaning of being Austrian rather than German has been underexplored in Mahler’s music. In this article, I suggest that the mixture of ethnic identities was Austrian for the composer, placing Mahler within a group of like-minded Austrians whose complex allegiances to multiple traditions influenced their contributions to the field of politics, literature, philosophy, and music. Focusing on Mahler’s early symphonies, I demonstrate the interface between Jewish, Bohemian, and Austro-German musical characteristics, and I compare this musical synergy to similar interactions in the publications of members of the Mahler’s university peers, as well as other intellectuals of his generation including Karl Emil Franzos. This article reveals multiethnic networks of influence in Mahler’s music and reconsiders Austrian identity uncoupled from the traditional Austro-German formulation.

WHY HEROES FAIL: NATIONAL IDENTITY IN JIN YONG'S MARTIAL ARTS NOVEL THE BOOK AND THE SWORD

Martial arts fiction presents a number of signs that define Chinese cultural separateness and reflect national identities of Chinese communities around the world. In this paper, we select the novel The Book and the Sword of Jin Yong, the most celebrated martial arts author, to analyze how the wuxia conventions can be applied to represent the formation of a new emigrant identity under the foreign rule and under the influence of abandoned Mainland China. Setting his novels in the mythical past allows Jin Yong to freely discuss the cultural, social and political circumstances of his present that contribute to the configuration of this new national identity. Examining comparative studies on martial arts fiction, we note that moral codes of Chinese chivalrous swordsmen and Western knights-errant do not differ significantly; moreover, these heroic images remain similar in different cultures and pertain to the universal mythic structure. We argue that the modified hero myth expressed in a work of national fiction always represents a cultural identity of a particular nation, a certain symbol through which the nation perceives itself and introduces itself to others. Although national identity is an imaginary construction that does not comprehensively reflect reality, each member of the nation (a native or diasporic resident) recognizes values and truths communicated through mythic storytelling. We show that national identity in the analyzed novel is not a stable concept and individuals can change their political loyalties depending on the circumstances or their preferences, but regardless of their ethnical origin. We conclude that the novel relates the failure of the nationally aware elite to establish self-governing within the state in order to defend their national identity from the foreign politically dominant group.