Interview Material Research Articles

‘Have we lost our sense of humour?!’ Affective senses of racial joking in Danish schools

ABSTRACT Posing the rhetorical question ‘Have we lost our sense of humour?’ this article analyses senses of racial humour through the use of affect theory. Despite the common use of the idiom ‘a sense of humour’ within everyday speech, there is a lack of social and cultural analysis of the senses that guide understandings of whether or not something is funny. Through the lens of affect theory, this article explores sensory experiences of humour, showing how senses of humour are both affective corporeal experiences – such as laughter – and an affective relational flow between and among bodies. Drawing on interview material gathered in diverse schools in Denmark, the article analyses how students negotiate the use of racial humour with particular focus on tonalities of humour and the affective stakes involved in laughter and unlaughter. The article argues that affect theory can help bridge a gap in the literature on humour, which either reduces humour to bodily, mental and cognitive predispositions, or to social and cultural functions.

Perceptions about Graves’ Disease: A qualitative study on reports of patients in Euthyroidism and with Ophthalmopathy under a Brazilian university specialized outpatient follow-up

IntroductionKnowing mental representations about the phenomenon of illness and medical care allows the clinical team to have better emotional handling of their patients, with gains in greater adherence to treatments. Graves’ Ophthalmopathy is an inflammatory disease with primary involvement of the extraocular muscles and orbit, being the most frequent extrathyroidal manifestation of Graves’ Disease. Many patients have psychological status changes even after successful treatment of hyperthyroidism, especially when the disfiguring signs of ophthalmopathy are predominant. An understanding of the symbolic aspects linked to this condition help doctors and nurses to have a relationship more harmonious with them.ObjectivesTo interpret emotional meanings in reports of patients with euthyroidism and with ophthalmopathy under follow-up at a specialized university endocrinology outpatient follow-up, discussing contradictions perceived between a stigmatized body and clinical-laboratory euthyroidism.MethodsClinical-Qualitative design of Turato. Data was collected using Semi-directed interviews with open-ended questions in-depth, carried out with patients at a university hospital specialized outpatient service in South-eastern Brazil. The interview material was audio-recorded and fully transcribed. The interviews were treated by Clinical-Qualitative Content Analysis described by Seven Steps’ Faria-Schützer. It is based on psychodynamic concepts from the Medical Psychology theoretical framework, whose main author is Michael Balint. The sample was closed by the Theoretical Saturation of Information studied by Fontanella and cols. The finding validation has occurred by peers at the Laboratory of Clinical-Qualitative Research, State University of Campinas, San Paolo.ResultsThe sample was composed by 10 patients. From the search of nuclei of meanings in the reports, four categories of analysis were constructed: 1) “No, this is not normal, I must have cancer”: psychodynamics of the doctor-patient relationship in Graves’ Disease; 2) Types of illness according to their manifestations and auto-perception: silent illness and non-silent ones; 3) “The eyes are everything”: the impacts of the disfiguring alterations of ophthalmopathy; 4) The contradiction perception between clinical and laboratory normality the stigmas of ophthalmopathy.ConclusionsThe patients with severe exophthalmos, maintained emotional distress despite being euthyroid, manifested by various emotional meanings reported in the interviews. The clinical-laboratory diagnosis of Graves’ Disease alone is not sufficiently capable of responding to the psychological demands of the patients. Proper listening to emotional symbolic meanings attributed by patients can help physicians and nurses in handling this settingDisclosure of InterestNone Declared

The Back to Back Theatre film internship program for people with intellectual disability: A summative evaluation

ABSTRACT Background Internships may be a successful pathway for increasing employment rates among people with intellectual disability. This paper presents a summative evaluation of a brief film internship program for people with intellectual disability. Method At the commencement and conclusion of the internship, semi-structured interviews were conducted with eight interns and 10 mentors. The interview material was analysed thematically. Results Five themes described the experiences of interns: enhancing intern skill development and recognising gaps, building intern confidence, providing interns with assistance, meeting interns’ expectations of the program, and working towards ongoing employment. Four themes were present in the discussions with mentors: drawing on previous experience with people with disability and mentoring roles, feeling confident in a mentor role, providing mentors with support, and reflecting on interns’ future job prospects. Conclusion Although the program developed interns’ skills and confidence, an expanded program appears needed to generate open employment outcomes.

Feminism contested and co-opted: Women, agency and politics of gender in the Greek and Greek-Cypriot far right

The literature on the gender dimension of far-right politics has established the constitutive role of gender and women’s involvement in the far right. However, knowledge about how far-right women negotiate and condition their agency within their parties and how they relate to gender, gender equality and feminism remains limited. This article builds on literature on conservative and far-right women’s agency, and on feminism’s employment by the far right. Based on interviews with female politicians and seasoned activists of the Greek Golden Dawn and the Greek-Cypriot National Popular Front, it examines how highly engaged far-right women construct their political agency at the intersections of often contradictory discourses and how, in doing so, they impact understandings of gender, gender equality and feminism. The analysis of the interview material identifies three different formulations of political agency the participants refer to: radical motherhood; female political militancy/political militant femininity and troubling of far-right gender roles. I argue that these different formulations of political agency show how, by using elements of feminism, far-right women construct flexible and versatile far-right gender discourses, which challenge gender essentialist positions that their parties convey. Moreover, they challenge delineations of far-right women’s political agency based on the compliance/(feminist) resistance dichotomy and expose the processes through which far-right women contest feminism by drawing on it. The article further argues that these formulations of political agency and far-right gender discourses may contribute to the far right’s appeal among women with diverse views on gender, gender equality, feminism and politics, as they may respond to an array of interests and demands that can be made from many different positions. Therefore, beyond contributing to discussions about the role of women, gender and feminism in far-right politics, the article demonstrates the importance of studying far-right women’s views for gaining a well-rounded understanding of this issue.

From collective to association? Figurations of remembering and former state-owned enterprises in post-1989 Eastern Germany

ABSTRACT The post-socialist transformation of Eastern Germany exterted a decisive influence on the world of work. The privatization and liquidation of the State-Owned Enterprises (Volkseigene Betriebe, VEB) changed the lives of their employees. Not only was an employee’s employment status suddenly called into question, but also their everyday lives and social environment. Today, many former members of the VEB workforce remain dedicated to preserving the memory of their factories. To achieve this, they drew on their social contacts from VEB settings and formed associations, initiatives, and interest groups. This article explores the new forms of togetherness and social cohesion created by those active in these groups, in addition to their motivations for establishing these associations. Adopting an actor-centred perspective, the article introduces two case studies drawn from a broader body of interview material gathered as part of a three-year ethnographic research project. Both case studies illustrate the interconnections between individual life stories and involvement with specific associations. The case studies are followed by a discussion of open-ended interpretive approaches that present possible ways of deepening the analysis of this material. With reference to the case studies, I suggest describing the groups and their activities in terms of “figurations of remembering.”

Russian science fiction in the Genre of Alternative History as a Reflection of Mass Consciousness: Sociological Approaches

In Russia, fiction in the genre of alternative history has become popular over the past ten years. Book series of this kind are actively published and have a significant readership. This genre is part of ideological and utopian landscape of the Russian mass consciousness. It helps to understand imperial historical traumas, nostalgia for the Soviet past, and a high level of anxiety about the present and future. The theoretical part of the analysis is based on the G. Rosenfeld ideas about a close connection of this genre with the experience of the present and about ontological pluralization of the past. The article also includes M. Laruelle's thesis about the ideological function of this genre and its role in ideological mobilization. The concept of E. Shatsky's utopia as a chronic escapism is an important element in the analysis of this genre in Russia. Russian science fiction in the genre of alternative history mirrors ideological and utopian unconscious, which articulates affective historical traumas of society. Alternative history novels actively experiment with genres, and it contains elements of a political detective story, adventure and spy novel, conspiracy theories, personal nostalgic memoirs about childhood and adolescence, mysticism, military action movie, romance, crypto-fiction. Many authors perceive their novels as a historical experiment, and they are concerned with problematizing the causes of the collapse of the Soviet Union. The modern Russian wave of science fiction in the genre of alternative history is a more painful reaction of a part of society to the deep historical faults associated with the collapse of the USSR. The source of the analysis is the materials of interviews with the authors of works in the genre of alternative history, readers' reviews on thematic online platforms and the content of the works.

ОБРАЗ И. В. СТАЛИНА В СОЗНАНИИ СЕЛЬСКОГО НАСЕЛЕНИЯ ШИПУНОВСКОГО РАЙОНА АЛТАЙСКОГО КРАЯ (ПО МАТЕРИАЛАМ ИЭЭ-2023)

This article is devoted to the consideration of the image of I. V. Stalin in the minds of respondents in the Shipunovsky district of the Altai Territory. The interview materials were collected during a scientific historical and ethnographic expedition of employees and students of the Institute of History, Social Communications and Law of the Altai State Pedagogical University. In his study, the author examines the influence of victory in the Great Patriotic War on the perception of the image of I. V. Stalin’s population. The author also focuses on the perception of the process of debunking the cult of personality and its results by respondents

Needs-based educational support for parents in the neonatal intensive care unit - perspectives of parent counsellors / Bedarfsorientierte edukative Unterstützung für Eltern nach einer Frühgeburt aus der Perspektive von Elternberaterinnen

Abstract Background and objectives Including parents of preterm infants in family-centered care processes in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) requires nurses to have a basic understanding of need-based educational interventions. This paper aims to describe nurses’ subjective views of parents’ education and support needs. Method A qualitative study consisting of six semi-structured interviews was conducted to analyze the subjective perspectives of nurses providing counseling to parents with premature children. The interview material was subjected to content analysis. Results Three main themes were addressed by participating nurses: general and individual parental needs, changes in needs over time, as well as factors that facilitate or hinder nursing care needs assessments. Nurses’ assessment of parental needs is essentially based on their subjective perceptions and lacks systematic procedures. Parent counsellors assume discrepancies between their subjective needs assessment and parents’ actual needs. Participating nurses believed that the central function of their counseling work was to provide continuous, consistent, and coherent communication support to parents throughout the entire duration of their premature infants’ inpatient stay. Conclusion Integrated care concepts in the NICU must actively involve all professional stakeholders in establishing family-centered care. Apart from their subjective professional assessment, nurses should primarily rely on standardized tools to identify parental needs. Such comprehensive needs assessments can ensure a continuous, timely response to parents’ actual needs through educational interventions that offer professional, effective support for parental coping and family well-being.

СЕМЕЙНЫЕ ФОТОАЛЬБОМЫ ТУВИНЦЕВ СЕГОДНЯ

The article analyzes the social practices of creating and storing a Tuvan family photo album in the XXI century. The sources of the study were the materials of narrative biographical interviews with ten respondents - the indigenous inhabitants of Tuva, Tuvans of different ages, which the authors of the article recorded in April - May 2023. In the XXI century. Tuvans have a wide variety of p hoto albums on different media, and today, family photo albums, among other things, represent the ethnicity of people.ethnicity of people.

Пролегомены к онтологии взаимности: феномен дара и этнокультурные смыслы дарообмена

The article provides a philosophical analysis of theoretical approaches to the phenomenon of gift, presents current interpretations of the concept of "gift" in the culture of peoples, describes the meanings and meanings of gift exchange in modern philosophical discourse. Features of the formation of the meaning of this phenomenon are presented on the empirical material of research interviews. The purpose of the study was to substantiate the concept of "gift" as a backbone for understanding the meanings of the identified ethno-cultural types of relationships.

ЭЛЕМЕНТЫ ТРАДИЦИОННОЙ КАЛЕНДАРНОЙ ОБРЯДНОСТИ В РАБОЧИХ БУДНЯХ СЕЛЬСКОГО НАСЕЛЕНИЯ АЛТАЙСКОГО КРАЯ В 1950-1970-Е ГГ.

This article is devoted to the consideration of individual elements of traditional calendar rituals in the conditions of work in brigades of collective farms, state farms and MTS in the Altai Territory in the 1950-1970s. and the introduction of new rituals. Based on the analysis of interview materials, the authors draw conclusions about the possibility of celebrating traditional holidays during the period under review and building relationships in this context between workers and the management of collective farms, state farms and MTS. The aspect of the introduction of the “new Soviet ritual” in the Altai region is considered, and a change in the attitude of younger generations to the “old holidays” is noted.

How poems go beyond: Advocating the use of poetic representation for therapeutic practitioner researchers in qualitative research

This article focuses on how poetic representation of research offers therapeutic practitioners distinct ways to engage audiences, leading to a deeper, more dynamic and relationally-based understanding of the lived experience of another than other research outputs allow. Methodologically, it advocates that using poetic representation presents practitioners with an accessible, flexible, and therefore more viable way of presenting research findings that can encourage research confidence and engagement. It briefly describes the use of Gee’s (1991) psycholinguistic framework in creating poetic form from unstructured narrative interviews with therapists who work with psychological trauma. This framework allows the researcher to readily draw out content that represents the most meaningful aspects of interview material. Using extracts from resultant poems, it explores the ways in which this form of data presentation offers the ability to connect with readers deeply and evocatively, ultimately leading to potential change in the reader’s world as a result.

“THE WEDDING NEEDS TO BE PAID OFF”: GIVING PRACTICES AT MODERN CITY WEDDINGS

The article actualizes the wedding gifts theme and considers it on the interview materials of young Perms families. The works purpose is the discovery of archaic and modern phenomena in giving practices. The author forms groups of gifts for analysis: “gifts received by the newlyweds at the wedding celebration” and “gifts for the guests of the wedding celebration”. The group “ideas about desired wedding gifts” becomes an additional semantic horizon. The plots presented in the groups are interpreted in terms of Cultural Science.

Crianças e adolescentes com deficiência: desafios na formação médica

Abstract: Introduction: supporting the constitutional rights of people with disabilities includes meeting new curricular guidelines and requires higher education that considers diversity in different contexts. Thus, the undergraduate curricula of health professionals must meet the multifaceted needs of people with disabilities in a way that transcends the biomedical model and permeates the promotion of an inclusive culture. Attitudes and values about disability often influence people’s behavior, making it imperative to introduce this topic. Aim: the present study aim to describe an approach in the curricula and teachers’ conceptions about children and adolescents with disabilities in medical courses. Method: this exploratory, cross-sectional study with a qualitative approach included the documental analysis of official documents of the courses and official pages of the universities, published until the first semester of 2021 and interviews of teachers participating in the course. The content analysis technique was used for the interview material. Results: the documental analysis pointed in the general topics a direction towards a humanistic formation, while respecting the differences; however, when the topic is the disability, the focus was centered on biological issues. During the interviews, the following topics were identified: 1) The importance of the Unified Health System as a space for medical training; 2) The contribution of the National Curriculum Guidelines in guiding the activities of teachers and highlighting relevant points; 3) Development of teaching activities aimed at children and adolescents with disabilities, based on the teachers’ experiences; 4) Conception about the person with disabilities and teacher training; 5) Teacher training for the development of teaching activities about children and adolescents with disabilities and knowledge about public policies in the area. Conclusions: a weakness was identified in the approach to the subject, with specific insertions on the subject, usually from the perspective of the disease and from the opportunities that arise. Among the teachers, the predominance of the biomedical perspective was identified, as well as the lack of training on the subject and its fragile insertion in academic practice. However, the importance of the topic was recognized and its potential to integrate the curricular matrix in a cross-sectional way.

Communicating and Practicing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Finnish Esports Organizations: Challenges and Opportunities

In this study, we explore how Finnish esports organizations are communicating and aiming to increase diversity, equity, and inclusion in their activities. The study is based on a qualitative analysis on two sets of research material: public websites of 53 esports organizations and interviews with representatives of five esports organizations. We have analyzed the textual and visual contents on these websites to see how Finnish esports organizations communicate diversity, equity, and inclusion—or exclusion—to their audiences. Analyzing the interview material, we have examined how Finnish esports organizations understand equity, what kind of diversity, equity, and inclusion practices they have applied in their operations, and what kind of challenges they have experienced in this area. Overall, this study describes how Finnish esports organizations do and do not present and experience themselves as diverse, equal, and inclusive environments, and what measures could be taken to increase these aspects in the Finnish esports scene in the future. The results of the study can be applied to various gaming and esports organizations and cultural contexts globally.

Soviet stadium as a space of competition of official and informal models of behavior on the example of Kyiv (1950–1980)

The article considers the peculiarities of the strategies of behavior of fans in Soviet stadiums in the postwar period. On the example of the city of Kyiv and the “Republican” stadium, an analysis of the competition between officially permitted, acceptable models of behavior and alternatives to them, which took place during football matches, is conducted. The Soviet stadium during football matches was a kind of point of “inaccessibility” for the authorities. Watching matches at the stadium was accompanied by a more intense public display of emotions, in contrast to other sports spectacles (for example, a physical culture parade).Before the start of «perebudova» and the announcement of “glasnist”, the official press kept silent about the real situation in the stadiums and the scale of the conflicts that arose after the matches. Also, it ignored any unusual forms of manifestation by fans of their football-related identity (for example, a march of spectators through the city after the match). Violence in stadiums, “incorrect behavior” (such as insulting football players, songs with obscene language) could not be part of the official Soviet spectator culture. The deconstruction of the image of the “good” fan created by Soviet propaganda and its comparison with the materials of oral historical interviews leads to the conclusion that the practices of Soviet fans in and out of the stadium on the day of the match undermined the government’s monopoly on the city.The widespread popularity of football in the Soviet Union and its widespread discussion contributed to the construction of fan communities, the identity of which was formed by opposing the support of “our” against “foreign”, hostile teams. The principled nature of football matches for interested Soviet citizens turned the review of games at the stadium into a place of emotional demonstration of the fans’ identity. Violations of public order, collective “celebrations” or demonstrations of dissatisfaction with the results of the game, spontaneous marches from the stadium after the match became part of the unconscious resistance to the established models of “correct behavior”.The context of “perebudova”, the lack of prepared reaction of law enforcement officers led to the escalation of the conflict and, in fact, to the actual and symbolic appropriation of urban space by Kyiv fans during the clashes.

Audiobook apps: exploring reading practices and technical affordances in the player features

Audiobooks are increasing in popularity and are now widely used through apps from subscription services. While these apps are part of audiobook practices, there is scant research on this topic. This article contributes to an understanding of the audiobook player function and the features therein. The article builds on an interview study with ten young Swedish users and a study of the apps from subscription services Storytel, BookBeat and Nextory. The player function in the apps were explored using a feature analysis and the interview material was analysed using qualitative content analysis. The focus was on affordances of the different app features, and how these related to audiobook reading practices. There were ten to twelve features each in the different players, outlined in the article. Four common user practices emerged in the interview material: adjusting the speed, selecting a track, setting a sleep timer and rewinding the audiobook. The apps play a significant part of audiobook reading practices. However, while the apps afford certain practices, some features create hindrances to other reading practices.

Development of Teacher Innovation in Teaching Accounting Subject Through Implementation of Professional Learning Community

Critical thinking is important because critical thinking is a generic skill required by employers to produce students who can compete in today's global economic market. Teacher quality is the main focus in education management because the relationship between student achievement is closely related to the teacher's ability to manage student-based learning. Among the methods for teachers to be involved in professional development that leads to increased student learning is the Professional Learning Community (PLC). The purpose of this article is to examine how the implementation of PLC leads to the development of innovation among Accounting teachers. A total of seven Accounting teachers who teach Forms 4 and 5 in seven schools in southern Malaysia were selected as study participants using the purposive sampling. Three data collection techniques were used to obtain rich data, namely semi-structured interview, document analysis, and audio and visual material analysis. The validity and reliability of the findings of this study is ensured through triangulation, member checking, peer review, audit trail, and a prolonged and adequate engagement in the study. The findings of the study are categorized into 3 themes, namely Sharing Best Practices, Collective Focus on Student Learning, and Collaborative.

ПОСТРОИТЬ БУДДИЙСКИЙ ХРАМ: ИНФРАСТРУКТУРА И НЕКАНОНИЧЕСКИЕ ЗНАЧЕНИЯ ПАЛОМНИЧЕСТВА

The aim of this fieldwork-based paper is to show the path to the businessman’s faith in the modern historical, social, and confessional context, as well as the language in which it is articulated. The decision to build a Buddhist temple “turnkey” to replace the one destroyed in the 1930s, in his home town leads to spiritual transformation. Buddhist teachers, who have unconditional authority, change the outlook and behaviour of the benefactor. The author examines the infrastructure and itinerary reflecting the political geography of the modern Buddhist world and the goals of the informant’s numerous travels. Special attention is paid to the experience of the “miraculous”, which emphasizes the confessional character of these regular travels and is one of the markers of faith. The interview material highlights a close connection between the confessional Buddhist affiliation and the ethnic identification of the Kalmyks, which was not so obvious a few decades ago. The language of spontaneous narrative shows the complexity of the respondent’s worldview, which combines Soviet and non-Soviet values.

Medicine in older age—perception and assessment of ageing processes by older people and medical and nursing professionals: study protocol for a qualitative focus group design (FOR TiMed_Life)

BackgroundThis study is conducted by a subproject of the DFG research group "Medicine, Time and the Good Life" FOR 5022 (FOR TiMed_Life) and investigates the care preferences of individuals of advanced age and the care priorities of medical and nursing professionals in times of increasing medical options and more complex decision-making processes, especially for elderly patients. We assume that the preference for or rejection of medical treatment is shaped by individual and social age patterns and by the awareness of the finiteness of life. Just like older people themselves, professionals are also influenced by societal images of age(ing) and associated notions of age-appropriate health. These concepts are subject to constant change, which means that what was considered to be a 'normal' symptom of older age 100 years ago is now treated medically as a disease. The aim of the study is to identify the underlying perceptions of ageing and their influence on medical decisions.MethodsBy means of semi-structured focus group discussions and supplementary individual interviews with older people and medical and nursing professionals, the subproject investigates the perception of ageing processes and the resulting care preferences and priorities of these three groups. The evaluation of the interview material is carried out in two stages: First, the recorded group discussions are pre-structured using knowledge mapping. Based on the mapping results, the interview passages are selected, transcribed, and analysed in detail based on qualitative content analysis.DiscussionBecause the nature of the research question is exploratory, qualitative methods provide a suitable approach. The mapping technique provides early initial results that are used by the other subprojects. Within the research group, the results of the interviews provide an empirical basis for ethical discourses on the influence of medicine on ideas of a good life, and in particular, on successful ageing.Trial registrationGerman Clinical Trials Register: DRKS00027076, 05/11/2021.