Search results for "identity work"

Empowered by stigma? Pioneer organic farmers' stigma management strategies

2019

Abstract Pioneers of organic farming often faced social challenges as their innovative ideas on agriculture not only encountered opposition in the conventional farming community, but led to stigmatization of organic farmers as social deviants. In this study, we examine what kind of stigma management strategies pioneer organic farmers engage with in order to cultivate an alternative positive image of themselves. Our research is based on the interviews with 14 pioneer organic farmers. Based on a qualitative analysis of the interviews, we provide a model of those strategies that the creation from a stigmatized to valued identity requires. Our study increases the understanding of the institutio…

Finnish Military Officer Identities and Micro-Political Resistance

2021

Drawing on the concept of micro-political resistance, this article presents an empirical analysis of how officers of the Finnish Defence Forces challenge, resist, and reinforce the collective military identities constructed within the prevailing organizational discourses. There is a need for identity work to meet the norms and ideals of the military, but individuals can also work as change agents. Micro-political resistance derives from feelings of otherness as well as conflict between the dominant organizational identities and individuals’ personal interests. This study presents a thematic discourse analysis based on texts written by 108 officers and 12 interviews on the theme of “the ide…

"Millasen päivityksen tästä sais?" : elämäjulkaisijuuden kulttuurinen omaksuminen

2015

Yhä useammat meistä napsivat kuvia lapsistaan, lomistaan ja lemmikeistään sosiaaliseen mediaan. Facebook tai oma blogi on avoinna pitkin päivää, ja huomaamme ajattelevamme keskellä elämän tohinaa: ”Millasen päivityksen tästä sais?” Ajatus ei ole edes kovin tietoinen, kun jo alamme sommitella elämän tapahtumia verkossa jaettaviksi mediateksteiksi. Elämäjulkaiseminen on yleistynyt Suomessa 1990-luvun puolivälistä lähtien. Se on kulkenut käsi kädessä internetin laajenemisen ja yhtä helppokäyttöisemmäksi käyvän teknologian kanssa. Samalla olemme omaksuneet elämäjulkaisemisen kulttuurisesti. Sari Östmanin tutkimus tarkastelee tätä kehitystä Mikael Hårdin ja Andrew Jamisonin teknologian kulttuuri…

Organisaatiokulttuurin ja johtajuusidentiteetin merkitys matriisiorganisaatiomuutoksessa : case-tutkimus

2012

A Case of Four Prospective Adult Class Teachers’ Mathematical Identity Work

2018

Research on adult students’ the mathematical identity work has not been explored so much. In this study I try to understand four prospective adult class teachers’ identity works on the basis of their learning diaries during a mathematics education course (6 ECTS). These four prospective class teachers’ reported they had negative experiences of mathematics during their school years but later in their lives the views towards mathematics had changed to a positive direction. However, the identity work during the mathematics education course revealed that life experiences had not changed the most fundamental views towards mathematics, mathematics learning and teaching. During the mathematics edu…

Johtajuutta etsimässä : naislähijohtajan identiteettitarinan rakentuminen siivoustoimialalla

2013

Identity construction in the comments section of TomandLorenzo.com

2016

Virtual spaces as sites of social interactions and therefore identity work have become common over the past few decades. Alongside, research focus on such spaces has increased. This MA thesis constitutes a small contribution to the study of interactional identity building through computer mediated communication. The study was conducted on data gathered from a subsection of popular-culture blog tomandlorenzo. The aim was to identify how interactants in this space interactively work their identities. The qualitative discourse analysis focused on three mechanics of identity building, those of indexicality, performativity and stance taking. The investigation also took the influence of the mediu…