Search results for "sosiaalinen identiteetti"
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Becoming a Gamer: Performative Construction of Gendered Gamer Identities
2021
This article examines how women construct their gameplay identities in relation to the hegemonic “gamer” discourse. The article is based on semi-structured in-depth interviews with women who occupy central roles in the Finnish gaming industry. We deploy Judith Butler’s theorization of performative identity construction to examine how the women negotiate their identity in relation to the hegemonic gamer discourse, focusing on how they both embrace and resist the hegemonic, masculine constructions of gameplay. The study shows the dynamics surrounding the gamer identity. While women submit to the hegemonic gamer discourse, reproducing the masculine gamer notions to gain recognition as a viabl…
Beliefs and Experiences of Individuals Following a Zero-Carb Diet
2021
The adoption of carbohydrate-restrictive diets to improve health is increasing in popularity, but there is a dearth of research on individuals who choose to severely restrict or entirely exclude carbohydrates. The present study investigated the beliefs and experiences of individuals following a diet that severely limits, or entirely excludes, dietary carbohydrates, colloquially known as a ‘zero-carb’ diet, for at least 6 months. Zero-carb dieters (n = 170) recruited via a social networking site completed an online qualitative survey prompting them to discuss their motives, rationale, and experiences of following a low-carb diet. Transcripts of participants’ responses were …
Persistent offenders and adolescence-limited offenders: Differences in life-courses.
2020
Background and Aims As our previous study indicated, almost half of juvenile delinquents continued offending in adulthood, while the rest ceased to do so. We compared these groups with each other and with non‐offenders in the life‐course use of alcohol, identity development and life situation. Methods Based on the Jyväskylä Longitudinal Study of Personality and Social Development, four groups were formed at age 42 for men and women: persistent, adolescence‐limited and adult‐onset offenders and non‐offenders. Longitudinal data (N = 369; 53% males) have been collected at ages 8, 14, 20, 27, 36, 42 and 50. Results Persistent offending, but not adolescence‐limited offending, was associated with…
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…
The Structure of Group Identification
2017
The concept of group identification has been widely discussed in the fields of social psychology and social ontology. The debate has been somewhat unbalanced, however. The structure, nature, and experiential status of groups have been assessed widely and from several perspectives. Instead, the concept of identification as received considerably less attention. This is why the ongoing debate threatens to be misled by various conceptual ambiguities. These ambiguities concern first and foremost the target, structure, and temporal nature of identification. The present article offers a philosophical analysis of the concept and clarifies the conceptual ambiguities haunting the debate. peerReviewed
Amelien silmä : kuuluminen ja taiteen mikropolitiikka
2021
Ei-representationaalisia tutkimusmenetelmiä pohtiessaan Derek McCormack (2015, 90) toteaa, että ei-representationaaliseen teoriaan kuuluu alttiiksi asettuminen maailmalle ja siihen sisältyville prosesseille. Tutkimusta tehtäessä on tiedostettava, ettei etukäteen voi tietää, mitä tutkimuksen toteuttamisen olosuhteissa, juuri tietyssä paikassa tiettynä hetkenä, tulee lopulta tapahtumaan. Kokeilu ja prosessuaalisuuden hyväksyminen toisaalta mahdollistavat uuden syntymisen. Artikkelissa tarkastellaan kuulumisen taideperustaista tutkimusta uusmaterialistisessa kehyksessä. Hahmotan taideperustaisen tutkimushankkeen kirjoitustyöpajan toiminnasta kuulumisen sommitelmia ja pohdin tarkemmin kuulumise…
"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…
Communication accommodation between healthcare providers at a private hospital in England : how does identity talk?
2015
A healthcare environment consists of a number of people who perform different roles, and at differing levels of seniority on the workplace hierarchy. How these people communicate with each other is based on many individual factors, including language, culture, ethnicity, and in what way they perceive their own and others’ seniority. These factors can complicate communication, and lead to communication that is ineffective and/or failed. This thesis used the Communication Accommodation Theory to explain how verbal communication between healthcare providers is achieved, and Social Identity Theory to explain why communication is achieved in a particular way. Through analysis of one-on-one inter…
Recognition, Identity, and Difference
2021
This entry discusses three forms of politics of recognition: politics of universalism, affirmative identity politics, and deconstructive politics of difference. It examines the constitutive, causally formative, and normative role that recognition has for the relevant senses of universal standing, particular identity, and difference in these approaches. peerReviewed
Identity and Cultural Transition : Lessons to Learn from a Negative Case Analysis
2020
In this paper, we present a single case study of identity crisis that unfolded in the cultural transition context. Our participant was ‘Jenni’ – a 26 years old female basketball player with the double (Scandinavian and African American) ethnic identity. In a series of life story interviews, she shared her story of migrating to the USA at the age of 16 for sport and study. Jenni’s transition narrative was extracted and analyzed using several complementary theoretical frameworks, including the intersectionality perspective on identity. The analysis of the transition narrative revealed that in spite of the pre-transition high expectations about the transition success, Jenni experienced a crisi…