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The purpose of the descriptive research presented in this article was to investigate the process of these emergence, transmission, and acceptance in a system of interacting groups. Twenty-five sessions of a group relations conference were audiotaped and transcribed, and a content analysis was performed on the final sessions to determine the themes that had gained acceptance during the conference. The identified themes were competition, acceptance-ejection, anger, differences-labels, and seduction. These themes were traced through all 25 sessions to determine when they emerged and how they were transmitted from group to group. Themes did not emerge randomly, nor were they initiated or transmitted by influential members or leaders. There are similar patterns of emergence and transmission within similar group types, across group types, and within the system as a whole. Although some variation does exist, there are discernible patters, and these patterns resemble those describe in the literature on group development.

Abstract: This dissertation focuses on the journeys that have been the backbone of trans-local dispersions of Romani families, communities and groups. Its thesis questions the historical invisibility of practices that have created connections, networks and ties across and beyond the Atlantic Ocean. It also asks how these practices are experienced, while being influenced by discourses about the movements of Romani groups, sometimes referred to as "Gypsies". Using a non-national and non-continental perspective, the text assumes the challenge of making the Atlantic a method, and the Romani Atlantic the ethnographic field. Given the gaps and silences in the exploration of these mobilities, such phenomena are explored through concrete biographical narratives that spoke to the three components of Romani mobilities that were identified: practices, experiences and discourses. It argues for a look beyond the regimes of mobility, thoroughly described within through an experiential standpoint. It rather presents the biographical narratives contained herein, and the incarnated theory resulting from them, as a contribution to anthropologies of hope, un-tameness and possibility. The theoretical framework becomes then a mechanism to think beyond a binary conception of agency versus power structures, arguing instead for a nuanced view of human im/mobilities. Romani im/mobilities are conceived, in turn, as a sort of subversive dance; movements and stillnesses which have their own patterns and persistence. Practices that are constantly on the verge of being captured, only to slip away and move on, finding opportunities and possibilities elsewhere

By providing fresh insights into the development of Egyptian corporate networks and business groups between the early 1920s and late 1940s, this article extends the geographical ambit of an expanding field of study. Data from contemporaneous sources were analyzed through social network analysis techniques, in the search for an improved understanding of both the nature of and motivations behind networking in Egypt. In conducting this exercise, this article assesses the success with which the state acted to stimulate local entrepreneurship in its search for greater economic independence. By linking the Egyptian case to a wider literature on corporate networks, the article reveals similarities with other cases of how developing economies responded to the challenges of that era.

http://www.csi.mines-paristech.fr/Items/WorkingPapers/Download/DLWP.php?wp=WP_CSI_024.pdf ; Examines how groups representing children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in France and Ireland engage within this contested medical domain, and challenges the frequently made association between the process of medicalisation and de-politicisation.

http://www.csi.mines-paristech.fr/Items/WorkingPapers/Download/DLWP.php?wp=WP_CSI_024.pdf ; Examines how groups representing children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in France and Ireland engage within this contested medical domain, and challenges the frequently made association between the process of medicalisation and de-politicisation.

AbstractFollowing a critical sociolinguistics approach to language maintenance in the diaspora, this paper investigates interplaying linguistic identities and ideologies towards home and host languages among four case-study Pakistanis living in Catalonia, a Catalan/Spanish-speaking European society. By drawing on fieldnotes, interviews, naturally-occurring conversations and visual materials gathered in a Barcelona call shop, it shows how informants invest in Spanish as the 'integration' language, despite being categorised as 'deficient' users of it. They present themselves as 'native' speakers of Urdu, which indexes modern 'Muslimness' and 'Pakistaniness', while Punjabi users, associated with the 'yokels', are silenced. English is ambivalently taken-up as an intra-group sign of educational status and political power and as an anti-Muslim 'coloniser' language. Overall, these stratifying sociolinguistic behaviours reveal how Pakistanis' home/host multilingual resources get re-ideologised through linguistic hierarchisations which foster the maintenance of majority languages only, dismissing minority language speakers, in unchartered transnational contexts where these are already 'delanguaged'.

The study of group communication has never been more critical, as recent national and international events point to the fragility of group life. An emerging perspective, the bona fide group perspective, offers hope for improving group communication, for it recognizes that any group--a family, community group, expedition team, social support group, organizational work group, interorganizational collaboration, or international team--must be studied and understood within the multiple contexts in which it is embedded and that significantly affects who is considered to be part of a group, what occu

Scream for Me Africa! examines the hard rock and metal scenes in five African countries: Botswana, Togo, South Africa, Kenya and Ghana. Banchs spent significant time in each country interviewing musicians, producers and fans to create vivid pictures of each of these rarely discussed scenes. This book considers how the subculture of heavy metal is viewed in post-colonial Africa, and how musicians in the continent have stepped forward to make this genre their own. It looks at the continent's blossoming scenes through various themes including hybridity, othering and political tensions.--back cover

Organizational members are often faced with tremendous demands on their individual identities that affect their performance at work and their well-being as individuals.Previous research has been limited, however, by typically studying identity at either the individual or the organizational level. We therefore introduce a boundary approach that simultaneously examines identities across levels in order to better understand these identity demands. Specifically, we examine boundary dynamics that are negotiated at the interface of individual and organizational identities. We introduce the identity boundary dynamics of identity intrusion, distance and balance as different manifestations of identity boundary (in)congruence, both within and between individuals and organizations. Finally, we outline propositions that suggest boundary dynamics as a source of identity change.

Hong Kong witnessed unprecedented protests from June 2019 to early 2020. Drawing on frame analysis, this study explores the discourse and ideologies related to minoritized groups using multiple media sources. The findings revealed that there were multiple constructions of minoritized groups and their engagement in the protests: Niche/pro-democracy and liberal media were inclined to make "heroes" of their engagement while pro-China media seemed to revert to an older style of negative reporting portraying them as "villains." The exploitation of minoritized groups for political purposes raises important issues about media ethics, "fake news," and the role of ideology in news reporting.

Investigated is the response of political support for US presidents among occupational & partisan groups to economic & noneconomic events within the framework of a dynamic model of political choice. Estimates of the model reveal the relative sensitivity of different groups' political support to unemployment, inflation, & the real income growth rate, as well as to the Vietnam casualties, the Watergate scandal, & international crisis events. The intergroup differences in political responses to the performance variables are sizeable & generally appear to reflect diverging objective group interests rather than partisan-based perceptions. 4 Tables, 24 References. HA.

"My thesis deals with the changing identity of the Russian intelligentsia in the post-Soviet era, focusing on the contemporary Russian detective genre as an embodiment of the decline of established intelligentsia roles. With the rise of commercial culture in post-Soviet Russia, traditional boundaries encompassing the identity of the intelligentsia have been altered. Following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, former members of the intelligentsia realized that their unique voice was no longer as vital a contribution to Russian society as it had once been. Therefore, the intelligentsia now searches for relevance, and many have found a position within the new capitalist culture that has emerged. Many with a talent for writing have moved from political into commercial genres of literature in order to turn a profit in the market economy. Now, as the sacred image of Russian literature begins to fade, the detective novel serves as a commercially successful transition towa! rds the tastes of the reading public. I argue that the emergence of the market economy and capitalism in Russia has led to a transformation of the relationships formerly held between the intelligentsia, the state, and the People. In particular, I analyze "A Confluence of Circumstances" by Aleksandra Marinina and "The Winter Queen" by Boris Akunin as texts that address the identity of the intelligentsia in contemporary Russia"--Author abstract.