Lila Savage: Two things really drew me to write this novel: finding personal meaning in the caregiving work I engaged in for so many years and also exploring the nature of intimacy in such settings. I studied sociology and social justice as an undergraduate and remain very interested in the ...
is to highlight the existing literatures within sociology that we feel are most valuable in exploring leadership and emotion, specifically, status and identity processes, while also engaging with the more developed literatures in organizations, focusing on the area of emotional regulation and labor.doi...
Being a social worker is tough, backbreaking work, often demanding long hours, prime organizational skills and significant emotional labor. It’s not for everyone. Social workers face high stress in their jobs, and will repeatedly confront the ways bureaucracies fail people. They’ll also see thei...
Towards a Definition of Qualitative Research Seen in an historical light, what is today called qualitative, or sometimes ethnographic, interpretative research – or a number of other terms – has more or less always existed. At the time the founders of sociology – Simmel, Weber, Durkheim and,...
Traditionally, thematic analysis has helped psychology, sociology, and other social science researchers and analysts understand people’s lived experiences, thoughts, and perceptions. The process has heavily relied on the time and effort of those expert researchers and analysts. But, as organizations gat...
(i.e., the social context in which both an entrepreneur is inculcated and recognizes opportunities), which has thus far been assumed-away and overlooked in extant research (Pidduck et al.,2022a). The purpose of this paper is to consider some of the criticisms of entrepreneurial alertness ...
These characteristics are “(1) thinking that the beloved is unique; (2) paying attention to the positive qualities of the beloved”; (3) feelings of “exhilaration,”“increased energy,”“heart pounding,” and intense emotional arousal induced by being in contact with or thinking of the ...
In this month’s Lead the Change (LtC) interviews James C. Bridgeforth on the 2025 AERA theme: “Research, Remedy, and Repair: Toward Just Education Renewal.” Dr. Bridgeforth is an assistant professor of educational leadership in the School of Education at the University of Delaware. His ...
“The field of artificial intelligence is set to conquer most of the human disciplines; from art and literature to commerce and sociology; from computational biology and decision and analysis to games and puzzles.” ~Anand Krish “Artificial intelligence is growing up fast, as are robots whose fa...
Work-integrated learning (WIL) is vital in preparing pre-service teachers to become competent, dynamic, and effective in the classroom. To realize this, initial teacher education (ITE) programmes and government policies such as the Minimum Requirements for Qualification in Teacher Education (MRTEQ) ...