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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Saving Which Children How? The Importance of Cultural Capital in Youth-Focused International Aid and Development
No full textThis review discusses the book Saving the Children: Humanitarianism, Internationalism, and Empire by Emily Baughan. In the book, Baughan documents and discusses the first 100 years of the Save the Children Fund, which was established in the United Kingdom in 1919. In this article, I review the book in the context of the Community Capitals Framework, paying particular attention to the importance of cultural capital. I argue that one of the major shortcomings of Save the Children was the willful ignorance of and, at times, the purposeful destruction and elimination of the cultural capital of the communities, families, and children they were serving. I discuss the consequences of ignoring and damaging cultural capital and provide examples of how, rather than being only a historical problem of large and complex organizations such as Save the Children, some current scholars and practitioners continue to neglect and harm cultural capital in their own community development work
Harmful, Helpful, or Both? A Commentary on Postmodernism and Critical Theories in Community Development Education
No full textIn this relatively informal commentary, I discuss both the potentially helpful and harmful roles that postmodernism and critical theories (e.g., critical race theory, critical sexuality theory) have in academia in general and particularly in community development scholarship and pedagogy. After introducing postmodernism and critical theories as well as some of the common criticisms of these frameworks, I discuss the importance of cultural capital in community development and the ways that postmodernism and critical theories can both protect and maintain cultural capital as well as damage and diminish it. I also discuss the importance of ensuring that students in community development courses understand these frameworks and understand that they are but some of the theories and skills students will need to know to be effective and ethical community development scholars and practitioners. The duty of educators is to ensure that students have the abilities and support to do the hard work of critically evaluating and analyzing all viable approaches to community development work
The Importance of Maintaining Cultural Capital in Community Psychology and Development
No full textSlides from a presentation entitled "The Importance of Maintaining Cultural Capital in Community Psychology and Development" by Brien K. Ashdown, presented at the 50th anniversary meeting of the Society for Cross-Cultural Research, February 2022 in San Diego, California, USA
The Importance of Protecting Cultural Capital in Community Development
No full textPresented at the 12th International Academy for Intercultural Research (IAIR) conference in Rapperswil-Jona, Switzerland on July 26, 2022.Community development, which aims to increase the agency and solidarity of community members in order to improve the well-being of communities as a whole as a well as the individual members of those communities. Community development practice occurs in many different forms, such as part of governmental agencies, non-governmental agencies, community-based participatory research, and service-learning programs at universities. The communities that receive support and aid via community development programs can be local to the practitioners or can be communities distantly removed from the practitioners – even communities in a different country. Unfortunately, too often international community development (as well as international aid) has characteristics uncomfortably similar to neo-colonialist practices and cultural imperialism. This is because receiving communities are sometimes expected (or even required) to adopt the cultural worldviews, beliefs, and traditions of the people providing the community development aid in order to continue qualifying for the support. Then, in a damaging cyclical fashion, the developmental support and aid is made necessary because of the manner in which previous support was provided, leading to a cycle of negative outcomes requiring even more support. Fortunately, there are more ethical and impactful ways of engaging in international and cross-cultural community development that avoids many (if not all) of the possible negative outcomes. In my presentation, I will use the Social Capitals Framework to discuss the ways in which communities share different types of capital (e.g., human capital, natural capital, etc.). I will then focus on the concept of cultural capital, which are the ways of living, traditions, values, beliefs, and worldviews that a community shares to make sense of the world. I will discuss how international and cross-cultural community development should be practices in such a way that cultural capital is at a minimum not damaged but ideally actively supported and even celebrated. I will utilize data collected via interviews with community members of a community (N = 8) in Guatemala that has received support from various international community development initiatives over the last several years. Based on a thematic analysis process, I will discuss the way in which the interviewees experience international community development efforts in the context of protecting and supporting cultural capital. I will conclude my presentation with specific suggestions for best practices and better engagement in international and cross-cultural community development
Youth Resilience and Well-Being During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Importance of Supporting Social Identity Development
No full textSlides from a presentation entitled "Youth Resilience and Well-Being During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Importance of Supporting Social Identity Development" by Brien K. Ashdown, presented at the 50th anniversary meeting of the Society for Cross-Cultural Research, February 2022 in San Diego, California, USA
Applying Thematic Analysis to Psychological Cultural Research
No full textPresented for International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology (IACCP) Culture & Psychology Summer School, July 4-6, 2022.In this workshop, students will be asked to bring qualitative data that they have collected for one of their own research projects. We will read and discuss Braun and Clarke’s (2006) classic article, Using Thematic Analysis in Psychology. After this foundational discussion, students will develop a coding scheme for their data and work to code their data. They will then work in pairs to achieve reliability in each partner’s data coding. After this, with time remaining, students will begin to draft a findings/results section for a publishable manuscript based on their data coding. Students who wish to participate in the workshop but who do not have their own data to analyze will be paired with a student who have data; in this way, even students without data will gain important experience in qualitative analysis
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