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Money never loves you back: Subjective meaningmaking of life, love, and work
No full textThis research originates from observations in the therapeutic practice with subjects on career tracks and their suffering from the consequences when work and private life are put against each other under neoliberal conditions of life. 15 narrative stories are analyzed using the method of crystallization to reconstruct subjective reasoning and meaningmaking behind seemingly absurd actions, like purposefully missing the birth of the own children in favor of everyday work incidents. The findings reveal striking interrelations of the subjects' meaning of and relationship with work, including significant effects on relationship formations in friendship, romance, family, and marriage, where neoliberal shaping of the career trajectories become threats to community and humanism; Firstly, such threats are constituted on a pragmatic level, where work becomes the technical core of life through focus, time, dedication, and overall personal investment. Secondly, on an emotional and affective level, the emphasis on work and the career becomes a threat to the private and the social self, where loyalty, identification, and (romantic) love are projected into the relationship with work and the workplace. The findings are discussed against a critical theoretical background of Erich Fromm and aim to move beyond the stereotypical division of society in supposed perpetrator-victim causalities, usually blaming managers for their actions, to instead elaborate understandings of (all) subjects’ reasonable mode of being in restrictive contexts. Finally, we aim to formulate questions about possible measures and practices toward a humanist order of life, love, work, and society
“Loving your Work (Unfortunately, the Privilege of a Few)”: Primo Levi and What Makes Life and Work Meaningful
Full text linkIdeas of work as a source of happiness and self-flourishing are ever-expanding in the literature of psychology, particularly positive psychology. These ideas have led to numerous academic texts exploring the notion of meaningful work, which sparks discussions about employees' responsibility in achieving harmonious employment. While this view emphasizes the existence of work as fulfilling and personally satisfying, it also carries the danger of overlooking the societal, organizational, and relational dynamics that operate within work. These can potentially undermine subjective well-being or bring oppressive and negative conditions to the subject. In this paper, we draw on the ever-expanding psychological literature on meaningful work, while also highlighting the need for psychology to reexamine the understanding of the circumstances, experiences, and social structures of contemporary work. We do so by engaging with the reading of a literary text, Primo Levi's The Wrench (1978). In the novel, the characters engage in conversations about work and are reminded of the quest for meaningful work, which makes life bearable. According to the characters' perspective, work does not appear as a function for meaning per se (in a neoliberal sense), but rather, this is a privilege of a few who can love their work (in the sense, rhythmic, embodied, and socially structuring function stabilizing life). Using thematic reading of the text, we rediscuss the concept of work as a source of meaning and the conditions under which work can be experienced as meaningful. Our goal is to restore the balance in the understanding of meaningful work, considering its societal, organizational, and relational dynamics
Empowerment
No full textThis is a draft chapter. The final version is available in Elgar Encyclopedia of Organizational Psychology edited by P. Matthijs Bal, published in 2024, Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781803921761.0004
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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