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Publication date: 23 April 2013

Navigating the Terrain of Medical Diagnosis and Treatment: Patient Decision Making and Uncertainty

Ronald J. Berger, Carla Corroto, Jennifer Flad and Richard Quinney

Medical uncertainty is recognized as a critical issue in the sociology of diagnosis and medical sociology more generally, but a neglected focus of this concern is the…

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Medical uncertainty is recognized as a critical issue in the sociology of diagnosis and medical sociology more generally, but a neglected focus of this concern is the question of patient decision making. Using a mixed methods approach that draws upon autoethnographic accounts and third-party interviews, we aim to illuminate the dilemmas of patient decision making in the face of uncertainty. How do patients and supportive caregivers go about navigating this state of affairs? What types of patient–doctor/healthcare professional relationships hinder or enhance effective patient decision making? These are the themes we explore in this study by following patients through the sequence of experiencing symptoms, seeking a diagnosis, evaluating treatment protocols, and receiving treatments. In general, three genres of culturally available narratives are revealed in the data: strategic, technoluxe, and unbearable health narratives.

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40th Anniversary of Studies in Symbolic Interaction
Type: Book
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/S0163-2396(2013)0000040019
ISBN: 978-1-78190-783-2

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  • Medical decision making
  • diagnosis
  • treatment
  • uncertainty

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Publication date: 23 April 2013

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40th Anniversary of Studies in Symbolic Interaction
Type: Book
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/S0163-2396(2013)0000040029
ISBN: 978-1-78190-783-2

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Publication date: 23 April 2013

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David L. Altheide, Ph.D., is Emeritus Regents’ Professor of the Faculty of Justice and Social Inquiry in the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University…

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David L. Altheide, Ph.D., is Emeritus Regents’ Professor of the Faculty of Justice and Social Inquiry in the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University, where he taught for 36 years. His work has focused on the role of mass media and information technology in social control. His most recent books are Qualitative media analysis (2nd ed., Sage, 2012) and Terror post 9/11 and the media (Lang, 2009). Altheide received the Cooley Award three times, given to the outstanding book in symbolic interaction, from the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction: In 2007 for Terrorism and the politics of fear (2006); in 2004 for Creating fear: News and the construction of crisis (2002); and in 1986 for Media power (1985). Altheide received the 2005 George Herbert Mead Award for lifetime contributions from the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction, and the society’s Mentor Achievement Award in 2007.

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40th Anniversary of Studies in Symbolic Interaction
Type: Book
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/S0163-2396(2013)0000040003
ISBN: 978-1-78190-783-2

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Article
Publication date: 1 April 2003

MNEs, globalisation and digital economy: legal and economic aspects

Georgios I. Zekos

Aim of the present monograph is the economic analysis of the role of MNEs regarding globalisation and digital economy and in parallel there is a reference and examination…

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Aim of the present monograph is the economic analysis of the role of MNEs regarding globalisation and digital economy and in parallel there is a reference and examination of some legal aspects concerning MNEs, cyberspace and e‐commerce as the means of expression of the digital economy. The whole effort of the author is focused on the examination of various aspects of MNEs and their impact upon globalisation and vice versa and how and if we are moving towards a global digital economy.

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Managerial Law, vol. 45 no. 1/2
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/03090550310770875
ISSN: 0309-0558

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  • Globalization
  • Digital marketing
  • Electronic commerce

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Publication date: 12 August 2017

The Situated Durability of Values

Steven Hitlin and Nicole Civettini

This study engages an understudied presupposition that values are relatively impervious to situational pressures. We do this within a key sociological context…

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Purpose

This study engages an understudied presupposition that values are relatively impervious to situational pressures. We do this within a key sociological context, incorporating social status as a meso-level structure, by measuring values before and after a competition situation with an experimentally controlled outcome to determine the situational robustness of values.

Methodology/approach

We incorporate measures of values into a standard competition experiment, looking at how winning or losing and the status of the perceived competition influence peoples’ values.

Findings

Drawing on the well-established expectation states literature, we demonstrate that perceptions of gaining or losing a competition influence core values. Overall, positive, related situational feedback seemed to heighten all of the values-measures, while receiving (manipulated) negative, specific feedback dampened the rating of all values.

Research limitations

This is an initial exploration of the received wisdom; future work should involve different manipulations, wider arrays of values-measurement, and more diverse samples.

Practical implications

We hope that our interpretations of these results suggest how perceived status influences core internal experiences. The processes described have implications for the experiences of groups that win or lose political competitions, and other social interactions whereby people feel more or less affirmed in terms of their core beliefs.

Social implications

This suggests that individuals and groups who perceive themselves as winning competitions, elections, or challenges will feel affirmed in their core beliefs, and be more motivated to pursue those valued ends. People who perceive themselves as being situationally unsuccessful will feel a general dampening of these core beliefs.

Originality/value

This chapter is the first to link the internal study of values with the general expectation states tradition. It is exploratory, and results suggest this is a fertile area for future inquiry.

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Advances in Group Processes
Type: Book
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/S0882-614520170000034008
ISBN: 978-1-78743-192-8

Keywords

  • Status
  • status beliefs
  • values
  • self

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Book part
Publication date: 25 November 2016

Job Insecurity, Job Loss, and Reemployment: Implications for an Aging Workforce

Lixin Jiang and Tahira M. Probst

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The Aging Workforce Handbook
Type: Book
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-78635-448-820161016
ISBN: 978-1-78635-448-8

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Publication date: 7 June 2010

How did you figure that out? Employee learning during socialization

Jaron Harvey, Anthony Wheeler, Jonathon R.B. Halbesleben and M. Ronald Buckley

In this paper, we suggest a contemporary view of learning during the process of organizational socialization. The relationship between learning and socialization is…

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In this paper, we suggest a contemporary view of learning during the process of organizational socialization. The relationship between learning and socialization is implicit in much of the existing socialization literature. In an attempt to make this research more explicit, we suggest a theoretical approach to the actual learning processes that underlie workers’ socialization experiences. In order to accomplish this, we review previous work on socialization, information seeking and feedback seeking during socialization, and learning. In doing so we describe the learning process that underlies socialization, highlighting the beginning of the process, the role of information during the process, and integrating three different types of learning (planned, deutero, and meta) into the process of organizational socialization. In addition, we also discuss the implications of these three types of learning during the process of socialization and directions in future research on the socialization process.

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Research in Personnel and Human Resources Management
Type: Book
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/S0742-7301(2010)0000029007
ISBN: 978-0-85724-126-9

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Article
Publication date: 1 September 2004

Efficiency versus risk in large domestic US banks

Linbo Fan and Sherrill Shaffer

This paper studies the profit efficiency of a sample of large U.S. commercial banks and explores how this performance varies with selected measures of bank risk reflecting…

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This paper studies the profit efficiency of a sample of large U.S. commercial banks and explores how this performance varies with selected measures of bank risk reflecting aspects of credit risk, liquidity risk, and insolvency risk. We use a standard profit function and the stochastic frontier approach, and compare two standard functional forms – Cobb‐Douglas and translog – to assess the tradeoff between precision and parsimony. We find that profit efficiency is sensitive to credit risk and insolvency risk but not to liquidity risk or to the mix of loan products.

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Managerial Finance, vol. 30 no. 9
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/03074350410769245
ISSN: 0307-4358

Keywords

  • Profit efficiency
  • Banking
  • Risk
  • Stochastic frontier

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Publication date: 28 October 2019

What Is Still Wrong with the Austrian School of Economics?

Peter J. Boettke

There are more scholars teaching and actively engaged in research associated with the Austrian School of Economics now than at any other time in its history. However…

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There are more scholars teaching and actively engaged in research associated with the Austrian School of Economics now than at any other time in its history. However, there is still something seriously wrong within the Austrian School and changes must be made both individually and collectively. In this piece, the author first discusses scientific progress with an emphasis on the individual behavior that is required to contribute to science, and the horizontal relationships that are required for the spread of ideas within a scientific community. Next, the author discusses the example of the Austrian school from 1950 to today in terms of these horizontal relationships within the profession and, in particular, in comparison with other mainline contributors during the same time period. The author then will address the multiplicity of horizontal relationships that might be explored as alternative discourse communities in the contemporary intellectual landscape. Lastly, the author concludes that the Austrian School of Economics must cultivate an explicit awareness of plausible, intrinsically interesting, and creative research agendas, and must therefore regard their work as a productive input into the ongoing research production of others within the broader community of economists and political economists.

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Assessing Austrian Economics
Type: Book
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/S1529-213420190000024002
ISBN: 978-1-78973-935-0

Keywords

  • Austrian economics
  • mainline economics
  • history of economic thought
  • horizontal relationships
  • the Austrian School
  • Hayek
  • Buchanan

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Publication date: 1 February 1974

Recent reference books

Frances Neel Cheney

Communications regarding this column should be addressed to Mrs. Cheney, Peabody Library School, Nashville, Term. 37203. Mrs. Cheney does not sell the books listed here…

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Communications regarding this column should be addressed to Mrs. Cheney, Peabody Library School, Nashville, Term. 37203. Mrs. Cheney does not sell the books listed here. They are available through normal trade sources. Mrs. Cheney, being a member of the editorial board of Pierian Press, will not review Pierian Press reference books in this column. Descriptions of Pierian Press reference books will be included elsewhere in this publication.

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Reference Services Review, vol. 2 no. 2
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/eb048511
ISSN: 0090-7324

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