This paper mobilises interactionist sociology to explore the biographies and moral careers of two former zhiqing who emerged, circa 2007, as well-known mother figures in a dynamic tongzhi blogosphere. Their encounter with young inaugurated parental advocacy for their sexually nonconforming children China. By anchoring activism contemporary Chinese history reconstructing parallel processes activ...

Abstract There are three main schools for the study of ethos: pragmatic-discursive; symbolic interactionist, and rhetorical one. This paper aims to give an encompassing fuller perspective on ethos that can be useful contemporary uses persuasive communication, including media communication such as advertising or marketing communication. Primarily, it outlines conceptual employments has suffered ...

A person’s social position shapes whether and how they can influence organizational change. While prior research establishes people whose combines outsider-ness insider-ness as important change agents, we know little about We analyse a peer coaching initiative in Canadian hospitals to explain outsider-insiders – this case, outsiders with professional proximity advance Peer coaches were able by ...

Based on 29 in-depth interviews during the run-up to 2016 U.S. presidential election, we examine how Trump supporters engaged in a form of identity work that call signifying aggrieved white selves. Taking an interactionist approach, demonstrate they used racial discourse and emotional communication engage three distinct forms work: (1) othering racialized freeloaders, (2) criminalizing others, ...