In order to outline a model of identity crisis, it is necessary to distinguish two types. In an identity deficit ("motivation crisis"), the individual experiences a lack of guiding commitments but struggles to establish personal goals and values. In an identity conflict ("legitimation crisis"), the person has several commitments which prescribe conflicting behavioral imperatives in some situati...

although gardner and his associates’ work was most influential in the field of l2 motivation, from the early 1990s onwards, their work has been criticized for several reasons. some researchers claimed that integrative and instrumental orientations were no longer able to convey the complexity of the l2 motivation construct. to examine this complexity, the present study attempted to investigate t...

Purpose The purpose of this study is to propose a model knowledge legitimation in organizational learning focusing on the relationship between power politics and legitimacy. Design/methodology/approach This adopts approach conceptual discussion. Findings developed an that explains how actors exercise their legitimated through politics. author identified various factors shape politics; these tri...

ABSTRACT This article analyses how the state in Senegal has managed hajj since liberalisation era early 2000s. Although essence of is religious, it also deeply political and requires that manages complex relations with pilgrims, religious leaders, private travel agencies, politicians Saudi authorities. argues three inter-related imperatives structure conduct Senegalese state: a security imperat...

Why is the work of educational researcher John Hattie’s so popular today? This question we will try to answer in this paper. Based on a very large empirical database, Hattie calculates effects numerous interventions and factors influencing student achievements. Despite documented methodological flaws his work, keep attracting attention policy makers, teachers researchers all over world. We prop...

Entrepreneurs commonly engage in discursive activities to pursue the legitimacy of their new organizations. Previous studies on this pursuit have essentially been focused verbal language and there is limited understanding how other communication modes, such as visual, offer specific potentials for influencing legitimation audiences. With contemporary pervasiveness digital documents online envir...

“There is no compelling ‘business case’ for the present level of stop and search ... it has a deeply damaging effect on society; it impacts negatively on the law abiding population and is cause of a loss of public support for and de-legitimation of the police. It increases the frequency of adversarial encounters – some of which have the potential to trigger public disorder – and contributes to ...

This study analyses the position of Roma people in the former Yugoslavia using state and civil society discourse on human rights implementation. It reveals that states are failing to give sufficient prioritisation to tackling longstanding discrimination and oppression. Instead of positive the effects predicted by complementarity theory, the findings reveal ‘frame dis-alignment’ between politica...