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Kare Lines - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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How to create things with words Symbolic Power and MIS in the health care sector
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2003Co-Authors: Kare LinesAbstract:This paper is concerned with institutional change and the role of IT in public reforms. Specifically, we analyze a historical case concerning the development of a MIS in a local health-care organization in Norway. We use the concept Symbolic Power constructed by Bourdieu to investigate the problem of legitimization during the process of developing the MIS. We illustrate how the use of Symbolic Power within different logics and conflict of interest has influenced the MIS development. Despite this, we also observe a process which to a great extent has been harmonious. We argue that it is because these logics, interests and values have gained the status of Symbolic capital; i.e., are recognized as legitimate competencies and knowledge, that the political dimensions are unrecognized. Our conclusion is that MIS development faces a serious challenge in making it legitimate to define issues of IT as political.
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EGOV - How to create things with words Symbolic Power and MIS in the health care sector
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2003Co-Authors: Kare LinesAbstract:This paper is concerned with institutional change and the role of IT in public reforms. Specifically, we analyze a historical case concerning the development of a MIS in a local health-care organization in Norway. We use the concept “Symbolic Power” constructed by Bourdieu to investigate the problem of legitimization during the process of developing the MIS. We illustrate how the use of Symbolic Power within different logics and conflict of interest has influenced the MIS development. Despite this, we also observe a process which to a great extent has been harmonious. We argue that it is because these logics, interests and values have gained the status of Symbolic capital; i.e., are recognized as legitimate competencies and knowledge, that the political dimensions are unrecognized. Our conclusion is that MIS development faces a serious challenge in making it legitimate to define issues of IT as political.
Michiel Van Ingen - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Symbolic Power in the World Trade Organization
Journal of Contemporary European Studies, 2014Co-Authors: Michiel Van IngenAbstract:Matthew Eagleton-Pierce's Symbolic Power in the World Trade Organization makes the important claim that Power should be studied in broad rather than narrow terms. Indeed, concretely, it argues in f...
Rebecca Adler-nissen - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Symbolic Power in European diplomacy: the struggle between national foreign services and the EU's External Action Service
Review of International Studies, 2013Co-Authors: Rebecca Adler-nissenAbstract:AbstractNational diplomacy is challenged by the rise of non-state actors from transnational companies to non-governmental organisations. In trying to explain these challenges, scholars tend to either focus on a specific new actor or argue that states will remain the dominant diplomatic players. This article develops an alternative Bourdieu-inspired framework addressing Symbolic Power. It conceptualises diplomacy in terms of a social field with agents (field incumbents and newcomers alike) who co-construct and reproduce the field by struggling for dominant positions. The framework is applied to the EU's new diplomatic service (the European External Action Service, EEAS), which is one of the most important foreign policy inventions in Europe to date. I show that the EEAS does not challenge national diplomacy in a material sense – but at a Symbolic level. The EEAS questions the state's meta-capital, that is, its monopoly of Symbolic Power and this explains the counter-strategies adopted by national foreign services. The struggles to define the ‘genuine’ diplomat reveal a rupture in the European diplomatic field, pointing towards a transformation of European statehood and the emergence of a hybrid form of diplomacy. A focus on Symbolic Power opens up new avenues for the study of transformations of authority in world politics.
Solen Sanli - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Public Sphere and Symbolic Power: ‘Woman’s Voice’ as a Case of Cultural Citizenship
Cultural Sociology, 2011Co-Authors: Solen SanliAbstract:This study discusses Habermas’s notions of ‘public sphere‘ and ‘Power’, and suggests a novel approach by complementing Habermas’s limited take on the ‘political’ with Bourdieu’s notion of ‘Symbolic Power’. To this end, ‘cultural citizenship’ is used as a helpful concept. The study draws on the analysis of a Turkish talk show format ‘woman’s voice’ (WV) and its audience. It is proposed that viewing WV should be considered a political activity. An analysis of women’s first-hand narrations of the domestic and Symbolic violence in their lives reveals that many women continue to live under the patriarchal authority of the ‘honour code’ and the Turkish ruling elite have until recently neglected the needs of these women. WV provides a sphere where the needs and problems of these women are discussed for the first time in Turkish broadcasting history. It is shown with examples from field research that WV may potentially create subversive subject-positions among the disadvantaged groups of women, such as rural-urba...
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public sphere and Symbolic Power woman s voice as a case of cultural citizenship
Cultural Sociology, 2011Co-Authors: Solen SanliAbstract:This study discusses Habermas’s notions of ‘public sphere‘ and ‘Power’, and suggests a novel approach by complementing Habermas’s limited take on the ‘political’ with Bourdieu’s notion of ‘Symbolic Power’. To this end, ‘cultural citizenship’ is used as a helpful concept. The study draws on the analysis of a Turkish talk show format ‘woman’s voice’ (WV) and its audience. It is proposed that viewing WV should be considered a political activity. An analysis of women’s first-hand narrations of the domestic and Symbolic violence in their lives reveals that many women continue to live under the patriarchal authority of the ‘honour code’ and the Turkish ruling elite have until recently neglected the needs of these women. WV provides a sphere where the needs and problems of these women are discussed for the first time in Turkish broadcasting history. It is shown with examples from field research that WV may potentially create subversive subject-positions among the disadvantaged groups of women, such as rural-urba...
Deborah K. Palmer - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Code-Switching and Symbolic Power in a Second-Grade Two-Way Classroom: A Teacher's Motivation System Gone Awry
Bilingual Research Journal, 2009Co-Authors: Deborah K. PalmerAbstract:Code-switching is a natural part of being bilingual. Yet two-way immersion programs are known to insist upon separation of languages, discouraging both teachers and students from drawing on both linguistic codes at once. Drawing on Bourdieu's concept of Symbolic Power, I examine one second-grade classroom in which the teacher instituted a motivation system to discourage code-switching. The children continue to code-switch as they find ways to draw upon all their linguistic resources. However, the system offers them a tool for manipulating Symbolic Power in the classroom. The conclusion agrees with recent research in encouraging teachers to allow conversational code-switches while expecting students to produce monolingual spoken and written texts where appropriate.
