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Randal Johnson

Bio: Randal Johnson is an academic researcher. The author has contributed to research in topics: Sociological theory & Field (Bourdieu). The author has an hindex of 1, co-authored 1 publications receiving 2703 citations.

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01 Jan 1993
TL;DR: The field of cultural production is the contribution to an economy of symbolic goods as discussed by the authors, or contribution to a symbolic goods market, the market of the symbolic goods is a market for symbolic goods.
Abstract: Part 1 The field of cultural production: the field of cultural production, or - the economic world reversed the production of belief - contribution to an economy of symbolic goods the market of symbolic goods. Part 2 Flaubert and the French literary field: is the structure of "sentimental education" an instance of social self-analysis? field of power, literary field and habitus principles for a sociology of cultural works Flaubert's point of view. Part 3 The pure gaze - essays on art: outline of a sociological theory of art perception the institutionalization of Anomie the historical genesis of a pure aesthetic.

2,788 citations


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TL;DR: The promise of social entrepreneurship as a domain of inquiry is examined and a number of research areas and research questions for future study are suggested.
Abstract: Work on social entrepreneurship constitutes a field of study that intersects a number of domains, including entrepreneurial studies, social innovation, and nonprofit management. Scholars are beginning to contribute to the development of this new discipline through efforts that attempt to trace the emergence of social entrepreneurship as well as by comparing it to other organizational activities such as conventional entrepreneurship. However, as a nascent field, social entrepreneurship scholars are in the midst of a number of debates involving definitional and conceptual clarity, boundaries of the field, and a struggle to arrive at a set of relevant and meaningful research questions. This paper examines the promise of social entrepreneurship as a domain of inquiry and suggests a number of research areas and research questions for future study.

1,134 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a theory of the influence media exert on society and culture, using mediatization as the key concept, and an institutional approach to the mediatisation process is suggested.
Abstract: Using mediatization as the key concept, this article presents a theory of the influence media exert on society and culture. After reviewing existing discussions of mediatization by Krotz (2007), Schulz (2004), Thompson (1995), and others, an institutional approach to the mediatization process is suggested. Mediatization is to be considered a double-sided process of high modernity in which the media on the one hand emerge as an independent institution with a logic of its own that other social institutions have to accommodate to. On the other hand, media simultaneously become an integrated part of other institutions like politics, work, family, and religion as more and more of these institutional activities are performed through both interactive and mass media. The logic of the media refers to the institutional and technological modus operandi of the media, including the ways in which media distribute material and symbolic resources and make use of formal and informal rules.

830 citations

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TL;DR: This article conceptualized social entrepreneurship as a field of action in a pre-paradigmatic state that currently lacks an established epistemology, and used approaches from neo-institutional theory to characterize the development of social entrepreneurship in terms of its key actors, discourses, and emerging narrative logics.
Abstract: Following Kuhn, this article conceptualizes social entrepreneurship as a field of action in a pre-paradigmatic state that currently lacks an established epistemology. Using approaches from neo-institutional theory, this research focuses on the microstructures of legitimation that characterize the development of social entrepreneurship in terms of its key actors, discourses, and emerging narrative logics. This analysis suggests that the dominant discourses of social entrepreneurship represent legitimating material for resource-rich actors in a process of reflexive isomorphism. Returning to Kuhn, the article concludes by delineating a critical role for scholarly research on social entrepreneurship in terms of resolving conflicting discourses within its future paradigmatic development.

803 citations

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TL;DR: Tan et al. as mentioned in this paper used CCA to maintain the emic perspective (participant's view as insider) and how theoretical frameworks can maintain the outsider/distant concepts throughout the analysis.
Abstract: This commentary addresses the gap in the literature regarding discussion of the legitimate use of Constant Comparative Analysis Method (CCA) outside of Grounded Theory. The purpose is to show the strength of using CCA to maintain the emic perspective and how theoretical frameworks can maintain the etic perspective throughout the analysis. My naturalistic inquiry model shows how conceptual frameworks and theoretical frameworks can be integrated when using the CCA method. Keywords: Constant Comparison, Constant Comparative Analysis, Theoretical Framework, Conceptual Framework, Critical Discourse Analysis, Naturalistic Inquiry Grounded Theory (GT) use has spread to various fields of study since Glaser and Strauss’ (1967) introduction of the methodology (Tan, 2010, p. 94). A review of the literature on the Constant Comparative Method shows the same movement. CCA, as a technique or method, appears to be considered as synonymous with GT. O’Connor, Netting, and Thomas’ (2008) review of the GT literature shows a steady growth over the last several decades in the use of CCA within GT methodology. A review of dissertation abstracts from 2004 shows that GT is used in various ways. The authors highlight that 35% of the dissertations that state grounded theory in their dissertation abstracts, keywords, and/or titles focus on the use of the CCA method, but lack a definitive approach towards the development of a substantive theory. The problem appears to be a gap in the literature regarding discussion of the legitimate use of the CCA method outside of GT. The purpose of this commentary is to show the strength in using CCA to maintain the emic perspective (participant’s view as insider) and how theoretical frameworks can maintain the etic perspective (outsider/ distant concepts) throughout the analysis. The commentary answers the question: What is the benefit of using CCA method outside of GT? Tan’s (2010) review of the literature presents the question about the use of the terms

537 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the degree of visibility on private and public signs of the three major languages of Israel-Hebrew, Arabic and English is compared in a variety of homogeneous and mixed Israeli cities, and in East Jerusalem.
Abstract: Linguistic landscape (LL) refers to linguistic objects that mark the public space. This paper compares patterns of LL in a variety of homogeneous and mixed Israeli cities, and in East Jerusalem. The groups studied were Israeli Jews, Palestinian Israelis and non-Israeli Palestinians from East Jerusalem, of whom most are not Israeli citizens. The study focused on the degree of visibility on private and public signs of the three major languages of Israel-Hebrew, Arabic and English. This study reveals essentially different LL patterns in Israel's various communities: Hebrew–English signs prevail in Jewish communities; Arabic Hebrew in Israeli–Palestinian communities; Arabic–English in East Jerusalem. Further analyses also evince significant – and different – discrepancies between public and private signs in the localities investigated. All in all, LL items are not faithfully representative of the linguistic repertoire typical of Israel's ethnolinguistic diversity, but rather of those linguistic resources that...

536 citations