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On face-work; an analysis of ritual elements in social interaction.
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Beggars–tourists' interactions: An unobtrusive typological approach
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored not only the strategies beggars adopt to ensure almsgiving from tourists, but also to provide a typology of beggars and tourists based on their interactions.
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‘It actually painted a picture of the village and the sea and the bottom of the sea’: Reading groups, cultural legitimacy, and description in narrative (with particular reference to John Steinbeck’s The Pearl)
TL;DR: The authors investigate the social production of literary value, potentially providing cultural sociology with a systematic means by which to study the formal features of texts in relation to their social significance: a means arguably required by (but not necessarily supplied in) the work of Pierre Bourdieu.
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Communicative Competence and Institutional Affiliation: Interactional Processes of Identity Construction by Immigrant Students in Catalonia
Josep Maria Cots,Luci Nussbaum +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the interactional profiles of two immigrant students in two types of communicative activities that are representative of the school context: responding to questions from an adult and cooperating with a peer in the resolution of a learning task.
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Stuck with ‘electronic brochures’? How boundary management strategies shape politicians’ social media use
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the effect of politicians' online boundary management on their use of social media and find that considering boundary management strategies allows for a better understanding of politicians’ online engagement.
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Practising and displaying xiao—young mothers’ negotiations of obligations to elders
TL;DR: This article explored young Chinese women's attitudes to and practices of filial piety in northern China and found that filial obligation is performed through a wide range of activities, before arguing that being filial is not enough: displaying xiao is critical to their own and the elders' face and establishing themselves as good, filial daughters and daughters-in-law.