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The Virtue of Patience

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Grills S.
Qualitative Sociology Review
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2020
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vol. 16
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issue 2
28-39
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Shaffir (1998:63) writes, “We must learn to reclaim the virtue of patience. When we en­hance the pace of doing research, it is often at the expense of acquiring a deep appreciation of the research problem.” This paper engages Shaffir’s claim by examining the importance of undertaking a patient sociology. What is the virtue to be found in prolonged and sustained work? How does this speak to the relationships found in field research and in the identities that inform our work as researchers and theorists? In contrast to recent trends towards various versions of instant or short-term ethnography (e.g., Pink and Morgan 2013) this paper argues for the merits of “slow” ethnog­raphy by examining the advantages of relational patience, perspectival patience, and the patience required to fully appreciate omissions, rarities, and secrets of the group.
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Engaging Teams: Missions, Management and Everyday Life

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Grills S.
Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Sociologica
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2022
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issue 81
67-84
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Nawiązując do rozszerzonej tradycji interakcjonizmu symbolicznego, w zaprezentowanym artykule analizie poddane zostały działania zarządcze w kontekście aktywności osób zarządzających zespołami i funkcjonowania tychże zespołów. Jako badacze, jeśli chcemy w pełni zrozumieć zasady i funkcje zarządzania w życiu codziennym, musimy zwrócić szczególną uwagę na zespoły, proces ich tworzenia i pracę zespołową, ponieważ życie organizacyjne urzeczywistnia się poprzez wspólne działanie ludzi. W szczególności analizie poddane zostało znaczenie zespołów wykonawczych, zespołów o charakterze dziedzicznym (legacy teams), zespołów powołanych na mocy prawa (legislated teams), zespołów opierających się na misji (mission-based teams) oraz znaczenie zasady poufności dla zespołów uchwałodawczych (enacting teams). Zachęcając do zwrócenia uwagi na perspektywy i działania osób zarządzających, proponuję w artykule odejście od strukturalnych ujęć życia organizacyjnego na rzecz zwrócenia uwagi na zarządzanie w procesie tworzenia.
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Drawing upon the extended symbolic interactionist tradition, this paper examines management activities in the context of office holders and teams. As researchers, if we wish to fully appreciate management in everyday life, then we must pay particular attention to teams, team creation and teamwork, for it is through people doing things together that organizational life is realized. Specifically, I examine the relevance of performance teams, legacy teams, legislated teams, mission-based teams, and the relevance of secrecy for enacting teams. Encouraging an attentiveness to perspectives and activities of office holders, this paper resists more structural renderings of organizational life and encourages researcher to attend to management in the making.
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Generic Social Process and the Problem of Success-Claiming: Defining Success on the Margins of Canadian Federal Politics

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Grills S.
Qualitative Sociology Review
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2022
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vol. 18
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issue 3
54-69
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Envisioning success and its pursuit as an enduring feature of human group life, this paper examines success as a humanly constructed and realized social process. As framed herein, success represents the attribution by some audience of qualities associated with achievement, attainment, and/or accomplishment to social act(s) and/or social objects. Consistent with symbolic interactionist approaches to the study of deviance, success is not a quality of the situation at hand, but rather is audience-dependent. Therefore, while the social construction of success may be evidence-based, what is defined as successful outcomes and what constitutes evidence of success is subculturally located. Drawing on extended ethnographic research, an application of alternate definitions of success is examined in the context of those participating in an electorally unsuccessful political party-the Christian Heritage Party of Canada. Specifically, this paper examines the definition of success in terms of political influence, providing political alternatives and demonstrations of religious faithfulness as strategies of success-claiming. Framing success in process terms, this paper examines the trans-contextual and trans-historical qualities of “doing success” as a feature of everyday life.
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