Help A Student

[Chrissie]

Hello & welcome Laura

I'm sure some of us would be happy to help. However don't mean to be rude, but how would we know the info is for MSc dissertation as you say?

[shminkle]

Whoever is willing to participate will receive a full information file, with all required details and if that's not enough I can forward any sceptic to my supervisor or University for confirmation.

[fagin]

What is the working title?

[shminkle]

Investigating e-cigarette user experience and the Civilizing Process of smoking

[Chrissie]

Jun 3, 2012 12:57:38 GMT @shminkle said:

Whoever is willing to participate will receive a full information file, with all required details and if that's not enough I can forward any sceptic to my supervisor or University for confirmation.

Sorry Laura, but I don't think it's very fair to call someone a sceptic for being cautious about giving out info to a complete stranger via the internet

[Queenie Bee]

I am a student just going into my 3rd year art and design I am willing to participate what uni are you at?

[shminkle]

Jun 3, 2012 13:49:49 GMT Chrissie said:

Jun 3, 2012 12:57:38 GMT @shminkle said:

Whoever is willing to participate will receive a full information file, with all required details and if that's not enough I can forward any sceptic to my supervisor or University for confirmation.

Sorry Laura, but I don't think it's very fair to call someone a sceptic for being cautious about giving out info to a complete stranger via the internet

Sorry Chrissie, I was not referring to you but to anyone who would like to participate but can no be convinced by the material I will provide. Apologies, I did not mean to offend you.

[fagin]

I'm happy to participate, but don't think I have Skype. Only phone I have is a mobile. Regarding your title - what does "the Civilizing Process of smoking" mean?
I didn't realise smoking was a civilising process, or do you mean the process of civilising smoking?

[shminkle]

It's a sociological theory underlying my dissertation. It is not that relevant for the interview aspect of my dissertation.

[shminkle]

the title for the interview section is: investigating e-cigarette user experience

[2risky]

Hello and welcome schminkle
From wikipedia
The book The Civilizing Process written by German sociologist Norbert Elias is an influential work in sociology and Elias' most important work. It was first published in 1939 in German as Über den Prozeß der Zivilisation. Because of World War II it was virtually ignored, but gained popularity when it was republished in 1969 and translated into English. Covering European history from roughly 800 AD to1900 AD, It is the first formal analysis and theory of civilization. The Civilizing Process is today regarded as the founding work of Figurational Sociology.

The first volume, The History of Manners, traces the historical developments of the European habitus, or "second nature," the particular individual psychic structures molded by social attitudes. Elias traced how post-medieval European standards regarding violence, sexual behaviour, bodily functions, table manners and forms of speech were gradually transformed by increasing thresholds of shame and repugnance, working outward from a nucleus in court etiquette. The internalized "self-restraint" imposed by increasingly complex networks of social connections developed the "psychological" self-perceptions that Freud recognized as the "super-ego."

The second volume, State Formation and Civilization, looks into the causes of these processes and finds them in the increasingly centralized Early Modern state and the increasingly differentiated and interconnected web of society.


Volume 2 sounds like a barrel of laughs.

[shminkle]

Thanks, you've saved everyone else so much work.
Don't think that's helping anyone though...

[2risky]

It is, I suspect. It's helping you a bit perhaps.
The reason for the slight suspicion of researchers here is the tobacco/pharma lobby, which is why in the interests of transparency you could easily have provided more of an an explanation. I understand you may be busy.

Skimming the above wiki does explain the foundation of your dissertation and there's no reason interviewees should be ignorant of it. I was answering a relevant question you didn't answer.

Good luck with your dissertation.

[shminkle]

I did not find it relevant as it is not part of the interview and might be misleading.

However, I am happy to answer any questions regarding my dissertation with possible participants via pm. I just don't want to extend on it too much publicly as it is an unpublished research project.

Anyone who is interested in helping me out, but has further questions about the interview/research: Please contact me via pm!

Thank you.

[2risky]

If anyone has been misled I apologise to them.
Since it was facile to research the title you gave by looking on wikipedia I don't see how it's damaging to discuss it in public.
Anyhow, I won't trouble you further.