The concept of the team identity transformation in entrepreneurial process was addressed in this thesis. In order to effectively and delicately descript the formation and transformation process of the team identity, Qualitative research and single case method were explored that an electronic component manufacturer (thereafter called F company) in Kaohsiung was chosen. I collect the first-hand data not only by interviewing with interviewees but emailing or talking via phone. In aspects of interview, formal interviews took 17hours, informal interviews took about 10hours and 2 hours was used to get data via telephone communication. Except for first-hand data, we collect the secondary data as well. With comparison on differences of technological team identity(ies) between in and after business creation, three categories grounded on interviews was developed, including think¡Bwork and learn. Based on these, we would try to analyze the reasons of transformation. After almost year of observation and data collection, I conclude these below: 1¡BThere is existence of technological team identity in initial stage of entrepreneurship and this will be beneficial to drive the entrepreneurship. The mechanism of formation is how to pick up the members to make them highly consistent in thinking and behaviors. 2¡BAs changes of contexts and self adaptation, the technological team identity would be transformed as the figure6.1 shown. 3¡BI found that the team identity would transform into organizational identity, and that would make the border between technological team and the other groups more and more unspecific. 4¡BIn the process of team transformation, managerial action and machismo play an important roles to harness how the process goes to make the organization more flexible and actively response to the complex environments.

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Uppsatsen vill undersöka hur KRIS bidrar till identitetsomvandling hos före detta kriminella. För att uppnå detta har vi hänvisat till tidigare forskning samt centrala begrepp, bland annat de olika identitetsbegreppen formulerade av Richard Jenkins, Erving Goffmans begrepp om stigma samt normalitet och avvikande men även Thomas Scheffs begrepp om skam och stolthet. Syftet med uppsatsen är att öka förståelsen och reflektera över hur kriminella som går med i organisationen KRIS kan få stöd att ta sig ur brottslighet och förbättra sina livsvillkor. För att uppnå syftet bör även en reflektion om myndigheternas stöd i samband med organisationen KRIS framföras, det vill säga det stöd som ex-kriminella får för att ta sig ur kriminalitet. Frågeställningarna lyder därmed följande: Hur bidrar en frivillig organisation som KRIS till identitetsomvandling hos före detta kriminella? Och Vilka möjligheter ger KRIS till sina medlemmar för att bidra till en identitetsomvandling? Genom en kvalitativ ansats har vi utfört semistrukturerade intervjuer med sex medlemmar i KRIS, Göteborg, för att besvara frågeställningarna. Vår empiri påvisade att våra respondenter upplever att myndigheter inte har haft den nödvändiga förståelsen som krävs för deras livssituation, utan det är istället KRIS som har bidragit till deras identitetsomvandling genom socialt stöd. / The essay wants to investigate how KRIS contributes to identity transformation with former criminals. To achieve this, we have referred to earlier research and key concepts, including the different concepts of identity formulated by Richard Jenkins, Erving Goffman's concept of stigma, normality and divergence, but also Thomas Scheff's concept of shame and conformity. The purpose of the essay is to increase understanding and reflect on how criminals joining the organization KRIS can get support to stop committing crimes and improve their living conditions. In order to achieve this goal, a reflection on authority’s support in connection with the KRIS organization should also be carried out, that is, the support that ex-criminals get to stop committing crimes. The questions thus state: How does a voluntary organization like KRIS contribute to identity transformation with former criminals? And what opportunities does KRIS give to its members to contribute to identity transformation? Through a qualitative approach, we have conducted semi-structured interviews with six members in KRIS, Gothenburg, to answer the questions. Our empirical data showed that our respondents find that authorities have not had the necessary understanding required for their life situation, but instead KRIS has contributed to their identity transformation through social support.

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This thesis explores parliamentarians’ emotional labour in their workplace, and argues the enactment of passionate rationality is crucial to how parliamentarians accomplish vocational authenticity. The New Zealand parliamentary workplace is characterised by an elaborate set of feeling rules and a complex emotional culture. On entry to parliament, parliamentarians go through a period of identity transformation akin to a moral career. Parliamentarians must manage emotion to achieve their occupational identities according to local feeling rules. Based on analysis of in-depth group and individual interviews with parliamentarians, and focusing on the passage of the Civil Union Bill as an exemplar of parliamentarians’ emotion work, three interpretative repertoires were identified in their accounts of emotion in the workplace. These repertoires, The Game, The Performance and The Crusade are work-place specific meaning-making resources whose flexible deployment enabled parliamentarians to assert claims of occupational identity and vocational authenticity. These repertoires show the emotional labour involved in parliamentarians’ negotiation of shared meanings around ‘entering’ the occupational role and asserting the authenticity of their new identities. In particular, The Crusade repertoire makes available the subject position of the Knight, the subject position important for accomplishment of being a passionately rational worker. In this thesis, I introduce two new concepts for emotional labour in complex workplaces where that labour has both exchange and use value; emotional convocation and personified emotion. Together these concepts allow for a more thorough theorisation of emotion work than do existing concepts of emotional labour. Although developed in relation to the work of parliamentarians, personified emotion and emotional convocation have utility for understanding other contemporary experiences of work where emotion management within a complex emotional culture is fundamental to both occupational identity and the accomplishment of vocational authenticity.

The aim of this study was to examine how "Professional Exes", individuals that have exited a drug abuse and a criminal career and further are educated to work in the addiction field, transformed their identity and which factors that were significant in the process. The result of this study are based on semi-structured interviews with five Professional Exes and shows which specific factors in the process that contributed to the transformation and what kind of difficulties and barriers that existed during the process. The study suggests that, among other things, identification with others exes and the 12 Step Program are significant factors in the process. Furthermore, the study suggests that a difficulty in the transformation is that residues from the previous identity such as a poor self-esteem occurred in some situations.

中文摘要 家庭訪問是親師溝通的重要管道，教師與家長常常藉此進行教育理念的溝通或教養方式的協調，教師與家長常會在訪談中變換身份，彼此在不同時機以不同角色進行互動。如何選擇適合的身份進行溝通，在社會文化中是極其自然的現象，研究者希望藉由家訪在社會活動脈絡中具有的獨特意義，解釋日常生活中的常識性知識如何被人們理解與運用的現象。 　　本研究透過成員類別分析法，探知家庭訪問中教師、家長及學生在溝通時，如何使用大量類別知識溝通的樣貌，研究者以國民中學十則家庭訪問對話記錄作 為分析個案，描繪以下三類現象：第一，家訪的樣貌；第二，家訪機制中的成員類別內涵；第三，成員類別身份轉換。 　　首先，藉由訪問者語言工具箱的整體提問順序、開場白及結語、問問題、人稱代名詞，勾勒出家訪的樣貌；其次，描繪出教師、家長身份的類別內涵，以及親師言談建構出的學生形象。 　　教師擁有教育者或輔導者的身份，也有轉換為私領域身份（如女兒、太太、媽媽）的現象；家長是照顧者，同時也是教育者；國中生在家長與老師眼中是不成熟的青少年、面臨抉擇的轉大人階段、更是背負著期許的承繼者。研究者藉由家訪中的言語對談，闡述以上這些身份的類別內涵，描繪出社會文化對於教師與家長、學生有何種身份期待的文化現象。 　　最後，陳述教師與家長轉換身份的時機點：教師在交談時因為爭取話權、居中協商、提供教養方式，而不自覺地轉換身份；家長在交談時則因為闡述事實、釐清觀念、尋求支持，而不自覺地轉換身份。教師 /家長的關係成為朋友/朋友之間的關係，運用相通的社會知識溝通，採用社會類別的特徵表達，或是藉著存在於社會中的類別知識協商，這些都呈現了社會文化的一部份。 關鍵字詞：親師溝通、家庭訪問、身份轉換、成員類別分析 / Abstract Home visits are important channels for communication between teachers and parents. Through this, teachers and parents often carry out communication of educational philosophy or coordination of teaching and rearing approaches. Oftentimes, teachers and parents go through identity transformation during their conversations. They take on different identities at different times to interact with each other. How to choose an appropriate identity to proceed with conversations has become a very natural phenomenon in social culture. Through the unique significance of home visits in the context of social activities, the researcher hopes to explain the phenomenon of how commonsense knowledge is understood and utilized by people. Through membership categorization analysis, this study explores how the considerable amount of knowledge communication is used between teachers, parents, and students as they communicate with each other during home visits. The research used ten recorded conversations of junior high school home visits as case studies. The following three phenomena are depicted: First, the appearance of home visits; Second, implications of membership categorization of home visits’ mechanism; Third, identity transformation of membership categorization. First, the appearance home visits is depicted through interviewers’ language toolkit, including the overall order of questioning, opening and closing remarks, asking questions, and personal pronoun. Second, the categorization connotation of identities of teachers and parents are illustrated. The image of students created by parents and teachers through their conversations is also illustrated. Teachers have the identity of educators or counselors. The phenomenon of transforming into a private identity (such as a daughter, wife, or mother) was seen. Parents are caregivers; they are also educators at the same time. Junior high school students are immature teenagers in the eyes of parents and teachers. They are at the stage of becoming adults, which is associated with decision-making. They are also successors burdened with expectations. Through the conversations during home visits, the researcher expounded the categorization connotation of the above identities. The kind of cultural phenomena of teachers, parents, and students expected by the social culture are illustrated. Finally, the points of time of identity transformation of teachers and parents are presented. During conversations, to fight for the authority of their words, coordinate, and provide teaching and rearing approaches, teachers underwent identity transformation unconsciously. During conversations, to set forth facts, clarify perspectives, and seek support, parents underwent identity transformation unconsciously. A teacher-parent relationship was transformed into a friend-friend relationship. This is done through utilization of common social knowledge to communicate, adoption of social category’s characteristic expression, or by the categorial knowledge consultation existed in the society. These have all presented a part of social culture. Keywords: Parent-teacher communication, Home visit, Identity transformation,Membership categorization analysis

Enemies of the People is a book that examines whistle-blowing—i.e., the unauthorized conveyance of sensitive information to mass media and authorities—and the social responses this performance provokes. The book develops a fresh view of this phenomenon by framing the trend of events according to a couple of fundamental elements found in tragedy. The book also includes a critical appraisal of the perspectives that set the tone in the existent whistle-blowing research. The prevalent one-sidedness found in this field of research is reviewed and contrasted with the contributions delivered in the present study. The analysis is based on three famous whistle-blowing cases that received a lot of attention in mass media: Ingvar Bratt and the Bofors affair; Odd F. Lindberg and the Norwegian seal hunting affair; and finally, Paul van Buitenen and the Leonardo-affair in the European Commission. The author claims that by studying the sociology of tragedy, it is possible to develop a new way of examining social processes where the final outcome is the excommunication of the appointed culprits through, for example, expulsion or avoidance. This purgatorial process is treated as a social status degradation, where the offender experiences a thorough social identity transformation that turns his or her social position to a lower social rank than initially held. The title of this book alludes to a stage play written by the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. His dramatic piece An Enemy of the People, written in 1882, plays a prominent part in this study.

This research investigates two neighbourhoods around the train and S-train Ny Ellebjerg in South of Valby, which is a part of Copenhagen. The area, which is a post-industrial area, includes several old factory buildings renovated as office- and workspaces. The research aims to investigate the identity transformation in the area and the influence of the recent development plans in the identity. Therefore, the research questions are: How has the place identity of Ny Ellebjerg changed from being industrial to a densely built neighbourhood and what do the plans indicate for the future? How has the development plans and local plans contributed to the place identity transformation of the Ny Ellebjerg area? The thesis will answer these questions with a triangulation between a content analysis on the involved development plans, local plans and municipal plans, and expert interviews as well as walk-along interviews with residents from the area. The findings of the thesis showed that identity of Ny Ellebjerg has changed from being mainly industrial into a city environment inspired by the forms of the industrial constructions, but with a lot of the buildings perceived as very similar to other areas standardized architecture. The plans for the future indicate that it is necessary to plan with more focus on the residents living in the area. The findings of this thesis showed connections between the wish to preserve the area and turn it into a post-modern, post-industrial area with close ties to its past. The aims of the local plan were not realised fully, since the Følager development was only half built and much of the green areas shown in the illustrations was also found to have not been made, due to it not being directly stated in units in the plans.

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