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Showing 1 to 20 of 119 for “"300 Social sciences"”.
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Uncertain futures : young women in transition to adulthood in a post-industrial British city
… of a group of 19 young women of mixed age, social class and ethnic backgrounds, from two adjacent ‘outer-urban’ neighbourhoods in the post-industrial city of Birmingham, UK. It focuses on three distinct, and inter-related, spheres of transition: education and training, employment and …
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Individual and group dynamic behaviour patterns in bound spaces
The behaviour analysis of individual and group dynamics in closed spaces is a subject of extensive research in both academia and industry. However, despite recent technological advancements the problem of implementing the existing methods for visual behaviour data analysis in production systems …
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Conflicts, contradictions and commitments : men speak about sexualisation of culture
… has ascended as a focus for academic, social policy and public debate: central to these debates is concern for children and young people and the significance of sexualised cultural landscapes to feminist politics and women’s social positions. A striking feature of these discussions …
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Men's experience of infidelity in hetrosexual commited relationships : an interpretative phonomenological analysis
Although the prevalent attitude towards infidelity in British society is that it is wrong, 50-65% of couples enter therapy due to problems with infidelity. Past research studies tend to focus on predictors of infidelity to help identify the offending partner’s risk factors. Despite the prevalence …
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The persistence of the oral: on the enduring importance of the human voice
… technologies. Applying the approach of psycho-social studies to the voice in a novel and original way, the outputs draw on semi-structured interviews, archive research and cultural analysis to argue that, despite the discursive absence of the audible voice, a study of vocality can enrich our …
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Socio-economic Integration of Immigrants in Greece: The Case of the Greater Athens Area
… and more specifically within the economic, social and ethno-cultural context of Greece. This approach, which primarily recognises the specific significance of the host country’s structures, perceives immigrants as dynamic actors that develop competition strategies in the context of their own …
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White feminist stories : locating race in the narratives of British feminism
This thesis examines dominant feminist discourses emerging from liberal media, the academy, and activist networks in contemporary Britain. In particular, it traces stories and representations of feminism’s recent past (from the 1960s onwards) which are constructed and reproduced through these …
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Wilderness and western society: the essential role of myth in a cultural contructivist approach
… exported around the world economically, socially, industrially, and in a western view of nature and wilderness which has been increasingly predominant in the global arena. This study asserts that this worldview is largely responsible for what is clearly by now a global ecological crisis. …
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Re-constructing inner cityscapes as spaces of consumption
… with critical examination of the effects on social inclusion and exclusion in the public realm, and how public engagement is incorporated into urban design; c) To compare developments in areas fringing city centres in London and other European cities with their counterparts in North America …
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Asylum seekers in the UK: a social psychological understanding of a moral panic
… value of this concept could be enhanced by using social psychological theory to understand the cause and impact of such a moral panic. A theoretical framework of social representations and social identity theory was used to explore psychological processes underpinning UK host receptivity to moral …
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The end of tolerance: new discourses of racism, migration and the state in Britain, 1997-2008
… shift, an older notion of 'integration' as social, economic and political inclusion, to be effected by anti-discrimination legislation, multicultural tolerance and political representation, gave way to a new notion of'integration' defined as the adoption of 'British values', to be effected …
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The role of transnational television in international political decision-making after the cold war
This research investigates the role of media in the area of foreign policy, and especially the role of the 24/7 international news channels; it argues that media can make an impact on the process of political decision-making, rather than on the content of the policies themselves, and it specifies …
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Political violence and inter-ethnic conflict: an analysis with reference to Chechnya and Northern Ireland
With an emphasis on the conflicts of Nothern Ireland and Chechnya, this thesis investigates the contributing factors prevalent in the emergence and continuation of inter-ethnic violence and division. A willingness for one ethnic group to engage in political violence against another requires the …
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The capacity of industrial topographies for civic culture: a case study and reinterpretation of the urban order in Shipai, Dongguan, Guangdong, China
This dissertation explores the reciprocity between technology rendered as industrial production and ethical civic culture in the contemporary urban condition, where the meaning of cities becomes predominantly oriented towards utility and efficiency. The research takes as its main case study Shipai …
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Maltese children's construction of identities through their engagement with the media
… they are provided with broader opportunities for social relationships and space to interact and construct identity. By adopting a social constructionist perspective, this study examined how Maltese children's engagement with the media contributes towards the construction of their identities and …
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Algerian immigrants in London (United Kingdom) and Valencia (Spain): towards a new migration and labour model?
… Spain in terms of providing opportunities for social mobility versus entrapment, and the role of changing networks in influencing Algerian migration to the UK and Spain. While this research corroborates the inadequacy of a "grand theory" of migration, it confirms the suitability of a …
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The impact of online word of mouth on consumer decision-making: the case of cinema audiences
… 2010 and more than 38,000 online ratings from a social network, word of mouth is clustered into two dimensions: volume, representing the amount of online posts, and valence, representing the aggregate opinion of consumers on a particular film. A novel approach to calculate the valence measure is …
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An ethnographic study using the work of Heidegger to explore experts' use of information and communication technology (ICT) at work
The use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has become a familiar part of the world of work. And as technology in general becomes increasingly sophisticated, ICT is in most cases, a means by which organisations and employers attempt to get everyday workplace tasks carried out more …
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The contemporary racialization of the Irish in Britain: an investigation into media representations and the everyday experience of being Irish in Britain
The research undertaken for this thesis incorporated two strands of investigation. The first involved an interrogation of the representations of Irish people and Ireland in the mass media. This assumes that the mass media can be viewed as a de facto ideological state apparatus (Hall, 1982) in which …
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Second generation South Asian Muslims' conceptualisations of religious and ethnic identity
… recent years, become the focus of political and social interest on a global scale. Protests against events such as the Gulf War and the Rushdie Affair have served to highlight in the media and popular consciousness that young Asian Muslims are perhaps not as 'passive and obedient' as was …
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