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Showing 1 to 20 of 115 for “"300 Social sciences"”.
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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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Padania or Northern Italy? The invention of a national community in the words of the Lega Nord
One primary significance of the propaganda of the Italian political movement the 'Lega Nord' in the second half of the nineties is that it posited the north of Italy as a 'nation', by grounding the claim of independence of the north on a unitary identity alleged to be common to all northerners. In …
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Making sense of humour: some pragmatic and political aspects
… for the creation of humour are described and the social uses to which such creations can be put are demonstrated. Once out in the world humour can engender a wide variety of responses, a factor of clear significance for the main analysis. This factor is given due regard in a discussion of …
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Army of the poor: William Booth, Karl Marx and the impact of the London residuum upon their thought
London and its poorest inhabitants, the residuum, became pivotal in the development of the thought of both William Booth and Karl Marx. Each was to identify the residuum as a potential army of the poor. The London residuum's impact came from its size and the level and duration of poverty suffered. …
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Stepping stones between two conflicting worlds: the experience of interpersonal communication amongst self-identified problematic internet users
… on our lives, with much research highlighting social implications. There is controversy within the relevant research literature, as to whether Internet use decreases or increases social connection and as to its psychological benefits or limitations. This paper presents a phenomenological study …
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Max Weber and postmodern theory
This thesis analyses the ways in which the work of Jean-François Lyotard, Michel Foucault, and Jean Baudrillard develops Max Weber's analysis of the rise, nature, and trajectory of modem culture. Further to this, it examines the strategies which may be drawn from the work of each of these theorists …
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The lived experience of second-generation, Indian, Hindu women in a cross-cultural romantic relationship: an Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis
Background/Aim: Preserving cultural lineage is paramount within the Indian culture, and extant literature has highlighted the challenges second-generation, Indian women endure, particularly in the context of romantic relationships, where cultural values differ between the second-generation and …
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Sexual citizenship : an analysis of gay men as sexual citizens in nonmetropolitan England and Ireland
… Ireland. Both countries have undergone dramatic social, legal and cultural changes over recent decades, and have witnessed profound and progressive shifts in public attitudes towards lesbian, gay and bisexual people. Given historical tendencies towards a metrocentric bias in researching gay …
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