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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"Anthony Giddens"”.
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Teoría, Sociedad y Poder en Talcott Parsons, C. Wright Mills, Jürgen Habermas y Anthony Giddens : una contribución a la Teoría Social contemporánea
Fil: Fernández Cardoso, Sara. Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales; Argentina
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Constructing everyday notions of healthy eating: exploring how people of three ethnocultural backgrounds in Canada engage with food and health structures
… of ‘structure,’ described by the social theorist Anthony Giddens, to refer to the range of food rules and resources people draw on. The research was conducted as part of a qualitative study on family food decision-making that included 144 participants from 13 African Nova Scotian, 10 European Nova …
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An inductive investigation into relationships between geographically co-located actors : the contribution of relationship marketing to regional competitiveness
… for, and deployed in, this thesis is based on Anthony Giddens' theory of structuration.
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Contention under Consociationalism: The Selection of Strategies by Postethnic Protest Movements in Lebanon and Bosnia and Herzegovina
… agency and structure, through the lens of Anthony Giddens theory of structuration.<p></p>
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Not the Whole Story: Narrative Responses to Contemporary Globalization
… and media theorists like John Tomlinson, Anthony Giddens, Arjun Appadurai, Lev Manovich, and Ian Bogost have demonstrated the overwhelming complexity of life in an age of accelerating globalization. Building on their work and the narrative theory of Maggie Dunn and Ann Morris, I explore …
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The British Labour Party in Opposition, 1979-1997: Structures, Agency, and Party Change
… 1979, using a theoretical framework informed by Anthony Giddens' structuration theory. Based on a dialectical notion of the structure and agency linkage, a two-tiered framework is constructed which at one level views a political party as consisting of a set of structures which can constrain and …
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Locating the subject : towards a reading of young women, identity and postmodernity
… modernisation, particularly the work of Anthony Giddens. Working from within a poststructuralist framework a move is made beyond a deconstructive critique through to the development of alternate strategies for reading the identities under construction. It is this kind of integration …
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Contemporary Kitsch: An examination through creative practice
… the repetitive qualities to what sociologist Anthony Giddens (1991) refers to as “dissembeddedness” (1991) or “the undermining of personal horizons of social and cosmic security” (Binkley, 1991, p.131). The research investigates: how the sensory affect of sentimentality imbued in the kitsch …
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Gay male performances in American confessional documentary and reality television.
… the idea of social construction are examined. Anthony Giddens' ideas on `experiments in living' are discussed alongside social theorists who suggest that new forms of social identity may be offered by homosexuals. A central finding is the observation that models of homosexual identification …
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Crime politics and late modernity : an exploration of community, identity and morality
… Instead, a psychosocial model based on Anthony Giddens’ (1991) work on identity and Stephen Lyng’s (1990) concept of ‘edgework’ is formulated. This framework considers how the risk-taking ingredient of rulebreaking provides emotional highs that give individuals a sense of connection …
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An archaeology of Scotland's early Romananesque churches: the towers of Alba
… to changes in liturgical practice using Anthony Giddens’ theory of structuration, as modified for the study of archaeological remains by John Barratt. These case-studies are used to describe the material settings of religious and social practice in the eleventh and early twelfth …
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Viimeiseen asti omillaan : Moraalisesti latautunut vastavuoroisuus yksin asuvien työttömien miesten selviytymisessä
… identiteetin käsittelyssä teoriana käytetään Anthony Giddensin luottamuksen ja itsereflektion käsitteitä. Giddensin mukaan ihmisten identiteettien merkitys kasvaa, kun yhteiskunta on vapautunut traditioista. Erilliset yksilöt voivat traditioista vapautuneessa tilanteessa solmia sosiaalisia …
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THE MATERIAL CULTURE OF SLAVERY: CONSUMER IDENTITY AND SOCIAL STRATIFICATION IN HACIENDA LA ESPERANZA, MANATÍ, PUERTO RICO
… of John C. Barrett’s understanding of Anthony Giddens’ theory of structuration, Douglas Armstrong’s cultural transformation model, and Paul R. Mullins’ notions of consumerism and identity. Research results showed that the enslaved individuals of Hacienda La Esperanza were active yet …
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The Chaos of Convergence: A Study of the Process of Decay, Change, and Transformation within the Telephone Policy Subsystem of the United States
… a single unified endeavor. I then propose that Anthony Giddens Theory of Structuration offers both policy analysis and organizational theory a meta-theory that would allow for both areas of research to be reconnected. Various policy and organizational analysis models are examined, and …
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Constructions of 'gendered agency' : Perspectives from a multi-ethnic Sure Start programme.
Theorists such as Anthony Giddens, Ulrich Beck and Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim have presented an 'individualisation thesis' which states that in our 'de-traditionalised', globalised world of late modernity, identities are now fluid and individual trajectories no longer fixed; as 'reflexive agents', we …
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Material culture, context and meaning : a critical investigation of museum practice, with particular reference to the South African Museum
… The theory of 'structuration', as formulated by Anthony Giddens, is drawn on to overcome the problematic separation of cultural objects from social subjects. This leads to the conceptualization of meaning in material culture as being socially constituted and context-related, and the relationship …
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Towards a theory of trust in libraries and democracy
… of their work and its systemic impact. Anthony Giddens, a prominent English sociologist who is known for his holistic view on modern society, offers a definition of ontological security – “refers to a person's fundamental sense of safety in the world and includes a basic trust of other …
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The social meaning of domestic space : notes on a suitable research methodology for southern African architectural studies
… Hillier et al.' s theory of ' space syntax' with Anthony Giddens ' theory of ' structuration' , a set of concepts and techniques for the study of domestic architecture is formulated. This model is demonstrated using two dwellings in the Cape Town metropolitan area. The emphasis throughout is with …
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Gender dimensions of land policy in contemporary Mozambique : a case study of Ndixe village, Marracuene District, southern Mozambique
… draws on the work of social scientists such as Anthony Giddens [1979, 1982, 1984] and Ernesto Laclau [Laclau & Moulfe 1985; Laclau 1990], as well as recent feminist literature (see Chapter Two), in seeking to resolve the tension between structure and agency in sociological analysis. My research …
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