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Showing 1 to 20 of 94 for “"British Society"”.
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Social Anthropology and British Society, c. 1920-1975
… curios and speculating about the evolution of society. From the 1920s onwards, however, anthropologists were increasingly urged to leave their armchairs and enter the field. The figures leading this transformation in Britain were Bronislaw Malinowski and Alfred Radcliffe-Brown. This …
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A study of inscribed material from Roman Britain: An inquiry into some aspects of literacy in Romano-British society
… problems when examining literacy in a past society. Each written record is only evidence of the skill required to produce that piece of writing. It cannot reveal the full capabilities of the writer. The archaeological record can suggest literacy of a basic, moderate or high level, but it is …
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Gender, Bolshevism & the Popular Press in Britain, 1916-1921
… group exercises influence and control throughout society. One of the primary ways this is possible is through media. This dissertation examines how the British popular press constructed a gendered hegemony using narratives involving women and Bolshevism during the aftermath of the First World War. …
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A cross-cultural dialogue: Eighteenth-century British representations of China
… about China, the travel accounts of a group of British naval officers and a Scottish physician, John Bell, as actual or symbolic responses to changes in eighteenth-century British society, Continental European representations of China, and contemporary Chinese utterances about the British and …
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“Old habits persist” Change and continuity in Black Country communities: Pensnett, Sedgley and Tipton, 1945-c.1970
… period suggests that the prosperity of post-war British society, the safety-net of state welfare provision and unprecedented levels of consumer spending mostly eradicated the inter-war behaviour patterns of individuals, families and communities. Utilising the oral testimony of sixty residents …
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Margaret Thatcher. Formazione e ascesa di un leader.
The thesis sets out to examine the character of British politician Margaret Thatcher, following the path of her life and her career since her years at the University of Oxford, where she studied chemistry, to her election as the leader of the Conservative Party in 1975. The investigation has been …
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Speedway Racing in England 1928–1965: Communities, Gender and Modernity
… goes on to consider the effect that it had on British society between 1928 and 1965. It will consider its influence on communities, ideas of gender, its relationship with the media, and its contribution to technology and ideas of modernity. This thesis will demonstrate how speedway played an …
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The experiences of the young practicing British Iranian Athna-asheri Shia Muslims in London
The Young Practicing British Iranians or YPBIs which is the focus of this work-based research are members of the British-Iranian community with deep religious practical adherence and a tendency toward Shia Islam. The purpose of this study is to shed more light on the characteristics of this group …
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Second generation South Asian Muslims' conceptualisations of religious and ethnic identity
… Muslims conceptualisation of their place within British society. It is with these particular issues in mind that the thesis will address the following questions. How do young South Asian Muslims find their place within British society? How can the indigenous population understand the particular …
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Classifying Fashion & Fashioning Class: An Inquiry Into Class Distinctions in Fashion Consumption and Taste Amongst British Women Today
… fashion and class for women in contemporary British society. In doing so, it contributes to the sociological literature on fashion, class, gender and space and provides a greater understanding of the class distinctions which exist in terms of British women's fashion attitudes and practices, …
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Social Discourse in the Savoy Theatre's Productions of The Nautch Girl (1891) and Utopia Limited (1893): Exoticism and Victorian Self-Reflection
… read the two documents as overt reflections on British imperialism. Examined more closely, however, the operettas reveal a great deal more about the highly introverted nature of exotic representation and the ambiguous dialogue between race and class hierarchies in late nineteenth-century British …
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A Study of Jonathan Coe's The Rotters' Club As a Coming of Age Novel
… examine how Coe illustrates the coming of age of British society in the 1970s, specifically the transition from an era of post-war consensus politics to a different society driven by Thatcherite policies of neoliberalism. The second chapter will focus on the novel as a bildungsroman, with …
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James Mill and Dugald Stewart on Mind and Education
… the various forces at work in transforming British society as it prepares for the unanticipated forthcoming industrial revolution.
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Judging the Rational and the Dead: Ann Radcliffe and Feminist Theology
… theology informed by the late eighteenth-century British religious movement of Rational Dissent. The thesis attempts to complicate and extend Radcliffe scholarship by moving away from fractured critical discourses and into more cohesive readings of Radcliffe that include feminist and theological …
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Understanding and explaining perceptions of veterans in UK society
… a content analysis undertaken of 335 articles on British veterans that were downloaded from online news sources. Secondly, to observe whether these publicly prevalent discourses about veterans are mirrored by individual perceptions in the general population a review of responses to UK …
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British Muslim Extremism: The Terror Within
… has been allowed to develop separately from British culture. The result is a completely separate society, living within another society. The majority in the Muslim community do not consider themselves British, and have not integrated into British society. In addition, Britain was a haven for …
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Today's boys, tomorrow's men' : a short history of the Boys' Brigade of Britain, with further reference to the Boys' Brigade in South Africa (circa 1880s-1980s)
… Youth Movement and its historical development in British society, with further consideration of the work of the Boys' Brigade in South Africa, from the 1880s until the 1980s. This movement, which originated in an environment of Liberal Nonconformity, 'muscular' Christianity, and adolescent-centred …
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"""Addicted to Pleasures"": Representing Commodities of Empire and Consumerism in Eighteenth -Century English Culture"
… English culture deeply impacted not just British society but, in addition, the content and style of writing in the period---fiction, poetry and drama---as filtered through literary representations. It provides meaningful knowledge towards a richer and significant understanding of the …
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Poverty, Social Isolation, Uselessness, and Loneliness: The Fears and Anxieties of 19th-Century British Governesses
… thought of the period. The rigid structure of British society during the period forced many middle class women without male support into employment as governesses, offering little escape from their roles and rare opportunities at upward social mobility. Jane Fairfax, Jane Eyre, and the unnamed …
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