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Showing 1 to 20 of 47 for “"Concept of community"”.
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The Concept of Community and the Synchronous Computer-Mediated Communication of the Internet
The concept of community has been of great importance to sociologists throughout the discipline's history. There has been numerous definitions used in research. However, according to the literature, most agree that community must consist of geographical proximity, regular interactions, and shared …
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The strategic dimension of the concept of community in cultural projects within urban regeneration schemes
… the strategies at work around the notion of community in the framework of cultural projects developed in regeneration schemes. The concept of community has taken a prominent position in political discourse and ideology in recent years. This is most striking under New Labour, which, in the …
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The impact of technology, talent, and tolerance on community satisfaction.
… that technology, talent, and tolerance play in community satisfaction. After an introductory chapter, chapter two begins with an examination of the concept of community satisfaction and its reliability in a world of quantitative measures, such as GDP. Through a study of multi-group confirmatory …
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The potential for local community benefits from wind farms in South Africa
… by the desire to explore more equitable patterns of development in South Africa and how business could contribute to wider developmental goals. It focused specifically on the emerging wind sector in South Africa, drawing on the concept of community wind farms that have emerged in many other parts …
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Read it out loud : the construction of Southern identity within the living newspaper plays of the Federal Theatre Project.
Utilizing Benedict Anderson's concept of community and nation, this study looks at how the American South was portrayed within the interwar years, specifically by or within the living newspaper plays of the Federal Theater Project. The criteria set forth by various critics from the time define the …
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Reconsidering the Politics of Nature and Community on the Applachian Trail
… ecologically sustainable societies. As the concept of community is often ill defined, this thesis explores traditional and interest-based ideas of community, and develops a conceptualization of a work-based community. The history and development of the Appalachian Trail is reviewed as an …
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School Choice: The Black Middle-class Dilemma
… elementary school choice decision-making process of black middle-class families living in the Algiers community of New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina. The concept of community has been central to the success of blacks in America since Reconstruction. However, as the Civil Rights Movement …
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The practice of community archaeology in the UK: a model for best practice based upon case studies from Dorset and Cambridgeshire.
Archaeology undertook a process of definition and exclusivity in order to develop as a discipline. It justified its increasing control and management of the archaeological resource as being on behalf of the public. This has been challenged by the concept of community archaeology, which was …
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Community Learning: Process, Structure, and Renewal
Community renewal is a dominant theme in American society today. It has been said that public administration could and should be a leader in the community renewal movement, yet for the most part the field of public administration fails to "get" community. This study advances and explores a concept …
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Social interaction in a local physical setting : towards social integration in city making
A concept of community has greatly influenced the planning ideas of residential areas. Yet, often it has brought a normative view, regarding a local area as some kind of entity. This normative view is intensified by the hierarchy concept of urban structure. This study argues that this normative and …
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Islam and International Relations
This thesis deals mainly with the role of Islam in international relations, which is based on the Qur'an (the revealed book) and the Sunnah (prophetic tradition). The study has used the analytical approach and the interdisciplinary approach to examine and investigate Islamic international relations …
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Citizens changing ideas into action: a phenomenological study of community learning
… phenomenological study defines and explores the concept of community learning as a driver of economic and social change. Community learning refers to the creation of new knowledge and skills as a result of people interacting with each other to affect change within a locality. Jointly-created …
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Walking, talking and sensing community : lived experiences of a multi-ethnic neighbourhood
… debates about migration, difference, place and community have become more pronounced. Urban areas in the UK have seen significant changes in patterns of immigration, while new areas of diversity have emerged in places with little prior history or experiences. However, despite current research …
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Putting "community" in Community Schools: Organizational and Cultural Contention in a Public-Private Partnership
… remains an under-studied but important topic of research in an era significantly influenced by the weakening of the traditional civic welfare infrastructure. Based on two years of ethnographic research including in-depth interviews and participant observation, this research aimed to understand …
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Social news web-sites with democratic interfaces : analysis of one month’s voting from Reddit.com.
This study aims to develop an understanding of the activity taking place on “Social News” websites which use quantitative democratic interfaces. The data analysed were 3,446,522 votes from one such site (Reddit.com) for a single month. Data were analysed in terms of Users, Links, and Sub-Reddits. …
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"But My City Was Gone": Real Estate Development and the Transformation of Moneta, Virginia
… in rural central Virginia, served as the center of commercial, civic and religious life for the families who lived on a number of area farms. The construction of nearby Smith Mountain Lake in the mid-20th century brought an influx of newcomers to Moneta—a change that has not always been welcomed …
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Semantic Web Enabled Composition of Web Services
… a novel approach for the automatic composition of Web services on the envisioned Semantic Web. Automatic service composition requires dealing with three major research thrusts: semantic description of Web services, composability of participant services, and generation of composite service …
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