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Showing 1 to 20 of 45 for “"Cultural Assumptions"”.
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The Impact of Cultural Assumptions about Technology on Choctaw Heritage Preservation and Sharing
… technology (ICT) on culture nor the cultural roles of ICT are widely understood, particularly among marginalized ethno-cultures and indigenous people. One theoretical lens that has received attention outside of Native American studies is the theory of Information Technology Cultures, …
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The Nature of Information: an analysis of the historically situated socio-cultural assumptions concerning the nature of information under changing technological conditions of its production, reproduction, dissemination and use
… technologies have destabilised traditional assumptions concerning the nature of information. While not fundamentally altering the nature of information itself, technological change has transformed the social, cultural and professional contexts in which information is embedded and used. This …
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Constructing Parents: The Heteronormative Recruitment of Sperm and Egg Donors in the Reproductive Market
… surrounding gamete donation are shaped by cultural understandings of family and gender. Through a qualitative content analysis of the sperm banks, egg banks, and egg donation agencies in the United States, I investigate how the reproductive market relies on heteronormative understandings of …
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Is there a place for sexual difference in Ernesto Spinelli's existential phenomenological psychology? An Irigarayan response to the work of Ernesto Spinelli
… psychotherapy as "an ally of dominant cultural assumptions" (Spinelli, 2001, p. 18). Using Irigaray's psychoanalytic and deconstructive reading of Western metaphysics, I demonstrate that Spinelli's theory and practice actually reinforce certain cultural assumptions concerning sexual …
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Under the Influence: Adolescent Girls' Compliance in Competitive Softball.
… and punishments. This thesis also examines the cultural assumptions about work that organized sports introduce to female athletes. Furthermore, the study discusses how parents and competitive sports organizations perpetuate the existence of male domination in sports and in society more …
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New Communication Technologies, Organizational Culture, and the Creation of Innovative Learning Environments
… how do they work together with existing cultural assumptions to produce an innovative, learning environment within the organization? The research design involves conducting moderately structured interviews with organizational leaders in four diverse organizations: Ingram Book Company, …
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Undressing an American icon: Addressing the representation of Calamity Jane through a critical study of her costume
… women from normative social structures and; 3) cultural assumptions around what gender is and does. It is her costume that therefore elevated the figure of Calamity Jane to iconic proportions in western frontier mythology.
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Leveling the Playing Field: Curriculum Studies and Fast Pitch Softball
Women in sport challenge our cultural assumptions about gender and sexuality. Athletics has been viewed as a male domain, with its emphasis on strength, agility, competition, intellect, and aggression. To play sports, women are pressured to maintain and emphasize their femininity without appearing …
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"We met in a bar by happenstance": Master narratives in couples stories
… of this study is on uncovering the underlying cultural assumptions, or Master Narratives, across four couples narratives that I elicited. I use Deborah Tannen's work and definitions to frame my analysis (2008). She identifies three narrative types: small-n narrative, the accounts of specific …
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What lies beneath: Theorizing women in S.T.E.M. intervention programs
… by organizers and sponsors, along with their cultural assumptions, while also providing the solutions to the problem assumed; and (3) demonstrate the two major ways of thinking about the underlying issue, which are from an individual and institutional level. This study provides a lens for …
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A socio-rhetorical exegesis of 1 Timothy 2:8-15
… Timothy 2:8-15 constitutes baptised patriarchal cultural practices and traditions from the dominant Greco-Roman culture of the first century. I demonstrate, therefore, that the portrayal of women in the text reflects a cultural imperative, and not a theological imperative, that was co-opted from …
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Tacit Culture and Change: A Model of Change Constructed From Institutional Assumptions and Beliefs
… efforts that recognize tacit culture (underlying assumptions and beliefs) and incorporate these cultural components into the change process. To date, however, change theory in higher education provides limited insight into institutional culture and how culture interacts with change. This is …
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Making Private Parts Public: American Nudism and the Politics of Nakedness, 1929-1963
… a movement provides a lens to examine social and cultural assumptions about the body normally hidden from public view and historical interpretation. This dissertation contributes to historical studies of sexuality that have documented the emergence of a more open sexual culture in the United …
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Exploring gender division of labour within households: the case of Schoemansdal Village in Nkomazi Local Municipality, Mpumalanga Province, South Africa
… unacknowledged all over the world because of cultural assumptions that a wife or mother should work in the privacy of the home. This study adds extra depth to the doing gender approach by testing whether or not couple negotiate specific conjugal and parent roles in terms of the division of …
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Medicine's Eschatological Narrative and the Challenge of Elder Suffering
… discrete lines of inquiry to reveal hidden cultural assumptions that influence the biomedical enterprise, particularly with respect to the expectations that practitioners and patients have about medicine's functions, abilities, and goals. I argue that medicine's inability to respond to …
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Questioning Muslim Identity: A Critical Analysis of the Discourse on Muslim Integration
… political leaders to question the merits of multiculturalism and simultaneously to promote integration through the strengthening and inculcation in the Muslim of a more general set of political values. This thesis aims to examine how these national debates are interconnected and how they attempt …
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Genital sensation: abrasive bodies in feminist performance
… investigates the performance of sex, difference, cultural assumptions and iconoclasm through feminist employment of this explicitly marked body. This text, divided into investigations of the disruptive body, considers the cultural iconoclasm of cunt art and phallocentric exclusion of women via the …
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East Asian LGBTQ Individuals’ Coming Out Experiences to Parents
… between heteronormative and conformity-oriented cultural values and their LGBTQ identities. Coming out to one’s parents is experienced as a particularly stressful event for Asian LGBTQ individuals, who often feel pressured to conceal their sexual and gender identities within their ethnic …
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Cloud village: a novel
… from one’s own culture in order to subvert its assumptions. The creative part of this thesis may be seen as a work of ethnographic surrealism, because it places its main characters, a North American family, on a commune in an isolated mountain in Colombia where their cultural assumptions are …
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The Euromarket and the making of the transnational network of finance 1959 - 1979
… economists vested their political ambitions and cultural assumptions in it. The popular, academic, and policy debates challenged the speculative nature of Eurodollars which would destabilise the domestic as well as the international monetary system of the Bretton Woods system. Without a single …
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