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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Cultural Networks"”.
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New Bildung chances for the disadvantaged through reconstruction of online social capital : an empirical research into informal learning of migrant youth in online socio-cultural networks
… the migrant youth to online bonding and bridging networks as the first dimension. Through the network-related inequalities in fostering the acquisition of Internet competences between bonding and bridging networks online as the second dimension, the structural inequalities are further reproduced …
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Adaptive resources and helpseeking among Black Americans: A stress and coping approach
… combine additively with access to various socio-cultural resources to predict both informal and formal helpseeking. It was also hypothesized that adaptive coping resources would predict helpseeking best under conditions of chronic role strain. Hierarchical regression provided only modest support …
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A Sociotechnical Network Analysis of Bluegrass Practitioners and Instruments: Competing Definitions, Motivating Authenticities, and Tradition-Respecting Innovations
… and connects to larger philosophical and cultural themes beyond bluegrass. The project also applies this network analysis to the instruments of bluegrass. It examines the banjo's history before bluegrass, showing how actors attempted to disentangle the banjo from its previous networks and …
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Empire and Artefacts: The "Lost' Museum of the Royal United Services Institute
… and where they fitted into the wider social and cultural networks that formed their ambition for it to be nationally significant. The subsequent chapters of this thesis focus on three main phases of the Museum’s history in this period: 1831-1857, 1857-1895 and 1895-1922. Spanning from the late …
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Adult community education as sites for the development of social capital in a culturally diverse society
… programs play in the development of social and cultural networks for people from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds in a regional community context. Within the milieu of the Shire of Campaspe, a rural area in northern Victoria, there has emerged the issue of ‘new’ social …
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The Education Pathway Through Social and Economic Integration of Highly Educated Immigrants: The Case of Colombians in the United States of America
… immigrants' poor language skills, absence of cultural networks, and lack of credentials and recognized professional experience gained in the country of origin are barriers to their social and economic integration (Ferrer & Riddell, 2008; Mattoo, Neagu, & ?zden, 2008; Miranda & Umhoefer, 1998; …
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Socio-cultural contexts in trauma recovery and post trauma growth in women who experienced intimate partner violence: A social constructivist lens
… in our lives however, are governed by socio-cultural contexts. Social constructivism emphasizes that the way in which individuals think, feel, and act are engrained in her being early on by the social and cultural networks that surround her. Therefore, even though an individual may think that …
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Communities in play: the social value of youth drama groups in rural areas of Northern Ireland
… which these groups play in ecologies of local cultural participation. In line with the AHRC Cultural Value Project’s approach, value is interpreted as a subjectively experienced phenomenon. Drawing on theories of social capital and place, the study explores the relationship between youth drama …
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Providing outreach to families of youth with disabilities from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds by working with cultural groups and community organizations
… study explored how informal community networks (i.e., faith based organizations, community cultural centers and service agencies) provided information to culturally and linguistically diverse families. The goals of this study were, first, to gain a better understanding of the methods …
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Cultural capital in urban communities as a pathway to engineering at a predominantly white institution: Narratives of African American women in engineering
… What is the role of family, school and community networks in gaining college access and their choice of major? The three-essay dissertation addresses these questions by examining the academic trajectory and illuminating the first person narrative experiences of the African American women, all of …
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AURAL SUBSTANCE: AN ETHNOGRAPHIC EXPLORATION OF REGIONAL BURN SOUNDSCAPES
… is a crucial element of communicational and cultural networks.” In this study, I analyze how noise at a burn is not solely a by-product of participants’ “anarchistic freedom,” but a key part of the burn that relays information about regional burn values, public and private spaces, and …
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Brave Belgians of the Belle Époque : a study of the late-romantic Ghent horn playing tradition
‘Brave Belgians of the Belle Époque’ is an artistic case study that unravels the paradigm of a flourishing legacy of horn playing in Ghent at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries. In around 1870 Belgian horn playing undertook a drastic stylistic volte-face. The …
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La trayectoria cultural durante el Holoceno en el yacimiento de El Portalón de Cueva Mayor, Sierra de Atapuerca, Burgos
… realización de la tesis doctoral “La trayectoria cultural durante el Holoceno en el yacimiento de El Portalón de Cueva Mayor, Sierra de Atapuerca, Burgos” se ha planteado la comprensión y descripción en detalle de los procesos que generaron la formación arqueoestratigráfica del yacimiento desde …