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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Cultural Reproduction)"”.
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IMPERILED FEMININITY:RECONFIGURING GENDER IN A CONTEXT OF HEIGHTENED VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
… research into the role of routinized terror in cultural reproduction and transformation as well as a renewed emphasis on embodied threat as a common aspect of the operation of power though societies.
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Critical literacy in a global context: Reading Harry Potter
… texts may support readings in simple accord with culturally pervasive conservative views which favour conventionally masculinist, martial views of the individual and of society. Such readings potentially confirm ancient prejudices built out of differences which themselves may be associated with …
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The Art of Self-Making: American Modernist Fiction and the Performances of Identity and Authorship
… self-made man. I contend that the historical and cultural forces which shaped both phenomena in the latter half of the 19th and the first half of the 20th centuries are not incidental but integral to the modern understanding of America. I also contend that these phenomena are the products of a …
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‘What’s the news? Nothing but bonfires’: the Eleventh Night bonfire: tradition and change
… of July bonfires are examined as a ritualized cultural performance in the context of its nominal historical narrative and against the backdrop of Northern Ireland’s tumultuous history and within its current policy landscape.<br/><br/>Utilizing various social science research methods, both …
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Worship and Christian identity in Uganda : a study of the contextualization of worship in the Anglican, Roman Catholic and Independent Churches in the West Nile and Kampala areas of Uganda
… of culture that is informed by insights from cultural and anthropological studies. The primary purpose of this thesis is meaning-making. It uses Clifford Geertz's idea of interpreting religious phenomena and Celia Lury's idea of cultural production in conjuction with Robertsons' global/local …
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Ideology, Production, and Reproduction: Virginia Woolf, Marie Stopes, and H.D.
… the crossovers between human, ideological, and cultural reproduction during the interwar years. However, an extended study on their contrasting views about life and art in the aftermath of World War One is yet to emerge. My project examines how the bid to reproduce Britain’s militaristic state …
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Kombuistaal innie Kaap1: Investigating Gender and Language Change in the development of Kaaps
… specific and often largely invisible spaces of cultural reproduction. With a focus on language change and maintenance of Kaaps through a gendered lens, this study aims to highlight the contributions of Kaaps speakers who, by virtue of their gendered social positioning, became inextricably linked …
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Reflections on a Promise: Student Experiences at a Two-Year Promise Institution and Their Educational Aspirations
… Theory, Pierre Bourdieu’s Theory on Social and Cultural Reproduction, and Vincent Tinto’s Theory on Student Departure. Data was collected through semi-structured interviews with undergraduate students at a large community college in the southern United States. Questions focused on college …
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Analysing organisational culture : a critical ethnography of public relations and personnel specialists in a state bureaucracy
… existential, poltical and material processes of cultural reproduction (Chapter 5), is able to disclose some of the more contradictory features of organisation culture. The remainder of the thesis comprises of a critical ethnography of the work cultures of public relations and personnel …
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Constructing a Politics of Knowledge in the Age of the Internet
… of new technologies and their social, cultural, ontological, and epistemological implications, here the politics of knowledge centers around questions of information technology infrastructures in late capitalism, the control society, and reflexive modernization. As these social and …
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Agriculture Without Farmers? Constructions of and Resistances to Whiteness in Two Midwestern Agricultural Education Classrooms
… Midwestern Ag Ed classrooms in the way of the cultural reproduction of and resistance to hegemonic whiteness. I find that Ag Ed classes in the Upper Midwest are preparing students for agricultural careers that are not about growing food. Vocational success leading to earning is prioritized over …
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Feminist issues in education: developing a theory of class and gender relations
… evaluation of theories concerning the social and cultural reproduction of class relations in terms of their applicability to the study of gender relations. (b) the construction of a feminist theory of gender that accounts for, among other things, the historical and class specific nature of gender …
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Interrogating community : dispersed refugees in Leeds
… refugees. Forms of familiarity and cultural reproduction are achieved through music, dancing, dress and food. Rather than simply representing 'home' culture, such practices create moments and places to contest both continuity and adaptation to the UK The central importance of food …
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Student Experience of Access to Egyptian Higher Education.
… access process. Bourdieu's theory of social and cultural reproduction was drawn upon to explain social inequality as an outcome of inequitable access to HE and socially differentiated educational attainment. The theory provides a framework of understanding that explains how education, rather than …
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Making ministers, making Methodism: an anthropological study of an English religious denomination.
… of social anthropology to analyse the social and cultural dynamics of contemporary English Methodism. My initial premise is that a key aspect of Methodism is the holding together of the conflicting values of egalitarianism and hierarchy. By focusing on the making of Methodist ministers, I explore …
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The difference walls make' : cultural dynamics and implications of change in Sāmoan architectural traditions and socio-spatial practices (1940-2006)
… how Sāmoan architecture encompasses rich cultural traditions, aesthetics, and social practices that are used to manifest, embed, and ‘advance’ social and cultural identities within social communities and physical landscapes. The ethnography describes how traditional open, round or oval …
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Medborgarskap efter nationalstaten? : Ett konstruktivt förslag
… diverges from both the cosmopolitan and the multicultural models that have attracted substantial attention in academic debates. Trans-national citizenship is a citizenship inspired by the Habermasian idea of constitutional patriotism, yet recognizes the continuing predominance of national …
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Science Research Literacy Through Immersive Professional Development in Biomedical Research
… to life during classroom inquiry. This promotes culturally relevant experiences within the context of the scientific one. Ideal subjects for this study will be in-service science teachers in possession of a minimum Bachelor’s degree. Subject matter and experience in research science is not a …
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Linguistic capital and linguistic selves of bilingual and multilingual taiwanese adults: motivation and identity rebuilding in learning Taiwanese heritage languages, Mandarin, English and other foreign languages
… repertoire in Taiwan’s complex socio-political, cultural and linguistic context. The purpose of this thesis, therefore, is to explore how participants perceive linguistic value and culture, and how this perception has an influence on self-identity throughout the process of learning languages, …
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Nunavut, A Creation Story. The Inuit Movement in Canada's Newest Territory
… continuity over time. More specifically, culturally and experientially-rooted common understandings of leadership, common ways of dealing with internal conflict, and clearly defined and effective modes of leadership oriented cultural reproduction helped the Inuit leadership and Inuit …
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