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Showing 1 to 20 of 69 for “"Cultural meanings"”.
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Resituating the Cultural Meanings of Lucha Libre Mexicana: A Practice-Based Exploration of Diasporic Mexicanness
… every individual. This research analyses the cultural meanings of Lucha Libre Mexicana from the point of view of a diasporic artist and contextualizes knowledge to determine artistic practice. Identity and the construction of identity are explored throughout this thesis. The various aspects of …
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An investigation into the cultural meanings of contemporary mourning and memento mori jewellery (London 1980-2008)
… towards bereavement and grief, even a new cultural acceptance of death and mortality. However, the contemporary meanings of the new jewellery appeared to be more varied, wide-ranging and ambiguous than those of their historical precedents. The thesis examines some of the changed meanings …
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Distribution, Use and Cultural Meanings of Ciprés de Las Guaitecas in the Vicinity of Caleta Tortel, Chile
This study examined the changing roles of ciprés de las Guaitecas (Pilgerodendron uviferum) in the lives and livelihoods of Tortel community members. A political ecology framework built on concepts of power, scale and social construction was used to problematize the availability of the tree as a …
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Distribution, Use and Cultural Meanings of Ciprés de Las Guaitecas in the Vicinity of Caleta Tortel, Chile
This study examined the changing roles of ciprés de las Guaitecas (Pilgerodendron uviferum) in the lives and livelihoods of Tortel community members. A political ecology framework built on concepts of power, scale and social construction was used to problematize the availability of the tree as a …
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The socio-cultural meanings of outdoor recreation: an exploration of Hispanic recreation experiences on the forests of Southern California
… Hispanic visitors, there is also variation in meanings and preferences related to the recreation experience. Among the variables examined were past use history, social group composition, primary reason for the visit, what respecting the forest means, and place attachment. The largest …
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Critical media analysis of female soldier representation from magazines to Instagram : a cultural studies perspective
… purpose of this work is to explore the gendered cultural meanings surrounding female soldier representations found in official print and online military recruiting materials during Global War on Terror (GWOT) period (2001-2014). Using recruitment advertisements found in three popular women’s …
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The impact of oil-related pollution on housing satisfaction of Kuwaiti households
… socio-psychological values of housing and the cultural meanings of home and homeownership of Kuwaiti households. In 1994, a follow-up study was conducted to examine how time between the two studies and treatments of residential interiors and exteriors might have affected Kuwaiti households' …
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Somewhere there's a silver lining: women's experiences of infertility on the Cape Flats
… mothers. Motherhood serves as a social and cultural indicator of femininity and enables women to access social and economic networks that knit them into community. The social and cultural valorization of motherhood in these communities has informed the powerful stigmatization of infertility …
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Somewhere there's a silver lining : women's experiences of infertility on the Cape Flats
… mothers. Motherhood serves as a social and cultural indicator of femininity and enables women to access social and economic networks that knit them into community. The social and cultural valorization of motherhood in these communities has informed the powerful stigmatization of infertility …
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Occupational Stratification and the Multidimensional Structure of Symbolic Meaning
<p>Subjective cultural meanings were once central to occupational stratification research. However, attempts to operationalize cultural meanings associated with occupations have been widely criticized, leading contemporary stratification scholars to largely abandon subjective measures in favor of …
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Social constructions of HIV and AIDS: Relationship to the provision of social support in African-American kinship networks
… the relationship between socially constructed, cultural meanings of HIV and AIDS and the provision of social support within African American kinship networks. Symbolic interaction theory and interpretive interaction methodology grounded the research. Twenty-seven African American males and …
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Social Acceleration in the Marketplace: Three Essays Exploring the Intersection of Culture and Consumption
… This project develops an understanding of how meanings in marketing are socially constructed in relation to this phenomenon, focusing on the following research question: "How do consumers experience and personalize the cultural meanings of social acceleration in their everyday life?” This …
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Conquering the Cape: the role of domestic keyboard instruments in colonial society and the colonisation process
… 2 sketches the broader historical, social and cultural context within which domestic music making involving keyboard instruments took place in the Cape Colony. Chapter 3 presents an overview of the distribution of domestic keyboard instruments in the Cape Colony as well as historical evidence …
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Afterlives of extinction : the politics of display in the modern United States
… planet's past, nor have they controlled their cultural meanings entirely. This dissertation examines sites in which American publics have encountered extinct animals through interrelated case studies that span the twentieth century, including the American Museum of Natural History's fossil …
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The Inescapable Quest for Happiness: Exploring How the Ideology of Happiness Shapes the Contemporary Consumer Marketplace
… an ideology associated with different values and cultural meanings. Drawing on Foucault’s concept of heterotopia (Foucault and Miskowiec 1986), this study shifts the focus away from the individual experience of happiness to a cultural level of understanding, exploring the following question: How …
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Gaslight, Progress, and the Old South, 1801-1865
… organic social relations. By focusing on the cultural meanings of gaslight, I demonstrate some of the ways that "progress" became a central component to white southerners' attempts to modernize their region.</p>
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Shi in Architecture: the Efficacy of Traditional Chinese Doors
… in architectural constructions, the embodied cultural meanings in building elements and the aesthetics achieved by the artful arrangement of building elements. This study also further reveals the essential nature of shi as weak and amorphous in parallel with the weak ontology proposed by …
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Researching British university sport initiations
… within a British university to learn the cultural meanings of a foreign sport culture and to possess an emic perspective. Semi-structured interviews were then conducted with key policy actors possessing differing organisational cultural perspectives (differentiational and fragmentational), …
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The Construction of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Malcolm X in Composition Textbooks: Rereading Readers
… X and King from a Reader, I analyze the embedded cultural meanings in the biographical headnotes, the selection, and the discussion questions in the Readers. The results show that Readers tend to: (1) narrate King's and Malcolm X's biographies according to popular narratives in society; (2) …
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Blue Lives Memorialized: Collective Memory and the Production of Ideology and Injustice in American Policing
… in public spaces, objects which seed our own cultural and personal ideologies, beliefs, and behaviors and which command our collective attention. Using qualitative research methodology, this visual ethnography looks at the unique and inherent power of police memorialization through the 2015 …
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