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Showing 1 to 20 of 57 for “"Cultural transmission"”.
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Education Through Social and Cultural Transmission
… due to structural social, economic and cultural barriers. Educational inequality in American urban areas remains as a consequence of socioeconomic constructed structural barriers and strong social and cultural disconnections between the educational system and underrepresented low-income …
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Cultural Transmission in the Age of Modernism: Mentorship in the Novel, 1890--1960
Cultural Transmission in the Age of Modernism: Mentorship in the Novel, 1890-1960 considers how education reform impacted modernist questions about the transmissibility of culture. Beginning with the institutionalization of universal education in the late nineteenth century and ending with the …
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The Residue of a Deep Past: Struggle over cultural transmission in southwest China
This thesis examines the cultural past of the nɑχɑ people living in Zheba, a rural mountainous area in southwest China. They perceive and live their cultural past through unreconciled fragments that are deeply embedded in their everyday lives. It is a deep past that continuously gives meanings to …
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The Influence of Italian Renaissance Civilization in Fifteenth Century Spain: A Study in Cultural Transmission
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The needle and the lancet : British acupuncture and the cross-cultural transmission of medical knowledge
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Science, Technology, and Society, 1997.
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Implications of Chinese and American mothers’ goals for children’s emotional distress: Investigation of a cultural transmission model
This research examined a cultural transmission model in which differences in Chinese and American parents’ socialization goals foster differences in children’s emotional distress via parents’ responses to children’s performance. 397 Chinese and American mothers and their children (mean age = 13.19 …
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Architectural fusion and indigenous ideology in early colonial Mexico: a case study of Teposcolula, Oaxaca, 1535-1580, demonstrating cultural transmission and transformation through negotiation and consent in planning a new urban environment
This study demonstrates that by willingly entering a process of peaceful negotiation and consent the indigenous leadership of Teposcolula played a determining role in planning and building their new urbanization on the valley floor, relocating and resettling their community from its pre-Columbian …
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Injuries to All: The Rituals of Dying and the Politics of Death Among United States Workers, 1877--1910
Interweaving social and cultural history methods, the study adds emotional depth to existing literature on the industrial era and challenges understandings of cultural transmission. It employs an eclectic array of sources ranging from the writings of prominent industrialists such as Andrew Carnegie …
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Three Papers on Beliefs: on their Measurement, their Transmission, and its Implications for Large-scale Change.
… examines the dynamics of widely shared cultural beliefs and the impact that they have on individual-level cognition. It explores how these cultural structures shape cognitive processes like categorization, how the social learning strategies that agents use to learn these structures from …
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Emergent Rhythmic Structures as Cultural Phenomena Driven by Social Pressure in a Society of Artificial Agents
… rhythmic structures evolve, subject to the cultural transmission between individuals in a society. The study is developed by means of computer modelling and simulations informed by evolutionary computation and artificial life (A-Life). In this process, self-organisation plays a fundamental …
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Embracing Complexity: A Reflective investigation of Cultural Transformation Through Experiential Learning
… is an examination of the dynamic complexity of cultural transmission and transformation. It is an investigation of the assumption that human agency can influence the direction of the inevitable process of change. The three parts reflect the three components of a complex theory of experiential …
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Early human social transmission during Marine Isotope Stage 5: a perspective from the Kalahari Basin
The social transmission of cultural information is widely recognized as a crucial component contributing to the survival and prosperity of our species. This thesis studies lithic technological systems to assess the extent of the transmission of cultural information between different early human …
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A TALE OF TWO CHRONICLERS: PTOLEMY OF LUCCA AND GIOVANNI SERCAMBI
… in the books, I am going to verify that this cultural transmission happened sometime during the XIVth – XVth century in Lucca.
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The raison d'être of the Muslim Mission Primary School in Cape Town and environs from 1860 to 1980 with special reference to the role of Dr A. Abdurahman in the modernisation of Islam-oriented schools
… Muslim Mission Primary Schools emerge as a socio-cultural compromise between community needs and State school provision policy. It proceeds from the recognition of the cultural diversity that has since the pioneering days characterised the social order of the Mother City. Two religious and …
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Betwixt the Popular and Academic: The Histories and Origins of Memetics
… culture, with memes viewed as discrete units of cultural transmission. At the center of my account is the argument that memetics has been characterized by an atypical pattern of growth, with the meme concept only moving toward greater academic legitimacy after significant development and …
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Sidney Carter (1880-1956) and the politics of pictorialism
… the consideration of the particular nature of cultural transmission, specifically, the notion of the "international" art movement and its reception in colonial cultures. Pictorialists distanced themselves from both commercial photographers and the established camera club circuit, and sought out …
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Communal Appropriation: Considerations of Heritage and Cultural Preservation
<p>While cultural appropriation is widely taken as a negative phenomenon that should be avoided, aspects of cultural appropriation are desirable for cultural preservation and heritage. These aspects can expand upon a museum's function by fostering an authentic connection to the community that would …
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A 3-Dimensional Approach to Projectile Point Classification
… to use a classification system that monitors cultural transmission over time. This objective is addressed with an Archaic projectile point sequence from the Albertson site in Ozark region in Northwest Arkansas. A structured-light 3D scanner was used to create complete 3D models of the …
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Young Childrens' Understanding of Superstitions
… wishing, prayer, and the potential modes of cultural transmission of supernatural beliefs.
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How the Labeling of “Acting White” Manifests itself Among People of Color: The Life Experiences of Cultural Straddlers
… can either positively or negatively affect a cultural straddler’s decision to assume certain lifestyles. The quantitative study examined how sociocultural norms, the acting white hypothesis, and cultural transmission relate to the academic attitudes of young adults. The study found a …
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