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Showing 1 to 20 of 133 for “"Cultural value"”.
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“Luxury Items”: Discourses of Cultural Value in Creating Channel 4 Comedy
… examines the discourses around creativity and cultural value that underpin the language used to construct television comedy at Channel 4 within three sites: broadcasting policy documents, interviews with Channel 4 heads of department and commissioners, and creative practitioners that have …
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The internal layout design of social housing in Libya : a cultural value perspective
… the environment, economy, society and culture. Cultural sustainability reflects the ideas of how to accommodate local cultural values and norms with modem means. Previous research on housing design from an Islamic perspectivehas consistently concluded that traditional housing design for Muslims …
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The social and cultural value of the apple and the orchard in Victorian England
… together an investigation into the economic value of the apple crop and its associated goods and services, with an exploration of how the apple and the orchard were represented and received in cultural and social constructs. This thesis argues that the economic worth of the apple was greater …
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The cultural value of Shakespeare in twenty-first-century publicly-funded theatre in England
This thesis argues that in the plural cultural context of the twenty-first century the value of Shakespeare resides in his identity as a free and flexible resource. This adaptable Shakespeare is valuable to theatres because they are dialectical spaces. Free-resource Shakespeare is able to contain a …
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Intersubjective Culture: A Further Examination of the Role of Cultural Value Importance in Cultural Identification
… approach to culture, culture can be defined from cultural member's shared representations of what the culture is like. Past research has found that core cultural values identified through this approach play an important role in people's cultural identification. The more that people endorse the …
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The Paradox and Contradictions in Cultural Value and Exchange Worth of Anatolian Hand-crafted Wool Felted Textiles
… redesign involving aggregation of qualities and values, purposefully represent an object and recreate its lost aura's root from tradition, transposed into a new diversity of perceptual responses. The thesis concludes that mediatory actions implicit in the new model of practice need not adversely …
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BETWEEN ART AND ORGANISATION: RETHINKING CULTURAL VALUE THROUGH THE INSTITUTIONAL, ORGANISATIONAL, AND INDIVIDUAL DIMENSIONS OF CONTEMPORARY THEATRICAL PRODUCTIONS.
… organizzazioni operanti al di fuori del settore culturale. Allo stesso tempo, la natura artistica del teatro implica che il suo “valore” non possa essere considerato esclusivamente in termini economici. Il teatro possiede un significato culturale intrinseco – che comprende dimensioni estetiche, …
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"Through the Language of Food: Creating Linguistic and Cultural Value through Basque (Euskara) Semiotics to Market Local Gastronomic Products"
… practical ways in which Basque linguistic and cultural practices are being used in the promotion of gastronomic products, how such use of material goods affects the value of this minoritized language, and how these practices and material goods contribute to cultural maintenance and efforts …
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Testing a U.S. Mexican cultural value transmission model of maternal socialization of youth civic responsibility values and prosocial behaviors
Youth are taught the values that their culture considers important through socialization and cultural values, such as civic responsibility, that can serve as a guide for future social behaviors. One set of social behaviors relevant to such values are prosocial behaviors, or actions intended to …
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Conserving Pollinators: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Evaluating the Ecological, Economic and Cultural Value of Native Bees in Mid-Atlantic Sustainable Agriculture
… on working landscapes, particularly private agricultural lands. Recommendations from the National Research Council's report, Status of Pollinators in North America, include informing the agricultural community about ways to manage pollinators and conducting studies to improve restoration …
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Materialising cultural value in the English lakes, 1735-1845 : a study of the responses of new landowners to representations of place and people
This thesis explores responses to the cultural construction in the developing identity of the English Lakes from 1735 to 1845, through studies of three landowners. The principal focus is Derwentwater. The Greenwich Hospital held estates from 1735 to 1832, Lord William Gordon from 1781 to 1823, and …
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Theatre : the art of human being : locating the cultural value of theatre in the Age of Broadcast Media and a retrospective paper on the process leading towards the 2000 performance Involving Eternity
… is concerned with the position of theatre as cultural commerce in the postmodern milieu of electronic broadcast media. It is the partial fulfillment of an MA degree in Theatre Making as studied from a performer's perspective. The other part of my final project was comprised by the 2000 …
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Cultural Values and Risk and Benefit Perceptions: An Examination of the Mediating Roles of Trust and Knowledge Hubris
<p>This thesis examines the process by which cultural value predispositions influence perceptions of risks and benefits of energy policies, specifically focusing on High Voltage Power Line (HVPL) installations and Hydraulic Fracturing (fracking). For HVPL installations I examine the role of …
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The Attribution of Intentionality in Relation to Culture and Self
… The self is also a product of culture and cultural value orientations (e.g. individualism and collectivism). Markus and Kitayama (1991) identified two construals of the self (e.g. independent and interdependent) that are influenced by culture. The current study examined how cultural value …
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A Critical Overview: Evaluation and Evidence for Cultural Policymaking and Practice in Wales (2004-2014)
… to conceptualise and articulate, and its value often challenging to describe. Cultural policy is subsequently difficult to evaluate, and cultural data is often porous, inconsistent and incomparable. These are three elements that together form the foundation of this thesis which has its …
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A Study of the Revival of the Arts and Crafts of the Yakima Indian Nation
… a study to discuss the recognized and accepted values of art education, namely: (a) The aesthetic value (b) The cultural value (c) The therapeutic value (d) The vocational and avocational value to those "gifted” and/or interested in the arts.
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General Fatalism and Diabetes Fatalism as Predictors of Diabetes Treatment Adherence
… conceptual distinction between fatalism as a cultural value orientation (general fatalism) and disease-specific fatalism is necessary to evaluate fatalism as a predictor of health behaviors such as diabetes treatment adherence. We tested an integrated, theory-driven structural model of …
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Desire and Agency in the Modern Women's Sonnet
… female experience, particularly in regard to the cultural value of love. In addition to its analysis of poetic form, this dissertation also engages a cultural/feminist critique based on an enduring theme in women's writing: the power of patriarchal constructs to prevent women's individuation …
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