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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Culture clash"”.
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Culture clash: Making the case for a new paradigm in police cultural training
… any, meaningful exposure to the "oppositional" culture of the urban, minority poor. Given the current popularity of the Community Oriented Policing paradigm---with its emphasis on positive police/community relations---current police hiring and training practices handicap police agencies in their …
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Ethnicity and attitudes to body shape
… particularly views of obesity in different cultures. The primary aims of this study were to compare British-born South Asian and Caucasian pre-adolescents and their views of their parents in their attitudes to obesity and importance of thinness. Secondary aims were to investigate the role of …
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How to Improve the Performance of M&As: from the Cultural Clash Perspective
… and founders are often interviewed on culture-related topics, especially when their organization is under strategic expansion and transformation. Because of the sensitivity of culture to organizational modifications, corporate culture has been a long-lasting arguable concern discussed …
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From Rhodesia to Zimbabwe via Oxford and London : a study of the career of Dambudzo Marechera
… arrival in Oxford, in the context of 'culture clash', 'the African heritage' and Postcolonialism which so preoccupied its original reviewers. Chapter Four will examine Black Sunlight and The Black Insider, written while the author was destitute in London, in terms of Jung's 'neurosis or …
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Doubly Marginalized: The Representation of Female Adolescence and 'Otherness' In Several Contemporary French Novels by Women of Non-French Origin
… host society. The products associated with this culture clash have become a common theme in contemporary art and literature, particularly among authors of non-French origin, a theme which has transcended both literary genre and intended audience.</p> <p>This thesis examines four contemporary …
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Queer Panic in Native American Literature
… life. The principal conclusion is that a culture clash exists between assimilated and traditional and/or neo-traditional views about the re-acceptance of alternative genders, and the acceptance of culturally imported queer identities. Even so, Native American sexual minorities and …
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Queer Panic in Native American Literature
… life. The principal conclusion is that a culture clash exists between assimilated and traditional and/or neo-traditional views about the re-acceptance of alternative genders, and the acceptance of culturally imported queer identities. Even so, Native American sexual minorities and …
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Framing a Blaxicana Identity: A Cultural Ethnography of Family, Race and Community in the Valley Homes, Lincoln Heights, Ohio, 1955-1960
… formation, against a backdrop of color and culture clash, and the social construction of race. The author's narrative will constitute contextual introductions to discussion topics and iterate direct correlations of her lived experience to larger community and cultural accounts that helped to …
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Dividing the Blue Line: the Cultural Work of Rural Policing in Upstate New York
<p>This dissertation focuses on the ways in which residents of Old Forge, New York make use of policing as a resource to structure and reproduce social and symbolic boundaries. Drawing on in-depth interviews with a combination of 40 permanent residents and second-home owners in the area, I explore …