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Showing 1 to 20 of 380 for “"Deviant"”.
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Deviant fertility in China
… to a better understanding of the Chinese "deviant" fertility by conceptualizing the phenomenon in a theoretical framework and conducting an empirical investigation of the issue. In this dissertation, the concept of "deviant fertility" is defined as reproductive behavior that violates …
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Deviant driving behaviour : an epidemiological study
… research is based on an epidemiological study of deviant driving behaviour. The data collection phase implemented a self-report survey to capture data on deviant driving behaviour. The study seeks to establish: • Differences between deviant driving behaviour and respondents' demographic …
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Attribution to Deviant and Nondeviant Social Roles
… and controllability. Causal attribution to deviant social roles was found to result in a significantly higher across-scales score and to be more internal, less external, and more global than attribution to nondeviant roles. Participant gender showed an interaction with deviance overall and …
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The Relationship between Attitudes toward Deviance and Deviant Behavior: The Influence of Science, Individualism, Social Bonds and Deviant Peers
… whether or not that individual will engage in deviant behavior. This research contributes to the theoretical and empirical literature on deviant behavior by examining the strength of two cultural factors, the scientific worldview and individualism, in predicting an individual's attitudes toward …
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The cutting edge : deviant realisms and cinematic disruption
This thesi explores two possibilities and relates them to each other: infusions of fantasy (or magic, the dream, the ,marvellous) which undermine realism and the use of disruption as a specific strategy for communicating disorder or elusive experience. It examines the expression of both fantasy and …
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Electronic Dance Music: From Deviant Subculture to Culture Industry
… since its inception in the late 80s as a deviant subculture. Previous studies of raves and other music subcultures focus almost exclusively on the role of popularity in transforming the subculture. In this research, I found, in the case of EDM at least, a more complicated process in which …
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A quantitative investigation of normative and deviant religious experiences.
… experiences, it is an important predictor of deviant religious experiences. It was expected that individuals with a social network centered a round a religious organization would be more likely to claim experiences, but results failed to support this hypothesis. While there are some definitive …
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Neighborhood Mutual Aid Groups and Spaces of Deviant Care
… both fields by inquiring about the places where deviant care is practiced. In this thesis, I propose a theory of deviant care geographies, which I define as “productions of space/place which resist Black subjection and Black death by emotionally, materially, and ontologically attending to the …
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Previous conformity, status and the rejection of the deviant
… Wahrman (1970a) suggested that a high status deviant who had violated a general expectation of conformity would be subjected to more severe sanctions than one who had not violated an expectation of conformity. The purpose of this study was to assess the relative importance of previous …
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Every Cloud Has A Silver Lining: Positive Effects Of Deviant Coworkers
… and explore the reactions of employees to a deviant coworker. Specifically, I focused on the potential positive effects for employees who are in the presence of a coworker perceived as deviant, dysfunctional, or negative. Consistent with a labeling perspective on deviance, I argued that an …
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Effectiveness of Psychological Techniques in Increasing Deviant Sexual Fantasy Self-Disclosures
<p>The assessment of deviant sexual fantasy and interests is an important component in sex offender risk assessment and subsequent treatment planning. However, clinicians and researchers have long acknowledged that sex offenders often distort or underreport details related to their sex offenses, …
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The Challenge of Modifying Deviant Behavior: Restructuring Incentives in Renegade Regimes
… whether international coercion used to confront deviant behavior in renegade or rogue regimes produces an offset of the benefits of continued defiant behavior, or produces a restructuring of incentives and a counterproductive result. Much has been written on the effectiveness of international …
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Analyzing deviant workplace behaviors: a comparative study of new and traditional scales
… and validates a new measure of technology-based deviant workplace behavior (TbDWB) and examines its antecedents and attitudinal outcomes. In Study 1, I used survey data from 1,228 full-time U.S. employees to identify and confirm a three-factor structure of TbDWB using exploratory and confirmatory …
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