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Showing 1 to 20 of 96 for “"Egalitarianism"”.
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Kantian constructivism and Rawlsian egalitarianism
"This dissertation examines John Rawls's claim that his theory of justice can avoid discussion of ""deep metaphysical claims"" which communitarians have alleged to be implicit in his theory. It shows that Rawls's Kantian Constructivism and his method of reflective equilibrium can only establish a …
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Luck Egalitarianism and Democratic Equality
Luck egalitarianism is the view that justice requires that we hold people accountable for the choices that they make but not the circumstances that they find themselves in. My aim in this thesis is to reject luck egalitarianism. My argument builds on the recent critique of luck egalitarianism by …
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Egalitarianism, Perfectionism & Support for the Arts
This dissertation is oriented around two moral ideals. The first is equality and the second perfection or excellence. In the chapter 2 I review some of the literature on the seemingly devastating ‘Levelling Down Objection’ to equality. I am in agreement with Larry Temkin that the Levelling Down …
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The Effect of Cohabitation on Egalitarianism in Marriage
… relationship between premarital cohabitation and egalitarianism in marriage using data from the two waves of the National Survey of Families and Households (N = 13,017). Multiple regression and path analysis techniques are used to test this effect. Cohabitation is viewed as an experience in which …
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Sex Role Egalitarianism and Relational Aggression in Intimate Partnerships
… on the potential roles of gender, sex role egalitarianism, acceptance of couple violence, and trait anger. As expected, trait anger was positively correlated with relational aggression. Acceptance of couple violence predicted the perpetration of relational aggression above and beyond the …
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A Merging of the Concept of Egalitarianism and the Universal Guarantee of Minimum Competence in American Public Schools: A Historical Summary (1700-1978)
… were related to the origins of the concepts of egalitarianism and a universal guarantee of minimum competence in American public schools.</p> <p>The developments examined were: the societal expectations for the schools; the make-up of the school population; and the emphasis placed on, and the …
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Not If, But When Do We Show Bigotry? A Study of the Interaction of Emotional Resource Depletion and Egalitarianism with Expressions of Bigotry
… motivated than others to suppress their biases. Egalitarianism, a value system that emphasizes equal treatment for all, may be an individual difference that influences this motivation. Thus, egalitarianism was examined as a potential moderator of the resource depletion effect. In the current …
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Levels of self-control, partner fusion, and marital egalitariansim in men as predictors of male-to-female partner violence
… the contextual or cultural variable of marital egalitarianism or gender equality in the relationship. Participants in this study included 133 men from various men's groups (men's anger management groups, a college athletic team, a civic group, church groups, a court services group, and men from …
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Reading Bernstein and Critical Posthumanism Diffractively Through One Another: Intra-activity Pedagogy
… I will address four concepts related to this egalitarianism through Bernstein and critical posthumanism and suggest the notion of trans-material egalitarianism in relation to equality in education. The four concepts are subject, boundaries, power and causality. Reading these two theories …
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Values as Guiding Principles of Motivation: A Two Factor Model
… analysis revealed two independent factors: Egalitarianism, which predicted positive judgments of outgroups, and Conservatism, which predicted positive judgments of ingroups. In Study 2, participants read a story describing either a gay or heterosexual man. I predicted that participants would …
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A libertarian theory of property: its justification, critique and implications
… arguments advocating equality or greater egalitarianism. 6. Certain implications welfarist libertarianism holds regarding the justification, extent, and operations of the state. The conclusions the author arrives at include: 1. There is a natural right to limited exclusive private …
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Nursing students' attitudes towards victims of domestic violence as predicted by selected individual and relationship variables
… to family violence combined with high levels of egalitarianism and perceived control over life events would be more sympathetic toward battered women than those who did not. Instruments used to measure the chosen variables included the Sex-Role Egalitarianism Scale, the Conflict Tactics Scale, …
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Heterosexual and lesbian women's attributions of domestic violence and myth endorsement behaviors
… It also looked at the effect of participants’ egalitarianism on their victim blaming behaviors and the effect of their own victimization on their perpetrator blaming behaviors. Analyses were also conducted to examine the relationship between attribution behaviors and myth endorsement behaviors. …
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Characteristics of male batterers and substance abusers: the relationship between sex role attitudes and the approval and severity of the use of physical force by men in a family context
… of the study indicated that level of sex-role egalitarianism was not significantly related to use of marital violence. However, level of violence in childhood, level of alcohol abuse and level of approval of marital violence were related to the use of violence by men in a family context. …
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The challenges faced by the only black team playing 6-down touch rugby at In2Touch : "I just saw all these white people and just thought Wah...what is going to happeb to us!"
… seriously question the idea that sport promotes egalitarianism. The data reveals that the legacy of apartheid still means that access to sports such as 6-down touch rugby are available only to areas with particular facilities and to those that can afford it. It is not available for all. Sport …
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More Equal Than Others: Animals in the Age of the Human Rights Aristocracy
… conflicting intellectual currents of the time—egalitarianism and naturalism—and illustrate, with the writings of French Enlightenment philosophers Jean-Baptiste Salaville and Jean-Claude Delamétherie, how these currents informed their accounts of human and animal rights, respectively. Second, I …
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Perceptions of Seventh-day Adventist Church Elders in Ghana and the United States on Servant Leadership and Culture: a Correlational Study
… cultural dimensions (Power Distance, Gender Egalitarianism, and In-Group Collectivism).</p> <p>Method. A quantitative research design was used to survey the elders of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in two selected union conferences in two different countries, Ghana and the United States of …
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Engineering Equality: The Organization of Education Labor Markets and the Distribution of Teacher Quality in Japan
… in structural inequality or educational egalitarianism. In addition to teacher quality distribution, I also analyze the relationship between individual teacher quality traits and school performance, showing that not every teacher quality measure is significantly associated with school …
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