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Showing 1 to 20 of 657 for “"Ethnographic study"”.
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An Ethnographic Study of Domestic Violence
… risk of domestic violence is limited. For this study, ethnographic methods such as participant observation, interviews, and life histories were used to investigate the role that both partners play in abusive relationships, as well as the cultural factors which permit domestic violence. The …
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An Ethnographic Study of The Moth Detroit StorySLAM
… those questions to the listeners, this study reveals the ethos of hundreds of story enthusiasts—an undisputed admiration for the revelation of authentic, individual truths.</p>
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The Musicality of Salsa Dancers: An Ethnographic Study
<p>This work analyzes the musical knowledge and aesthetics acquired by improvisatory social salsa dancers who hone close listening skills through corporeal means. The connections that these dancers construct between music, self, and partner make evident an engagement with musicality that can be …
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Parents Speak: An Ethnographic Study of Autism Parents
… Through descriptive fieldnotes from the 18-month study, it also interrogates the uniqueness of parents' circumstances as they are shaped by their children's bodies and their own bodies, and urges the reader to think about the peculiarities of bodies and the particularities of the situations in …
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Water and sociality in Khayelitsha: an ethnographic study
This study examines forms of social relationships created around unequal municipal water distribution in South Africa. Using the case of Khayelitsha, the study investigates residents' use of water to sustain their livelihood and build personhood. Water mobilises the formation of relationships in …
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An ethnographic study of football supporters in Northern Ireland
This thesis is an ethnographic study of football supporters in Northern Ireland. It focuses on the supporters of Cliftonville Football Club, based in North Belfast.<br/><br/>This thesis examines the relationship of the supporters with the club including the various activities of the supporters in …
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Sustainability in Secondary Education in England: An Ethnographic Study
… upon sustainability. I visited three case study schools for six weeks each: these were carefully selected to represent a range of progress towards becoming sustainable schools. I visited two other ‘benchmark’ schools for two days each: these were chosen on the recommendations of school …
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Negotiating Community : An Ethnographic Study of an Evangelical Church.
Evangelical Christianity is commonly interpreted in terms of an ongoing reaction to a religiously and morally defunct modernity. Some commentators argue for its popularity on the grounds that it compensates for the discontents of modernity, offering certainty in a context of uncertainty, clarity …
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An Ethnographic Study on Heritage Preservation in Bo-Kaap
… of the city. This research paper includes an ethnographic study, as well as a photographic essay and a podcast series which supports the research in creative forms.The researcher interviewed several people from the area to discern the culture and the issues faced by the community. This paper …
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Publishing the confidential: an ethnographic study of young Irish bloggers
… This thesis is the result of a three year ethnographic study of two groups of young Irish bloggers on the LiveJournal platform, which mixes blogging tools with social network facilities. Drawing from Bakhtinian concepts, it proposes a framework to describe and analyse blogs as semiotic …
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Women's sexual health in Saudi Arabia: A focused ethnographic study
Study aim: This study was conducted to describe how women and health care professionals perceive sexual health and services that are currently provided in Saudi Arabia. Background: At present, the worldwide health authority, in the form of the World Health Organisation (WHO) has drawn great …
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An ethnographic study of gender differentiation in a middle school
This study examines facets of gender differentiation in a middle school. Utilizing an ethnographic methodology emphasis is placed upon the exploration of classroom interaction, inter-personal relations and participants' perceptual stances in order to explore how gender is implicated in the process …
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An Ethnographic Study of Women Using HypnoBirthing: The Mongan Methodg
… women in the U.S who utilized HypnoBirthing. Study rigor and trustworthiness criteria included credibility, transferability, dependability, and confirmability (Lincoln & Guba, 1985). Results of this ethnographic study strongly reflect all participants who used HypnoBirthing shared core …
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Beyond incredible: The Paralympic road to Rio - an ethnographic study
The primary purpose of this ethnographic study was to understand the culture of the U.S. Paralympic Track and Field team from the 2015 World Championships through the 2016 Rio Paralympic Games. Secondary purposes included examination of the influence of sport in the lives of those involved in elite …
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Asian children at home and at school: an ethnographic study
This thesis is an ethnographic study of Asian children who attended Cherrydale School, a mixed comprehensive in the south of England. It is concerned with the first generation of Asian children educated in Britain and is a study of their lives at home and at school. The main focus of this thesis is …
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An Ethnographic Study of Everyday Interactions in Innovative Learning Spaces
… three innovative learning spaces through an ethnographic approach that, following the analytic orientation of Suchman’s situated action, considers and juxtaposes anticipated versus actual use. More specifically, this work addresses the following research questions: • How do people interact …
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An Ethnographic Study of Palliative Care in a Nigerian Hospital
… countries such as Nigeria. This qualitative study using an ethnographical approach to understand the cultural, socio-political, environmental, and organisational dynamics which influenced the provision of palliative care, and the patients’ and relatives’ behaviour towards its utilisation in a …
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Inside Reflexive Management Learning in the Workplace: An Ethnographic Study
… the results of a two-year reflexive insider’s ethnographic study of RML in the Irish subsidiary of a services industry MNC. This heretofore unavailable methodological vantage point provides a novel perspective on RML which elucidates its highly contextualised character. The concern here has …
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