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Showing 1 to 20 of 62 for “"Etiquette"”.
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ON THE BUSINESS OF SOCIALITY: A FIGURATIONAL EXPLORATION OF THE ETIQUETTE INDUSTRY IN POST-REFORM CHINA
This research analyzes the rise of the etiquette industry and its auxiliaries in post-reform China. Methodologically, it adopts an Eliasian figurational approach and combines archival research with six months of ethnographic fieldwork. Each of the four analytical chapters analyzes a sub- …
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Learning in adaptive spaces : how customer experience professionals experience learning during technology-mediated interaction, and implications for organisational learning
… spaces’. The research found that a lack of etiquette regarding the use of digital tools can adversely affect processes of meaning-creation during the technology-mediated work of CX professionals. The findings indicate that a more intentional use of technology – a ‘digital etiquette’ – can be …
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Cambodia 1991-94: hierarchy, neutrality and etiquettes of discourse
… dissertation develops the idea of "discursive etiquette" as a working concept. From this perspective it examines Cambodian conventions of social hierarchy, Khmer linguistic etiquette, and the discourse of the Cambodian news media as they have changed in relation to social and political change …
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Second weddings : a new kind of fairy tale
… second-time brides in the 1970s and 1980s and etiquette books published during the same two decades, which offer a more conservative view of American culture. In addition this study looks at how brides who remarried during this time felt about their wedding and the pressures they may have …
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Audition Technique: A Survival Guide (For College Undergraduate Students)
… career. Furthermore, there are unspoken rules, etiquette, and untapped opportunities of which many young actors are simply unaware when auditioning. Through the exploration of auditioning as a technique and not just a means to an end, students will find confidence, understanding, and the tools …
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Damnation or Illumination: Harold Frederic's Social Drama and the Crisis of 1890s Evangelical Protestant Culture
… of episodes, Frederic uses standards of personal etiquette enunciated through a century-long series of published manuals to ponder both the inevitability and the likely consequences that will result from these "compendium of intellectual currents" (Campbell 80).
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Unmeasured, detached, and isolated: The legitimation of a domesticated identity
… those codified through manuals of etiquette like Manuel Antonio Carreño’s Manual de Urbanidad y Buenas Maneras—continue to shape self-perception and societal expectations. Through video, sculpture, miniatures, and installation, I reconstruct a visual language that resists …
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Information in nineteenth century England : exploring contemporary socio-cultural perceptions and understandings
… of nineteenth century viewpoints, including etiquette and behavioural literature, Victorian periodicals, events such as the Channel Tunnel panics of the 1880s and discrete individual case studies. The thesis concludes that the nineteenth century formed the crux point between premodem …
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Making the American Aristocracy: Women, Cultural Capital, and High Society in New York City, 1870-1900
… long. Mass-circulated media, visual artwork, and etiquette manuals celebrated the Society woman's cultural capital, but simultaneously popularized it, making it accessible to the upwardly mobile. By imitating the representations of High Society life that they saw in newspapers, magazines, and the …
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Mutor i det godas tjänst? : Biståndsarbetare i samtal om vardaglig korruption
… are in a sense arbitrary. Also, the 'etiquette of bribes' is analysed. There are many elements in the interviews that tend to a definition of such an etiquette, the most salient being the importance of discretion. Many scholars have pointed to the problems of defining and measuring …
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Genuinely caring: compassion and the healing nature of the therapeutic relationship
… for patients should be abandoned in favour of etiquette-based approaches; it also contests contemporary wisdom that the best cost-effective measures are achieved through driving for efficiencies. Suggestions are made regarding the role of counselling psychology in supporting the emergence of …
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Awareness and Performance for Standards Precautions by Health care Occupation at a General Hospital
… sharp tools/linen/environment and respiratory etiquette. The study obtained permission from the medical center. A total of 187 questionnaires were distributed, out of which 184 were retrieved for analysis from June 1, 2013 to June 30, 2013 with the study purpose explained and agreed on. SPSS …
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Kalbinis nemandagumas politiniuose TV debatuose /
… as a violation of the established rules of etiquette. In the science of linguistic pragmatics, impolite behaviour is primarily associated with negatively evaluated behaviour, occuring in specific context. The object of this research is linguistic impoliteness in Lithuanian political debates. …
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Grief, Mourning and Motherhood: Cultural experiences of child and infant deaths across different social classes in the Victorian period
… extensively by historians, especially the etiquette and social requirements of mourning within the middle and upper classes, and in turn the working classes' attempts to reach these requirements. However, up until recently, many historians have often failed to examine the ways in which …
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[mu]Jawstures : jaw-teeth microgestures for discreet hands-and-eyes-free mobile device interaction
… modalities inappropriate given social norms, etiquette, and rules of engagement. Researchers have investigated using jaw and teeth microgestures as a discreet hands-and- eyes-free solution for mobile device interaction while situationally impaired. However, an opportunity remains to …
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Enterprising Women in Novels of Manners: The Social Economies of Austen, Thackeray and Wharton
… novel has some relationship with the codes of etiquette of its day, and contains many of the same currencies, though valued at dramatically different rates in each context. Female protagonists must take stock of the prevailing economic conditions, but their success or failure will have as much …
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Digital Citizenship in 21st Century Education
… that addresses access, commerce, communications, etiquette, law, health, wellness, rights, and responsibilities, is recommended to support children online.</p>
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Fitness Culture: Making New Persons in Quasi-Socialist Belarus
… leisure, the gendered body, and even public etiquette. Exploring the values carried by fitness culture and their impact on a “still-socialist” place, this dissertation outlines a new research agenda for a politically engaged anthropology of fitness.</p>
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