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Showing 1 to 20 of 110 for “"Giddens"”.
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Teoría, Sociedad y Poder en Talcott Parsons, C. Wright Mills, Jürgen Habermas y Anthony Giddens : una contribución a la Teoría Social contemporánea
Fil: Fernández Cardoso, Sara. Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales; Argentina
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Social impact assessment monitoring the Huntly monitoring project in retrospect
… and theoretical positions advanced by Albrow, Giddens, Hagerstrand and Pred are examined. Ideas pertinent to SIA Monitoring are brought together in a discussion of Albrow’s Dialectical Paradigm, Giddens’ Theory of Action, and Hagerstrand’s Time-Geography. The implications for SIA Monitoring of …
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Identity, discourse and practice : a qualitative case study of young people and their sexuality
… base is provided through a reading of Foucault, Giddens, Smith, Habermas, and Benhabib. Concepts of 'expert systems', 'colonisation' (Habermas 1986, 1987), 'fabrication' (Ball 1997), and 'fateful episodes' (Giddens 1991) have been given specific scrutiny.</p> <p>The resulting analysis is used to …
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Darbas vyrų dominuojamose užimtumo srityse: moterų patirtys, dirbant IT sektoriuje Lietuvoje /
… of working in the IT sector. Using A. Giddens' idea of the „Project of the Self“, it shows what it means to women to be a woman in IT, what has influenced their career choices, and how their family, friends, and colleagues have reacted to their choices. A. Giddens argues that the …
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The role of Management Accounting Practices in shaping efficiency in a Colombian Utility Conglomerate
… thesis, which builds on structuration theory (Giddens 1984, Giddens 1993), delineates the interplay between social structures and agency at CUC, the way this interplay led to the reproduction of the very notion of efficiency. In addition, the thesis extends the work of Englund and Gerdin (2008) …
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Gestaltung der kulturellen Intergration bei Unternehmenszusammenschlüssen aus strukturationstheoretischer Perspektive
… Strukturation des britischen Soziologen Anthony Giddens herangezogen. Mit Giddens lässt sich die Veränderung von Organisationskultur verstehen als die Modifikation von Sinn- und Legitimationsstrukturen, die durch soziales Handeln konstituiert werden und es gleichzeitig ermöglichen und steuern. …
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Constructing everyday notions of healthy eating: exploring how people of three ethnocultural backgrounds in Canada engage with food and health structures
… described by the social theorist Anthony Giddens, to refer to the range of food rules and resources people draw on. The research was conducted as part of a qualitative study on family food decision-making that included 144 participants from 13 African Nova Scotian, 10 European Nova …
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Heterogenität und Bildungsprozesse in bürgerschaftlichen Initiativen : eine empirische Studie zur Transformation konjunktiver Orientierungen
… für andere zeitdiagnostische Überlegungen auf Giddens Position (vgl. Giddens 1996) verwiesen, der die gesellschaftlichen Veränderungen in der reflexiven Moderne mit weitreichenden Prozessen des sozialen Wandels verbunden sieht. In dieser Studie wird im Anschluss an die strukturale …
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Crime Legends in Old and New Media
… from a sense of "ontological insecurity" (Giddens, 1990). Following Giddens' formulation, this insecurity is intertwined with distrust stemming from an uncertain relationship between the individual and the social protection expected in the past from both formal state activities and informal …
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The Chaos of Convergence: A Study of the Process of Decay, Change, and Transformation within the Telephone Policy Subsystem of the United States
… unified endeavor. I then propose that Anthony Giddens Theory of Structuration offers both policy analysis and organizational theory a meta-theory that would allow for both areas of research to be reconnected. Various policy and organizational analysis models are examined, and alterations in …
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A structurational approach to the use of virtual learning environments in multicultural contexts
… present only a partial view of reality. Anthony Giddens’ [1984] Theory of Structuration overcomes these dichotomies. Therefore, the theory was used to develop a Structuration Conceptual and Theoretical Framework [SCTF] to guide the empirical study of VLE use in multicultural settings. The theory …
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The Political Communications of Iranian Green Resistance Movement of 2009: A Critical Discourse Analysis
… of this work are the Theory of Structuration of Giddens and the Theory of Communicative Action of Habermas. The data is drawn from YouTube videos and analyzed through Critical Discourse Analysis. This research identifies the key stakeholders of the movement and investigates weather their …
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Stratabound and Stratiform Sulphide Mineralisation in the Scottish Dalradian
Predicted demand for cobalt in the production of high capacity batteries for electronic devices and in electric vehicles has increased as the world is expected to move away from the use of fossil fuels. It is likely that the demand for cobalt will rise beyond currently known reserves, therefore, …
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The effects of labour policies in the Piedmont Region of Italy on equity in the labour market: reflections on women in Labour
… (Del Boca, 2002; Naldini & Saraceno, 2008). Giddens' theory of structuration is the conceptual framework from which this study approaches these questions. It is thus held that agents (in this instance, women) are constrained by structures (labour policy framework and institutionalised labour …
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"You Is The Church": Identity and Identification in Church Leadership
… in Denver, CO. Guided by Structuration Theory (Giddens, 1984), Communicative Constitution of Organization through the Four Flows (McPhee & Zaug, 2000), and Organizational Identification (Scott, Corman, & Cheney, 1998), the bi-directional relationship between leaders and the organization was …
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"You Is The Church": Identity and Identification in Church Leadership
… in Denver, CO. Guided by Structuration Theory (Giddens, 1984), Communicative Constitution of Organization through the Four Flows (McPhee & Zaug, 2000), and Organizational Identification (Scott, Corman, & Cheney, 1998), the bi-directional relationship between leaders and the organization was …
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An inductive investigation into relationships between geographically co-located actors : the contribution of relationship marketing to regional competitiveness
… and deployed in, this thesis is based on Anthony Giddens' theory of structuration.
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Down the rabbit hole: An Exhibition – and – Alice in Wonderland engaging with the reflexive project of the self: An exegesis
… the story as a “reflexive project of the self” (Giddens, 1991, p. 5). I began this research having already created two exhibitions based on Alice in Wonderland and with a desire to understand the text in more depth. As I became immersed in the subject, I discovered the importance of …
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