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Showing 1 to 20 of 261 for “"HM Sociology"”.
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The influence of leadership styles on employees’ job performance through the mediation role of employees’ motivation and job satisfaction
Pengurusan pada dunia hari ini adalah berkisarkanmengenai pengurusan dinamik mengikut perubahan masa yang pantas. Kesedaran untuk membangunkan ciri kepimpinan terbaik semakin meningkat dalam kebanyakan organisasi. Tujuan kajian ini adalah untuk mengkaji sekiranya terdapat perkaitan antara gaya …
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Professionals’ perceptions of young males in child sexual exploitation policy: a critical policy genealogical analysis
Background: The discourse on young males affected by or involved in child sexual exploitation (CSE) is often silenced due to the preoccupation with, and generally greater publicity of, female victims within professional practice, policy and research. Historical and contemporary CSE discourse is …
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Multiculturalism caveat: potential antecedents of intergroup and acculturation attitudes
Multiculturalism and relevant acculturation processes are issues that are highly relevant today. Acculturation occurs in multicultural societies and refers to a process through which people from different backgrounds and with different identities try to find a balance within the same societies, …
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Explosive remnants of war: a case study of explosive ordnance disposal in Laos, 1974-2013
This thesis examines one man-made disaster, resulting from the plethora of UneXploded Ordnance (UXO) in Laos, to clarify the performance of post-conflict humanitarian aid and development until 2012. This is achieved through case study field work in Laos. The time period studied is from 1954, the …
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The Times and the revolutionary crisis of 1848
The thesis seeks to examine how The Times functioned within mid-nineteenth-century British society and to suggest how the newspaper can be used to read the history of the period from the perspective of the dominant elements within it. It begins by analysing the uses made of the newspaper by …
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Engendering homelessness: an ethnographic study of homeless practices in a post-industrial city
The aim of this thesis is to examine the extent to which homelessness is a gendered phenomenon. In the homelessness literature direct comparisons between men and women are rare, and the ability to compare is complicated by the tendency for research to be either on 'single homelessness' or 'family …
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Understanding serious organised crime: the view of law enforcement personnel in Scotland
This research explores the law enforcement view of serious organised crime in Scotland set within a framework that explores organised crime in terms of its history, definition, group structure, violence and its capacity for corruption. While the focus of the work is on organised crime groups …
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Housing tenure choice in Scotland: an empirical study of the 1996 Scottish house condition survey
This thesis analyses Scottish households' tenure choice behaviour by using economic approaches. The data set comes from the 1996 Scottish House Condition Survey (SHCS). To estimate the household's tenure decision behaviour, two simulation models with different structures are developed. The first …
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Development and urbanisation: the case study of Amol and Mazandaran province, Iran
Many developing countries in the 1950s, and 1960s adopted a growth centred strategy which was a centralised approach to development with the main focus on efficiency. But this strategy failed to improve the socio-economic situation of the majority of their rural population because it ignored the …
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A critical discourse analysis of the new management discourse of virtual organisation
Promulgated as a revolutionary new paradigm of management and organisation, virtual organisation has allegedly ushered forth an indispensable set of new organisational structures, practices, and relations that would have the power to effect not only radical changes in management and organisation, …
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Including young people: exploring citizenship and participation in areas of urban regeneration
There has been widespread concern not just in the UK, but also across much of Europe about the disconnection and disengagement of young people from democratic processes, both formal and informal (O’Toole, 2003). Taking into account the series of transformations that have occurred over recent years …
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What Police Do? What Victims Need?: A qualitative analysis of the police response to domestic violence (in Essex)
The key purpose of the research was to review the policing of domestic violence in Essex to identify how police understandings of domestic violence impacts on their response to the problem and the levels of protection offered to victims. Through unique access to police files and police property it …
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Multidimensional Strategies of Boundary-drawing towards Syrian Refugees in the Turkish Informal Market Economy
This thesis, with its specific focus on the labour-intensive economic sectors, analyses how boundaries are drawn in multiple forms towards Syrians refugees in Turkey’s informal market economy. Employing the case of Turkey as a new immigration country, the thesis provides a multidimensional analysis …
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‘If you’re a bit of a risk-taker you don’t see the dangers’: Exploring Gender Differences in Leisure Sport Risk-taking
The popular leisure sports of skiing, horseriding and motorcycling carry considerable risks to health, or even life, to those engaging in these activities; consequently, they have been largely dominated by men whom our culture encourages to take risks. The risky leisure sports of skiing, …
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Class, gender and cultural work in British documentary film production: Experiences, subjectivities and policy discourses
This thesis explores class, gender and cultural work in British documentary film production. It investigates documentary filmmaking as creative labour by using interview, ethnographic observation, and discourse analysis. The methods allow analysing experiences of class and gender and modes of …
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Communicating Transitional Justice and Peacebuilding: How does storytelling challenge the meta-conflict in Northern Ireland?
Research into the way that peacebuilding and transitional justice contribute to or challenge existing discourses in affected regions demonstrates a fragile relationship, whereby interventions may exacerbate existing cleavages in divided societies. Storytelling includes a range of approaches that …
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Disinformation, Science Communication and Trust: Food Rumours in Thailand
Abstract False information on the internet is one of the important global agendas. It becomes much more intensive since the rise of social media uses. The information leads people to have false beliefs and actions. There are many types of false information on the Internet. However, the food rumour …
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Data-driven policing: how digital technologies transform the practice and governance of policing
Adoption of advanced digital technology is one of the most controversial and fundamental transformations in contemporary police practice. Despite its significance, empirical enquiry of these technologies, and the way they shape and are shaped by policing environments is rare. Drawing on in-depth …
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Being and doing anorexia nervosa: An exploration of diagnosis, identity-work, and performance of illness.
This research examines how individuals experience the diagnosis of anorexia. Specifically, it explores how individuals come to be diagnosed with anorexia and the meanings they attach to this process, how the diagnosis informs their self-understanding and identity, including in a treatment context, …
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