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Showing 1 to 20 of 263 for “"HM Sociology"”.
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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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Imprisonment in Thailand: The Impact of the 2003 War on Drugs Policy
The major objective of this study was to analyse the impact of the 2003 war on drugs policy on imprisonment and the prison social world in Thailand. While most studies on the drugs war have focused mainly on the quantitative increase in the prison population in the penal systems as the policy’s …
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From narcotrafficking to alternative governance: An ethnographic study on Los Caballeros Templarios and the mutation of organized crime in Michoacán, Mexico
In this thesis, I unpack the mutation of Mexican organized crime by providing insights of unprecedented depth into one of the field’s principal actors of the past decade, Los Caballeros Templarios (The Knights Templar, LCT). My elaborations are based on firsthand qualitative data. During a year of …
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At home among strangers: The integration and transnational practices of Chinese-born Kazakh returnees in Kazakhstan
The thesis explores the post-return integration experiences of Chinese-born Kazakh returnees in Kazakhstan. Contemporary migration studies have explored a wide variety of integration processes and transnational practices among immigrants in different countries, however, there are only a limited …
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A critical analysis of the themes of disability, welfare and community in the Thai documentary series Kon Kon Kon
The study extracts themes from ten documentary films about disabled poor individuals produced and broadcast in the television documentary series Kon Kon Kon in Thailand during 2007-2011. Recurrent themes are those focusing on individual performance and personal characteristics of resourcefulness, …
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The Changing Place of Animals in Post-Franco Spain with particular reference to Bullfighting, Popular Festivities, and Pet-keeping.
This is a thesis about the changing place of animals in post-Franco Spain, with particular reference to bullfighting, popular festivities, and pet-keeping. The thesis argues that since the ‘transition’ to democracy (1975-1982), which made Spain one of the most liberal social-democratic states in …
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Regulation of manned commercial security services - A transnational comparative study of Belgium, Estonia, New York, Queensland, South Africa and Sweden
It is commonly recognised that commercial security, in its different forms, has become an important element in societies as a provider of private and public security. The reasons for this development are manifold but can be seen to well from the changes in individual societies and their governance …
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Communities of Practice facilitating learning and innovation in the Indian Administrative Services - A qualitative investigative study
The objective of this thesis is to investigate, identify, record and capture the formation of Communities of Practice and the associated processes of Communities of Practice facilitated learning, i.e. Situated Learning and Communities of Practice - facilitated innovation within the organizational …
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Creativity management in original television production at the BBC
The primary concern of this thesis is to explore how creativity is managed in original television production at the BBC, and to that end, it seeks to make an original contribution to both organisational creativity management and television production discourses. The thesis offers an extensive …
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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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