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Showing 1 to 20 of 369 for “"Habitus"”.
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Replicating a habitus: transplanting capital, habitus and doxa in a school start-up
… period. Drawing on Pierre Bourdieu’s concepts of habitus, doxa, capital and field, this case study examines how the institutional habitus of the established school, its capitals, and its position in the field of education have impacted the establishment of the new school. The study draws on data …
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Habitus leikarans : Pierre Bourdieu vs. Mike Leigh
… persónusköpunarferli leikara geti haft áhrif á habitus þeirra. Rýnt verður í sköpunarferli leikara með mann- og félagsfræðilegum augum þar sem stuðst verður við kenningar úr smiðju franska félagsvísindamannsins Pierre Bourdieu um habitus og tengd hugtök. Til að afmarka þýði rannsóknarinnar var …
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Hegemony, Habitus and Identity in Japanese University Men's Rowing
… life. In particular Bourdieu's concepts of habitus, field and capital prove powerful. It is argued that University rowing, whilst not a major sport in Japan, occupies a unique space within sporting experience. Due to historical factors, its' pedagogical and hierarchical nature, and the day …
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Entrepreneurial habitus and nudging at multi-generational family firms
Parent family firms engage in corporate venturing (CV) as a strategy for renewal and competitive advantage. As part of the venturing process, they provide organisational sponsorship to imbue capital and resources to their new ventures. For this study, I investigated seven parent family firms and …
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Hate Speech, Habitus, and Identity Signaling on 4chan’s Politically Incorrect Board
<p>Websites, such as 4chan, have provided a place for extremism and hate speech to flourish through anonymous discourse. One group that has been especially important to this growth has been the alt-right. The alt-right is a far-right white nationalist movement that is known for engaging in …
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Greenies, Growlers and Goffers: The development of the Royal Navy Habitus
… to investigate the development of a Royal Navy habitus. It is one of the first studies to uncover distinct social processes within the Royal Navy that otherwise would have largely remained unknown to a wider academic audience. An ethnographic methodology was used to investigate the attitudes of …
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South Asian Young British Muslims: Identity, Habitus and the Family Field
… and extends Bourdieu’s (1930-2002) theory of habitus and social field to the study of identity negotiation and intergenerational transmission. In so doing, the study adopts a sociological perspective which is sensitive to individual action, and conceptualises identity as the process of …
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Novel Approach for Non-Invasive Prediction of Body Shape and Habitus
… A standardized tool to measure body shape and habitus can allow for the discovery of correlations between body dimensions and movement patterns.</p>
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Transforming habitus? : experiences of mature students in a higher education institution
… in which dispositions of class, embodied in the habitus, shape opportunities, choices and experiences of a group of mature students enrolled at a school of management studies within a higher education institution. The study focuses on the reasons these mature adults returned to study, the …
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RACE, SOCIALIZATION, AND CIVILITY: INTERROGATING THE COMMUNICATIVE CONSTRUCTION OF THE WHITE HABITUS
… of racism, socialization through the white habitus, and civility utilizing critical-qualitative methodologies. I interviewed fourteen participants of various racial backgrounds a total of twenty-eight times to understand how they identified and negotiated the institutional norms of higher …
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The Steppenwolf Scenario: Establishing the habitus of Chicago’s Off-Loop theatre community
… of scenarios and Pierre Bourdieu’s concept of habitus, takes a sociological lens to the historical antecedents and theatrical predecessors of Chicago’s Off-Loop theatre community to find the origins and bases of the qualities which structure the contemporary theatre scene. These qualities; …
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Re-animating the fringes and fissures of Richmond as a Rural Habitus
In order to achieve sustainable occupation on the terrain it is imperative that one is inserted within a favourable locale relative to the social societal system of organization as well as within the proximal bounds of the built infrastructure that support this system.
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TRANSNATIONAL SALVATION AND THE GENDERING OF HABITUS: KOREAN WOMEN PROTESTANT MISSIONARIES IN HAITI
This dissertation critically examines both the discursive and empirical significances of recent newcomers in the Haitian religious field, namely Korean and Korean American Protestant women missionaries. This confluence of Korean and Haitian Protestantism, which first emerged in the early 1990s, is …
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A Matter Of Habitus: Character Development In The Literary Productions Of Garcia Lorca
<p>A MATTER OF HABITUS: CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT IN THE LITERARY PRODUCTIONS OF GARCIA LORCA</p> <p>by</p> <p>LISA MONTES</p> <p>December 2014</p> <p>Advisor: Dr. Francisco Javier Higuero</p> <p>Major: Modern Languages (Spanish)</p> <p>Degree: Doctor of Philosophy</p> <p> This dissertation explores …
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Schooling Habitus: An auto/ethnographic study of music education's entanglements with cultural hegemony
… Sociologist Pierre Bourdieu’s concepts of ‘habitus’, ‘cultural capital’, and ‘symbolic violence’ offer a framework by which social justice questions and cultural expressions can be merged into one. Accordingly, I use a Bourdieusian framework to explore the way in which habitus is influenced …
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Learning to resist: exploring habitus (trans)formation of critical teacher-activists before 1994
This study aims to understand the enabling conditions for the emergence of teacher activism before South Africa's democratic transition in the 1990s. It does so by examining the life experiences of four teacher activists that became politically active in their childhood and youth, and who entered …
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