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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Identity Changes"”.
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That Could Be Me: Asian Adoptee Identity Formation and Violence
… this relationship between violence and identity, I use Identity Theory to analyze the contents of eleven interviews with Asian adoptees from Korea, China and Vietnam living in the US. I found that violence influenced identity changes in four major ways: vicarious victimhood, solidarity …
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An archaeology of artisan identities and global relationships: Case studies of 19th and early 20th century weavers and carvers from Pohnpei and Kosrae, Micronesia
… affects people’s identities. Some identity changes are materialised in the dynamic designs of artisan-made ethnographic goods. Archaeologists can therefore examine identity changes by isolating and then tracking artisans’ design choices. Hundreds of choices can be clustered and …
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Sokolská identita: dříve a nyní
This disertation thesis deals with the Sokol identity changes during its whole existence as Sokol was founded in 1862. In 2012 Sokol celebrated 150th anniversary by XV Sokol gymnastic festival 'Slet'. There were different opinions about that festival. That is the reason why the question about …
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Syrian Refugee Fathers Perceptions of Identity and Family Dynamics in the U.S. after Displacement
… connections, experiences of isolation, and identity changes with provider role. A thematic map also is created illustrating how the stress of displacement and being far away from extended families profoundly influence provider identities and family interactions. In addition, the contextual …
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Life being an International Student in the United States: Acculturation, Culture Shock, and Identity Transformation
… to analyze the culture shock and cultural identity changes they experienced, this paper intends to seek ways to help this group of students to ease their acculturative stress and to maximize their study abroad experience. Two focus groups with a total of eight international students were …
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The Role of Communication in Marketing Brand Identity Change: A Case Study of the UAE SMEs
… a critical role to decide the fate of such brand identity changes in the UAE SMEs. Therefore, it has been an important and tricky subject to bring into analysis what counts as a successful brand change communication approach to adopt and use by SMEs managers during the rebranding process in the …
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A Feminist Approach to Understanding ESL Identity Development: A Case Study of Korean Women in U.S. Universities
Current literature and approaches to identity construction within L2 contexts often fail or underemphasize the important roles that strategic identity and discursive-place identity play in second language acquisition processes. This study explores how education, English discourse, and American …
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The Impact of Students’ Future Imagined Identities on Their English Language Learning in an EFL Context: The Case of English for Law
… (2000-2010) understanding of English learners’ identity and its impact on language learning. The findings of this research revealed that while in the classroom, students construct future images of themselves, referred to as imagined identities. The study also found that a focus on such imagined …
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Beyond Backlash: Reducing Resistance and Generating Support in Response to Diversity Initiatives Through Opening Identity Tactics
… researchers are recognizing that dominant social identity threat towards diversity initiatives can result in backlash, researchers have paid limited attention to how dominant social identity threat can be in service of support for diversity. This dissertation considers how identity exploration …
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Turning points or dead ends? Identity, desistance and the experience of imprisonment
… develop a nuanced conceptual account of criminal identity and human agency. However, these tools have mostly not been used to consider identity changes among long-sentenced prisoners, despite the growing preponderance of long-term imprisonment in England and Wales. As a result of this, desistance …
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Exploring the impact of post-high school experiences on the social identities of newly graduated girls
… period is marked by significant shifts in social identity, yet existing literature largely overlooks the sudden social identity changes (SSIC) that occur in non-traumatic contexts, such as this transition. Most studies on identity development have focused on gradual changes and their impact on …
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Exploring the Driver's Situation Awareness in a Dynamic Traffic Environment
… a discrete change (vehicle location, color, or identity) is occasionally made in one of the vehicles on the road ahead during a 150 ms blank-out period. The detection of a change indicates the awareness of that information, thus giving an indication of the driver's situation awareness. …
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Intrapersonal and interpersonal meaning-making: The process of identity reconstruction after the loss of a spouse
… (e.g., increased depression and anxiety) changes, and symptoms can be short-term or permanent (Parkes, 1998b). Additionally, individuals can also experience significant shifts in their identity after the loss of a close loved one (e.g., Hastings, 2000). Previous research has proposed that …
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Asian migrant women’s identity negotiation as language learners: Significant events towards imagined identities
Social identity issues come to the fore when people migrate from one place to another. Study of identity issues has been a central theme in understanding migrants. However, ambiguous and complex identity negotiation processes have been underexplored. Recently, demographic changes in Aotearoa NZ, …
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Surviving Cancer in Appalachia: A Qualitative Study of Family Cancer Communication and Changing Personal Identities Through the Cancer Journey.
… The analysis additionally revealed the identity struggle women experience between maintaining traditional Appalachian gender roles and surviving cancer. These findings suggest that female Appalachian cancer survivors appear to have additional challenges that may make the cancer …
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Sorting out ceramics : correlating change in the technology of ceramic production with the chronology of 18th and early 19th century western BaTswana towns
… technological choice, function, style and social identity. Changes in scale or type of ceramic manufacture must be evaluated in terms of the sociopolitical, cultural and technological context in which they took place. These shifts in pottery production occurred over a relatively short time, but …
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The socio-cultural architectural features of vernacular and contemporary dwellings for sustainable desert dwellings design in southwest Libya
… and people, which has formed its architectural identity over centuries. However, in recent decades, the vernacular architecture of desert dwellings, which were sustainable for many centuries, is no longer able to keep up with the contemporary lifestyle for different generations. The vernacular …
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An exploration of the role of identity in smoking, cessation, maintenance and relapse
… proposed that the formation of a ‘non-smoker’ identity is necessary for long-term abstinence. This programme of research aimed to explore how a smoker’s sense of identity changes following smoking cessation and also relapse after a sustained period of abstinence. Design: Two qualitative, …