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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"Identity Creation"”.
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Replacing identity: Evangelical Christianity's role in identity creation and restoration
… understanding the difference between successful identity reconfiguration and the community’s role in confirming identity. This three-article dissertation explores how identities are impacted after experiencing a damaging experience by examining Evangelical Christianity’s role in identity creation …
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Identity Creation and Power Acquisition Through Language use in Preadolescent and Adolescent Girls
… and group identities; how individual and group identity creation and recreation is managed through language use; how stances of power and hierarchies are created and managed through language use; how directives and indirectness are used to create and maintain social power; and how female …
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Adult Third Culture Kid’s (ATCK’s) Concept of Belonging and Identity Creation: Can Spiritual Self-Leadership be a Solution?
… was “How can spiritual self-leadership foster identity development and sense of belonging in ATCKs in order for them to elevate their potential and value contribution in the workplace?” The four objectives for this study were to: (1) identify how ATCKs’ professional lives are impacted by their …
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A study of Albanian and UK consumers' identity creation within food shopping experiences: a consumer culture theory approach.
… as food outlets, and how they construct identity through their shopping experiences. The study's underpinning conceptual framework is Consumer Culture Theory - specifically the consumer identity and neo-tribe body of work. The research particularly focuses on Elliott's (2004) Consumption …
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Identity-portfolio-management: a data-led research study of organisational entrant engagement in processes of identity-creation and identity management
This PhD dissertation examines the identity-creation and identity-management processes involved in an individual’s entry into a new organisational context. This examination was achieved through the utilisation of a multi-method research design, with a quantitative component supporting the dominant …
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The increased feminization of the surfing economy: An exploration of the lived experiences of female surfers in Muizenberg, South Africa
… sport of surfing. The results reveal that identity creation of female surfers is influenced by the media representation of women as well as the masculinity of the sport. The female surfers of the study face structural, interpersonal as well as intrapersonal constraints in their surfing …
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Propuesta de identidad para la marca de pañuelos sostenibles “Adelina”
… we support and describe a proposal for a visual identity creation process for Adelina, a sustainable brand of timeless scarves. As part of this proposal, the new identity of the brand was defined, from its personality to the visual proposal. Within its visual proposal, some elements such as …
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The Useable Past: History and Collective Identity in Nova Scotia, 1835-1920
… between historiographical evolution and colonial identity creation was so close that one could argue that in reconstructing their past, elite Anglo-Nova Scotians narrated both the past they wanted and the future they dreamed.
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A Postmodern Reading of the Liggett & Myers Settlement: Finding the Unique Past the Modern Corporate Identity Model
… the shortcomings of the modern Corporate Identity model to fully observe business identity in its reading. Considering Corporate Identity as a postmodern analysis in case study form renders a new reading of the Liggett & Myers settlement with states' attorneys general as a Corporate …
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Merging Symbols, Space and Identity in Appalachia: An Examination of the Ramp
… rootedness in the Appalachian mountains has on identity creation through festival performance.
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Yall Aint Heard Us? Black Identity and Belonging in Appalachian Virginia
… remain overlooked. This research explores black identity, belonging, and lived experience in Appalachian Virginia, a space frequently excluded from racial examination. Utilizing interviews, demographic data, and autoethnography, this study centers black voices to explore the construction of …
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Lois Lenski, A Friend to Children: An Interdisciplinary Analysis of a Children's Book Author
… artifacts alongside issues of socialization and identity creation. Historically, the focus of the period in which Lenski was writing her regional novels is on the creation of a national unity and identity following such events as World War II. However, this national identity is inherently biased …
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Asatru in America: A New American Religion
… psychological tensions requiring new modes of identity creation. Using this paradigm, Asatru can be approached as a movement providing creative religious solutions to the tensions experienced by people living in modern America. This study addresses several areas of tension and their solutions …
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Brothers in Blood: the Significance of Land and Loss in the Creation of Jewish and Native American Ethnic and Religious identity
… Blood: the Significance of Land and Loss in the Creation of Jewish and Native American Ethnic and Religious Identity, represents an educational union between Syracuse University and the Onondaga Nation School as much as it explores the historical, theological and political interfaces between …
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The consumption of tattoos and tattooing : the body as permanent text
… in the physical permanence in relation to identity creation. This is set within the framework of Consumer Culture Theory (CCT). The reason for this is twofold, firstly to illustrate the ability of using tattooing as an instrument to investigate permanence within CCT. Secondly, to show the …
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Moving Rhizomatically: Deleuze's Child in 21st Century American Literature and Film
… by which it advances a notion of a machinic identity that moves continuously, contingently, and waywardly along less vertical, less excruciating and more horizontal, life-affirmative trails. To this end, my thesis proposes a “rhizomatic semiosis” as extrapolated from the philosophy of Gilles …
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Who do you think you are? A hermeneutic study of leaders' identities.
… Little attention has been paid to exploring identity creation of board level leaders over their professional careers. Studies on leadership identity have focused at organisational level, with those studies not taking into account the whole person perspective as situated in their historical …
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Italians in South Africa : challenges in the representation of an Italian identity
… Italian emigrant writers in representing their identity. The study places itself in the context of other studies in the field of i/emigrant, minority and ethnic studies in as much as the body of work, similarly to i/emigrant texts written in other parts of the world, has been to date considered …
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Constructing community and cosmos : a bioarchaeological analysis of Wisconsin Effigy Mound mortuary practices and mound construction
… were part of a system involved with the 1) creation of collective/ corporate identity, 2) denoting individual distinction and/or social inequality, or 3) a combination of both processes occurring simultaneously within Effigy Mound communities.The results from the mortuary analysis suggests …
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