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Showing 1 to 20 of 95 for “"Individual agency"”.
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Individual Agency and Military Structure: Personal Artifacts From 1890s Fort Missoula
… signatures of both military structure and individual agency were established. Following recent attempts by other historical archaeologists to study the individual within archaeological assemblages, this thesis draws correlations between the role of an individual soldier stationed at Fort …
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Individual Agency and Military Structure: Personal Artifacts From 1890s Fort Missoula
… signatures of both military structure and individual agency were established. Following recent attempts by other historical archaeologists to study the individual within archaeological assemblages, this thesis draws correlations between the role of an individual soldier stationed at Fort …
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The Dark Side of the American Dream: Individual Agency, Hard Work, and Public Mass Shootings
… In other words, American culture views each individual as the master of their own destiny, provided they work hard. Though America’s culture has changed drastically over the course of its history, and differs greatly between various groups, the American Dream is a concept which runs deep in …
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A Phenomenological Exploration of Saudi Women Employees’ Perception of Agency and Career Advancement
… the perception of promotability as it related to agency norms experienced by Saudi women with at least two years of employment experience and working in mixed-gender environments in Saudi Arabia. The study examined the lived experiences of Saudi women employed in Mecca, Madinah, Jeddah, and …
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Pinoys in Aotearoa: Family agency in the doing of family in the context of kapwa and structural migration
… drawing from western understandings based on individual agency, even when analysing migrants hailing from collectivist cultures. Focusing on individual agency silences a collective type of agency and its role in (re)constituting family relationality, and in defining, reinforcing or altering …
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The Relationship between quality of life, education, and poverty & inequality in South Africa: the capability approach as an alternative analytical framework
… themselves, accurate or adequate. When assessing individuals and societies? quality of life and sense of well-being, we need to know not only about their levels of income, wealth, or consumption; but also about the opportunities they have, or do not have, to choose and to act. The capability …
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Thank God I'm an Atheist: Deconversion Narratives on the Internet
… of truth and intellectual honesty rather than individual agency, which in turn serves to imply that atheism is a subject-position immune to accusations that it is discursively-constructed and potentially ideological.
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Narrators, Navigators and Negotiators: Foreign Service Officer Life Stories from Canada's Africa Refugee Resettlement Program, 1970 to 1990
… to explore the relationship between officers' individual agency and structure in the implementation of Canadian refugee policy, and to present a hitherto under-represented part of Canada's immigration history. The research argues that the context and conditions of refugee selection can be more …
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Living with ourselves, together
… the first half of the dissertation focuses on individual agency, normativity and the self; while the second half explores aspects of our normative lives as social agents. More specifically, the first half contains papers on underdetermination by value, self-improvement, and the problem of …
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Family, Work, and Migration: Transborder Networking among Tlapanecs from La Montaña
… La Montaña . While the new ties created abroad, individual agency, the length of time away, and other circumstantial variations may lead to less locally available networking opportunities, migration often serves as a form of socio-economic mobility for households in the sending community, and may …
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Cultural Power and Utopianism in Laurie Halse Anderson's Prom and M.T. Anderson's Feed
… of rampant consumerism are combated through individual agency and sustained community involvement, whereas Feed acts as an apocalyptic dystopia in which any quest for agency is thwarted by the rampant consumerism connected to the rise of a transnational, info-age economy. The extent to which …
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Dostoyevsky And Wright On Becoming The Underground Man
… texts illustrate the enduring conflict between individual agency and societal constraints, underscoring the dangers of suppressing free will and the complexities of the human condition.</p>
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English Imperial Selfhood and Semiperipheral Witchcraft in The Faerie Queene, Daemonologie, and The Tempest
… of religion, gender, attachment to place, and individual agency.
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Making Community Gardens Thrive: A Systematic Study of Factors Affecting the Development of Community Gardens in Greater Victoria
… and funding. By adopting the framework of agency and social capital, my research examines how community garden organizers in Greater Victoria overcome these challenges in establishing and sustaining community gardens. I conducted semi-structured interviews with fifteen research participants …
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Writing a feminist ethnography: A comparative analysis of Iranian women's stories of resistance and agency in Iran and America
… examining women's experiences of resistance and agency within the diaspora and in Iran. Through a feminist ethnographic analysis of Iranian women's narratives, I work against Western stereotypes as a way to problematize the assumption that immersion in Western culture "saves" Middle Eastern women …
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Negotiating Responsibility: Ethics of Choice and Care in Postsocialist Oncology Wards in Serbia
… the, often taken for granted, assumptions about individual agency in the realms of the body, disease and medicine. I show that ethics of care, as framed in contemporary Serbian postsocialist context, serves as a unique example of simultaneously coexisting ideas about the assumed neoliberal agency …
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The Maoist Message in the Chinese Countryside, 1949–1978
… highlights grassroots experiences and individual agency in Socialist China. Centering on the oft-dismissed social dimension of propaganda, this dissertation demonstrates that the effectiveness of Chinese Communist Party’s propaganda in the countryside depended not on ideological …
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How African American College Graduates Who Attended An Early College Describe The Benefits
… Theory (HCT), Critical Race Theory (CRT), and Individual Agency to interpret the experiences of the ten first generation African American college graduates who attended an Early College program in North Carolina. The data suggest graduates recognized the importance of earning their college …
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An investigation into the impact of the marketization of further education on individual teacher identities using visual images, metaphors and narrative to analyse and evaluate the key themes and discourses
… of FE (post-incorporation) on the roles of individual teachers and teacher managers. The study takes an interpretive stance using visual metaphors and the narratives of participant teachers, linked to their roles, and teaching journeys, to analyse and evaluate changes to professionalism and …
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