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Socially constructive individualism ..
This item was digitized by the Internet Archive. Typewritten sheets in cover. Thesis (M.A.)--Boston University Bibliography: p. [98]-107.
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Forgiveness, Individualism, and Collectivism
… reviews the literature examining the effects of individualism and collectivism on forgiveness. In Study 1, four scales are created that are hypothesized to relate to the study of culture and forgiveness. Evidence for the reliability and validity of these scales are presented. In Study 2, the …
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Individualism in education reform
… for future generations. A critical analysis of individualism in U.S. culture, standardized testing, its history, and the ways in which it is used will show that individualism is a powerful cultural tradition in dominant U.S. culture. As well, the analysis will show that reformers utilizing …
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Individualism: A Conception of Person
… with ICP. These suggested a conceptualization of individualism and collectivism as two orthogonal dimensions, rather than a bipolar dimension. Psychological functioning of ICP and CCP was investigated with regard to attributions and decision-making in a social dilemma. Specifically, high ICP …
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Modern individualism and identity confusion in istanbul
… cultural whole and its values along the lines of individualism and holism. In the last part, I will bring these two perspectives together and examine the consequences of modern development for identity formation and subjectivization in Istanbul. My data consists mostly of repeated utterances, …
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Individualism in the Ethics of Elijah Jordan
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-04T21:18:09Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 0005953.pdf: 6742121 bytes, checksum: 9cdee7a38d228f5252ba1498c070be81 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1953
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Individualism in the Novels of Nuruddin Farah
… Nuruddin Farah. This thesis locates a reading of individualism in Farah's novels in the context of the historical and philosophical development of modern identity in the societies of the North-Atlantic. It relies primarily on the analysis of philosopher, Charles Taylor, who proposes that …
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The Ethics of Animal Advocacy: Towards Biocentric Individualism
… applicability of a developed form of biocentric individualism with the ethical underpinning of notions of the 'illegitimacy of animal use' extrapolated from normative animal advocacy perspectives, my proposition is that these shortcomings can be ameliorated and that such an alignment forms …
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Consumer Individualism and Community Orientation Among Protestant Churches
… in American society being overwhelmed by rising individualism? How is the tension between individual needs and community demands being resolved in contemporary American culture? In order to investigate these questions, I will focus on the interaction of religious institutions within their …
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Individualism and Interdependence: Tapping into the Third Self-Construal
Traditionally, when it comes to describing an individual’s self-construal much of the focus is on its interdependent and independent aspects or dimensions. Individuals with a more independent self-construal are generally more focused on their own goals and driven by their needs and are usually …
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Expressive individualism in a midwestern situated youth subculture group
1 PDF file (ix, 249 leaves : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm)
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Heroic individualism: the hero as author in democratic culture
… specific reference to the question of "heroic individualism." I attempt to elucidate the notion of heroic individualism by examining three modern democratic moralists whose work occupies the space between politics and literature: Jean Jacques Rousseau, Thomas Carlyle and Friedrich Nietzsche. In …
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Individualism/Collectivism, Psychological Processes, and Styles of Conflict Resolution
… of culture, measured by the Collectivism and Individualism scale (Thandis et. al. 1993) as well as attribution processes and related emotions. Psychological factors such as causal attributions (the belief to which other's actions are attributed) and interpersonal emotions such as anger and …
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Durkheim's Refutation of Spencerian Methodological Individualism: A Critical Evaluation.
… critique of Herbert Spencer's methodological individualism. It is found that while select Durkheimian claims merit continued allegiance, his broader critique of Spencer's methodological individualism must be viewed as logically and empirically deficient. In conclusion I examine the …
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Individualism and collectivism: Its implications for cross-cultural advertising
This dissertation examined how individualism-collectivism, a core dimension of cultural variability, is reflected in the advertising appeals in two countries (the U.S. and Korea) that have been shown to differ on this dimension. It also investigated the relative effectiveness of culture-relevant …
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Individualism and Collectivism: Well Being Within the African American Community
<p>The purpose of the current study is to examine how cultural values are linked to well being among African Americans and the generational differences that moderate those links. It is hypothesized that a) that the older generation of African Americans will score higher on allocentrism than …
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Descent: American Individualism, American Blackness and the Trouble with Invention
… in their attitudes toward the American truisms “individualism,” “blackness” and “invention.” Beginning with William Carlos Williams’ formulation of descent (as a practice necessary for establishing national literary identity) in <em>In the American Grain</em>, the project resolves around the …
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The Organizing Dilemma: Individualism, Collectivism, and the Control of Organization
… major kinds of self-definition may be adopted. Individualism denotes a definition of self in which selves are defined as distinct individuals, while collectivism refers to a definition in which selves are defined as distinct groups. Depending on members' definitions of self, the organizing …
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Individualism-collectivism and relationships in distributive negotiation: An experimental analysis
… Kong to test predictions about the impact of individualism and collectivism on the process of distributive negotiation. Individualism and collectivism are cultural syndromes that generally refer to the relative emphasis people place on individuals or groups in thinking about and behaving in …
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Individualism and the public good: a case study in childhood immunisation
… economic history, ushering in the rise of the individualism which was fundamental to the prevailing philosophy of neo-liberal rationalism. In addition, however, to the widely recognised individualism in the political economy there was also a rising attitude of individualism within New Zealand's …
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