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Showing 1 to 20 of 83 for “"Individualist"”.
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Individualist Anarchism in France and Its Legacy
… of the libertarian movement, namely French individualist anarchism, which was most active during the Belle Époque. I provide a synthetical examination of the individualist tradition that challenges dominant historical narratives and dissolves the notion of a stable, fixed, and unitary …
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Uncertainty Reduction in Initial Interaction of Collectivist and Individualist Students
This exploratory study uses a qualitative methodology, in-depth interviews, to investigate the feelings of uncertainty of six international students within their first three semesters at a medium-sized university in the Midwestern United States. Participants described their feelings of uncertainty …
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The influence of individualist and collectivist attributes on responses to Likert-type scales
… of the thesis is to explore how collectivist and individualist attributes affect the way people respond to Likert-type questionnaires. In the first study, a new measurement tool for individualism and collectivism was developed to address critical methodological issues in this field of …
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Friendship bonds, perceived parental support and self-esteem in children from individualist and collectivist cultures
Individualist cultures emphasize independence, self-reliance, self-expressiveness, and emotional detachment in most of their relationships, whereas collectivist cultures emphasize interdependence, cooperation, maintaining harmony, and strong emotional attachment. Based on these differences, a goal …
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Individualism and religion : the impact of the individualist cultural tradition on religious beliefs and practices.
… on religion. In examining the effect that an individualist cultural tradition has on religious attitudes and behaviors this study reveals that the shift in authority that takes place within this cultural tradition has a large influence on the subsequent religious behaviors and attitudes of the …
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Understanding outcomes of the organizational entry process : a comparison of the situationist, individualist, and interactionist perspectives
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1991.
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Exploring the Relational Center of the Individualist/Collectivist Spectrum: A Literature Survey of Direct and Indirect Perichoretic Works
… concept of perichoresis can interact with the individualist and collectivist spectrum in progressively fruitful ways. Chapter one explores a general understanding of the spectrum and perichoresis while structuring them around the idea of a relational center. Chapter two conducts a literature …
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Individualism and Sport in Modern China Beyond the Myth of Collectivism
… were motivated to take part in sport more for individualist reasons. Also, they endorsed collectivist values of sport and appeals of group sport participation more strongly than the individualist ones. Moreover, this study also found certain variations in individualist/collectivist orientation …
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The Development of Theory of Mind and Social Competence in Young Pakistani Children
… onset of ToM understanding in collectivist and individualist cultures. However, the findings of cross-cultural studies regarding these variations are inconsistent. The major aim of this innovative research was to investigate differences in the acquisition of ToM in children from a collectivist …
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L'individu, avenir de la sociologie ? Réflexion critique sur l'individualisme méthodologique et la sociologie de l'action à partir des travaux de R. Boudon
… "ontological" individualism : in some sense, any individualist theory of explanation assumes that, to some extent, the individual is more "real" than the social.
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Attributes of individualism/collectivism and the behavior of representatives in intergroup negotiations
… differentially affected those with individualist and collectivist attributes. Those with collectivist attributes were more concerned about their outcomes, and engaged in fewer problem-solving behaviors when they represented a group as compared to when they negotiated on their own …
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Individualism/Collectivism, Psychological Processes, and Styles of Conflict Resolution
<p>Conflict resolution styles in relation to Individualist (IND) and Collectivist (COL) value orientations were examined in the present study. Past research (Ting-Toomey et al., 1991, Pearson et al., 1998) has focused on cultural groups in order to explain conflict resolution styles. The current …
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Profiles of Personal Agency: Ethnocultural Variations in Self -Efficacy Beliefs
… Discussion centers on within-group patterns of individualist and collectivist value orientations, implications for measuring individualism and collectivism among ethnocultural groups in the U.S., considerations relevant to the measurement of collective efficacy, and the consequences of …
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A Social Contract Perspective on Organizational Citizenship Behavior
… cooperation, and political theory literature on individualist and communitarian ideological orientation, which derives from the social contract theories of Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau. Survey data from 315 organizational employees supported the study's proposal that stronger communitarian …
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FOLLOWERS' REACTIONS TO FEMALE LEADERS: LEADER'S ORIENTATIONS, PROTOTYPICAL CATEGORIZATIONS, AND ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE
… of leaders. Additionally, collectivist or individualist nature of leaders' orientation, as well as organizational culture has the possibility of affecting followers' perceptions. Leader's orientations reflect either a collectivistic or individualistic personal style. Collective orientations …
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An explanation for differential career progression for women in Nigerian banking industry.
… (gender and patriarchal practices) and individualist exclusion (educational qualification) (Murphy, 1984). Whilst equality feminism suggests that working mothers' primary responsibility of childcare and masculine corporate cultures have resulted in fewer women in high-ranking positions …
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Designing Culture-Tailored Persuasive Technology to Promote Physical Activity
… EMVE-DeCK Framework and Canada/United States (individualist culture) and Nigeria (collectivist culture) as a case study, I describe: (1) the cross-cultural user studies and empirical findings that informed the PT intervention; (2) the design and implementation of the culture-tailored PHA; and …
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The impact of gender role expectations on South Asian American women: A quantitative study
… they are educated within and socialized to the individualist value system of the West. Previous research has shown that the zenith of this cultural conflict is in the practice of dating and marriage, which can cause significant internal and intergenerational stress for both parents and their …
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Twelve Rules for Drinking
… persona of the charmingly and recklessly defiant individualist. Alcohol has been imagined as the writer’s muse and has assumed a prominent role in countless works of fiction. My culminating project is a collection of stories and poetry with that common thread: alcohol. Borrowing from the Humanist …
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Woman's essential "nature" : a classical, communitarian gender mythology
… feminist theory that rejects the liberal individualist premises of liberal feminism.
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