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Showing 1 to 20 of 44 for “"Mentalities"”.
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The Tyranny of the Microbe: Microbial Mentalities in New Zealand, c.1880–1915
… sites where ideas about germs, or ‘microbial mentalities’, were formed and contested. From this, several themes emerge. Concepts of disease were constructed in the context of global networks of exchanges in ideas, people and diseases. These ways of thinking about disease helped people to …
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‘Talent’ Mentalities: Young People’s Experience of Being in a Sports Talent Development Programme
Article 12 of The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child grants each young person the right to express their view, have their opinion considered and have their say in decisions that affect them. Previous research on talent development in sport has however failed to recognise the voice of the …
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Protection and pragmatism: an exploration of the mentalities of workers in the private security industry
… 'security'. In other words, it explores their mentalities. This exploration of the mentalities of those who provide private security will be undertaken through an exploratory case study, using the concept of nodal governance as the framing analytic. This case study focusses on a suburban …
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Globalization and ideology: ethics committees and global clinical trials in South Africa and Brazil
… of rationalities, which I propose to name <br/>mentalities. The description and interpretation of the seven mentalities identified in my study (pragmatic, bioethical, technical, healing, communitarian, analytical and critical) is the main task undertaken in this thesis.Interpreting mentalities …
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The Urban Politics of Settler-Colonialism: Articulations of the Colonial Relation in Postwar Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1945-1975 (AND BEYOND)
… some of the ways that colonial practices and mentalities have shaped relationships between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people in the historical and material conjuncture of Minneapolis, Minnesota, with a focus on the period 1945 to 1975. Building on political and geographical literature …
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Constructing colonialism: medicine, technology, and the frontier nursing service
… in influence of colonial constructions and mentalities in convincing the trial's investigators that the FNS was a suitable place for them to be conducted. And finally, this thesis critiques two theoretical models of colonialism of by scholars in Appalachian Studies and Science and Technology …
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Complexity: Theoretical and methodological applications for sociology
… now argues that the old Newtonian clockwork mentalities and classical experimental models cannot adequately describe highly complex systems. Instead anti-reductionist and nonlinear theories and methods may be much better suited for the task. The sociological relevance of Complexity---both its …
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The functions of empathy in Anglo-Saxon England
… understanding of narrative empathy and reading mentalities in Old English literature. Further, it contributes to empathy studies by highlighting culturally-specific functions of empathy not encompassed by contemporary theories.
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Tourism development in transition economies: an evaluation of the development of tourism at a Black sea coastal destination during political and socio-economic transition.
… the political (politicising), psychological (mentalities), institutional dimensions of transition (property rights, social networks and local empowerment), the role of the state (reduced state intervention) and the individual (human capital). Some of these themes (politicising and mentalities …
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Beautiful People: The Past, Present, and Future of the Fashion Industry's Thin Ideal
… bringing people of all shapes, sizes, colors and mentalities to the front of the line and showing the rest of the world that its ok to just be you. </p>
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The French Chef and the Cold War: Julia Child and the Mask of Contained Domesticity
… in general. Using Child's reactions to Cold War mentalities, I demonstrate how Child was able to perform certain roles, specifically the "housewife," in order to penetrate the nuclear family bubble and implant new ideas about food, cooking, and femininity.</p>
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Rememoration, ‘sticky associations,’ and social media performativity in the pegida movement
… facilitate the growth of polarizing, tribal mentalities.</p>
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Your Thoughts Projected: Television Comedies, Economic Content, and American Economic Attitudes, 1949-1990
… that in turn illustrated the different economic mentalities held by the American public over the course of the latter half of the twentieth century.
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The survival of the mandarin tradition in German universities
… circumstances which allowed for persistence of mentalities and codes of practice traditionally associated with the mandarin tradition.
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Latina Immigrant Mothers' Counterstories of Education: Challenging Deficit Myths
… that uses counterstories to challenge deficit mentalities in education toward working-class Latin@ immigrant students and their families.</p> <p>This qualitative study involved individual, focus group, and member checking interviews with four Latin@ immigrant mothers in the San Francisco Bay …
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"""I feel impelled to write"": male intimacy, epistolary privacy, and the culture of letter writing during the American Civil War"
… as evidence of the cultural and ideological mentalities of Americans in wartime. Yet the scholarship has failed to notice the urgency with which soldiers sought to control and maintain the privacy of their correspondences. For millions of combatants, the Civil War presented problems of …
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The Architectural Coincidence: guessing consciously, gauging unconsciously
… methodologies but also deeply-rooted design mentalities, the conscious and the unconscious. Gauging is associated with consciousness, representing a will to pursue certain results based on intentional thought processes. Guessing, on the other hand, is associated with unconsciousness, …
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Models of Utopia: Representations of Nineteenth-Century Paris
… idealization of Paris, the analysis of utopian mentalities foregrounds their outlook on not only the city-space but of humanity which held much promise for harmony, happiness, and order in a future "utopian" state.
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An archaeology of colonialism, conflict, and exclusion : conflict landscapes of Western Sahara : in two volumes: volume one
… around the globe, with countries adopting siege mentalities with their neighbours. This dissertation will explore how archaeology can apply a multi-disciplinary approach, drawing upon a variety of resources, to help us understand the contemporary phenomena of conflict and exclusion, through the …
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