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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Popular attitudes"”.
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Popular attitudes towards housing in Malta
… their home, environment and social needs. The popular attitudes in Malta toward a housing, and thus the relative importance given to these various factors, have changed radically in the course of time. I have attempted to trace these changes through information gathered from various press, …
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Popular Attitudes to Taxation in Britain, c.1945- 1992
… a general view among British historians that popular opposition to tax increased dramatically in the 1970s. However, no study has looked in detail at the available evidence. This view has been based largely on politicians’ statements and a few isolated studies from the 1980s, most of which did …
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Do southern Africa’s dominant-party systems affect popular attitudes?
… party systems have on three specific political attitudes in Africa: demand for democracy, evaluation of the supply of democracy, and pluralism. The academic literature on Southern Africa’s dominant party systems has produced a theoretical distinction between two types of dominance. On the one …
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Disruptive propaganda: The availability, censorship, and distortion of visual information in Robert Wise's the body snatcher
… to negotiate censorship regulations as well as popular attitudes concerning American medicine. The visual vocabulary of The Body Snatcher displays these intertwining concerns through props, setting, and the narrative itself. This is a study of how The Body Snatcher utilizes these methods to …
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Contextual Dynamics of Immigration Attitudes: Regional Differences in Southern Europe
"Research in the area of attitudes towards immigration will benefit from a more thorough discussion of the relationship between degrees of political engagement and the variance of political and social tolerance towards immigrants. Drawing upon institutional theory and realistic conflict theory, I …
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“What sort of communists are you?” The struggle between nationalism and ideology in Poland between 1944 and 1956
… national education system, attempted to reshape popular attitudes to religion, and launched a massive propaganda campaign to reinforce and popularize their objectives. This study seeks to investigate the communists’ attempts to accommodate Polish nationalism, the impact these attempts had on the …
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An investigation into the cultural meanings of contemporary mourning and memento mori jewellery (London 1980-2008)
… of death and mourning, and imply changes in popular attitudes towards bereavement and grief, even a new cultural acceptance of death and mortality. However, the contemporary meanings of the new jewellery appeared to be more varied, wide-ranging and ambiguous than those of their historical …
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Historical perceptions of Roman Catholicism and national identity, 1869-1919
… fundamental changes which occurred in English attitudes to Roman Catholicism, and in the construction of English national identity, in the late nineteenth and early twentiethcentury. It argues that the excltisivist Protestant identity of the nation, which had hitherto been maintained by an …
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Towards a social theory of mental handicap
… development of scientific conceptualistions, popular attitudes and treatment provisions in the light of economic relations. (The historical analysis necessarily confounds industrialisation with the growth of capitalism, but limited cross-cultural material suggests the latter as the crucial …
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LIFE IS PRICKLY. NARRATING HISTORY, BELONGING, AND COMMON PLACE IN BOR, SOUTH SUDAN
… and other narratives in order to sketch out some popular attitudes toward speech, responsibility and commitments. Most of the body of the dissertation is concerned with everyday talk about the past and with sketching out the background necessary to understand the stakes at play in discussions …
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Scientists and the Ethics of Cold War Weapons Research
… of the Vietnam era cast a long shadow, shifting popular attitudes toward science and heavily influencing the character of scientists' opposition to the Strategic Defense Initiative during the 1980s.
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Sage Illusionists: A Historical Study Using Illusionists as a Reflection of Mass Entertainment, Popular Culture, anf Change During the Late Nineteenth Century
… massive shifts in social organization, social attitudes, and global influence due to the effects of the industrial revolution and imperialistic expansion. This birth of a public sphere and the mass entertainment industry was related to a blurring of the lines between traditional social classes. …
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Print, power and personhood: Newspapers and ethnic identity in East Siberia
… capacity of strong ethnic identities to hinder a popular identification with a multi-ethnic federal state, even as other commentators have accused politicians of deliberately encouraging personal ethnic affiliations. The interaction between political propaganda and personal perception within the …
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The U.S. Office of War Information and American public opinion during World War II, 1939-1945
… both in the informing and in the influencing of attitudes and opinions toward those policies. This study is two-pronged: on the one hand, official Washington’s measurement of public opinion (its attitudes and opinions about certain war-related issues) and, on the other hand, the management of …