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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Protestant work ethic"”.
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Depravity and the Protestant Work Ethic: Creativity in Western Religions
… guilt and transgression on creativity and hard work. Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish male participants were given two different tasks designed to elicit a sense of temptation and transgression in specific conditions. Subsequently participants completed several tasks measuring creativity and …
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Sources of Satisfaction and Dissatisfaction With Work and Tedium in a Mental Health Setting
… sources of satisfaction and dissatisfaction with work, and tedium (or burnout) for employees of community mental health centers was the intent of this investigation. This intent developed from the belief that many organizations function with regard to Herzberg's dual continuum theory, yet still …
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Examining religious and spiritual predictors of poverty attributions
… variables, political conservatism, and the Protestant work ethic and were consistent across Study 1 and Study 2. Overall, this shows the unique ability of religious and spiritual variables to predict these different types of poverty attributions. Limitations and directions for future …
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The making of a kholwa intellectual : a discursive biography of Magema Magwaza Fuze
… property ownership, individual rights and the Protestant work ethic, the amakholwa within the limited political sphere of colonial governance acquired, according to their own understanding, the rights of British subjects.
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The cultural niche of sublimated creativity
… it exists) is not supposed to be specifically Protestant, based on our review of the ascetic Protestant work ethic and contrasting theologies in the Catholic and Jewish traditions, we hypothesized that sublimation as an ego-defensive process would be easier to evoke in Protestants, as compared …
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Empty heroics, low comedy and pointless death: Structures of melancholy in the early novels of Kurt Vonnegut
… of the self through the establishment of the Protestant work ethic. These chapters also attempt to expose how many of the ideological concepts that adhere to work, progress and capitalism have melancholic consequences for all involved. Throughout the thesis the relationship between reality and …
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The Influence of Health Framing on Weight Stigma and Health Knowledge
… anti-fat attitudes, and health locus of control. Protestant work ethic, ethnicity, and BMI were also explored as moderators in the relationship between type of article and change in anti-fat attitudes. Participants were recruited from the subject pool at a university in Southern California and by …
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Impact of Class-based Prejudice toward Defendants and Victims on Mock Jurors' Decision-Making
… class was evaluated using a theoretical framework of justification-suppression of prejudice and intergroup threat. Across two trial simulation studies, the social class of the defendant (Study 1) or victim (Study 2), the availability of justification, and the presence of threat was …
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Friesens Corporation, printers in Mennonite Manitoba, 1951-1995
… and capitalism is that of Max Weber in The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. However, where the Protestant work ethic emphasizes individualism and personal success as a proof of God's blessing, the Mennonite work ethic stresses collective effort as evidence of one's relationship …
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Purgatory's Place in The South: A Black Woman's Journey to the Promised Land
… & Jackson, 1997) as the theoretical framework and autobiographical narrative inquiry (He, 2003; Moody,1968; Angleou, 1969; Hurston, 1965; hooks,1996; Jacobs, 1861) as the methodology, I explored the formal and informal educational experiences I received and reciprocated in Black church …
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Prevailing Attitudes Toward Work and The Relationship Between Religious Orientation and Work Ethic Dimensions
… pertained to the prevailing attitudes toward work and the relationship between religious orientation and work ethic dimensions. The study probed the most frequent or very common attitudes toward work among students in the Teacher Education Program at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, …
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Importing ‘Faith’: The Effect of American ‘Word of Faith’ Culture on Contemporary English Evangelical Revivalism
… methodology employing two cultural frameworks to deconstruct the<br/>movement’s rhetoric is applied to the writings, webcasts and other teaching materials<br/>marketed by these ministries. The first of these frameworks is a historical, interpretative<br/>theory acknowledging the …
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Aspects of personal happiness and their relationships with individual differences in personality
… such as personal relationships, leisure, work and religious beliefs. It has also been reported that well-being is related to personality, particularly the traits of extraversion (positively) and neuroticism (negatively). The main aim of the work now described is an investigation of the …
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Evangelicalism and capitalism: a reparative account and diagnosis of pathogeneses in the relationship
… and an uncritical reliance both on Max Weber’s Protestant Work Ethic and on David Bebbington’s Quadrilateral of Evangelical priorities. This then gives rise to misunderstandings and faulty prescriptions for the future of Evangelicalism. This thesis seeks to remedy this situation by providing a …
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"The Most Previous Refuge of Hope": Herbert Marcuse, Alienation and the Space of Possibility in European and American Contexts
… of "space." Chapter One uses Herbert Marcuse's work to analyze the European space of possibility found in bourgeois culture. The first part of the chapter presents a general overview of Marcuse's thought. Here, I examine: Marcuse's "humanistic" reading of Marx, as found in "The Foundations of …