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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Relative autonomy"”.
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A Peaceful Death?: Kamilaroi French ‘family’ and ‘relative autonomy’ for ‘Aboriginal peacebuilding’
This thesis addresses two fundamental questions: First, what are the root causes of Aboriginal experiences of violence in Australia today? Second, what cultural resources can be drawn upon to promote ‘Aboriginal peacebuilding’ in response to this violence? This thesis provides new insights into the …
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"The relative autonomy of reading practices by critical, cultural, and social formations: An ethnographic and textual analysis of re-entry women students' interpretations of ""Educating Rita"""
"This study traces the 'relative autonomy' of discursive practices across a critical, cultural, and social formation by different 'interpretive communities' in response to the 1983 British film, ""Educating Rita."" Employing ethnography as its method, along with textual analysis, it has sought to …
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Evaluating theories of liberal hegemony and small states in U.S.-Jordanian relations since 2000
… by attributing a level of a mutually agreed relative autonomy to the weaker side, Jordan.
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Power and political process: The case of the Ivanpah Airport
… the organizational capacity of the state and its relative autonomy enabled state actors to dominate the airport's development process by defining the need and setting the agenda for the project. Additionally, state officials acquired the land for the project by circumventing established mechanisms …
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Tell Me One True Thing
… the development of my role in the family from relative autonomy to primary support and caregiver--essentially I find I have taken the place of my mother. After her death, I found that I did not know her well. In some sense, these poems attempt to recover lost memories. In the process, my …
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Differences Between First-Generation and Continuing-Generation College Students in Psychological Need Fulfillment, Academic Engagement, and Retention
… included psychological need fulfillment (autonomy, competence, relatedness), academic self-regulation (relative autonomy index), stress, academic engagement (learning involvement), academic performance (GPA), and retention. Between groups <em>t</em>-tests were used to assess differences in …
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O trabalho do enfermeiro na rede hospitalar privada: caracterização da sua pratica
… and/or professional expectations is gloomy. The relative autonomy and the satisfactory interpersonal relations are the positive aspects of a male nurse's work. The dichotomy between the teaching and the professional practice of nursing was evidenced.
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Confrontation, comparison and reconstruction of the walled city of Shahjahanabad
… of India, which were conceived on the basis of relative autonomy of the existing societal structure, got transformed in to complex, fragmentary patterns of urban development due to their failure to support continuous population pressure and new trends of urbanization. One of these cities, …
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Canadian province-building : the state as educator and entrepreneur in Alberta
… in connection with the social origin and relative autonony of those systems. Using the case study of Athabasca University, a Canadian distance-education institution in the province of Alberta, the study is a critical work of historical sociology, in which the shifting social role of a …
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An Investigation Of The Association Between Physical Self Perceptions, Autonomous Motivation, And Fitness Education Strategies
… was to investigate the relationships between relative autonomy (autonomous versus controlled motivation), engagement in physical activity in a physical education class, and health-related fitness test scores. Participants were a total of 300 students drawn from grades 9, 10, 11 and 12 from a …
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Mothers' goals for adolescents in the United States and China: content and transmission
The current research examined how children are socialized toward culturally valued goals during adolescence in the United States and China. 221 mothers listed and ranked their 5 most important goals for their children (mean age = 12.85 years). Children also ranked the importance of the goals and …
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The measurement of unemployment in Europe with particular reference to Britain, France and Poland
… is considered, its significance being the relative autonomy between the reality and representation of unemployment. Thirdly, the history of social policy and state labour market intervention are studied to demonstrate the way in which both have shaped unemployment and its measurement. The …
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When Rules and Common Sense Collide: Expressions, Roots, and Impact of Informal Civil Society in Ukraine
… behaviors. Informality fosters citizens’ relative autonomy from the incongruous and antagonistic formal institutions, and serves as a tool for attaining and expanding civic agency. Furthermore, informal associational activity not only preserves spaces free of external intrusion, but also …
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Role of Inspiration in Increasing Situational Motivation in Male Team Athletes
Motivation and inspiration are often used superficially and synonymously in media coverage of sport. Sportscasters and reporters speculate about athlete motivation cite inspirational locker room speeches from coaches as a motivational source. Research in and out of sport psychology has developed …
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The political economy of conflict between indigenous communities and dominant societies: adivasis, Maoist insurgents and the state in the central Indian tribal belt
… tribal or adivasi landowning cultivators whose relative autonomy has come under increasing pressure over the past two centuries as the state has established control over natural resources in their area. Their support for the insurgents does not just manifest itself from exploited untouchables’ …
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The changing basis of state support for housing associations: A theoretical and empirical analysis
… and ideological struggle can be constituted relatively autonomously from economic relations. The recent growth of state support for housing associations provides an opportunity to reevaluate these differing views of state intervention. Is state support for housing associations best explained …
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Schooling, 'culture' and class : a study of White and Coloured schooling and its relationship to performance in sociology at the University of Cape Town
… The theoretical framework stresses the relative autonomy of the school and the importance of the social class origins of pupils. It illustrates that the social class composition of a school is crucial in shaping the pedagogical process and academic achievement. It shows that schools in …
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A chapel in southwest Virginia
… to formulate basic premises about my work. (1) Autonomy – I see the same object quality in industrial buildings in America as in deChirico’s ‘The Red Tower.’ However this autonomy is not the same of the moderns – of a pristine object placed within a hostile environment, but one of relative …
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Die relative Autonomie der Zentralbank
… institutionellen Status der CBRT als einen der relativen Autonomie zu untersuchen. Auch eine de jure unabhängige Zentralbank kann sich nicht von politischen Eingriffen abkoppeln, wie das Fallbeispiel Türkei zeigen wird.
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Portraits in the first person: an historical ethnography of rural teachers and teaching in British Columbia’s Okanagan Valley in the 1920s
… also afforded women economic independence and relative autonomy and thus expanded their personal and career horizons beyond the traditional domestic roles. Moreover for a substantial number of women teaching was by no means just a prologue to anticipated marriage but rather a life-time …
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