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Showing 1 to 20 of 79 for “"Sameness"”.
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Sameness and difference in therapy
There has been much anecdotal and theoretical material concerning the impact of `race' on therapy in Britain, especially with regards to therapeutic outcomes. The three studies presented in this thesis empirically investigated the notion that premature termination in counselling, and apparently …
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Dialogical Selves: Exploring “Sameness and Difference” in “Queer” Identification
… belonging/non-belonging, sameness/difference. Literature on it is riddled with dichotomous conflicts over (dis)identification and (anti)relationality in theory, lived experiences, and political mobilisation. Dominant discourses tend to overlook intersectional complexities …
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Güeras, Morenas, y Prietas: Mexicana Color Lines and Ethnoracial Sameness-Difference
This interdisciplinary study documents the ethnoracial identities and racialized experiences of women of Mexican descent residing in the greater Tampa Bay region and the multiple meanings that they assigned to race and color categories. Tampa's in-between status, straddling North and South and …
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Intersectional sameness and difference in psychotherapy: Women of colour s experiences of the therapeutic alliance
… inequities. However, little is known about how sameness and difference are experienced in the therapeutic alliance in South Africa, which makes it essential to explore experiences of women of colour in this context. Using an exploratory qualitative research design, this study recruited and …
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The Idea Of Women’S' Rights As Equity Versus Women'S Rights As Equality/Sameness The Case Of Saudi Arabia And Beyond""
… as equity versus women's rights as equality/sameness by considering the reservations of Saudi Arabia when ratifying the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) and highlights the difficulties in reconciling the too disparate approaches whilst …
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The Longitudinal Association between Anxiety and Restricted/ Repetitive Behaviour in Autism Spectrum Disorder
… elevated anxiety symptoms in middle childhood. Sameness and restricted behaviour subtypes appeared to be the most predictive of future anxiety. In study 2, four anxiety trajectories and three insistence on sameness behaviour trajectories were identified, with mostly stable or increasing …
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Women in Combat: A Critical Analysis of Responses to the U.S. Military's Recent Inclusion Efforts
… because the discourse understands equality as sameness to a male norm. This equality as sameness paradigm perpetuates gender-based barriers to parity by expecting women to function just like men. Ultimately, I argue for a more inclusive conception of equality that acknowledges difference.
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Destroying the wall : in search of "unity in difference" in 'Onjeong' biblical hermeneutics on the basis of Korean and South African political and cultural contexts
… discrimination in the dimension of "questing for sameness." Under the motto of "becoming metaphoric Israelites," each group of Korean and South African political Bible readers identified themselves with metaphoric Israelites and explicitly discriminated against metaphoric non-Israelites in the …
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An Exploration of Communication Ethics Scholarship and Economic Spheres
… goods. These metaphors include “hierarchy” and “sameness” from Charles Taylor, who notes that these “social imaginaries” determine the way people are treated within a hierarchy is based upon their role within it. Public identity also determines how others are treated and how communication …
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Exploration of gender influences in restricted and repetitive behaviors in children with autism spectrum disorder
… p = .03), ritualistic (t = -.12; p = .004), and sameness behaviors (t = -1.9; p = .002). Older girls had more stereotyped behaviors than boys (t = -2.2; p = .001) and more ritualistic behaviors in general. Younger girls (n = 23) had more stereotyped (62.7%), restricted interests (58%), sameness …
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Copy-and-Paste
… is a self-sustaining system generating sameness in different locations. The same urban grid, the same outfit, the same house, the same car appear everywhere; copies of each other pasted all around. Copy-and-Paste is there, unquestioned, and seem-to-be arbitrary. This thesis explores and …
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Pragmatics and distribution of the Japanese reflexive pronoun zibun
… to the fact that the speaker believes that the sameness that the reflexive property entails is noteworthy (significant, relevant). In order to rationalize the speaker's belief that the sameness is significant, the hearer tries to find out why informing that is important. The dissertation argues …
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Rhetorics of transformations : a discursive analysis of interviews with teachers
… and language and their function as signifiers of sameness, difference and otherness are critically discussed. Two interpretative repertoires are identified. Good Educational Practice contains the concepts of standards, values and naturalness. It is demonstrated how these are used as argumentative …
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Upholding civility towards diversity in urban public space: exploring the makings of conviviality and belonging in Cape Town's city centre
… is not only rooted in the recognition of a basic sameness, but also in the acknowledgement that interconnections with diverse others are necessary for the achievement of individual and collective goals. Finally, this work brings attention to the significance of habits of accommodation for …
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Playable Ground
… and action in children, are limited in their sameness. Furthermore, the playground structures, which are manufactured in bulk and then bolted onto the ground at their final destinations, have little connection to their sites. I propose to investigate the characteristics of playgrounds in …
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Algorithmic Hypnosis
… H.K. Chun’s analysis of homophily (i.e., love of sameness; commonality), I observe the regionality of standard critiques of capital and feel out new modes of resistance which do away with the discourse of the “commons” so very prevalent in philosophical critiques of political economy and …
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Subalternity and the negotiation of a theatre identity : performing the postcolony alternative Zimbabwean theatre
… theatre which is a creative area of ambivalence, sameness, difference, conflict, struggle, mocking and celebration. The study specifically scrutinises this intersecting area as it obtains in alternative theatre and examines the forces at work in producing the nature and identity of syncretic …
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The Making of American Religious Experience: a Socio-Political Critique of 'Experience' in American Religious History
… and the concomitant operations of difference and sameness, within the structural relations of power that produce them.
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Power of Equality Myths: A Transdisciplinary Study Examining the Influence of Equality Policy on Teaching and Learning
… language related to issues of equality, equity, sameness, and even democracy. Using the combined methodologies of educational criticism, critical discourse analysis, and self-ethnography, this transdisciplinary investigation describes, interprets, and evaluates the way staff members in a Head …
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Woman's essential "nature" : a classical, communitarian gender mythology
… (for judgements of significance and ontological sameness are not amenable to scientific investigation) but from the heuristic classical, communitarian world view. Whether the notion of a distinct 'woman's nature' is accepted or rejected, this decision results in a pragmatic orientation toward …
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