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Showing 1 to 20 of 99 for “"Social Attitudes"”.
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The expression of George Orwell’s racial and social attitudes
… is intended to show the importance of racial attitudes in the development and work of George Orwell. He grew up in an environment where race and class roles were firmly and hierarchically established. His early training reinforced these orthodoxies, and Burmese Days as well as other writing …
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Flaubert's Social Attitudes in Relation to His Artistic Theories
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Social Attitudes toward Men and Women with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
… orientation, and personal trauma history on attitudes towards victims. Ninety-three male and 179 female students were administered the Bem Sex Role Inventory, the Trauma History Questionnaire, and a vignette measure of attitudes towards victims. Participants evaluated male victims …
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Investigation of causes and structure of social attitudes concerning nuclear radiation
… perception of radiation, termed as "Radiation Attitudes" in this work, is vital for understanding the stakeholder relationship dynamics for acceptance of controversial nuclear technology projects. Attitudes towards nuclear technology have been found to be different from those towards other …
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Self-Efficacy, Locus of Control, and Social Attitudes: Generation Media Responds to Teacher Commentary
… the way a student comes to the teacher's text. Social psychologists suggest that one's state of mind upon receiving feedback inform the ways in which the feedback received. And finally, it is believed that isolated demographic populations, thanks to the stimuli and mores of their particular era …
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Lived scarcity, social attitudes and political behaviour in Kenya : evidence from Afrobarometer Round 5
… equation model to test the effect of people's social and political perceptions and attitudes on the linkage between scarcity and violence. I find both direct and indirect significant linkages between respondents' experienced scarcity ('lived scarcity') and their propensity to use violence. I …
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Gender and Death: Cultural and Social Attitudes Influencing Burying of Still-Born Babies Among the Kaonde of Zambia
This study on Gender and Death: Cultural and Social attitudes influencing burying of still-born babies among the Kaonde of Zambia, aims to explain why there is gender division in the burying of still-born babies among the Kaonde, and how this gender division is expressed. It also aims to assess the …
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"If We Shadows Have Offended": Reflections of Social Attitudes Toward Reform in Late Medieval and Reformation Dream Visions
… feature intensely personal narrators with attitudes and desires, who agonize over difficult situations, who make errors in judgment. Deeply characterized narrators contribute thematically to these poems, which explore personal subjects like grief and faith. By the 16th century, the form had …
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Conservative social attitudes in modern China : a study exemplified by cases in Shanghai, Tientsin, and Hong Kong, 1917-1932
… -- this thesis shows that the conservative social attitudes at that time increased the difficulty of social modernization. For that matter, political and social institutions went against some programmes of modernization by supporting these attitudes. Urban Chinese society was still heavily …
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Conservative social attitudes in modern China : a study exemplified by cases in Shanghai, Tientsin, and Hong Kong, 1917-1932
… -- this thesis shows that the conservative social attitudes at that time increased the difficulty of social modernization. For that matter, political and social institutions went against some programmes of modernization by supporting these attitudes. Urban Chinese society was still heavily …
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Speeding the uptake of electric vehicles in Australia: social attitudes to electric vehicle purchase and recommendations for government intervention to address market failures
… using online questionnaires, to identify social attitudes to EVs for motorists with pro-environmental tendencies to determine significant perceived barriers to uptake, and incentives that might enhance EV acceptance in Australia. Analysis of international best practice showed governments …
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Digging Below the Demographic Level: Examining the Effects of Internalized Racial and Social Attitudes on White Physicians-In-Training Self-Reported Cross Cultural Competency
<p>The racial and social attitudes of White physicians-in-training were explored in relation to aspects of self-perceived cross cultural competence. Specifically, internal motivation to respond without prejudice, ethnocultural empathy, color-blind racial attitudes, and general just world beliefs …
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Black Youth Educational Under-Achievement Problem: How Peer Influence, Social Attitudes, Education Policy, & Family Circumstance Unite to Maintain this Problem in the Ontario Public School System
… anti-black sentiment, contemporary economic and social marginalization of black people, and discriminatory policies and practices in the Ontario public school system, are all factors that combine to produce the deviant black-youth-identity we talk so much about today.
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Neuro-electronic technology in medicine and beyond
This dissertation looks at the technology and social issues involved with interfacing electronics directly to the human nervous system, in particular the methods for both reading and stimulating nerves. The development and use of cochlea implants is discussed, and is compared with recent …
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ΤΟ ΠΕΡΙΟΔΙΚΟ "ΜΟΥΣΑ" (ΑΥΓ. 1920 - ΝΟΕ. 1923). ΖΗΤΗΜΑΤΑ ΙΣΤΟΡΙΑΣ ΤΗΣ ΝΕΟΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΗΣ ΛΟΓΟΤΕΧΝΙΑΣ
… STANDARDS AND EXPRESSED THEIR LITERARY AND SOCIAL ATTITUDES. THREE IMPORTANT FEATURES OF THE LITERARY SCENE ARE EXAMINED: 1) PUBLISHING CONDITIONS OF THE TIMES (FINANCIAL PROBLEMS, CIRCULATION ETC.), 2) POETIC ATMOSPHERE IN "ΜΟΥΣΑ", 3) THE CRITICAL VIEWS OF THE REVIEW. THE BOOK ENDS WITH A …
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Islam, sex, and sect : a quantitative look at women's rights in the Middle East.
In this paper I analyze Islamic Social Attitudes Survey (ISAS) data to see the effects of religious tradition and religious practice on attitudes about women's rights among 1139 college students in Kuwait. Specifically, I test whether religious sect, religious school of thought, political identity, …
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Business bridging ethnicity : how business transactions in Trinidad build trust and friendship but don't reduce prejudice
… individuals of different ethnicities lead to social spillovers, in terms of building trust, friendship, and reducing prejudice? In this dissertation I interrogate that research question through a study of business transactions in four industries in Trinidad-print & packaging, food & beverages, …
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Design metaphysics of a nature conservatory
… context of the design problem, the evolution of social attitudes towards nature is summarized. Ultimately the scope of architectural referencing, as determined by an objective view of the environment, is questioned. And, as a result, an effort has been made to produce an architectural presence …
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Moving home : exploring older peoples' experiences of hospital discharge
… of government policy, professional practice and social attitudes on the experiences of the older person leaving acute hospital care and returning to their own home. The project aims are summarised as below:*To develop an understanding of individuals' experiences within discharge preparation and …
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