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Showing 1 to 20 of 75 for “"Social Bonds"”.
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The effect of school discipline on students' social bonds
… peers and family, the school is a crucial social institution to which individuals become enmeshed in adolescence. Youths learn prosocial values and norms in schools, and are oftentimes insulated from delinquent others. The purpose of this research is to explore the indirect effects of …
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Social bonds in clients’ business relationships with professional service providers
… have also found a number of different bonds in business relationships. One of these is social bonds which develop between individuals and can impact positively on long-term client relationships at an organisational level. However social bonds have suffered from a lack of clarity in …
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Insider Threat: How Social Bonds May Mitigate Dark Triad Personality Traits
… mitigated through the presence of strong social bonds such as attachment, commitment, involvement. This research explores, through the application of a number of machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) experiments, the relationship between social bonds and the dark triad as …
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Perceptions Of Social Bonds, Social Engagement And Social Capital By Social Network Site Users
<p>ABSTRACT</p> <p>PERCEPTIONS OF SOCIAL BONDS, SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT AND SOCIAL CAPITAL BY SOCIAL NETWORK SITE USERS</p> <p>by</p> <p>ALISHA M. BECKROW</p> <p>May 2015</p> <p>Advisor: Dr. Matthew W. Seeger</p> <p>Major: Communications</p> <p>Degree: Doctor of Philosophy</p> <p>In this study we …
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Social bonds in dairy cattle: the effect of dynamic group systems on welfare and productivity
… consideration when designing such systems; the social bonds of dairy cattle. A herd of 400 Holstein-Friesian cattle, plus followers, were observed in cubicle housing under commercial conditions. Through the identification of preferential relationships using an association index, important social …
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The role of social bonds in understanding the pre- and post-recognition effects of recognition visibility
… by investigating the strength of employee social bonds, and how it moderates the effect of recognition visibility on employees’ pre- and post-recognition behavior. Consistent with prior studies, I find that when weak social bonds exist, public recognition does not result in more beneficial …
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The Relationship between Attitudes toward Deviance and Deviant Behavior: The Influence of Science, Individualism, Social Bonds and Deviant Peers
… theories of deviance, namely Hirschi's (1969) social control theory and Sutherland's (1939) differential association theory. The sample for this analysis is 202 students from a large research university in Southwest Virginia. The findings of this research lend support to Sutherland's (1939) …
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Voicing desistance: Female perspective on giving up crime
… been linked with themes such as maturity, adult social bonds, agency, identity and hope (Bottoms et al, 2004). Even more concerning, however, is the further marginalisation of already marginalised groups within the vast majority of desistance literature. The bulk of research in this area can be …
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As Time Goes By: Ritualized Remembering Through Wedding Photography
… ritual in order to enforce, embody and sustain social bonds and values. American wedding photography is a strong example of an instance in which remembering becomes a formalized symbolic performance through an intricate system of idealization as prescribed by various authorities. An examination …
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Mitigating delinquency through academic intervention: an empirical test of social control theory
… the GEAR UP program, a partial test of Hirschi’s social control theory (1969) was conducted to investigate the effect of academic performance and social bonds on problem behavior. Rarely tested in at-risk, minority student groups, the adolescents sampled in this research attended schools zoned for …
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Exploring the interactional theory: a theoretical exploration of the dark web’s impact on delinquent behaviour
… the dark web impacts the weakening of normative social bonds to conventional society.
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Social Flourishing: Skills for Fostering Positive Social Connections and Relationships
… others, as well as long-lasting, life-enhancing social bonds. At the basis of many of these skills is a requirement to cultivate an interest and concern for others; an orientation towards supporting and promoting other people’s well-being. This orientation towards others has the potential to …
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Vozes em Cena: O Teatro do Oprimido como caminho para a socialização
… of the Oppressed as an approach to foster socialization among students at the Colégio Estadual de Tempo Integral Professora Célia Oliveira Leite. Through workshops and practical activities, students are encouraged to explore their emotions and experiences through theatrical language, …
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URBAN CHOREOGRAPHIES BANGKOK'S CATALYSTS TRANSFORM NEIGHBOURHOODS
… with community characteristics (families) and social bonds (guanxi) which turn into business and policy coalitions revealed that they institute a building culture, which is flexible and adaptable to fast-changing conditions. Moreover, their interdependencies concurrently establish resilience …
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COMMUNICATING PERSONAL GOALS - THE EFFECTS OF COMMUNICATION MOTIVES ON GOAL PURSUIT
… Intent, Public Commitment, Strengthening Social Bonds, and Positive Self-concept. The scale demonstrated good reliability and substantial incremental validity of up to 10.3% over other established communication motives scales. In addition, the present studies provided support that …
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Cracked commodities, cursed gifts: Transacting women and conceptualizing exchange in early modern England
… in creating, solidifying, or de-stabilizing the bonds and hierarchies structuring social and power relations in early modern England. The symbolic economies of gift and commodity--in social practice and as constructed in treatises and the theater--provided the early modern English with forms for …
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uBuntu and certainty in commercial contracting: A study of burial societies in Cape Town
… are not mere savings clubs but also strengthen social bonds that are critical in communities marred by unemployment and sporadic incomes. These environments require ingenious ways to make ends meet. Despite several products offered by the markets to finance funerals in South Africa, burial …
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Playful behaviour in relation to family group activity in polecats (Mustelidae)
… as a mechanism for helping develop and maintain social bonds between juveniles. Size (weight) was found to be a factor related to certain behavioural attributes which were closely correlated/ranked with each other, namely, play, exploration and agility. The heavier animals were found to play …
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The Value of a College Education: First-Generation College Students Perceptions at a Southeastern University
<p>Framed by social and cultural capital theory, the purpose of this research is to better understand how first-generation college students perceive the value of their college education and to examine whether students’ methods of preparation for life after college are positioning them for …
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Female Social Connectivity through the Leadership and Movement Progression of Tibetan Macaques at Mt. Huangshan, China
… I gathered information on their movements and social networks through all-occurrence, focal and scan sampling. I hypothesize that high-ranking females lead more collective movements than males as they have highly structured social bonds. I also predict that movements weighted by female presence …
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