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Showing 1 to 20 of 50 for “"Social Boundaries"”.
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Moche social boundaries and settlement dynamics at Cerro Castillo (c. AD 600-1000), Nepeña Valley, Peru Volume 1
… approaches to cultural interaction, social complexity and the secondary role attributed to small to mid-scale communities in their own development and in the regional affairs. This investigation relies on an archaeological approach and methodology on analysis of contextual data …
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FAMILY SYSTEMS THROUGH FAMILY PHOTOGRAPH ALBUMS
… photograph album as a visual construction of social reality which represents how the family perceives and defines its world. This popular cultural artifact is used to examine the social and geographical boundaries of this world as well as the family's conceptualization of gender. How social …
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The hidden mark : an ethnographic examination of visibility in heavily tattooed professionals
Few social boundaries still exist regarding tattooed individuals in Western society, yet the professional workplace remains a barrier to heavily tattooed individuals today. The historical stigma attached to heavily tattooed people is still pervasive across many professional communities. A series of …
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Gender tragedy in George Eliot's "Mill on the Floss"
… gender, while Maggie refuses to live within the social boundaries set for her own. The societal restrictions and how each deals with them is symbolically represented in their physical descriptions as well. Each character is eventually destroyed by the roles imposed upon them by Victorian society, …
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Culture and crisis: Radical writers and writing in the 1930s
… and relations of culture amidst the economic and social crisis of the Depression era. In the decade's popular fiction, advertising, travel writing, political discourses, and literature, the desire to represent social difference--particularly class difference--produces a consistently contradictory …
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Seed To Sale: Boundary Work In Mississippi Agriculture
… on the demanding work of farm labor. However, social research on agriculture does not give adequate attention to issues of labor and work. Through participant observation, interviews, and content analysis, I analyze work from multiple perspectives within Mississippi agriculture. I focus on …
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Scents and scent-sibilities: A sociocultural inquiry of smells in everyday life experiences
Here, smells take on a social character. Scents influence how we think, act and behave. The study argues for smell as a social intermediary that fleshes out issues concerning personhood and the presentation of self, and smells as employed in the (re)constructions of social boundaries running along …
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Digital Money and Monetary History
… in the very long term, across geo-political and social boundaries. Across four major civilisations, primitive and modem monies the conclusion emerges that technology alone cannot establish a new form of money. The development of digital money will rely on the norms of the exchange environment, …
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Between the Pure and the Polluted: The Churching of Women in Medieval Northern France, 1100--1500
… tool for the formation and preservation of social boundaries, especially between proper and improper mothers. As the laity appropriated this definition of the rite, the social celebration of churching developed into an opportunity for the display of family status and a means of reinforcing …
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A room in the room : a private spectacle
… and revealing the inside space of our spatial, social, psychological boundaries result in an individual and collective narrative. Thus the transparent boundary as a metaphor of physically constructed psycho-social boundaries, examines my strangeness in a room and realizes the invisible walls in …
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Intimacies and distances: mobility, belonging and the use of information and communication technologies by young Cameroonians in Cape Town
… it increasingly easy to build and maintain social links across distance, by effecting a compression of space and time, and allowing friends and family members to remain in ever-closer contact, even though they may live geographically far apart. These distanced relationships facilitated by …
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Sandcastles in the Sand: Liminality at the Seashore in Carolyn Wells's Marjorie at Seacote
… how that status works to overturn traditional social boundaries, particularly in terms of class and gender. Finally, I discuss how the novel uses the liminal space of the beach to upend these boundaries between classes, work and leisure, and childhood and adulthood and offers a new …
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Donne migranti a Modena: il lavoro di "badante" tra vincolo e risorsa
… women in the creation of their strategies and social boundaries. Moreover, the study focuses on the ability and power of the State, and its institutions, to create categorizations among migrants based on their social and economic ‘usefulness’, which produce effects in the daily lives of these …
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The middle of nowhere : town design and sense of community in rural youth
… the role of other physical (and potentially social) boundaries in fostering sense of community.
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Appropriation of privacy management within social networking sites
Social networking sites have emerged as one of the most widely used types of interactive systems, with memberships numbering in the hundreds of millions around the globe. By providing tools for their members to manage an ever-changing set of relationships, social networking sites push a constant …
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Geology as a Georegional Influence on Quercus Fagaceae Distribution in Denton and Coke Counties of Central and North Central Texas and Choctaw County of Southeastern Oklahoma, Using GIS as an Analytical Tool.
… the establishment of artificial, political and social boundaries, urbanization, farming and fire control have altered the natural distribution of oaks and other landcover of this unique georegion.
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“Such a sort of pariah”: Psychosocial Marginality and the Bildungsroman in Mazo de la Roche’s Whiteoaks
… Whiteoaks. It argues that the text’s psychosocially aberrant protagonist, Finch Whiteoak, is a Bildungsheld whose modern coming-of-age process of accommodation and assimilation into a socio-specific norm is not as much a progression toward the centre as it is a simultaneous …
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Narratives Of Southern Contact Zones: Mobility And The Literary Imagination Of Zora Neale Hurston And Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
… period in which the South had gone through many social, economical, and cultural changes. Hurston and Rawlings, who became friends with each other beyond their racial background in the segregated South, shared physical and social mobility and the interest in the Southern folk cultures. They wrote …
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Through the Ears to the Soul: Female Musicians in Seventeenth-Century Painting
… recognize the repetitious elements of their social performance or find their minds transgressing invisible mental, special, or social boundaries from the sanctity of the domestic space where they had recognizable – if regulated – agency. The reimagined sounds of music, visually encapsulated …
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Telephone Trespassing: Social Regulation and Resistance in American Telephone Fictions
… proved it could also trespass traditional social boundaries, promising a voice to those typically silenced by social hierarchies. As the telephone network began to blur the lines separating public and private, center and margins, intimacy and independence, American culture developed …
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