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Showing 1 to 20 of 76 for “"Social Constructs"”.
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The Relationship of Social Constructs to Intimate Partner Violence
… between intimate partner violence and specific social influences such as religiosity, propensity towards forgiveness, and gender role identity were examined. A sample of 105 students enrolled at Central Washington University submitted responses based on their perceptions of gender roles, …
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"A Shade Too Unreserved": Destabilizing Sexuality and Gender Constructs of the New Negro Identity in Harlem Renaissance Literature
… was directly intertwined with the New Negro social movement of the time. Race leaders spoke to and influenced artistic trends, while artists often engaged with the New Negro race issues and social debates through their works. Wallace Thurman, Nella Larsen, and Zora Neale Hurston used their …
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The Kingdom Falls
… through different viewpoints, ideas, and social constructs one perspective at a time. It examines morality, ethics, gender roles, masculinity, class distinctions, and social constructs through the lenses of characters as varied as a beggar on the street and the captain of the watch in an …
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Making Sense of Messages: An Analysis of the Relationship Between Candidate Image and Issue Stance
… given a lack of theory relating to how these social constructs are perceived by audiences trying to make electoral choices, there is a need for clarification of our understanding of image and issue as they relate to one another. With this in mind, this thesis seeks to understand how exposure …
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Gifted Students' Perceptions of High School Transition
… as it pertains to academic, organizational, and social constructs of the high school program. Students from the center-based gifted program were more likely to choose to attend one of the regional Governor’s schools, and chose to do so because of personal interest and the perception of academic …
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Sexuality: Social and Cultural Constructs of Women Represented through Art
… and taboo. My research explores how these social constructs pertaining to sexuality began and how they have been perpetuated throughout history in art. Because of my personal struggles with social constrictions as a woman, an artist, and as one whose sexual identity has been designed from …
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Postcolonial and Constructivist Theoretical Explanations of Women'S Traditional Agency In Sociopolitical Participation and Reproductive Rights In Present Day Mali and the Pilipinas
… by how each approach views identities as socially constructed historical conditions. Employment of theoretical concepts from both theories can aid in analyzing identities as constructs that are time specific, that create and influence, and are in turn created by historical conditions. …
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"Beyond Myth: Sexual Identity In ""light In August"" And Other Novels By William Faulkner (women, Narrative, Point Of View)"
… as A Fable suggests, as artificially imposed social constructs out of which humans conduct limited lives, the narrative attitude toward females becomes more sympathetic and admiring, as well as more realistic, than is often held to be the case with Faulkner.
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Social factors influencing natural resource management in the Philippines
… uses empirically-based theorizing to elucidate social factors that influence household resource management strategies. Interactions of class and gender relations, the coexistence of market and nonmarket relations, and the power of social networks are among the social constructs that shape the …
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Exploring the Mental Health Experiences of African, Caribbean, and Black Youth in London, Ontario
… help-seeking strategies are impacted by broader social constructs and community expectations, which they navigate and often resist in their everyday lives. Their insights can provide assurance to ACB youth in other Canadian cities that they are not isolated in their experiences. These data also …
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Awakening from androcentrism: calls for measurement of gender and sexuality in criminology
… inclusive and progressive conceptualizations of social constructs such as gender and sexuality, these recent calls have noted mainstream criminology’s historical reluctance to such progress. The current study examined articles published in the past five years in a mainstream criminological …
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Managing asymmetric threats to national security - terrorist information operations
… This research's fundamental concept is the social constructs of meaning from interview participants using a constructivist ontology, interpretlvlst epistemology and qualitative approach paradigm. Selection of the constructivist ontology occurs due to the research aim and for understanding …
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Social Support And Health Outcomes In Adolescents Experiencing Homelessness And Poverty: A Test Of The Main Effect And Stress-Buffering Hypotheses
… health benefit and stress-buffering effects of social support were examined. Homeless (N=250) and housed (N=148) adolescents were assessed in adolescence and again in early adulthood, providing longitudinal data to help understand how these social constructs may change and influence health. The …
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Explaining cost overruns in highway projects : a geo-spatial regression modelling and cognitive mapping of latent pathogens and contextual drivers
… practices, amidst a wide array of unanticipated social constructs, account for the majority of the recorded variance between the initial estimates and the project’s final account. The interplay of the emergent social constructs with the latent pathogens was further cognitively mapped out, using …
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The connection between the decision to join a secular Jewish-oriented group and perceived Jewish identity: A comparative study between American and Israeli joiners
… literature about self-identity views the self as socially constructed, constantly revised, and providing the individual with a narrative of continuity despite change (Shu-Fang Dien, 2000; McAdams, 1985). In this study, identity literature and the narrative approach were used theoretically and …
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Distance Learner Ecologies of the University of the West Indies Open Campus Program
… terms of life cycle, the concept of time as a social construct, and in relation to the way time is experienced in the learning environment); space (physical space, social constructs of space, and the concept of social distance); and resources (academic resources, funding, and "human resources" …
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English Gypsy Singing
… singing is employed as an enabling device for social bonding, through song performances of the community's Participating and Specialist singers. It further observes that the social constructs which apply to Gypsy singing change according to gender and context. Finally, it considers the songs …
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Drawing on identity
The focus of my work is to express aspects and constructs of identity through employing a physical drawing line. I view identity as a fragmented conglomerate influenced by one's personal experiences and interactions with social expectations. Through an analytical process of observation, I …
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Forensic science misconduct: Exploring the role of the individual and the organization
… suggest at the micro level, influences and social constructs are more significant than meso level inadequacies, skill sets, and resources. Conversely, attitudes about justice suggest a meso level association, such that as attitudes about justice (meso level) increase, less agreement exists …
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FOCUS ON PRINCIPAL AND TEACHER PERCEPTIONS OF THE SHARED IDEAS AND AGREEMENTS THAT CHANGE TEACHERS' INSTRUCTIONAL PRACTICE
… themes arising from the research comprised of social constructs or meanings, expectations, experiences, nature of professional conversations, values, relationships, relevance, and change. The examination of the research results lead to discussion of the similarities and differences in teacher …
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