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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Social Fact"”.
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Social relations around a communal tap : an ethnography of conviviality in Imizamo Yethu, Cape Town
… is focused on the (re)configuration of social relations around a communal tap. It looks at the different ways in which fetching water from a communal tap brings life within an impoverished community in Cape Town, South Africa. I examine how the people of Imizamo Yethu who are located in …
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L’accoglienza di migranti e turisti come specchio dell’ospitalità in Sardegna. Solidarietà spontanea, ricezione turistica e gestione dei flussi migratori in una prospettiva antropologica.
… value of the notion of hospitality as a “total social fact”. By bringing together different levels of cultural intimacy, power and gift, the practices associated with hospitality towards the main protagonists of contemporary mobilities have, indeed, the capacity to bring out the political, …
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Prisoner Release as Conflict Management
… Begin's APRI (76 prisoners/one soldier) was socially and politically contested in 1979. By 1988, Israeli APRI had hardened into path-dependent praxis, and "social fact" by 2011. Specific cross-case factors strongly linked to APRI are a "no negotiation with terrorists" stance; external safe …
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The structure of a New Zealand community: An essay in the sociology of place
… and the ways in which these meanings affect social life. Part I of the thesis, Preliminary Considerations, deals in three chapters with the problems of a phenomenological analysis of the community. Barker’s approach is critically reviewed and the main analytical concepts, “place” and …
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Fragments of the Prosperous Age: Living with Heritage and Treasure in Contemporary China
… Chinese urban residents, constituting a total social fact. Challenging the popular assumption made by heritage scholars in which heritage phenomenon is considered a by-product of modernity’s tendency to contrast the current progress with the past as a benchmark, this thesis argues that …
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Studying ageing: experiences, description, variation, prediction and explanation
… aging. Thus I am interested in variation in factors related to health, survival and death. I studied the variation of registered death causes during one year in the United States. I expected an increased variation by increasing age as a result of decreasing functional reserve capacity and …
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Planning for Higher Density: Concepts of privacy in Auckland’s culture of housing
… and practice of urban housing. Houses are a socially located “collection of rights, opportunities, assets, and attributes” (Donnison and Ungerson, 1982, 11); at the same time, housing describes and expresses an urban culture and its values. The activities of New Zealand’s commercial housing …
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Subjecthood and Sovereignty among the ‘Real’ and ‘Imagined’ Pirates of a ‘Golden Age’, 1690–1705
… akin to Émile Durkheim’s notion of ‘the social fact’ that treats piracy not solely as an activity of the individual, but as an imagined category imposed and manipulated by external agents. For most contemporaries, piracy was not something encountered firsthand, but something experienced …
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The alienation of humans from nature: media and environmental discourse
… and what responses it produces. It is a social fact that people are discouraged about the environment. Critical-cultural and media studies, provide ideas to address social and environmental problems through communication and provide three paths for understanding; critical theory addresses …