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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"Social Harmony"”.
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THE RULES OF THE GAME OF DEMOCRATIC PUBLIC DISCOURSE
… citizens publicly discuss in order to ensure social harmony? To understand the duties and responsibilities of ordinary citizens when participating in public discourse, this dissertation is structured around the key models of public discourse centered on an idea of social harmony. In …
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Forgiveness, Individualism, and Collectivism
… within the context of reconciliation, social harmony, and relational repair. Collectivistic forgiveness primarily involves a decision to forgive, but this decision often does not result in the reduction of negative emotions associated with unforgiveness.
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Desarrollo y destrucción del sistema liberal de prisiones. De la Restauración a la Guerra Civil
… liberal belief system espoused the defence of social harmony, of property and of the individual, and penal practices were constructed on the basis of those principles. After that, the Civil War and the warlike culture that came along with it altered the prison system, forming it into an …
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Emotional Work: A Psychological View
… needs, improve their wellbeing, and maintain social harmony. Emotional work is unique and skilled work - it involves handling emotions and social relationships and its product is the change of feeling in others. ¶ The thesis extends the work of Erickson and Wharton (1993, 1997) and England …
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Emotional Work: A Psychological View
… needs, improve their wellbeing, and maintain social harmony. Emotional work is unique and skilled work - it involves handling emotions and social relationships and its product is the change of feeling in others. ¶ The thesis extends the work of Erickson and Wharton (1993, 1997) and England …
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Frankenstein and Great Expectations : the romantic child and the Victorian adult
… to Victorian values of duty, forgiveness, social harmony, and steady employment, the text repudiates much of what it initially endorses about Pip the child, In defence of Dickens' portrayal, I situate Pip's progress in relation to several texts which impinge upon the novel, either directly …
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The animal health components of a biosurveillance system
… of people, the economy, their environment, and social harmony. Zoonotic agents caused a large proportion of these health crises, and nations spent large amounts of resources on disease detection and control measures to safeguard the health of their citizens against these agents. This thesis will …
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Physical exercise and the psychological well being of adoloscents with behaviour disorders
… self confidence, healthy interactions and social harmony among the adolescents. These attributes contribute positively to the psychological well being of an individual. This research does provide for the relative influence of physical exercise on the psychological well being of adolescents …
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Reacting to negative self-relevant information in an interpersonal context
… self-construal individuals to restore social harmony and repair the face of the affected others. Divergent routes individuals with different self-construals take to achieve social well-being, self-esteem versus face, were discussed.</p>
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Autonomy, Paternalism, and the Moral Foundations of the Fiduciary Relationship
… relationship is a moral relationship, fostering social harmony by enabling individuals to trust or depend on one another in those interactions where one undertakes to act on another’s behalf. Chapter 2 addresses the problem of paternalism, arguing that the fiduciary relationship is essentially …
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Adolescents' and mothers' affect during their daily interactions: an examination in the United States and China
… of emotional expression as a way to preserve social harmony, which may dampen the affect Chinese adolescents and mothers elicit in each other during their daily interactions. This study examined adolescents and mothers' daily affective experiences in interacting with one another in the United …
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Identity-Based Conflict and the Role of Print Media in the Pahadi Community of Contemporary Nepal
… system in Nepal in 1963, caste still influences social, economic, and political sectors of Hindu society. Indicators and existing research suggest that caste-based discrimination remains one of the major sources of unrest in a Hindu majority nation such as Nepal. Questions remain, however, about …
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Private supper/public feast: Gender, power, and nurture in Early Modern England
… these issues punctuate the broader economic and social restructuring of early modern England, my study contributes to the theoretical and historical discussions of gender, culture, and literature of the period. Communal feasting in these texts does not signify social harmony, but often reflects …
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Transformational egovernment success through enhanced project management
… technology to improve democratic participation, social harmony and economic sustain ability. While eGovernment's first decade has been much more transactional than transformational, radical changes affecting eGovernment are needed in this decade: culture, different services and relationships with …
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Joint venture and production sharing contracts in less developed countries – a critical legal analysis
… rural agricultural destruction, distortion of social harmony and peace that exist in, and between host communities and have fuelled underdevelopment in these communities. As long as these social inequalities and injustice continue, human rights violations, gross mismanagement of natural …
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LITERATURE AND THE DEFINITION OF AN AMERICAN NATIONAL IDENTITY: 1763--1828
… based on reason, virtue, duty, and social responsibility. Individual self-interest would be subordinated to the well-being of the whole society. America could attain the enlightenment ideal of social harmony and benevolence.</p><p>By the time of Andrew Jackson's presidency in 1829, …
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The perceived fairness of ethnic ties-based hiring and promotion in Chadian PSOs
… Chadian Public Sector Organisations. The role of social ties in hiring and promotion has been a subject of debate. On the one hand, it is characterised as nepotism or favouritism and perceived as unfair and undermining organisational effectiveness. On the other hand, it can also be understood …
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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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Gentlemen landowners and the middle classes of Bromley: the transfer of power and wealth? 1840-1914
… financial gain. Gradually the local gentry's 'social' power and influence was surrendered to the middle classes which were gaining in wealth and self-confidence. Even though the socio-economic composition of the local middle class was increasingly diverse, there existed no conspicuous …
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