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Showing 1 to 20 of 47 for “"Social Positions"”.
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Transition planning for young people with severe learning disabilities : social positions and power relationships
… they often used language that excluded them. The social positions of stakeholders and their associated power relationships were already well established, which meant that the professionals held the most privileged position during the transition meetings. It was unclear how the professionals would …
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Differing social positions and the realisation of evaluative criteria for transactional writing in the senior grades
This study looked at the requirements - evaluative criteria - for transactional writing as they are specified for the Grade 11 level in current curriculum policy. Finding that the requirements are poorly specified, or weakly framed, the study addressed the question of what criteria teachers draw on …
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A user-centred approach to information retrieval
… three phases. The proposed framework is based on social role theory from the social science literature and at the centre of this theory is the concept of a social position. A social position is a label for a group of users with similar behavioural patterns. Examples of such positions are …
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Social class, pedagogy and achievement in art
… of secondary school, by learners in different social positions. It investigates first, achievement patterns in final-exhibition percentage grades, in relation to learners' social class, race, and gender. Second, based on comparison of high and lower-achieving school classes of socially similar …
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The Impact of Community Governance Participation on the Sustainable Development of Chinese Property Management Companies
… field characteristics intersect with CPMCs’ social positions, enabling divergent change through institutional entrepreneurship. The study develops a novel typology of CPMCs highlighting their social positions and strategic variations in their responses to institutional environments. Through …
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Race, Gender, and County Context in Support for Harsh Punishments across the U.S.
In this paper, I use data from the General Social Survey, F.B.I. Uniform Crime Reporting Statistics, the U.S. Census Bureau, and other sources to consider differences in attitudes about punishment among blacks and whites, and men and women, as well as how these differences vary according to three …
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Non-participation in public engagement with science: A study of four socio-economically disadvantaged, minority ethnic groups
… by perspectives from intersectional research on social disadvantages, migration studies, identity theories and theories of learning. Three lenses were used to examine non-participation in PES; (1) social context and social positions; (2) personal views and experiences, and; (3) PES in practice. …
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We are like this only : Desis and Hindi films in the Diaspora
… immigrant families drawn from two different social positions - (a) the educated, professional and affluent class (doctors, scientists, software professionals, consultants, etc.), and (b) less educated, working class (owners and employees of grocery & convenience stores, gas stations, motels & …
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Controlling and constraining the participation of the hepatitis C-affected community in Australia: A critical discourse analysis of the first national hepatitis C strategy and selected news media texts
… texts that place hepatitis C-positive persons at social risk (Candlin, 1989, p. ix), informs this study of the ways in which public health policy makers and journalists in Australia communicate about hepatitis C. The institutions of public health and the news media form part of the cultural …
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The Growing Middle Class and the Absence of Democracy in China
… to disaggregate the political, economic, and social positions of different subgroups of the Chinese middle class—government officials and party cadres, private entrepreneurs of small or medium businesses, professionals, and white-collar employees—and the tension among these subgroups. These …
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Black And White Women In Blue: A Case Study Of Policewomen
… These ignored societal differences and social realities of black and white policewomen, based on distinctive assigned social positions, histories, images and location, possibly contribute to different perspectives and experiences in law enforcement. These same social realities shape …
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The Good, The Bad, and The Taxed: How Taxes Shape Morals in Markets
… class of the imagined soda consumer to test how social status matters for evaluations of morally contested consumption. To investigate moral variability based on the taxes on goods, and the social markers of the buyer, I test how people evaluate soda consumers in reference to the US healthcare …
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Social Status and Product Perceptions: A Social Identity Perspective on Information Processing and Product Evaluation
Consumers use social status to learn about and evaluate value-expressive products. This thesis examines how consumers respond to products that convey status connotations. Drawing on previous research from social psychology, sociology and consumer behavior, this dissertation explores product …
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A New Man: Masculine Confusion and Struggle in the Works of Edith Wharton
… Wharton did not wish for women to usurp all social positions from men but rather to claim their rightful position alongside them. Characters such as Lawrence Selden in <i>The House of Mirth</i> and Ralph Marvell in <i>The Custom of the Country</i> display the same characteristics of fear, …
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Reciprocities market : John Bartram's 18th century botanical subscription service and the seeds of independence
… Seeds of Independence," delves into the evolving social and economic relationships of 18th-century colonial America through the lens of John Bartram's work and network. Bartram (1699-1777), a Pennsylvanian-born Quaker farmer and naturalist, developed a transatlantic botanical subscription service. …
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Conflicts, contradictions and commitments : men speak about sexualisation of culture
… has ascended as a focus for academic, social policy and public debate: central to these debates is concern for children and young people and the significance of sexualised cultural landscapes to feminist politics and women’s social positions. A striking feature of these discussions …
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Ethnicity, Nature, and Community Gardens
… York City (NYC)’s community gardens, and how the social processes that characterise community gardening influence gardeners’ notions of ethnicity. The study examines the dialectical relationship between nature and culture in community gardens from the theoretical perspectives of debates over …
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The Role of Women in High Leadership Positions in Minimizing or Preventing Interstate Conflict and War
… the assertion that women in leadership positions lead to less conflict and war. This research aims to evaluate the conduct of female leaders during crises. It is impossible to prove that female pacifism creates a less conflicted system. However, it does contribute to the notion that a …
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“Past the Point of Messing with it”: Exploring the Digital Video Composing Processes of an After-School Film Club
… opportunities to explore their identities and social positions. Observational data, including audio, video, interviews, fieldnotes, and artifacts, were collected over 9 months in an after school Film Club advised by RHH’s 9th grade ELA teacher, Johnson. Focal participants include Johnson, as …
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Song is the Secret of of Existence: Fairouz and the Arab Diaspora in London and Doha
… offers opportunities to navigate individual and social positions in such space. Through an ethnographic study, focusing on in-depth interviews, narratives of 59 members of the Arab diaspora living in Doha, Qatar and London, England were heard, understood and categorised thematically, highlighting …
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