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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Social Stigmas"”.
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Tolerance: Challenge, Perception, and Social Stigmas Defined through Visual Communications.
… of communicating challenge, perception, and social stigmas through informed stories of individual lives is to provoke questions and spark moments of awareness in viewers. With this supporting manuscript, I hope to inform about my motivations through time including my personal, artistic, and …
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The Stigmatization of Hunger: The Impact of Social Stigma on Arkansas Youths’ Food Security
… media frames food insecurity and how perceived social stigmas affect a student’s willingness to seek out help when struggling with food security. </p>
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Lightning Flowers
… one's survival necessitate self-delusion? How do social stigmas inform our experience of mental illness?
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The language of urban poverty : institutional action, perception, and lived experience within Batu and Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
… of urban poverty, I contend that historical and social relationships between the poor and non-poor shape the plight of the urban poor. I further explore how these social and historical constructs are subsequently translated through institutional action and experience. Ethiopia's historical and …
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Portable housing for Mexican migrant workers
… to other factors, such as local availability, social stigmas and legal status. While housing is usually provided by a grower (on-the-farm) or acquired by the migrant worker himself (off-the-farm), there seem to exist no examples of portable housing that a worker can transport from job to job. …
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Beyond the Economic: The Freedoms, Capabilities, and Social Capital of Latin American Women Entrepreneurs in San Francisco
… identities and family dynamics and increased social opportunities like education and healthcare.</p> <p> This study also expands the notion of capital beyond the economic by considering how the shared cultural capital of the Latino community can contribute to a strong network of social capital …
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Perinatal Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
… disorder during pregnancy and postpartum due to social stigmas preventing treatment, multifaceted health disparities preventing healthcare access, and healthcare systems insufficiencies hindering current treatment. Within the health research and policy priority of maternal and child health, …
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Experimental validation of the Lower Leg Trajectory Error, an optimization metric for prosthetic feet
… able-bodied individuals. They are subject to social stigmas preventing them from employment and independent living. There is a gap between the high-performance prosthetic feet in the United States that come at a cost of thousands of dollars and affordable prostheses in the developing world, …
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It's Not the Load That Breaks You Down, It's the Way You Carry It: An Examination of the Relationship between Negative Identity and Consumer Behavior
<p>Research examining Social identity and consumer behavior often centers on groups with positive Social identities, exploring the influence of similar identities (i.e., shared values, shared gender, shared political affiliations, shared ethnicity…etc.) or desired identities (e.g., sports …