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Showing 1 to 20 of 101 for “"Social Structure and Development"”.
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Contrasting Perceived Barriers to Recreation for People with Disabilities in Maywood Park District
… park districts, particularly among kids and youth with disabilities has been identified as an important need. The purpose of this study was to identify barriers in the Maywood Park District policies, practices, and spaces impacting the growing Latino population. Initial community needs …
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LEGITIMACY AND SELF-MANAGEMENT IN SOCIALIST YUGOSLAVIA: CONTRADICTIONS AND RECONCILIATIONS IN YUGOSLAV SOCIETY
… of legitimacy. Yugoslavia serves as a case study and the basis for some general propositions. Following the definition of legitimacy the sources of the initial legitimacy of Communist governments are analyzed. While the general socio-economic conditions which accompanied the introduction of the …
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FROM SLAVE TO FREE LABOR IN THE BRAZILIAN SUGAR INDUSTRY: THE POLITICAL-ECONOMY OF SOCIAL CONTROL AND CRIME IN PERNAMBUCO, 1850-1922
<p>Between 1850 and the turn of the century the dominant mode of production in the export sector of Pernambuco shifted from a slave to quasi-capitalist. The labor transition was not an evolutionary outgrowth of existing work relations--it involved struggle and coercion. The first part of this …
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Culture, place and identity in a mobile community
… to spatial mobility. My dissertation examines if and how mobile individuals may create community, the culture of one group, and the significance of place amidst mobility for creating community in modernity. I analyzed three years of ethnographic field notes and 44 interviews with individuals who …
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Wealth and social responsibility: A study of philanthropy in southern New Hampshire and southern Maine
<p>This is a study of individual philanthropists and their beliefs and practices of philanthropy in southern New Hampshire and southern Maine. It examines the patterns and social structures of philanthropy in these areas, looking particularly at issues of class, culture, social capital, and civic …
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Le développement à l'Île Maurice : la croissance économique et la classe ouvrière.
Abstract Not Available.
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Technologies de l'information et de la communication et développement international, l'approche des organisations internationales: Une étude du cas égyptien
Ma thèse porte sur l'approche des institutions de développement international en ce qui a trait à la fracture numérique entre pays industrialisés et pays en voie de développement (PVD). Les propositions du Programme des Nations Unies pour le développement, du G8 et de l'Agence canadienne pour le …
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Migration, Colonialism, Globalization: Histories of the Free -Subject and the Sovereign Nation-State
… First, that colonial migration helps produce and institutionalize the very categories---of free labor and nationality---that undergird bourgeois political economy and the nation-state, which we now not only privilege in studying migration, but which are among the salient categories that …
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Mobility, *Being, Global Network: A Technography of Laptops and Cellphones
Mobility refers to the movement of actors and actants in ever-shifting arrays that comprise actor-networks; movement in physical terms, but also conceptual movements such as transience in identity. Being refers to a Heideggerian state of 'pure being', moments of revelation in which the truth about …
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Class Formation in High-Tech Information and Communications as an Aspect of China's Reintegration Into Transnational Capitalism
… economy. This dissertation situates China's ICT development in terms of the interplay between these broad transnational trends and domestic policies and institutional arrangements. This dissertation specifically highlights the centrality of Chinese labor in this context. Shifting class relations …
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The Self-Conscious Ensemble in Selected Twentieth-Century Vocal Works
The pieces discussed include Time and Motion Study III by Brian Ferneyhough, Hallelujah and Anagrama by Mauricio Kagel, Maledetto by Kenneth Gaburo, Mots by Betsy Jolas, Stimmung by Karlheinz Stockhausen, Untitled by William Brooks, Aventures by Gyorgy Ligeti, and Coro and Passaggio by Luciano …
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Assessing Social Capital and Community Involvement: Social Network Analysis for the Sustainable Amish Community Tourism Development
… in quantitative methods, qualitative methods, and social network analysis in this dissertation. Action research helps to refine the initial problem statement of the community (advertisement, lack of collaboration mechanism), and improving the local problem-solving capacity (showing them about …
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NGOs Advocating for the South in the United States Congress: Changing the Rules of the Global Game
… all achieved some visible success, compromises and unintended outcomes produced effects that tended to undermine intended policy changes and to reinforce existing North-South power relationships. Northern NGOs acted implicitly as representatives of the citizens of the South, thereby unwittingly …
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The Neoliberal Transformation of the Developmental State in South Korea: The Financial Sector, Reform Politics, and Global Capital
… addresses the neoliberal transformation of the developmental state in South Korea since from the 1960s through the present focusing on the financial sector, reform politics, and global capital. Chapter One provides a general description of research questions and approaches for the study. Chapter …
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Change and Continuity of Yi Medical Culture in Southwest China
… fieldwork among two subgroups of the Yi, Lolopo and Nuosu, living in the two Yi autonomous prefectures in southwest China. After over forty year's development, these two subgroups show quite different levels of both receptivity to biomedicine and incorporation of state-run health care service …
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Nation -State, Development, and Community in a Rural Sinhala Setting
… prove otherwise, the nation-state's project of social integration, totalization, and unification is carried through the denial of particularities and differences, because the nation-state's assertion of format equality and social unity has no factual basis. This doctoral dissertation is based on …
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Transforming Popular Catholicism: The El Shaddai Movement of the Philippines
… Catholic religiosity to cope with the economic and social realities of their times. Old Catholic notions of suffering, leftist ideologies of struggle and oppression, and old forms of sacred power and mediation no longer speak to the contemporary spiritual and material needs of many Filipinos. …
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"""We Are Tagwa, but My Mother Is a Smith"": Ethnicity and Identity Transformations Among the Sena-Tagwa of Burkina Faso"
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Culture, Power, Difference: Managing Ambivalence and Producing Identity in the Transnational Corporate Offices of Jakarta, Indonesia
… ethnographic examination of Western-owned and managed transnational office spaces in Jakarta, Indonesia and Singapore. I describe the kinds of social spaces that are becoming increasingly prevalent in our lives due to global economic processes. I historicize these spaces through an …
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New Bolivians, New Bolivia: Pentecostal Conversion and Neoliberal Transformation in Contemporary Bolivia
… within the context of recent neoliberal social and economic reforms that have drastically altered Bolivian society. These reforms have caused immense suffering among Bolivia's impoverished majority and placed increasing pressures on the middle and working classes, as they struggle to …
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