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Showing 1 to 20 of 1434 for “"Social and cultural"”.
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Education Through Social and Cultural Transmission
… educational opportunities due to structural social, economic and cultural barriers. Educational inequality in American urban areas remains as a consequence of socioeconomic constructed structural barriers and strong social and cultural disconnections between the educational system and …
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Social and cultural dynamics in early Marquesan history
This study is concerned with the early social and political history of the Marquesas Islands in eastern Polynesia. This history is seen in part as a cultural process, and as one which cannot be dissociated from a wider Polynesian context of development and transformation. The first part …
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Social and cultural dynamics in early Marquesan history
This study is concerned with the early social and political history of the Marquesas Islands in eastern Polynesia. This history is seen in part as a cultural process, and as one which cannot be dissociated from a wider Polynesian context of development and transformation. The first part …
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American Arctic Exploration: A Social and Cultural History, 1890-1930
… otherworldly beauty, life-threatening elements, and dangerous wildlife. Nearing the end of the nineteenth century, in a time of great anxiety about the direction of American society, the region took on new significance. As a new frontier, the Arctic was a place where explorers could establish a …
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Constitutionalizing Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights in the New Millenium
… in a polemic debate about whether economic, social, and cultural rights should be included in national constitutions. Because economic, social, and cultural rights appeared to require significant political decision-making directly related to resources and economic priorities, critics …
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Constitutionalizing Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights in the New Millenium
… in a polemic debate about whether economic, social, and cultural rights should be included in national constitutions. Because economic, social, and cultural rights appeared to require significant political decision-making directly related to resources and economic priorities, critics …
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Beyond the Bootstrap: Social and Cultural Capital in Hispanic Entrepreneurship
… This qualitative study investigates the systemic and individual factors hindering the growth of these firms by exploring how founders strategically convert social and cultural capital to navigate the minority discount. Grounded in Pierre Bourdieu’s framework of capital, the research utilizes 39 …
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Sexuality: Social and Cultural Constructs of Women Represented through Art
… the constructions of gender both accepted and taboo. My research explores how these social constructs pertaining to sexuality began and how they have been perpetuated throughout history in art. Because of my personal struggles with social constrictions as a woman, an artist, and as one …
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Fog Tropes: A social and cultural history of the foghorn
… of sound (the foghorn), weather (fog) and place (the coast) through interrogating the foghorn’s role as a sonic marker along British coastlines, from the end of the 19th century to its decline a century later. Foghorns are the sonic equivalent to the lighthouse, a technology that used …
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THE SOCIAL AND CULTURAL POLITICS OF LISTENING TO BLACK CANADA(S)
This dissertation, Social and Cultural Politics of Listening to Black Canada(s) develops the concept, Black Nowheres, and its two registers—now here and know here—to understand how the pervasive conditions of anti-Blackness structure the world and can be registered in everyday sound and sonic …
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The Social and Cultural History of Irish Musical Societies, 1890-1990
… round the piano, with excerpts from operettas and musicals, was a regular occurrence. The author took part in her first school musical at Loreto College, Crumlin Road, Dublin, in a production of Gilbert & Sullivan’s The Mikado. She subsequently enrolled in Loreto Commercial College, Crumlin …
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Social and Cultural Influences on Nontraditional Students' Decision to Seek Higher Education
… of this study was to determine some of the social and cultural influences on nontraditional students' decisions to seek higher education. The thesis of this project is that nontraditional students are reacting to changes in the occupational structure of the United States. The six …
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Healthy travel and child socialisation: policy implications for social and cultural change
… on car transportation has personal as well as social health effects. This thesis reports research designed to investigate the role of cultural factors on children's travel. It examined the home and the school in a project that had theoretical and practical objectives. Theoretically the research …
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Initiations, interactions, cognoscenti: social and cultural capital in the music festival experience
This thesis explores the role of social and cultural capital in the music festival experience. It does so by gathering observations and post-festival accounts from attendees at three separate music festivals located in England. The data were analysed using Fairclough's approach to critical …
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The British Army in Ireland 1961-1921 : a social and cultural history
The primary aim of this work is to provide a social and a cultural history of British soldiers who served in Ireland during the revolutionary period stretching from the Easter Rising of 1916 to the Anglo-Irish Treaty of December 1921. As such, it represents the first concerted attempt to view the …
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The Sultanate of Banten AD 1750-1808: a social and cultural history
… of a prosperous port sultanate in the sixteenth and seventeenth century, and a history of a dark and oppressed nineteenth-century society. The eighteenth century represents a gap between the two scenes. Historians have understood that during this period the Dutch East India Company (VOC) turned …
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Social and Cultural Integration Process Among Syrian Refugees in the United States
<p>The purpose of this study is to examine the cultural and social integration process among Syrian refugees in the United States, and to what extent the direct and indirect challenges have played a role in the process of their social and cultural integration. The challenges include, but are not …
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Protection of economic, social, and cultural rights in Europe in the 21st century
Economic, social, and cultural rights which are fundamental, and essential for the dignity and well-being of individuals and communities, are recognized by international law and are protected at both the universal and regional levels. The Doctoral thesis consists of two parts. In Part I …
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Social and cultural determinants of psychiatric illness : presenting in an urban general hospital
… urges of childhood . These instinctual demands arose out of the patriarchal Viennese society.
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