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Showing 1 to 20 of 43 for “"Social discourses"”.
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Water fluoridation: A contest of control; An analysis of social discourses in the New Zealand fluoride debate
… for ongoing debate. The implications of these discourses for policy makers and dental care agencies are also considered. Findings are that significant societal changes since the inception of fluoridation 60 years ago have shaped a growing wave of uncertainty. Medical science; once the …
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A phenomenological study to explore individuals’ experience of depression
… for eight individuals and identified how social discourses contributed to their understanding. Following rigorous analysis of twelve interview transcripts, data was broken down into four recurrent superordinate themes which related directly to how individuals made sense of their experience …
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The Social Construction of Sexuality: Personal Meanings, Perceptions of Sexual Experience, and Females' Sexuality in Puerto Rico
… created, changed, and modified as the nature of social discourse and personal experience changes. The two theoretical frameworks that guided the methodology and analysis of the data were social constructionism and feminism. I assumed that sexuality is socially constructed, shaped by social, …
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Living with a spoiled identity : HIV positive women talk of stigma
… black township in Cape Town. The study used both Social Constructionist and Psychoanalytic theory to understand the impact that their """"spoiled identity"""" had on the emotional lives of these women. The study elicited women's narratives as they talked about the circumstances surrounding their …
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Self-Structure and the Rhetorics of Social Discourse in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
… stererotypes influencing "white" American racial discourses. In other words, Jim appropriates an ethos consistent with antebellum "white" rhetorics aimed at racial subordination. To explain Jim's ironic decision, I employ Marshall W. Alcorn's theory of self-structure: a theory defined in his …
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Multimodality And The Sociality Of Literacies: Shaping First-Year Writing Students’ Literacies Through Multimodal Approaches
… to developing multimodal literacies through social semiotics, digital modes of communication, and multiliteracies. Intentionally developing these literacies opens the door for first-year writing students to build upon social discourses in which they already engage and develop new modes of …
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Performing Self and Society: Growth and Maturity at a Japanese Junior High School
… students and as members of Japanese society. Social discourses and conditions in broader society emerge in teacher practice and surface in students' conversations and writings that offer glimpses of how they see themselves and their futures vis-a-vis these received views. As they navigate …
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"Spammy, scammy, copy and paste" : constructing the essence(s) of network marketing through business model stigma and multiple discourses
… and how they constructed experiences based on social discourses. Data was collected through in-depth, semi-structured interviews with 16 MLM consultants. Participants articulated three essences of MLM: knowing your "why," reaching your "warm market," and recognizing MLM as an "effort-based …
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Christian-Muslim dialogue in post-revolutionary Egypt: the influence of the humanist discourse
… science with the intergroup theory from social psychology. This framework helps reveal details of the interfaith dynamics. This research argues that: Firstly, there has been a stronger discursive struggle among people taking top-down and bottom-up approaches in inter-religious dialogue …
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"WIsh I would be normal": LSD and Homosexuality at Hollywood Hospital, 1955-1973
… concerns were influenced by both medical and social discourses on same-sex attraction in the context of the Cold War, a time when ideas about global security, the family, sexuality, psychiatry, and psychopharmacology were in flux. Both Hollywood Hospital’s practitioners and patients were …
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Persistent Pleasures: Agency, Social Power, and Embodiment in Women's Solitary Masturbation Experiences
… been a useful site for examinations of social power, looking at power through the lens of sexuality often involves interpersonal analyses. But social power can also inform solitary experiences through the internalization of social norms and discourses. In this dissertation, I move beyond …
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Recognising the constraints that affect professional women’s choices: how do Australian women develop and grow in their professional lives?
… role workplace culture plays in constructing social discourses. Life stage appears to have an effect on the career progression of women and the culture in which stories are constructed affects development and growth of women in the Australian workplace.
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Teenagers, Everyday Life and Popular Culture in 1950s Ireland
The aim of this thesis is to provide a social and cultural history of young people, their lives and their interactions with popular culture in 1950s Ireland. Popular culture is contextualised within the wider social discourses of the decade including emigration, unemployment, globalisation and the …
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Renegotiating the sexual self after an HIV-diagnosis: listening to white, European women
… philosophy of holism and valuing the creation of social environments that sustain mental well-being, CoP literature is relatively silent on the role of sexuality in women’s adaptation to HIV. This qualitative study explores how white, European women with HIV, who have historically been …
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A Case Study of One Teacher's Experience Using a Sociocultural View of Disability in the English Classroom
… that highlights the use of disability studies, social justice, and dialogic pedagogy guided the methods of the study. The sample included the teacher and one ninth grade English Language Arts class of approximately 25 students in a rural high school. Methods involved three semi-structured …
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Critical Literacy: An Innovative Approach To Learning Among Students With Reading Disabilities
… issues of power, especially disparities within social contexts, like poverty, class, race, sexual orientation, etc. Becoming ‘critically literate’ means students have developed the ability to know and understand whose voice/ position holds power and whose does not. Teachers help students to …
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Women sex workers’ embodied experiences of sport, exercise and physical leisure in Aotearoa New Zealand
… Foucault’s theories of power, technologies, and discourses to examine how institutions of sex work and sport influence bodies, and how women sex workers embody multiple, shifting, and sometimes contradictory subject positions in relation to discourses of sex work and wider social discourses of …
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The Other Side of Girls Gone Wild: The Emotional Labor of College Women's Sexual Decision-Making
… decisions via their negotiation of dominant social discourses. The study seeks to determine how the college experience nurtures women's sexual subjectivity; how it affects their negotiation of sexual messaging and social dominant discourse; and how it impacts the emotional work involved in …
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Poet in a hard hat: Stevie Smith and gender construction
… contemporary feminism between essentialists and social constructionists, but also the more current debates that have developed as the constructionist position continues to be explored. She takes an anti-essentialist position as her inaugural point and explores the limits of agency in redefining …
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Imagining Irelands: Migration, Media, and Locality in Modern Day Dublin
… greater Dublin area. Simultaneous examination of social discourses, in the form of prevalent television and film media, and the talk of the teenage students I interviewed led me to discern a "locality production" process that can be discerned in both these forms of discourse. While it is noted …
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