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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Social matrix"”.
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Internet Dwelling, Cyborgs, and the Matrix of Modernity: An Empirical Inquiry with Critical-Hermeneutic Features
Amidst modernity's expanding electronic social matrix, this cultural-historical inquiry explores the technological construction of human being (e.g., cyborgs) and sociality in the America Online cyberscape. A two-tiered critical-hermeneutic method enables exploration of the broad rationalizing …
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How To Fold A Grid
… hierarchies imposed on queer bodies by the social matrix that defines the “norm”.
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"A painterly performance of politeness: Jean-Étienne Liotard’s ""Still Life: Tea Set"" and identity in eighteenth-century England"
… as an active agent within its specific social matrix. Utilizing eighteenth-century sources as well as the work of contemporary scholars, this study closely examines the still life in relation to the phenomena of politeness and superficial self-fashioning, or the ancien régime of …
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Placement of the Borderline/Narcissistic Personality on a Continuum of Mental Health
… and a formulation geared towards the needs of social work practitioners was developed.</p> <p>A rating scheme cujodying the theoretical formulation was applied. There were thirty-six out-patient subjects from three clinics and three private therapists. One to four taped sessions per subject …
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Problems of representation and representativeness in Ngugi wa Thiong'o's fiction
… is mobilized as a metaphor for the Kenyan social matrix by Gikuyu nationalist/traditionalist discourses. Following Spivak, I find in female circumcision a metonym of the silencing of the subaltern woman as an agency in insurgency. Ngugi's silencing of the historical struggles of Kenyan …
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An Analytical Perspective on Moana Research And the Case of Tongan Faiva
… Faiva within a broader and more holistic Tongan social matrix. This thesis proposes the need for a systematic de-programming and de-colonizing of Moana research and the development of a new and comprehensive Moana paradigm as an essential task. It argues that this should be done through a process …
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Dena Ongi Dabil! ¡Todo Va Dabuten!: TensiÓN Y Heterogeneidad De La Cultura Radical Vasca En El LÍMite Del Estado DemocrÁTico (1978-...)
… mores, created a space on the edge of the social matrix defined by two competing legitimacies: Basque Nationalism and the celebratory discourse of the Democratic Spanish State. The main questions I address are how to approach a phenomenon that is imbued with the effects and affects of …
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The sociocultural context of the video game experience
… culture"" as well as an important source of socialization into modern computer technology. The video game is interpreted as a new genre of game which represents a significant cultural form that has been transformed within the context of the so-called computer revolution. The social world of …
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The Trauma of Stalinism Narrated in Varlam T. Shalamov's Kolymskie Rasskazy : Missiological Implications for Contemporary Russia
… the Gulag left an indelible stamp on the entire social matrix of Russia. Because of the multidimensional and multigenerational nature of the trauma of Stalinism, Russian society retains the label of a traumatized culture. This dissertation explores the significance of this phenomenon for …
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Material culture, context and meaning : a critical investigation of museum practice, with particular reference to the South African Museum
… the relationship between material culture and social relations, and to counter the analytical separation of cultural form and social practice, which is a pervasive problem in archaeology and material culture studies in general. This problem is addressed with reference to museum practice, …
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Addressing performance anxiety in organists through pedagogical guidance
The art of balancing spiritual, physical and emotional attributes is a daunting task for any organist. The techniques with which an organist consolidates these attributes have a direct effect on the accomplishment of a definitive goal – a successful music performance. However, this portrays the …