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Showing 1 to 20 of 48 for “"Social milieu"”.
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The cultural and social milieu of Westmoreland Davis
… Gilded Age America. He married wealthy, New York socialite Marguerite Inman and, with her, attended the Tuxedo Club’s fashionable Autumn Balls along with Pierre Lorillard, J. Pierpont Morgan and E. H. Harriman. In 1903, Davis purchased Morven Park, a northern Virginia plantation. Davis further …
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The relationship between growth, development and social milieu - a longitudinal study involving preschool Coloured children in Cape Town
… the relationship between growth, development and social milieu in Coloured pre-school children in Cape Town. This population was selected because, on the basis of previous studies, a wide range of nutritional status as well as a spectrum of socio-economic conditions were known to exist. A pilot …
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Exploiting Social Learning as a Legitimate Tool in Coach Development
… coaching research, knowledge and practice on how socially mediated learning activities can influence both coach behaviour and learning for better and for worse, as well as how coach developers might better exploit them as a legitimate tool in coach development provision. Accordingly, Chapter 2 …
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Capital Mediators: American Mining Engineers in the U.S. Southwest and Mexico, 1850-1914
… dissertation analyzes the technical work and social milieu of American mining engineers to understand the daily negotiations by which private U.S. capital reached up to and across the southwestern border as part of an ongoing project of American territorial and economic expansion. During the …
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How can I improve my life-affirming, need-fulfilling, and performance enhancing capacity to understand and model the meaning of educational quality?
… the impact it had on improving the academic and social milieu of an impoverished American high school.
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Chronotopic Figurations of Coal Mining at Blair Mountain
… to an environmental dispute), the cultural and social milieu in Appalachia has not. For West Virginians invested in the future of Blair Mountain, its cultural and political histories have been "thrust back into remembrance" (Nida and Adkins 14). For opponents of MTR, Blair Mountain's history is …
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Between God and Mammon : politics, class conflict, and the southern Irish state, 1922-45
… add new perspective on the broader political and social milieu in which the organized working class operated. Consequently, the dissertation suggests more compelling reasons than the 1918 elections for the marginality of working-class politics.
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House music for recusants in Elizabethan England: performance practice in the music collection of Edward Paston (1550-1630)
… and it also discusses Paston’s role within his social milieu mostly formed by the recusants’circle. This is followed by a presentation of the musical traditions that Paston presumably knew as well as a study of the collection within this context. By presenting this socio-cultural and musical …
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The Self and Social Freedom: A Paradigm of Leisure (Interaction Theory, Self-Expression)
… freedom from the constraining aspects of social role obligations. It is a distinctive relationship between the individual and the social milieu which allows a form of self-expression often inhibited in other social contexts. This view is strongly supported by theories of social interaction …
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Architecture and space for thought
… experiences of (architectural) space in a social milieu. Architecture, while considered to be primarily concerned with space as its medium, has a very impoverished (or occasionally, very contorted) verbal language in which to discuss space. The author, as a beginner teacher, noted this in …
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Middle-Class Identity and Hindu Women's Ritual Practice in South India
<p>This dissertation takes up the issue of social change via an exploration of a middle-class, multi-caste Hindu women’s religious group in south India called the Śri Maṅgala Vināyagar Satsang Group (SMVS). It utilizes the group members’ narratives about rural-urban difference and modifications to …
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The development and nature of Chinese communism : the early years, to 1925
… first section attempts firstly to describe the social milieu in which the founders of Chiiese communism found themselves in at, and just prior to, the time when they embraced communism as their revolutionary praxis. Secondly, this section deals with the reasons for the acceptance of communism as …
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The development and nature of Chinese communism : the early years, to 1925
… first section attempts firstly to describe the social milieu in which the founders of Chiiese communism found themselves in at, and just prior to, the time when they embraced communism as their revolutionary praxis. Secondly, this section deals with the reasons for the acceptance of communism as …
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Reclaimed territory : the plays of John McGrath and the 7:84 theatre company considered as a continuum of twentieth-century theories concerning theatrical form
… the relationship between aesthetic form and social praxis the inquiry proceeds in two salient lines of direction: the first tracing the withdrawal from "realism" of major theorists of modernist ideology, the second defining the political and social milieu which provided the matrix for the …
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THE ROLE OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE IN THE LIFE OF AN INTERNATIONAL STUDENT ABROAD AND ICELAND
… class work and coped better in an academic and social milieu. Anxiety about not being able to communicate with peers and the fear of negative judgments translated into emotional hardships in ministry. Inadequate verbalization led to anxiousness, which in turn led to self-doubts. These students …
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Exploring Sacred Objects And Their Meanings In Catholic Mexicano Households: Domestic Religious Practices In San Antonio
… important to the construction and maintenance of social relations and personal identity both in the present and through time. It is through relationships and interactions with things that people come to "know who they are" (Tilley (2007). This line of thinking has led some Latino studies scholars …
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An examination of selected binary oppositions in the work of Elizabeth Gaskell which serve to demonstrate the author's response to unitarianism and other prevalent influences within mid-Victorian society
… influenced in her writing by the Unitarian social milieu to which she belonged during her lifetime, and by a wide range of other dominant influences, such as Romanticism and the rise of Darwinism. It demonstrates that conflicting doctrinal strains within Unitarianism, and emphases in …
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“I Don’t Want to Cook”: Reconfiguring the Domestic Space in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
… American newspapers to understand the prevalent social milieu and then closely analyzes select literary texts of the time, to argue that the distinct racial circumstances that framed black and white women’s struggles enabled them to reform the domestic space as needed. Analysis of the nineteenth …
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Teacher Thinking and the Change Process: a Qualitative Study of Experienced Teachers Learning and Implementing New Models of Teaching
… the learning environment, (2) navigating the social milieu, (3) managing the personal, and (4) anticipating the future.</p> <p>Following the training institute, three teachers agreed to participate in an in-depth investigation of the process of implementation during the school year. Data were …
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Hikers' attitudes to the National Hikingway system in the south-western Cape
… out to determine the trail facility preferences (social carrying capacity) for National Hikingway trails in the south-western Cape. It was found that social carrying capacity is a complex concept, based on perceptive experiences and relative social values. It is not so much the level of use that …
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