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Showing 1 to 20 of 44 for “"Social organizations"”.
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A study of undergraduate drinking behavior, attitudes, and membership in Greek letter social organizations
Alcohol is a part of college life for many students. Numerous studies have shown the prevalence of alcohol use by undergraduates. Fewer studies have focused on the use of alcohol by members of fraternities and sororities. There are no studies presently available which explore the motivations for …
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Images of gender arrangements of three American social organizations: a content analysis of top ranked Google images of individuals preforming organizational roles
… explores existing beliefs and often unspoken social structural arrangements related to male privileges by examining three different, but rather important, American social organizations—the NFL, U.S. military and higher education institutions. With queries from the Google image database, I …
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Organizational responses to urban migration in Ho Chi Minh City : adapting to the challenges of a highly regulated environment
… thesis examines the operational environment for social organizations working to address the challenges facing Ho Chi Minh City's increasing migrant population. After Vietnam introduced sweeping economic reforms in 1986, the country began to experience rapid industrialization and urbanization. Ho …
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Juegos de poder en las organizaciones empresariales de la globalización: estudio crítico y comparado de las aportaciones de su escuela académica homónima
… in globalization has had a measurable impact on social organizations. The aim of this research project is to explain delve into the patterns social organizations, and more specifically business organizations, are following. They are becoming more de-institutionalised systems where employees are …
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Beyond the Letters: Understanding the Importance of Black Women's Sense of Belonging in Predominantly White Sororities At Predominantly White Institutions
… the student experience, particularly in social organizations such as sororities. The literature emphasizes the importance of belonging for student success, noting the complexities added by the intersectionality of race and gender in traditionally White spaces. Some authors have emphasized …
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Foreign language teaching: A tale of two technical cultures
In broad terms the study investigated how the social organizations of schools affects and is affected by the social organizational structures within which teachers find themselves: in essence, how teachers shaped their reality. In particular this investigation was concerned with high school foreign …
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"""Civil"" Societies and ""Evil"" States: Ambiguities of Women's NGO Organizing and Patriarchy in Post -Soviet Ukraine"
… to ongoing studies of civil society and social organizations that examine the range of informal interpersonal practices that configure new social orders in post-Soviet countries. My dissertation adds to studies of local organizational practices, transnational interventions, and the …
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Applying Social Return on Investment Analysis to a Large Central Florida County Public School District
<p>All social organizations are faced with basic questions pertaining to the value they add to their community and how effectively and efficiently they do so. These questions are increasingly being directed to public schools and school districts as well relative to the various programming they …
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A socio-cognitive theory of information systems and initial applications
… which tend to downplay their status as social beings, and of social organizations, which often overestimate the influence of social organization on individuals' actions. A process of conceptual analysis and theory development that addresses this disjunction is presented in this thesis. …
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Damn Right Design: A Proposal of a Creative Platform to Facilitate Socially Responsible Graphic Design
… of the significant role it plays in addressing social problems. In social (graphic) design projects, designers move away from the more conventional design practice that takes place within an advertising agency or design firm, to work together with different organizations to address diverse …
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College Drinking, Greek Affiliation And The Need To Fit In: An Analysis Of Social Norms And Motivations Associated With Fraternity and Sorority Binge Drinking
This study proposes that members of Greek social organizations have higher rates of binge drinking as compared to other college students due to their greater acceptance of norms and motives that support binge drinking. The College Alcohol Study, a survey conducted by the Harvard School of Public …
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Congregational growth, closure, identity, and diversity.
… possess power as one of America's most prolific social organizations. Their power can be seen by the fact that congregations receive the highest proportion of philanthropic donations of any social institution (Hoge, Zech, McNamara, and Donahue 1996), and are the greatest outlet of voluntarism in …
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Play and tolerance : notions of looseness in social and material assemblages
… of evidence that frames technology, aesthetics, social organizations, systems of control and analysis as a way to illustrate and dramatize the effects of these different attitudes towards looseness, attempting to find places for play in the city in hopes of identifying potential for an urbanity …
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Infrastructure as a vehicle for community building : an urban design strategy for Iztapalapa, Mexico City
… water troubles by creating overlapping political organizations whose interests and administrative purview often conflict. This thesis proposes decentralized water infrastructures implemented at the neighborhood scale, that engage directly with dominant institutional arrangements - namely, the …
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Impact of peace movements on a society immersed in conflict. An analysis of the framing processes of the Basque peace movement.
… peace mobilization, dominated by two peace organizations: Gesto por la Paz, a group of community organizations that mobilize to publicly reject political violence, and Lokarri/Elkarri, an organization that includes a conflict resolution proposal based on dialogue between conflicting parties. …
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Exploring Environmental Justice Issues in Latino communities in the Treasure Valley in Idaho
… communities are relevant to environmental and social organizations in the Treasure Valley. As part of this, I also aim to unpack why environmental issues in Latino communities are or are not relevant to local social and environmental organizations. I suspected this may be connected to the …
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Cleansing Czechland : the Prague Uprising and the end of a multiethnic Bohemia
… level of control did the various political and social organizations have on the rebellion? Where was the heaviest fighting and what was the damage? Underlying all of my work will be the pressing question, what motivates a people to take to the streets and kill their neighbors? At the center of …
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Perceptions of task and social relationships in groups: exploring the effects of cognitive complexity on network accuracy, centrality, and structuration
Given that studying both task and social relationships between and among group members is an inherently complex web, a network lens emerges as a valuable tool in understanding and exploring the social side of groups. Using a model of network structuration, perceptions of group connections highlight …
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A study of steganography and steganalysis
… It has been rumoured that some of the anti social organizations have been using Internet to send and receive messages covertly. This is a serious problem before all the law enforcement agencies. This is one reason why steganographic and steganalytic techniques are being studied. The …
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Teachers Using Technology: Case Studies of Three Elementary School Teachers
… teaching styles, classroom routines, and the social organizations. In analyzing and trying to understand these findings, the author argues that teaching is a dynamic, multifaceted, and interactive process. Teachers' understandings and beliefs of purposes of education, learning, teaching, …
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