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Showing 1 to 20 of 159 for “"Social reality"”.
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Rhetorical Vision--Black Social Reality
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Language as a social reality: The effects of the infantilization of women
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Cultural Achievements and Social Reality in The Umayyad Caliphate of Cordoba 929-1031
<p>This thesis will focus on the history of al-Andalus (Modern Spain) beginning with the Muslim conquest in 711 and ending with the break up of the Umayyad caliphate in 1031. During this period, many scholars and commentators argue that there was a "Golden Age" of religious tolerance between Jews, …
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Constructing social reality in conversation : a generic and transitivity analysis of life history texts
… through which members of society construct a social reality in which they may meaningfully conduct day-to-day lives. The choices speakers make in language encode experiences and notions of the world in particular ways but may be constrained by context. In this study, I analyze the life history …
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A grammar of edification : constructing our social reality via efficient quotidian management with rhetorical forms
… Moreover, it demonstrates why the motivated social actions serve as foundations for constructing our social reality. Ultimately, it discovers and clarifies a grammar of edification, how that grammar allows for efficient quotidian management, and, thus, why it serves as a tool for managing …
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The Role of Literacy in Enhancing Women's Agency and Well -Being: A Qualitative Inquiry of the Effects of the Tostan Educational Program on the Lives of Women in a Rural Community in Senegal
… that allowed them to critically reflect on their social reality and take collective action to transform it.
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Meeting the Energy Crisis: A Case Study of Wyoming Energy Resource Producers
… to gain consensus on a particular definition of social reality. This struggle for the dominant definition of reality, and hence for the power to determine the direction of energy development, has led to a fragmented approach to energy resource development in Wyoming which is detrimental to the …
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Phenomenological analysis of the lifeworld of persons with motor disability /
… main objective of dissertation is to analyze the social reality, experienced and perceived intersubjectively by persons, moving with a wheelchair, following the theoretical perspective of phenomenological sociology of A. Schütz and the narrations of people with motor disability, going into the …
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A research study into furthering the understanding of management accounting in practice with specific reference to the practices utilised in the North Derbyshire area of the NCB.
… importance of understanding the complexity of social reality is introduced. A model of a 'temporal-spatial' reality is introduced and described. The conclusion from this part is that the main problem in understanding accounting practices is linked with the ontological issues and that a more …
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W. H. Auden's documentary vision
… method for representing and interpreting social reality. But W. H. Auden came to question this approach in Letters from Iceland, Spain, and Journey to a War. All three works explore the powers and limits of perception. By offering competing and contradictory ways of seeing, they reveal a …
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Critical media literacy and students in youth gang
… an appropriate pedagogy that embraces their social reality.
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Managing business change projects: a social practice perspective
… The call is for better understanding of the reality of business change projects as experienced by the people working on them, and for improved theory based on that. This research seeks to explore whether more effective approaches to delivering benefits from business change in organisations …
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Our enemy, ourselves: Political conspiracy in American cinema, 1970-present.
… texts in the context of U.S. political and social reality of the last three decades, it analyzes the relationship between the conspiracy theory genre, the "crisis of confidence" in the American society, and the process of formation of American national identity.
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An ethnography of black collegiate sprinters: A formal model of cultural identity and the identity complex
"This is a formal study of social and cultural identity in a population of black collegiate sprinters. I combine the theoretical perspectives of cognitive science and sociocultural anthropology to propose a cognitive model of a system of social relations that will handle effectively the very …
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The lonely goddess : the lack of benevolent female relationships in Hindu and Shi'ite mythology
… the femaile has been alienated from patriarchal social reality, due to the male-defined construction of the sacred, divine and submissive woman.
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Climate Change in the Changing Climate of News Media: A Comparative Analysis of Mainstream Media and Blog Coverage of Climate Change in the United States and the People's Republic of China, 2005-2008
The social construction of climate change has been an enduring interest to media scholars. Extensive research has been done to explore how the mass media portrayed climate change and how the influence of their representations contributed to the social reality of climate change. However, most …
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The Social Organization of the Ontario Minimum Wage Campaign
… ethnographic method of inquiry into social reality. My empirical focus is on the Ontario Minimum Wage Campaign (OMWC). The OMWC was a Toronto-based labour-community project to raise the minimum wage to $10 per hour. It was started in 2001 by Justice for Workers (J4W), was carried on …
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Mayr Hayastan Im Hairenik: Memory and the Politics of Construction of the Armenian Homeland
… process to that has been the construction of the social reality of the post-1991 Armenia. This dissertation examines the construction of the Armenian ethno-national social reality of the post-1991 Armenia through the discursive social practices of the Armenian state, new generation diaspora …
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