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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"Social sciences--Research"”.
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Young university-going men’s perceptions of the #menaretrash movement and its impact on their masculinity
… (GBV) have been a concern predating the time of social media, the #MenAreTrash movement represents a more recent attempt to address the issues of GBV and Intimate Partner Violence (IPV). There are many ways in which young university-going men have been impacted by the movement, including …
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An exploration of the challenges hindering implementation of learning programmes at special care centres
… approval was obtained from the Humanities and Social Sciences Research Ethics Committee at the University of the Western Cape, and permission to conduct the study was granted from the Western Cape Department of Education and the selected SCCs.
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The development of an evaluation tool to assess doctoral research supervision at a South African University
… to develop an instrument to measure doctoral research supervision located in the institutional context of the University of the Western Cape. Triangulation was used at the level of overarching design resulting in a multiphase study - each with its own methodology. The construction included a …
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An exploration of the challenges hindering implementation of learning programmes at special care centres
… approval was obtained from the Humanities and Social Sciences Research Ethics Committee at the University of the Western Cape, and permission to conduct the study was granted from the Western Cape Department of Education and the selected SCCs.
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Family reunification services to children in child and youth care centres in the Cape Metropole: a social work perspective
… in circumstances that necessitate the need for social service intervention and ultimately removal, with placement in alternative care. In South Africa, the placement of children in child and youth care centres (CYCCs) has increased over the last decade with social workers facing many challenges …
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Perceived purpose and sources of meaning as protective factors for substance use amongst emerging adults across South Africa
… substance use. There is a growing body of research that has determined a correlation between purpose and meaning as protective factors; however, there is a lack of appropriate data on the relationship between these variables within SA. Therefore, this study investigated the correlation …
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Ayurveda as a model of intervention in treating substance use disorders in adults: a systematic review
… this ancient model is not well known in the social work fraternity and therefore requires exploration in terms of its effective use for treating SUDs in adults. This qualitative systematic review (SR) investigated existing literature on the issue with the aim to identify the effective use of …
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Exploring university students' subjective experiences of stress, coping, perceived social support, and psychological well-being in the context of teaching and learning during COVID-19
… challenges due to disruptions in their academic, social, and personal lives. In a pre-COVID-19 survey, first-year students from 19 universities in 8 countries (Australia, Belgium, Germany, Mexico, Northern Ireland, South Africa, Spain, and the United States) had prevalence rates for suicidal …
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Student Experience of Access to Egyptian Higher Education.
… relationship between Higher Education (HE) and social justice in Egypt, this study attempts to identify the main socioeconomic factors affecting HE access in Egypt from the students' perspective through tracing and comparing students' narratives of their access processes in distinctively …
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An exploration of psychosocial intervention services to families that have experienced divorce
… of all members of the family. This qualitative research study aimed to understand the nature and scope of psychosocial intervention services provided by social services professionals to families that have experienced a divorce. The population was social workers and psychologists offering …
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The relationship between proximity to homicide and birth outcomes
This study explores the effect of acute in utero exposure to homicides on a range of birth outcomes by testing theories of stress response and critical periods of fetal development. Specifically, this study examines the effect of in utero exposure to homicide on the birth outcomes of infants whose …
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Globalization and the Networks of Expertise in Turkey: The Politics of Autism
This dissertation uses the case of autism to examine the changing contours of disability, personhood and civil society in contemporary Turkey. Drawing on qualitative data collected through fieldwork and interviews, I show that despite the arguments proposed by parents groups and the scientific …
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An evaluation of the research done by the Academies for Rural Development in Pakistan
Thesis (M.A.)--Michigan State University. Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology, 1964
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An Examination of Cognitive and Behavioral Referents of Acculturation and Their Impact on Predictors and Frequency of Sexual Communication Between Mexican-Origin Parents and Their Young Children
… Unfortunately, sexual risk prevention research has generally excluded the role of culture in the design and implementation of sexual health interventions. This critical omission has generated interventions that conceivably lack cultural sensitivity, and run the risk of failure if their …
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Financial Asset Accumulation by Poor Adolescents Participating in Child Savings Accounts in Low Resource Communities in Uganda
… (i.e. family relations, family financial socialization, and household demographics) moderated the effect of participation in a subsidized matched child savings program on adolescents' saving attitudes and self-reported financial asset accumulation; and (3) whether the adolescents' future …
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What only heaven hears: Citizens and the state in the wake of HIV scale-up in Lesotho
… dramatic changes in their political worlds. The research reveals HIV scale-up's considerable and far-reaching impacts on citizen faith in democracy, perceptions of rights, access to key social protections, and feelings of belonging. In contrast to work on the impacts of social movements, …
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Statistical methods for indirectly observed network data
Social networks have become an increasingly common framework for understanding and explaining social phenomena. Yet, despite an abundance of sophisticated models, social network research has yet to realize its full potential, in part because of the difficulty of collecting social network data. In …
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Diagnosing the Self: An Ethnography of Clinical Management of Gender in Children
This dissertation is an ethnographic study of the clinical practices emerging around gender non-conforming children in the U.S. It explores the epistemic, techno-scientific and socio-cultural conditions of the emergence of these clinical practices, their related diagnostic categories, and their …
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Examining the perceived internal and external effectiveness of NGOs in the Palestinian Territories : the role of complexity, resilience, and job adaptability
… operating in war and conflict settings. Previous research suggested that integrative complexity (Streufert, 1970; Suedfeld, Tetlock, & Streufert, 1992), behavioral complexity (Lawrence, Lenk, & Quinn, 2009), emotional complexity (Kang & Shaver, 2004), job adaptability (Pulakos, Arad, & Plamondon, …
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