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Showing 1 to 20 of 356 for “"Social structures"”.
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Social structures, epistemology and personal identity
… some 'underiabouring' work to be done for the Social Sciences; the second, relatedly. that there is a need to relocate the current debate in Anglo-Saxon Philosophy on, the question of Personal Identity. The colligation of the arguments accomplishes an 'underlabouring' task for the Social …
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Practice, Communication and Space: A reflection on the materiality of social structures
The general issue of relations between sociality and spatiality, until recently profoundly ignored outside spatial studies, has become a focus of great theoretical attention in a number of disciplines – what has been called, remarkably, the “spatial turn” in social and cultural theory. The thesis …
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Catalysts for Change? Women’s entrepreneurship, social structures, and gender norms in India
Contains fulltext : 232025.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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The Antinomies of Autonomy: The Social Structures of Stressors in Ireland and Denmark
… capacities, networked production, occupational structures, and organisational flexibility, have altered the dynamics of autonomy. High levels of work autonomy can now present counter-intuitive demands and contradictions which challenge the experience of self-regulation, discretion, and freedom …
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The Social Structures of OSINT: Examining Collaboration and Competition in Open Source Intelligence Investigations
… nine different organizations, we examine the social collaboration and competition patterns that underlie their investigations. Instead of purely competitive or purely collaborative social models, we find that OSINT organizations employ a combination of both, and that each has its own …
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Youth employability in ghetto neighbourhoods: The role of personal agency in reproducing or transforming social structures
… ignore the role of personal agency and hold that structures alone determine action. The critical realist framework offers a helpful understanding of social structures as both material and cultural since human agency, or action, is influenced by circumstances that are both materially objective and …
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From Heaven on Earth to Smart Cities: How Utopianism Shifted from Social Structures to Digital Built Environments in the 21st Century
Future cities are largely mentioned with utopia in the 21st century. Yet, many also think that utopias are pre-21st-century texts or designs. In the early 21st century, the concept of a digital city began to be connected to utopian ideas. Smart city, sustainable city,15-minute city, and many more …
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Challenges to democratic and economic transition in Ethiopia, Kenya and Sudan: a comparative study of the political, economic and social structures in the three countries
… did not contribute to economic development and social affairs as it did in some Asian countries and elsewhere. A cycle of ethnic conflicts, economic collapse, poverty in both absolute and relative terms, political instability, civil wars (Ethiopia, Sudan) etc. have often plagued the three …
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Methods to Preserve Social Networks at Emergency Shelters
During large-scale disasters, social structures are disrupted. The current focus of emergency management is to ensure that people evacuate safely. Lost in the process is a mechanism for keeping existing social structures intact, despite substantial evidence that maintaining social structures during …
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Shifting sounds: music as a ritual of transformation
… a particular worldview and its concomitant social structures and relations. It proposes a definition of a standard Western form of music performance, identifying it to be based on a duality of an active performer and passive audience, and suggests ways in which this form sponsors ‘everyday’ …
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Statistical modelling of congruence and association between perceptual and complete networks
"Structural analysis of social networks using statistical techniques has been evolving into sophisticated models for the last 60 years. These statistical models and techniques have been predominantly concerned with the structure of a global network. Statistical approaches to the analysis of …
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Epistemic Emancipation: Essays on Learning about Injustice
… that are due to unjust or oppressive social structures. Many of these restrictions will keep one from knowing about their very causes: about unjust or oppressive social structures themselves. Radical political philosophy and feminist epistemology have extensively analysed how …
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Uncovering an Alternative Social Structure to Social Dominance: A Blend of Ethnography and Community Based Participatory Research
<p>This study investigated social structures that are alternative to the prevailing assumption of Social Dominance Theory (SDT), which is that all human interaction is based on social hierarchies. The implications of social dominance impact health at an institutional, interpersonal, and …
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An exploration into the implementation of the balanced scorecard: a multiple case study approach from Saudi Arabia
… to analyse the production and/or reproduction of social structures, thereby explaining how and why change and/or stability occurs. The research embraces an interpretive and qualitative research approach based on three case studies. The main sources of data include semi-structured interviews with …
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A bourdieuian analysis of foundation programmes within the field of engineering education : two South African case studies
… or student experience, this thesis investigates social structures in order to examine the potential that foundation programmes, in general, hold for the transformation of higher education in South Africa.
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Māori transitions into tertiary education
… to the tertiary education environments and social structures they encountered. The findings suggest that transitions to tertiary education for Māori students involve a reciprocal interplay of identity, agency and structure which support or constrain transition experiences. Effective …
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Broadcasting in an on -Demand World Creating Community Radio in the Era of Podcasting and Webcasting
… constitute attempts to intervene in shaping our social structures, improving the quality of our shared conversations, and our ability to have a functioning public sphere. To this end, the findings in this project will prove of benefit to anyone charged with similar goals.
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Exploring Contexts of Ubiquitous Structures
… I have approached the same subject matter -- social structures -- through various techniques and media. I have chosen this subject matter after consistently observing and experiencing people base social decisions not on their own personal intuition, but on that which is dictated by any number …
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From model conflict resolution to post-war reconstruction in failed states: The case of Sierra Leone
… it may result in reinforcement of the original social structures and prejudices and in continued marginalisation of certain groups. Using post-conflict Sierra Leone as a case study, the study attempts to examine the notion that ¿post-war reconstruction programmes tend to reinforce earlier social …
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From Geo-Social to Geo-Local: The Flows and Biases of Volunteered Geographic Information
… information in the 21st century where BigData, social networks, user generated production of content and geography combine to create new and complex patterns of space, context and sociability. Both online and offline, social networks are creating a space that simultaneously unifies individuals …
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