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Showing 1 to 20 of 65 for “"Social theories"”.
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Political and social theories of Transkeian administrators in the late nineteenth century
… - within a wider framework of contemporary social and political thought, to fit them into the matrix of Victorian culture as it conditioned and shaped the administrators' perceptions and responses touching the indigenous black population. A methodological pitfall opens here, of assimilating …
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The role of information systems in legislation led reform : a case study in the context of the new Municipal Rates Act of South Africa
… City of Cape Town. The study applies a range of social theories such as Actor-Network Theory, the Due Process Model and Structuration Theory.
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Charles Horton Cooley and the Social Gospel influence
… early twentieth century, primarily due to his social theories that involved the connection between individuals and society. This thesis demonstrates this connection with the influence of the Social Gospel movement as a basis for Cooley’s evolving social organization theories that remained …
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Walk Like an Egyptian: Belly Dance past and present practice in England
… in England construct a sense of self-identity, social-identity and identity-in-practice in a border-crossing Belly Dance ethnoscape is of interest for this research project. What kinds of identities-in-practice do Belly Dancers in England construct in order to authenticate their performance? By …
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A Thomistic Appraisal of the Philosophy of Henry George
… pf purpose as can be found in the conflicting social theories of the present day. The desire to establish justice has supported some of the most noble and some of the most terrible movements of history. Today, perhaps more than ever before, there is a need for defining clearly what we mean by …
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The human dimension of domestic energy use : an integrated approach
… phenomenon which is dependent on both the social and technical characteristics of domestic households. In this thesis it is argued that such a phenomenon is best understood using an integrated approach, combining both the physical and social theories of energy use. Such an integrated …
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Attitudes Concerning Euthanasia Among Protestant Denominations
… Variations in attitudes were viewed using social theories of religion by Emile Dukheim, Max Weber, Charles Glock, and Rodney Stark. These theories were used to establish a basis for variation among the Protestant denominations on social issues. A questionnaire was given to four Protestant …
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Finding Steinbeck's Utopia in Cannery Row and Tortilla Flat
… how he crafts his utopia in concordant Marxist, social, and ecological frameworks. These two novels possess striking commentaries regarding Steinbeck’s views on social status, materialism, and freedom all in conjunction with his larger socio-ecological confines. It is in this symbiotic social …
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Street Kids in Search of Humanization: Expanding Dominant Narratives Through Critical Ethnography and Stories of Lived Experience
This study draws on social theories such as critical theory and poststructuralism to deconstruct the current dominant narratives about street kids in large urban centers in Brazil, as well as to ground the method of this study: critical ethnography. The writing genre I chose to represent the street …
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Consumer holiday structure: an analysis of Christian holiday patterns and consumer ritual practice in America
… civil religion, and implications for related social theories are discussed.
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ALGORITHMIC SOLUTIONS TO COMBAT ONLINE FAKE NEWS
… dissertation first probes and collects extensive theories in social sciences, presenting or interpreting the psychology, behavior, and motivations of human beings as fake news producers, distributors, and consumers. It creates real-world multimodal, multilingual, and cross-site datasets, with …
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Secondary physical educators' content negotiations
… inactivity and a variety of biomedical and psychosocial conditions and the disjuncture between larger physical activity culture and secondary school physical education curriculum, the purpose of this study was to examine how middle school physical education teachers negotiated content and …
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A study in the sociology of Islam
… thesis is an attempt to study some of the social theories of Islam, not as logical ideas existing in a vacuum, but rather as idealogies which are in close interaction with the social conditions in the midst of which they arise. It should be remembered at this point that this thesis is not …
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PASS: protocols for alternative sexuality and sensibility
… or ascribed, topologies seem to appear in social theories, transportation systems, technological structures and biological systems to name only a few examples. Often descriptions of networks combine semantics reflecting both conceptual and physical meaning. Regardless of content, be it …
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Virtual fashion : tracking and analyzing cultural dispersion on the World Wide Web
… cut and design encodes information about their social identity. This encoding changes temporally as the design spreads throughout a population: this is the basis of "fashion." A similar sense of fashion has emerged on the World Wide Web (WWW), as people embellish their homesites with links, …
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A unified computational framework for modeling health policy adoption in complex real-world environments
… and overlook the dynamic interaction of beliefs, social influences, and personal contexts. Furthermore, these approaches are often constrained to specific scenarios and lack the design flexibility to adapt or extend across diverse problem landscapes. This dissertation addresses this core problem …
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Queering and Intersectionalizing Health Services Research: Structural Influences on Minoritized Sexual and Gender Populations’ Mammogram Usage
… populations; further, it aims to bring critical social theories, including queer theory and intersectionality, into conversation with health services research. Lastly, I construct a composite measure of state-level structural cisheteropatriarchy and examine its relationship to mammogram usage …
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Rape in America: an empirical test of two theories
This study investigates two macro-social theories of rape-pornography consumption and gender inequality-utilizing state-level data. First, it is argued that media consumption patterns have changed due to the popularity of the internet and increasing household broadband access. In particular, it is …
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Inheriting Nietzsche: The Frankfurt School and Foucault on the Foundation of Critique
… commitments of post-metaphysical critical social theories establish a theoretical orientation for their inquiries, they must forgo analyses that attribute domination to the distorting effects of illusion, error, or illegitimacy, and would thus cast liberation from domination as a return to …
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