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Showing 1 to 20 of 177 for “"Social transformation"”.
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Ground Zero: Nuclear Weapons and Social Transformation
… public statements of a broad range of American social leaders in the year after the bombing of Hiroshima, in which the idea is advanced that nuclear weapons, because of their tremendous destructive power, have placed human society at an historical crossroad, either these weapons will end war, or …
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A Critical Exploration of Social Transformation Through Occupation
… practitioners advocate for a stronger focus on social transformation. However, there is limited evidence on how occupation-based interventions contribute to addressing inequalities and fostering change for marginalised populations. Methods: This study applied critical occupational science and …
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Urbanism and Social Transformation in Peter the Great's Russia
… hopelessly out of date. The young emperor’s transformations of Russia’s military forces, administrative structure, religious culture, and social and political practices have been well documented. His reign also produced a dramatic shift in the country’s architectural culture towards more …
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Women, Medicine, and Power: The Social Transformation of Childbirth in Taiwan
Thus, I regard reducing the c-section rate as the primary agenda of childbirth reform in Taiwan. I advocate the extended use of midwives as the best strategy to reduce medically unnecessary c-sections. I also suggest the establishment of birthing centers to extend birthing women's options. Finally, …
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Art, Commerce, and Social Transformation: Public Art And the Marketing of Philadelphia
… How do these murals contribute to the city - socially, culturally, and economically? This research study employs the following in its methodology: archival research, participant observation, interviews, visual and audio documentation, web site analysis of the Mural Arts Program's public …
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Reconsidering institutional collapse and social transformation at Moundville during the Fifteenth century
… of life. This research reconsiders models for social collapse from the Mississippian center of Moundville, located in west-central Alabama. Collapse has been recognized at the site as a rupture in mound ceremonialism, nonlocal connections, and representational art. These changes indicate that …
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The colonial factor and social transformation on the Gold Coast to 1930
This thesis traces indigenous social and economic developments among the Akan and the incorporation of the territory known as the Gold Coast into the international world economy up to 1930. The focus for the thesis is threefold: developments and conflicts within the Akan social formation itself, …
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PEDAGOGY, SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION, AND SPACE: TOWARD A REVOLUTIONARY CRITICAL PEDAGOGY FOR SPACE
… I elaborate the dominant trends in the current social-political moment. I introduce two terms here, neoliberalism and the global class war. I argue that the former is a necessary but ultimately insufficient framework for understanding the present moment, and that the latter provides a necessary …
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Art & social transformation: theories and practices in contemporary art for radical social change
… suggests a polarization of art's aesthetic and social dimensions. A deeper understanding of the relation between these dimensions is found in the work of Marcuse, Bloch and Adorno. Marcuse, in his early work, sees art as serving the needs of bourgeois society by displacing ideas of a better …
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‘Action through non-action’: self-transformation and social transformation at the PRC grassroots
… progress as predicated on prior individual self-transformation. My overarching argument is that in contemporary China, discourses and practices of self-improvement have mediated, and continue to mediate, the relations between the political subject and the state. This dynamic is manifested in …
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A blueprint for building a multi-generational movement for social transformation in Boston
… the presence of youth in these existing social transformation activities, I then offer a framework for further youth engagement and provide recommendations to The City School, the Boston Center for Community Ownership, and the Center for Economic Democracy, for how they could further …
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Language planning and social transformation in the Limpopo Province: The role of language in education
Please read the abstract in the section 00front of this document
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From the Sacred Canopy to the Civic Canopy: Social Transformation Through Dialogue, Collaboration, and Civil Society
… of a community increases, its stores of social capital decline. Yet, there exists a growing body of evidence that suggests under certain conditions, patterns of inclusion and collaboration are not only possible but predictable. This project explores theory on effective communication …
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Corporate social responsibility legal analysis and social transformation: the South African experience in a comparative perspective
… a legal and regulatory framework of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and the effect it has on social transformation in South Africa. It is premised on Dodds' theory of stakeholder protection which is articulated with greater clarity by Jeff Smith. He states that directors are agents of all …
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Evaluation Capacity Building (ECB) as a Vehicle for Social Transformation: Conceptualizing Transformative ECB and Kaleidoscopic Thinking
… Accountability is important as public funds for social programs continue to dwindle and program administrators must do their best to fulfill their program missions in ethical, sustainable ways despite insufficient resources. While ECB on its own valuable, as it can promote evaluative thinking and …
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The Social Transformation of Coffee Houses: The Emergence of Chain Establishments and the Private Nature of Usage
… modern coffee houses live up to Oldenburg's social expectations of this often romanticize setting. The two key findings reveal that: 1) people increasingly use coffee houses less as a social sphere and more as a private zone to work, read, use electronic devices, and listen to music on …
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"In the Scale of Nature Each Seed is Important." Social Transformation, Food, and the Siege of Leningrad, 1941-1942
… of Leningrad fostered an environment in which social relationships, which were pruned and altered during the 1930s, were reinvigorated and reinvented by Leningraders. By the outbreak of the war in the summer of 1941, Stalinist social engineering policies had eroded previously normalized social …
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Stories from the frontline of music and social transformation: a study of teachers working for Batuta in the Caribbean coast of Colombia
… region. Batuta is one of Colombia’s largest Social Action Through Music (SATM) organizations, and it was born as an offshoot of the Venezuelan El Sistema de Orquestas y Coros Juveniles e Infantiles (El Sistema). As such, Batuta receives an important amount of funding and it plans to keep …
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The parables of Jesus as symbols of social transformation in a critical view of food insecurity systems for vulnerable households in urban townships
… that the given parables can serve as catalyst of transformation in the interpretation of the entire study of food insecurity in the townships.
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