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Showing 1 to 20 of 230 for “"Social world"”.
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Seeing Connections: Documentary as an Intervention in the Social World
… of the relationship between documentary and social practices. In particular it seeks to develop and theorise a mode of documentary practice in which social practices in general are dialogised rather than represented. I characterise social practices as consisting of a largely tacit consensus …
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Monstrosities, Money, & Machines: A Metaphoric Analysis of Fantasy Football as a Social World
In this study, the world of fantasy football is examined through the lens of the ethnography of communication and the utilization of metaphor/cluster analysis. Fantasy football has emerged as a highly popular sports-related activity and has become a multi-million dollar industry. By analyzing two …
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In This Place Called Prison: How Religion Structures The Social World Of Incarcerated Women
… have long examined what governs the prison social world. However, prior studies have generally overlooked how religion organizes and stratifies life in prison. Drawing upon 12 months of ethnographic fieldwork inside a U.S. state women’s prison, this dissertation demonstrates that religion is …
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Contribution of Reference Agents to Recovery Maintenance: A Social World Analysis of Narcotics Anonymous Affiliation
Few studies have examined the social process of drug abuse recovery. To determine how recovering addicts use reference agents, such as reference groups and/or reference others, to achieve and maintain sobriety within the context of the Narcotics Anonymous (NA) support group experience, this study …
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Building realities : Ecuadorian Amazonian Kichwa oral literature and its role in Napo Kichwa social world-making
… is how Napo Kichwa oral literature builds Kichwa social worlds. Each of the texts included in this dissertation explores not only the paradigms which define human and non-human beings, but these texts also participate in the active creation of worlding. These texts show what it means to be a human …
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LGBT-friendliness & the Promise of Inclusion: A Queering Ethnography of Inclusion in the ‘Diversity World’ of Business and the Social World of ‘Queer Activism’ in London
… carried out in London in the ‘diversity world’ of business among LGBT professionals, role models, ‘straight allies’ and ‘diversity & inclusion specialists’, and in the social world of ‘queer activism’ with campaigners fighting against the closure of a ‘queer pub’ by property developers …
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Disengagement From Intrinsically Transient Social Worlds: The Case of a Distance Learning Community
… activities throughout membership in a transient social world. The next ten dimensions represent activities that participants undertake as they disengage from an intrinsically transient social world. Taken together, these twelve dimensions model the process of disengaging from an intrinsically …
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On the run: perspectives on long distance running.
… was adopted to understand the nature of the social world of long distance runners through interviews and observations which were thematically analysed. The sample comprised twenty five international informants. The key theme emerging from the data was the strength of identification that …
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CHANGING FILM IMAGES ASSOCIATED WITH SOCIAL AND CULTURAL VARIATIONS: AN ANALYSIS OF FUTURE-BASED AMERICAN FILM
… and their relationships with critical events and social change. Drawing on reflection theory, I argue cinema is shaped by society. Using a mixed methods model I analyzed thematic variations in forty-four American futurist films from 1953 to 2012. Quantitative results on protagonist race and gender …
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The sociological imagination of S.E.K Mqhayi: towards an African Sociology
What areas of social life do our existing social theories allow us to understand, and what areas of society leave us baffled, unsettled and unable to respond? This paper will argue that we are in need of new interpretive tools to allow us to understand the areas of our social world that have …
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The sociocultural context of the video game experience
… culture"" as well as an important source of socialization into modern computer technology. The video game is interpreted as a new genre of game which represents a significant cultural form that has been transformed within the context of the so-called computer revolution. The social world of …
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Toward a political ontology of Being and time: inauthenticity and authenticity
… good and bad, serving to irrevocably split the social world into classes of leaders and followers. Against this, I argue that distinction between “authenticity” and "inauthenticity" is ethically neutral and therefore has no necessary political momentum in any direction. Heidegger's critics argue …
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Narrative power : social control in ISLs and group homes
… and developmental disabilities as a tool of social control. Framing narratives, stories and accounts influencing the accepted version of events, are used by clients, staff people, supervisors and professionals to influence and control the behavior of people in this social world. Identity …
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The role of motivation within an activity system for adults learning English as a second language
… between the language learner and the social world, developing a comprehensive theory of identity that integrates the language learner and the language learning context, while trying to keep motivation high.
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The role of motivation within an activity system for adults learning English as a second language
… between the language learner and the social world, developing a comprehensive theory of identity that integrates the language learner and the language learning context, while trying to keep motivation high.
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The Experience of Imprisonment Amongst Ex-Military Personnel in England and Wales
… between the fragmented, individualistic social world of the prison and the collective and cohesive social world of the military. The study found that veterans employed their military mind-set and drew on their experiences of encountering physical and mental hardships in their previous …
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Interpersonal Peer Attraction in Childhood
… important source of basic information about the social world and social-cognitive development of school children. Knowledge about the characteristics that children find attractive or unattractive is needed by both researchers and educators who seek to promote social acceptance among school …
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Tournament bass fishing: Commodification in a serious leisure activity
Using the dynamic social world of tournament bass fishing as a backdrop, this research combined qualitative and quantitative research methods in a grounded theory approach for the study of commodification, serious leisure and the relationship between these two important social phenomena. …
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Context preferences of teachers in South Africa and South Korea for mathematics in schools
… problems in the realm of the physical and social world as well as in the discipline mathematics itself. This research attempted to investigate the contextual issues that teachers have to deal with in mathematics education.
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