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Showing 1 to 20 of 111 for “"Societal norms"”.
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Societal Norms: A Writing Portfolio
Legal and racial issues.
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The Breakdown of Societal Norms, Practices, and the Transformation of Adolescent Sexual Behaviour: A case study of Lang’ata Ward; Nairobi County, Kenya
… of the study was to examine the breakdown of societal norms & practices, vis-à-vis the transformation of adolescent sexual behaviour in Lang’ata ward; Kenya. This was mainly a qualitative study with the major methods of data collections being in-depth interviews, focus group discussions and …
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A Comparative Study of the Societal Norms of Nineteenth Century Women in the Elite Tier of Society with Particular Reference to Sarah Vivian, Lady Charlotte Guest and Amy Dillwyn
The events of the nineteenth century brought societal upheaval to the norms of the social class structure which had existed largely unchanged in Britain for many centuries. Urbanisation due to the Industrial Revolution brought the working class together living in proximity, which had not been the …
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Flowers for Abiah: Emily Dickinson's Claim to Live According to Her Own Rules
… ideas and sentiments regarding Victorian societal norms.</p>
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Equality and non-discrimination: Comparing the impact of South Africa and Nigeria’s same-sex legislation
… how the convergence of legislation, culture, and societal norms influences the actual experiences of LGBTQIA+ individuals in these two distinct contexts. The primary research question is, "What is the effect of same-sex legislation on the equality and non-discrimination of LGBTQIA+ individuals in …
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Uncanny Bodies
… how the uncanny challenges traditional views and societal norms about the body. My artwork emphasizes the fluid and often unsettling experiences of physical existence, blurring the boundaries between personal and collective perceptions. Through distortions and manipulation of scale, the familiar …
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Gender Glitch Matrix: Queer Aesthetics and the Politics of Error in Digital Media
… an artistic technique that critically subverts societal norms. The thesis interrogates AI’s structure, dissecting it to reveal “black box” complexities to question the vulnerability of computational systems. It proposes an alternative approach that embraces error as a means of resistance, …
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Explaining Viking expansion
… employment opportunities, political motives, and societal norms as separate, individual motives that perpetuated Scandinavian migration, conquest, and adventure from the eighth through the eleventh centuries AD. Afterwards, these investigations are used to describe the various and sometimes …
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Corporeal Modification In The Hollywood Musical: New Paradigms For Genre Analysis
… to create a carnivalesque representation of the societal norms through a genre, and a production code that sought to preserve them. Using the work of Russian semiotician Mikhail Bakhtin, this project reveals that these films feature dark and satirical para-realities of murder, debauchery and …
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Teaching the body : modeling institutional norms for embodied participation through dance and song in a preschool classroom
… bodies of young children are regimented towards societal norms through participation in co-operative creative genres.
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Leveling The Playing Field: Learning From Women Leaders In Professional Sports
… For decades, historical stereotypes and societal norms have influenced the way sports are viewed, resulting in a continued male-dominated atmosphere. Women have slowly been able to enter this field but are still not fully accepted or equally represented. Through interviews with 10 women …
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Preventing the press from engendering ethnic violence : press restraints and ethnic violence in Singapore
… emerging from ethnic conflict and (2) lack the societal norms and established institutions that stem from traditions of democracy, is formulated. Taking Singapore as a case study, it shows that race issues were progressively de-politicized from 1956 to 1972 as a consequence of governmental …
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Changing the World One Interaction at a Time
… examined how my daily interactions within societal systems shape my evolving positionality and inform my feminist leadership philosophy and praxis. Through self-discovery, I considered the symbiotic relationship between self as a woman and societal norms that construct and influence my …
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REGULATING FEDERAL LAW ENFORCEMENT’S USE OF FACIAL RECOGNITION TECHNOLOGY
… balanced oversight as case law, technology, and societal norms evolve. This analysis fills a gap by evaluating policy tradeoffs—equipping stakeholders with evidence to inform sound FRT governance. With adaptable oversight, facial recognition can be steered toward just ends.
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Two Tongues
… is a collection of poems that explores the societal norms that mixes American and Middle Eastern cultures. The use of sensory language empowers the speaker of these poems to break the barrier between both cultures and mold them into one significant place—the individual. Within these poems …
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Margaret Roper and Mary Basset: The Influence of Christian Humanism on the Education of Thomas More's Daughter and Granddaughter
… themselves in positions that challenged standing societal norms for women. Despite this both Roper and Basset still supported many of those precepts, remaining within the private sphere of the home away from the direct gaze of the public eye. Margaret Roper's education and outlook on her role in …
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Refracting Immigration Rhetoric: The Struggle to Define Identity, Place and Nation in Southern Arizona
… to contest and redefine the boundaries of societal norms within the context of emergent nationalism.</p>
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From Victorian Doubt to American Deconstruction: Exploring Faith Crises Across Time and Geography
… advancements, theological debates, and shifting societal norms, prompting intellectuals to grapple with doubts about traditional Christian beliefs. Prominent figures publicly challenged religious orthodoxy, while evolving scientific theories, particularly evolution, further fueled skepticism. In …
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Virtual Bodies: Probing Fake Flesh
… These creations often reflect and critique societal norms regarding beauty, health, and identity, particularly through the lens of the female experience, employing disruptive erotics to challenge the medical and male gaze and their objectifying tendencies.</p> <p>The work presented aims to …
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Undergraduate students’ understanding of sexual consent
… sexual violence by fostering awareness of societal norms and attitudes that may perpetuate violence. Ontario set a precedent as the first province to explicitly incorporate the concept of sexual consent in its sex education curriculum. However, other provinces and territories have also …
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