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Showing 1 to 20 of 62 for “"Societal values."”.
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A Cross-Cultural Study of Societal Values and Personality of Thai and American Adolescents
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Lost in technification : Uncovering the latent clash of societal values in Dutch public policy discourse on animal-testing alternatives
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Charles Dickens in Cinema and the Loss of His Message
… with the original, possibly showing changing societal values. So, by focusing on Dickens and his adaptations, we can expose societal values which have changed. Specifically, I will focus on the increased societal acceptance of an economic ruling class; Dickens critiqued the economic ruling …
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Behold thy doom is mine: The evolution of Guinevere in the eorks of Chrétien de Troyes, Sir Thomas Malory, and Alfred, Lord Tennyson
… for nearly a millennium, evolving to suit societal values and mores. She has metamorphosed from Arthur’s noble queen to Lancelot’s jealous lover, from a motherly sovereign to a vindictive adulteress as each author struggled to apply his own literary and societal conventions to a character …
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Addressing Misalignment in Language Model Deployments through Context-Specific Evaluations
… that they are trained to perform according to societal values and expectations is imperative given their potential to shape societal values, norms, and power dynamics. Evaluation plays a key role in language model (LM) alignment and policy-making. Presently, LM alignment and evaluations are …
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A study of the cultural explanation of welfare: the effect of values on social policy within the welfare states
… the cultural context for policy making with the societal values which are neither as abstract as the universal human basic values nor as concrete but situation-dependent as public opinion, and of the effect of culture on social policy as twofold: the ex-ante causal effect and the ex-post …
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"Our real family, the one we chose" : the function of comfort in the sitcom family.
… looks like today, and what that means for our societal values. The sitcoms Friends (1994), The Office (2005), Parks and Recreation (2009), Brooklyn Nine-Nine (2013), and Community (2009) will be used as case studies to understand the new dominant type of sitcom family: The constructed family.
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Three Factors That Contribute to College Students' Acceptance and Tolerance of Diversity: Religiosity, Moral Reasoning and Attributional Complexity
… teaching about acceptance, diversity, and societal values as well. This study proposes that several factors, which may be involved in this teacher role of acceptance and tolerance of diversity, are connected—including the teacher's level of moral reasoning, attributional complexity, and …
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Apologia in Coaches' Post-game Rhetoric
… that coach discourse reflects American societal values based on dissemination of material and reported public interest.
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Contesting identities: a study of the nexus between double-consciousness and belonging in Angie Thomas’ The Hate U Give (2017); Samira Ahmed’s Love, Hate & Other Filters (2018) and Gloria Chao’s American Panda (2018)
… in the study that the researcher also asks how societal as well as familial expectations and stereotypes impact on the identity of their members leading to dualism of character (double-consciousness). The focus of this research is thus to analyse the link between the individual, family, societal …
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Obesity and the Technological Fix: Weight Loss Surgery in American Women
This thesis is an analysis of how societal values shape our ideas of health and disease, the designs and marketing of weight loss surgery technologies, and the ways in which obesity reducing-operations are accepted and desired. Gender ideologies, American values of commodity capitalism, treatment …
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Public Interest Computing: a Pluralistic Design Language Foundation for Societal-Machine Alignment
… a critical examination of their alignment with societal and environmental values. The reciprocal relationship between these norms and emerging AI technologies calls for a structural conceptualization of algorithmic systems that extends the scale of human-centered considerations. This …
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Interactive embankment: topography of fluctuating water levels and human interaction
… access to a waterfront. It is a reflection of societal values in direct dialogue with the forces of nature. Water level fluctuations reflect changes in river discharge, a natural attribute caused by climate and human intervention, which also creates the dynamic riverfront landscape. …
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Tools for Togetherness: Building Social Networks through Public Tool-making
… million lives and prompted a reassessment of our societal values towards more collective orientations. This thesis investigates how individuals can help foster a society that values care, support, and mutual aid. By developing, documenting, and disseminating self-organized public tools—including …
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The Women's Royal Australian Naval Service : a study in discrimination 1939-1960
… Australian Naval Service was inhibited by both societal values and attitudes and the traditions and priorities of the Navy.
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Chronicle of confinement: A tale of Dystopian Chains and Utopian dreams
… dystopian and utopian prison designs, reflecting societal values of control, oppression, freedom, and rehabilitation. By emphasizing the power of hope and imagination, this thesis provides a comprehensive understanding of the interplay between physical confinement, mental resilience, and societal …
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Social Studies: The Lost Art of Being Social
… system is directly linked to the decline in societal values, citizenship and a sense of value. Through a brief overview of how education was established in America to specific programs and misconceptions in teaching social studies, this paper delves into finding out the importance of teaching …
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Born To Be Wild: Tiger Persecution and Advocacy From 1800 to the Present
… of its role as an institution that represents societal values that shift in concurrence with shifting paradigms. This thesis studies the human-tiger relationship and analyzes three defining periods that occurred between 1800 and the present. The first period occurred during the nineteenth …
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<i>Non Ego Laudari Curo</i>: Honor, Shame, and Aristocratic Competition in Tibullus’ Elegy
… shaping of a free, male persona, at a time when societal values and structures were undergoing conflicting redefinitions. Thus far no exhaustive scholarly work has been written on the relevance of shame and honor in Tibullus’ elegy. This hermeneutic perspective can provide constructive avenues of …
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Societal food-related values as reflected in magazine advertisements: a content analysis 1933-1983
… knowledge constraints of the home manager. Since values govern behavior, the study of them is necessary for understanding the motivations behind food choices. The purpose of this study was to determine trends and the changes in the hierarchical ranking of selected food-related values as reflected …
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