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Showing 1 to 20 of 100 for “"Society and culture"”.
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Anatolian Ceramics: A Reflection of Society and Culture
… Anatolia is nestled between Europe, Asia, and Africa. This region is especially known for its remarkable and lengthy history of ceramic production, with the first archaeological evidence of clay ware dating back to the Neolithic period (c8000 - 5500 BCE). This paper discusses the ceramic …
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The expansion of television in the 1950's and 1960's: institutions, society and culture.
… the expansion of British television in the 1950s and 1960s and its relationship to social and cultural change. During this period, television developed into an industry and mass medium and this coincided with a cultural shift from a seemingly consensual society of post-war austerity to a society …
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Architectural development in Lesotho
… since 1961, the author has had an excellent, and extended, opportunity to participate in, and to observe, the causes and effects of this development. This involvement has made the writer keenly aware of the interaction between the traditional, rural-based agrarian society and culture found in …
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Creating a Russian Colonial Community: City, Nation, and Empire in Tashkent, 1865--1923
… Even as they asserted their links to Europe and Russia, settlers consistently resisted central dictates. Colonial residents across the social scale argued that their special role as emissaries of European civilization had engendered a unique society and culture in the city. Settler autonomy …
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The Tyranny of the Microbe: Microbial Mentalities in New Zealand, c.1880–1915
… the development of ideas about germs in New Zealand, c.1880–1915. The examination of these concepts of disease provides new insights into the assumptions, anxieties and ideals of society and culture at a pivotal point in New Zealand history. This study offers a thematic account of public health …
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Learning to Rebel: Socialist Youth Activism in Contemporary Buenos Aires
… in ethnography. As an experienced filmmaker and an award-winning photographer, I have always paid close attention to the visual world. In my ethnography I attempt to use photographs in a more integrative and meaningful manner than the illustrative role they usually play (i.e. ""here is a …
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Domestic Violence and Women: A Critical Analysis of US Help & Support Websites and Traditional News Media Representation
… that provide help for domestic violence victims and traditional news media, specifically <em>The New York Times</em>, communicate the various factors of domestic violence and its victims. The author provides a focused literature review of gender, sexism, race, power, and voice, related to the …
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Social Change and Documentary Film in Mexico: Violence, Autonomy, and Cultural Production
<p>The use of Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and other social media in the Arab Spring, #Occupy Wall Street, and Mexico's #YoSoy132 student movement have all generated excitement about the new uses of digital technology in organized social movements. This dissertation concerns itself with media and …
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Conservative Modernism at the 1937 International Exposition in Paris
… to characterize French modernization as backward and interwar French society and culture as stagnant and even reactionary, I illustrate how the organizers' focus on human production and its representation in a conservative modernism was a valid response to both the economic and cultural realities …
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Gender and Citizenship in the Constitution of Nepal, 2015
… the Nepalese citizens as well as the Nepalese society and culture in general. This project employs two methods of data collection: close reading of the citizenship provision and ethnographic interviews of those Nepalese who are directly affected by the provision. Results are drawn through …
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A nation's visual language: nation branding and the visual identity of contemporary Malaysia
… role graphic design can play in the national branding of emergent nations, and takes the multiracial, multicultural state of Malaysia as the principal object of study. Contemporary Malaysian society and culture are reviewed in the context of present views of globalization and postcolonialism, …
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Representing the Mixed Plate: Involving Descendant Communities and Kānaka Maoli in Hawai’i Plantation Museums
… (Native Hawaiians), displacing them from their lands, replacing them with immigrant laborers, and putting into motion the chain of events that led to Hawai’i’s annexation in 1898. The current-day population in Hawai’i continues to reflect these significant changes in the society and culture of …
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Building Society and Governing Intimacy: Gender, Law, and Constructions of Sexuality and Courtship in Late-Nineteenth Century British Columbia
… Victorian concepts of courtship, masculinity, and femininity in late- nineteenth century British Columbia as they were constructed, perpetuated, and understood through legal trials involving seduction and abortion. With a focus on the capital city of Victoria and the interior Kootenay region, …
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Towards the Anthropocene : colossal naturality in disordered territories
… levels of human interaction in Earth's geology and atmosphere justify the proclamation of a new geological age or era: The Anthropocene? Entering a realm of scientific uncertainty and discourse, this thesis argues that the conceptualization of the Anthropocene (as a product of human ubiquity) …
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Social media analytics in business intelligence applications
… media is becoming increasingly important in society and culture, empowering consumers to group together on common interests and share opinions through the Internet. The social web shifts the originators of content from companies to users. Differences caused by this dynamic result in existing …
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The Relationship between Goal Orientation and Gender Roles
… relationship between a person’s goal orientation and the gender roles that they adopt. The relationship between gender and goal orientation has been studied for years, but the results have been inconclusive. Some studies find a gender difference and some studies do not. For this reason, this study …
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He Who Rules "Cinema" Rules Everything: Kalimán as Bridge Between 1960s and 1970s Mexican Cinema
… his sidekick Solín, take them around the world and across various media platforms: radio, comics, and cinema. The cinematic tales of Kalimán reflect significant changes in Mexican cinema, society, and culture. The two Kalimán films, El Hombre Increíble and El Siniestro Mundo de Humanón, occupy a …
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Plant City, Florida, 1885-1940: A Study In Southern Urban Development
… The study chronicles the town's origins and economic, political, and social development in relationship to the broader historical theories of southern urban development, specifically those put forward in David Goldfield's pioneering work, Cotton Fields and Skyscrapers: Southern City and …
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Mediterranean influences on horticultural and garden developments in South Australia between 1836 and 1938.
… the first settlement of South Australia in 1836 and concludes with the Depression of 1938 having regard to its landscape development. This enables the documentation of Mediterranean influences from the earliest moments of European settlement in South Australia until the great financial crash that …
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