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Showing 1 to 20 of 218 for “"Socio historical"”.
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Du Pont-State Linkages: A Socio-Historical Analysis
Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 68080 Lift date: Forever Reason: Restricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETDs
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A socio-historical analysis of the development of cricket in England since 1800.
… of modern sports have attempted to follow the historical-sociology method advocated by Abrams (1982). Three exceptions to this are the works of Dunning and Sheard (1979), Hargreaves (1986) and Guttmann (1978), all of whom attempt to use different theoretical perspectives in order to reveal the …
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Trade union movement in the State of Kuwait : a socio-historical and analytical study
… (Ph. D.)--Michigan State University. Dept. of Sociology, 1983
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Family matters: an exegetical and socio-historical analysis of familial metaphors in 1 Thessalonians
Building upon recent insights of classical research re family life in antiquity, this investigation combines the study of the family as social reality and as metaphor in order to explore the relationships between Paul and the Thessalonians and the Thessalonians' relationships to one another. An …
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Poor and Rich in the Epistle of James: a Socio-Historical and Exegetical Study
… following such an investigation utilize sociological theories; but there are some pitfalls when a modern theory governs the study of the text and its socio-historical implications. This research, therefore argues that a socio-historical description of adocument and its community must be …
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The potters of Espiritu Santo : A socio-historical study of survival and loss of tradition
This dissertation looks at the traditional pottery of the Cumberland Peninsula on the island of Espiritu Santo in the context of its relationships with its makers, their history, traditional institutions and contact experiences, and also with other pottery in Vanuatu, in particular, the different …
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Socio-historical perspectives on young fatherhood: exploration of social change on the Isle of Sheppey
… motherhood. This thesis investigates from a socio-historical perspective, the lives and experiences of young fathers, aged 16-25, living on the Isle of Sheppey over the past sixty years. The focus of this thesis was to examine how social change may have impacted upon the lives of young …
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The thick blue wall: a socio-historical analysis of police accountability in the Republic of Ireland
… factors which created this situation. Taking a socio-historical approach, documentary analysis of the history of the Force showed there was a history of police abuse of power since the foundation of the Force in 1922 and that this is strongly linked to the post-colonial nature of the State. …
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The differential educational characteristics of West Sumatran and West Javanese migrants in Jakarta : a socio-historical approach
This study shows, using data on West Sumatran and West Javanese life-time migrants in Jakarta and educational data of the home provinces, that West Sumatra as an area in the outer islands which was ruled directly and had an active religious movement has "high" education while West Java which had …
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The differential educational characteristics of West Sumatran and West Javanese migrants in Jakarta : a socio-historical approach
This study shows, using data on West Sumatran and West Javanese life-time migrants in Jakarta and educational data of the home provinces, that West Sumatra as an area in the outer islands which was ruled directly and had an active religious movement has "high" education while West Java which had …
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Monsters at the End of the World: A Socio-Historical Analysis of Nineteenth-Century Horror and Apocalypse Literature
… literary works that interrogate and explore the sociocultural crises concurrent with their production. Mary Shelley wrote her novels immediately after the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars, and her works reflect and respond to these crises. H. G. Wells, a biologist, wrote his novels as …
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Socio-historical research and land tenure in South Africa: a case study of land tenure rights on the Northern Cape farm of Melkkraal
The aim of the research was to clarify and explain the land tenure relations of a farming community called Melkkraal situated in the Northern Cape such that development assistance could be rendered to them by the Department of Land Affairs (DLA).The Melkkraal farm has been owned by various members …
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Personal autonomy & its aesthetic preconditions: essays on aesthetic understanding & freedom.
… process of coming to realise oneself in shared, socio-historical practices. There can be no self before these practices, but their existence is no guarantee for selfhood either: one can be heteronomous through one's successful participation in various practices if that participation is not a …
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Slawe, Khoekhoen en Nederlandse Pidgins aan die Kaap, ca. 1590-1720 : 'n kritiese ondersoek na die sosiohistoriese grondslae van die konvergensieteorie oor die ontstaan van Afrikaans
This study is a critical investigation of the socio-historical foundations of the Convergence theory for the genesis of Afrikaans, as developed by Hans den Besten. It is done within the theorectical framework of the study of Creole genesis as suggested by the gradualists (John Singler, Jacques …
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Zora Neale Hurston: An Emotional Biography
… that familiarizes the reader with the social, historical, and emotional context of the letter. This study will attempt to work out an emotional biography of Hurston by studying the symbolic language of her letters, and then situating this language in the context of her socio-historical history. …
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Political culture in Italy
… in Italy_ It does so primarily from a sociohistorical perspective. It also offers a critique of the methods of analysis commonly used in Political Science. The aim of the first part is to offer a reliable theoretical background concerning the operationalization of the concept Culture. …
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