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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Socio-Cultural Norms"”.
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Microbicides, sexuality and sexual health in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
… whether vaginal microbicides are compatible with socio-cultural norms regarding sexuality and sexual health in a predominantly rural area of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Using qualitative and quantitative data collected as part of the MDP 301 clinical trial at the Africa Centre, I adopt a mixed …
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Apologizing and complaining in Ciluba, French, and English : speech act performance by trilingual speakers in Zaire
… present study was designed to discover the norms of the three languages under investigation and to see how people speaking a second and a foreign language, with different levels of fluency in each, can participate in the activity of the speech communities of the two languages without …
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The Experience of Rural Battered Women: Overcoming Challenges
… of leaving abusive relationships. Strong rural, socio-cultural norms such as traditional gender and marital roles, combined with a lack of access to beneficial services may prevent rural victims from fleeing to safety. As a result victims may be even more vulnerable to their batterers. To more …
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The Experience of Rural Battered Women: Overcoming Challenges
… of leaving abusive relationships. Strong rural, socio-cultural norms such as traditional gender and marital roles, combined with a lack of access to beneficial services may prevent rural victims from fleeing to safety. As a result victims may be even more vulnerable to their batterers. To more …
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Exploring bullying aganist academics in Pakistan: A corrosive workplace issue
… incidents. Moreover, organisational culture and socio-cultural norms were also identified as significant contributors to the occurrence of workplace bullying in academia. Based on the study's findings, suggested strategies to combat workplace bullying may include raising awareness and fostering …
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Marginal bodies: actualising trans Utopias
… with particular attention to the dynamics and socio-cultural norms through which the transgendered body that identifies beyond the gender binary is mediated. The existence of trans subjectivity develops in opposition to institutionalised heteronormativity; its problematic social location and …
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Gender Representation in Kenyan Journalism: Analyzing Gender-Sensitive Reporting Pedagogy and Faculty-Student Perspectives in Journalism Programs
… institutional support, and the influence of socio-cultural norms on GSR approaches. A thematic analysis that involved open coding of the data was preferred to identify recurring themes and patterns. This survey research revealed three significant findings: (1) Kenyan journalism programs lack …
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Children in conflict with the law : is there a basis for a rights-based argument for diversion in Malaysia?
… elements of politics, penal policies and socio-cultural norms. Hence, although Malaysia has taken steps to comply with aspects of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), there are gaps in the expectations of the CRC and the actual working of the criminal justice system as far as …
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Fashion Diplomacy at the Court of Henry VIII
… of sixteenth-century diplomacy as a socio-cultural and trans-cultural practice. This thesis advances scholarship on sixteenth-century diplomacy and dress by illustrating the extensive functions of clothing within diplomacy during the life and reign of Henry VIII (1491-1547). It posits …
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Evaluating gender in retail servicescapes: Beyond the heteronormative binary approach
… experiences in the same environment. As sociocultural concepts for gender continue to evolve beyond the binary gender system, the retail industry must keep pace in order to appeal to customers’ gender identities and sexual orientations. While retail literature has examined the effects of …
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Examining small and medium enterprises’ responses to public personnel petty corruption: the case of “The Arab Republic of Egypt”
… by sectoral demands, regulatory constraints, and socio-cultural norms. The study identifies two distinct response patterns: single-action responses and adaptive, multi-action responses combining one or more responses, where SMEs pragmatically shift their approach based on business survival or …
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An Exploration of How Age and Aging Shape Caregiving Experiences in Oldest-old Spousal Caregivers of People with Dementia
… changes in social networks, life experiences, socio-cultural norms, and stereotypes. The second analysis explored how CGs manage age-related caregiving challenges. CGs recounted the use of a myriad of strategies to master their caregiving goals and to reduce stress, and reported on the …
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Utilisation of sexual and reproductive health services from adolescent friendly health services in Nepal
… the data analysis. The findings showed that both socio-cultural and health facility factors influence utilisation of SRH services. Many of these factors stem from the moral framework encapsulated in socio-cultural norms and values related to the sexual health of adolescents, and health care …
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The intersection of community and domestic conflict
… examine the nature of this intersection with a socio-cultural lens, providing a more contextual view of how these forms of violence overlap. To address these shortcomings, we conducted a descriptive and qualitative analysis to examine the nature of intersecting domestic and community violence. …
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An exploration of the socio-cultural factors influencing condom use intentions and behaviours of migrant youth in South Africa
… The purpose of this study is to explore socio-cultural determinants influencing condom use intentions and behaviour of young migrant youth residing in Cape Town South Africa. This qualitative study employed purposive and snowballing sampling techniques to explore with migrant youth their …
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Death and Self-Identity in the Contemporary Fantasies of Philip Pullman, Garth Nix, and Steven Erikson
… work offers a mirror through which to understand socio-cultural norms and dominant ideologies. To better explicate narrative representations of death I identify three possible meta-forms for death: death as a determinate ontological state (in that a self can be dead); a physical space with …
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Occupied childhoods: discourses and politics of childhood and their place in Palestinian and Pan-Arab screen content for children
… the ways in which power relations intersect with socio-cultural norms to shape screen-based media for Palestinian children. Situated within the interdisciplinary study of childhood, the research is an institutional and textual analysis that includes discursive and micro-level analysis of the …
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Female characterisation in the epic poetry of P. Papinius Statius
… characters against the prevailing attitudes and socio-cultural norms of his day. Statius' portrayal of women in his Silvae is of some relevance here, though chiefly the poems are to be regarded as literary texts rather than sociological documents.
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'Tense Pasts, Present Tensions': Postcolonial Memoryscapes and the Memorialisation of the Second World War in Perak, Malaysia
… to local customs, religious beliefs and socio-cultural norms. In doing so, it showcases alternative forms of memory-making that problematises traditional understandings of war commemoration common within prevailing literature, and highlights ways in which contestations against elite …
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Culture and religion constrain women in the academic sphere : the case of Lesotho
… as superior to women has its roots in our socio-cultural norms in Lesotho. Culturally men are regarded by society as superior to women. This perception of men is transferred to the work situation. Consequently, even at work, men are perceived as 'strong' and 'powerful.' In the higher …
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