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Showing 1 to 20 of 1235 for “"Sociocultural"”.
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Sustainable microfinance in Indonesia : a sociocultural approach
… microfinance institutions, poverty alleviation, sociocultural and religious values in three local communities in West Java. It contends that sociocultural and religious factors influence human behavior as well as the agency of borrowers and the microfinance institutions. With respect to Sundanese …
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Curso de especialización: identidad sociocultural y patrimonio cultural.
… relacionados al estudio de la identidad sociocultural y el patrimonio cultural. En la cual, el proceso de patrimonización de la masacre Las Aradas, como aporte a la configuración de la identidad cultural del nororiente del departamento de Chalatenango. Proceso que tiene como origen los …
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La fiesta como fenómeno sociocultural. Asturias, 1937-1996
… y el reflejo de las negociaciones y conflictos socioculturales desarrollados en el seno de las comunidades celebrantes fruto de la tensión entre la permanencia y el cambio histórico. A tal fin, el repertorio de casos ha sido diseñado pensando en su flexibilidad, prestándose atención a unas u …
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Sociocultural Influences on Body Image Across the Lifespan
… image concerns are prevalent in Western society. Sociocultural theories posit that the media are largely responsible for body image dissatisfaction because they have an omnipresent influence which consistently portrays unrealistically thin females and hyper-muscular males, which are then …
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Sociocultural Aspects of Aging in Buddhist Northern Thailand
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The sociocultural context of the video game experience
"This dissertation explores the video game experience through extensive ethnographic research conducted in video arcades. The evolution of coin-operated video games is also examined and the games themselves are analyzed as cultural texts which embody both traditional and emerging cultural themes. …
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The scientific and sociocultural value of citizen science
… their potential within both the scientific and sociocultural realms, the regional scale impacts of citizen science initiatives in continental Africa remain poorly understood. Studying local citizen science initiatives affords opportunities to gain an understanding of their impact; within the …
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Multilingualism and sociocultural factors prevalent in rural language classrooms
This study aimed to identify multilingual and sociocultural factors prevalent in rural English language classrooms. The New Literacies Studies theory was the theoretical underpinnings of this study and an interpretative phenomenological paradigm was also used. Qualitative research methodology …
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Sociocultural Attitudes Towards Appearance Questionnaire-4-Revised in Asian Americans
… symptoms related to eating disorders because of sociocultural stigma and the desire to uphold cultural values, such as interdependence, harmony within the community, humility, and emotional restraint. The SATAQ-4R is a widely-used measure of sociocultural influences on body image and eating …
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The Ebola Virus and West Africa: Medical and Sociocultural Aspects
… Purpose: To itemize and emphasize the role of sociocultural factors in Ebola virus disease acquisition, transmission, containment, prevention, surveillance, screening, and control. To propose cultural modification of the aspects of the West African cultural practices that enhanced the Ebola …
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Subject media : a study in the sociocultural framing of discourse
This research offers an analysis of social practices and discourses at work in the assessment of Media Studies students following the OCR AS specification produced for ‘Curriculum 2000’, in its first examination session - January 2001. The purpose of the research is not to scrutinise the accuracy …
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The Motet as a Representation of Sociocultural Value Circa 1500
… the centrality of the idea that the relative sociocultural status of the motet (within the framework of a specific systemic organization of musical genres) is central to a period conceptualization. Chapter 2 introduces an model of hierarchy from the work of anthropologist Louis Dumont as a …
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Sociocultural studies of biomedicine and healthcare in everyday literate lifeworlds
This dissertation uses sociocultural studies approaches to investigate the multimodal practices of reception that patients and medical professionals use in their everyday lives as they engage health-related information. People demonstrate their active uptake of professional writing through …
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Investigación educativa desde la perspectiva sociocultural. Volumen I. Mediación Sociocultural en la Resolución de Problemas Ecológicos con Lenguaje Audiovisual en el Contexto Curricular de Adultos
… de los procesos educativos desde enfoque sociocultural. Específicamente, se estudia el papel de la televisión en la formación de tipos de pensamiento, así como la incidencia causal-dinámica de las interacciones educativas en los procesos de re solución de problemas desde un plano …
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Tintin a study behind tintin’s personality traits and its sociocultural context
… personaje de Tintín que resultan de su contexto sociocultural, abriendo a una discusión entre la relación existente de la presencia de los rasgos de personalidad y el contexto social; así como relacionar la influencia de las interacciones sociales como base de la estructura de la personalidad. …
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A importância sociocultural dos lugares de memória: uma análise da literatura
… o presente trabalho aborda a importância sociocultural dos lugares de memória, ligada aos conceitos variados de memória e história. Tem como objetivos estabelecer o quanto a democracia pode ser afetada a partir de seu acesso, uma vez que este pode dar transparência aos atos políticos e …
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