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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Sociocultural Change"”.
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Danischborg and Swedenholm: A Study of Relative Sociocultural Change Under Military Occupation
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Tongue -Tied: Sociocultural Change, Language, and Language Ideology Among the Oglala Lakota (Pine Ridge Sioux)
… of language use were inextricably tied to sociocultural change and to ideologies of language. The major theoretical contribution of this study is that it illuminates how language ideologies mediate between macro-level sociocultural forces and micro-level language practices in ways that are …
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THE OLD CITY OF KASHGAR: LOSS OF WORLD HERITAGE IN TIMES OF RAPID ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND SOCIOCULTURAL CHANGE
This paper focuses on perceptions of cultural loss felt by Uyghurs, one of China’s fifty-five officially recognized minority ethnic groups, with respect to the demolition of the old district of the city of Kashgar. Although the western-based media describes the old city as being the heritage of the …
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THE OLD CITY OF KASHGAR: LOSS OF WORLD HERITAGE IN TIMES OF RAPID ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND SOCIOCULTURAL CHANGE
This paper focuses on perceptions of cultural loss felt by Uyghurs, one of China’s fifty-five officially recognized minority ethnic groups, with respect to the demolition of the old district of the city of Kashgar. Although the western-based media describes the old city as being the heritage of the …
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An Integral Analysis of the Life and Works of Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890-1937)
… within sociological research to understand sociocultural change. As contemporary horror fiction writer Stephen King (1981/2010) suggests “we make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones” (13). Hence, the purpose of this thesis is to employ the theoretical and methodological insights of …
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A gendered analysis of health from the Iron Age to the end of the Romano-British period in Dorset, England (mid to late 8th century B.C. to the end of the 4th century A.D.)
… terms of society and environment, and how these changed over time. The approach also permitted comparison to national and European health patterns, and sought to challenge existing interpretations of both periods. Iron Age health reflected the agrarian based economy of that period, in addition to …
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"A Walk Through the Jungle at Twilight": How Parents Experience a Transition to Adolescence
… a physical, social/emotional, or relational change in their teenager. Parents responded to the perceived change through their affect, cognition, and behavior. They interpreted what was happening by processes of evaluation, reorientation, and frame. These three components-perception, response, …
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Changing lives, changing nature(s): socio-environmental transitions in the uplands of the Lao PDR
… investigates recent livelihood and environmental change in two upland villages in northern Laos. From there, the analysis draws a number of causal links between local socio-environmental change, local ‘theories’ on land degradation, the wider political economy and the politics of the ‘environment’ …
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Trappers and Traders in the Keewatin: The Fur Trade as an Agent of Acculturation
… which also played important roles in effecting changes in the indigenous culture of the region. This study will attempt to depict and and explain such changes, examining the events as recorded in the available documents of the period 1920 to 1950. Attention will be focused upon the several …
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Ways to Refuge: Bosnians in Central New York in Ethnographic Perspective
… adds to anthropological discussions of sociocultural change by introducing the conceptual tool of supermobility. Illustrated mainly with reference to the adaptive practices of a specific individual, this heuristic paves the way for a non-sedentary perspective toward adaptation and …