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Showing 1 to 20 of 168 for “"Sociology, General."”.
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MID-CAREER CHANGE: AN EXPLORATION.
MID-CAREER CHANGE: AN EXPLORATION.
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PROCESSES OF ROLE CONSTRUCTION AND REVISION: THE NURSE PRACTITIONER STUDENT.
PROCESSES OF ROLE CONSTRUCTION AND REVISION: THE NURSE PRACTITIONER STUDENT.
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Sampling and Inference in Complex Networks.
Sampling and Inference in Complex Networks.
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Individual and anomie
Abstract not available.
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L'intégration des personnes handicapées ou voile de l'exclusion.
These examinant le niveau d'integration sociale des personnes vivant avec un handicap physique au sein de la societe canadienne. Le cadre theorique de l'etude s'articule autour de concepts etroitement lies aux ecrits de Pierre Bourdieu et Max Weber soient ceux d'habitus, de reproduction sociale et …
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La complexité communicationnelle de l'action collective, pour se réinventer
Par ce document écrit, accompagné d'un document audiovisuel, nous avons voulu jeter un regard différent sur l'action collective. Afin de mettre en valeur le caractère construit de l'action collective, nous nous sommes attardé aux processus communicationnels et aux langages créés ou échangés. Ainsi, …
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Challenging the Female /Athlete Paradox: Gender Performances of Elite Women Athletes
Women athletes have made significant gains in sport opportunities and resources. The influx of girls and women into the sport environment has impacted the culture of sport, and thus it is no longer unusual to see girls and women competing. An emerging acceptance of women athletes has challenged …
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The Relationship of Gender, Race, and Social Class to Leisure Constraints
On the basis of these two scales, the multiple hierarchy perspective was not supported. The low income Black female was not significantly more constrained than the upper income White male. Based upon the results of this study, it can be inferred that leisure constraints are very complex in nature …
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Profit and the Prophet: Culture and Politics of Islamic Entrepreneurs in Turkey
Theoretically, this study presents a critique of the received ideas on Islam and Islamism that have hitherto conceptualized them outside of and in contradiction with modernity and capitalism. By embedding modernity and capitalism, processes that are often considered within and through a-historical …
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Breastfeeding and Bodily Transformations
The first tier makes possible and calls for a new means of probing conceptualizations of the lactating body existing before and alongside biomedicine's present day interpretation of it. The second tier, taking up this challenge, investigates pre-modern European medical representations of the …
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Public Sentiment on Immigrants and Immigration Policies in Central and Eastern Europe. A Cross -National Multilevel Analysis
The intensity of negative orientations toward immigrants and immigration in the post-communist European states is puzzling, as foreigners' presence is less visible than in Western Europe and has yet to become politicized. Thus, the crucial question that arises is: How different are the ex-socialist …
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Re -Imagining Istanbul: Globalization and Urban Change
This study is situated in and seeks to contribute to an expanding body of literature on globalization and cities, and more specifically to the global city theory and research. These studies have drawn attention to the growing significance of particular cities as sites of globalization through which …
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Cultures of Technoscience: A Study of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (Mri) Research in the United States and India
A starting point for this study is that even though the relationship is asymmetrical, techno-scientific research in and between non-western and western nations cannot be understood through simple conceptual dichotomies of center/periphery, dominant/dominated, or globalism/localism. The development …
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The Self and the Gift in Japan: A Cognitive View of Ritualized Gift Exchange in Contemporary Western Japan
"Oseibo exchanges provide a site to explore the relationship between the self and others in contemporary Japanese society. The role of the giver or the recever of a gift is composed of a set of obligations/rights between the self and others. However, when the individual attempts to do his/her role …
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Celebration of Wealth and Emulation of Modernity: The Politics of Model Tourism in China's Richest Village
"Based on an ethnographic study of model tourism in Huaxi, a village known as China's richest village, I examine the transformation of sociocultural order in post-socialist China, which is reflected in the discourse of getting rich and the social practice of model emulation. Under Deng Xiaoping's …
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The Breakdown of Norms as Institutional Change: A Longitudinal Analysis of the Decline of the 'No -Lateral -Hiring' Norm Among Large Corporate Law Firms, 1974--1990
… interorganizational norms and their breakdown. I generally argue that purposive action on the part of actors and changing values can contribute to our understanding of the decline of interorganizational norms such as no-lateral-hiring. I use panel data on 88 large Chicago law firms and all the …
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A Community of Practice Using Computer -Mediated Communication for Legitimate Peripheral Participation
"Communities of Practice rely upon the enculturation of newcomers into the community for maintenance and stability over time. Lave and Wenger's (1991) concept of Legitimate Peripheral Participation (LPP) plays an integral role in the reproduction of Communities of Practice. As an approach to …
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A Case Study of Piano Teaching in Arts Schools in Korea: Structures, Contents, Pedagogies, and Aesthetics
Apparent in this dissertation is the grueling school and living schedule of a typical teenage Korean piano student, preparing for acceptance at a prestigious Korean university that drives the curriculum of arts middle schools. Competition for advancement and social status is intense; however, in …
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Rules, Needs, Resources, Power, and Matrix Man
… as part of the conceptualizing process and is generally suggestive of a systems approach. The potential utility of the analytic framework developed is discussed and the usefulness of conceptually separating power from related concepts is supported.
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Form and Content Analysis of the Cartoon as a Cultural Medium of Communication: A Sociological Study in the Popular Pictorial Arts
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