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The status quo of politics or the politics of the status quo: The political role of the Colombian middle class
Using Colombia as a case study, the study empirically examines major theoretical debates about the Latin American middle class' politics. Theoretical debates about the middle class' politics have focussed on the controversial progressive theory, which argues that the Latin American middle class …
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Endowment effect, Status Quo Bias y default option.
… Económica, muestra una tendencia a mantener el status quo. Samuelson y Zeckhauser (1988) definieron este comportamiento como “Status Quo Bias” y se verá en el capítulo IV. Por último en el tercer ejemplo, podemos ver cómo los consumidores tienden a evitar la toma de decisiones, este …
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Challenging the Status Quo: System Justification Theory and Impressions of Activists
Challenges to the societal status quo often garner partisan support along two sides: people who are for a cause and people who are against it. System justification motivations (SJM) serve as critical underlying factors in the maintenance of our current social system and the reception of challenges …
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The psychological impact of perceiving the gender status quo as legitimate
… benefit psychologically from thinking that the status quo is legitimate? Across three samples, we examined whether and why viewing current relations among men and women as legitimate provides people with a psychological boost. In all samples, we found that believing that current relations among …
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Why Surrender Sovereignty? Empowering Non-State Actors to Protect the Status Quo
… mechanisms not to transform but to protect the status quo. To advance this claim I examine both failed and successful attempts at creating novel judicial mechanisms in investment and international criminal law across the twentieth century. I use qualitative and historical analysis at the global …
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Creatividad e innovación: ¿Es posible desafiar el status quo y crear el futuro?
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Prosthetic Realities, Prosthetic Futures: Challenging the status quo of external breast prosthesis design
This practice-based research identifies the need and opportunity to update the design approach used in the production of external breast prostheses (EBP) for women post mastectomy. Spurred by accounts of some women’s negative experiences with their EBP, this research took influence from colour …
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An early-emerging explanatory heuristic underlies the tendency to defend the status quo
… being explained (such as the societal status quo) are legitimate and thus worthy of support. Four studies with participants as young as 4 provided correlational and experimental evidence for the hypothesized link between explanatory processes and support for the status quo. These …
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Labour regulation in the on-demand economy: an ‘uberfication’ of the status quo?
Uber has reached rock-star status in the world of 'gigs’, 'rabbits’ and 'rides’ known as the 'on-demand economy’. Uber is but one in a sea of online platforms that seek to link clients with workers offering traditional services like transport, cleaning, repairs or running errands. These platforms …
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Investigating the status quo regarding women and political participation in Kitwe district of Zambia.
… focus of this study was to “Investigate the Status Quo Regarding Women and Political Participation in Kitwe District of Zambia”. The study sought to explore the nature of women participation in politics and to find out the factors that hindered women from participating in active politics. …
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Transcending the status quo: a communication perspective for improving health behaviors at Eastern Washington University
<p>"There is a belief known as the 'college experience;' an experience that some understand as a right of passage. This notion continues to be passed from generation to generation; what happens without our noticing is that the demands of that 'college experience' are changing. Survey results …
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Barriers to Social Change: Neoliberalism and the Justification of the Status-Quo among Low-Income African Americans
Neoliberalism has been the dominant political-economic model in the United States since Ronald Reagan’s election in 1980 (Harvey, 2005). Few studies have shown how the political-economic model of neoliberalism influences behavior at the individual level (Brown, 2003; Esposito and Finley, 2014; …
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Literature for girls and the preadolescent novel: a historical analysis and recommendations for challenging the status quo
<p>Children’s literature has long been an influential historical, social and cultural discursive site of gender identity and gender appropriate behavior. Currently, there is great deal of research and analysis of children’s literature and young adult fiction, examining literature’s role in …
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Challenging the status quo: exploring the use of strategies from behavioral economics to shape children's menus in restaurants
Introduction: The poor diet quality of US children has been partially attributed to low fruit and vegetable intake and frequent consumption of restaurant food. Strategies from behavioral economics are acceptable to both parents and children and have increased children's orders of healthful foods in …
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Disrupting the Status Quo: Leveraging collective teacher efficacy for the achievement and wellbeing of BIPOC and low socioeconomic students
… percentage of students are of low socioeconomic status (SES). Compounding this problem is data which shows that students at MMMS also experience significant academic challenges. Educational challenges for students of low SES are like those experienced by Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour …
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Reproducing the Status Quo in the Middle School English Classroom: A Critical Examination of Literacy Learning Via Personalized Learning Technology
<p>Personalized learning technology (PL Tech) is a growing educational reform movement supported by federal grant dollars. As a bourgeoning educational movement, no research has been conducted to explore the potential effects of such structures in supporting student literacy learning. Additionally, …
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