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Showing 1 to 20 of 222 for “"Structuralist"”.
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A Post-Keynesian/Structuralist Strategy for Economic Development
There are two distinct traditions that have widely different views on the fundamental problem of economic development. This dissertation makes a contribution to the tradition known as the Scarcity in the Midst of Plenty Approach, which views the problem as an inability of less developed economies …
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A Structuralist Controversy: Althusser and Lacan on Ideology
… Zizek argues that, if Althusser was an adamant structuralist who reduced subject to a mere function of ideology, Lacan was a genuine critic of such a position, who showed how the subject can separate itself from the symbolic structure of ideology. Zizek's portrayal of the debate, however, is not …
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Bo-Kaap architecture : a critique of structuralist theory
… Much interpretation has been orientated within a structuralist framework of analysis and the validity of such an approach is questioned by a critical examination of two structuralist interpretation - Henry Glassie's Folk Housing in Middle Virginia and John Gribble's analysis of sandveld …
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Verlorenvlei vernacular : a structuralist analysis of Sandveld folk architecture
… on the Cape West coast, have been subjected to a structuralist analysis of their form. As elements of human material culture these houses represent the physical objectification of invisible culture. They are the products of a culturally dictated mental process of design, and in their form reflect …
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A structuralist reading of selected works by Edgar Allan Poe
I hypothesize that the methodical arrangement, which epistrophe and refrain adhere to throughout "The Raven," is important for a thorough understanding of the poem because it reinforces the narrator's growing state of insanity and ultimate loss of self. These figures of speech reflect the …
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Plato's Crito: A speech act and structuralist analysis for performance
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Structuralist and interactionist perspectives of collective behavior and control of crowds.
… on collective behavior, which are the structuralist and the interactionist perspectives, will be examined respectively. The question will be asked whether these two perspectives efficiently and effectively explain the crowds and the crowd control. Finally, the other factors in crowd …
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Sexual subjects : a feminist post-structuralist analysis of female adolescent sexual subjectivity and agency
… relations of power. Drawing upon feminist, post-structuralist and discourse analytic theoretical, methodological and analytical frames, the study focuses on the discourses available to young women for making meaning out of their experiences with their bodies, their relationships and sexual …
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The Sovereign State as Political Community: A Revisiting of the Post-Structuralist Critique of the Neorealist State
The continued commitment to and assertion of the primacy of the sovereign state within international relations theory has resulted in a discourse which theorizes and examines only those issues and conflicts of international politics which can be made to fit neatly within the prism of the neorealist …
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Planning strategies in an age of active citizenship: a post-structuralist agenda for self-organization in spatial planning
Civic initiatives in spatial development are on the rise. They emerge from civil society spontaneously and are unpredictable, dynamic, and multiplicity. Therefore, they are often at odds with the inclusionary and disciplinary confines of participatory planning and existing planning frameworks. …
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Seeking Meaning in the Hebrew Bible: A Lexicographical Study of בקש and דרש using Structuralist and Cognitivist Linguistic Tools.
… Biblical Hebrew with insights from contemporary Structuralist and Cognitive Linguistics, to present an original diachronic analysis of the relationship between the Hebrew Bible’s verbs of ‘Seeking’ and their semantic interdependence. Key concepts from Cognitive Linguistics – such as Embodiment, …
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Towards a philosophy of theatre inspired by Aristotle’s poetics and post-structuralist aesthetics in relation to three South African plays
… and his Other are imbued or violate. The post-structuralist aesthetic as developed in the literary theory of the twentieth century is essentially the interaction of synchronic and diachronic language emerging from the signifiance and the semiosis of the chora (the feminine or maternal …
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‘Black women’ therapists' impressions of the social differences of ‘race’ and gender in the therapeutic process: a post-structuralist phenomenology narrative exploration
… phenomenological approach incorporating post-structuralist principles to explore ‘Black’ women therapists’ accounts of their lived experience of social differences (race and gender) in their clinical practice. It aims to provide rich descriptions of the women’s experiences, which are …
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To what extent may health and well-being experiences of Roma migrants in London be perceived and understood through a post-structuralist lens?
… identity, agency and nomadism, from a post-structuralist theoretical perspective, the study seeks to explore the wide range of narratives impacting on Roma health and well-being in London and across the UK. The findings locate the health and well-being experiences of Roma people in London in …
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Troubling creativity discourses: A Foucauldian feminist post-structuralist discourse analysis of the idea of ‘creative subjects’ in public texts and in the context of A level decision.
… humanities. Through a Foucauldian feminist post-structuralist discourse analysis, the thesis casts light on hidden discourses of creativity in the public sphere and in a school context. The thesis aims to reveal the current dominant discourse about creativity in education and how it might this …
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Cinema, Culture and the Social Formation: Ideology and Critical Practice
This study analyses the terms of the Culturalist/Structuralist debate within the cultural approach to the study of communication. It particular focus is the relationship between epistemological first principles and conceptions of ideology, and on the interpretive practices that arise out of that …
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Lesbianism : a post-structural/post-modernist critique of selected theories relevant to clinical practice
… and relevant to clinical practice. The post-structuralist/post-modernist framework employed considers lesbianism as a category constructed in a particular socio-historical context and involving particular power relations. The role of psychiatry and psychoanalysis in this process of …
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Structural constraints and situational information seeking: a test of two predictors in a sense-making context
… research. In examining traditional, structuralist, and interpretivist approaches, these two issues seem to have similar bases. Rather than abandon a focus on individual behavior in favor of structural concerns, the purpose of the study is to try to address these concerns using actor …
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