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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"Structure-Agency"”.
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Designing feminist pensions policies: a feminist institutional analysis of the interrelationships between structure, agency and gendered pension outcomes in the UK
… structural environment and women’s individual agency. Focussing on UK based Millennial aged women, I synthesise primary and secondary data to conduct a feminist institutional analysis of how changes such as wage stagnation, student loans and property ownership affect women’s financial futures. …
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The interplay of structure and agency: the negotiation process of bridewealth payment in South-East Nigeria
… provides an excellent analytical tool for the structure-agency debate, which has, in varying degrees, engaged academic interest for centuries. Underlying this debate is the extent to which institutions determine human behaviour and its attendant power relations. While structure refers to the …
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Being Jacques Villeneuve: Formula One, 'agency' and the fan
… and reconceptualises fandom in light of how the structure/agency binary has itself been reconceptualised within media and cultural studies. Rather than privileging either the determining social, mediated and commercial structures, or championing the 'active agential' capacities of social …
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Migration to new destinations: local migrant experiences in a globalised world
… the interplay between migrants' experiences (agency) and the functioning of state and civil society (structures) in facilitating integration processes. Specific themes including employment and housing are used to investigate integration mechanisms. The study evaluates efforts by state bodies …
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How important is the local when thinking global? : Internationalisation at a research-led university
… The key data source is 16 semi-structured interviews with staff at the university including senior university leaders and academic staff. Additional information is derived from documents relating to the university’s internationalisation projects. All data are analysed from an …
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Bounded Transnationals: An Identity and Career Framework, a Qualitative Study and Interpretation of Identity and Career Construction for a Sample of Self Initiated International Assignees Residing in the South of France.
… conceptualization of the complexity of factors (structure, agency, process) impacting (limiters and facilitators) upon identity construction and career direction and preference is demonstrated. The continuous identity and career construction shows the protean, evolving nature of identity and …
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Smarter cities: socio-technical innovation towards sustainable urban transport futures. The case of re-establishing utility cycling as a mainstream mode in London
… and empirical analysis of the role micro-level structure-agency interactions play in mediating socio-technical change or inertia observed at the macro-level. Empirically, the thesis presents a case study of the ongoing efforts to re-establish utility cycling as a mainstream mode within the road …
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Smarter cities: socio-technical innovation towards sustainable urban transport futures - the case of re-establishing utility cycling as a mainstream mode in London
… and empirical analysis of the role micro-level structure-agency interactions play in mediating socio-technical change or inertia observed at the macro-level. Empirically, the thesis presents a case study of the ongoing efforts to re-establish utility cycling as a mainstream mode within the road …
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NGOs and the transformational state : theorizing the ambiguities of educational development and change in post-apartheid South Africa
… sequentially, and within the parameters of the structure-agency debate, how tensions and ambiguities are generated within the symbolic order, through the manifestations of power and authority within the policy-making process and through the allocation of resources determine space and contextual …
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An eval uati on of past cattle di ppi ng practices in the former Ve nda area of Limpopo Provi nce, South Africa: Implications for sustai nable development
… spatial entities that reflect the dynamics of structure-agency. It underscores environmental injustices like arsenic contamination occurring around dip tanks, and the effects of inequitable distribution of dip sites on human health and safety. The economic benefits and limitations of existing …
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A Space to Learn
… stand alone, yet, when put together, themes of a structure | agency dialectic, reflexivity, and learning from experience emerge. Throughout this dissertation, I explore ways to navigate within social and culturally constructed structures that, at times, seem stifling, or down- right oppressive. In …
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A room with a view: Exploring the impacts of early school leaving and imprisonment on a cohort of working class men, participating in an adult education project in Dublin, Ireland.
… are impacted by issues of power, oppression, structure, agency and social class. These issues have all been found to be the lived experience for the research participants and the issues have been linked and analysed through a theoretical lens with theorists such as Pierre Bourdieu (1984), Karl …
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Empirical Analysis of Disguised Relationships between Formal Economy Firms and Informal Economy Enterprises
… ongoing situational responsiveness. Second, the structure-agency dualism projects the static image in which formal firms deliberately establish exploitative ties with structurally isolated informal enterprises, whereas the present study suggests that informal enterprises may exercise agency to …
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Strategic management in the public sector: An interpretive study of the application of strategic management practices in the local authorities in Malaysia
… This study’s critical engagement with structure-agency debates means that it includes analytical attention to the importance of the wider context in which state organisations are situated.The key argument of the thesis is that strategy making in the LAs in Malaysia is fundamentally a …
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Market solutions to the low-income housing challenge – a case study of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
… low-income housing successfully. Using the Structure-Agency model, which is a theoretical framework rooted in institutional economics, a conceptual model to study the development process was developed and used to theorise the impact of structure on agency in the development process. …
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Exploring the pattern of Islamic social movements : four case studies
… the fine texture of the interrelationship of the structure, agency, and their relations, and so proposes a 'synthetic' theory of social movements which recognises the importance of the conjunction of the three elements of the individualist, the structural and the relationalist models. In this …
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The planning system, property markets and the development of affordable housing: case studies from Cape Town
… in the housing policies. This study, using structure and agency theory, investigates how structural variables (planning system and policy framework, resources for housing development and ideological perspectives) influenced the agency of role players in producing the current outcomes in the …
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Poverty of Indigenous People in Taiwan ¿ rethinking agency, embedded disposition, role of family and institution in the study of poverty.
… people? (4) To what extent do people exercise agency to cope with or overcome their poverty situations? The thesis adopts an ethnographic approach, including participant observation and interviews in four villages of Taiwanese indigenous people. It explores the connections between poverty …
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Stone Chips to Silicon Chips: A Grounded Theory of Information and Communication Technology adoption in Australian Indigenous households rural, urban and remote.
… established through the habitus concepts of structures and agency or society and individual. The research establishes the existence of the Indigenous substantive field and postulates that new practices are formed with the intersection of the Indigenous field and external fields. Through the …
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