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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Voluntary Association"”.
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Voluntary association membership as a residual of status inconsistency
… change. In addition, past research suggests that voluntary association membership may serve as an integrative mechanism at both the social psychological and the sociological levels. The relationship between the nature of the status inconsistency experienced and the expression of liberal and/or …
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Ukraine's civil society development past and present: a comparative analysis of 19th and 21st century voluntary association in Kiev
… the function, composition, and capacity of voluntary associations and organizations? Can history shed some light on Ukraine’s current “third sector crisis”? This thesis examines the development of civil society in both late imperial and post-communist Kiev. A historically diverse and …
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An Empirical Investigation of a Small Voluntary Association Employing a Socio-Psychological Formulation Within An Open System Perspective: The Case of a Local Committee on Aging
The study of human behavior within the context of voluntary associations has received little attention from academic psychologists. This present study has researched elemental organizational behavior issues, using a nomological-net consisting of 11 principal organizational behavior constructs, …
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Rebuilding the broken wall: The EFC and Canadian evangelicals
An examination of a voluntary association of Canadian evangelicals, that is known as the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada (EFC), contributes to the growing body of knowledge concerning Canadian evangelicals. This thesis begins by indicating how the sociology of knowledge, voluntary association …
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The protection of minority rights: a comparative survey with special reference to South Africa's constitutional options
… group formation in a system emphasizing voluntary association, such as race, ethnicity, class and ideology. There is also a discussion of the nature of the rights which minorities may claim and emphasis is placed on the requirement that minorities should be able to levy strategic …
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BEFORE ‘CHURCH’: POLITICAL, ETHNO-RELIGIOUS, AND THEOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS OF THE COLLECTIVE DESIGNATION OF PAULINE CHRIST-FOLLOWERS AS EKKLĒSIAI
… indicates a lack of evidence for a non-civic association self-identifying collectively as an <em>ekklēsia</em>. Second, I develop the preliminary observation by Runesson, Binder, and Olsson (2008) that <em>ekklēsia</em> can refer either to a gathering of Jews or to the self-designation of a …
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The Most Dangerous Sect: Baptists in Tsarist and Soviet Russia, 1905-1929
… regarded as modern the Baptist church model of a voluntary association of adult believers who chose their own leaders, gave voice to all members, and organized an array of social and educational programmes among themselves. The Baptists' presence and activities appeared to be emblematic of change …
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Social provisions in adult friendship
… also very significant. Because friendship is a voluntary association, expressions of personality characteristics may be more evident than in other relationships. The fact that the personality variables were such strong predictors in this study suggests that further research is needed in this …
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Persian Lessons: Islamic Art in America, circa 1876–1925
… commercial gallery, advertisement, schoolroom, voluntary association, museum, and world’s fair), "Persian Lessons" reveals that notions of Persian art were instrumentalized in the service of competing American identities and ideologies in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. …
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Co-operative Commonwealth or New Jerusalem? The Co-operative Party and the Labour Party, 1931-1951.
… built on the principles of democratic voluntary association. Historians who have addressed the relationship between the Labour Party and the co-operative movement have argued that co-operative methods of ownership were systematically marginalised, overlooked and ignored by the Labour …
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Increasing Stages of Social Activism and Responsiveness to the National Agenda: How Women Experience Membership in the American Association of University Women
… participate in the local units of the American Association of University Women (AAUW) and particularly how their participation relates to the program and policy initiatives of the national association. The purpose was to understand and describe how individuals experience branch membership, how …
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Making Men in the City: Articulating Masculinity and Space in Urban India
… are the practices of local, exclusively male voluntary associations and of local electoral politics, which I argue constitute distinct subcultures shaped by and embedded in the historical, socio-political and spatial organisation of the city. I demonstrate in ethnographic terms how the …
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Unbound by Law: Association and Autonomy in the Early American Republic
This dissertation examines how the concept of voluntary membership evolved between the 1780s and the 1830s, a period in which men and women created thousands of groups seeking everything from fraternity to profit to social reform. Before observers foreign and domestic would begin to identify the …
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ELITES AND SOCIAL MEDIA. EXPLORATORY STUDY ON ELITES' BEHAVIOUR ON SOCIAL MEDIA AND TECHNOCRATIC, TECHNO-POPULIST AND POPULIST ATTITUDES
… mass media, academia and education and voluntary association. To these main sectors, we add those actors who are part of the religious and cultural elite (i.e. museums’ director) as established by the literature. Thus, compared to Carboni’s works, we identify the 2.000 core members of …
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'Not by might, nor by power, but by spirit': the global reform efforts of the Young Women's Christian Association of the United States, 1895-1939
… of the United States Young Women’s Christian Association (USYWCA) as a case study to explore U.S. cultural imperialism in India, Argentina, the Philippines, and Nigeria. USYWCA Secretaries aspired to create an apolitical and non-governmental space, which I have labeled “Y-space.” According to …