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Showing 1 to 20 of 164 for “"Western society."”.
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Achieving success in Western society: bulimia as the ultimate effort
… threat to the health of young women in Western society. Though thought by some to be primarily prompted by psychological and physiological instabilities, this research attempts to explore the association between bulimic symptoms and the external pressures to conform to accepted standards …
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A Socio-History and Genealogy of Dementia Thought and Conceptualisation in Western Society
… concerning the conceptualisation of dementia in Western society, including its framing as a specific type of disorder (such as neuro-psychiatric, part of the natural aging process, cognitive, and so on) are important in understanding how it has come to be problematized. The manner by which this …
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Wilderness and western society: the essential role of myth in a cultural contructivist approach
The relationship between western culture and nature has historically been one of conflict and domination. Western culture, specifically that which has arisen from Europe and the United States of America, has tended towards a rapacious and destructive approach to the natural world. It has been …
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Exploring the comparative effects of societal syndromes on knowledge discovery in new product-process development : contrasting Anglo-Western society and Han-Chinese society
… understanding of cultural predispositions in society at large and in the workplace, is necessary and indispensable, in guiding the rightful assignment of global new product-process development tasks. Moreover, the affiliation between cultural antecedents and final product-process outcomes was …
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Benevolent vs. Hostile Sexism Impact on Work Performance for Women in Turkey
… outcomes have done so in the context of a Western society. Because of this void in the literature, it remained unknown how living in a low egalitarian and/or non-Western society may impact women's experiences of sexism. The purpose of this study is to address this gap in the literature. …
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A matter of principle and practice: the sentencing of Australian Aborigines in the Northern Territory Supreme Court 1974-1982
… an individual violates the criminal code of a western society, that society responds through the formal agency of the court by sanctioning the individual. The imposition of these sanctions implies the notions of discretion and decision making.
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A matter of principle and practice: the sentencing of Australian Aborigines in the Northern Territory Supreme Court 1974-1982
… an individual violates the criminal code of a western society, that society responds through the formal agency of the court by sanctioning the individual. The imposition of these sanctions implies the notions of discretion and decision making.
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A Social Phenomenological Understanding of Family Violence: The Case of Korea
… different phenomena when compared to cases in Western society.
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This is not an exit : some perspective on George Bataille's "General Economy" in the Age of Consumer Capitalism
… and its relevance in contemporary Western society.
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Fourth Generation Warfare: America's Challenge in the Twenty-First Century
… economic, technological and societal statures of Western society through asymmetric warfare and superior political will. Taking the form of an evolved insurgency, and using past political insurgencies as a template, Fourth Generation warfare will seek to employ unconventional tactics, such as …
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Radical enlightenment in German literature 1771-1811
… that had a profound impact on the development of Western society, yet its complexity and impact on literature are not often fully understood. The values of freedom, equality, and brotherhood as well as the rise of the roles of reason, science, and tolerance are products of the European …
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"Jihad is the Way and Death for the Sake of Allah is our Highest Aspiration": A Narrative Analysis of Sayyid Qutb's Milestones
… volatile dynamic between radical Islamists and Western society is well established, often revealing itself through violent acts of terrorism. This ongoing conflict has prompted a spike of critical interest in the communication between extremists and the outsiders they perceive as enemies, …
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“If you’re not that as an Asian woman, you’re not shit as an Asian woman.”: (re)negotiating racial and gender identities
… this M.A. thesis deconstructs the ways in which Western society has constructed Asian/Asian-American women as the hypersexual Other, and revisits the ways in which empowerment, agency, and autonomy are reconfigured by Asian-American women themselves.</p>
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Educating the other : the politics of somatic difference in Frankenstein
… other and the place of this other within Western society. By charting how this discourse functions in the construction of physical alterity, this paper argues that through his exposure to language and society Frankenstein's creature becomes complicit in this process of imposition in which …
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Making with attention
… modes of making and living in contemporary western society through the guise of utilitarian objects. By using materials that have been classified as waste to create sculptural works I bring value to something that had little. I use low-tech and old-world methods to create, allowing myself to …
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"Where Is A Story Before It Becomes Words?": Understanding Queer Composition's Place in Writing Studies Through Lynda Barry's What It Is
… definitions of the term “queer” in contemporary western society. In this essay, I discuss how composition scholars must reinterpret their understanding of Queer Composition from a writing genre to a writing heuristic in order to stabilize queerness in Writing Studies. I show how the Queer …
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Vascular remodelling in malignant hypertension
… disease is the leading cause of mortality in western society and typically the consequence of atheromatous and/or hypertensive remodelling. As such, attention has focused on understanding the processes that contribute to various forms of vascular remodelling.
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Re-constructing identity through language and vision in Margaret Atwood's Surfacing and Cat's Eye
… struggle for identity within a prescriptive Western society that tends to divide the world into binary categories. One side of the binary is considered powerful, while the other side is less powerful. Often, those on the weaker end of the spectrum are victimised. Because the fundamental …
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Re-presenting gender fluid identity in a contemporary arts practice
… socio-political structures inherent in modern Western society serves as a foundational position for a broader exploration of differently gendered communities globally. The case is made for contemporary art to be encouraged as a tool for the emancipation of subjugated gender fluid identities. …
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