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Showing 1 to 20 of 126 for “"belief system"”.
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The Predominance of Race in American Mass Political Thinking: Racial Belief System Centrality and the Racialization of American Politics
… in the transformation of the American political system. In the mid-1960s, the electorate became, and has remained, polarized around the race issue. Scholars have also discovered that race provides a core structuring principle for a substantial portion of the public. In explaining this apparent …
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The Predominance of Race in American Mass Political Thinking: Racial Belief System Centrality and the Racialization of American Politics
… in the transformation of the American political system. In the mid-1960s, the electorate became, and has remained, polarized around the race issue. Scholars have also discovered that race provides a core structuring principle for a substantial portion of the public. In explaining this apparent …
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A case study of the interactions amongst the elements of an elementary teacher's educational belief system, goals, enactment, and reflection
… between, a fifth grade teacher’s educational belief system (consisting of his central beliefs, his values, his attitudes, and his opinions), goals (primary and secondary), enactment of the English Language Arts (ELA) CCSS, and his reflection.</p> <p>This dissertation utilized a grounded theory …
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An Analysis of the Relationship Between Teachers' Beliefs and the Manner of Structuring the Classroom Physical Environment
… to explore the relationship between a teacher's belief system and the manner of structuring the physical environment of the classroom. Also explored was the relationship between a teacher's belief system and their selection of instructional materials. The classrooms of 46 female Anglo- and …
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Relationships between beliefs, personality and behaviour at work
… into the relationship between occupational beliefs, the occupational persona and occupational behaviour. The purpose of the study was to examine the empirical implications for the author's occupational belief system model of occupational choice and occupational behaviour. The theoretical …
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The Pure Heart: A Medieval Japanese Buddhist Political Theory of Legitimacy
… stemming from the currently-dominant Eurocentric belief-system, contemporary works on legitimacy generally avoid the inclusion of ‘belief’ as a core analytical tool. However, pioneer of social science studies Max Webber clarified in The Profession and Vocation of Politics (1919) the necessary …
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17th Century Colonial Witchcraft: Before Salem
… status, social interactions, and popular beliefs shared by Puritan society. I combine historical and political to discuss the wars and events that affected Puritans even on a psychological level along with the political consequences of those wars and events. Finally, by religious context I …
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Contextualizing Unconventional Beliefs And Ritual Activity: A Case Study Of Moderate Risk And Problem Slot Machine Gamblers
This dissertation examines gambling associated beliefs. To this point, research on these beliefs is found in the field of psychology, but provides little contextual insight to the gambling scenario. The dissertation uses theoretical insights from the field of sociology, and specifically the …
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Documentary Film: I Named Her Angel
… to the audience why people are attracted to this belief system. Filming the ceremonies at the 550-year-old Mevlevi temple in Galata, Istanbul accentuates the historic background of this belief system. The Night of Reunion is the day in which Mevlevis celebrate the passing of Mevlana Celaleddin …
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The Symbionese Liberation Army movement: An historical, theoretical, and rhetorical analysis
… to the organization's foundation, actions, belief system, and rhetoric.
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The rise of evangelical religion in South Carolina during the eighteenth century
… a unique and profoundly subjective religious belief system emerged and became ever more widespread. This belief system was partly a cause and partly a result of the process of sublimating the pursuit of self and developing an alternative morality that more accurately reflected prevailing modes …
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The Relationship Between Spiritual Belief, Life Attitude, and Mental Health Among Physical Fitness Participants in Northern Indiana
… purpose of this study is to explore spiritual beliefs as defined by an interconnectedness with self and others, generated from a relationship with a higher power, and consider its impact on attitude toward life and mental health.</p> <p>Method. This study employed the survey research method to …
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Vicarious Traumatization, Secondary Traumatic Stress, and Burnout in Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence Agency Staff and Volunteers
… to clients traumatic material. VT (TSI Belief Scale [BSL]), emphasizes cognitive belief system changes resulting from cumulative exposure to survivors. STS, (Compassion Fatigue Self-test for Psychotherapists [CFST]) combines PTSD and burnout symptomatology explaining sudden adverse …
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Inquiry-Based Instruction in the Social Studies: Successes and Challenges
… of teaching and learning, particularly their beliefs about inquiry-based instruction, changed during the study. Throughout the study, teachers' perceptions and beliefs about teaching Social studies had an impact on how they planned, implemented and reflected on inquiry-based instruction. Many …
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The Religion of Consumption and Christian Neighbor Love
… ultimate concern and as a structuralized belief system. As such, it prescribes moral values that shape how people respond to the world around them, particularly with regard to notions of person, society, and the environment. Comparing these same categories to Christian neighbor love, I …
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John Adams and Unitarian Theology
<p>This thesis looks at the religious beliefs of John Adams and argues that the proper definition of Adams's belief system should only be "Unitarianism." It goes through the basic history of Unitarianism and the religious context of the Founding Fathers, and it analyzes relevant historiography on …
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Science and the sacred : new technologies within new religions : a reaction to secularization and a reinterpretation of myth
… of science and technology within new religious belief systems. The emphasis is placed upon the incorporation of scientific method, scientific findings, scientific theory, scientific terminology, and technological components within the rhetoric and praxis of historical and contemporary new …
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The Process and Experience of Deciding to Live Openly Atheist in a Christian Family: A Qualitative Study
… which cover how the atheists arrived at the belief system, how it was disclosed and its reception, and how relationships have been impacted since the disclosure. The clinical implications of the findings and suggestions for future research are also discussed.
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Desarrollo y destrucción del sistema liberal de prisiones. De la Restauración a la Guerra Civil
… Spain experienced the development of a prison system that was markedly liberal in nature. This system would begin gaining robustness and institutional credibility from the first decade of the 20th Century, peaking in the early years of the Second Republic government. Thus, a penitentiary system …
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"Let heaven kiss earth!": The Function of Humanism and Animism in Shakespeare's Richard II and Henry IV, Parts I and II
… English culture faced a shift in its dominant belief system from an animistic perspective that valued nature and superstition to a humanistic perspective based on reason and personal relationships. In Richard II, Shakespeare creates characters that fall on either side of this divide, and he …
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