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Showing 1 to 20 of 81 for “"civility"”.
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Civility: Its Distinctness and Significance
Civility has many critics. Some challenge its distinctness as a virtue, others its moral significance. In this essay, I attempt to meet both challenges by offering an account of civility that stands distinct from other concepts and holds great value, both intrinsically and instrumentally. I claim …
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Civility, Job Satisfaction, and Intentions to Quit
Civility is an important research topic in today’s work environment, especially given concerns about retaining employees in the increasingly mobile labor market (Pearson & Porath, 2005). Although much of the research on civil work behaviors focuses on the negative impact of incivility, ongoing …
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Testing a Multi-Level Mediation Model of Workgroup Incivility: The Role of Civility Climate and Group Norms for Civility
… was to test a multi-level mediation model of incivility. Specifically, it was proposed that predictors of workplace incivility at the individual, group, and organizational level would be related to each other and negative individual outcomes. It was also proposed that the relationship between …
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Contest of Civility: Conformity, Dissent, and the Struggle for Religious Liberty
… political communities. Massachusetts perpetuated civility of conformity, a political formulation that fastened society around a mandated theological construct, which was enforced and nourished by the civil state. Civility of conformity posited that societal stability necessitated an established …
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Struggling for Civility. The Idea and the Reality of Civil Society
Contains fulltext : 93537.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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RACE, SOCIALIZATION, AND CIVILITY: INTERROGATING THE COMMUNICATIVE CONSTRUCTION OF THE WHITE HABITUS
… socialization through the white habitus, and civility utilizing critical-qualitative methodologies. I interviewed fourteen participants of various racial backgrounds a total of twenty-eight times to understand how they identified and negotiated the institutional norms of higher education. …
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Promoting Civility in Online Discussions: A Study of the Intelligent Conversation Forum
… Internet forums show a higher tendency towards incivility than those conducted in person. This is partially caused by the anonymity of the web; therefore, some have suggested that the solution is requiring website commenters to provide their real names. There are many benefits to allowing people …
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Fragile civility: an evangelical American school meets Korean educational sojourners in neoliberal time
… the school’s staff and leadership. A veneer of civility hid from the various parties – students, parents, and school staff – their diverging goals and viewpoints. Their reactions were further convoluted with linguistic, religious, racial/ethnic issues, as well as class, citizenship, and …
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Wild Civility: Cultivating the Foundations of Social Justice through Participation in a Wilderness Program
This heuristic inquiry examined if the foundations of social justice knowledge and beliefs were developed as a result of participation in a wilderness program and what knowledge and beliefs were developed. There were six participants in this study. Data collection involved participants completing …
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Upholding civility towards diversity in urban public space: exploring the makings of conviviality and belonging in Cape Town's city centre
This study is concerned with the makings of conviviality in the market spaces in Cape Town's city centre. It investigates the strategies through which diverse actors in the Church Street Antique Market, Greenmarket Square and St George's Mall negotiate - even celebrate - difference. In doing so the …
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Tracing the Invisible Borders of Canadian Citizenship: Critical Analysis of Social Work with Noncitizens
… research findings reveal that the discourse of civility is fundamental to border making in Canada. The discourse of civility was foundational to the settler colonial project, which relied on the discursive construction of Indigenous peoples as uncivilized vis--vis civilized European settlers. …
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University Education in a Postmodern Era: Building a Narrative Ethic of Civil Communication in the Classroom
… establish an ethic of communicative civility within their classroom.</p><p> <<<</and Martin Buber's central works are relevant to communicative civility. Buber's I-Thou construct permits new ways for professors to realize that postmodernity presents an unprecedented opportunity to …
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Let's agree to agree : effects of self-awareness and social identity on online deliberation
… to perceptions of one's conversation partner (civility, intelligence, rationality, hostility, and others), perceived compromise, feelings of political deliberation cynicism, and accuracy of other awareness (i.e., ability to correctly recall a partner's abortion-related attitudes gleaned through …
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Incivility in Nursing Education in a Midwestern State Technical College System
Mitton, J. Abstract Workplace incivility remains a significant concern in nursing education, yet limited research has examined faculty-to-faculty incivility within technical college settings. This mixed-methods study examined the incidence and lived experiences of faculty-to-faculty incivility …
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PEN International and its Republic of Letters, 1921-1970
… above all could best promote communication and civility across national lines. Over the years, PEN survived a series of onslaughts that undermined this humanistic idea: fascist infiltration, yet another World War, revelations of Holocaust, the shock of atomic warfare, and CIA meddling. By 1970 …
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A Structuralist Controversy: Althusser and Lacan on Ideology
… it proposes to regard him as a theorist of civility who tried to tackle the issue of extreme violence. Moreover, I demonstrate that Althusser himself was drawn near such a theoretical motif of Lacan's in some of his posthumously published texts on Machiavelli. I examine convergences and …
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Resilience and Resistance: Public Narratives from Post-Katrina New Orleans
… struggle in acts of collective reaffirmation; of civility and leadership in expectations of personal transformation; and of self-reliance and civic engagement in acts of resistance. Discussion will focus on how editorialists work to create public narratives that will unite their audience and …
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Hearing Africa: Auditory Perception and the Construction of Race In Early Modern England
… societal and cultural expectations of what civility, prosperity and Christianity sounded like. Racial thinking about Africans in the Anglo-American world began much earlier than has been acknowledged, and the senses played a critical role in its development.</p>
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The implementation of a school-wide anti-bullying program
… appropriate behavior, treating others with civility and respect, and for refusing to tolerate harassment, intimidation or bullying. Through on-site research and review of current literature, I was interested in finding out students' perceptions about bullying. The thesis was designed to …
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