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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"class formation"”.
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Equivalence Class Formation and Attitudes Toward Neurodevelopmental Disabilities
… a reflective relationship between equivalence class formation and implicit attitudes, as measured by the Implicit Association Test (IAT). Research has also confirmed that performance on the IAT can be altered through equivalence class reorganization. However, this has not yet been evaluated in …
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Agricultural change and rural class formation in Iringa district, Tanzania
This thesis is a study of rural development policy in Tanzania with special reference to Iringa District. Its principal aim is to assess the ujamaa (rural socialism) programme. However, an historical approach is adopted and the thesis devotes considerable attention to the development of …
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The Making of Blindness in Ontario: Incarceration and Class Formation, 1872–1926
… Canadians from waged labour, generating an underclass of precarious and oft-wageless proletarians. Institutionalization socialized the workers-in-training within a prison-like environment where punishments like whippings and beatings, solitary confinement, and material deprivation were …
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Promoting generalization of coin value relations with young children via equivalence class formation
… research examined the effectiveness of the formation of an equivalence class in teaching young children coin value relations. The second aspect of the study was to determine if there was a relationship between equivalence class formation and generalization of the skills established to other …
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The proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel : a study of development and class formation.
Thesis. 1978. Ph.D. cn--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning.
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Traders and taximen in Qwaqwa : a study of class formation in a South African homeland
… can be seen to be participating in processes of class formation within the homeland. The focus adopted directs attention away from the issue of poverty which has dominated rural research over the past decade. The thesis also seeks to contribute to existing studies of class formation in the …
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Unstable Foundations: Class Realignment, Class Formation and Its Political Articulation in an Urban Working-Class Periphery
… what is collectively understood by working-class identities, their boundaries and markers, and what limitations social democratic political organisations face when appealing to them. The underlying processes affecting class realignment of the working-class, understood as the reshuffling of …
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Class Formation in High-Tech Information and Communications as an Aspect of China's Reintegration Into Transnational Capitalism
… of Chinese labor in this context. Shifting class relations and identities in the ICT industry comprise a sensitive and portentous field; my dissertation probes the social, political and historical construction of the labor market and managerial practices in the ICT sector, as well as …
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Social change, class formation and English : a study of young black South Africans with "Model C" school backgrounds.
This study is based on interviews and recorded word-lists from 44 young (under 25) black South Africans who have been educated in the former white school system, studying at the University of Cape Town. It considers their life experiences, particularly as regards their schooling. It also …
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Community and Resistance in the Gateway City: Black National Consciousness, Working -Class Formation, and Social Movements in St. Louis, Missouri, 1941--1964
… this dissertation argues that Black working-class formation and urban community-building propelled the major Black social movements between World War II and the early 1960s. The agendas emerging from these movements represented the racial and class interests of Black working people, not only …
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Imperialism, postimperialism and Iran
… explore the reciprocal affects of transnational class formation which came about with the growth of transnational corporations. This approach is well suited to the Iranian case because of the strong ties that Iran under the Shah had with the international community.
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Migrant labour remittances : the developmental cycle and rural differentiation in a Lesotho community
… cycle. The more general process of regional class formation is also recognized. The interconnectedness of the local elite and the national bureaucracy, which together form an incipient petty bourgeoisie, demonstrates the effect of class formation at the local level. Remittances are seen to …
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Competing Arbitrary and Non-Arbitrary Stimulus Relations in Adults, Normally Developing Children and Children with a Diagnosis of Autism
… participant failed to demonstrate equivalence class formation in any test condition. However, when six participants diagnosed with autism were subsequently exposed to the full training and testing procedures in Study 2, all six participants demonstrate equivalence-class formation with black …
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"""The Great Spirit of Solidarity"": The Illinois Valley Mining Communities and the Formation of Interethnic Consciousness, 1889--1917"
… The Illinois Valley Mining Communities and the Formation of Interethnic Consciousness, 1889--1917 uses the concept of transnationlism to examine the processes of Americanization and working class formation. The study focuses on the way in which working class residents of the multiethnic and …
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"A poor woman wants permit to go to Almshouse": Women, gender and poverty in New York's Burned-Over District, 1821-1861
… a response to the historiography of middle-class formation in the region, which has largely omitted discussion of the working class and particularly the poor. While charitable work was critical in middle-class women's activities, poor women themselves are shadowy figures in the …
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Reflexivity: A first demonstration
… one showed anti-reflexivity. Tests for stimulus class reorganization yielded mixed results. None of six pigeons demonstrated emergent anti-reflexivity after first showing emergent reflexivity, but three of five pigeons demonstrated emergent reflexivity after first showing emergent …
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Shop Floor Politics Under Socialism: Worker Identity, Rationalization, and Company Culture in (East) Germany, 1920--1996
… German shop floor, the ways in which the working class cooperated with, rejected, or negated such strategies, and how diverse political regimes---democratic, fascist, and communist---shaped both modernization drives and laborer responses. In the last analysis, German companies had been unable to …
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Fashion, city, people
… Through the study of the fashion market and its formation, the intent is to explore how fashion has developed in relation to other structural changes appearing in the city. it will discuss the specific characteristics of the relationship between fashion and the city in regard to other innovations …
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The struggle for the city : alcohol, the ematsheni and popular culture in Durban, 1902-1936
… particularly utshwala, to African popular classes and the intensity of the resistance to this control has, with one notable exception, been largely ignored by historians. This neglect is understandable. Not only is the study of the making of South Africa's working classes in its infancy but …
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Reluctant patients: health, sickness and the embodiment of plebeian masculinity in nineteenth-century Britain: evidence from working men's autobiographies
… Georgian middling sort and applies it to working-class men in nineteenth-century Britain. Thus it uses working men's autobiographies to explore conceptions of health, plebeian aetiology, the subjective experience of sickness, lay medicine and the doctor-patient relationship. The relationship …
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