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Showing 1 to 20 of 41 for “"conflict theory"”.
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A conflict-theory approach to understanding adolescents' health behaviour
… A relevant theoretical perspective is the Conflict-Theory Model (Janis, 1983) which specifies several modes by which people cope with threat, including vigilance (objective appraisals), defensive avoidance (evasion of anxiety) and hypervigilance (panic). Developed to explain adult decision …
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Policing the Police: Conflict Theory and Police Violence in a Racialized Society
… that are theoretically grounded in general group conflict theory and specific minority threat hypotheses. These theories assert that higher levels of minority presence and overall economic inequality will predict higher levels of social control even when other environmental factors (including …
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The Path to Peace: Conflict Theory and Northern Ireland’s Troubles (1968-1998)
… this paper incorporates theories from peace and conflict studies and uses them to frame traditional historical analyses of Northern Ireland’s Troubles. The ultimate goal of this paper is to integrate traditional history and contemporary theories in peace and conflict studies in order to explain …
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The role of fiscal policy in inertially inflated Argentina
… provides a game-theoretic model of the social conflict theory of inflation and creates cyclical indices of fiscal stance for developing countries suffering from inertial inflation.
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Procedural conflict and conflict resolution: a cross-national study of police officers from New Zealand and South Australia
… approach to explore how police officers attempt conflict resolution in their day-to-day activities. Using comparisons of the behaviour of routinely armed officers from South Australia and routinely unarmed officers from New Zealand, this thesis chronicles a research journey which culminates with …
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The role of public information officers in local American government
… current local government PIOs and applying role conflict theory, this thesis presents the PIOs understanding on how they view their roles in their job, what it means to them and how they manage all that they do.
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VIRGIN POLITICS: AN IDEOGRAPHICAL ANALYSIS OF "VIRGINITY" IN THE EGYTPIAN VIRGINTY TESTS
… in Egypt. It also has implications for social conflict theory, technology, and identity studies.
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Non-Parasitic Warlords and Geographical Distance
… the production of goods and services, and conflict with the opposing warlord. Within the symmetric rates of seizure model, I use three different forms of the contest success function, a primary tool in the conflict theory literature, in my analysis. I show that the warlord closer to the …
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WOMEN AND WORK-LIFE BALANCE: A NARRATIVE INQUIRY OF WORKING SINGLE MOTHERS BALANCING FAMILY AND WORK
… understand how employers can assist them. Role theory, role conflict theory, and spillover theory were utilized to examine how working single mothers experience work-life balance and how they perceive it. In this study, the researcher sought to discover, analyze, and report work-life balance …
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An Examination of Policies and Programs Used to Increase Ethnic and Racial Diversity Among Faculty at Research Universities
… faculty of color in the academy. Primarily, conflict theory, a leading principles underpinning discussions on racial inequality in higher education, along with the epistemological framework of organizational analysis of racism in higher education are used. Considering the afore mentioned …
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Mediace a její využití v pracovněprávních sporech
… the Czech legal system, further deals with conflict theory, the mediator, his education, techniques, participants in mediation and mediation directions. The second chapter focuses on labor law and the relationships arising within labor law. It also explains what types of labor law disputes …
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The influence of intragroup conflict on career advancement of women in corporate
This paper investigates intragroup conflict as a mechanism that influences women's career progression in corporate settings, using as its basis mid-career women in South Africa's retail and wholesale industries. It explores how task and relationship conflicts among women are fuelled by competition …
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Sterilization in the United States: Prevalence and Controversies
… practice of tubal ligation in the United States. Conflict theory indicates that the field of medicine is a social structure that is based upon capitalistic ideology and serves to perpetuate inequality. Feminist theory argues that medicine systematically disempowers women and that notions of family …
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Challenges of Combating Armed Robbery in Kilimanjaro Region and Nairobi County
… Theories that are relevant to this study are conflict theory and liberal theory. In this study the major findings are challenges of combating armed robbery basing on economic challenges, sociological challenges and political challenges. Economic challenges include budgetary problem, poor …
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Lending a Megaphone to the Muted: The Merits of Comprehensive Conflict Engagement through Photovoice in Refugee Resettlement Communities
… sites are often overlooked as hotspots of conflict because of the unstated assumption that resettlement and escape from militarized conflict automatically mean peace. However, refugees are resettled in local communities into which old conflicts are imported, and where new ones emerge as …
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Contextual Dynamics of Immigration Attitudes: Regional Differences in Southern Europe
… towards immigrants. Drawing upon institutional theory and realistic conflict theory, I further refine a theory of ethnic competition and prejudice in the Southern European context. I argue that popular attitudes towards immigration are correlated with a set of individual level factors (e.g. …
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A Survey History of Islamic Da'wah and the Egyptian-Nigerian Connections
… to thirteen centuries older than sociological theory as we know it today, I have made little use of sociological theory. However, I have noted, in passing, both conflict theory and functionalism. By the conflict theory, I am referring to (p. 67) that of George Simmel, not Karl Marx, who …
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Al Shabaab as a transnational actor : a critical theoretical analysis
… terror, a critical analysis of Rational Choice Theory, Spill-over Conflict Theory and Regional War Complex Theory was conducted. Evaluating each theory according to whether its assumptions held true, the theory offered a parsimonious explanation of Al Shabaab's use of transnational terror which …
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Sexual conflict and the evolution of nuptial feeding
… population. If this is not the case, and sexual conflict has exerted a cost-benefit imbalance between the sexes, then the expectation is that the system will evolve towards the reduction of nuptial gift giving. Here, utilizing the Allonemobius socius complex of crickets where females benefit …
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Goal Conflict in the State Children's Health Insurance Program
This dissertation develops goal conflict theory and its application to intergovernmental public policy through state-level empirical analysis of the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) from 1999-2007. This program was selected for analysis because it is a program in which goal …
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