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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"constructed identities"”.
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Constructed Identities and Perpetuated Inequalities in App Dating
This study seeks to investigate the ways in which individuals make sense of the nearly overwhelming amount of information they are presented with in an application like Tinder, and the ways in which their experiences at the confluence of the digital and “real” worlds are informed by various forces, …
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Social Comic Commentary - an exploration of contemporary identity constructions
… culture, assists in managing the culture and its constructed identities and ultimately critiques the culture. The following written submission is divided into two parts.
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Educating Queerness: An Exploration of Identity Construction Through the Schooling Experiences of Transgender and Non Binary Adults
… in which the gender binary has been socially constructed like other constructed identities such as race and ability in the effort to continue to eradicate transphobia and transphobic practices. This study explored the experience of transgender young adults as they matriculated through U.S. …
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Making Good: An Exploratory Study of the Socialization, Identity, and Sensemaking of Mission Trip Volunteers
… roles that emerge in mission volunteer work, the identities that they construct based upon these roles are revealed. Discovering the ways in which these roles and constructed identities affect the way that mission trip volunteers could potentially help colleges improve their recruitment messages …
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Virgins, Mystics, and Reformers: The Creation of Female Constructed Identites in the Medieval and Early Modern Period
… topics. For these women the creation of public identities that would protect them from attacks against their characters were necessary to their success in areas of politics and religious commentary. Aristocratic women who wished to enter into politics tended to construct their public identities …
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Doing what ‘Works Best’: Exploring the Narratives of Mothers who Work as Strippers
… women navigate and negotiate their socially constructed identities and practices as both mothers and sex workers?’. This thesis is informed by feminist methodologies and a broad array of literatures on social reproduction, social surveillance of mothering practices, the intensification of …
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The impact of intersectionality on the empowerment and development of nurses into leadership roles
… the impact of the intersection of socially constructed identities such as race, gender, and class, on empowerment and a nurses' ability to develop as a leader was previously unresearched. Aim: This study aimed to learn how to create a culture of nursing leadership by explaining the impact of …
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Older adults’ experiences of psychotherapy
… qualitative study explored how six older women constructed their decisions to enter into counselling and their experiences of counselling. Although the study was open to both older men and women, only women expressed an interest in participating. Narrative interviews were therefore conducted …
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Identity and multiple admissions to psychiatric hospital: a biographic narrative study of the experiences of patients.
… reality provides a context for shaping their identities. The study draws on mental health policy, political ideologies and the history of deinstitutionalisation in order to illuminate this problematic phenomenon. The study is framed within the social sciences, but more specifically within the …
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Queer Teachers in Catholic Schools: Cosmic Perceptions of an Easter People
… First, how do queer teachers understand their identities as constructed in a Catholic school? Secondly, it wants to know what action teachers will take when they have come to an answer about their constructed identities. This dissertation incorporates queer studies, liberation theology, and …
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Ideologically Informed: A Policy Archaeology of Special Education in Ontario, 1965-1980
… scientific rationalism continue to construct the identities of children with disabilities as deviant from “normal” children. These differences are scientifically measured and quantified by medical and psychological professionals. The hierarchical organization of schooling sorts students into …
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Twelve Hearts of Clay and Selected Stories
… themes and concepts of art, troubled romance, constructed identities, fairy tales and folklore are all reflected in the short stories. Each story takes a single theme and explores it outside of the context of the novel, which is, I believe, a result of the way I've been working, switching back …
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'Bunnies with steel tails?' : an exploration of gender identities within an independent single-sex girls' school
… It explores the way girls construct their gender identities within the single-sex school. The starting point for the research was an interest in the popular perceptions of gender differences in achievement. The girls in this school achieve impressive examination results and the popular debate …
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Cypriot Donor Portraiture: Constructing the Ideal Family
… into the culture and people of this island as constructed within the medium of portraiture. They provide visual evidence of the donors' ideals of family in these lasting monuments to their memory. There are noticeable changes in these portraits through time that indicate the shifting foreign …
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Le rôle du hammam féminin dans la construction et la consolidation des identités sexuées en Algérie et au Maroc
… the bath, the little boy fully understands those identities when he is expelled from the hammam (at approximately six years old, in general). Moreover, this closed space also allows the woman to form her own feminine identity and to create a collective, feminine community. However, since the …