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Showing 1 to 20 of 101 for “"cultural difference"”.
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Culture and collaborative conservation? Inter-cultural difference and the Maungatautari Project
… thesis situates and examines the role of sociocultural difference and biculturalism in the Maungatautari Sanctuary Mountain project, a multi-stakeholder community-based biodiversity conservation project in the Waikato region of New Zealand’s North Island. In the project, Mana Whenua (local …
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Between surfaces: a psychodynamic approach to cultural identity, cultural difference and reconciliation in Australia
… the ways that language games function as cultural frames, through which all experience is filtered. As well, Buhler’s (1934/1990) conception of the deictic and symbolic fields, and the role of the proper noun in allowing or disallowing individuals to occupy a position in the symbolic order …
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Navigating cultural contexts: exploring the experience of cultural difference for South Asian women in psychological therapy
This study aimed to explore the experience of cultural difference for South Asian women in psychological therapy. Specifically, it was to explore the contextual experience of having therapy derived from a western, individualistic discipline and navigating this with the interplay of South Asian …
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The impact of 'cultural difference' in the therapeutic space : a self psychology perspective on the finding of understanding
This study explored the influence of cultural difference in psychotherapy. This is an issue of particular relevance in South Africa where cross-cultural work is commonly practised. Yet there appears to be a silence surrounding the experiences of therapists who are working cross-culturally. The aim …
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Children's Preference for Compositional Balance: A Developmental and Cross-Cultural Study
… that the second developmental spurt, the cultural difference, and the gender difference are more likely emotional than cognitive.
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Society, Culture, and Performance Forecast: The Role of Occupational Mobility and the Belief in the Fixed World
… fit when making performance forecast. This cross-cultural difference is predicted by Chinese's perception of low occupational mobility and mediated by Chinese's tendency (relative to Americans) to perceive the individuals as more malleable than the world. In Study 2 and 3, the author manipulated …
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Gender in Natural Conversation and Literary Discourse: A Sociolinguistic Study
… to explain the basis of gender-based language differences. I show unlike the DOMINANCE and CULTURAL DIFFERENCE models, only the SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIONIST model fully accounts for my results.
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Cultural Anxieties and Institutional Regulation: "Specialized" Mental Healthcare and "Immigrant Suffering" in Paris, France
… institutional management and representations of cultural difference in France today. By "specialized" mental healthcare centers, I refer structures that provide culturally-sensitive mental health services to immigrants specifically. I identify and explore three contemporary expert approaches: …
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Rituals of health : new healing spaces for Khayelitsha district hospital
… to its lived reality and one that reflects cultural difference. This exploration was narrowed down to view a need that ran across cultural lines. I chose to do this through looking at various health systems that prevail in our current society. The challenge was to critically seek out new …
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Negotiating Race, Navigating School: Situating Hmong American University Student Experiences
… the ways in which neo-racist discourses of cultural difference have racially constructed Hmong people and Hmong culture as deficient, barbaric, and primitive, and the impact that these neo-racist discourses have on the educational experiences of Hmong American university students. In …
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Writing in the 'Contact Zone' : the problem of post-colonial translation. A study of the 'Afrikanissmo-Project' and Tsitsi Dangarembga's novel Nervous Condtions in German
… between the preservation of linguistic and cultural difference of the foreign text and the domestication of the cultural other by dominant values in the target-language culture.
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'We know them, but we don't know them': a grounded theory approach to exploring host students' perspectives on intercultural contact in an Irish university
This study is concerned with intercultural relations among students in an Irish university. Specifically, the study explores host culture students’ perceptions of cultural difference within the student body and their experiences of intercultural contact on campus, including the factors which inform …
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Cross-Cultural issues at Icelandic workplaces
This study investigates current situation of multiculturalism at workplaces in Iceland. 46 foreign workers and 36 Icelandic workers at various organizations answered the online questionnaire. The result shows that about half of workplaces of participants noticed increase in number of foreign …
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COLLEGE STUDENTS' ATTITUDES TOWARD RAPE: A COMPARISON OF NEW ZEALAND AND THE UNITED STATES.
This cross-cultural study used the "Attitudes Toward Rape Victims Survey" (ARVS), designed by Ward (1984), to examine the attitudes of college students in New Zealand and the United States. The instrument (ARVS) is the first of its kind to test for victim blame, and the first to be limited to the …
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Meeting the Self and the Other: Intercultural Learning During a Faculty-led Short-term Service-Learning Course to Belize
Cross-cultural knowledge and intercultural competence are highly valued qualities for 21st-century American college and university graduates, as these institutions endeavor to prepare students to live and work in an increasingly multicultural society. This task offers both a challenge and an …
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Monkey see, monkey do? An intercultural exploration of the dynamics between humans and non-human primates in a professional animal research setting
… is a novel investigation in the field of intercultural relations, exploring the values and beliefs of a group of research employees, and the intercultural competence and sensitivity these employees model in their interactions with the animals they work with. A focus group was conducted at the …
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Assembling Caliban: French and Other European Depictions of American Bodies in the Sixteenth Century
… evolution of European literary understandings of cultural difference. This study hopes to better situate this Franco-Brazilian encounter within a broader Renaissance cultural aesthetics. The writings of a series of French thinkers including André Thevet, Jean de Léry, and Michel de Montaigne, are …
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The experience of African American parents with the special education system : a review of literature
… by factors such as communication issues, cultural difference, support from the system, knowledge of special education law and procedures. I conclude this study by proposing recommendations for improving the experiences of African American parents in special education process.
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Struggling productions : Ying Chen and the representation of cultural identity in Quebec, 1992-1999
In this thesis I explore the definition of cultural identity as 'representation', that identities don't exist as forms of fixed, absolute, and/or natural essence; instead, they are merely conceptual constructs, definitions of culture and cultural difference, produced in accordance with evolving …
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