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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"cultural ideals"”.
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"Women With No One": Community and Christianity in a Secular South Indian Homeless Shelter
… understand and engage with such abstract ideals?</p> <p>Ethnographic research, conducted between August 2008 and August 2009, revealed important insights regarding the ideals shaping the secular goals of the shelter, namely women's social rehabilitation. First, the definition of secularism …
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Educational Equity and the National Science Foundation Systemic Initiatives: A Field's -Eye -View of Local Stakeholder Understandings
… local values (V1·· Vi) such as cultural ideals or local customs and is operationalized through ""equality as action"" (Ea). This combination creates the condition Equity (EQ). Es, Vf, and E a are necessary components that can be considered constants, Without any one of these …
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Cognition in the Christian reformulation of Tonga: Motivation, internalization, and schemas
… Tongan society to fit with European-Victorian ideals. The missionaries were successful in their conversion efforts. However, traditional Tongan society was not merely replaced: cultural ideals blended. How this occurred, and the degree to which cultural features were affected, was based in part …
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Virtual Bodies: Probing Fake Flesh
… virtual. By investigating the interactions of cultural ideals, technological mediation, and material experimentation, the research delves into how contemporary art practices can challenge and expand our understanding of embodiment.</p> <p>Central to this exploration is the use of varied mediums …
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Representations of Women in Geoffrey Chaucer’s “Man of Law’s Tale” and “Tale of Melibee”
… Custance and Prudence adhere to medieval cultural ideals of femininity, it further notes their central position in the narratives discussed, and presents an argument for the active and heroic nature of these women in Chaucer’s poetic tales. The project concludes that Chaucer’s female …
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Domestic Space, Modernity, and Identity: The Apartment in Mid-20th Century Turkey
… and shared values, occupied the confluence of cultural modernity and architectural Modernism. The apartment as social space revealed the desire of inhabitants, architects, and interior designers for change that was informed by political and cultural ideals of the West, reconfigured by postwar …
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Asian Indian Perceptions of Normality: A Qualitative Study
… what is normal is biased against non-Westem cultural ideals that influenced the definition of mental health. The difference between Eastern and Western cultural values suggest that the two cultures may also have differing views on the definition of normal mental health. The most commonly …
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The Effects of Discourse on Pediatric Health Outcomes: The Moderating Role of Child Sex
… to their children as a function of sex. Cultural ideals have much more stringent evaluations of women than men do and this may be reflected in communications involving parents and children. There were no significant mean-level differences in body image scores and parents' use of entity …
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The American college and its architecture : an institutional imperative
… the American college campus is shaped by broader cultural and philosophical factors which themselves are based on the notion of an architectural environment able to control the intellectual growth of the individual. This thesis investigates the artistic and philosophical preconceptions of the …
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Perceptions of pedagogy for employability at a transnational university: A qualitative case study
… governments and their economic, social and cultural ideals, it has been argued that many valued employability skills can only be developed in genuine work situations, not in the classroom. Debates surrounding employability have taken place over recent years primarily in the global north, …
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A two-Paper Examination of Secure Body Attachment in the Prevention and Treatment of Eating Disorders
… to one’s body occurs against the grain of cultural practices that constrict, exploit, and separate women from their bodies/bodily needs. This makes it particularly challenging for women to feel good enough in their own skin/body, let alone serve as a good enough model for someone else. …
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Religious women in modern American social reform: Evangeline Booth, Aimee Semple Mcpherson, Dorothy Day, and the rhetorical invention of humanitarian authority
… to distance themselves from the older Victorian cultural ideals of “charity” that were being dramatically challenged by the development of “scientific” standards and state-based authority in humanitarian endeavors. This study compares and contrasts the rhetorical efforts of Evangeline Booth (the …
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Listening to the Lomax archive: the sonic rhetorics of American vernacular music in the 1930s
… roles in myth making, racial formation, cultural eloquence, progressive thought, and historiography. While recent scholarship has identified the sonic elements of rhetoric’s classical roots, I argue that vernacular, folk, or “roots” music can be a key element—a sonic rhetoric—for …
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Motherhood, Family, and Inequality in Contemporary Japan
… I argue, ideas of family constitute not merely cultural ideals, but social forces, which marginalize them from mainstream Japanese society. More specifically, I explore the historical construction of ideals and entitlements of motherhood through state campaigns and welfare policies, and their …
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La subjetividad femenina y la modernidad en Puerto Rico y Brasil (siglos XIX y XX)
… feminine subjectivities during the social, cultural and industrial modernization of Puerto Rico and Brazil throughout the 19th century. With this investigation I analyze, from the perspective of gender studies and recent analyses of modernity, the construction of the idea of "woman" that …
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The Development of Body Image in Young Children: The Role of Muscularity and Adiposity
… ethnicity, BMI, perceived body size, and sociocultural factors (e.g. cultural ideals and body size stereotypes). Results consistently supported the findings of study 1 which showed gender differences in body satisfaction: boys were more dissatisfied with their bodies than girls, and their …
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The Development of Body Image in Young Children: The Role of Muscularity and Adiposity
… ethnicity, BMI, perceived body size, and sociocultural factors (e.g. cultural ideals and body size stereotypes). Results consistently supported the findings of study 1 which showed gender differences in body satisfaction: boys were more dissatisfied with their bodies than girls, and their …
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Muslim women in colonial North India circa 1920-1947 : politics, law and community identity
… identity based largely on religious and cultural ideals in the three decades prior to independence. The second is the activities of elite Muslim women in social reform organisations and their entry into politics. Most of the recent literature on the development of a distinct Muslim …
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Ice, Ice, Baby? A Sociological Exploration of Social Egg Freezing
… was constructed as someone who reflected certain cultural ideals often associated with ‘new fatherhood’. The absence of such a partner indicated that it was the wrong time to pursue motherhood and thus led women to pursue social egg freezing. Many participants reported that a particular issue or …
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