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Showing 1 to 20 of 37 for “"cultural models"”.
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Mapping Cultural Models of Authority
… becomes more diverse, the incidence of cross-cultural supervision will increase. Cross-cultural supervision is a workplace situation in which the culture of the supervisor and of the subordinate differ. Anecdotal evidence and cross-cultural psychological theory suggest that cultures may differ …
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Cultural models of food in cuban miami: Roots, Yucas, and Moros
… of this research is to examine Miami Cubans' cultural knowledge about food, aiming to identify cultural factors that contribute to variation in this knowledge. There is increasing heterogeneity within the Miami Cuban enclave in terms of social class, ethnicity, and political values, and this …
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The Role of Cultural Models of Self-Worth in Vicarious Experiences of Wrongdoing
This research sought to understand why people from different cultures respond in fundamentally different ways to their own ingroup transgressions. We predicted that in face cultures, where self-worth is defined by one's reputation, ingroup transgressions would elicit vicarious shame and withdrawal …
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Cultural models of respectful subjectivity among primary school children in post-conflict Ayacucho, Peru: an embodied learning analysis
… in a bilingual (Quechua-Spanish) Andean agricultural community. I develop the concept of respectful subjectivity as a culturally shared foundational schema underlying understandings of personhood and interpersonal relations among the children with whom I worked. I examine respectful …
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Symphony orchestras in Scandinavia and Britain : a comparative study of funding, cultural models and chief executive self-perception of policy and organisation
… of orchestras within several disciplines. The cultural policies and orchestral development in the six countries are analysed as well as the results of a survey amongst Chief Executives of 83 symphony orchestras (32 in Scandinavia and 51 in the United Kingdom). The results of the survey indicate …
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Investigating sources and modes of communication through which rural raised drivers learn and experience cultural models of driving and their impact on driving safety
… these gaps, the present research explores the cultural models of driving in Saskatchewan and how these models are transmitted to young drivers so that they develop either safe or unsafe driving mental models. A survey questionnaire of rural-raised university undergraduates who drive estimated …
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"I Feel This Challenge - But I Don't Have The Background" : Teachers' Responses To Their Bilingual Pupils In 6 Scottish Primary Schools : An Ethnographic Study
… of the interviews were analysed to find the cultural models which inform teachers' practice. This analysis found that the Master Model which informed teachers' practice in the context being researched was that 'bilingual pupils need to become monolingual to succeed'. This master model helps …
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Investigating Social Mobility: Cultural Frames and Cultural Frame Switching in First-Generation College Students
… social classes 1) experience social class biculturalism, and 2) engage in social class cultural frame switching. I explore these questions using first-generation college students (FGs), who move from working-class communities into middle-class universities. Studies 1-2b document social class …
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New insights into Bedouin culture : a study of three Bedouin descent groups in Northeast Egypt
… could be considered a statement advocating the cultural rights of the Bedouin. In general, this thesis celebrates the Bedouin organisation and utilisation of their distinctive culture.In the process of the study, various Bedouin cultural models and schemas are examined and analysed. Examples and …
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"Nice ink, man": a biocultural, mixed methods approach to tattooing as costly honest signaling among southern women
In this thesis I examine the influence of a cultural model of tattooing on psychological and biological stress in a sample of Southern tattooed women. The handicap principle of sexual selection states that a high risk ornament is utilized by a mate to show high-quality health. The handicap …
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Speaking in Two Tongues: an Ethnographic Investigation of the Literacy Practices of English as a Foreign Language and Cambodian Young Adult Learners’ Identity
… the English language as an increasingly dominant cultural and linguistic presence in Cambodia and endeavours to fill the epistemic gap in what Gee (2008, p. 1) has identified as the ‘other stuff’ of language. This other stuff includes ‘social relations, cultural models, power and politics, …
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Intertextuality in student writing : the intersection of the academic curriculum and student voices in first year economics assignments
… to consider new discourses, discourse models and literacy and learning practices that students draw on as they write their essays. Gee's theories of situated meanings and cultural models were used as tools for analysing the ways in which students draw on existing linguistic resources to …
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Doing dialogue differently: case studies of teacher collaborative discourse in Malaysian secondary schools
… is a process at the heart of many existing models of professional learning, yet there are gaps in understanding the process’ complex and contingent nature, especially with research from ‘non-Western’ contexts and using relatively ‘naturalistic data’ without significant external or researcher …
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Sakymas ir rašymas: dviejų kultūros modelių tvermė ir kaita Lietuvos Didžiojoje Kunigaikštystėje /
… Literacy: Persistence and Transformation of Two Cultural Models in Grand Duchy of Lithuania is devoted to investigate two cultural models – oral and literate – their intersection, conflicts and turning points in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. A question about their influence on a change in …
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John Baldessari's Later Blasted Allegories
… many of these works appropriate structural models from cultural anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss, narratologist A. J. Greimas, and grammarian Noam Chomsky; even though they subsume the rules implied by these structural models, they undergo a post-structural critique wherein fixed …
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A Juxtaposition of rational choice and socio-cultural approaches to explain changes in family size throughout the process of economic development using household survey data from Brazil
… mid 1990s, separate Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) models are run that comparatively evaluate the explanatory power of divergent methods used to explain fertility in developing countries. Rational choice approaches, in the spirit of Gary S. Becker, are presented alongside approaches that account for …
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Culturally responsive architecture : a community center and housing for Latinos in Roxbury
… of culture on architecture by considering two "cultural models," Anglo-American and Latino. The vehicle I will use is a community center, housing, and public outdoor space for the Latino community in Roxbury, a neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. From the total Roxbury population, which …
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Constitutional change in the United Kingdom: an institutional analysis
… of British politics. It is argued that these models can no longer provide the analytical toolkits necessary to unlock the nature and scope of power in British politics. It also questions the efficacy of micro level analyses in explaining the absence of constitutional change in British …
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GOVERNING LITERACY: A CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF THE UNITED NATIONS DECADES OF LITERACY, 1990-2000 AND 2003-2012
… (see Street, 2003) that connects socio-cultural models of literacy to the discursive production of meaning in institutional literacy work.
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Culture and E-Commerce: Culture Based Preferences for Interface Information Design
… for different cultures is still very difficult. Cultural models can be used to identify differences between cultures that may have an effect on how people make decisions. Geert Hofstede (1980, 1997) has defined a cultural model with five dimensions. One of these dimensions, individualism vs. …
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