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Showing 1 to 20 of 43 for “"cultural patterns"”.
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Cosmology and Personal Experience: Representations of the Sacred Landscape in Salasaca, Ecuador
… how individuals mediate, reproduce, and change cultural patterns. Cultural patterns influence not only what people say, but also how they experience the landscape. Cosmological aspects of the landscape, I show, are created and recreated through experience, social interaction, memory, and …
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Analysis of Mathematical Fiction with Geometric Themes
… fiction with regard to plot, geometric theme, cultural theme, and presentation. The authors' mathematical backgrounds are presented as they relate to both geometric and cultural themes. These backgrounds range from having little mathematical training to advance graduate work culminating in a …
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The effects of cross-cultural training on the attributions and attitudes of preservice teachers
… culture code, it may well be that intercultural conflicts are the root of the problem. Ignorance of other cultures can produce misinterpretation of behavior and may lead to cultural conflict. Cross-cultural training may help teachers identify and define cultural patterns of Hispanic …
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Conformed to This World? The Cultural Patchwork of New Evangelicals
Are evangelical Christians conforming to the cultural patterns of the secular world? This is the question that motivates my dissertation. Despite media representations of orthodox Protestants as monolithically conservative and reactionary, many scholars have noted that an "evangelical megashift" is …
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Family Communication of Social Support During Health-Related Crises: a Hispanic Perspective
… the need for better understanding regarding cultural patterns and pressures influencing family communication during health-related crises. A Hispanic perspective was taken as HIspanics represent a growing and important part of the United States' population. Social support was defined as a …
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The experience and meaning of caring for urban family caregivers of persons with strokes
… what expressions of congruence are universal or cultural bound? A purposive sample of 8 UFC key informants and 16 UFC general informants from a community in northwestern Ohio participated in interview and observation-participation field techniques. Domains of caring revealed that the experience …
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Changing communal habitat patterns in the Tzotzil region of the Chaipas highlands in Mexico
… The survival of traditional settlement patterns is a major problem for the cultural continuity of these societies during their period of adaptation to modern life. The problem of development and modernization with respect to evolving cultural patterns in the Chiapas Highlands is …
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Compliance-Gaining in Multicultural Groups: an Exploratory Study
… is an exploratory study of how members of multicultural groups engage in compliance-gaining messages. While studies have focused on cross-cultural comparisons to draw conclusions about cultural patterns in small groups, these conclusions are necessarily speculative because few studies have …
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The Impact of Cultural Assumptions about Technology on Choctaw Heritage Preservation and Sharing
… technology (ICT) on culture nor the cultural roles of ICT are widely understood, particularly among marginalized ethno-cultures and indigenous people. One theoretical lens that has received attention outside of Native American studies is the theory of Information Technology Cultures, …
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Confrontation, comparison and reconstruction of the walled city of Shahjahanabad
Cities offer a platform for cultural, social, physical and economic co-existence and conflict. Many traditional cities of India, which were conceived on the basis of relative autonomy of the existing societal structure, got transformed in to complex, fragmentary patterns of urban development due to …
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Strengthening cross-cultural policy transfer : the case of international health promotion and tobacco control
The study refers to the issue of cross-cultural transfer of internationally initiated health promotion and tobacco control policies. It explores the process of cross-cultural policy transfer, analyses the difficulties, proposes methods to overcome them, and tests the approach in Bulgaria. Generally …
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Gendered drought effects within family settings, Masvingo Zimbabwe " 2000 to 2016"
… townships and cities today. Furthermore, cultural patterns embedded in patriarchal relationships are accommodating forms of relationships which are not favourable to women. The study recommends that farmers should also have other sources to generate income other than farming because of the …
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Slavery in Cape Town, 1806 to 1834
… Regional variations in economic and demographic patterns (i.e. the demands of particular staples, the various configurations of whites and blacks, and variations in African-creole ratios) are shown to have underpinned the evolution of distinctive socio-cultural patterns in these three areas. …
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Structural grid shell design with Islamic pattern topologies
Geometric patterns, pioneered centuries ago as a dominant form of ornamentation in Islamic architecture, represent an abundant source of possible topologies and geometries that can be explored in the preliminary design of discrete structures. This diverse design space motivates the coupling between …
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If Words Could Speak: a Discourse Analysis of Emails from Global Virtual Teams
… about work-related expectations? What are the cultural patterns at play in the discourse of GVTs? Results indicated that share meaning was constructed through strategies including (a) directly asking for clarification, (b) asking additional questions, (c) sharing suggestions and information, …
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The role of private primary school education in Barbados : a case study of Vale Preparatory School
… some generated by economic, political and socio-cultural factors. Societies like Barbados, undergoing change and development, are often characterized by an interplay between the formerly dominant cultural patterns and emerging new ones, by shifting traditions as well as by change in the power …
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Psychosocial predictors of marital satisfaction in British and Ghanaian cultural settings
This thesis seeks to shed light on the cultural construction of marriage and the relative psychosocial predictors of marital satisfaction across British and Ghanaian settings. The main argument is that, Britain and Ghana stand apart in socio-cultural standing: Britain is a developed Western …
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The appropriation and mastery of cultural tools in computer supported collaborative literacy practices
… explored through a literature review of sociocultural theory, literacy, and lCT, and through two pilot studies. In the first study, I investigate how language use varies according to the difficulty of tasks. In the second study, I investigate how language use in situated literacy events …
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Gender Positioning in Textbook Images and Their Interpretation by Young Readers in Nepal
This research explores the gender patterns in the images within the newly implemented curriculum textbooks in Nepal. Secondly, it investigates how children relate to the images and what kinds of gender and cultural patterns are reflected in their own drawings and image selection, discerned through …
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The Myth of African Culture in Islam
… my research is to reassess themes and notions of cultural imperialism and African perceptions and responses to foreign influences, while at the same time explore traditional cultural patterns, cultural identity, and continuity within the context of an ethno-history. It further brings together and …
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