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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"cultural preferences"”.
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International Investments Flows: The Role of Cultural Preferences and Migrants Networks
… lines. The first line of research focuses on cultural factors promoting bilateral investments flows. In chapter 1 and chapter 3, I propose a novel definition of Cultural Proximity wich separates the effect of cultural similarity from the role of perceptions and cultural affiity. I am able to …
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New distinctions : the impact of class and race on the cultural preferences of youth in Cape Town and Belo Horizonte
… explain them. As a result much of South African cultural sociology, especially with regards to youth culture, is entailed in in-depth ethnographic descriptions of particular subcultures. Less common is scholarly work dealing with the role of taste and cultural preferences in the reconfiguration …
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Cross-cultural differences in environmental valuation: a choice modelling application to water resources in the Waikato
… management support the possibility that strong cultural differences in environmental perspectives may exist. Failure to account for these differences could lead to misrepresentation of the strengths of cross-cultural preferences; yet, few empirical studies have attempted to quantify these …
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Medical pluralism in central Mexico in the early colonial period
… society - the huge diversity of personal and cultural preferences coupled with the profound significance attached to healthcare, saw all people, slaves included, able to exert agency in their own healthcare. In short this is an interpretive historical study of medicine in Mexico, combining …
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The Ambiguity of Diversity: How Parents Understand and React to School Desegregation Efforts
… existing segregation as the “natural” result of cultural preferences or individual educational merit, ignoring or dismissing specific local histories and structural explanations of residential and school segregation. I found that advantaged parents interpreted the district planning process …
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Church, Country, Culture: How Three Aspects of Authoritarianism Predict Support for Donald Trump
… sorting increases polarization based on cultural preferences for an in-group that become ethnocentric views, which develop into ethnocentric cultural politics. I present an augmented concept of authoritarianism in America that encompasses sorting based on aspects of political belief, …
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Functional analysis of spindle whorls from the Castro culture of northwestern Portugal
… used with different fibers based on personal or cultural preferences. Weight, however, does seem to play a determining factor in the types of fibers that were spun because of the limits of the fibers themselves to spin quality yarns outside of set weight ranges. The existence of no whorls with …
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Perceptions of Trust and Care in the Patient-Provider Relationship: A Mixed Methods Case Study of a Nurse-Practitioner Clinic in Rural Nebraska.
… this legislation’s impact requires the study of cultural preferences for the patient-provider relationship in Nebraska. While medical anthropology has studied patient-provider relationships, further study is required in rural areas to assess local populations for preferences in different types of …
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Negotiating identity in multilingual parliamentary discourses in the Western Cape: a discourse analysis
… choose and freely express one�s linguistic and cultural preferences, amongst many others. This study analyses the negotiation of identity in constitutionally multilingual parliamentary discourses in the Western Cape in order to create a better understanding of the influence the new South Africa …
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Facebook Idio-Culture: How Personalisation Puts the Me in Social Media
… of this study is to examine the extent to which cultural preferences in music in the UK have changed as a result of personalised social media. It is an exploration of the extent to which the boundaries of musical subcultures, and other such cultural groupings have been smudged by a customised …
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A Misfit Mythology: Hanes Taliesin in English Literature and Culture in the Nineteenth Century
… that a combination of text availability, cultural preferences, and mythologizers’ handling of the Gwion strand all play significant roles.
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Intercultural conflict styles in the criminal justice system and the implications for intercultural interventions
… disparity was caused in part by differences in cultural conflict and communication styles, and it explored the intersection of power differentials and cultural conflict and communication style differentials.</p> <p>The study employed the Intercultural Conflict Style Inventory, courtroom …
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The academic, linguistic and social development of bilingual pupils in secondary education: issues of diagnosis, pedagogy and culture
… themselves' from their own and their pupils' cultural preferences and through treating alternative forms of representation as different rather than as merely wrong. Such teachers adopt a policy of extending their pupils, cultural-representational repertoires, rather than seeking to replace one …
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Planning for a multi-generational future : policies, regulations, and designs for multi-generational housing in the United States
… the aging population, and immigrant families. Cultural preferences, socio-economic factors, and the increasing availability of kin all contribute to people's decisions to live in multi-generational housing arrangements. However, the current housing landscape is inundated with suburban, …
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HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY IN THE MAKING OF CORPORATE STRATEGY AND STRUCTURE
… institutions for U.S. states to reflect their cultural preferences, which in turn shape corporate leadership structure. A specific historical institutional arrangement in the United States and beyond—i.e., price regulation—persistently influences corporate R&D strategy.
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Gender and metadiscourse in British and Saudi newspaper column writing: male/female and native/non-native differences in language use
… and how they are distributed according to cultural preferences. The corpus consists of 320 opinion columns totaling 273,773 words, selected from four elite newspapers. The columns were searched electronically using concordancing software programs and then all the metadiscourse devices were …
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Evaluating the Burmese Population and their Use of the Women, Infants, and Children Program
… in the WIC program. Language barriers and cultural differences make it more difficult for the WIC program to meet the needs of these families. To what extent is the WIC program meeting their needs? To answer this question, Burmese WIC participants enrolled in the Marion County WIC program …
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Lying: Strategies to Manage Undesirable Communicative Situations in Japan and New Zealand
… Thus, it is worthwhile to conduct a cross-cultural study on this topic. The study aims to find out, by focusing on specific situations involving refusals, what types of lies—or untruthful excuses—people use, how lies are employed between different cultural groups, and how culture influences …
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A CULTURAL BACKLASH ALL OVER EUROPE? INVESTIGATING THE LINK FROM VALUES TO VOTES IN A COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE
… the far right as driven by newly emerged cultural preferences. The argument is made most forcefully by Pippa Norris and Ronald Inglehart in their theory of a "cultural backlash". But upon closer inspection, the argument is not persuasive. Norris and Inglehart's pathway to the renewed …
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Addressing childhood obesity in ethnic minority populations
… the aim of this research was to improve the cultural relevance of the GOALS programme, whilst also contributing to the evidence-base for local and national strategic planning surrounding obesity and ethnicity. Studies set out to explore perceptions surrounding childhood weight, diet and …
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