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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"cultural stereotypes"”.
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Cultural Stereotypes: From Dracula's Myth to Contemporary Diasporic Productions
… which belongs to the pluralist practice of cultural studies, and aims at investigating a remarkable phenomenon of identity-shaping and cross-cultural exchange. Starting from an analysis of Dracula as the epitomized image of the Balkans (and of Romania, more specifically) abroad, this paper …
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Expertise Recognition in Multi-Cultural Groups
… results from the two studies revealed that (a) cultural stereotypes negatively affect expertise recognition, task assignments, and socio-emotional experiences, when the cultural stereotypes are not consistent with group members' actual knowledge, (b) accurate recognition of group members' …
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Challenging attitudes towards people with impairment within the UK and Chilean workplace
… Therefore, this study attempts to cross-culturally examine how people’s judgements towards people with disabilities impact on stigmatising people with disabilities within the UK and Chilean workplace. As a result, using a two sequential mix method design, the first instance, a qualitative …
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The stereotype caravan: Assessment of stereotypes and ideology levels used to portray Gypsies in two European feature films
… level of society through a long list of negative stereotypes and active discrimination. Up to the end of the twentieth century, cinematography tended to portray Gypsies as an exotic element in romantic settings, avoiding social and political issues like poverty, discrimination and marginalization. …
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From Typologies to Portraits: Catherine Opie's Photographic Manipulations of Physiognomic Imagery
… the constraining binary gender discourse and stereotypes that emanate from it. In her art Opie uses familiar codes and identity discourses associated with traditional portrait photography and typological photographs to promote a postmodern and fluid model of gender identity. Her manipulation …
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Images as tools of social control: an analysis of the production of identities in contemporary mass-culture
… entrenching commodity-fetishism and systems of stereotypes which play a vital role in determining social norms. These "stereotypes" are continually being adapted in order to facilitate the illusion of being new, relevant and fashionable. At the same time this process encourages an insatiable …
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Everyone deserves great design: Design towards the 100%
… based on traditional geographic, economic, or cultural stereotypes. It is argued that it is possible to intentionally create great designs for everyone by using the following four principles: 1. Simultaneously Embrace Desires & Constraints Create a solution that embraces and satisfies …
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Translational Architecture
… and geography. The challenge is how to design a cultural-specific building without it becoming a World's Fair pavilion or a cultural cliché. World's Fair pavilions often represent just a moment within a nation's ongoing architectural discourse, as is fitting for their temporary status. Some …
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The representation of Asian Americans in children's literature : a content analysis of Texas reading basals.
… analyzed according to genre for authenticity and stereotypes. In addition, the lesson plans provided by the publishers were analyzed for integration of multicultural content. The findings indicated that efforts had been made to include more Asian American characters in the third and fifth grade …
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Explaining Combat Related Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: An Integrated Mental Illness and Military Process Model
… the development of PTSD may occur due to cultural, social, and self-related pathways associated with veterans’ dual encounters with combat (i.e., severity) and mental illness symptoms. Participants were 195 military veterans recruited from multiple sites and strategies to maximize sample …
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Successful ways of managing schools : a story of a woman principal
… discrimination resulting from societal and cultural stereotypes. This study aims to tell the story of a woman principal who battled social, patriarchal and institutional odds and still succeeded as a leader. The findings reveal that the principal relied on her womanly attributes of caring, …
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The schooling experiences of minority ethnic students in Northern Ireland
… a notable proportion experiencing religious and cultural hostility and racism. The findings show how many of the minority ethnic students are quite comfortable with their multiple and multifaceted identities and that often, despite the damaging experiences of racism, they are able to work …
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Stereotypes about Healthcare Professionals, Emotions, and Mammography Compliance
… [2; 3], which may result in less favorable cultural stereotypes about healthcare professionals and more negative emotional reactions. Guided by Betancourt’s Integrative Model of Culture, Psychological Processes, and Health Behavior [4] and the Stereotype Content Model [5], the aim of the …
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Gender inequalities in manufacturing : a case study of food-processing and the textiles and garment industries in Ghana
… are intertwined with wider socio-demographic, cultural, economic, and legal elements. However, within this complex set of factors, employers' preference and taste for discrimination is arguments concerned with the issue most central to gender inequality in these industries. These preferences …
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Lived Experiences: An Examination of Older Adults' Late-stage, Life-span Ecological Transition from a Home Residence to an Assisted Living Facility
… transitioning process, as, it seems, do Western cultural values on individualism. The findings illuminated environmental concerns about social disconnectedness and a lack of challenging and meaningful activities within assisted living communities that have the potential to act as barriers to AL …
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Culture Teaching and Learning in an Advanced Placement Chinese Course
… paid to how Chinese language learners approach cultural issues and develop cultural awareness in the language teaching context of American secondary education. In order to address the research gap, the present study aims to explore how the teaching and learning of culture develop in an Advanced …
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Investigating the status quo regarding women and political participation in Kitwe district of Zambia.
… limited financial resources as well as socio-cultural stereotypes acted as blockades for women penetration in mainstream politics of Kitwe district. On strategies employed, the findings revealed that, lobbying for men support, championing the 50/50 threshold representation in parliament and …
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Framing Eve in "Paradise Lost"
… Readers, however, tend to accept inherited cultural stereotypes and ideological constructs of Eve as a temptress because those stereotype visual and verbal constructs feed what readers have always "known." Chapter One, "Eve in Art", describes and analyzes selected features of the …
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Mythologizing the transition : a comparative study of Bahram Beyzaee and Wolfe Soyinka
… comments on human life and socio-political and cultural institutions. This research study examines the major themes and dramatic techniques of these two writers to demonstrate how, in two very different cultural settings, traditional modes and themes appear in modem art forms to renegotiate …
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Phenomenology in the works of Robbe-Grillet
… Robbe-Grillet's formal strategies of challenging cultural expectations, result in a "making strange" of perceptual experience, with repercussions for the subversion of conventional fictional and filmic narratives. Subsequent chapters explore further consequences of the reduction, beginning in …
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