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Showing 1 to 20 of 21958 for “"culture"”.
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Does culture affect form: creating architecture and community through culture
America's diverse cultures influence how space is used and designed. Suburban American planning fails to address Latino needs for social as well as private spatialpatterns. This project poses the question: How do cultural influences affect form? Can they be applied at both the urban and building …
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International students: Culture shock and adaptation to the U.S. culture
… to a new environment, often accompanied by a culture shock experience.</p> <p>This study analyzes to what degree cultural background, gender differences, language proficiency, self-confidence/self-efficacy, and social support networks impact the adjustment process of international students to …
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Discovering Epic, Constructing Culture: Culture-Politics on China’s Western Frontier
… as cultural product into the representative ‘culture’ of Mongol dominated Hoboksar County—but ‘culture’ understood within the narrow officialized discourses of Chinese culture-politics and policy. This dissertation engages ‘anthropology of policy’, arguing that ‘policy’ and authoritative …
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Engineering culture : culture and control in a high-tech organization
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1987.
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Culture and International Usability Testing:The Effects of Culture in Interviews
… have different life styles, belong to different cultures and have different perceptions and expectations of the same product. A truly global product must inherently accommodate this diversity in order to be effective and successful. A major impediment is that there is very inadequate …
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Towards Cannabis Culture
America is witnessing a paradigm shift - what was once a schedule I controlled substance is now legally purchased by many in small plastic bags from dispensaries that are disconnected from the natural and human factors of cannabis. But while the economic and medical benefits of cannabis are already …
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Leadership and Culture
… Strauss (1967). The critical properties of both culture and leadership are identified, revealing an isomorphic congruence between the properties of both categories. A comparative analysis between the properties of culture and leadership reveals the coterminous relationship between the two, …
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Culture-driven innovation
… theory and practice. This work cares about culture in a broader matter as a source for innovation. It investigates the requirements and fundamentals for "culture-driven innovation" by studying where and how to unlock cultural sources. The research questions are the following: What are …
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Subcultures creating culture
… to apply the methods of textual semiotics to subcultures, in particular to the little known glam subculture. Subcultures have been the main research field of the Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, known for its interdisciplinary approach, and for its focus on the creative …
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Culture of Obesity
This dissertation sought to critically analyze the university environment by examining how the representation practices of corporations articulate with the growing obesity epidemic. For this study, existing data from one southeastern university was collected to describe the articulation between the …
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Heart of culture
If the urban landscape is the body politic made inertly manifest, then cultural and civil space acts as the heart. Cultural space allows for the societal corpus to gaze into itself. Cultural space however is commonly made to act as gilded cages -held aloft within ivory towers- with a negation of …
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Culture and E-Commerce: Culture Based Preferences for Interface Information Design
… globally, 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 …
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Effective global teams : impact of organizational culture change and national culture differences
… discussion of the concept of organizational culture change and the impact of national culture differences in working globally dispersed. The automotive team that is the basis for this study is successful in the marketplace but sometimes faces conflicts working with the Headquarter and other …
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Culture on a Plate: The Social Construction of Authenticity in Food Culture
… to show how authenticity is fabricated in food culture. Conceptualizing food as a cultural product makes possible the analysis of social processes through food. In doing so, food becomes a mirror reflecting the happenings within the broader social world. This study examines three empirical cases …
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Political culture in Italy
This project is an attempt to define both culture and political culture, and thus enable Italian subcultures to be identified. The paper discusses the "meaning" of political subcultures regarding the levels and styles of political participation in Italy_ It does so primarily from a sociohistorical …
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Communicating Culture Through Capoeira
… representative of Brazilian history and culture. In 1974, capoeira was declared the national sport of Brazil. Today capoeira academies and competitions may be found wherever Brazilian culture is celebrated and communicated in many major foreign cities. My thesis, through the …
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