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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"deviancy"”.
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Queer: The Creation of Power Structures within Deviancy
Queer theory has a fundamental flaw: queer. This thesis seeks to explore the fractured usages, meanings, and scopes of the term queer to uncover the power structures that have been created within and around the term. Specifically, this thesis analyzes the ways in which academic queer theorists, the …
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Deviancy, Sexuality and the Psy-Disciplines at the University of Toronto
… pedagogy enabled theorization about sexual deviancy to pass as self-evident knowledge in postwar Canada. By integrating psychological, psychiatric and psychoanalytical textbooks into several programs after the Second World War, the University of Toronto became a unique source of local …
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Contextualising deviancy: a regional approach to decapitated inhumation in late Roman Britain
The focus of the thesis is the poorly-understood rite of decapitated inhumation which was practiced predominantly in the 3rd and 4th centuries AD in Britain. Previous studies have often involved the accumulation of data on decapitated inhumations themselves and cross analysis of examples. …
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Understanding the pathways for pre-adolescent girls to social deviancy and possible early substance use initiation
While there has been significant progress in the epidemiology of drug use over the past several years, antecedents of early substance use initiation, particularly for girls, are still not well understood. One pathway to early substance initiation among girls may be reduced capacity to regulate …
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Deviancy and Disorder – The Visual Legacy of the Hottentot Venus in the Novels of Toni Morrison
Sarah Bartmann came to Europe in 1808 as one of the thousands of people exhibited and transformed into medical spectacles during the course of the nineteenth century. My thesis explores the historical roots and intersecting perspectives surrounding this charged icon and her transformation into the …
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The Social Construction of Addiction and Sexual Deviancy: A Comparative Analysis of the Experts in Policy Debate
Sexual deviancy and addiction are two concepts that have undergone considerable development in the way in which they are constructed. Since the 1800s both concepts have come to the attention of the medical field, psychological field and the criminal justice system which have made numerous attempts …
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Patterns of adolescent alcohol use: a study of the Reconnecting Youth In Iowa prevention program
… family SES comparison, positive parenting, peer deviancy, and friend influence were studied to help understand how they influenced alcohol use patterns. Treatment positively impacted peer influence to not use alcohol/drugs while peer deviancy and negative parental influence were correlated with …
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The Complexity of Royalty: An Exploration into Gender Transgressions and Sexual Deviancy in the Reign of Edward II and the Link Between Gender and Sexuality in Medieval Society.
Current historical research regarding both gender and sexuality has been notably biased and lacking. Appropriate research is currently absent regarding both the nature of transgressive individuals, those not acting in accordance with their assigned gender roles, as well as those engaging in …
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Relations Among Phonologic and Semantic/syntactic Development Factors in Preschool Children
… between expressive syntax and phonological deviancy. The second was to explore the relation between receptive syntax and phonology. The third was to determine if the size of the receptive vocabulary was related to phonological deficiency.
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The savages : a novel.
… erratic behavior: doomsday stockpiling, sexual deviancy, strange obsessions. As each member struggles to keep their behavior a secret, cracks begin to form on the façade of both the church members and Hyde Park Baptist Church itself. Eventually, Pastor Tom must decide what action to take to …
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Structure of Aggression among Urban Youth: Competing Factor Models of Subtypes of Physical and Relational Aggression
… and hypothesized correlates, including peer deviancy, delinquency, drug use, and social intelligence. Further, this study assessed both the factor structures and unique relations among aggression and its correlates separately for boys and girls, and identified unique structure and relations …
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Lancashire and the exclusion crisis
… the reaction of the authorities to religious deviancy between 1678 to 1681 which is examined in Chapter Four. 5hapter Five examines the impact of the question of the Succession upon the political community. The final chapter attempts to analyse the problem of "Lancashire and the Exclusion …
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The whores left behind: Black sex workers’ college navigation & loneliness
… investigate the discourses about Black girlhood, deviancy, and respectability that are found within Black RSOs which aim to give Black college students a sense of belonging on Black Exclusionary Institutions (BEIs) of Predominantly White Institutions (PWIs) and contribute positively to their …
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Exploring narratives of exclusion from school: how adolescent boys and educationalists negotiate schooling, family and gendered discourses
… thesis explores constructions of masculinity, deviancy and educational failure through an examination of policy and the discursive accounts provided by teenage boys, all of whom had been excluded from school, and educational practitioners working with such boys. This topic is of interest …
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Re(born) this way
… and transgender lives, discussions of plain deviancy in the media have been replaced with newer medically-constructed and gender binary-reinforcing regulations on what constitutes transgender experiences.</p>
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Irish disability: Postcolonial narratives of stunted development
… mental disability with moral and intellectual deviancy and corruption. The proliferation of physical impairment, spiritual frustration, and social unrest displayed in modern Irish literature critiques the nationalist banner that promised a cure for Irish cultural and political imprisonment. I …
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Worn Lines: Healing Through the Marked Body
… on women, continue to carry stigmas linked to deviancy and non-conformity. Through the lens of corporeal feminism, this exhibition reframes tattoos as acts of reparative care and bodily autonomy. Tattoos are not passive markings but intentional acts of self-determination, challenging harmful …
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Adolescent sexual abusers: the prediction of sexual recidivism
… information and significant differences in deviancy can be detected. Overall, results were drawn together to advocate for the study of separate types of adolescent sexual abusers in the assessment of risk of sexual recidivism.
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'Social exclusion' and resistance: a study of gypsies and the non-governmental sector in Bulgaria 1989-1997
… by 'isolation', 'backwardness' and/or 'deviancy'. The thesis argues therefore that social exclusion must be problematised and interrogated to a greater extent, both as a concept and as a generic tool for policy making. This is important in order that we do not lose sight of the …
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Sexual bullying: gender conflict in pupil culture
… concentration on psychologistical variables of deviancy within individual children at the expense of political and cultural factors. An attempt is made by this study to reproblematise the current theories on bullying in schools, and reconceptualise the phenomena of bullying in terms of gender …
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