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Showing 1 to 20 of 133 for “"dominant culture"”.
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Fetishising the Dominant Culture in Migration Narratives: Examining Azar Nafisi’s Reading Lolita in Tehran, Bharati Mukhejree’s Jasmine and Monica Ali’s Brick Lane
… yet fails to challenge the structure of the dominant culture. To sum my argument up, Reading Lolita in Tehran, Jasmine, and Brick Lane do indeed engage with the dominant discourses of migration, yet they are infested with ideological contradictions and political absences. Though empowering …
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Augmenting the agency of marginalised members of society within the semiotic authority of narrative form.
… that underlies the symbols and stories of a dominant culture. This research investigates the effects of the everyday mythologised body of ‘reality’ that arguably manifests itself in situations of symbolic abuse (referring to Barthes’ ideological abuse. Barthes, 1957: 10), and explores the …
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Testing Linguistic Capital: The Reproduction of Culture Through the Standardized Testing of Literacy
… to the cultural and linguistic capital of the dominant class has been restricted from minorities. The restriction of this capital to non-minorities has lessened the chances for minorities to obtain jobs. Based on the theories of Bourdieu, this thesis shows how the ability to transmit complex …
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Compliance-Gaining in Multicultural Groups: an Exploratory Study
… undertaken to discover the relationship between culture and the compliance-gaining process, and to examine how group members interact and adapt their compliance-gaining strategies while in multicultural groups. Data indicated that individuals utilize the compliance-gaining strategies of the …
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Women mid-managers in Nevada community colleges: perceptions of organizational culture and its relationship to advancement
… and preferred dimensions of organizational culture among women mid-managers in Nevada community colleges could be measured, compared, and evaluated to determine how definitions of organizational culture related to women's advancement within those institutions. Participant perceptions of …
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A Study of Organizational Culture in Ontario Colleges with High Student Satisfaction
… measures. The use of organizational culture assessment can assist organizations to understand their current culture and, consequently, to inform strategies for change management. This study examined the perceptions held by administrators at four Ontario colleges with above average …
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East Side Story: Jewish American Writing In New York City, 1898-1934
… categories through their employment of language--dominant, native or social--and their navigation of the urban landscape of the Lower East Side. In spite of their formal and thematic differences, the four writers in this thesis--Abraham Cahan, Anzia Yezierska, Michael Gold and Henry Roth--share an …
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Tomorrow's Women and Yesterday's Men: Junior Novels and Social Change, 1946-1964
… Given these findings, the view of 1950s ""dominant culture"" as uniformly conservative cannot be sustained."
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The Influence of Code-Switching on Black Women Leaders: A Phenomenological Study
… appearance, and mannerisms may suppress their culture and personality. These alterations, known as code-switching, may affect how these leaders are perceived by others and their influence on others. When Black women cannot be authentic, it may affect how they lead and are perceived by others in …
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The evolution of Catholic schools in the diocese of Grand Rapids, Michigan: A case study
… era. The institutional environment reflects the dominant culture and gives the organization legitimacy or the right to exist. The institutional environment consists of elements called pillars, which describe the regulations, norms, values, language, and symbols, as well as affective elements, of …
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The Search for Cultural Identity: An Exploration of the Works of Toni Morrison
… circumstances either by embracing the white dominant culture that surrounds them or by denying it. In this thesis I explore several ways in which the characters do just that-either embrace or deny the white culture's right to dominion over them. This thesis deals primarily with five of Toni …
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Leadership Achievement in Healthcare: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of the Voices and Experiences of Black Women Leaders
… of which continue to be led in a traditional dominant culture leadership hierarchy. White males, the dominant culture in healthcare hierarchy, hold the greatest percentages of health system C-suite and senior vice-president positions. While the majority of the healthcare workforce (direct …
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Mentalized Affectivity and its Role in Acculturative Adjustment and Well-Being
… of identification with either one’s ethnic culture or the dominant culture remains a robust way to capture acculturative adjustment (Chance, 2015). More recently, emotion regulation has emerged as an important construct in understanding wellbeing. Mentalized affectivity (MA) is an …
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Unto The Third & Fourth Generation of African-Americans: Kaleb Norris's Stories of Generational Poverty And Inequality In The South
… and public policies levied against them by the dominant culture. Unto the Third and Fourth Generation of African-Americans is a declaration of reclamation, not only for the voice of my family, but also for all African-Americans. This generational narrative reveals how various educational, …
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Integration or Marginality? The Socialization of Graduate Students
… experiences; (b) if students perceive that the dominant culture in their department is not congruent with their own beliefs and values, they might resist complete socialization into the culture and thus be less likely to feel integrated or connected to their department; and (c) students who are …
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“All Men Are Created Equal?”: Insights and Implications of Intersectional Precarious Manhood
<p>Manhood that is characterized in terms of dominant culture in the United States includes strength, power, status, affluence, and occupational success (Vandello et al., 2008). However, men who are not members of dominant culture, such as Black men in the United States, often are excluded from …
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Navigating Barriers of African American Male Administrators: Manifesting Mechanisms for Career Advancement in Mainstream Institutions of Higher Education
… of these barriers shows how individuals of the dominant culture at mainstream institutions attempt to silence voices while perpetuating the non-existence of African American male administrators in the hierarchy of higher education administration. Five themes of specific coping mechanisms were …
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Chicana /O Murals of California: Indigenist Aesthetics and the Politics of Space, 1970--2000
By depicting images of indigenous culture and history from the Americas, these artists embraced an aesthetic that rewrote their place in U.S. history and society. Indigenism, as an ideology and aesthetic, emerged during the early decades of the twentieth century in various parts of Latin America, …
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Virgil Ortiz: American Indian Artist, Representational Trickster, and Identity Shapeshifter
… vernacular discourse produced by Ortiz and the dominant discourse constructed by the dominant culture. Sorrells (1999) theoretical and methodological approach to reading intercultural imagery is also applied to conduct a visual analysis of Ortiz’s art. To contextually frame an understanding of …
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The Narratives of Ann Lee as a Core Component of Shaker Theological Evolution
… how the changing narratives reflect the changing culture of Shakerism. As a result of being both a progressive and a communal religious society, the Shakers faced the dilemma of maintaining their religious core while maintaining a progressive stance that was consistent with the dominant culture …
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