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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"doxa"”.
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Replicating a habitus: transplanting capital, habitus and doxa in a school start-up
… on Pierre Bourdieu’s concepts of habitus, doxa, capital and field, this case study examines how the institutional habitus of the established school, its capitals, and its position in the field of education have impacted the establishment of the new school. The study draws on data gathered …
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Realignments of Doxa in U.S. American Politics: Tracing the Rhetorical Histories of Franklin Roosevelt, Ronald Reagan, and Barack Obama
… perspective. Specifically, I use the lens of doxa to rhetorically explore how basic assumptions regarding the role of government shift over time, and how crisis narratives are used to usher in these doxastic transformations. I explore the elections of Franklin Roosevelt, Ronald Reagan, and …
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Simplicius as a source for and an interpreter of Parmenides
… of Parmenides; (IV) The Aletheia; (V) The Doxa; (VI) Parmenides's Argument for the Unity of Being; (VII) Plato on Parmenides; (VIII) Aristotle on Parmenides; (IX) Others on Parmenides. Each section contains a summary; for I-V commentary is provided. The verses of Parmenides quoted by …
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The race to the top: the experiences and strategies of women of colour in UK academia
… explores the extent to which neo-liberalism as a doxa has impacted the career progression of academic women of colour. It investigates the extent to which racialised experience and White privilege, and early life experience impact women of colour’s career progression, and investigates the …
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Identity in the Dark Age. A Biocultural Analysis of Early Medieval Scotland
… to early mediaeval Scottish studies. Common doxa still permeates the discipline despite the lack of critical assessment. Doxa tends to separate the early mediaeval Scottish world into the circumscribed categories of Norse (or ‘Viking’) and native, Christian and pagan. These commonly accepted …
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An exploration of familiness through a Bourdieusian mixed methods study of innovation in SME manufacturing firms in the United Kingdom
… are. Bourdieu’s theoretical concepts of doxa, fields and habitus have been applied separately to multiple social settings, but this study is the first to apply these powerful concepts in conjunction to explain familiness. Innovation activities have been selected as the most appropriate …
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“Tension, Frustration and Compromise in the Field” An Exploratory Study of the Habitus of Educational Technologists
… using Bourdieu’s constructs of capital, habitus, doxa and hysteresis. The explorations and explanations afforded by these constructs are the foundations on which the final arguments and conclusions are based, including a call for an alternative doxa that will redefine the role of an educational …
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Kinetic Demonstrations
… It attempts to clear away superimposed doxa from architecture, making space for a demonstration of epistemic constructs. These projections of the ideal carry with them the basic autonomy of form. The demonstrations are a search for what is true in architecture. The purest form of …
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Les capacités philosophiques des enfants: Enquête interdisciplinaire sur l'habileté des enfants à pratiquer la philosophie
… : L'enfant est-il capable de philosopher ? La doxa répond par la négative. En effet, l'enfance a longtemps été assimilée à l'immaturité intellectuelle. Selon les travaux de Jean Piaget qui continuent d'orienter de nombreuses pratiques pédagogiques actuelles, la philosophie, nécessitant le …
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Learning Through Engaging in Women in Trades Introductory Programs
… social idea or, in Bourdieu’s terms, doxa, that women do not, and cannot, embody a skilled trades vocational habitus, their stories also indicate that the emotions elicited by their experiences in the program, many of which were negative, helped them learn a great deal about …
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Precarious Privilege: Exploring the Intersection of White Teacher Habitus and Social Justice in International Schools
… supremacy as a key force shaping the field’s doxa. The study found that DEIJ discourse energized a reactive orthodoxy that obstructed DEIJ initiatives—introducing to the field a new antagonistic dialectic between reformers and guardians of the status quo. Experiences with hysteresis among …
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Pop culture’s influence on mythological monsters as seen in children and young adult’s films
… The fourth chapter discusses the notions of the ‘doxa’/’paradoxa’, the ‘bricoleur’ and ‘iconophobia’/‘logophilia’ in relation to the monsters in the adaptations. This dissertation ultimately suggests that there have been some drastic changes made to the classical ancient Greek mythological …
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How The Expectations of Masculinity Affect Young Men In Sport And Physical Activity
… forms of capital and concepts such as habitus, doxa and field. By interviewing 22 men aged between 18-25 and analysing their experiences using Bourdieusian theory, masculinity theory and narrative analysis. Using narrative analysis four groups were constructed: ‘Laddish Masculinities’, …
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UK newspapers' reflection of inequity in higher education: a study using critical discourse analysis
… his concepts of habitus, capital, field and doxa, this study examined how, as demonstrated in newspaper coverage about HE, agents in the field of journalism responded to the proposed changes, and how they represented HE in the UK. The first main research question was: how does newspaper …
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Class, gender and habitus : a ‘Bourdieuian’ perspective of social reproduction and change in the contemporary sports field with a focus on adventure climbing
… are most likely and able to challenge doxa.<br/><br/>In the modern climbing context, women, particularly from the middle classes, are becoming empowered through the transformation of their bodies and the construction of often complex and contradictory identities. These women are placed …
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Influence of school senior leaders on teacher professional development: a comparative case study of four schools in Cape Town
… concepts of field, habitus, capital, and doxa to conceptualise and describe the relationships between the various players and the ways in which these relationships affect teacher professional development practices and school PLC culture in the participating schools. Findings from this …
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A Relational Analysis of the Writing Cafe: Social Learning, Participant Experiences and Tensions in Higher Education
… and agendas. This research evidences the doxa of students in deficit in relation to their linguistic and academic capital is strong and the institutional habitus positions students to seek support. At times, students embody this through their habitus. The thesis critically reflects on the …
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The logic of practice - understanding the Chinese newly rich consumers' status consumption in luxury fashion clothes.
… concepts; cultural capital, habitus, and fields (Doxa and Illusio), have been discussed with respect to Chinese social conditions. Using luxury fashion as a potent example of conspicuous consumption, a qualitative study has been conducted among ten carefully selected Chinese newly rich consumers …
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Market solutions to the low-income housing challenge – a case study of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
… magnitude of the housing challenge, a neoliberal doxa in a developing country context as a solution is a fallacy. Working on the broad premise that these developments represent a successful adaptation to the structural environment, the main question guiding the study was - what accounts for the …
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