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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"family rituals"”.
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Consumer Pride and Consumption-Based Family Rituals: A Field Study in Zagreb, Croatia
… Ritual Chain (2004), elements of sustained rituals such as Sunday family dinner reinforce expression of emotion and the status of symbolic goods. Thus, this dissertation investigates how consumption-based family rituals elicit pride. It takes an ethnographic approach, using long interviews …
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Family Rituals and Resilience: Relationship Among Measures of Religiosity, Openness to Experience, and Trait Anxiety
Rituals are an integral part of society. The focus of research on rituals has been shifting to highlight the effect rituals may produce on individual resilience and ability to function. This study examined the relationships between participation in family rituals and several conceptually related …
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Influences of stress, individual and family processes on rural low-income children’s internalizing and externalizing behaviors
… the stress processes at the individual and family levels have been predominantly dyadic in focus. Given family members are interdependent, it is interesting to explore whether family variables of particular interest on the family process as a whole can help explain the stress process. Guided …
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Elements of folklore in “House of Houses” by Pat Mora
Growing up in an immigrant family in America is a challenge for individuals, for they face the dilemma of abandoning their cultural identity through assimilation into the mainstream Anglo-American culture. Pat Mora, a Mexican-American writer, in her memoir House of Houses develops the theme of the …
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Generativity in the Lives of Non-Metropolitan Lesbians and Gay Men
… generative action in narrative data about family rituals using grounded theory methods. Participants were a sample of lesbians and gay men (N = 49) from non-metropolitan counties of central and southern Illinois who agreed to be interviewed in-depth. The quantitative study was conducted …
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Polka Dancing and Poppyseed Kolache: How Czech Families View Their Ethnic Identity
… role in the lives of European Americans. The family system is a vehicle that reinforces and transmits our beliefs, values, and behaviors, which are influenced by our ethnicity. Two ways in which family members communicate their meaning of ethnicity is through stories and rituals; thus, the …