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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"group boundaries"”.
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Justice Across Group Boundaries: Extending Empathy-Motivated Helping to Out-Groups
… effort to extend helping behaviors to out-groups. The literatures on social justice, prosocial behavior, and group stereotypes are reviewed. An experimental study manipulated empathic concern for an out-group by varying the perspective through which participants interpret an experience that …
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You don't see what I see : multiple publics and public policy in a Los Angeles gang war
… relevance across situations. Publics represent groups based on the shared salience of identity group boundaries in a particular situation. Each public shares a unique interpretive lens through which they read events, actions and information. The composition and constellation of publics can …
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"Who are ""we""?: Social relationships and peer interactions in a multilingual/multicultural preschool classroom"
… how do children organize themselves into groups given the boundaries of language and culture; how do children interact with each other across the group boundaries; and how is the construction and the operation of the peer world influenced by the routines and rules planned by the adults? …
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Work groups and the physical environment: The combined influence of environmental stimuli and task complexity on group process and effectiveness criteria
… study examined how the environmental support of group boundaries influences group behavior by regulating two forms of environmental stimuli (i.e., acoustical and visual stimuli). Competing hypotheses developed from two theoretical frameworks (i.e., the environmental stimulation and absorption …
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Reforming Tastes: Taste as a Print Aesthetic in American Cookery Writing
… these writers could both define and abstract group boundaries. As American writers worked to distinguish their nation from their British forebears, many recognized the utility of taste-based discourse and worked to develop cultural tastes around shared principles of egalitarianism and …
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Universalism and the theology of Paul
… and concludes with a sociological study of group boundaries. These terms portend annihilation or hell because they contain no sense of eschatological reformation. Group boundaries confirm the exclusive nature of Pauline belief that there exist two classes of people, insiders who look forward …
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Language Models as Mirrors and Bridges for Intergroup Communication
… models (LLMs) can serve dual roles in intergroup communication: as mirrors that reflect intergroup differences, and as bridges that facilitate communication across group boundaries. Intergroup communication refers to interactions between individuals from different social groups, such as …
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A FURTHER EXAMINATION OF THE INTERGROUP SENSITIVITY EFFECT: THE MODERATING ROLE OF SOCIAL EXCLUSION, POWER, AND CATEGORY DIFFERENTIATION
… demonstrated that people are more receptive to group-directed criticism made by an ingroup member as compared to the same criticism made by an outgroup member – the intergroup sensitivity effect (ISE). Employing a minimal group paradigm, the present research examined motivational factors (social …
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Authentic bodies : subcultural reactions to the mainstreaming of body modification
… I hope to further the understanding of how group boundaries are actively (re)defined‒‒ particularly within an internet context. I also discuss the role of style and non-body modification related phenomena in the subculture's efforts to remain a distinct group."--From abstract.
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This Land is (not) Your Land: Racial Boundaries and American Appropriation in the Formation of Attitudes about Immigrants
… have detailed when racial and national identity boundaries act in concert to promote prejudice toward immigrants. The current work positions “American-ness” (i.e. what is means to be an American) as a potentially racialized concept that may elicit racial in-group boundaries when assessing …
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Discourses of whiteness informing the identity of white English-speaking South Africans
… comparatively little has been written about the group known as white English-speaking South Africans, or WESSAs. This is partly because of the lack of collective sentiment shared by people categorised as WESSAs, partly because the group boundaries are not clear-cut, and partly because on the …
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Adaptive multigroup radiation diffusion
… increasing the accuracy and reliability of multigroup radiation diffusion simulations at low group counts. This is achieved by allowing the energy group boundaries to move in energy space as the simulation evolves. This adaption in energy space effectively removes the sensitivity of multigroup …
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Working in partnership to develop and implement an oral health promotion programme
… three themes. The meta-theme refers to ‘intra-group relationships and inter-group boundaries’. Intra-group relationships refer to the relations within the policymaker group or implementer group. The inter-group boundaries refer to divisions between the two groups that meant people within each …
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There's a Place for Us: How Ethnic Identities Are Revealed in Ethnic-Specific Organizations
… that occurs in two organizations reveals</p> <p>group boundaries.</p> <p>My data and analysis support three major findings. First, I find</p> <p>that the identities that emerge from this kind of organizational work are transactional identities. Transactional identities are identities that are …
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Legislating Effective Equality: Implicit Biases and Antidiscrimination Policies
… biases are unconscious associations between a group and a given attribute. Thus, individuals may have no conscious prejudice and even openly disclaim bigotry, but nonetheless harbor subconscious biases that subtly shape their behaviors across many domains including hiring and promotion …
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A Diachronic and Areal Perspective on Subordination in Syriac and North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic
… the use of punctuation dots and intonation group boundaries; and the development of grammatical markers. Chapters three to seven contain a series of case studies of five closely related subordinate constructions: complement clauses, causative constructions, purpose clauses, serial-like …
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Resonance treatment using the Discrete Generalized Multigroup method
… are desired. Continuous energy or ultrafine multigroup nuclear data allows this high fidelity to be achieved but is associated with a high computational expense. This thesis proposes that the Discrete Generalized Multigroup (DGM) method is a possible means of approximating the high fidelity …
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How The Public Perception Of Political Polarization Affects American Social Life
… and cross-cutting contact (interactions across group boundaries). They serve as a social glue that binds people together, as both elements foster positive and tolerant attitudes toward those outside one’s small circle and promote a sense of togetherness among members of society. Is the public …
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Effects of Minimal Group Identity on Processing of Evaluative Information
… of this study was to assess whether minimal group identity, as established through a minimal group paradigm, could influence processing of evaluative information. Minimal group identity was measured through a series of trait scales on which subjects were asked to rate own group and out group …
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Factors in the persistence or decline of ethnic group mobilisation: a conceptual review and case study of cultural group responses among Afrikaners in post-apartheid South Africa
… the period of apartheid rule, ambivalence on group boundaries, the usurpation of cultural identity by race, and a breakdown of internal coordination processes which ethnic mobilisation appears to require. At the same time a core of ethnic commitment, substantially independent of its material …
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