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Showing 1 to 20 of 55 for “"ideal type"”.
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Interaction with rule-bound systems : introducing a new 'ideal type' problem context
This PhD thesis introduces a new ideal-type problem context of rule-bound systems. The thesis has been generated through a belief in the ability of metaphor to make the abstract visible, its capacity to make the unfamiliar familiar, and its effectiveness as a legitimate means of generating insight …
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Developing a Practical Ideal Type Gentrification Effects Mitigation Program: A Study of Austin, Texas
… of this research is to develop a practical ideal type gentrification effects mitigation program and gauge its effectiveness in Austin, Texas. Austin is experiencing tremendous growth levels and a resurgence of residents making the choice to move to inner city neighborhoods that have …
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An examination of the effectiveness of work-site health promotion programs: an "ideal" type approach
… empirically examines the relationship between an ideal health promotion program profile and those actually in existence in the workplace. It is argued that those firms with health promotion programs most clearly matching the ideal profile will perform better than those firms with programs that do …
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I want to look like that : the role of ideal-type media in disordered eating behaviours
The relationship between media exposure and disordered eating disordered behaviours is not without complexity and contestation in the existing literature. Much knowledge of this relationship in a sample of South African university students, who could be expected to have reasonably high levels of …
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Vermont-Québec Police Agency Cooperation: A Case Study
… research project is to develop a practical ideal type model of cross-border police agency cooperation and to gauge Vermont-Québec police agency cooperation against this practical ideal type standard. Cross-border police agencies are faced with two main problems: 1) the existence of barriers …
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The Design Dimensions of the Just Organization: An Empirical Test of the Relation Between Organization Design and Corporate Social Performance
… consistent with the general model, an ideal type of just organization is developed. The primary hypothesis is that the more an organization emulates the ideal type of the just organization, the better its social performance will be as measured by higher CSP ratings. The degree of …
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Problem solving and The Idea Machine
… techniques are compared and contrasted and an ideal type is developed. The Idea Machine (TIM) is introduced and the six major steps involved with the technique are described. Results of using TIM in conjunction with three projects are presented. Improvements in TI:M sessions are described and …
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Parents as consumer-citizens: an investigation into parent governors
… Each model is associated with different types of consumer activity (see below). Building on this, an alternative concept of the consumer-citizen and its constituent dimensions is proposed as an ideal type. The thesis then explores how far a particular group of parents - parent governors - …
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Can Arabs Represent America? The Performativity of U.S-Arab Mediated Public Diplomacy
… communicators, a Max Weber conceptualization of ideal type, an ideal type mediated public diplomacy was constructed that took into consideration micro and macro conditions that secure successful mediation. Built into this ideal type is the conceptualization of performativity of both the sender …
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Exploring State Childhood Immunization Practices
… The model approach is referred to as a practical ideal type. The second purpose of this applied research project is to compare the model approach of state immunization policies to the current childhood immunization infrastructure in Texas. The third purpose is to make recommendations for Texas …
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Populists in power: A comparative analysis of the impact of populism on the foreign policy of Italy, Austria, and Hungary
… definition of populism, the thesis elaborates an ideal-type process connecting populism to foreign policy. The impact of populists in power on national foreign policy is felt through three dimensions: concentration of power in populist’s hands; change of the bureaucratic apparatus; politicisation …
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The professionalisation of teaching in higher education in the UK: perceptions and understandings
… crystallized as a model for the “logic” of an ideal-type individual professional, consistent with Freidson’s (2001) “third logic” of collective professionalism. In stage three, key outcomes were critically evaluated in a free-text questionnaire to norm circles of teaching academics, experienced …
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An investigation into the constitution of absolute value inequalities by Grade 12 students in a selection of Western Cape State schools as displayed in students' solutions to a baseline test problem
… 1967; 1999) as well as Weber's (1964) theory of ideal type categories to organize students' solutions into ideal type categories through comparative analysis. The methodology also draws from Bernstein's (1996) notion of the pedagogic device and in particular his evaluative rule and …
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An Assessment of Employee Handbooks of Large, Mid-sized, and Small Texas State Agencies
… the available literature and establish an "ideal type" for the information that should be contained in an employee handbook. The second purpose is to assess both quantitatively and qualitatively the information contained in a sample of Texas state agency employee handbooks. Third, is to make …
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An investigation into the forecasting of skills in nuclear decommissioning
… review was used to construct a practical-ideal type, an approach derived from classical pragmatism offering a version of a nearly ideal process, on the understanding that this is socially constructed and subject to continual change. Existing practice is evaluated against this …
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The role of venture capital financing to SME development in Namibia
… capital as a source of finance serves as an ideal type of instrument for the development of SMEs internationally. The study assessed the importance of venture capital financing in the context of the SMEs in Namibia, specifically focusing on addressing the problem of lack of much needed …
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Student Learning Assessment in the Social Sciences: Establishing A National Baseline for Criminal Justice Programs
… of 30 questions that are aligned with the "ideal type" of learning assessment model where a set of learning objectives are developed, assessment instruments are created and implemented, data are regularly collected and analyzed, and changes are made to improve the curriculum/instruction.The …
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Occupational mobility in Australia : a career and generational study based on birth and marriage records of New South Wales
… polar forms of social organisation. As an ideal type, the caste system consists of social aggregates in a fixed order of social superiority. Each caste has its own traditional rights and duties, including occupations, and each caste is self-recruiting . Such a system is workable only in a …
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Occupational mobility in Australia : a career and generational study based on birth and marriage records of New South Wales
… polar forms of social organisation. As an ideal type, the caste system consists of social aggregates in a fixed order of social superiority. Each caste has its own traditional rights and duties, including occupations, and each caste is self-recruiting . Such a system is workable only in a …
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A Taxonomy of Rules: Authority, Dangers, and Possibilities
… thesis names and explores different functional types of rules: safety, personal, socio-cultural, legal-religious, and technical. Rules in general are discussed from social and ethical theoretical viewpoints and using ideal type methodology. Understanding that there are different types of rules …
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