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Showing 1 to 20 of 40 for “"institutional power"”.
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Resistance to institutional power : positionality, modality, and the statement
… analyses and micro-dynamic analyses of power, discourse, and the subject. The vehicle for application is conflict over privacy rights, and the proposed bridge between the two levels of analysis is the grammatical-pragmatic relation of modality and positionality. This investigation thus …
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Proximal Influence vs. Institutional Power: An Empirical Study of Podcasts, Trust and Public Opinion
… on proximal interpersonal influence rather than institutional power. This study contributes to commercial and scholarly knowledge by reimagining discourse around media trust and providing an empirically supported framework, the Host-Listener Trust Model, for understanding mediated audience …
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Possibilities for Making Institutional Change: An Institutional Critique of Diversity Discourse at a Predominantly White Institution
… how diversity discourse inscribes oppressive institutional structures (slavery, racism, and whiteness), specifically, institutional power, and offer possibilities for making sustainable change. This dissertation is an institutional critique (Porter et al. 2000) that includes Black women's …
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ΘΕΩΡΙΕΣ ΜΑΖΙΚΗΣ ΕΠΙΚΟΙΝΩΝΙΑΣ. ΝΟΜΙΚΗ-ΚΟΙΝΩΝΙΚΗ ΚΑΙ ΠΟΛΙΤΙΣΤΙΚΗ ΛΕΙΤΟΥΡΓΙΑ ΣΤΗ ΔΗΜΟΣΙΑ ΣΦΑΙΡΑ
… OF MASS COMMUNICATION WITH MEDIA SPECTACLE AND INSTITUTIONAL POWER IN PUBLIC SPHERE.
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Legislative ethics regulation in the American states : explaining conflict of interest legislation, 1954-1996
… on ethics proposals: economic self-interest, institutional power, and ideology. Despite these reasons for opposing regulation, legislators agreed to enact ethics laws under certain conditions. Scandals and media attention to the problem of legislative ethics, as well as the efforts of …
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City of waiting : a primary healthcare center for Laguna Beach, California
… tightly with Michel Foucault's definition of an institutional "disciplinary environment." As market-driven healthcare systems compete for patients, institutional power structures are being reversed. Patients have acquired the power of consumers. A new healthcare center must be an inherently open, …
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Naming the harm: women's stories of gender-based discrimination and harassment in campus recreation
… more complex story marked by bias, inequity, and institutional silence. Using in-depth qualitative interviews and an Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis approach, this study centers the voices of 17 women as they make meaning of the harm they have endured and the systems that allowed it. …
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Using teacher narratives for reflection, representation and reforms in teacher training programmes
… can lead to reflection, representation, and empowerment. Based on postmodernist theory, this thesis contends that as teachers who are in the position of 'other' reflect on their teaching experiences and share their narratives, they will gain representation and validation. The use of narratives …
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The templated academy: troubling discourses of 'teaching excellence' in UK Higher Education
This qualitative institutional ethnographic case study investigates the policy-mediated power structures within an English higher education institution, focusing on the impact of teaching excellence policy constructs on academics' professional lives and identities. Institutional ethnography is a …
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Reading, Writing, and Belonging: A Qualitative Study Exploring Academic Self-Efficacy Among First-Year, First-Generation Students at a Hispanic-Serving Institution
… study also considers how students’ identities, institutional power dynamics, and literacy practices interact in postsecondary contexts. Data were collected through focus groups, individual interviews, and participant-provided documents, and analyzed using thematic analysis within and across …
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The design and social meaning of Australian type specimen books, 1880-1901
… is shown to reflect dominant discourses of institutional power, colonisation and industrialisation, and their mode of presentation depicts typography as one of the forces constructing the ideological and material foundations of the British Empire in late nineteenth-century Australia. Further …
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With Hope: A Student-Centered Model of Critical Pedagogy for First-Year Writing
… Then, the project summarizes a gloss analysis of institutional climate, including a list of theory-informed, self-reflective instructor pre-work questions. Finally, the central model-building is conducted through a theory-informed coding of the Virginia Tech University Writing Program blueprint …
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Eco-anxiety. Constructing the term in psychology and psychotherapy. A Foucauldian discourse analysis
… this study aims to demonstrate the role of institutional power in reproducing neoliberal environmental discourses that depoliticise eco-anxiety. Following a social constructionist approach, this study employed the method of Foucauldian Discourse Analysis (FDA) to analyse the data collected …
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Social movement theory and far right organizations
… that change is done politically in the sphere of institutional power, while New Social Movement Theory argues that change occurs in civil society.</p> <p> The study was qualitative in nature and involved in-depth interviews with 97 members of four far right organizations across two Midwest states. …
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Group violence and planning: State and grassroots processes, politics, & outcomes for the Hazara in Quetta
… giving the military tremendous political and institutional power even over local issues and infrastructural development. While the state takes specific security steps in response to the violence, these actions have largely been ineffective. Overtime, these conditions have impacted the built …
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Party Voting In The American States: How National Factors And Institutional Variation Affect State Elections
… Second, how does variation in state government power mediate how state elections are influenced by those national factors? I approach the first question by testing existing theories that help to explain how party voting is affected by the presidential election cycle. Specifically, I examine the …
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The Engineer in Society: an exploration of the treatment of ethics in engineering education and practice
… has been to consider influences of rationality, power and ideology in shaping modern society and in framing the treatment of ethics within both engineering education and engineering practice. There is also a consideration of how those influences then shape and constrain possibilities of …
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An exploration of students from the African diaspora negotiating academic literacies
… literacies research, the thesis highlights power relations involved in a range of life experiences, social practices and institutional power relations. The study offers a complex reading of the student experience focusing on the negotiation of literacy practices. It presents non-traditional …
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Governing International Criminal Justice: Managerial Practices and the International Criminal Court
… practices are objective tools which optimise institutional performance and thereby assist them in attaining their goals. Against this view, I offer an alternative understanding of managerial practices. Viewing international criminal justice as a technocratic imaginary, and defining managerial …
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Dynamics of identity and space in higher education: an institutional ethnographic case study of a transforming university
… An essential element of these dynamics of power is space. Intersections of identity such as race, class, ability and gender are axes of power in differential experiences of space. Despite this, space is often neglected in research into higher education transformation in South Africa. …
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