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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"interpersonal ties"”.
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Why Interpersonal Ties are Important for People: An Analysis of the Concept of Social Capital and Its Dimensions of Holism, Convertibility, and Conductibility
During recent years, social capital has become one of the most widely used concepts in sociological literature, and its popularity has shown itself in both sociological theory and everyday language. Its increasing popularity has mainly resulted from its conceptualizations by some of the most …
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Divided Loyalties and Shifting Perceptions: The Jokyu Disturbance and Courtier-Warrior Relations in Medieval Japan
… Japan, characterized by divided loyalties, overlapping networks of interpersonal ties, and changing perceptions of social identity. By explaining, justifying, or condemning Go-Toba's actions in 1221, medieval writers explored new ways of understanding imperial authority, loyalty and …
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Factors External to the Individual Encouraging Idea Generation in SME Contexts
… theories such as the ‘strength of weak ties’, collective creativity and the concept of ‘flow’. Fieldwork followed a primarily qualitative, inductive approach, using exploratory surveys, semi-structured interviews and participant observation to develop rich narrative ‘stories’ of idea …
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Family ties and care for aged parents at home
… perceive and carry out their responsibilities to their older relatives. Forty-three persons representing up to three generations per family were interviewed. They articulated the meaning of their responsibility to care for the parent, how they learned to be responsible to family members, …
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Tales of (Dis)connection: Moving Through an Interconnected Europe in the Short Story, 1880–1930
… Hardy’s characters’ experiences in stories about interpersonal disconnection – a disconnection Hardy deemed to be rising as railways sundered formerly insular communities. The second chapter addresses how both Joyce and Rhys wrote ellipses-filled short stories to illustrate paralysing ignorance. …
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Investigating the impact of a parenting intervention within a rural South African community: a longitudinal social network analysis
… misuse. Additionally, I investigated whether ties to parenting programme attendees in the communication network predicted improved parenting. Afrikaans-speaking female caregivers (n = 235; mean age 35.92 years), with children aged between 1½ and 18 years old, participated in the intervention; …