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Showing 1 to 20 of 171 for “"marginality"”.
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Marginality in Appalachian professional women
… an expanded version of Park's (1928) concept of marginality which yielded three major foci: (1) self definitions of marginality; (2) consequences of marginality; and (3) adaptive strategies of the marginal person. A continuum conceptualization of marginality emerged from the data with four …
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Southerned: queer marginality in two souths
The metropolis has featured prominently in queer theory, cultural productions and advocacy work as the ideal site of queer life (Massad, 2002; Gray, 2009; Herring, 2010). Because of the concentration of resources in the metropole and discursive investments in locating ‘outof-the-way places’ (Tsing, …
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The dynamics of marginality in continuing higher education.
The dynamics of marginality in continuing higher education.
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Seeing the State: Women, Incarceration, and Social Marginality
<p>Based on in-depth, semi-structured qualitative and photo-elicitation interviews with 36 formerly incarcerated women, this dissertation answers three central research questions: (1) How does the state structure women's post-incarceration experiences? (2) How do these post-incarceration …
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Integration or Marginality? The Socialization of Graduate Students
Major findings suggest that (a) graduate students arrive in their departments and programs with pre-established expectations and motivations that are the result of earlier socialization experiences; (b) if students perceive that the dominant culture in their department is not congruent with their …
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Mattering and marginality: students with disabilities at Rowan University
The goal of this study was to determine if students with documented disabilities at Rowan University felt as if they mattered to the university. The subjects in this study consisted of 161 students with a documented disability during the Spring 2013 semester. Data were collected using a modified …
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Mattering and marginality among African American students at Rowan University
… with previous research on mattering and marginality of African American students. Overall, African American students perceived that they matter at Rowan University. There were areas where student perceptions of mattering and marginality were mixed. Students felt they mattered most to …
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Reconceptualizing Women's STEM Experiences: Building a Theory of Positive Marginality
… have discussed the construct of positive marginality. Positive marginality describes the perception that belonging to a non-dominant cultural or demographic group can be advantageous rather than oppressing. To date, research on positive marginality has explored the construct in a …
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Gender and organisational culture: relationships between marginality and women’s career success
… thesis aimed to investigate the experiences of marginality for women who work in organisations and to explore the associations between marginality and career success, and between marginality and quality of work variables such as stress and role conflict. The research used a model that …
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Making (in)visible: Marginality, neurodiversity and COVID-19 in urban Saskatchewan
People with disabilities have been coined invisible citizens during the COVID-19 pandemic. This research responds to the ways people with disabilities and other intersecting marginalities were made invisible during COVID-19 in urban Saskatchewan. Using arts-based participatory this research asks, …
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Beyond Marginality: Welfare, Governance and Spatial Imaginaries. Insights from Terre del Monviso
L'abstract è presente nell'allegato / the abstract is in the attachment
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Embedded Cities, Excluded Citizens: Governance, Housing, and Rroma Marginality in Post-Socialist Romania
This dissertation examines how local governance conditions social housing policy and the lived experience of Rroma in Romania. Focusing on Bucharest and Cluj-Napoca, it asks: To what extent have European Union housing initiatives improved Rroma access to adequate and affordable housing, and where …
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What we don't know: liminality, marginality and narrative mode in David Belbin's fiction
This thesis consists of a selection of my published work from 1989-2015, accompanied by an essay and a bibliography. The essay looks at the ways in which I am drawn towards marginal and liminal zones within fiction, including the areas between Young Adult (YA) and Adult fiction, crime fiction and …
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The Marginal Public: Marginality, Publicness, and Heterotopia in the Space of the City
… to urban life but deeply embedded in it. Their marginality is lived simultaneously yet in contestation with dominant ways of being. This manifests in the marginal public’s relationship to others in the city, as well as through debates about the placing of facilities that serve them which I …
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Race, class and marginality : a Métis settlement in the Manitoba Interlake, 1850-1914
This dissertation examines how, since the 1850s, capitalist development in Manitoba's Interlake area and the interpretation of this region's history have been heavily influenced by western racist ideology. This ideology, coupled with the other political-social-economic dynamics of capitalism, led …
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Targeting aggregate marginality from a chemical and materials perspective to improve pavement performance
Unbound granular aggregates, due to a comparatively lower cost in comparison to bound pavement layers, are extensively used in the construction of road pavements. Thus, it is not surprising that a careful testing and selection of these materials is required to ensure a longlasting pavement life …
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Between the norm and a hard place: representing marginality in Harmony Korine's Gummo
… structure and unsentimental depictions of marginality, I want to counter such criticism by arguing that Gummo in fact offers a refreshingly new approach to cinematic representations of white poverty in the United States. While U.S. cinema has often furnished us with representations of …
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Frances R. Donovan and The Chicago School of Sociology: A Case Study in Marginality
… One traces the development of the concept of marginality within the Chicago School from its founding in 1892 until the late 1930's, Georg Simmel's role theory, specifically that of "the stranger," maverick personalities in the department and women's isolated status in academics are included as …
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The production of marginality. Paradoxes of urban planning and housing policies in Cali, Colombia
… of policies during the last 70 years, urban marginality persists in most Latin American cities. Although this condition has been strongly associated with informal settlements, the premise underpinning this research is that marginality can be produced by the state through the construction of …
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Civic Tinkering in a Small City: Imaginaries and Intersections of Art, Place and Marginality
The purpose of this ethnographic case study was to explore the construction and alteration of Roanoke Virginia's cultural imaginary, as well as the engagement of marginal groups and their concerns in those processes. This research examined these issues through the experiences of key actors involved …
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