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Showing 1 to 20 of 141 for “"power relationships"”.
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Identifying power relationships in dialogues
Understanding power relationships is an important step towards building computers that can understand human social relationships. Power relationships can arise due to dierences in the roles of the speakers, as between bosses and employees. Power can also affect the manner of communication between …
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Power, Relationships and Ethics in Counselling Psychology
… This portfolio focuses on the issues of power and ethics within relationship in the practice of counselling psychology. The impetus behind the work came from a desire to acknowledge that power is part of all relationships and as the practice of counselling psychology is based on …
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Power Relationships in Information Systems Security Policy Formulation and Implementation
This thesis argues that organizational power impacts the development and implementation of Information Systems (IS) Security policy. The motivation for this research stems from the continuing concern of ineffective security in organizations, leading to significant monetary losses. IS researchers …
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"Who watches the watchmen?" Power Relationships in the Discworld Watch Series
… the period from 1994 to 2006 in order to analyze power relationships and the growth and character development of Samuel Vimes into a respected authority figure and a power-player of equal standing and importance as the ruler of the city and the heir to the throne. Samuel Vimes is the main …
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Power, Relationships and the Influence of Community Development in Alberta Community Housing
Canadian social housing exists in a web of power dynamics that creates a complex relationship between housing provider landlords and tenants. Housing providers have control over a significant aspect of tenants’ life through the approval and administration of their home. Community development, as a …
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Transition planning for young people with severe learning disabilities : social positions and power relationships
… positions of stakeholders and their associated power relationships were already well established, which meant that the professionals held the most privileged position during the transition meetings. It was unclear how the professionals would relinquish their power to ensure the young people were …
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Power relationships and authentic organisational learning : daring to break the silence on meaningful dialogue in policing organisations
… organisational learning literature by exploring power relationships and the degree to which individual and/or groups have the capacity or power to question the existing order of things. More particularly, it examines how and why power relationships may facilitate or inhibit ‘authentic …
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Curriculum implementation: A phenomenological study of a reading curriculum adoption and power relationships in one school district
… that declare them and maintain status function relationships, and the social categorization processes that define roles within the organization are examined. This research suggests defensive bias and defensive mythology are expressions of interests and, as such, are evidence of the exercise of …
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Locating linguistic power relationships: A glimpse into transnational feminist dialogue through comparison of major feminist publications in the US and China (2000-2012)
… in the transnational feminist dialogue empower women globally? In what way does English shape the flow of conversation by circulating some feminist knowledge while neglecting others? Through conducting content analysis research on major feminist publications in both China and the US, this …
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The Hinkley Point 'C' public inquiry and the privatisation of the UK electricity supply industry : dislocations in power relationships in the civil nuclear power policy sector
… of the transitions caused to the UK nuclear power policy sector by the privatisation of the ESI. First, historical comparative analysis of the nuclear power policy sectors of the USA, Canada, France and the FRG shows a positive correlation between corporatism and successful implementation of …
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Sourcing strategies and competitive advantage : an empirical analysis utilising resource based theory
… advantage, and the affect that the type of power relationships have on the situation. The theoretical framework for the study was grounded in the resource-based view. A survey was undertaken of twelve sourcing strategies within six organisations. The organisations varied in size and were …
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Discourses of health, sexuality and gender in the H360° HIV/AIDS education portal on MXit.
… in order to identify how gender and other power relationships inform young people’s discourse on MXit. This approach gives insights into how South African teenagers construct discourses about HIV/AIDS knowledge within an environment where unequal power relationships reflect gender, race and …
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The Islamization of knowledge
… change is due to the increasing legitimacy and power the Islamization of knowledge gained in the last two decades. This increasing legitimacy has led to the exclusion the most traditional views on science and to disciplinary infighting between advocates of the different Islamization strategies. …
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The Private Life of the Nation: Christmas and the Invention of Modern Germany
… social communities and the dramatic display of power relationships, yet for the most part they have ignored domestic festivity, including Christmas, Germany's most popular holiday. This is the first full-length study that applies methodologies from symbolic anthropology, gender studies, and …
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Coordinates of Control: Indigenous Peoples and Knowledges in Bioprospecting Rhetoric
… I challenge such perception by exposing the power relationships underlying bioprospecting proposals as well as the various interests built into their rhetoric. My particular interest lies in exploring the implications for indigenous peoples whose appearances in bioprospecting proposals are …
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Language, conflict and identity: The Hispanic experience
… a history of ongoing migration and asymmetrical power relationships in constant flux between two or more groups, nation states, or other entities is present. It is the conception and application of a theoretical framework with which to view transnational identity on a different level, one …
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Between Facebook and Boas: Kichwa Indigenous Identity in Alto Napo and Challenges to Multiculturalism in Ecuador
… idealized expression of tradition) vis-à-vis the power relationships of the actors involved in such process. A combination between participant observation, daily field notes and twelve tape-recorded interviews during a two-month research allowed me to deconstruct essentialist portrayals and …
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"Sophie" reigns over dominant display practices : negotiating power in Mary Sibande's installations
… Sophie is seemingly fixed within this binary power system: her visible identity oscillates between maid and Victorian. Furthermore, her eyes are always downcast so that she initially appears to embrace her subservience. However, I argue that her refusal, or even inability, to acknowledge her …
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Imperialism revised: Military, society, and U.S. occupation in the Dominican Republic, 1880-1924
… reshaping Dominican social class and regional power relationships through the military, unifying a heavily regional society, and polarizing society between military and civilian. The occupation took place during a time of rapid modernization in the Dominican Republic and drastically changing …
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NGOs Advocating for the South in the United States Congress: Changing the Rules of the Global Game
… changes and to reinforce existing North-South power relationships. Northern NGOs acted implicitly as representatives of the citizens of the South, thereby unwittingly helping to reproduce and institutionalize certain North-South power differentials. Ultimately, the campaign that was the most …
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