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Showing 1 to 20 of 426 for “"prestige"”.
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Occupational Prestige Opinions of Iowa High School Seniors : (the 1976 Iowa Survey of Occupational Prestige)
… to be a combination of economic factors and prestige. Given the importance of occupational prestige as a factor in occupational choice, the problem is to obtain current and accurate evaluations of occupational prestige. This information can in turn be used by guidance counselors and counselor …
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The perception of organizational prestige and employee engagement
… by examining how perceptions of organizational prestige, a construct studied in recruitment and attraction of employees, relates to experiences of employee engagement. Full-time, working adults completed a web-based survey assessing employee engagement, organizational identification, and …
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Social prestige in a low income housing community
Introduction Social stratification is a well documented phenomenon in sociological literature; however, there is substantial recognition that understanding of the underlying principles is inadequate and incomplete. There is often confusion of general and specific types of stratification, and the …
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NATIONAL ACADEMY CENTER - ADVANCING U.S. SOCCER TO INTERNATIONAL PRESTIGE
The United States Men’s National Team (USMNT) for soccer is currently in disarray, infamously not qualifying for the World Cup in Russia 2018. The USMNT is unable to replicate the success of the United States Women’s National Team (USWNT) because of a lack of a consolidated youth development system …
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Operating performance of reverse leveraged buyouts and underwriter prestige
… a significant negative relationship between prestige and underpricing in regular IPOs. It has been also determined that prestigious underwriters are associated with better operating firms. A recent study has found no such relationship between prestige and underpricing in reverse LBOs, …
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Prestige and the Restraint of Power in International Relations
… politics have long linked states’ quest for prestige with assertions of national power: diplomatic saber-rattling, scrambles for colonies, arms races, and outright war. This thesis charts a sharply divergent, previously neglected, path to international prestige—foreign policy restraint. The …
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Relationship of Subjects' Preexperiment Attitudes Toward Psychology and Experimenter Prestige
… Research Survey (PRS) (high or low), apparent E prestige (high, medium, or low), and sex of 13 on ratings of success and failure given in Rosenthal's person-perception task. It was found that E prestige interacted with sex of S to significantly affect performance. Several of the pictures used in …
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What is a ‘Good’ Job? Cultural Logics of Occupational Prestige
… measured status through occupational prestige scores. This dissertation challenges two longstanding assumptions about occupational prestige that have characterized the inequality and stratification literature: (1) that prestige is solely a function of material factors, like how much a …
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Play and Prestige: A Cultural History of Early Medieval China
… draws on the analytical framework of play and prestige to explore the concept of the sociocultural model of distinguished gentlemen called mingshi 名士 in the Wei-Jin period (220–420 CE). I argue that mingshi was a status of prestige achieved through engaging in playful activities (xi 戲) and a …
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Reconstructing respect : the quest for prestige in the international system
Prestige is a term that appears in a wide range of international relations literature, but it is rarely ever defined. There is a vague consensus that prestige involves measures of status and respect, but its exact usage is different in every work. This thesis analyzes the various manifestations of …
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Linguistic Prestige and Early Modern Italy: A Contribution to Historical Sociolinguistics
My thesis examines the sociolinguistic notion of prestige in the context of sixteenth-century Italy, with reference to the dynamics which arose between Tuscans and non-Tuscan learners over the ownership and nature of the literary variety based on fourteenth-century Florentine that was being …
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The influence of relative campus prestige between dating partners on dating behaviors
1 PDF file (v, 74 leaves : illustrations ; 28 cm)
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Self-evaluations and perceived evaluations of occupational prestige: a study of podiatrists
Occupational prestige has a long history of sociological investigation in terms of the overall rankings assigned to a wide variety of occupations. However, few studies have examined intraoccupational differences in prestige or how individuals rate the prestige of their own profession. Utilizing a …
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Prestige, manipulation, and coercion : elite power struggles and the fate of three revolutions
… Power struggles are therefore determined by prestige and sociological ties, the manipulation of multiple decision-making bodies, and politicized militaries and secret police. Leaders with legacies as successful warfighters are especially capable of dominating such systems. …
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Anthony Eden, the Egypt Committee, and the Politics of Prestige during the Suez Crisis
… of the crisis caused the British to lose their prestige as a world power and later, to withdrawal from the Middle East.
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