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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"self construction"”.
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Delving into “Self-Construction” in the Era of Social Media
… posts could negatively impact people’s emotions, self-disclosure behaviors, and self-perception. This study aimed to experimentally investigate individuals’ social media feeds, especially about daily life contents, on their posting behaviors and attitudes toward life. 512 participants were …
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Primary school children's self-construction of gender identity, including heterosexual normativity
… the teacher and the pupils about gender-identity construction are undertaken. Additionally, curriculum material and other verbal, textual and visual documents of school life are studied to see what gender normative and non-normative subjective positions are available to young children. The study …
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Autoconstruccíon as a modality for life and pedagogy: Learning to self-construct through family narratives
… my family’s history to identify patterns of self-construction, or autoconstrucción. Through years of convivios and pláticas, I have collected stories that connect our family’s vulnerabilities to a larger narrative that paints life as messy and de-skilled. By thinking through Abraham …
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The social body of the police
… may be partially responsible for the degree of self-construction or self-destruction of the body. A comparative analysis of two samples of Canadian police officers were examined, focusing on the differential production of the body relative to the role of occupational stress and lifestyle (i.e. …
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From policy to practice: examining the impact and implementation of the rapid land release program in addressing South Africa's housing backlog
… to provide serviced land to beneficiaries for self-construction, reflecting a shift from traditional, fully built housing approaches. This study evaluates the program's implementation, its alignment with national housing objectives, and its capacity to address housing inequalities effectively. …
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The effect of reading on a group of young men: how does it influence selfhood
… understanding of how reading influences selfhood, whilst exploring ideas about reading and its value. Within education there is a perception that<br/>‘Boys don’t read’. This study examines whether young men, beyond the influence of school, read; and if they do read, what value they place …
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The construction of the text, the production of multiple personae and the construction of the self on Bob Dylan's album, Blood on the tracks
The construction of the text, the making of multiple personae and the construction of the self on Bob Dylan's album, Blood on the Tracks. Using arguments by theorists such as Roland Barthes, Jacques Derrida, Julia Kristeva and, more importantly, Mikhail Bakhtin, I examine the plurality of …
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Mothers Making Meaning: An Exploration of Contemporary Ritual Practices Surrounding Childbirth
… in both personal and collaborative acts of self-construction. The three rituals each in unique ways also contribute to the production of a matrilineage, which, in many cases, becomes central to the birthing person’s experience and understanding of herself.
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Poet in a hard hat: Stevie Smith and gender construction
… feminism between essentialists and social constructionists, but also the more current debates that have developed as the constructionist position continues to be explored. She takes an anti-essentialist position as her inaugural point and explores the limits of agency in redefining gender …
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Saving our Sisters: Critical inquiry into sex trafficking discourses and interventions in the Philippines
… that foregrounds sex workers’ speech practices, self-representations, and reflections on their own work, it demonstrates that there was a mixture of choice and coercion in my interviewees’ engagement with sex work, but that they were not victims in need of ‘rescuing’ through the criminal justice …
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Anatomies of Affect: An Examination of Emotions as Processes
… half, implications of the process view for self-knowledge and evaluative attitudes are considered, the regulatory features of emotions are described, and conclusions are drawn regarding first- and third-person epistemic authority on emotional states. I examine how introspection can come in …
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Untimely meditations: female mysticism in medieval culture and modern scholarship
… the medieval mystical tradition as a space of self-construction and self-expression in both the medieval and modem periods. The thesis is preoccupied with tracing an 'untimely' relation between these two historically distant periods via a series of synchronic case studies stretching from the …
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Perspectives on Africa in travel writing: representations of Ethiopia, Kenya, Republic of Congo and South Africa, 1930–2000
… of Congo and South Africa. I interrogate Western constructions, with a specific focus on narratives by Evelyn Waugh, Wilfred Thesiger, Dervla Murphy and Redmond O’Hanlon. Narratives of South Africa by Laurens van der Post, Noni Jabavu and Dan Jacobson also provide important insights into African …
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A territory of their own: poetic identity and the construction of literary communities in twelfth-century China
… changes of the time, engaged in the reconstruction of a collective discourse on what being a poet meant and how poetry should be written. The issue of the poets' marginalization during the twelfth century is often mixed with the sense of displacement in their personal pursuit of an …
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Guttersnipes' and 'Eliterates': City College in the Popular Imagination
… not only the institution but the city itself. Taken together these five moments, with their attendant tabloid scandals, ritual sacrifices, and manufactured crises, foreground the cultural dimension of City College's history and the construction---including the self-construction, even …
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Career Narratives of Women Professors in South Africa
… ambit of feminist post-structuralism and social constructionism. Central to the conceptualisation of the study was the idea of self as constructed through narrative with narrative viewed as an inherently social process. Thus the analysis of the narratives moved between attention to the particular …
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Dialogic Interactionism: the Construction of Self in the Secondary Choral Classroom.
… in which students' abilities to construct self emerged organically from interactions, or dialogues, that took place among and between the students, the teacher, and the music being studied. To allow for such interaction to emerge organically and meaningfully, students and teacher both …
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Berättelser om adoption
… was conducted in a qualitative tradition with a constructionist and narrative approach. The empirical material consisted of 20 individual interviews, a focus group interview and an analysis of adoption issues in media. The age span of the adoptees in the individual interviews was 25-65 years. The …