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Showing 1 to 20 of 155 for “"social action"”.
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Counselling and psychotherapy as social action-systems
The "talking cure" (Boring, 1957, p 709; Halmos, 1965, p 3), "psychotherapy" and "counselling", as presently conceptualised in contemporary Western society, evolved first from the nineteenth century medical concept of diseases an affliction of the individual, requiring individual treatment. The …
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Counselling and psychotherapy as social action-systems
The "talking cure" (Boring, 1957, p 709; Halmos, 1965, p 3), "psychotherapy" and "counselling", as presently conceptualised in contemporary Western society, evolved first from the nineteenth century medical concept of diseases an affliction of the individual, requiring individual treatment. The …
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Towards a Hermeneutic of Meaningful Social Action
… of, a correct view of the nature of meaningful social action. My analysis is inspired by Martin Heidegger and Hans-Georg Gadamer. Following these thinkers, I castigate the Neo-Kantian/Phenomenological tradition's preoccupation with the cogito and epistemological issues and present an ontological …
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Rural youth worldviews about social justice and social action
… was to explore components of rural adolescents’ social justice and social action (SJSA) worldviews. The research paradigm included influences from constructivist-interpretivist (e.g., Ponterotto, 2005), critical (e.g., Liu, 2014), and pragmatic (e.g., Savin-Baden & Major, 2014) perspectives. …
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Social Action by Youth: Creating a Sense of Community
The Social Action by Youth (SAY) project provided participants with an opportunity to explore their hopes, celebrate their social identity and address their community concerns by creating participant designed and participant-led community-building and social action projects. The researcher worked …
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An Analysis of Values and Social Action in Multi-Racial Children's Literature
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-10T18:46:29Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7317308.pdf: 5460828 bytes, checksum: 879faa0ad128203e9a583a93d5cc0272 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1972
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Consciousness and Social Action, Toward a Structural-Dialectical Conceptualization of Action and Thought
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-09T20:15:12Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 6910810.pdf: 15607083 bytes, checksum: 2e8272ac5c6bec2661c898c83026d794 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1968
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An Analysis of the Social Action program and Education of Women in Pakistan
… that calls for a constant balancing of social, economic and environmental conditions in a local, regional and national context. Sustainable development requires conducive conditions for women in development, which relies on their education. Sustainable development policies and programs …
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Engaging Millennials : the strategies and experiences of Christian social action groups in the UK
This thesis explores whether and how Christian social action groups are responding to generational change, specifically the changes that have been associated with the generation that has been termed the ‘Millennials’. Accordingly, this PhD considers the interactions between contemporary …
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Community gardening as social action: the Australian community gardening movement and repertoires for change.
… about food security, urban sustainability, social isolation and the preservation of community space. Community gardening has been adopted by divergent actors, from health agencies looking to increase fruit and vegetable consumption to radical social movements seeking symbols of …
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Playing for impact : the design of civic games for community engagement and social action
… purpose of promoting community engagement and social action. My thesis examines this emerging practice of civic game design. Within this thesis, I analyze several cases wherein games have served as successful tools for fostering civic learning and promoting further civic action. An analysis of …
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Selected aspects of the social action programs of Muncie's United Automobile Workers' locals, 1937-1964
There is no abstract available for this dissertation.
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Genomic Designation: New kinds of people at the intersection of genetics, medicine and social action
… medical conditions - it can create new ones. The social sciences have assumed that genetics must work in and through existing categories of human difference in order to inform clinical practice or social mobilization. By contrast, I go beyond the specter of reductionism and examine the emergence …
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An empowerment group for child sexual abuse: an example of a community psychological social action model
Research in the area of child sexual abuse is growing rapidly. A potpourri of literature in this field lacks one very important aspect- the workings of power in relation to abuse. The way in which power is exercised over people, is the most insidious ingredient of distress which sadly affects …
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Social Beliefs, Agonistic Goals, Anger, and Biased Perceptions of Outgroups: A Social Action Theory of Covert Racial Prejudice
… and explicit discriminatory behavior. Drawing on Social Action Theory, this study tested the hypothesis that the relationship between racial attitudes and implicit biases / overt discrimination is moderated by socially-induced personal regulatory struggles that take the form of agonistic striving, …
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