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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"social actions"”.
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Moral development in children with Autism Spectrum Disorders
… with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) judged social actions that involve moral and conventional violations. Past research shows that children with ASD, like their typical peers, judge social actions in the moral domain (e.g., causing harm to another person) to be different from social actions …
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A discourse analysis of how Educational Psychologists talk about Trauma-informed Practice
… have not yet been explored. This study used a social constructionist epistemology to explore how a group of Educational Psychologists talked about TiP. The research aims focused on what social actions were used when talking about TiP and how the group co-constructed what TiP means. A …
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A grammar of edification : constructing our social reality via efficient quotidian management with rhetorical forms
… Moreover, it demonstrates why the motivated social actions serve as foundations for constructing our social reality. Ultimately, it discovers and clarifies a grammar of edification, how that grammar allows for efficient quotidian management, and, thus, why it serves as a tool for managing …
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"We just write what we think is newsy": an analysis on newsworthiness constructions in Malaysian newspapers
… have demonstrated that concepts used as abstractions of social practices, such as newsworthiness construction, suffer either from object-driven news values explanation about newsworthiness that seeks to locate news value in the news events themselves, or from subject-driven news values which …
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Corporate social responsibility (CSR) : responsibility or Innovation? : an analysis of the feedback between CSR activities and the expectations placed upon corporations
… corporate behavior in order to define corporate social responsibility (CSR). It answers the question: Can corporations tie corporate social responsibility to the profit-making mission, and, if so, how? We define CSR as the actions that exceed the expectations placed upon the corporation. We …
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Enterprises’ sustainability orientation: A natural language processing approach
… by drawing on the vast literature on corporate social sustainability (CSR) to explore contextual factors that drive enterprises' behaviour towards sustainability. Specifically, the results illustrate that CSR practices are associated with external constituents' scrutiny levels. It is strongly …
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An Assessment of the Social Impact of Feminist Network Organizing: A Qualitative Study of the First Nepali Women's Global Network (NWGN) Conference
… of conference participants based on their social locations. Recognizing the complexity of individual social change on a personal level as well as process-based institutional social change challenging social norms, the author posits the following two research questions 1) Can conferences …
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The impact of instrumentalism on British counselling and psychotherapy
… and organisational authority in the form of the social actions of therapists within several therapy-based institutions. Following a brief social history of British psychotherapy, the thesis includes an autoethnographic account of my entry into a psychotherapy habitus and my emerging …
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Understanding the intersection of culture, religion and gender on diversity management: a qualitative study of Nigerian hotels
… policy, cultural, programmatic, attitudinal and social actions.
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"If we want an education, we want an education It's our choice": How four youth at risk of dropping out of high school experienced social capital
… disengaged from the educational process and the social networks that can help them succeed in their homes, in school, and in their communities. This research project investigated the experiences of four youth, two females and two males, who were at significant risk of dropping out of high school …
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Acting White Among Black College Students: A Phenomenological Study of Social Constructions of Race
… Additionally, the study calls attention to social constructions that allow the acting white label to exist and to be sustained. Data was collected from 14 Black college students at a predominantly white, private, liberal arts university in the west.</p> <p>Based on responses from students in …
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Transnationalizing Indian education: Diasporic networks, politics and participation
… of 'education reform' in India and how their social actions are shaped by three factors: Networked transnationalism, negotiation of identity, and the power of 'development' approach in education. My analysis pays attention to the interaction of multiple discourses that go on to create the …
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In search of folk fairness in language testing
Fairness is generally defined as a social value that applies in understanding, interpreting social actions, and making decisions over human performance. In the field of testing, the concept of fairness is commonly defined as social justice or equity which is associated with equal opportunity and …
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Cooperation, conflict, and experimental evolution in social amoebae
… of genetic relatedness on cooperation, and how social actions are temporally organized and can be affected by environmental conditions. First, we documented a potential strategy for facultative cheating within chimeras. We showed that the first cells to starve, and initiate the social stage, …
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Ressources linguistiques pour la gestion de l'intersubjectivité dans la parole en interaction : Analyses conversationnelles et phonétiques
… to uncover how participants produce recognizable social actions by means of generic but flexible conversational practices. These practices draw on linguistic resources and other conduct, as well as the sequential position in which the practice is located. The approach taken in this thesis is also …
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Responsabilidade social empresarial: incorporação de práticas a organizações baianas
… revela sua importância como atora na gestão social do desenvolvimento. Esta importância está diretamente relacionada à capacidade de formulação e implementação de políticas compensatórias, com possíveis intervenções no desenvolvimento do espaço em que opera e atua. Dentro deste cenário, …
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Pseudo-Democracy in America, 1945-1960: Anticommunism versus the Social Issues of African Americans and Women.
… ignored or responded inadequately to key social events at home affecting both women and African Americans. This thesis will explore the extent of the active involvement in Indochina to prevent the spread of communism and the effects of that involvement on major social issues at home …
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Agency, Households, and the Practice of Li (Social and Ritual Protocols): Paper-Offerings in Rural Shandong, North China
… but also a dynamic socio-cultural practice. The social practice of paper-offerings reveals ‘structural’ features of Chinese society, including the ‘standardised’ funeral culture involving li (ritual) and su (custom). It also presents distinctive local practices that vary greatly across different …
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"""Partially connected, partially protected"": New media and Japanese-Brazilian return migrants in Japan"
… argue that the government’s indifference towards social and cultural life of non-Japanese residents and its reluctance to serve informational and communicational needs of the nation’s diversifying population put the provision of multilingual and multicultural media in the hands of the private …
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Cortical Representation of Learning Social Interactions In Freely Moving Non-Human Primates
<p>The motivation and capacity to be social is necessary for human survival. Successful learning of complex, prosocial behavior stems from the ability to perceive and respond to visual cues, such as the body language and facial expressions, from others in our environment. This dependence on visual …
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