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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"social belonging"”.
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Extending our Understanding of Social Belonging: College Students' Use of Technology, Psychosocial Well-Being, and Sense of Community in University Life
… 1998). Erikson's (1968) theory of psychosocial development posited that the major developmental task of early adulthood is to establish close intimate relationships. The development of mature interpersonal relationships (Chickering & Reisser, 1993) is a critical priority if students are …
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Forced Removal and Social Memories in North-western Zimbabwe,c1900-2000
… the contestations regarding ethnic identity and social belonging that came along with it. Through forced removal, Rengwe, the Zimbabwean area of study, emerged as a combined or merged chiefdom of groups with collective experiences and similar identity but with different historical backgrounds. …
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From place to placelessness: Malawian musicians, commercial music, and social worlds in southern Africa
This dissertation examines how social belonging and community ties among Malawians and other individuals in southern Africa articulate with multiple geographic and social scales. As an ethnographic study focusing on musicians, this work demonstrates how musical sounds and practices are integrated …
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A Great Time to Be a Nerd: A Phenomenological Study of Pop Culture Enthusiasts and Fandom
… emerged: nostalgia, connection to media, and social belonging/self-identity. These three themes allow for better understanding as to why pop culture is integral to an individual’s life.
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The Ethics of Collective Knowledge Production: The Individual and Club Membership in Victorian and Early Twentieth-Century Narrative
… realist novel offers profound insights into the social processes through which knowledge is constructed. This study views the novel as an experimental forum for interrogating various paths to social incorporation, as the singular protagonist is absorbed into a wider cast of characters. I show how …
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International migration and social inclusion of migrants in South Africa: the case of Cameroonian Migrants in the Western Cape
… argues that those migrants with the weakest social position and tenuous links to their home country are forced to live a marginal and precarious existence while those with stronger ties and independent means of existence adopt a transnational existence. There are also those migrants who, …
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Prevalence and risk factors for social isolation among older adults in the United States of America
Social isolation is defined as a situation in which an individual has a small social network and/or lacks meaningful reciprocal social relationships and engagement with others, or where one lacks the sense of social belonging. Previous studies have indicated prevalence of social isolation among …
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The natural family and residential care : a study of the psychosocial impact on statutory child removals on the natural parents
… the Self. A second hypothesis is that the psychosocial need pattern of the parents will reflect a high level of concern with self-esteem and social belonging, safety and security and self-actualisation. The experiences of these parents and their responses to the research hypotheses can best be …
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Intersecting religion and culture: A comparative study of circumcision rites in the Old Testament and Yorùbá culture
… identity, religious meaning, and cultural belonging. The Old Testament provides the main focus, where in Genesis 17, circumcision is established as a divinely instituted covenantal sign marking Israel's identity as God's chosen people. Within this framework, circumcision becomes a …
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Applying Durkheim’s Theory of Suicide: A Study of Altruism and Anomie Among Canadian Veterans of Afghanistan
… incurred on deployment. Discussions of difficult social transitions run parallel to this research on suicide. Research on Canadian Veterans in transition to civilian life highlights the negative effect of losing one’s tightly formed communal bonds when leaving the military (Black and Papile, …
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(Re)Constructions of identity following traumatic brain injury: A discourse analysis
… can also increase the risk of psychological and social problems. Personality disturbance, loss of sense-of-self and change in identity are key issues following brain injury and will constitute the main focus in this study. Eight individuals who acquired TBI between eight and 37 years prior to the …
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"For The Enjoyment of All:" Cosmopolitan Aspirations, Urban Encounters and Class Boundaries in Mexico City
… on encounter and proximity between different social groups in the country's most emblematic urban center. It draws on eighteenth months of ethnographic fieldwork with artists and young professionals living in the city's historic center as part of a public-private redevelopment plan locally …
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"I'm still here": adolescent social orphans in Colombian state care: the process of identity formation in the absence of permanency
… of identity formation and the related sense of social belonging for adolescent social orphans, that is, those youth who live outside parental care despite the presence of at least one living biological parent. In addition, scant attention has been paid to how culture norms influence the …
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Island bodies: registers of race and 'Englishness' on Tristan da Cunha c.1811 - c.1940
… regarding who formed part of the social body of the metropole and Part Two traces the impact of this shift on the island body(ies) of Tristan da Cunha. The (re)negotiation and (re)constitution of the island body(ies) as a result of new metropolitan optics and debates regarding …
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Globalization of a U.S. community college and the politics of belonging in the time of upheaval: Remaking of race and class of Korean international community college students
… Korean state unfolds a cultural politics of belonging that aims to drive these less-profitable young adults outside of its territory by converting their seemingly lack of competency into a social illness that must be removed. My study revealed that, under the conditions, Korean students …
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Automatic Modernism: Habit, Embodiment, and the Politics of Literary Form
… century's end, the belief that habit determined social action and circumscribed individual volition was to find wide currency in a variety of cultural fields, including literary modernism.</p><p>Situating literary modernism in relation to this emergent sense of political modernity, …
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The politics of the table: Nutrition and the telescopic body in Saxon Germany, 1890-1935
… belief in the ability of medicine to heal social ills with a tendency across the political spectrum to describe the nation as an organic whole. It also required a certain amount of scientific literacy among the general public about the possible interactions between various foods and their …
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Varieties of Transnational Life: Brazilian <i>Nikkeis</i>’ Changing Cross-border Ties with Two Homelands
… agency as the dynamic relationship between a) social belonging that represents one’s sense of belonging to the relevant subcultures and b) possible selves that informs future pathways. Interacting with meso-level institutional contexts over time, migrants’ agency can generate variations in …
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Getting the message: a transcendental phenomenology of youth experiences of persuasive (partisan) and informative (non-partisan) campaigns during the 2019 Canadian and United Kingdom general elections.
… participants felt a sense of maturity and social belonging, instilled through the empowering experience of informed decision-making at the ballot polls. Therefore, participants expressed a need for more access to trustworthy campaigns and unbiased, policy-based information, in order to …
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Scaling down Judaism: The politics of tradition and change among liberal observant Jews in Israel
… demonstrates that endeavors to promote social and religious change are sites of struggles about what constitutes “tradition.” Historically, Religious-Zionist Jews in Israel have viewed themselves as embodying and enacting Israel’s Jewish and democratic ideal through their integration …
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