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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"social conduct"”.
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How do privileged insiders become change agents? A study of institutional volition
… combine a symbolic interactionist perspective on social conduct with a structural perspective on frames to explore the process of institutional volition and the conditions under which privileged insiders may become engaged in different types of institutional change work to address societal issues. …
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Identifying hegemonic masculinity in youth ice hockey programmes and investigating its effects on male players’ conduct on and off the ice
… are embedded in the institutional and social structures of youth ice hockey. Findings reveal that these programmes function as key sites for the reproduction of hegemonic masculine norms. Physical aggression, emotional suppression, and hierarchical team rituals such as rookie treatment …
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Contested and Contextual Identities: Ethnicity, Religion and Identity among the Pakhtuns of Malakand, Pakistan.
… identity. It also contributes to the debate in Social Anthropology about the relative emphasis on ‘boundary’ or the ‘cultural stuff’. The research focuses on Malakand in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (Pakistan), which in its changing administrative status has hybridity of the ‘autonomous’ Tribal Areas and …
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Framing Norms and Beliefs: Experimental Approaches to Tax Compliance, Gender Identity, Religious Behavior, and Risk-Taking.
… investigating the link between tax evasion and social norms. The second chapter conducts another lab experiment examining gender preconceptions and misrepresentation in strategic contexts. In the third chapter, I use questionnaire data to determine if believing in powerful gods encourages …
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Writing patients, writing nursing : the social construction of nursing assessment of elderly patients in an acute medical unit
… cannot be detached from other aspects of nurses' conduct. To undertake this examination of nursing assessment, I have drawn on the work of Michel Foucault, with an approach to field research and the analysis of discourse which has developed from contemporary writings on communication, …
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Attention Style and Appreciation: The Differences between Gratitude and Indebtedness
… was designed to show that manipulating social anxiety, a specific type of self-focused attention, would increase feelings of indebtedness and decrease feelings of gratitude. However, no significant differences of indebtedness or gratitude were found between the experimental condition and …