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Showing 1 to 20 of 266 for “"social constructionist"”.
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AIDS education: A social constructionist approach (Immune deficiency).
… fragmentary. The present study utilized a social constructionist approach to investigate this problem. Open-ended interviews were conducted with youth and adolescents in the Windsor area. Participants were encouraged to provide their constructions regarding a number of topics pertinent to …
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Policing domestic abuse in Scotland: a social constructionist approach
… agenda in Scotland by placing it in its wider social, political and historical context and by examining it from a subjectivist stance as opposed to the objectivist perspective which means looking at it critically as a social rather than a purely natural phenomenon.
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Wife battering policies, programs and definitions: A social constructionist analysis.
This thesis examines the social definition process of the social problem of wife battering in Canada from 1970 to 1990. The primary component of the thesis is an examination of the development of various conceptual frameworks. The issue of wife battering would not have evolved as a social problem …
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Exploring the experiences of first-time fatherhood : a social constructionist study
… This study is an exploration from within a social constructionist framework, of the experiences of first-time fatherhood. Using a multiple-case study design, the aim was to explore and answer the question: “How do men experience first-time fatherhood?” A qualitative approach to research was …
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How do psychological practitioners construct the meaning of parental alienation: a social constructionist approach
… alienation [PA] amongst family courts and social workers within the United Kingdom [UK]. PA primarily occurs in family custody disputes, where there is manipulation of a child by one parent against the other. This study was developed to address the complexity of the phenomenon by exploring …
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Understanding social processes in the development of internal corporate ventures: A social constructionist perspective
This thesis explores and explains social processes in the development of internal corporate ventures. To address this research aim, three research questions are presented to inform the investigation of roles, relationships and social processes in CV activity. In order to address these questions, a …
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Mothers' Mental Health Evaluations in Foster Care Practice: A Social Constructionist, Qualitative Data-Mining Study
<p>This qualitative research study utilizes social constructionist theory and the client career perspective as a framework for developing a grounded theory that explains how mothers' mental health evaluations function in the context of foster care practice. Using clinical data-mining methodology, …
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Ethnicity, learning disability, and the Mental Capacity Act 2005 : a social constructionist ethnography of an integrated learning disability service
This thesis explores how the Mental Capacity Act 2005 (MeA) is operationalised within an integrated statutory learning disability service and examines how the legislation IS manifested in everyday lived experience of an ethnic minority. In England and Wales, the MCA established a framework for …
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Exploring the reasons white middle-class women remain childfree in the South African context : a feminist social constructionist study
… This study is conducted from a feminist social constructionist framework. Dominant discourses of femininity revolve around motherhood, which is considered to be the most important role. Motherhood is believed to be a “natural” identity. Mothers are highly regarded in most societies; they …
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A penological approach to the social construct of sexuality
… Only Alarid (2000) examined jail sex using a social constructionist approach to understanding sexuality behind bars. Using data collected from 142 male inmates in a Southern maximumsecurity correctional facility, the purpose of the present study was to examine whether engaging in sexual …
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Sosiale konstruksionisme as ’n pastoraal-terapeutiese benadering (Afrikaans)
… This venture is undertaken by introducing the social constructionist paradigm as a thought form for therapeutic and pastoral approaches. The social constructionist perspective proposes a non-referential, non-descriptive and communicational view of language. Language does not mirror the world, …
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The language of family therapy : what we say we do and what we actually do in therapy
… the terms of postmodernist and specifically social constructionist discourses. By this fact a challenge is presented to the researcher who wishes to subject to scrutiny the theoretical claims made for this form of human activity: how to rigorously evaluate theoretical propositions whilst …
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Gender in Natural Conversation and Literary Discourse: A Sociolinguistic Study
… and CULTURAL DIFFERENCE models, only the SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIONIST model fully accounts for my results.
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Registered first level mental health nurses discourse analytic construction of their professional identity
… nurses’ identities. In so doing, it adopts a social constructionist, discourse analytic approach to explore individual mental health nurses’ ‘identity constructions’ as they emerge in their talk with each other in focus group discussions. The aim of the research is to illustrate how identities …
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Sustainable development at the local government level in New Zealand : A social constructionist analysis of the framing and implementation of sustainable development by six local authorities : A dissertation submitted in partial fulfilment of the degree of a Bachelor of Resource Studies, with Honours at Lincoln University
… of "sustainable development" has been framed (socially constructed) by local government in New Zealand. • Explore how implementation has been affected by the social construction of sustainable development.
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Revisiting the queer : theory, literature and gay male studies
… academic debates aoout homosexuality: mainly the social constructionist versus the essentialist debate.
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An Investigation into the adoption and implementation of computer aided production management systems:using the Rogers model of adoption and implementation and a social constuctionist account of technology
… of innovations, and the second part by a social constructionist approach to technology. Rogers' work is critically evaluated and a model of adoption and implementation is distilled from it and applied to a set of empirical case studies. In the light of the case study data, strengths and …
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An analysis of therapeutic failure in psychotherapy with a deaf client : a training psychologist's experience
… a trainee psychologist and a Deaf client. Both a social constructionist perspective of the experience of being disabled/Deaf, and an intersubjective lens, have been utilized in order to understand the nature of the therapeutic failures that occurred and how they functioned. A psychoanalytic case …
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Style, structure and function in Cape Town Tsotsitaal
The thesis applies a social constructionist framework and Foucauldian Discourse Analysis to demonstrate that while Tsotsitaal was perceived by many respondents as a language of gangsters and criminals, evidence suggests that it is actually part of an ongoing identity construction for young, black, …
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