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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"social contingency"”.
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ATTENDING TO LEARN WHILE LEARNING TO ATTEND: RECIPROCAL RELATIONS BETWEEN INFANT ATTENTION AND CONTINGENT CONTINGENT INTERACTIONS AND IMPLICATIONS FOR LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT
Social contingency, or prompt and meaningful back-and-forth exchanges between infant and caregiver, is a powerful feature of the early language environment. Research suggests that infants with better attentional skills engage in more social contingency during interactions with adults and that adult …
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An investigation of factors related to research productivity in a public university in Thailand: a case study
… factors, personal career development factors, social contingency factors, and demographic factors. According to the findings of this study, these five important factors can be conveniently divided into three main groupings which have been termed the essential factors, desirable factors, and …
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A Critical Analysis of the UK Climate Impacts Programme's Problematization of Adaption.
… ontology and epistemology that occludes social forms of knowledge and social contingency. Its political rationale accounts for adaptation as a planned, pre-emptive decision based on existing objectives. This problematization is supplemented by conceptual elements that recognize …
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The politics of scientific practice in Taiwan: the hepatitis B control program
… practice in Taiwan from two perspectives: the social contingencies of scientific knowledge and the role of government in medical science. The history of Taiwanese hepatitis B control program from 1980 to 1993 provides a valuable case study to investigate these issues. The controversies over the …
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Access to work for disabled persons in South Africa : the intersections of social understandings of disability, substantive equality and access to social security
… understandings of disability that emphasise its social contingency and jurisprudential debates on substantive equality and access to social security in the context of the promotion of access to work for disabled persons in South Africa. In consequence of an analysis of theoretical debates in the …
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Social knowledge of food: How and why people talk about foods
Social knowledge about food was investigated from a social contingency perspective (Guerin, 1994, 1998, 2004), a functional linguistic approach that considers language use having functions both to establish 'facts' in order to control listeners, and to maintain social relationships with words. In …