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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"social culture"”.
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Internet Slang and China's Social Culture: A Case Study of Internet Users in Guiyang
… but also of expressing complex feelings of social dissatisfaction. It is this emotional content that contributes to the spread of certain Internet slang memes over others. Additionally, in contrast to other researchers in the field, I concluded that users do not believe Internet slang to be …
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Understanding the impact of Artificial Intelligence on newsroom social culture and journalistic performative roles : a qualitative case study of AI as an emerging digital innovative technology in newsrooms
… by the parent organizations. Creating a new social role generates contention in a shared social space, leading existing occupants to consider their existing role and the opportunities or challenges posed by this new role. This phenomenon is examined using Diffusion of Innovation theory, …
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A framework for energy-efficient housing satisfying socio-cultural aspects in the Kingdom of Bahrain
… considering building envelopes, design, and social culture needs such as privacy in hot, humid regions. Also, no study has considered private houses’ energy efficiency or social culture in the context of this research. Therefore, this research aims to develop and test a framework for …
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Alcohol Abuse Prevention Among Fraternity Men: Addressing Individual Perceptions and Moderating Group Culture Determinants of High -Risk Drinking
… another possible point of leverage for positive social culture change to reduce high-risk alcohol consumption patterns among fraternity men and other targeted populations.
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Gender Revolution of the Jazz Age: The Source of Disillusionment in the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway
… is set amid and seems to embrace the evolving social culture of the early twentieth-century, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway largely criticize the gender revolution of the 1920s and blame evolving gender roles for the collapse of their generation. Nevertheless, I argue that …
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Waste Not: Criminalizing Wastefulness in Early Modern Germany
… proper household management. The new legal and social culture of thrift and wastefulness not only had profound consequences for gender- and class-based norms of economic behavior but also transformed those economic norms into prerequisites for legal personhood. Finally, the thesis suggests ways …
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Development of the DESK (Disinhibited Eating Score for Koreans) Questionnaire: Examining the relationship between eating cues and food intake in the corporate-working population of Seoul, Korea
… on eating behavior. Also, both the corporate and social culture revolving highly around eating and drinking may create numerous opportunities that impact food choice and consumption in the corporate-working population. Therefore, the overall goal of this study is to expand the domain of …
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Holding two babies in mind: a narrative inquiry into the impact on a woman’s sense of self in the transition to twin motherhood
… dynamics in the research relationship and wider culture which has traditionally undervalued mothers’ experiences. Women’s stories were analysed using The Listening Guide (Gilligan, 1982), aiming to capture the complex and multi-layered nature of the psyche, expressed through a multiplicity of …
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A new model towards sustainable socio-economic development using the principles of bioregionalism, illustrated through a case study in SW Botswana
… Another example of failure was the unanticipated social culture of the Baswara who take care of each other above the needs of outsiders. The guests and management were at odds with the staff due to these cultural differences at Mababe Village Sankuyo Trust, NW Botswana. The study will contribute a …
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Principals’ communication style and parents’ involvement in school
… critical to school leadership. The evolution of social culture, the complexity of human relations and the change in today?s schooling systems require school leaders to be highly competent in their communication skills. The aim of the study was to explore the links between principals? …
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Equipping Leaders for Discipling Public-School Adolescents in Chinese House Churches: A Mixed Methods Study
… crises under the impacts and challenges of social culture changes, technological development, and globalization. These factors urge educational leaders to provide proper guidance for adolescents’ psychological development and spiritual growth. However, because Chinese house church leaders …
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Asmens šeimos narių teisės Europos Sąjungoje /
… country. Family is fundamental cell of public-social life. Personal, social, culture, moral, legal and economical maters relates family members, that’s why analysis of family members status is very important. Traditionally, family is marriage substantiated men’s and women’s union. According …
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Traditional Islamic Ethics: The Concept of Spiritual Virtue and its Implications for Contemporary Human Rights
… The first section argues that the current social culture and legal structure of international human rights needs to be more flexible and inclusive if it truly aims to be universal in scope. This is because The Universal Declaration and its offshoots are still underpinned by secular-liberal …
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An Analysis of Employees’ Reactions to the Introduction of ERP Systems in Management Accounting: Case Studies from Saudi Arabia
… factors including politics, economics, religious social culture, the culture of the company and technical issues and the behaviour of employees towards change. I will argue that those factors directly affect the behaviour of <br/>employees and indirectly affect the acceptance or rejection of the …
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The nature of learning to nurse through clinical practice experience for international culturally and linguistically different students in Sydney, Australia : an interpretive description
… nursing as it is constructed in the Australian social culture. Undergraduate nursing courses are expected to prepare students to meet the professional and social expectations of the Australian nurse, so that they are prepared for graduate practice. These courses rely on the clinical practice …
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‘It’s a bit of a clan really, you either feel part of [it] or you don’t’. Transitioning to university: perceptions of students and staff at a UK university
… from both the institutional community and social groups. A further significant finding was the role institutional social culture had in enabling or disabling sense of community, and how this influenced many facets of the students’ overall experience, including mental health. Emotionally, …
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Oli Aenaguri’ai: An ethnography of socio-ecological relations and contemporary change in Baelelea, Solomon Islands.
This thesis presents a story circumnavigating the social and ecological relations and contemporary changes in Baelelea inland villages on Malaita in the Solomon Islands. The undertaken anthropological and ethnographic study draws on both traditional and contemporary lifeworld of the Baelelea people …
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Cultural dissonance as a risk factor in the construction of megaprojects : the experience of western consultants working in the Gulf Cooperation Council
… differences in commercial, professional, and social-cultural norms can be quite profound, as clashes frequently occur, which impacts all parties, creating challenges for the megaproject's successful execution. Constructivist Grounded Theory techniques are applied to gain insight into Western …
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Signifying the autobiographical memory on social media a semiotic analysis of food-themed imagery on Instagram
… digitisation has become a pervasive influence on social culture, a trend largely due to the widespread emergence inter-alia, of the Internet, personal computers, smartphones and other devices as affordable and effective means of mass digital communication. As people spend more time online, their …
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Exploring the local community perceptions of event tourism socio-cultural impacts: a case of the Salalah Tourism Festival, Salalah city, Oman.
… events and activities (e.g. entertainment, arts, social, culture exhibitions, sports, galleries, etc.) attracting mainly Omanis and nationals from neighbouring Arab Gulf countries. As the number of festival visitors has been progressively growing, the local community of Salalah started to …
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