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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"social customs"”.
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"Would You Write Something in my Album?" Social Customs and their Literary Depiction in Nineteenth-Century France and Spain
… to imagine the album as a space of intense social and economic rivalry, in which owners of the books competed with one another to obtain the most luxurious books, and to fill them with the greatest number of entries from renowned artists. Similarly, contributors implicitly competed with one …
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Irish Life and Character in Anglo-Irish and English Fiction During the Career of Maria Edgeworth
… by the novelists. Reference to the traditions, social customs, and well-known characteristics of the Irish people reveals that a certain number of the portraits are truly representative of Irish life and character. A large percentage, however, are mere caricatures—the creations of those writers …
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The Volunteers 1778-1793: Iconography and Identity
… of amateur military service in Ireland, social customs and networking, political empowerment and the consumption of material goods. The focus of this work is centred on certain facets of volunteering, many of which have previously been overshadowed by political aspects of the movement, …
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Death, Death, I Know Thee Now!' Mourning Jewelry in England and New Orleans in the Nineteenth Century
… century are used to argue that many of the customs of mourning in England -- the designs, themes, and materials -- also were present in New Orleans. This study draws from these observations and sources to suggest that mourning practices involving jewelry and costume became more functional …
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The Reasons for Consumption and Non-Consumption of Alcoholic Beverages by Residence Hall Students at State University College at Brockport
Alcoholic consumption is an expected social norm on college campuses across the nation. In 1971, a report by the US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare stated that alcohol consumption was the number one drug problem in America. According to student survey data gathered at the time, between …
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Transition: a process of beginning and ending
… how and why objects exist. Questions of changing social customs, habits, rituals and traditions are explored. The resulting form reflects the manner in which the object is used. Shape is given to ritual. The intent is for design to reflect the order of day to day existence. It is not important …
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The sociology of recurrent ceremonial drama: Lewes Guy Fawkes Night, 1800-1913
Social phenomena can be best understood through an interdisciplinary approach involving history and the social sciences that brings together structural forces and the human agency. This contention is critically examined in the present thesis by establishing a symbiotic relationship between …
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The persistence of high fertility in Nepal
… They are: high child and infant mortality; social customs which encourage early and universal marriage and a large family size with a strong preference for sons; low level of contraceptive prevalence due to limited knowledge of and access to family planning service outlet; and lack of …
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The persistence of high fertility in Nepal
… They are: high child and infant mortality; social customs which encourage early and universal marriage and a large family size with a strong preference for sons; low level of contraceptive prevalence due to limited knowledge of and access to family planning service outlet; and lack of …
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Law in Aristotle's ethical-political thought
… virtue in coordination with other parts of the social fabric, including the household and social customs. Yet Aristotle also believes laws, including laws about moral education, should conform to the goal of the constitution. Many constitutions do not aim at a life of virtue correctly conceived. …
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Power-Conferring Norms and Law's Normative Guidance
Law is a social construction. The fundamentally social character of normative facts in the legal domain implies that a legal order is the consequence of a complex interaction of reciprocal forces between norms and human activities. This thesis argues against the prevailing view that characterizes …
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Sporting correspondents: African American baseball players in the Americas, 1910 – 1950
… the first time. They recognized differences in social customs and practice while competing on teams with lighter-skinned Latinos and white players from the United States. African American ballplayers traveled in a sports network of exchange of people and information. Most importantly, these …
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Planning for Higher Density: Concepts of privacy in Auckland’s culture of housing
… and practice of urban housing. Houses are a socially located “collection of rights, opportunities, assets, and attributes” (Donnison and Ungerson, 1982, 11); at the same time, housing describes and expresses an urban culture and its values. The activities of New Zealand’s commercial housing …
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The influence of relative campus prestige between dating partners on dating behaviors
1 PDF file (v, 74 leaves : illustrations ; 28 cm)
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The Promotion of Refinement of Manners, Morals, and Taste in The Spectator
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Nursing students' knowledge of obstetrical folk beliefs and superstitions
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How Epistolary Novelists’ Literalizations of Moral Sense Philosophy Dramatize the Long-Eighteenth Century’s Gender Battles
… knowledge in the process of refuting received social customs. This novelist-philosopher connection also appears in Samuel Richardson’s characters who emulate Shaftesburean principles when they depend upon their innate moral sense to ascertain the virtuous path in a precarious situation. After …
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Reality television dating program viewing and perceptions of realtionships among U.S. college students
<p>Reality dating shows like "The Bachelor," "The Bachelorette," "Average Joe," "For Love or Money" and "Joe Millionaire" have recently attracted a growing number of viewers in the United States. As these reality dating shows pry into the most intimate corners of the lives of ordinary people, they …
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Dating and Mating : Attitudes of Middle Eastern Students in the United States
… to seek higher education. This has created a social problem for both the Middle Eastern students and their American counterparts because of the great differences between their cultures in the practice of dating and mating.</p> <p>The objectives of the study were to examine the opinions of a …
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Ella Deloria: a biographical sketch and literary analysis
… She grew up learning the language, legends, and customs of the Dakota people from her father and the many others who attended the church and school.</p> <p>When she was fourteen, Ella Deloria attended All Saints School in ·Sioux Falls, South Dakota. After being awarded a scholarship for her …
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