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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"social differentiation"”.
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Spatial patterns of social differentiation among the Coloureds in Greater Cape Town
The concern of this study is to identify social areas among the coloured population of Greater Cape Town and to see if these are recognisable in physical space; i.e. if once social areas are recoqnised, whether the patterns of differing social status can be related to that of adjacent areas. If …
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Nutrition and social scale: the impact of social differentiation on dietary intake
… is that a group of households having higher social characteristics, in terms of the level of household income, occupation and education, is associated positively, and in terms of household size, is associated negatively, with adequate food intake. To determine the existence of such …
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Social differentiation and local government in Pella, a rural coloured area in Great Bushmanland
This dissertation has as its focus structural differentiation in the Rural Coloured Area (or Reserve) of Pella in Great Bushmanland in the North-western Cape Province, within the context of local government over the past hundred years. In an attempt to synthesise an analysis of constitutional …
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Investigation of Late Woodland cultural changes at the Bridgeport site (1JA574), Alabama
… switch from ceramic stylistic homogeneity and social consensus in the Middle Woodland (A.D. 100-400/500) to increased ceramic stylistic heterogeneity and social differentiation after the decline of the Hopewellian Interaction Sphere in the Late Woodland (A.D. 400/500-1000). A sample of 2, 378 …
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Work groups and the physical environment: The combined influence of environmental stimuli and task complexity on group process and effectiveness criteria
… the group's task. Competing hypotheses from the social protection and social differentiation frameworks were also examined for how the physical environment may influence group social effectiveness outcomes (i.e., social interaction and cohesion).
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Articulatory timing and sound change: a sociophonetic study of /st/ clusters in Seville Spanish
… cluster /st/ in Sevillian Spanish, examining how social and temporal factors influence the articulation of /s/ before /t/. Four variants are analyzed: sibilant /s/, preaspiration [ʰt], postaspiration [tʰ], and resyllabification [tˢ]; which represents different stages in the weakening and …
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Diversification and Differentiation: The Livelihood Experience of Men and Women in Samene
… in this thesis is how assets and access (social rules and norms) influence livelihood diversification options for men and women. The research is based on a mixed method design consisting of extensive individual and household surveying, focus groups, interviews, and participant observation. …
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Moral Economy Meets Global Economy: Negotiating Risk, Vulnerability and Sustainable Livelihood among Shrimp Farming Households in Vietnam's Mekong Delta
… My dissertation examines the process of social differentiation among shrimp farming households in Vietnam's Mekong Delta. I use the ways these households perceive and experience risk and vulnerability as a lens for understanding their situation. The study finds that farming households …
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Music and power at the English court, 1575-1624
… and bestow meaning across the boundaries of social differentiation that it is enlisted to reinforce.
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Medieval landscapes and lordship in South Uist
… to create a holistic understanding of medieval social developments in South Uist. The results have ramifications for interpreting contemporaneous society throughout Scotland and Ireland. The study focuses on rural settlement (farms, townships, field- and transhumance-systems) and high-status …
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Sustainable Rural Livelihoods and Women's Access to Resources in a Southern Ghanaian' Forest Community
… structures and institutions and promoted social differentiation and class formation. Community livelihood activities and organization have transformed to incorporate elements of cooperation, mutual support and interdependence as well as exploitation, marginalization and conflict. Customary …
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Women's home-based income generation as a strategy towards poverty survival : dynamics of the 'khannawalli' (mealmaking) activity of Bombay
… An analysis based on access is able to draw out social differentiation between individual operators and their operations. It also enables a comment on individual relationships. both within the household and outside of it. Altogether. this develops an understanding of how women's home-based income …
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Climate Change Policy Narratives and Pastoralism in the Horn of Africa: New Concerns, Old Arguments?
… are, in turn, leading to new patterns of social differentiation and vulnerability among pastoralists. While providing some level of climate-risk preparedness, climate adaptation and resilience-building interventions on their own are insufficient to meet the needs of pastoralist …
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Endo knowledge, technology and power : the social construction of Endo material culture through age, gender and authority.
… A central theme of the thesis concerns the social determination of these categories and the boundaries which are drawn and articulated between them. The analysis is based upon the assertion that a society organises its material culture according to socially-determined categorisations. Just …
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Changing lives, changing nature(s): socio-environmental transitions in the uplands of the Lao PDR
… for policy interventions in the uplands, and the social and environmental outcomes of these interventions. For that purpose, livelihood analysis is integrated into the theoretical framework of political ecology. The study adopts a ‘hybrid’ and locally-grounded approach that integrates methods from …
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Citizenship and social status in the western Mediterranean from the later Roman Empire to the early Middle Ages : the case of Spain
… thesis concerns the evolution of citizenship and social distinction between the later Antiquity and early Middle Ages in the Iberian peninsula: broadly from the fifth to the early twelfth centuries. Its focus is broad, and it seeks to highlight how social and legal distinctions which characterised …
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Elite Networks and Courtly Culture in Medieval Denmark: Denmark in Europe, 1st to 14th Centuries
… the incorporation of Roman material items and social norms in Denmark, thus setting the pattern for later periods. These types of networks continued to play an important role in the interactions between Denmark and the successor kingdoms to the Roman Empire in the Early Middle Ages, leading to …
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Community and memory at the Late Valdivia site of Buen Suceso, Ecuador
This dissertation is an examination of the use of social memory in community processes. The intersection of negotiated memory and community practices is addressed through an analysis of the material assemblage the Late Valdivia (2400-1800 BC) site of Buen Suceso on the coast of Ecuador. I argue …
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Gender, diet quality and obesity: economic and social determinants, and their interactions, in older adults
… of factors describing the economic and social contexts in relation to healthful eating and adiposity. A systematic review of economic determinants of diet in the elderly indicated that longitudinal evidence remains limited and focused on employment-related changes affecting diet. Thus, …
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