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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"social dynamic"”.
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Poverty and Work Experiences of Roma in Romania : A Study Through the Lens of Field, Habitus, Capital, and Anomie in a Roma Community in Romania
… and work among Roma in the context of post-socialist Romania through the lens of Merton´s modes of adaptation to anomie and Bourdieu´s concepts of field, habitus, and capital. The purpose is to investigate Roma remembrance of work in the former communist regime and explore how they navigate …
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Sau̇-ne̳ [Finn] : a Finnish steam bath in which the steam is provided by water thrown on hot stones
… the world . Here, we dismantle our vestments of social status and relax in a distinct social space where everyone shares the same basic needs of comfort and the refreshment of body and soul. This is the ideal condition of Finnish sauna. In the cultural climate of New England, a sauna that …
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The different shades of liars: four chapters of literary fiction with craft essay
… pastor. With an already complicated family and social dynamic, her view of the world is further impacted by her ability to see “auras,” physical representation of each person’s true motives and moods through colors that surround them, an ability that she gained as a result of a car accident. …
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Arabic-learning among the Minangkabau: attitudes, motivations, and collective religious memory
… This intersection brings out a particular social dynamic that plays a role in Arabic learning motivation and attitudes toward the language among Minangkabau learners of Arabic. Concerning the historical dynamics between Islam and Minangkabau, collective religious memory, which Maurice …
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Converting sugarcane waste into charcoal for Haiti
… design of a brick kiln that is relevant for the social dynamic of developing countries, inexpensive to manufacture and simple to operate. By defining the best system applicable to the Haitian context, this research will enable the efficient production of charcoal. This research will also define …
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Stable configurations for population and social dynamics
… models: the Lotka--Volterra model for population dynamics and a tractable polarized opinion social dynamic model. This dissertation contains stability results of the Lotka--Volterra model when induced by a cycle graph food web network. Results such as orbits, chaos and the probability of stability …
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Understanding phenomena: the rewriting of history and its use in Juan Tomas Avila Laurel
… deemed the colonial dialectic, or the greater social dynamic that maintained colonial hegemony, as it is presented in the vignettes of 1940 Equatorial Guinea that we see in La carga. In the next section, I look at what Avila does with some of the discursive tenets of Spanish imperialism, …
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Feminist Subjectivities: sources for a politicised practice of women's personal development education
… is the understanding that subjectivity is social, dynamic and multiple. Drawing in particular on feminist poststructuralist and psychodynamic thought, the theoretical objective of the work is to advance theories of adult politicisation, human agency and critical adult education. Based on …
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Study of Comment Dynamics at News Outlet
… of comments). This environment creates a social dynamic that is little studied. The social dynamics around articles have the potential to reveal interesting facets of the user population at a news outlet. We report some salient finding about these social media based on data collected from …
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Russia Eternal: Recalling The Imperial Era In Late- And Post-Soviet Literature And Culture
… and symbols has been a prominent facet of social life in post-Soviet Russia. My dissertation aims to explain this phenomenon and its meaning by tracking contemporary Russia’s cultural memory of the Imperial era. By close-reading both popular and influential cultural texts, as well as …
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British Orientalist Painting in the Victorian Art World
… well as the roles that each agent played in the social dynamic of this network. In this thesis I have aimed to demonstrate through a general overview of the key players of the Victorian art world, and more focused case studies exploring the relationships of these different agents, how Orientalist …
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Teachers' League of South Africa 1913-40
… of this organization in the context of the wider social dynamic of which it was both part and product. The League is thus not only studied as a professional association but also as a specific constituent of the broader social categories of the coloured elite, the coloured people and South African …
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Using film screenings to explore the nature and impact of student interactions with the Observatory informal settlement
… a qualitative approach deeply rooted in social exchange, intergroup contact, and social identity theoretical underpinnings. Against the complex social dynamic of Observatory and the historical backdrop of South Africa, the study investigates the dynamics that shape perceptions, …
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Navigating the night: spatial cognition, locomotor and ranging behaviour in Nycticebus species
… thesis I examined the various ways physical, social, cognitive, and evolutionary factors influence ranging behaviour and spacing in Nycticebus species. I explored these topics with the ultimate goal of informing future conservation actions throughout Southeast Asia, especially translocations …
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Modeling Social Interactions in Complex Systems
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