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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"social facts"”.
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The Nonprofit Mission Statement as Genre: Speech Acts, Social Facts, and Ecologies
… as written. Eventually, these activities become social facts, "ideas that the key stakeholders believe are in line with the mission when they are, in fact, in conflict with it. If these social facts are not re-aligned with the mission statement, new activities and genres are created and mediated …
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A Durkheimian Sociobiology?
<p>As conceived by Durkheim, social facts set parameters on what is of sociological interest, and subsequently how social phenomena are explained. This thesis reworks this theoretical concept to allow for biological explanations of some social phenomena. It by no means, asserts that all social …
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Arguing Security: Rhetoric, Media Environment, and Threat Legitimation
… Threats require legitimation because they are social facts and not objective truths or subjective perceptions. I argue rhetorical resources and strategies affect threat legitimation. Political actors deploy rhetorical resources and strategies in order to generate consent. The rhetorical …
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Narratives by Six Year Old and Nine Year Old Boys: Brute: Institutional, and Non-Institutional Mental Facts
<p>Brute facts, institutional facts, and non-institutional mental facts were studied. The philosophy of constructionism and the theory of intent provided a framework for this research. Intentionality provided the basis for social facts. Brute, institutional, and noninstitutional mental facts were …
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Causes of occupational communities: a theoretical study of occupational solidarity in contemporary society
… theorized that solidarity and control were major social facts in occupational communities. Solidarity was seen serving to bind workers to one another, while control secured workers into work roles. Control could be internal or external to the occupational community, depending upon whether or not …
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How meaningful and useful is the concept of the life space in executive coaching?
… life space is the totality of psychological and social facts of an individual in their environment at a certain moment. The life space determines behaviour. This is the first study into how meaningful and useful the theory and concept of the life space are to executive coaching, and it explores …
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Beyond the petri dish: potentiality in assisted conception in South Africa
… potential futures but also threaten existing social orders. In this thesis, I present an ethnographic analysis of potentiality in IVF in South Africa through tracing sites and processes to apprehend, assess, and manage potential. Potentiality invokes desires and fears about the future while …
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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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"Blind to Certain Truths": Social Movement Narratives, The Supreme Court, and Cultural Change
… bestowed more legitimacy than within the courts. Social "facts" might be established within the legal forum, but nonetheless connect to everyday life. Research in social movements and judicial politics is thus becoming increasingly useful as social movement organizations increasingly compete …
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Curriculum implementation: A phenomenological study of a reading curriculum adoption and power relationships in one school district
… operational decisions and language play within social systems describes the process by which attenuating mythologies arise and ultimately threaten the viability of curriculum initiatives. The connection between status functions, the leaders that declare them and maintain status function …
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This fact which is not one: differential poetics in transatlantic american modernism
… names an intersection of literary formalism and social representation central to experimental modernist texts in the twentieth century. The poetics of literary fact that I propose finds its basis in Russian Formalist and Frankfurt School theory and reflects several important twentieth century …
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La ciudad histórica como modelo de ciudad : una revisión conceptual y metodológica de la intervención en los centros históricos desde la historia, la urbanística y la sostenibilidad : valoración de sus posibilidades de aplicación a un caso mexicano
… para situarlo en la encrucijada de los fenómenos sociales y urbanos. Los cambios en la formación social, en su morfología, se enfrentan a la persistencia relativa de las formas urbanas, y esta relación de adaptación cursa según diferentes modalidades casi siempre conflictivas y con efectos …
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Dampak sosiologis pola perkawinan poliandri: Studi kasus di Desa Ngasem dan Desa Kranggan Kecamatan Ngajum Kabupaten Malang
… who perform marriage patterns polyandry. In the social facts underlying such that, the writer wishes to examine with regard to how the portrait of marriage polyandry in the Village Ngasem And Kranggan, as well as the impact of polyandry marriage patterns, both in family and society. Based on the …
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Pemahaman masyarakat terhadap ikrar talak di luar Pengadilan Agama: Studi kasus di Desa Sedayulawas Kecamatan Brondong Kabupaten Lamongan
… the concepts and collecting fro m the social facts. Then, the collecting of data is done by observation and interview to the informant. Other means of collecting the data is documentation. The result of this research is some of people assume that the divorce is valid even though the …
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Explaining Middle Power Military Intervention: Australia’s Use of Force in Maritime Southeast Asia and the South Pacific
… Threat Response, (2) Military Intervention as a Socialized Behavior, (3) Military Intervention as Greed, and (4) Military Intervention as the Foreign Imposition of Domestic Institutions. I conclude that the theory of Military Intervention as a Socialized Behavior – which emphasizes the role of …
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Crafting public perceptions of inequality: analysis of Korean beliefs about income inequality
… data from the 1999 and 2003 ISSP surveys on Social Inequality. From a cross national comparison for which Korea was compared to nineteen OECD nations, the following features of the Korean public’s beliefs about inequality were diagnosed. First, popular beliefs about large income differences …