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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"social fields"”.
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The way we see it: an analysis of economically disadvantaged young people's experiences and perceptions of social and economic health in their semi-rural community
This study investigates how socially and economically disadvantaged young people, living in a semi-rural, post-industrial Atlantic Canadian community, experience and perceive social and economic health -- defined as participants' sense of comfort and security that their social and economic needs …
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Third Sector Campaigning Strategies: A study of Third Sector Organisations campaigning for the reform of UK child poverty policy
… resource dependence perspective combined with a social fields approach, to show how the values of key resources TSOs possess and require for their work vary depending on whether they use an ‘insider’ or ‘outsider’ campaign strategy. The research takes a multi-level approach to understanding …
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A feminist anthropology of barriers to implementing the Choice on Termination of Pregnancy Act (CTOP)
… encompass seemingly divergent levels and social fields of inter-relationality. These social fields of inter-relationality include in their scope law, policy, rights-based public health care implementation, domestic households and gendered relationships between men and, women;- mothers and …
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New lives in the ancestral homeland: return migration from South America to mainland Japan and Okinawa
… Nikkeijin are found to construct simultaneous social fields in both the country of departure and the new environment. This situation may be recognized through the concept of transnationalism.I argue that Nikkeijin self-identity can be multiple and flexible, and does not necessarily coincide …
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Intra-Professional Specialist Differentiation In The UK Surgical Profession
… 2005) seminal work on ‘Capital’ and ‘Power’ in ‘Social fields’. The thesis aims to interpret specialisation as a dynamic political process influenced by different groups’ deployment of accumulated specific types of ‘capital’, challenging the view, widespread in the profession itself and still …
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Designing social identities : a case study of a primary school theatrical performance by Zulu children in an English ex-model C school
… identities that are located in the different fields of home, school, traditional settings and urban settings. The study is qualitative in nature, with the performance text being a participatory, creative, multi modal, joint-construction involving the participants and the researcher. The …
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Understanding Socio-Cultural and Organisational Constraints on Women's Leadership: A Case Study in Indonesian Higher Education
… of the research participants in their social fields, at macro, meso, and micro levels, influenced the way the participants made decisions and acted towards each level. Especially, it showed how habitus played out in their lives, affecting their thoughts, behaviour and actions, and …
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"We're all Horacians": Listening to international students at an American liberal arts college
… globally mobile persons navigating transnational social fields, and the ways in which international students are agential actors within the globalized system of higher education.</p> <p>In this qualitative case study dissertation, I investigate salient dimensions of internationals' lives at Horace …
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Reclaiming British Gujarati culture after conversion to Evangelical Christianity
… are explored using anthropological theories of social identity and the changes in interaction with people, places and decision making practices. Drawing upon Pierre Bourdieu’s theory of social fields and Michel de Certeau’s spatial theory, facilitates the analysis of the lived realities of …
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A Vision for the Future of Private International Law in the States of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC): Why is it Necessary for the GCC to Move Towards Private International Law Harmonisation?
… in various political, security, economic and social fields. In this context, the GCC has taken some steps to develop a harmonised legal framework and to achieve integration based on the objectives of the GCC Charter. Many instruments were adopted but most of them were in the form of model …
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A critically-engaged syncretic language narrative of two building trades students and their families: developing identity-resonance for self-actualising minorities’ right to be, believe and belong.
… applications for rethinking the inequity of social fields whose shifting flows of capital overlook their impacts on minorities. For circumventing minorities’ vulnerability to the hurtful, exclusionary, and self- devaluing experiences of marginalisation and oppression, a collaborative …
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Beyond The Muscles: Exploring the Meaning and Role of Muscularity in Identity
… sense of masculinity that permeated several social identities. A strong muscular physique was engrained in my developing masculine identity. This construction of masculinity was initially guided by my observations and interactions with my father and was further shaped by the social …
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De villkorligt frigivna : relationen mellan munkar och lekfolk i ett nutida Thailand
… sphere concerned with the reproduction of social and cosmic systems. While the latter sphere is regarded as morally positive, the former is, if not negative, at least morally ambiguous. If surplus (money, food and other gifts) is transferred from the short-term sphere to the other sphere, …