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Showing 1 to 20 of 142 for “"social forces"”.
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Identity invisibility and social forces
… the three threads of identity, invisibility and social forces in relation to ‘non-traditional’ students undertaking undergraduate study within an ‘HE in FE’ environment. The exploratory nature of the research required an inductive approach and thus the design of the research activity was informed …
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Local Social Forces, Household Finance, and Real Estate
… household mortgage choices are influenced by social interaction. I build a database using household mortgage data and precisely geolocated real estate data and ask whether households are socially influenced by those with whom they are more likely to interact, specifically, their neighbors. I …
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Pivotal Crisis: State Power and Social Forces in the Making of Neoliberal Capitalism
… archival research to outline a novel account of social and world order change in the 1970s—from the collapse of Bretton Woods to the Reagan Revolution—that shifts the focus of explanation from the strategic vision and unilateral capacity of the US to determine outcomes to the pragmatic attempts …
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The roots of welfare reform: "the social forces underlying the Wisconsin Learnfare Program"
Two sets of theories are used sequentially in the analysis of the policymaking behind Learnfare. The first series consIsts of theories of the overall pollcymaking process, and includes the rational comprehensive, incrementalist, and two models of "organized anarchy" including the "garbage can" and …
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Far-Right Civilizationism: Limits and Contradictions
… divisions are associated with key capitalist social and political formations which are concerned with the LIO’s nature, its governance model, and the future of this political bloc within the twenty-first century world order. The focus of this thesis is concerned with the ideological aspects of …
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Organisational ventriloquism in a project centered organization : a qualitative inquiry into the effects of ritualized mimeticisomorphism within a project centered organization
… new insights. This research seeks to uncover the social forces that influence the adoption of mainstream project and programme management standards and structures. The literature revealed that mainstream project management has idealogical foundations rooted within a 'Cartesian-Taylorist' paradigm …
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WAR CRIME VICTIMIZATION EXPERIENCES OF SRI LANKAN TAMIL MAKAL: A QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS
… war crimes by the military and the paramilitary forces affected the Tamils from the Northern and the Eastern provinces in Sri Lanka. I explored victimization experienced by the Tamil Diaspora populations, the construction of victimization avoidance strategies, the social forces that motivated …
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Blackademically Speaking: Black Voices Speak Relative to Black Student Achievement in a Predominately White, Public School District
… believe in the success of Black students despite social forces that suggest otherwise.
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Triptych: Off Thresher Road
… but the author has attempted to mirror extant social forces and the effect of those forces on interpersonal relationships.
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Vernacular in Curves: The Mythologizing of the Great Lakes Whaleback
… overstates whaleback abnormality. Market and social forces which contributed to the rise and fall of the whaleback type are explored.
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Lei e' servito? Bliver de betjent? Are you being served? : comparing employment changes in the international hospitality industry as a result of globalisation / Jennifer Lauritsen.
… profound and pervasive than the deeper, ongoing social forces that are discussed in relation to the specific countries in this thesis.
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Adolescent sexuality in Namibia: An analysis of sexual knowledge, attitudes and practices among secondary school learners in Katutura
… and teenage pregnancy, are one of the major social problems. The quality of adolescents' present life, as shaped by historical, economic and social forces, not only determines his or her future but also, to a large extent, Namibia's future development
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"""Civil"" Societies and ""Evil"" States: Ambiguities of Women's NGO Organizing and Patriarchy in Post -Soviet Ukraine"
… to ongoing studies of civil society and social organizations that examine the range of informal interpersonal practices that configure new social orders in post-Soviet countries. My dissertation adds to studies of local organizational practices, transnational interventions, and the …
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Targeted Sanctions and Sovereignty in Zimbabwe
… By employing three theoretical frameworks: the Social Conflict Analysis (SCA), Political Marketplace Framework (PMF), and the Normative Popular Sovereignty (NPS) framework, this thesis advances three key arguments. From a political sociological perspective, I contend that the imposition of …
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State, Civil Society and Political Change: The Dialectics of Democratisation in Nigeria
… Nigeria focusing especially on the dynamics of social forces operating within the terrains of state and civil society. It revisits the structural link between state and civil society and explores the processes of interaction in these sites between agents contesting the project of …
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Neural And Psychological Bases Of Health News Sharing
Mass media content often propagates through social channels, for instance through shares on social media. In these social spaces, message effects interact with social forces like social influence to impact behavior and attitudes which has important implications for large-scale media effects. The …
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Red October: Left-Indigenous Struggles in Bolivia, 2000-2005
… as well as the core tenets of mainstream social movement studies. The central argument is that a specific combination of elaborate infrastructures of class struggle and social-movement unionism, historical traditions of indigenous and working-class radicalism, combined oppositional …
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The discipline and disciplining of Margaret Sanger: US birth control rhetoric in the early twentieth century
… the US birth control movement demonstrates the social forces that act upon rhetors and women's bodies, conforming both to established gender norms even as they attempt to violate those standards. This project studies Sanger's birth control rhetoric to understand how her arguments for women's …
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A Discursive Perspective on China's Global Politics of Climate Change, 1992–2013
… named “discursive hegemony” that identifies the “social forces” for enabling social change and focuses on the role of discursive mechanisms via which the forces operate and produce effects.</p> <p>The key empirical finding of this study was that it was a co-evolution of conditions that shaped the …
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The death of Celestina : "othering" in changing times.
… period, portrays in microcosm the destructive forces at work within a Spanish society which was successful on the exterior but unraveling at its core as it transitioned from medieval to modern times. The definitive and pivotal moment within the tragicomedia is the murder of its central …
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