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Showing 1 to 20 of 67 for “"social hierarchies"”.
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A Qualitative Examination Of Social Hierarchies Among Young Children
… (Stake, 1995) was implemented to analyze data on social groups. In particular, naturally occurring social interactions were observed to decipher how cliques and hierarchies were displayed among groups of young children aged three to six. Participants were 16 pre-kindergarten children, four core …
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Reinscribing and reimagining linguistic and social hierarchies in a prison-based language and literacy program
… education has been mobilized as a response to social and economic crises, education is increasingly being positioned as a means for addressing the issue of mass incarceration in the U.S. This study examines the language ideologies and discourses which shaped the teaching of English in LP and …
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“Automatic obedience, synthetic schizophrenia, mass-produced to order. That is the Russian dream, and America is not far behind” : Fascism as a Reaction to a Crisis of Masculinity in William S. Burroughs’s Queer
… man, Lee finds himself on the top of many social hierarchies. Instead of looking to dismantle social hierarchies in general as a shared emancipatory horizon, Lee leans on the ones he benefits from in a way that is increasingly hostile to anyone displaying feminine characteristics, racial …
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Burlesque Natural Philosophers: Eighteenth-Century Satires of Science and Social Innovation
… served as a focal point for new forms of social conflict. His zeal for scientific innovation registered broader, often unacknowledged, anxieties about Englandâ s emerging cultural of innovation. Thus, burlesque natural philosophers, who strive to topple traditional hierarchies of …
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Designed to divide: public toilets in Cape Town, 1880-1940
… to the politics of production and maintenance of social hierarchies in Cape Town between 1880 and 1940. In particular, it examines how public toilets both reflected and operationalised new understandings of demarcation of space, and disciplining and distribution of bodily functions. Rather than …
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Uncovering an Alternative Social Structure to Social Dominance: A Blend of Ethnography and Community Based Participatory Research
<p>This study investigated social structures that are alternative to the prevailing assumption of Social Dominance Theory (SDT), which is that all human interaction is based on social hierarchies. The implications of social dominance impact health at an institutional, interpersonal, and …
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"What's in a Name": Speech Prefixes in Early English Printed Drama, 1570-1625
… influence the way readers interact with social hierarchies in their own lives. This dissertation asks critics to rethink what is important on the pages of printed drama as speech prefixes are crucial to the way that material playbooks make meaning for readers.
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Race: Racial Discourses, Nationalism and Identity in Nineteenth Century Ireland
… politics. These politics shaped the various social hierarchies and nationalist contexts across Europe and the world. Racial constructs adopted cultural, economic, and political components and did not rely exclusively on biological determinism. This had the effect of reinforcing or hardening …
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Entertaining the Yugoslav capital: culture, urban space, and politics in Belgrade between the two wars
… Entertainment presented an everyday challenge to social hierarchies propped up by elites, conservatives, and reform-minded bourgeois and petit bourgeois residents. More importantly, its ubiquitous presence was yet another impeding force to the development of a unified Yugoslav culture, all the …
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Instructors' Orientation on Mathematical Meaning
… instruction as meaningful or not. Drawing on social and cognitive perspectives of learning, I define four ways to think of what's 'meaningful' about mathematics. From a cognitive perspective, instructors can understand 'meaningful' as mathematical understanding versus understanding the …
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Women as Fish: Physical Movement and Social Mobility in Contemporary Vietnam
… examines the changing rurality and the profound social stratification in contemporary Vietnam through the lens of rural-to-rural female migration. It is based on eighteen months of ethnographic research in a rural offshore fishing community in northern Vietnam called Hải Thành. I study the …
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Learning to Care: Adult Education and Gendered Occupations
… for low paid work risks reproducing existing social hierarchies. Policy and provision in second chance adult education are examined in light of their broader economic and social objectives. The study concludes that although economic objectives inform service provision adult education has not …
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Wesham During the Great War
… displays of rallying to the national war effort, social hierarchies not only remained in the parish, but intensified. It will be demonstrated that as the conflict continued, government interventions significantly impacted on agricultural production in the parish. Evidence will confirm that the …
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Telephone Trespassing: Social Regulation and Resistance in American Telephone Fictions
… proved it could also trespass traditional social boundaries, promising a voice to those typically silenced by social hierarchies. As the telephone network began to blur the lines separating public and private, center and margins, intimacy and independence, American culture developed …
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Crossover: boundaries, hybridity, and the problem of opposing cultures
… in relation to<br/>their connections to social hierarchies, leading to an analysis of what happens<br/>when they hybridise. Sociological scholarship, cultural criticism and contemporary<br/>musicology are combined to offer insights into ways in which we can control music,<br/>and ways in …
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Part of the Club, Not of the Club: The Experiences of Racialized Women in Canadian Curling
… also by the unequal distribution of economic, social, cultural, and symbolic capital. I contend that curling participation requires substantial time and financial commitment. Next, I illustrate the invisible yet powerful nature of connections, explaining that entry into the sport is often …
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Cairo’s Coffeehouses In The Late Nineteenth- And Early Twentieth-Centuries: An Urban And Socio-Political History
… Indeed, coffeehouses were a fundamental social and cultural, even political, institution. They were embedded in Cairo’s landscape, and in the daily routines of its inhabitants. Their emergence offered new opportunities for socializing to more groups in society, they were a place of …
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Pour Her a Double (Standard): Moral Backlash as a Response to Drinking Double Standards
… ignoring moral processes such as authority, social dominance, and hierarchy management. The present study manipulated the gender and alcohol consumption of a vignette actor to examine double standards and the resulting moral backlash: desire for social distance, moral exclusion, and …
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How social status shapes U.S. children’s beliefs about social mobility
Children grow up within social hierarchies that shape their everyday lives. Social mobility is a core mechanism through which societies either challenge or maintain existing inequalities. The present study examined how U.S. children’s social status—both experimentally manipulated and measured at …
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