Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 20 of 136 for “"social institutions"”.
-
How Does Sport Team Identification Compare to Identification with Other Social Institutions?
As social beings, people naturally form identifications with various social groups within their environment. Individuals gain benefits by forming identifications with groups, such as increased self-esteem and psychological support. Past research has examined the identification people form with …
-
"it's Only Fellow Refugees Who Assist:" Social Capital, Social Institutions, And Self-Reliance In Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya
… crucial role of humanitarian organizations and social networks. Drawing on ethnographic observation and interviews with refugee households and humanitarian workers in Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya, along with weekly questionnaires with refugee families, this dissertation brings together three …
-
The politics of the urban informal sector and dominant social institutions : a case study on the Self-Employed Women's Association (SEWA)
… of groups representing-the latter from dominant social institutions such as unions of formal sector workers, political parties and the government since political processes operating through these institutions was unresponsive to the needs of the UIS poor. The objective of this research is to …
-
Dancing, Mindfulness, and Our Emotions: Embracing the Mind, Body, and Sole
… emotions. There is a need for dance therapy in social institutions such as, healthcare facilities, schools, and community centers. Dance therapy has the potential to reduce negative emotions, create mindfulness, improve self-expression, and promote a healthy well-being. I am proposing that dance …
-
Economic Uncertainty as a Source of Self-Uncertainty and a Threat to Confidence in Elections
… confidence in elections. Drawing from work in social psychology, this research proposes that economic uncertainty should undermine confidence in elections, because it could elicit self-uncertainty. Two studies were designed to test this hypothesis. Study 1 ( N = 87,822) was a secondary data …
-
Environments Of Risk In A Dynamic Social Landscape: Hurricanes And Disaster On The United States Gulf Coast
… adapt and respond to these storms, as do the social institutions that provide support during disasters and their aftermath. This is complicated by the longstanding and ongoing relationship between the oil and gas industry and gulf coastal communities, especially as activities associated with …
-
Keeping up with the Queers: White gay and bisexual men's experiences of relationship intimacy and conflict in Cape Town, 1966-2008
Between 1966 and 2008, the social, political and cultural landscape of South Africa changed considerably for queer people living in Cape Town. This thesis intends to explore white gay and bisexual men's experiences of intimacies and conflict in their close relationships during the latter half of …
-
Conceptualising morality and moral order: moral transformations in Russia, 1976 to 2021
… domain. For Durkheim, that is where ‘objective’, social, ‘impersonal’ morality exists. The study reconstitutes the Durkheimian theorisation of morality as a system of interrelated concepts: the unity of moral ideal and moral obligation, social attachment to the group, and individual autonomy. …
-
"Highland Farmers and the ""Modernizing"" State in Ethiopia: Conjunctures and Disjunctures"
… and political relations between indigenous social institutions and practices of highland farmers in Warra Himanu, South Wallo Administrative Zone, and successive regime forms of the ""modernizing"" state in Ethiopia. With regard to farmers in Warra Himanu, the study examines the cultural and …
-
Flexible Acculturation: On Taiwanese Relocations to China
… 2002, I have also collected documents of many social institutions, including governments, political parties, media, social movement organizations, and online forums for the public. The date of these documents ranged from the early 1980s to 2007.
-
Rimarishpa Kausanchik: Dialogical Encounters. Festive Ritual Practices and the Making of the Otavalan Moral and Mythic Community
… Otavalan ritual practices constitute enduring social institutions. As cultural and symbolic systems, Otavalan festival performances enable developing and continuing expression that challenges linear historical narratives of representation and the processes behind their production.
-
The 'Future Generation': National Identity among Young People in Wales
… see national identity as 'shaped' by large-scale social institutions that operate across a national territory. In this context national identity is a collective phenomenon produced by generic processes of cultural and political socialization. More recent research has, by contrast, turned the …
-
Maternal Peer Management Behaviors and Children's Social Networks: Influences on Children's Peer Relations
… interesting connections between children's social relations with parents, peers, and additional members of their social world. Parenting initiation was found to be very important in the lives of young preschoolers. They also highlight the importance of neighbors, community social …
-
The Color of Youth: Mexicans and the Power of Schooling in Chicago, 1917-1939
This dissertation examines the social and educational experience of the first mass wave of Mexicans who migrated to Chicago in the early twentieth-century. It recaptures how the racially, socially, and economically charged experiences of Mexicans reshaped their national and cultural identity in …
-
The paper tiger and its predecessors: An ethnologic history of the American Indian Religious Freedom Act
… American ceremonies involve a broader range social institutions than Euro-American "religion." Hence, the analogy between Indian ceremonies and Euro-American religions broke down after passage of the act, and Indians failed to receive the legal remedies sought under its provisions. The …
-
An Unstable Container
… The collection also interrogates the social institutions of marriage and religion, gender roles, and non-traditional family structures.</p>
-
A Comparative Study of Culture and Cultural Heritage in Humanitarian Aid Efforts: Post-Earthquake Haiti and Post-Tsunami Aceh
… aid approach and identified housing, social institutions and local leadership, economic systems, religious belief and practice as primary focuses. Examples detail how cultural beliefs and practices - as well as cultural heritage - may be vehicles for social stability and advance …
-
Kind world, cruel world, friends and heroes: A generic analysis of television police drama and situation comedy, 1982-1992
… but also advocate particular principles of social organization and practice within the context of the program--i.e., views of how social institutions do and should work and of how persons do and should act to promote a desirable society. These social principles entail value laden beliefs …
-
A cultura política de participação do conselho escolar da Escola Municipal Professor Carlos Bello Moreno em Natal-RN
… for control of political power in various social institutions. Furthermore, political culture stimulates emotions, moral and ethical values and thus strengthens social traditions . Social institutions are spaces for the sociability of subjects, these relationships are established in the …
Page 1 of 7