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Showing 1 to 20 of 42 for “"social location"”.
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Multiple Axes of Social Location and Transpeople: Interrogating the Concept of "Intersectionality"
… and expressed through multiple axes of social location. Transpeople change genders in relation to androcentric, middle-class, whitenormative, and heterocentric cultural narratives. My dissertation contributes to our understandings of the interconnections of the social structural contexts …
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Accounting for the Epistemic Benefits of Diversity: Social Location, Identity, and the Politics of Knowledge
… arguments intended to justify claims that social diversity in scientific research communities not only promotes justice but is good for knowledge. One such claim that I focus on is that increasing the social location diversity of research communities increases that communitys capacity for …
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Which Reader? Interpretive Virtue, Ecclesial Context, and Social Location in Ephraim Radner and Richard Hays's Proposals for Theological Interpretation of Scripture
… contextual perspective, specifically from my social location as a Latina theological interpreter and often relying on Latina Evangélica proponents who pay particular attention to everyday Latina women in their social location of marginality. In this framework, social location serves as a …
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Subjective well-being among the elderly
… among the elderly as a function of their social location in society and the nature of their social networks. More specifically, the study seeks to answer the following questions: First, how do the elderly perceive their well-being? Second, does social location in society, as defined by …
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Evaluating Violence and (Non)violence: A Critical, Practical Theology of Social Change
… in the United States about the means of social change and the relationship of those means to social location. Social location conditions an understanding of what violence is and how different groups justify and respond to various uses of violence and (non)violence within society and for …
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Knowledge-management : an analysis of change in New South Wales secondary English curricula, 1962-1972
… English to the previous one. (2) exploring the social location of this ideology.
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Knowledge-management : an analysis of change in New South Wales secondary English curricula, 1962-1972
… English to the previous one. (2) exploring the social location of this ideology.
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Campus Climate, Racial Threat, and the Model Minority Stereotype: Asian Americans on a College Campus Following Sensational Crimes
… it in the context of what is known about the social location of Asian American students nationally. Using a multi-method approach, including in-depth interviews supplemented by data from content analyses and surveys, it addresses perceptions of Asian American students about themselves and the …
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A Systems Thinking, Community-Based Exploration of Health Equity and Agency: Women’s Migraine as a Paradigmatic Case
… To do this, health researchers must address social determinants of health (SDOH) and of equity. I have selected women with migraine as a paradigmatic case for this exploration of health equity and agency.</p><p>Migraine is a common and debilitating neurobiological disorder without a cure …
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Embodied and Emotional Knowledge of Oppression: Positive Contributions of a Relational Feminist Standpoint Theory
… that considers the importance of the social location of knowers. I turn to feminist standpoint theory as a theory that can address these problems. I argue that incorporating relational theory into standpoint epistemology enables us to pay attention to the various intersections of …
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Women's Experiences of Rage towards their Intimate Partners: Diverse Voices within the Criminal Justice System
… current actions of rage. Links between women's social location, their experiences of rage, and their involvement within the criminal justice system were revealed.
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Examining the intersections of age, race, and mental health through linguistic analysis
… differs in relation to perceived identity and social location. Researchers also sought to examine the ways in which study participants’ own intersecting identities influence their use of language. A pilot study was conducted to obtain descriptive words associated with general and specific …
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A Qualitative Inquiry of Fathering in the Rural Context of Appalachia Virginia
… as influences on father identity and behavior. Social location, identities, and life events provide an opportunity to study variation and change in fathering. Guided by an integrated framework of symbolic interactionism and intersectionality theories, this study examined fathers' needs and …
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Risk and resilience: Ghanaian (Akan) widows and property rights
… vulnerability is directly connected with the social location of Akan women based on the gendered socialization and culturally asymmetrical roles in marriage; culturally gendered challenges they face during widowhood, lack of property and poverty; and the conflicting stipulations of the plural …
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An Exploration of Self-Identity Experiences Within the Lives of Afro-Caribbean Women Undergraduate College Students: A Feminist Phenomenological Study
… self-identity as a whole through their primary social location of ethnicity. Also, the findings represent that ethnic marginalization fueled participants' push back against stereotypical and colonial narratives about the Afro-Caribbean community and having an inadequate counseling experiences …
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The Military, Economy and the State: A New International System Analysis
… within nation states because of their global social location. I present my detailed case for amending Wallerstein's World-Systems Analysis by empirically incorporating the interplay of the military, economy and state as opposed to his primarily economic division of labor that defines the core, …
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Marginal bodies: actualising trans Utopias
… is negotiated and compromised by and within social space, with particular attention to the dynamics and socio-cultural norms through which the transgendered body that identifies beyond the gender binary is mediated. The existence of trans subjectivity develops in opposition to …
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The Lord Opened Her Heart: Women, Work, and Leadership in Acts of the Apostles
… the dissertation will focus on the social location of women in both the Greek East and Roman West of the Imperial Period. This is not done with the aim of arguing for a historical Tabitha or Lydia, but simply to explore the types of images and expectations that may have influenced an …
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Woke : internet news and social media on recent attitudes towards police use of force
… because of the accessibility of smartphones, social media, and Internet news. Police are concerned about the impact this potential increase in negative publicity may be having on the relationship between police legitimacy and crime prevention. However, scant research has examined the role …
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Behind bars: Exploring the prison and post release experiences of minoritised mothers.
… that individuals in fact occupy more than one social status which affects their life course. This thesis explored the prison and post release experiences of minoritised mothers in two separate studies. Study one consisted of semi structured interviews with eight women and study two was an …
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