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Showing 1 to 20 of 107 for “"social power"”.
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Philosophical foundations, social power and social work practice
… fields of philosophical endeavor and the ways power is framed, is described. The covert manner these influences effect social work practice is made more visible through the use of ethically oriented decision making patterns; Ways that authority and discretion are used and abused, and abusive …
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Sanitation and social power in the United States
… of the relationship between sanitation, power, and poverty in the United States. It draws from two broad theoretical lenses, political economies of race and political economies of the environment, to build a new theory of wasting economies. Using ethnographic methods, fieldwork data was …
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The Effects of Social Power Bases Within Varying Organizational Cultures
<p>This study focuses on social power in the context of organizational culture and how this relationship impacts outcomes of follower compliance and trust. Power is the ability to direct or influence the behavior of others or a course of events (Handgraaf, et al., 2008). There are six different …
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The Settlement Patterns and Social Power of Cahokia's Hinterland Households
… here have implications for the ways that social power is shared in an evolving settlement hierarchy. These implications are incorporated in a new regional settlement model of rural household organization and dispersal in the American Bottom.
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The effects of testosterone on embodiment: implications for social power
… to the literature on the embodied basis of power by asking whether a change in the neurochemistry associated with social power has any effect on embodiment? Accordingly, in a series of randomized, double-blind, placebocontrolled studies, this thesis assessed for the first time the effects of …
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Social power in public-private partnerships: shifting sands make an unstable foundation
This case study examines stakeholder salience and social power in the pre-solicitation phase of a public-private partnership. Public bodies are increasingly exploring public-private partnerships to address high-cost, high-profile, high-risk public infrastructure needs. These multi-stakeholder …
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Persistent Pleasures: Agency, Social Power, and Embodiment in Women's Solitary Masturbation Experiences
… been a useful site for examinations of social power, looking at power through the lens of sexuality often involves interpersonal analyses. But social power can also inform solitary experiences through the internalization of social norms and discourses. In this dissertation, I move beyond …
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The Use of Social Power Bases by Southern Baptist Leaders: A Mixed Methods Study
Chapter 1 introduces the background of social power bases and explains the taxonomy introduced by John R. P. French, Jr. and Bertram H. Raven in 1959. A brief review of the literature on social power in the context of evangelical churches shows that little or no quantitative research has been …
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A study of special education administrators' use of seven bases of social power to influence conflicts with parents
… problem this study investigated is whether the power base used by the special education administrator to influence conflicts with parents is affected by the socioeconomic status of the parents, the race of the child and the parents, and/or the handicapping condition of the child. In order to …
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On Education and Social Power: The Educational Theories of W.E.B. Du Bois and Their Relevance to African -Centered Education
… the role of schools and their relevance to social justice. Responding to the social-historical malaise of African American subordination, he proposed that schools could provide the impetus towards cultural, economic, and political empowerment. Moreover, his theory of education anticipates …
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An Investigation of the Influence of Parents on Teachers' Placement Recommendations for Borderline Handicapped Children Using a Social Power Framework
In an effort to secure the least restrictive appropriate educational placement for the handicapped, Public Law 94-142 has guaranteed the rights of the handicapped to due process by, among other things, mandating the involvement of parents for all decisions affecting the educational welfare of their …
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The Effect of Power on Empathy for Pain
… of recent studies have examined the effect of social power on empathy. However, the idea that having social power may affect one's empathy has been proposed since the early days of Social Psychology, starting with the Stanford Prison Experiment. Using new tools, my research examines an age-old …
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Identity Creation and Power Acquisition Through Language use in Preadolescent and Adolescent Girls
… identities and position themselves in stances of social power within their given communities of practice (Bucholtz, 1999). Specifically, it examines how female children participating in 4-H club activities are using language to build individual and group identities; how individual and group …
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The spatial patterning of the Adams site, a Mississippian town in western Kentucky
… the region. The site is consistent with chiefdom social organization conceived in the non-evolutionary framework of Adams' (1975; 1977; 1981) theory of social power and with Clay's (1976) strategic or operations sites.
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Situated Objectivity: Ethical Judgment, Critique and Justification After Wittgenstein
… of forms of life to unrelenting patterns of social power, her position fails to address power at all. On the other hand, Butler's characterization of freedom in terms of power also fails to capture the range of meanings of decision. This dilemma is resolved by taking action itself as the …
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Village governance and deliberative democracy: Examining empowered deliberative forums in rural villages, Indonesia
… reorganising village governance structures and empowering deliberative forums in rural areas. Yet, most studies of deliberative democracy are based in contexts from the Global North. To date, most deliberative democracy studies have focused on deliberation processes, largely bypassing …
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Village governance and deliberative democracy: Examining empowered deliberative forums in rural villages, Indonesia
… reorganising village governance structures and empowering deliberative forums in rural areas. Yet, most studies of deliberative democracy are based in contexts from the Global North. To date, most deliberative democracy studies have focused on deliberation processes, largely bypassing …
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Beyond Scandal: Seeking Morality in Sensation Fiction
… sensation novels display a pattern of increased social status as a reward for good behavior is common, clearly suggesting that notions about the genre as immoral are misguided. The thesis demonstrates the ways upward social migration rewards good behavior, while the downward spiral of those in …
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Power, Likeability, and Perception: Evaluating Men and Women in High and Low Power Positions
… to come up with an example of a position of high power (e.g., president) or low power (e.g., intern). One can imagine the types of tasks or behaviors each of those positions entails. The theories of social power detail how power is attained, the behaviors of individuals in power, and the …
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