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Showing 1 to 20 of 249 for “"social processes"”.
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Tracing the social processes of change : the political economy of Mexico's transformations
… Relational Approach to analyze the broad social processes of change and to deliver a critical account of the contingent contemporary transformations in Mexico. By engaging in an exercise of process-tracing, this thesis aims to examine critically key features of social change, challenging …
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Exploring the Constitutive and Social Processes of Ethics in Multidisciplinary Engineering Design Teams
… Engineering and design work involve complex social processes and ethical decision-making activities and collaboration (Bucciarelli, 2010). The understanding and development of ethics in future engineers is a primary concern for engineering educators, students, and the governing bodies that …
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Understanding social processes in the development of internal corporate ventures: A social constructionist perspective
This thesis explores and explains social processes in the development of internal corporate ventures. To address this research aim, three research questions are presented to inform the investigation of roles, relationships and social processes in CV activity. In order to address these questions, a …
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An Ethnographic Study of Psychiatric Assistants: The Social Processes Involved in the Subordination of Workers in a Psychiatric Hospital
<p>This research examined how the structure of a modern day psychiatric institution shapes the work experiences of subordinated, non-licensed-workers. I found that that the work experiences of PAs are shaped by their institutional positions. The PA position by default is one of subjugation and …
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A Case-study of Alcohol Consumption and of the Irish Public House in late Modernity. Social processes that manifest themselves as cultural, economic and political constraints.
Social drinking in Ireland is acknowledged as a ‘traditional and a ‘cultural’ pursuit. The social world of the drinker however, is constructed in a complex way that extends beyond the cultural sphere. Movement of people, commodities and ideas (global processes) are central to contemporary …
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Between the cracks: The intersection of individuals, social processes and creativity after the Canterbury earthquakes 2010-2012 : A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy at Lincoln University
… community of Christchurch, New Zealand and the social processes that followed the earthquakes of 2010 - 2012. Personal and contextual influences on creative ideas implemented for community or commercial benefit are also examined. Viewed as creative, unique approaches to post-disaster problem …
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Let my people grow: the diffusion of the Jewish farming movement through the Jewish community of the Greater Baltimore Metropolitan Area
… Jewish farming movement in Baltimore as a new social space that is both the result of social processes, and results in new social processes, all of which are embedded in the theory's core categories of "Jewish community," "Jewish cultural sustainability," and "environmental sustainability." The …
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"Suffering in the shadows: ""undocumented"" Latin American immigrants, inequality, embodiment and health"
… utilizes the idea of embodiment to examine the social processes that “undocumented” Latin American migrants undergo and how these social processes affect their health. Embodiment refers to how our bodies and minds literally incorporate, from conception to death, the material and social world in …
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"Candles of the nation": community-based nonprofit human service institutions in the process of public governance
… into territory that remains largely unexplored: social processes and how they can create an ideal democracy.
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Exploring the Relationship Between Perceived Interpersonal Influence and Citizenship Behavior: The Mediating Roles of Social Identity and Team Member Exchange
<p>Social or interpersonal influence has been widely studied in both social and organizational psychology, however no research to date has examined how perceptions of one’s ability to influence their coworkers impacts work-related attitudes and behavior. Experimental work in lab settings provides …
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The Making of India’s ‘Right to Food Act’
… The construction of human rights law is a social process and it is argued in this study that there is no inherent reason why human rights law could not, in the future, develop in a manner which overcomes the problems presently associated with it. In order to gain insights into the reasons …
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The social construction of dyslexia in UK higher education
… primarily upon investigating dyslexia as a social construct, and the pedagogical strategies that are employed as part of a specialist intervention. Given the increasing numbers of students either identified with dyslexia before they enrol at university, or during their courses, the …
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Negotiated literacies: how children enact what counts as reading in different social settings
… The thesis contributes to the development of a social theory of literacy by linking differences observed in ways of talking about texts to different aspects of the social contexts in which those texts circulate. It redefines the social contexts for reading which shape a given literacy event in …
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Exploring the Links between Communality, the Metabolic Relationship, and Ecological Sustainability: A Case Study of a North-West of Ireland Community (c. 1930s-50s)
… things: On the one hand, it highlighted the social processes involved in enabling the society to engage with capitalism without becoming capitalist, and in so doing emphasised the significance of communal relations of production in helping to safeguard sustainable agricultural production in …
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A study of the influences on middle years teachers’ pedagogical decision making
… practices to meet those needs. Exploration of social processes and structural influences from this study reveal previously unacknowledged elements. These elements illuminate the enabling and inhibiting factors of pedagogical change and point to the school structures which can be developed to …
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Exploring socio-affective mental health risk factors in adolescence
… research investigating the psychological and social processes in mental health disorders; in particular the socio-cognitive affective processing in depression across the lifespan. Depression risk is prevalent amongst adolescents, and there has been considerable research interest focusing on …
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Paradigm development among practicing school mathematics teachers
… understanding of the cognitive, affective, and social processes involved in their lives that relate to the development of their views about the nature of mathematics and how to teach it. One teacher was in fifth grade, two in high school, and one in college. Their teaching experiences ranged …
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"If we want an education, we want an education It's our choice": How four youth at risk of dropping out of high school experienced social capital
… disengaged from the educational process and the social networks that can help them succeed in their homes, in school, and in their communities. This research project investigated the experiences of four youth, two females and two males, who were at significant risk of dropping out of high school …
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A Socioeconomic History of Electrification in Southern Nigeria, 1898-1972
… to the global historiography by showing that the social processes initiated by the consumption of electricity in Western societies (which resulted in a new ‘techno-culture’) had parallels in Nigeria. Third, the dissertation argues that the combination of motives and the social processes initiated …
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Gender Double Standard of Aging: How Perception of Age and Related Social Outcomes are Modulated by the Gender of the Perceived
… of group labeling (e.g., gender, race, age) on social processes is one of the most important objectives of social psychology. Research in this tradition often studies the influence of one group label at a time; very little research has examined how multiple group labels (e.g., gender and age) …
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