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Showing 1 to 20 of 512 for “"social relations"”.
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Social Relations in a Northland Maori Community
… the position of the Maoris is far from static. Social and cultural changes are continuing processes and one can notice important trends in contemporary Maori life.
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High school socialization and the social relations of production
<p>The Bowles-Gintis thesis that the structure of social relations (i.e., the system of rights, responsibilities, duties and rewards that govern the interaction of all individuals involved in organized productive activity) of the workplace is replicated in the school is investigated. Several …
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Analysis of spatio-social relations in a photographic archive (Flickr)
… aims to study and analyse the complex spatio-social relations among social entities who interact together in a spatially structured social group. This aim is approached in three steps: 1. Collecting and classifying spatio-social data, 2. Disambiguating place names that people use to refer to …
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Recruiting composition: examining the social relations in promoting text circulation
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2015-09-29 without embargo terms
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Seeing through organization: the experience of social relations as constitutive
This study reframes the relationship between people and organization to reveal the constitutive quality of social relations. While agreeing with Karl Weick that organization emerges in the process of interaction, the study goes beyond Weick to examine in greater depth the quality of that …
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Material and Social Relations in Friedrich von Hardenberg's Heinrich von Afterdingen
… was as concerned with the material and the social relations among human beings and their labor as he was with their spiritual endeavors. The self-development of Heinrich, the main character in Afterdingen, is chronicled in this study with special attention given to his material existence as …
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Material and Social Relations in Friedrich von Hardenberg's Heinrich von Afterdingen
… was as concerned with the material and the social relations among human beings and their labor as he was with their spiritual endeavors. The self-development of Heinrich, the main character in Afterdingen, is chronicled in this study with special attention given to his material existence as …
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Making social relations and identities through consumption: A Botswana case study
… 1995a; 1998a; 1998b) to enable an analysis of social relations, including gender, through looking at what and how people consume. Goods not only express individual identity and status, but are used as a means of objectifying personal and social systems of value, which, in the lives of people …
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Transnational Market and Community: The Social Relations of Kaqchikel Maya Vendors
… themselves. This dissertation focuses on the social lives and work of Kaqchikel Maya vendors of handicrafts, commonly known as tipica in Guatemala, in order show how they are affected by and interact within this transnational tourism borderzone. First, it describes the social relations, …
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Leadership influence tactics in project teams: a multilevel social relations analysis
… study employs a round robin network design and Social Relations Analysis to assess interpersonal influence tactic use at both the individual and dyadic levels of analysis. In student project teams, the proportion of variance due to each component (agent and target effects at the individual level …
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The social relations of a basic life science laboratory and its heterotopic milieu
The social relations of a “basic” life science laboratory, its relations to the other life sciences, to the physical sciences, to clinical medicine, and to the economic imperatives of the present era are examined. This work attends to some of the "day to day" activities of this group as it …
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Summary proceedings and social relations in the city of London, c.1750-1800
Historians of crime and the criminal justice system have largely neglected the summary process. While an important theme of previous work on the history of crime has been concerned with the use of law, most research has focused on the jury courts of assize and quarter sessions and has used records …
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Mobile Phones, Social Relations, and the Gatekeepers to Women's Empowerment in Maasai Households
… has impacted women, this thesis examines the relationship between mobile phones and socially constructed gender-based inequalities in agro-pastoralist Maasai communities in northern Tanzania. Grounded in perspectives from scholarship on women's empowerment and rural liveihoods, I ask: (1) how …
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Rogue urban connections: an ethnography of trust and social relations in Observatory, Cape Town
… to take into account the subtle dynamics and social relations at work in the city. There are alternative and beneficial forms of living together in the supposedly 'disordered' urban space, which are mobilised in order to function in a difficult, changing, and hopeful environment. It is …
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Bayesian Theory of Mind : modeling human reasoning about beliefs, desires, goals, and social relations
… of prominent alternative proposals from the social perception literature will be evaluated by their quantitative fit to behavioral data. Across the present experiments, the high accuracy of BToM, and its performance relative to alternative models, will demonstrate the difficulty of capturing …
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Social relations, human resource management, and knowledge transfer in work organisations: toward an integrated approach
… Despite wide recognition of the importance of social relations for effective knowledge transfer, there is little understanding of the micro-sociological foundations of this process, and even less understanding of the ways in which human resource management practices can support social relations …
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Equal but Different: Gender Discourses in the Social Relations of Irish Peacekeepers & Possibilities for Transformation
Equal but Different: Discourses in the Social Relations of Irish Peacekeepers & Possibilities for Transformation Motivated by the lack of action and transformation of gender relations within peacekeeping since the adoption of UNSCR 1325 in 2000, this study explores the gendering processes within …
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Social relations around a communal tap : an ethnography of conviviality in Imizamo Yethu, Cape Town
… is focused on the (re)configuration of social relations around a communal tap. It looks at the different ways in which fetching water from a communal tap brings life within an impoverished community in Cape Town, South Africa. I examine how the people of Imizamo Yethu who are located in …
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