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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"social representation"”.
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Papadiamantis’ Athenian short stories: social representation and characterization
… oeuvre this thesis sets out to explore the social dimension of his work by focusing on his Athenian short stories. This literary corpus, a significant part of the literature describing the urban environment in the last decade of the nineteenth and the first decade of the twentieth century, …
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Social representation of violence against women in the media: a South African study
… role in influencing individual understandings of social issues, including domestic violence against women. However, few research studies have exclusively investigated the way in which messages concerning domestic violence against women have come to emerge within the South African media. Therefore, …
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La revolución de la estrella polar. La evolución del ideal de feminidad ante el cambio de la mentalidad española en la segunda mitad del siglo XIX
… singlehood and honourable work into the social representation of 'women', guaranteeing the model's endurance and control over fema le identity.
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Landowner Response to a Rural Appalachian Natural Gas Pipeline Project
… transmission rather than production. I use social representation theory to elicit factors unrecognized in prior research. It provides a framework for the process by which resident rural landowners become aware of, interpret, evaluate, and then respond to the Mountain Valley Pipeline. …
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The Motet as a Representation of Sociocultural Value Circa 1500
… in a structuralist-derived, comparative model of social representation, to explore how underlying assumptions formed by historically contrasting mental habits and modes of thought affect views of the genre. As a point of departure, Chapter 1 re-examines the sources of Johannes Tinctoris's …
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A miopia do olhar: representações sociais dos alunos de Arquivologia e Biblioteconomia da UFPB a respeito do curso de Arquivologia e da profissão arquivística
… librarianship and Archival Science about their social representations in relation to the archivist profession. As regards the methodology, the research was based on a quanti-qualitative perspective, and as to the analytical assumptions, Laurence Bardin´s content analysis was adopted as …
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A modular adversarial approach to social recommendation
… thesis proposes a novel framework to incorporate social regularization for item recommendation. Social regularization grounded in ideas of homophily and influence appears to capture latent user preferences. However, there are two key challenges: first, the importance of a specific social link …
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"He fell in love with me in English": language negotiation in the bilingual couple
… of individual communication, but an aspect of social representation, a measure of cultural value, and an articulation of a speaker's identity and emotional associations. This new perspective of language has contributed greatly to advancement in understanding bilingualism, particularly with …
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Funk, cultura e juventude carioca : um estudo no Morro da Mangueira
… on the importance of the culture on both social and identity formation of young people, and I specifically refer to the so-called Funk culture . The Funk rhythm is commonly associated with young people, particularly those poor and black, living in the suburbs (poor neighborhoods). This is …
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The Eternal Wanders: Social Representations of Gypsy/Travellers
… available data on the impact that (negative) social representations have on the ability of Gypsy/Travellers to access public services and provision on a basis of equality. Unlike traditional ‘writings of culture’ this research utilises a critical ethnography approach to give testimony to …
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"A singular person": Portraits of subjectivity in the poetry and prose of Matilda Betham
… as the generic range of her poetic and scholarly representations of history, suggest her engagement with contemporary discussions surrounding subjectivity and self-representation. Her Biographical Dictionary participates in a construction of female identity that redefines the feminine while …
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The link between social representations of HIV/AIDS and sexual behaviour amongst young people in Ghana and the U.K.
The social representation approach to understanding HIV/AIDS focuses on the ideas about the disease that are current in a society. A major claim arising from this approach is that blaming others for the spread of the disease allows individuals within the mainstream society to feel relatively safe …
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Apartheid and identity redefinition : a conflictual analysis
… a more complex and differentiated picture of social representation , on the assumption that individuals and groups be understood in terms of being constituted through the social domain and actively engaging with and challenging the restrictive aspects embodied in it. The qualitative phase …
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Gender, Agency and the Veil: Analysing the Role of Representations in Identity Construction by Muslim Women
This qualitative research study draws on social representations theory and the concept of social identity to explore dynamics of knowledge and identity in relation to the Muslim practice of veiling. Data was generated from individual and group interviews with mainly second-generation Muslim women …
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Contenido y estructura de representaciones sociales sobre pedagogía y pedagogos en profesores de ciencias
… de análisis la Teoría de las Representaciones Sociales y la Teoría del Conflicto Intergrupo. Se utilizaron datos de cuatro muestras distintas de profesores, pedagogos y estudiantes de cursos de licenciatura, que respondieron voluntariamente a los cuestionarios y entrevistas elaborados. Los …
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Social Change in the Media: Gay, Lesbian, Bi, Trans and Queer (GLBTQ) Representation and Visibility in The New York Times: A Critical, Qualitative Social-Historical Content Analysis of The New York Times
… employs qualitative methodology to analyze social change in business news articles of The New York Times. A random sample of 127 articles published between 1970 and 2000, discussing advertising news and containing one or more of the terms "Gay", "Lesbian", " Bisexual", "Transexual", …
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Key characteristics and attitudes of airline passengers, with particular emphasis upon the low-cost sector: implications for pre-trip decision-making and airline choice
… Attitudes, based upon actual experience and social representation are also considered significant. The findings present a classification of airline passengers based upon the primary research and suggest further quantitative research should explore decision-making over time and in different …
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Users' understandings of the virtual economy in social virtual worlds: consumption and entrepreneurship of virtual goods
Social virtual worlds (SVWs) such as Second Life have gained immense popularity during the last decade. Their popularity is reflected in the explosive growth of the in-world economy, which is mainly supported by users’ consumption of virtual goods and entrepreneurial behavior. Users’ economic …
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Ambient Lyric: Apollinaire and the Social Imaginary of Twentieth-Century US Poetry
… US became understood as a means to mediate social complexity, explored via the reception of the French poet Guillaume Apollinaire. Apollinaire becomes a crucial figure, I argue, because the articulation that he gives of his situation at the heart of a concentrated metropolitan network in …
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An exploration of service users' experiences of a low secure forensic mental health service
… fell into four categories: biological, psychosocial stress, behavioural and experience as being senseless. Participants used a range of ways from each category to make sense of their experience and these were sometimes contradictory. There was also a theme of participants trying to make sense …
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