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Showing 1 to 20 of 147 for “"social roles"”.
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Attribution to Deviant and Nondeviant Social Roles
… was used to study causal attribution to social roles as influenced by perceived deviance of the role, instructions to identify with the role, and participant gender. The perceived deviance or nondeviance of the roles was determined by a pilot study. The roles were varied randomly through …
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Just Doing My Job: Normative Dimensions of Social Roles
… I do?” Often, our answers make reference to our social roles: we ask what we should do as lawyers, citizens, or parents. But this confronts us with problems. Consider a would-be whistleblower, a wife challenging the gendered division of household labor, or the conflicted police officer Javert …
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Co -Constructing Social Roles in German Business Meetings: A Conversation Analytic Study
… that certain uses of ok relate to enacting the social role of 'doing-being-boss.' Furthermore, Chapter 3 examines the practice of how employees produce extended reports about ongoing projects. In discussing the social role of 'doing-being-employee,' I compare the practice of story-telling in …
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The Musician in America: A Study of His Social Roles. Introduction to a Sociology of Music
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-05T21:20:45Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 0003142.pdf: 26895739 bytes, checksum: d17b70f93f5396a86a9ceaf7ad9cb3d8 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1951
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Acoustic and visual tracking reveals distribution, song variability and social roles of humpback whales in Hawaiian waters
Acoustic and visual methods were used to track and observe humpback whales off Hawai'i. Chapter 3 found 62 singing whales were located acoustically in water depths from 10 to 305 fathoms. This indicates that singers are not confined within the 100 fathom contour, although near shore waters had a …
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Keeping All the Balls in the Air: Social Class and Stress, Relationship Commitment, and Marital Expectations among Cohabiting Young Adults
… to marriage. While cohabiting, they occupy social roles such as parent, worker, and student, which may produce stress; this may make it difficult for young adults to juggle multiple roles and “keep all the balls in the air” while thinking about relationship commitment and plans to marry. …
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Women's madness in three major dramatic traditions: Greek, Elizabethan, and Japanese Noh
… and Medieval Japan. Delineation of women's four social roles (virgin, wife, mother, and crone) is a methodological tool to analyze women's madness caused by friction between individual emotional needs and social roles ascribed by the several patriarchal systems.
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Executable Texts: Programs as Communications Devices and Their Use in Shaping High-tech Culture
… communities of programmers and uncovering the social roles of these texts within two specific sub-communities and comparing them. In the paper, the social roles of the texts are placed within the context of the technical and cultural constraints and environments in which programs are written. …
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Masculinity in Crisis? A study on the Threat to Masculine Identities through Unemployment
… like the family and work has obscured social roles. The study of men and masculinities has been one of the most vigorous in contemporary postmodernist scholarship as writers have begun to explore the diversity of men's experiences, conceptions of masculinities and their power relations. …
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The potential for commonality in architectural and engineering design
… of the problem lie in the past attitudes, social roles, and training of designers. These aspects were a response to past social stimuli and have continued to today. While an alteration of social roles would be problemmatic, the training process and attitudes of the professions are possible …
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Cultivating Identity: Meaning -Making in the Context of Residential Treatment Settings for Persons With Histories of Psychological Disorders
… (e.g., differential importance of medication, of social roles, and of relationships for rehabilitation), how they view themselves and others, how they organize their narrative accounts, and their views of the future.
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Talking about science? A study of the nature of discussion carried out when students work in small groups in the secondary science classroom
… science classroom for the individual; often the social aspects of this collaboration are overlooked. There is little practitioner research in this area and this project seeks to describe, in detail, the classroom talk carried out by two groups: Group A, a single sex group of boys and Group B, a …
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The Work-Related Roles and Identities of Older Canadians
… seniors in Canada. Despite the wide-spread social expectations that older people should be retired and the public programs that enable their retirement, ideals about the makeup of meaningful social roles have not changed very much, and so are applied to this population in a similar manner as …
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Deconstructing sex: an in-depth, qualitative exploration of women’s sexual experiences and difficulties
… lifespan. Nevertheless, feminist scholars and social science researchers argue that an absence of research exploring women’s subjective interpretations of their sexuality and sexual difficulties exists, since prevalence studies do not address how the range of diverse socio-cultural, relational, …
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Grammatical Gender and Human Differences in Literature: France and England, 1100-1300
… that the modern concept of ‘gender’ as a fact of social organisation and an aspect of individual identity is the metaphorisation of a grammatical concept, and that this metaphor has a history. A major inflection point in this history is the period between 1100 and 1300, when the serviceability of …
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Probing for Reasons: Presentations, Questions, Phases
… highlighted students' choices in academic and social roles. Such choices facilitated continued learning among these students.
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Wifely Figures: Gender, Marriage, and Biblical Typology in Early Modern England
… early modern English literature, especially the social roles of maid, wife, and widow. Reading texts from a variety of genres and by both male and female authors, this dissertation argues that a typological understanding of marriage gave additional, spiritual import to those social roles, thus …
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The portrayal of gender over time in Disney animated films
This study examined the portrayal of gender roles and stereotypes in Disney animated films over the course of The Walt Disney Company's history. By conducting a quantitative content analysis of the nine highest grossing animated films each from a different decade of Disney's existence, data were …
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The impact of team social role performance on team cohesion and team performance
… study examined the relationships between team social role performance, team cohesion, and team performance. The team social roles examined were those identified by Mumford, Campion, and Morgeson (2006): Cooperator, Communicator, and Calibrator. The Group Environmental Questionnaire (GEQ) …
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Teacher-Student Interaction: The Overlooked Dimension Of Inquiry-Based Professional Development
… (i.e., their understandings of inquiry-based social roles and relationships) and discursive practices (i.e., teachers' abilities to interact with student engaged in classroom inquiries) through a combination of expert instruction, immersion in scientific inquiry, and collaborative analysis of …
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