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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"social transition"”.
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A study of the psycho-social transition of separated and divorced men and women.
Paper copy at Leddy Library: Theses & Major Papers - Basement, West Bldg. / Call Number: Thesis1982 .W547. Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 40-07, page: . Thesis (M.S.W.)--University of Windsor (Canada), 1982.
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Civil War Camps of Instruction in Illinois: Exploring the Transition from Civilian to Soldier
… camp of instruction that the soldier was born, transitioning from civilian to soldier.</p> <p>Illinois established camps of instruction to train the men who fought for the Union. Based upon letters, diaries, and memoirs written by soldiers, as well as local newspapers of the era, a picture …
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EGGS UNDER THE RED FLAG AND BEYOND: THE CINEMA OF THE FIFTH GENERATION AND ITS REPRESENTATION OF CHILDHOOD
… a thirty-five year period of post-Maoist social transition in China since the beginning of the market reform and opening policy in 1978. To look at evolving childhood through their films is to position the construction of childhood under the prism of the most prominent and controversial …
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Collusion, crime, and the death of downtown : a study of firm relocation in Johannesburg, South Africa
… itself a function of political, economic, and social transition, push individual firms to disperse to new locales throughout the city. Exogenous factors like crime, state failure, and skewed property markets biased firms against the CBD as a viable location. Their predominance in the range of …
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An Investigation of the Duty of States to Prosecute International Crimes and the Question of Amnesty
… of serious violence or otherwise to facilitate social transition and reconciliation and not those granted in order merely to shield former leaders from criminal liability have been considered as legitimate. It is now apt to conclude that amnesty cannot prevail over prosecution particularly where …
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A qualitative study exploring the experiences of services of parents of pre-pubertal children who identify in gender diverse ways
… the experiences of supporting a child during social transition alongside professional help, may help to inform future clinical practice and enable families to be supported in a way they find most helpful. Ten parents (six mothers, four fathers) of pre-pubertal children who expressed themselves …
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Teenagers, Everyday Life and Popular Culture in 1950s Ireland
The aim of this thesis is to provide a social and cultural history of young people, their lives and their interactions with popular culture in 1950s Ireland. Popular culture is contextualised within the wider social discourses of the decade including emigration, unemployment, globalisation and the …
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The end of tolerance: new discourses of racism, migration and the state in Britain, 1997-2008
… shift, an older notion of 'integration' as social, economic and political inclusion, to be effected by anti-discrimination legislation, multicultural tolerance and political representation, gave way to a new notion of'integration' defined as the adoption of 'British values', to be effected …
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An integrative, community-collaborative approach to investigating health, diet, and the oral microbiome in ancestral and descendant coast Tsimshian communities
… relationship between periods of sociocultural transition, diet, and the oral microbiome in the ancestral and descendant Coast Tsimshian communities of British Columbia, Canada. Over the past 6,000 years, the Coast Tsimshian have experienced two significant periods of social transition: …
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The Fantastic Manifesto: Monstrosity of Memory and Epiphany of Selfhood in The Spirit of the Beehive (1973)
… to be human, specifically a child, during this social transition. For Erice’s young protagonist, James Whale’s Frankenstein (1931) conjures more than a simple celluloid terror. Ana’s emotional kinship with the wretch remodels the framework of her perception of selfhood; the bond awakens an …
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Cambridge and its economic region, 1450-1560
… traditionally viewed as one of economic and social transition. Taxation records of the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries are used to analyse the population and wealth of Cambridge and its region. Rates of growth varied noticeably between different towns, sub-regions and parishes within the …
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More than the sum of its parts: practitioner perspectives on the characteristics, affordances and challenges of all-through schools in the English state system.
… for their secondary education each year. The social challenges faced at transfer and the curricular and pedagogical disconnects between primary and secondary education are well documented in the literature. This thesis explores the opportunities provided by the all-through configuration to …
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College Transition Experiences of Students with Mental Illness
… & McClanahan, 2004). The high school to college transition experience has been identified as a key factor in students' decision to remain in college and persist to graduation (Hunter, 2006; Levitz & Noel, 1989; Pascarella & Terenzini, 2005; Roe Clark, 2005). More students than ever are coming to …
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Early College Academic Performance: Studying the Effects of Earning College Credits from Advanced Placement and Dual Enrollment
… in high school by participation in Credit Based Transition Programs (CBTPs), specifically AP and DE, and students who did not earn college credits during high school. This study has contributed to literature examining the relationship between earning college credits in high school and early …
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The Globalization of Cosmetic Surgery: Examining BRIC and Beyond
… with concepts of status, upward mobility, and a social transition to global citizenship. These overall patterns allowed for the subsequent analysis of a third key question: (3) Who ultimately benefits from mass-consumer cosmetic surgery? Following a comprehensive comparative analysis and a …
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The Transition Experiences of Middle Eastern Graduate Students in the U.S.
… an understanding of how MEGS experienced the transition from their home to the host culture and recommend how to help them with it. The conceptual framework used in this study was a comprehensive transition model incorporating Schlossberg et al.'s 4S Transition Model (1995) with the main ideas …
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Exploring the Academic and Social Transititon Experiences of Ethnic Minority Graduate Students
… in higher education, and prepare them for transition to graduate study. To date, however little research has been conducted to see if GSPPs actually assist minority students in making that transition. This study explored the academic and social transition experiences of minority students to …
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Discovery in flux: informing design for experience of exploratory walking in changing urban landscapes
… cities have been undergoing rapid spatial and social transition (United Nations 2014). Increasingly complex urban environments have been posing challenges to wayfinding — a process of negotiating and moving around unknown quarters (Lynch 1960). Wayshowing — an information design discipline (Per …
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Tommy Atkins, War Office Reform and the Social and Cultural Presence of the Late-Victorian Army in Britain, c.1868-1899
… symbol of British imperial strength and heroism. Socially, however, attitudes to the rank-and-file were defined by a pragmatic realism purged of such sentiments, the likes of which would characterise the British public’s relationship with their army for over thirty years. Scholars of both imperial …
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Imagined nation and imagined womanhood in the Shaw Brothers' musicals
… that the female genre is a product of its social-historical juncture of the 1960s. On the one hand, the genre reflects the Cold War atmosphere between Mainland China (People’s Republic of China) and Taiwan (ROC). The female characters are embodiment of an imagined nation to the Chinese …
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