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Showing 1 to 20 of 103 for “"social worlds"”.
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(In)Justice in Nonideal Social Worlds
… assumption becomes more peculiar juxtaposed to social and political struggle for justice, which quite commonly begins with cries of injustice. Injustice is an importantly distinct philosophical notion from justice – it can explain how justice fails to be realized in interesting and sophisticated …
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EMAIL AND ENRON: USING CMM TO MAKE BETTER SOCIAL WORLDS IN ORGANIZATIONS
… and will be examined to make arguments about social worlds that Enron created. There are three main outcomes that guide the study. First, this work creates an exemplar study that utilizes a general CMM framework in the DICA form for analysis, in the hopes that others will utilize CMM as a …
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Relations of Care: Framing the Social Worlds of Young Adults with Complex Needs
… constraints may conspire, resulting in reduced social opportunities and impoverished social networks. Centred within an ecological framework, this mixed-methods study used interviews, an online survey and case-study methods to investigate the ways in which care is understood and provided to …
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Disengagement From Intrinsically Transient Social Worlds: The Case of a Distance Learning Community
… activities throughout membership in a transient social world. The next ten dimensions represent activities that participants undertake as they disengage from an intrinsically transient social world. Taken together, these twelve dimensions model the process of disengaging from an intrinsically …
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From place to placelessness: Malawian musicians, commercial music, and social worlds in southern Africa
This dissertation examines how social belonging and community ties among Malawians and other individuals in southern Africa articulate with multiple geographic and social scales. As an ethnographic study focusing on musicians, this work demonstrates how musical sounds and practices are integrated …
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Social Attention in Diverse Social Worlds: Biculturalism, Racial Diversity, and Regional Culture Shape Gaze Cueing Behaviour
… provides the foundation for learning about one’s social world. Recent research, however, suggests that some features of gaze cueing may be shaped by culture. One such feature is whether the gaze cueing effect is interrupted by gazes embedded in the background (i.e., social context). In this …
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Exploring the dimensions of disability and leisure: an examination of disabled individuals’ social worlds and leisure experiences.
… explore and assess disabled individuals’ social worlds and leisure experiences. The research methodology adopted a constructivist- interpretivist approach involving interviews to gather data from individuals about their disabilities, lives and leisure experiences. Five participants were …
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Examining the interconnection between queer women's resistance and their social worlds in South Africa from 1980 to 2010
… both their public activism and their intimate social worlds from 1980 to 2010 by analysing the webs of connection between the two. While queer historical literature has indicated there have been various forms of social exclusion and oppression both towards the LGBTQ+ community, and within the …
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The Materiality of the Self: A Multimodal, Communicative Approach to Identity
… and engagement between an individual and his/her social worlds. The multimodal approach focuses on the materiality of lived experience and the process of interaction and engagement between an individual and his/her social worlds through which his or her identity materializes. I apply the …
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Playing alone, feeling connected: do single-player video games with social surrogates replenish belonging after social rejection
… single-player video games, may help people feel socially connected. For example, according to the bi-dimensional rejection taxonomy, solo gameplay is a disengaged prosocial response, an attempt to replenish belonging in a hands-off, indirect manner. Also, according to the social surrogacy …
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Building realities : Ecuadorian Amazonian Kichwa oral literature and its role in Napo Kichwa social world-making
… is how Napo Kichwa oral literature builds Kichwa social worlds. Each of the texts included in this dissertation explores not only the paradigms which define human and non-human beings, but these texts also participate in the active creation of worlding. These texts show what it means to be a human …
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Jewish Multi -Ethnicities in Post -Soviet Russia: An Eventful Ethnography of the Moscow Choral Synagogue
… which people creatively react to and shape their social worlds. I consider institutional legacies (through archival and ethnographic research) to show how social actors transformed past practices to rebuild their religious institution, as well as to adjust themselves to the uncertainties of the …
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The Social Movement World(s) of UK Heterodox Economics: Constitution, Aims and Practices
… presents a systematic, empirically grounded, social-scientific account of UK heterodox economics. It does so by addressing three central questions: (1) How is UK heterodox economics constituted in discourse and in practice? (2) What does UK heterodox economics aim to achieve? and (3) How do …
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Pandemonium: An essay on predation and modernity
… by which we communicate and the technological, social, and economic forces that shape this communication, our attempts to divert communication flow, and so to carve out a space of freedom, must be aimed at the level of communication infrastructure, and at the processes by which this …
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Creating shared meaning: Narratives of youth violence, mindfulness, and counselling psychology
… young people who have engaged in violent and antisocial acts understand and make sense of this behaviour, and how these understandings relate to their views of self and the worlds they live in. Narrative interviews were conducted with eight individuals about their lives and their social worlds, …
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Social networking in vehicles
In-vehicle, location-aware, socially aware telematic systems, known as Flossers, stand to revolutionize vehicles, and how their drivers interact with their physical and social worlds. With Flossers, users can broadcast and share information, communicate with one another, and experience a more …
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Technoscientific Knowledge Practices of Adolescent Mental Health Care Work
… defined and approached within and across social worlds? How do practitioners negotiate social processes of diagnosis? In what ways does the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) as a technology, shape the diagnostic and treatment work of mental health practitioners? In what ways does …
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Culturally relevant literacy practices: a case of a Brazilian emergent bilingual
… “Inside-out,” that is, from children’s social worlds and needs; and “Outside-In,” emerging from “outside ” features from the institution and its demands. Based on these perspectives parents and teachers facilitate literacy practices and determine which literacy practices are relevant. …
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