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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"societal context"”.
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Family and Schooling Effects on Educational Attainment: Great Britain and the United States Compared
… track; and family social capital. I find that societal context isimportant to the process of educational attainment. I confirm the negative effect offamily size on attainment in both countries. However, in Britain, growing up with moresiblings results in lower test scores in secondary school …
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Adolescents' perceptions of sexual wellbeing
… to sexual wellbeing in their interpersonal and societal context. Twenty participants were selected using purposive sampling. In depth, face-to-face interviews were conducted using a semi-structured interview guide with open-ended questions. The data was analysed using qualitative research …
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Development of a Contextual Model for the Treatment of Infidelity
… of critique by feminists for ignoring larger societal processes, thus inadvertently assuming equality in processes that are not inherently equal (e. g., Goldner, 1985; Hare-Mustin, 1978). Current research suggests that gendered power processes continue to organize how heterosexual partners …
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The Experiences of Professional Muslim Women in the Canadian Workplace
… scholarship by systematically examining the societal context through a mixed methods approach which involved a content analysis of Canadian media outlets and 20 one-on-one interviews with professional Muslim women in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). The findings hold implications for promoting …
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Reinterpreting The Moral Economy – Building on the Economic Possibilities of Selflessness
… Developed economies themselves, and the broader societal context in an interaction with technology, have been depicted as systems that – primarily through the economies and the mechanisms of algorithms – encorach on individual freedoms and human agency. Meanwhile, societies are unreasonably slow …
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An agent-based approach to HIV/AIDS epidemic modeling : a case study of Papua New Guinea
… and sexual interactions which may describe the societal context in which HIV may spread. Using this framework, I construct a simplified social and sexual network that represents Papua New Guinea. This country is used as a case study because it illustrates extremes in network topology. Papua New …
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Toward a theory of positive psychology in supporting child-centred family language policy
… their personal experiences and considering the societal context in which the family resides. The findings contribute to a psychologically oriented stream of studies on FLP and offer valuable insights for transnational families seeking more effective and meaningful strategies to enhance home …
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You gotta love them first: educators' experiences with a trauma-informed approach in urban secondary schools
… practices within a broader school and societal context, from a critical, structural perspective, and secondary schools are understudied in the existing literature on trauma-informed schools. The data for this dissertation comprise in-depth interviews with 40 secondary school educators …
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"YOU BITCH! YOU SLUT! YOU WHORE!": GENDER-SPECIFIC SYSTEM JUSTIFICATION AS A MEDIATOR OF WOMEN'S SELF-SEXUALIZATION AND BENEVOLENT SEXISM, ENVIRONMENTAL MASTERY, AND GENERAL POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE AFFECT
… of this study include illuminating the role of societal context in shaping the function of marginalized individuals' behaviors, as well as advancing feminist scholarship by bridging the opposing views regarding women's self-sexualizing behaviors.
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A grounded theory exploration of therapists' views and experiences of working with asylum seekers using trauma-focused integrative interventions
… attempting to raise awareness of the broader societal context. These accounts seem to suggest the need for casework, tailored therapeutic interventions, and the adoption of an eclectic and integrative approach. The outcomes also seem to indicate that both their experiences (experiential) and …
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Nursery workers' narratives: what makes a 'good' nursery worker?
… in the current political, economic and societal context in England. It discusses the findings of a qualitative narrative study which investigates how ‘good’ practice is understood by nursery workers who directly work or have worked with babies and young children. In order to find out …
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Some dilemmas in the development of social work education in Hungary.
… education, furthermore an outline of the social-societal context of Hungarian social work education. The researcher investigated this theme as a leader and teacher of social work education in Hungary by literature, references and symptoms of social work and social work education practice. The …
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Analysis of INSET Policy and Provision for Second Level Teachers in the Nineties
… Policy analysis requires that the changing societal context o f the policy process be considered. The research methodology included desk research and interview. The former involved the study and interpretation of published and unpublished primary and secondary sources. Informal interviews …
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Understanding skin colour: Exploring colourism and its articulation among black and coloured students
… potential intimate partners, and in their wider societal context. A thematic analysis revealed four main themes: a) Racial identity formation; b) Skin tone valuations and their influence in the colourism hierarchy; c) Gendered articulations of colourism; and d) Trauma and its effect on the …
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Toward an Integrated Self: Making Meaning of the Multiple Identities of Gay Men in College
… a nested system between the Individual and Societal Contexts. The Individual Context includes five main themes: (1) Sense of Sameness Disappears; (2) Compartmentalizing Identit(ies); (3) Seeking Community; (4) Questioning Allegiances; and (5) Living in the Nexus. The Societal Context …
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Trade unionism and socio-economic development in the Yorkshire glass industry, circa 1840-1940
… both at the point of production and in a wider societal context. The thesis consists of two parts. Part, One, is a summary of the principal theories which have emerged from the controversy concerning the nature and role of the labour aristocracy and indicates areas of investigation concerning …
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A critical ethnography of tourism entrepreneurship & social change in a fishing village community in Gran Canaria
… nature of resource use and appropriation in the context of tourism development. Much of the existing literature on tourism development is dominated by generalized models which fail to theorize the diverse and complex dynamics of local level tourism development, or particularist ethnographies of …
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CSR and the Development of CSR Reporting in the Chinese Banking Sector
… (CSR) with the background of the Chinese context first, and then analyses the development of CSR reporting in the Chinese banking sector during the period from 2005 to 2009.<br/><br/>There are four theoretical perspectives which have been considered in relation to CSR, which are …
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Context and Participation in Machine Learning
… They are then used in complex socio-technical contexts, where they interact with and affect diverse populations. However, development decisions are often made in isolation, without deeply taking into account the deployment context in which the system will be used. And they are typically hidden …
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The Relationship and Interaction Process of Taiwanese Couples Having Undergone Assisted Reproductive Technology- A Systemic Perspective
… impact vary across different social and cultural contexts. Recognising the complex and wide-ranging nature of infertility issues, integrated interventions have emerged as a novel approach to assist infertile couples effectively. Drawing upon Helms et al.'s (2011) modified three-level model of …
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