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Showing 1 to 20 of 56 for “"sociocultural context"”.
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The sociocultural context of the video game experience
… form that has been transformed within the context of the so-called computer revolution. The social world of the video arcade thereby provides us with a symbolic community capable of illustrating the potential impact of modern computer technology upon the individual and the social matrix of …
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Tintin a study behind tintin’s personality traits and its sociocultural context
… Tintín, un personaje de ficción que emerge en un contexto social de importancia histórica. A través de este estudio de caso pretendemos mostrar los rasgos de personalidad en el personaje de Tintín que resultan de su contexto sociocultural, abriendo a una discusión entre la relación existente de la …
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Identity in Sociocultural Context: Life Stories of Korean Youth in New York City
… Korean community in New York were all important contexts for the youth’s realization of their Korean-ness. Images of Koreans specifically and Asians in general influenced their awareness of Korean and Asian identity. The youth confronted racism, which along with American stereotypes and …
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Teacher accountability policy and sociocultural context: A cross-country study focusing on Finland and Singapore
… depends partly on its compatibility with sociocultural context. This is partly because an accountability instrument will only influence a teacher’s motivation if the teacher regards the instrument as sufficiently meaningful, legitimate, or otherwise persuasive—and perceptions of meaning …
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Fathers Are Fathers Are Fathers: How Sociocultural Context and Sexual Orientation Influence the Gendering of Children
… silencing their lived experiences. Given that sociocultural and political environments vary greatly state-to-state, it is important to see how the specific context in which fathers live may impact their differential parenting of sons and daughters, their gender beliefs, and the way they feel …
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The role of the sociocultural context in explaining variance in incidence of psychosis and higher rates of disorder in minorities.
… and religious minorities using a theoretical sociocultural distance model I developed using literature from the social sciences. Here, I proposed that culturally distant minorities were particularly at risk of social exclusion, and this outsider experience led to increased psychosocial …
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ISOLATING EFFECTS OF PERCEPTUAL ANALYSIS AND SOCIOCULTURAL CONTEXT ON CHILDREN’S COMPREHENSION OF TWO DIALECTS OF ENGLISH, AFRICAN AMERICAN ENGLISH AND GENERAL AMERICAN ENGLISH
… information with communicative intent and sociocultural information (speaker identity). To this end, it is proposed that the perceptual analysis hypothesis views dialect variation as another form of signal degradation. Simplifying dialect variation to a signal-mapping problem potentially …
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Style and Meaning in African English: A Sociolinguistic Analysis of South African and Zimbabwean English
… 'meaning' of the variety of English used in the sociocultural context of South Africa and Zimbabwe. The focus is primarily on the African or Black English variety.
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Prostitution as the exploitation of women and a violation of women’s human rights
… if certain legal reforms could succeed in a sociocultural context such as South Africa. This thesis seeks to investigate prostitution within the sociocultural context of male power and female oppression in South Africa. Prostitution is revealed as the exploitation of women and a violation of …
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Remaining and becoming: Cultural crosscurrents in an Hispano school
… learning to be within the historical and sociocultural context of their community? The choices, contingencies, and options open to students are contextualized by how their life histories intersect with the history of their school and community.
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Experiences of Malaysian professionals working with sexually abused children: an exploratory study
… and whether any characteristics of the Malaysian sociocultural context contributed to the difficulties they encountered. In depth semi structured interviews were conducted with 21 participants representing a range of professions, all of whom had experience of working with child sexual abuse …
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Becoming Human Through the Communalization of Trauma and Healing: Experiences of Support Among Former Child Soldiers in Northern Uganda
… expanded to consider the influence of the larger sociocultural context on one's recovery after war. In fact, research has begun to document the protective nature of community acceptance and support for children affected by armed conflict. To date, few studies have explicitly assessed how former …
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Smart girls : a deconstructive discourse analysis of smartness
… their smart girl identities in their current sociocultural context. After analyzing the data from the group interviews, I outline five themes that seem to be prevalent in the stories told by the smart girls in this thesis. Finally, I discuss how the performative identities of the smart girls …
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Práticas de leitura dos alunos do 9º ano da Escola Municipal Violeta Formiga
… experienced by these young people in their sociocultural context. The research has exploratory and descriptive, and of qualitative and quantitative approach. Includes bibliographical research to write a review of literature and field research, using a questionnaire with opening questions and …
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Exploring Social Identity and the Acculturation Process of Venezuelan Undergraduate Students at a Midwestern U.S. University
… host national social groups in various social contexts was also reported. Thus, this study found that international students from Venezuela studying at a Midwestern U.S. university experience acculturative stress as a result of intercultural contact and manage this stress by both retaining and …
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Unruly Acts: Queer Masculinities in Akram Zaatari’s Lens-Based Artworks
… of masculinities in the Arab world. Within such context, this dissertation addresses the emerging and shifting visual representations of ‘queer’ masculinities as they are artistically performed in the contemporary lens-based artworks of internationally recognized Lebanese artist Akram Zaatari. …
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How autistic adults experience bereavement: an interpretative phenomenological study
… loss and uncertainty’, ‘Marginalisation: the sociocultural context of autistic grief’, ‘Adapting to change and loss: meaning and connection’, and ‘Stories and scripts: making sense of it all’. Consistent with existing grief literature, participants’ grief reactions included affective, …
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A Defence of Szasz’s ‘The Myth of Mental Illness’ and Its Relevance to Modern Mental Healthcare
… Szasz, but also demonstrates the impact that our sociocultural context has on our expectations relating to mental disorders. I then conclude that, due to failures in mental healthcare existing today that are similar to those present at the time of Szasz’s writing, ideas from ‘The Myth of Mental …
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Volunteering literacies : an ethnographic approach to exploring the literacy practices of adult volunteers on a vocational further education programme and a social media networking site in an aviation-centred uniformed youth group
… – and various types of texts in the volunteering context. Another aim is to explore how these volunteers’ self-generated literacy practices are shaped by new technologies, with a particular focus on a social networking site, Facebook. The study is grounded in the framework of literacy as a social …
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Uno specchio frammentario. La soggettività umana in H. G. Gadamer tra determinazione storica e responsabilità al singolare
… of its heterodetermination by the historical and sociocultural context in the first place. The principal and more characteristic concepts of the gadamerian thought (play, prejudice, the consciousness of historical determination, the history of effects, and so on), have been treated again, just …
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