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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"symbolic boundaries"”.
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Moral Landscapes: Religion, Secularism, and Symbolic Boundaries
… and one secular congregation on the moral boundaries they use to understand themselves and others. Through a newly developed graphical instrument, in-depth interviews, and surveys, this dissertation shows that contemporary theories on how people use religiously oriented beliefs to separate …
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SOCIAL IDENTITY, SOCIAL CHANGE AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF SYMBOLIC BOUNDARIES IN A WEST HIGHLAND SETTLEMENT
… can only be understood in terms of cultural and symbolic boundaries.
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Crafting Legitimacy: Status Shifts, Critical Discourse, and Symbolic Boundaries in the Cultural Field of Craft Beer in the United States from 2002 to 2017
… of status as well as the construction of symbolic and social boundaries. The theoretical foundation for this study draws on insights from work on cultural fields (Bourdieu 1993), art worlds (Becker 1982), cultural and artistic legitimation (Baumann 2001; 2007a; 2007b; 2011), social and …
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Inclusion, Exclusion, and Negotiations: A Study of Escort Workers and Boundary-Work
… in work-related experiences, I use the boundaries framework and study boundary-work accomplished by the participants in an attempt to avoid perpetuating negative labels associated with escort work. I define boundary-work as the process by which individuals create symbolic distinctions …
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"I don't want to go up the hill": Symbolic Boundary Work Among Residents of an Assisted Living Community
… in the United States. First, a survey explored symbolic boundaries related to cultural capital, defined as music and leisure interest and participation, as well as structural and social aspects of friendships among residents (N=66). Second, in-depth interviews of a sub-sample of residents of an …
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Hacks/Müller: Zur Selbstbestimmung der DDR-Dramatik in Bezug auf die literarische Tradition und sozialistische Gegenwart
… (Karin Vieweg-Marks) in the selected plays. The symbolic boundaries of research are the Berlin Wall's construction in 1961 and the expulsion of the German poet and songwriter Wolf Biermann in 1976. By analyzing the authors' concrete strategies, the thesis demonstrates that their plays articulate …
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Survival of the preppers : an exploration into the culture of prepping
… beliefs and behaviors and also how preppers drew symbolic boundaries. The findings show that preppers are retreating to the private sphere to find solutions to their individual concerns and are averse to relying on public entities or institutions to meet their needs.
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"An Alien in a Christian World": Intolerance, Coping, and Negotiating Identity among Atheists in the United States
… narrate their identities as atheists by drawing boundaries of inclusion and exclusion. Atheists, cognizant of these symbolic boundaries, then choose where and when to avoid emphasizing these demarcations in their personal lives. Since this minority status is not visible, like it would be for an …
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Dividing the Blue Line: the Cultural Work of Rural Policing in Upstate New York
… a resource to structure and reproduce social and symbolic boundaries. Drawing on in-depth interviews with a combination of 40 permanent residents and second-home owners in the area, I explore how policing in this rural amenity-based tourist town is rooted in the economic and social histories of …
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Embedded Cities, Excluded Citizens: Governance, Housing, and Rroma Marginality in Post-Socialist Romania
… set access to social housing and define the symbolic boundaries of urban citizenship. These findings explain why EU instruments yield uneven inclusion and clarify what would have to change locally to alter that pattern.
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“How Firm A Foundation”: California Mormons Negotiating Inclusivity, Politics and Place
… and lived. Creative engagement with these symbolic boundaries creates the context in which members to negotiate with emergent discourses on tolerance, progress and ritual. During my time in the field, Mormon feminists called for more opportunities for women to lead in the church, and …
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Seed To Sale: Boundary Work In Mississippi Agriculture
… on Michèle Lamont’s studies by addressing the symbolic and social boundaries of local organizations and federal institutions and the ways these boundaries both constrain and enable farmers.
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Qualitative Inquiry into the Everyday Experiences of Secondary School Students within Significant Spheres of their Lifeworld: Family, Friends and School – Narratives from Lahore
… people manage, resist, and redefine social and symbolic boundaries. This navigation of boundaries opens new conversations about identity construction in glocalising and cosmopolitanising contexts. This offers a holistic understanding of the expectations, desires, meanings, agencies, and …