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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"symbolic boundary"”.
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"I don't want to go up the hill": Symbolic Boundary Work Among Residents of an Assisted Living Community
In this study I explore boundary work processes that older adults do which influences friendships among residents of a progressive care retirement community. Accounts of boundary work as mechanisms for including some and excluding other residents as potential friends were collected by using a …
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This Land is (not) Your Land: Racial Boundaries and American Appropriation in the Formation of Attitudes about Immigrants
… assessing immigrants. I reference literature on symbolic boundary making to offer a contingent form of national identity, American Appropriation, to test this premise. Using the 2004& 2014 General Social Survey (n=1760), I test the association between race, American Appropriation, and immigrant …
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...written by a angry woman or a #Soyboy? So hard to tell sometimes.: Investigating the Reinforcement of Social Inequality Through the Soyboy Discourse
… the soyboy participates in the larger symbolic boundary that upholds and reifies traditional masculinity. The soyboy discourse engages with cultural knowledge that reinforces the gendered and political hierarchies that are upheld through traditional masculinity. This project outlines …
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A transnational religious institution and its role on the construction of collective agency : a case of Korean military brides in a Korean immigrant religious institution
… indicates that their efforts to create an own boundary comes with the change in their identity management from "commuter" to "integrator" in which their identities become more flexible and multi-layered, and it suggests that this effort is the part their gradual adaptation as well as resistance …