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Showing 1 to 20 of 318 for “"worldviews"”.
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Worldviews of Textile Workers in India
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Home energy conservation : psychological and environmental worldviews
… are based, in part, on differences in preferred worldviews. It is argued here that more effective educational delivery methods could be employed if they were based on these individual worldview preferences. This study investigates both psychological and environmental worldviews in light of energy …
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Japanese Worldviews, Ideologies, and Foreign Aid Policy
… important areas. I also study the beliefs and worldviews (cognitive frameworks) of seven key Japanese leaders for the same period: Fukuzawa Yukichi, Mori Arinori, Ito Hirobumi, Yamagata Aritomo, Kato Hiroyuki, Yanagita Kunio, and Emperor Hirohito. I analyze these historical experiences and …
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No Common Ground: Competing Worldviews at Mato Tipila
<p>This project analyzes a legal conflict (Bear Lodge Multiple Use Assn v Babbitt 2 F. Supp. 2d 1448) at Mato Tipila, a significant place for the Lakota (Sioux) community and with which they have a historical and longstanding relationship. Commercial and recreational rock-climbing enthusiasts who …
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Rural youth worldviews about social justice and social action
… social justice and social action (SJSA) worldviews. The research paradigm included influences from constructivist-interpretivist (e.g., Ponterotto, 2005), critical (e.g., Liu, 2014), and pragmatic (e.g., Savin-Baden & Major, 2014) perspectives. Participants in the pilot (n = 10) and main …
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Worldviews and health care choices among people with chronic pain
… or not there was a relationship between the worldviews of people with chronic pain and the health care choices that they make. The background of the study included evidence of a cultural shift toward integration of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) with conventional health care …
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An Examination of the Worldviews and Practices of Contemporary Chinese Astrologers
This qualitative research showcased a range of worldviews through in-depth interviews with contemporary Chinese astrologers in Hong Kong. Through the practitioners’ practices and lived experience, the study shows the approach to astrology is marked as much by diversity as they are by individual …
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The discourse of sŏnjin’guk: South Korea’s Eurocentric modern identities and worldviews
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Voluntary sector chargeable support services: A typology of actor worldviews of legitimacy.
… providing insight into the ways in which actors' worldviews of what is - and what is not - legitimate are shaped, and how such worldviews then play out in practice. At a theoretical level, the research advances knowledge in respect of bringing about an understanding of the contemporary changes …
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When worldviews collide: the role of emotion in reactions to symbolic threats.
Until recently, intergroup relations research has undervalued the role of emotion. This dissertation examines how people's emotional reactions to challenges to their cherished values--symbolic threats--shape social attitudes. I argue that people respond with distinct emotions depending on whether …
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Reconstruction Unbound: American Worldviews In A Period of Promise and Conflict, 1865-1874
<p>In studying the United States' Reconstruction, historians have long devoted their energies to examining conflicts in and about the southern states. These conflicts, and the often brilliant literature devoted to them, cannot and should not be trivialized in understanding U.S. history during and …
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Indigenous worldviews meet Western paradigms: a path to renewal of human/non-human relationships
… and collaboration between Western and Indigenous worldviews regarding our human relationship with more-than-human nature. Issues of discrimination and epistemic injustice are contextualised with existing minority and intersectional thought, and distinguished from particular incommensurabilities …
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Fostering Connection and Healing: An Intervention Study to Understand Adolescent Sexual Offending Treatment Effects, Mechanisms, and Worldviews
The prevalence of child sexual abuse in Canada is an important social problem, with a significant portion of sexual offending charges against children and youth peers committed by adolescents or young adults under the age of 24 (Afifi et al., 2014; Gewirtz-Meydan & Finkelhor, 2020; Statistics …
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Worldviews of master's degree students in the healthcare and business fields : implications for wellness initiatives and practice
There is no abstract available for this dissertation.
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Mind the Ambiguity! Exploring How Goal Ambiguity Influences the Role of Information and Worldviews in Decision-Making
… the information provided and decision-makers’ worldviews (understood as both descriptive and normative components of cognition). Prior research has produced mixed findings, leaving the role and effects of goal ambiguity unclear. I argue that in ambiguous decisions, where no clear benchmark is …
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Africa is Always Bringing forth Something New: African Worlds and Worldviews in British Enlightenment Literature, 1660-1780
This dissertation argues that African worlds and worldviews left an indelible mark on British Enlightenment texts, whether their authors encountered the continent first or secondhand. As eighteenth-century thinkers began experimenting with empirical and categorical strategies for making sense of …
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The Culture of Green: The Role of Cultural Worldviews, Psychological Connectedness, Time Discounting, and Social Norms in Environmental Decisions
… opportunity to examine whether or not cultural worldviews or social norms are motivating environmental behaviors (e.g. energy conservation). It is also possible to test whether the uncertain nature of climate change and its impacts over time results in different temporal discounting rates …
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From Orr to Zacharias and Beyond: An Approach Toward Christian Apologetics from the Purview of Worldview Truth-Testing
… of truth-claims from within the scope of entire worldviews, demonstrating how it is an effective approach for validating Christianity’s truthfulness, revealing other worldview’s falseness, and neutralizing arguments against the apologetic task itself. Chapter 1 sets forth a history of how …
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Reasoning and Religion: The Relevance of the Academic Study of Religion to Critical Thinking Pedagogy
… thinking pedagogy, especially with regard to worldviews and problems associated with the influences of worldviews on reasoning. I highlight the growing recognition within critical thinking literature that critical thinking pedagogy ought to include a sizable component devoted to worldviews, …
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The role of cognitive appraisals in the disruption of anxiety-buffer functioning among trauma survivors experiencing posttraumatic distress
… in undermining traumatised individuals’ cultural worldviews, thereby leaving them more vulnerable to experiencing death anxiety. Method A two-way between-groups experimental design was employed to examine this. Participants with high and low PTSD symptom severity were randomly assigned to either a …
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