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Lee, Zane Gardner. "Social identities within the Society for Creative Anachronism." Thesis, Texas A&M University, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/3148.
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This research investigated the issue of identity within a historical reenactment group called the Society for Creative Anachronism, the SCA. This international organization numbering in the tens of thousands of participants offered an unusual setting with which to investigate the issue of identities due to identities' fluid nature among SCA members. Whether or not a member was satisfied with their modern world identity, members were free to create a medieval persona, an identity based on a medieval time and culture. Identity Theory provided the conceptual framework to analyze and understand the nature of transient identities that become more permanent through continued participation within the organization. Research hypotheses examined the relationships between subjects' perceived feelings of belonging and their participation in the organization, perceived sense of emotional closeness with subjects' biological family and their participation as well as the relationship between subjects' occupational prestige ranking and their degree of involvement in the SCA. It was found that subjects' participation within the SCA was significantly impacted by perceived sense of belonging within the group as well as by occupational prestige ranking.
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Rodwell, Andrew Douglas. "Anti-modern performance in the Society for Creative Anachronism." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/mq30823.pdf.
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Denning, Robert V. "The Creative Society: Environmental Policymaking in California, 1967-1974." The Ohio State University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1306110418.
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Lash, Sarah. "Singing the dream the bardic arts of the Society for Creative Anachronism /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2009. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3358930.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Folklore and Ethnomusicology, 2009.Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on Feb. 8, 2010). Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-05, Section: A, page: 1745. Adviser: Henry Glassie.
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Barber, Suzanne. "The Transformation of a Shire: Local Negotiation in the Society for Creative Anachronism." TopSCHOLAR®, 2011. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/1063.
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In this thesis, I am examining how a small branch of the Society for Creative Anachronism, Loch an Fhraoich, whose values and identity center around camaraderie and narrative and aesthetic coherence, attempts to balance these two often contradictory principles. To better illustrate the negotiations taking place, I have used ethnographic fieldwork to focus on the areas of material culture, ethno-kinetics, persona, knowledge, and events. These areas are tightly interwoven, and almost never operate independently, but the exercise of isolating them is useful in seeing the complexities of choices that members must make to navigate the social world of the Society for Creative Anachronism.
The Society for Creative Anachronism is a large, international non-profit organization and is often depicted and discussed as a large homogeneous organization. Instead, in this work I have analyzed the smaller group within the larger organization. I have focused on the smaller group in order to bring to light new details of how this group and the individual members operate within a self-selected international organization in a network of personal connections. These groups attain a feeling of distinctness within this large organization by creating an identity for themselves, which expresses their values within the larger SCA framework. Sometimes these values contradict each other or subvert the larger overriding SCA ethos, and members will mediate their participation in order to avoid breaking from the SCA framework entirely while still protecting their group identity.
This can be examined in light of narrative construction and maintenance. The Society for Creative Anachronism supports an official homogenous metanarrative. It is this narrative that is most often heard and examined by outsiders. Despite the initial perceived dominance, this metanarrative acts as a frame or matrix narrative, and contained within are multiple hyponarratives and little narratives. As one allows their view to slip further towards the idio and unicultural level, these hyponarratives increase in number while decreasing in scope. They go from representing a kingdom, to principality, to a barony, to a shire, to a group of friends within that shire to an individual member.
At every level these narratives connect the individual and group to others, creating a network of relationships and shared narratives that help create a sense of unity and prevent a fracturing of voices and thus support the overriding metanarrative. In order to prevent this system from collapsing inward or fracturing apart, a certain amount of playful transgressive metalepsis and edgeplay must be allowed. The negotiation of this edgeplay is debated, and the style and amount tolerated is often a distinguishing mark between groups. Some key contestations that I have focussed on where this debate occurs include the levels and types of anachronism allowed, the types of partying and practical jokes encouraged or discouraged, gender, media influence, and the understanding of honor and chivalry.
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Parker, Deborah. "THE MAKING OF A PRINCESS: THE ROLE OF RITUAL IN CREATING COMMUNITY AND IDENTITY IN THE SOCIETY FOR CREATIVE ANACHRONISM." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/23132.
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Every weekend in the Society for Creative Anachronism, people from the far reaches of the globe leave behind the structures of their everyday lives, dress themselves in clothing from the Middle Ages, and construct medieval personae. Within a pastiche of fantastical and historical influences, participants create the “Middle Ages as they should have been,” a liminal space where they experience a temporary communitas. Through their participation in informal rituals and formal ceremonies, they celebrate each other’s successes and create a community—a utopia—in which courtesy and honor are the shared core values. In addition, through their performances, people access their creative potential and explore issues of identity. When the weekend is over, the participants return to their modern lives, and—for many—a residue of their temporary creative adaptation persists and contributes to a transformation of their person. Using my insight as a participant observer, this dissertation focuses on some of the elements that contribute to the process of community creation and personal transformation.
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Arango, Velasquez Maria Isabel. "Acts of endurance : a creative transformation in times of struggle in contemporary Colombian memory." Thesis, University of the Arts London, 2015. http://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/8754/.
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This thesis is a practice-based investigation into the articulation of pain beyond representation in contemporary art practice today – in particular the art created under the shadow of violence – conducted by prolonged actions that strive against this concept of a representational logic. Exploring the contemporary Colombian conflict as my case study, the aim of my work is to ask if it is possible to move past the existing logics of representation through a form of making, that when confronted by the distressing sensations of conflict shatters its existing logics. My visual practice is concerned with actions that embody the performative dynamics of movement, in which reality itself gets inscribed into the created images, by retaining a trace of the context that surrounds and affects what is rendered too painful to be articulated and exists silently beyond description in the work. In Colombia, trauma has clearly become culturally transitive; it affects society as a whole through the recurring accumulation of events and the generational transmission of unprocessed histories, obstructing cultural digestion. As such, this practice-based research is situated within complex relations of contemporary culture, social forces, and past and present historical events. At present, under circumstances of constant sociopolitical conflict, this thesis argues that art must register but cannot hope to master what must be approached and confronted through prompting change by poignancy as opposed to puncture. Thus, this thesis proposes a new practical and theoretical interpretation for art practice that engages with this problematic: the reality of extreme pain, which may be forgotten by being remembered through persistent gestural actions of healing as erasure, which draw on affective levels capable of shifting subjectively a caring understanding and an elaboration of such pain. My contribution to the field of art practice is primarily offered through my practical work, which here presents a passage to beyond through the Matrixial sphere and its healing notions of art; the objective being to form a link between remembering and forgetting by engaging acts of endurance, in which I use making as a reaction performed with-in or against the accumulated memory that exists as an active and present-negative force inside the reality of conflict and war. In and through my work I attempt an utterance, which is complicated, censored and interrupted by trauma, yet always striving to find ways to transform its ever-building burdens.
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Erisman, Wendy Elizabeth. "Forward into the past : the poetics and politics of community in two historical re-creation groups /." Digital version accessible at:, 1998. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.
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Makarowski, Felix. "AI and creative machines : copyright protection for AI generated works under EU and Swedish law." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Juridiska institutionen, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-376798.
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The purpose of this thesis is to examine questions related to copyright protection of worksgenerated by artificial intelligence (AI) under EU and Swedish law. The first question that is examined in this thesis is whether works created by AI are at all eligiblefor copyright protection in Sweden and who is the creator of such works: the human behind theAI, the AI itself, both, or perhaps nobody. To determine who the creator of an AI generated workis, the term creator is first defined. The definition is then be applied to two cases. In the firstcase, a human and an AI collaborate to create a work. In the second case, the AI creates a workwithout the involvement of a human. Issues related to ownership of AI generated works are alsodiscussed. The second question that is examined in this thesis is whether there is a need for copyrightreform and how such reform could be achieved. The problems with the existing legal frameworkfor copyright protection are listed. Different solutions or methods for reform are then discussed.Finally, a discussion is held on whether copyright reform is actually needed and what solutionmight best achieve the desired goals.
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Wallace, Amy. "Waste Land or Promised Land: T.S. Eliot's The Idea of a Christian Society." TopSCHOLAR®, 1987. https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/2945.
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In T. S. Eliot's The Idea of a Christian Society, the poet questions the nature of our society's foundations; he believes that Western culture is moving dangerously closer to the liberal and secular and that this shift could be disastrous. Instead, Eliot suggests that we return to what is at the very roots of Western tradition: Christianity. To facilitate this change in direction, Eliot stresses the importance of an educational system which takes a Christian perspective. Also important in his thinking is a Community of Christians, who would act as leaders, and the Christian community (encompassing most of the population), which would restore unity to what has become a depersonalized existence. The philosophical validity of Christianity is integral to Eliot's scheme, and is explained well by author C. S. Lewis. Historian Christopher Dawson outlines the intertwining of religion and culture and the debt Western civilization owes the Christian faith. Eliot's poem The Waste Land is a picture of a society whose barrenness is ironic in light of the promise of life which surrounds it. Both the individuals and their society are blind to their own spiritual deaths. Also echoing Eliot's ideas concerning a Christian society, The Family Reunion and The Cocktail Party are plays of rejuvenation, in which a sacrificial death--whether literal or figurative--brings new life, both to the individual characters and their broken relationships. As allegories of the family of man, Eliot uses the families in these plays to illustrate the change that could turn a waste land into a promised land.
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Tampalini, Serge. "Affective space (looking back) /." Access via Murdoch University Digital Theses Project, 2006. http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/adt/browse/view/adt-MU20071116.144247.
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Jaskonis, Justas. "Lyderio savybių kaita kūrybingoje grupėje." Master's thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2009. http://vddb.library.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2007~D_20090908_194016-77055.
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Magistro darbo objektas – lyderių savybių kaita istoriniame kontekste. Darbo tikslas – lyderio savybių pokyčiai kūrybingoje grupėje. Pagrindiniai darbo uždaviniai: lyderiavimo sąvokos, ir jos ryšio su vadovavimu apibrėžimas bei įvertinimas; lyderio savybių nustatymas; lyderio savybių pokyčių įvertinimas istoriniame kontekste; kūrybingos visuomenės vadovavimo stilių nustatymas; Lietuvos kūrybinių įmonių vadovų apklausos įvertinimas, siekiant nustatyti, kiek pakito lyderio savybės nuo pramoninės visuomenės iki besiformuojančios dabar kūrybingos visuomenės. Naudojant literatūros analizę, buvo supažindina su lyderiavimo samprata, parodyta lyderio savybių kaita istoriniame kontekste, atkreiptas dėmesys į besiformuojančias naujas lyderio savybes. Apibendrinant teorinę ir atlikto tyrimo medžiagą, galima teigti, kad kelta prielaida, jog naujų lyderio savybių išskyrimas tiesiogiai siejasi su atitinkamos eros raktiniais žodžiais ir vertybėmis – iš esmės atitinka tikrovę. Tačiau atsižvelgiant į atlikto tyrimo sritį, daromos išvados, kad lyderio charizma, kuri yra pagrindinė transformacinio vadovavimo, kaip ateities vadovavimo stiliaus sąlyga - dar nepakankamai aktuali Lietuvos kūrybingoms vidutinio dydžio įmonėms. Šis magistro darbas gali būti naudingas informacijos ir komunikacijos, ekonomikos ir vadybos specialistams, padalinių ir organizacijų vadovams, dirbantiems šiuolaikinėse įmonėse. Darbas gali praversti ir sudominti verslo konsultantus bei vadybos mokslinius ekspertus... [toliau žr. visą tekstą]In the historical process human values and personal features characterizing a human being has been obviously changing. In this thesis we will focus on the development and changing of leadership characteristics in the historical framework analyzing personalities of tribal leaders, hunters, feudal lords, industrialists, enterprise leaders and other authorities in the leadership position. The experience of the Western culture and the United States of America will be analyzed in the theoretical part of the thesis and the examples of the Lithuanian creative enterprises will be presented and examined in the practical part. The aim of this work is to study the historical development of the personal characteristics of creative group leaders. The period from hunters’ society to nowadays knowledge society was chosen for the study emphasizing the developing Creative Class. For exhaustive analysis in the first and the second part of the thesis the theoretical leadership preconditions in the above mentioned societies will be examined concentrating on the leadership conception, leader’s characteristics and the changing of those characteristics through the historical periods. In the practical part of the thesis the evolution of changing leader’s characteristics will be analyzed providing the examples of Lithuanian medium creative enterprises. Interview with the help of a questionnaire was chosen as a method. Today’s leader (a valued worker tomorrow) is creative, communicative, cooperative... [to full text]
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Suksai, Ousa, and n/a. "Media and Thai civil society: case studies of television production companies, Watchdog and iTV." University of Canberra. Communication, 2002. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20050602.143439.
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The study concerns the inter-relationship between media reform and civil
society in Thailand between 1995-2000. It examines case studies of two selected
television organisations - the production company Watchdog and the broadcast
channel Independent Television (iTV) - and analyses their internal production
decision-making processes, their public affairs programs and their urban and rural
audiences.
Debates about civil society and media reform between 1995-2000 influenced
the government's media regulation policies to the extent that more attention was paid
to media freedom as intended by Articles 39, 40 and 41 in the 1997 Constitution.
Non-governmental Organisations (NGOs) took an important role in monitoring
government policies on media reform under the Constitution and issues about media
re-regulation and ownership were canvassed, although the drawn out National
Broadcasting Commission (NBC) selecting process delayed media reform. The
transparency of the selection process of the NBC has been widely debated among
NGOs, media scholars and media professionals. Most Thai public affairs programs in
the period were shown on iTV, Channel 9 and Channel 11 and were in the minority
compared with entertainment. Thai television stations normally screened
entertainment programs to make profits, while they usually would not allow producers
to air open debates critical of the government. Also, public affairs programs that were
screened often were given inappropriate airtimes.
Watchdog and iTV treated public affairs programs in different ways.
Watchdog, originating from an NCO, the Creative Media Foundation, emphasized
public participation in local community-oriented programs - such as Chirmsak
Pinthong's Lan Ban Lan Muang - which exemplified civic journalism on television.
In contrast, iTV was created in 1996 to meet the promise made in 1992 after Black
May that a non-state commercial channel would be introduced. It was organised by
journalists from the Nation Multimedia Company and focused on current national
news issues which seldom allowed public participation. Both organisations attempted
to maintain their professionalism despite political and business pressures. Chirmsak
and Watchdog were accused of bias favoring the Democrat Party and often
encountered program censorship. ITV staff, especially in the news department led by
Suthichai Yoon and Thepchai Yong, unsuccessful fought. Shin Corps 2000-2001
takeover of the station that had been brought on by the financial problems of iTV and
the Siam Commercial Bank after the economic crisis of 1997.
There were three main concepts of civil society in the period 1997-2000 -
Communitarianism, Self-sufficiency and Good Governance. These ideas were
advanced by reformers such as Dr. Prawase Wasi and Thirayut Boonme, and were
reinforced by His Majesty King Bhumibol's December 1997 Birthday Speech that
endorsed the ideal of national self-sufficiency. Thai civil society debates often were
involved with rural people, while the 8th National Development Plan and the Chuan
government's policy on decentralisation aimed to strengthen the rural sector as an
antidote to the 1997 crisis. However, the aims of civil society reformers were at times
too idealistic and were viewed with skepticism by some middle class urban critics.
The continuing influence of electoral corruption in rural areas also obstructed civil
society ideals, while decentralisation and community development still maintained a
top-down way of development and depended on government support.
These difficulties in implementing pro-civil society reforms in the political
process were paralleled by difficulties in developing public interest programs on Thai
television. Current affairs and investigative journalism programs, such as iTV Talk,
Tod Rahad and Krong Satanakarn, did not often open public discussion on the
programs. Rather, the regular format of panel discussions, consisting of elites and
some celebrities, tended to focus on national topics rather than local issues. The hosts
of many of these public affairs programs depended on their own celebrities status and
tended to invite well-known guests, whereas community-oriented programs such as
Lan Ban Lan Muang and Tid Ban Tang Muang promoted civic journalism and
deliberative democracy more effectively. The latter programs allowed the public to
participate in the programs as the main actors and even proposed their own agendas.
However, a limited study of three audience focus groups - an expert urban
group, a young middle class urban group, and a rural group - found considerable
scepticism about the possibility of developing public interest awareness via television
programs. The expert and young middle class groups criticised both the hosts and the
style of a selection of current affairs programs, which they thought were too serious
and also biased. Some also considered that current affairs programs were a platform
for the people in power rather than providing a space for the public. Therefore, they
rarely watched them. In contrast, the rural group who participated in Lan Ban Lan
Muang, believed that the program was useful for development communication. The
audience gained information about other communities and used the media as the
means to publicise their own community. However, they rarely watched it because
the airtime of the program was the same as a popular entertainment program on
Channel 3.
The researcher used qualitative research methods to collect data, including indepth
interviews, focus groups, participant observation, program recording and
document analysis. Theoretically, the study has attempted to combine the approaches
of western and Thai scholars. The main approach used to explain the relationship
between the media and civil society is media and public sphere theory, as introduced
by Habermas, and combined with the perspectives on media re-regulation of the Thai
scholar Ubonrat Siriyusak. In terms of analysing Watchdog and iTV, the researcher
used political economy perspectives to understand decision-making in both
organisations. In addition, an organisational culture approach was used to explore
conflicts of interest that arose in both organisations due to their different sub-cultures.
Civic journalism, framing theory and development communication theory were
further employed to examine the television programs and their roles in promoting the
public interest and development projects, while the audience groups were considered
in the context of participatory communication theory and reception theory.
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Richards, Michael John. "Arts Facilitation and Creative Community Culture: A Study of Queensland Arts Council." Queensland University of Technology, 2005. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/16036/.
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This thesis adopts a Cultural Industries framework to examine how Queensland's arts council network has, through the provision of arts products and services, contributed to the vitality, health and sustainability of Queensland's regional communities. It charts the history of the network, its configuration and impact since 1961, with particular focus on the years 2001 - 2004, envisages future trends, and provides an analysis of key issues which may be used to guide future policies and programs. Analysis is guided by a Cultural Industries understanding of the arts embedded in everyday life, and views the arts as a range of activities which, by virtue of their aesthetic and symbolic dimensions, enhance human existence through their impact on both the quality and style of human life. Benefits include enhanced leisure and entertainment options, and educational, social, health, personal growth, and economic outcomes, and other indirect benefits which enrich environment and lifestyle. Queensland Arts Council (QAC) and its network of branches has been a dominant factor in the evolution of Queensland's cultural environment since the middle of the 20th century. Across the state, branches became the public face of the arts, drove cultural agendas, initiated and managed activities, advised governments, wrote cultural policies, lobbied, raised funds and laboured to realise cultural facilities and infrastructure. In the early years of the 21st century, QAC operates within a complex, competitive and rapidly changing environment in which orthodox views of development, oriented in terms of a left / right, or bottom up / top down dichotomy, are breaking down, and new convergent models emerge. These new models recognise synergies between artistic, social, economic and political agendas, and unite and energise them in the realm of civil society. QAC is responding by refocusing policies and programs to embrace these new models and by developing new modes of community engagement and arts facilitation. In 1999, a major restructure of the arts council network saw suffragan branches become autonomous Local Arts Councils (LACs), analogous to local Cultural Industry support organisations. The resulting network of affiliated LACs provides a potentially highly effective mechanism for the delivery of arts related products and services, the decentralisation of cultural production, and the nurturing across the state of Creative Community Cultures which equip communities, more than any other single asset, to survive and prosper through an era of unsettling and relentless change. Historical, demographic, behavioural (participation), and attitudinal data are combined to provide a picture of arts councils in seven case study sites, and across the network. Typical arts council members are characterised as omnivorous cultural consumers and members of a knowledge class, and the leadership of dedicated community minded people is identified as the single most critical factor determining the extent of an LAC's activities and its impact on community. Analysis of key issues leads to formulation of eight observations, discussed with reference to QAC and LACs, which might guide navigation in the regional arts field. These observations are then reformulated as Eight Principles Of Effective Regional Arts Facilitation, which provide a framework against which we might evaluate arts policy and practice.
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Ray, Mary Elizabeth. "THE DIGITALIZATION OF MUSIC CULTURE: A CASE STUDY EXAMINING THE MUSICIAN/LISTENER RELATIONSHIP WITH DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2012. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/174630.
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Mass Media and CommunicationPh.D.
This dissertation explores how the rise of widely available digital technology impacts the way music is produced, distributed, promoted, and consumed, with a specific focus on the changing nature of the relationship between artists and audiences new technology has engendered. Through in-depth interviewing, focus group interviewing, and discourse analysis, this case study explores the contemporary artist-audience relationship. This study demonstrates that digital technology impacts the relationship by making it closer and more multidimensional. This is intensified by the fact that everyone is participating; the audience and artist actively engage each other. The omnipresence of music culture combined with the omnipresence of technology is particularly salient. Media consumers are simultaneously engaged with music through technology, and technology through music and this happens on many different levels. Taken as a whole, artist and audience's musical lives are fragmented as they occur in multiple online and offline places, at multiple times, and are continuous. They create, download, stream, listen, share, burn, and build upon content while engaging in multiple personal and social practices. And, in the process, they experience rich meaning making attached to particular life events, people, places, and times. Engagement in a music community is not just listening to music, or consuming music, but participating in a culture. The nature of contemporary music culture is best characterized by community and as such, this dissertation argues we might better think of the audience as accomplices to the artist.
Temple University--Theses
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Azuah, Unoma Nguemo. "Sky High Flames." VCU Scholars Compass, 2003. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd_retro/123.
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Sky-high Flames is about Ofunne Ofili, an intelligent and ambitious young woman in a Nigerian oppressive patriarchal society who, nevertheless, dreams of becoming a teacher. Once in school, her high spiritedness leads her to constant trouble. After her mother falls ill, Ofunne's father demands that she withdraw from school. But she completes her education with the help of Reverend Sister Dolan, who was her school principal, and who was drawn to Ofunne's personality. After graduation, Ofunne's father insists that she marry a man she barely knows. She consents only because the man is both Catholic and educated. After three years of marriage, her in-laws threaten her with divorce because she has not yet produced a child. While suffering from the guilt of childlessness, Ofunne discovers that her husband has infected her with syphilis. Sky High Flames is about how our hopes and dreams can turn out to become the very tools that destroy us.
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Dalevi, Artelius Jacob. "Macro Trends in Chinese Human Resources : The Effects of Human Resources on the World's Most Populous Nation." Thesis, Jönköping University, JIBS, Political Science, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-1204.
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Makro Trender inom Kinesiska Human Resurser
Medan vi går mot en mer avancerad globaliserad ekonomi har vi också utvecklats från ett
jordbrukssamhälle till ett service samhälle. Som med alla andra delar av mänsklighetens
utveckling har vi fortsatt på en stig av entreprenörskap och förändring till det som vissa
idag kallar ett ”kreativt samhälle”. Det kan vara för tidigt att säga att vi är på väg in i en
ny era men det är klart att förändringar händer mycket snabbare och med en större effekt
runtom jorden och det skapar ett samhälle som är annorlunda jämfört med förut.
Ett samhälle där de begåvade, utbildade och kreativa är den ekonomiska utvecklingens
katalysator. Men uppkomsten av denna, den kreativa klassen, och globaliserings
processen innebär också problem. När människor höjer sig själva och dem runtomkring
till nya höjder genom omfattande förändring finns en risk att de människor som inte
klarar omställningen till en sådan värld lämnas kvar. Det är Globaliseringens paradox;
den ger rikedom till människor som kan anpassa sig medan de andra ofta lämnas för att ta
hand om sig själva.
Den här uppsatsen handlar om de effekterna på världens mest befolkade nation, Kina.
När de kommer till dessa, Human Resurser, de mest produktiva elementen av ett modernt
samhälle är Kina långt bakom. Det Kinesiska loppet mot att bli en global makt handlar
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lika mycket om att komma ifatt resten av världen ekonomiskt som socialt och politiskt.
Medan Kina spänner sina ekonomiska muskler för att förändras uppstår andra problem
och hastigheten som Kina förändras med leder till mer komplicerade sociala problem som
kan komma att hota landets utveckling.
Kina försöker göra det som det tog de främsta utvecklade länderna i världen den största
delen av de senaste 300 åren att göra inom loppet av en generation. Tvingade av
nödvändigheten av reformer jonglerar kommunistpartiet dessa politiska, ekonomiska och
utbildningsmässiga problem på mer och mer komplicerade sätt och längre och längre bort
från varandra. Den här historien börjar dock på ett tåg mellan Washington DC och New
York.
Macro Trends in Chinese Human Resources
As we move into a more advanced globalized economy we have developed from an
agriculture society to a service society. As with every other part of human development
we have continued down the path of innovation and change to what some today call the
“creative society”. It might be to early to say that we are entering a new age but it is clear
that changes happen faster and with greater impact across the globe and that is creating a
society that is different from before.
A society where the talented, educated, creative, are the catalyst of economic
development in a modern economy. But the rise of this creative class and the process of
globalization also offer problems. When people elevate themselves and those around
them to new heights through major change the people who are unable to transit into such
a world run the risk of being left behind. It is the paradox of Globalization; it brings
riches to the people who can adapt to it while the others are often left to tend for
themselves.
This thesis is about those effects on the world’s most populous nation, China. And when
it comes to these, the Human Resources, the most productive elements of a modern
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society, China is far behind. The Chinese race toward becoming a major global power is
as much about catching up to the rest of the world economically a socially and politically.
As China masses its economical muscles to change other problems evolve and the speed
of the change lead to even more complicated social problems that might come back to
haunt the country’s development path.
China is trying to do what it took the major developed nations of the world a larger part
of the last 300 years to do in one generation. Pushed by the need for reform the
communist party is juggling politics, economy, and education of their people in more and
more complicated ways and further and further away from each other. The story
however, starts on a train ride between Washington DC and New York.
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Barbour, Kim Jaime. "Constructing Artistic Integrity: An Exploratory Study." The University of Waikato, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10289/2474.
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This thesis explores the concept of artistic integrity. A historical foundation for artistic integrity is laid to provide a context within which eight artists' constructions of the concept can be placed. To date, little research has been conducted to discover how artists feel about artistic integrity, despite the fact that the concept is used frequently both in the popular media, and in arts and creative industries policy and research. Secondary research into European Romanticism and the growth of the creative industries traces the complex development of artistic integrity through to contemporary New Zealand. Grounded by an internal-idealist ontology, a subjectivist epistemology, and an interpretive paradigmatic framework, qualitative, semi-structured interviews with eight artists were conducted to investigate how artistic integrity is perceived by those working within the New Zealand arts environment. The multifaceted nature of the history of artistic integrity is mirrored in the complexity of the responses from the artists involved in this research. Key themes to emerge from the analysis of the interview data were the personally constructed and contextual character of artistic integrity, its importance to the artists involved, and its social contestation. However, the opinions offered on these themes were often very different, and occasionally even contradictory. The artists' responses illuminate how differently artistic integrity could be interpreted throughout the creative community, and question the validity of current uses and definitions of the concept. Most importantly, this research provides an opportunity for artists to offer their understandings of artistic integrity, as surely it is artists who should be determining the validity and meaning of their integrity.
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Pantaleao, Lori Ann. "The Art of Solution-Focused Brief Therapy: Experiential Training for Novice Therapists in Creative Collaborative Language." NSUWorks, 2016. http://nsuworks.nova.edu/shss_dft_etd/17.
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Novice solution-focused brief therapists often have difficulty delivering scaling questions within the languaging of their clients. To help beginning Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) trainees, this researcher has created the metaphorically enhanced scaling question (MESQ) training program. By incorporating a meaning making system such as the metaphor, the scaling question becomes expressive and symbolic to the client and his or her own story. The MESQ objective is to assist novice therapists in facilitating the SFBT scaling question creatively through the use of metaphor. A metaphor is a created meaning isomorphic to its original meaning or experience. The metaphor will be co-constructed through collaboration between client and therapist. The MESQ program encompasses three key elements of SFBT: listening, selecting, and building into three tangible activities designed for novice therapists to learn, articulate, and demonstrate their comprehension of the modified scaling technique (Bavelas, De Jong, Franklin, Froerer, Gingerich, Kim, Korman, Langer, Lee, McCullum, Jordan, & Trepper, 2013)
This research is qualitative in nature, due to the examined experiences of the MESQ training program participants. Action research has been chosen to emphasize the learning aspect, and assist in training development. The MESQ training program will be evaluated based on Kirkpatrick’s four levels of evaluating training programs: reaction, learning, behavior, and results. (Kirkpatrick, 1996). The focus of this research project will be to refine and develop the MESQ training program through analytic evaluation.
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Knight, Helena. "Collaborative value creation : how arts and business organisations create value for society." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2015. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/83021/.
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Since its instigation by patrons supporting struggling artists centuries ago, the relationship between arts and business has been marked by dilemmas of who benefits from the value created. The perceived self-interested regard that blighted the magnanimous acts of the pioneers of arts philanthropy has transformed into outright scepticism with the move towards "selfish capitalism" in the 1970s. Despite the financial assistance, ubiquitous in society is the perception that business exploits the arts for window dressing purposes. The thesis studies value creation through transactional collaboration, focusing on the arts context. The contradictions in the phenomenon are examined to construct an understanding of how the organisations working together can lead to societal betterment . Utilising a multi method interpretive strategy, the thesis presents a conceptual framework of the principles, manifestations and functions of the business partner in societal value creation through transactional arts and business collaboration. The thesis argues that transactional collaboration can and does generate value that can contribute to societal betterment. The stipulations relate to transactional hybrids and collaboration portfolios at the organisational level, and a co-creative response to the process of value creation of beneficiaries. Transient value and cumulative value are two distinct value modes. Cumulative value can induce sustainable societal betterment when business assumes the role of a benefits provider. Human factor and organisational learning condition cumulative societal value creation in transactional collaboration. The Thesis contributes to the literature on cross-sector collaboration. The thesis contributes to the literature on cross-sector collaboration by highlighting the importance hybrid relationships and relationship portfolios in creating societal value in transactional collaboration. It also demonstrates the beneficiary-centric standpoint is a salient factor when developing a holistic understanding of how collaboration contributes to societal betterment. As such, contributions are made to the value creation literature by showing the salience of the co-creative response of the beneficiary to the process of value creation in relational contexts. Managerial and policy implications, and future research avenues are also proposed.
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Dalevi, Arelius Jacob. "Macro Trends in Chinese Human Resources : The effects of Human Resources on the world´s most populous nation." Thesis, Jönköping University, Jönköping International Business School, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-1132.
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Macro Trends in Chinese Human Resources
As we move into a more advanced globalized economy we have developed from an
agriculture society to a service society. As with every other part of human development
we have continued down the path of innovation and change to what some today call the
“creative society”. It might be to early to say that we are entering a new age but it is clear
that changes happen faster and with greater impact across the globe and that is creating a
society that is different from before.
A society where the talented, educated, creative, are the catalyst of economic
development in a modern economy. But the rise of this creative class and the process of
globalization also offer problems. When people elevate themselves and those around
them to new heights through major change the people who are unable to transit into such
a world run the risk of being left behind. It is the paradox of Globalization; it brings
riches to the people who can adapt to it while the others are often left to tend for
themselves.
This thesis is about those effects on the world’s most populous nation, China. And when
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society, China is far behind. The Chinese race toward becoming a major global power is
as much about catching up to the rest of the world economically a socially and politically.
As China masses its economical muscles to change other problems evolve and the speed
of the change lead to even more complicated social problems that might come back to
haunt the country’s development path.
China is trying to do what it took the major developed nations of the world a larger part
of the last 300 years to do in one generation. Pushed by the need for reform the
communist party is juggling politics, economy, and education of their people in more and
more complicated ways and further and further away from each other. The story
however, starts on a train ride between Washington DC and New York.
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Rêgo, Sidney da Silva. "Do patrimonialismo à repersonalização do direito autoral : harmonização dos direitos fundamentais à informação, cultura e educação e o uso alternativo de obras protegidas." Universidade Federal de Alagoas, 2010. http://repositorio.ufal.br/handle/riufal/766.
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Exacerbation of heritage features throughout the history of copyright brought serious consequences for their development. The copyright laws of historical progress in the scenarios with international and national economic traits notably eventually provide man, creator of intellectual work, a secondary role. Its activity has always been important, but there was a predominance of the equity, having. With the bourgeois revolutions of the eighteenth century began a process of modification of certain ideals, policies for inclusion in the letters of the states of certain fundamental rights. The coexistence of two systems of copyrights in the world ended up further back from the moral prerogatives of the authors. Yet the international legal texts now recognize them, although they are not fully respected. At a later stage there is a change of direction in the understanding of legal systems, is now setting up the foundation for the interpretation of copyright, to emphasize a repersonalization of its institutes. Our purpose in this study is to question whether it is possible to reconsider the legal institutions copyright, even with the new information society, and if possible, today, to meet the social expectations for the achievement of fundamental rights to information, culture and education, placed in check with this new social formation. We will analyze such issues based on the principle of human dignity for in the end, demonstrate the possibility of harmonizing these rights with the alternative use of works protected by copyright laws, taking as an example, the creative commons.A exacerbação dos traços patrimoniais ao longo da história dos direitos autorais trouxe sérias consequências para o seu desenvolvimento. O progresso histórico das legislações autorais nos cenários internacional e nacional com traços notadamente econômicos acabou por atribuir ao homem, criador da obra intelectual, um papel secundário. Sua atividade sempre foi importante, mas havia o predomínio do patrimônio, do ter. Com as revoluções burguesas do século XVIII inicia-se um processo de modificação de alguns ideais, pela inclusão nas cartas políticas dos Estados de alguns direitos fundamentais. A coexistência de dois sistemas de direitos autorais no mundo acabou por afastar ainda mais as prerrogativas morais dos autores. Mesmo assim os textos legais internacionais passaram a reconhecê-las, conquanto não sejam inteiramente respeitadas. Numa fase posterior há uma mudança de rumo no entendimento dos sistemas legais, sendo agora a constituição o fundamento para a interpretação dos direitos autorais, a enfatizar uma repersonalização de seus institutos. Nosso propósito neste estudo é questionar se é possível fazer uma releitura dos institutos jurídicos autorais, mesmo diante da nova sociedade da informação, bem como se é possível, nos dias de hoje, atender aos anseios sociais pela consecução dos direitos fundamentais à informação, cultura e educação, colocados em xeque com esta nova formação social. Faremos uma análise de tais questões com base no princípio da dignidade humana para, ao final, demonstrar a possibilidade de harmonizar tais direitos com o uso alternativo de obras protegidas pelas leis autorais, tomando, como exemplo, o creative commons.
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Troon, Simon. "Live Role-play of Medieval Fantasy and its relationship to the Media." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Department of Theatre and Film Studies, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/9046.
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In the postmodern, contemporary Western world of late capitalism, we dream of the Middle Ages. Medieval Fantasy, as an entertainment genre, supplements historical images of the Middle Ages with elements of myth in adventure stories featuring magicians, knights and ladies, castles, dragons, swords, and sorcery that are routinely consumed and absorbed. In some activities they are also played out physically. People dress up, utilise props, and affect their speech and mannerisms like actors in a theatre, conducting pseudo-ritualistic games of mimicry to make these images speak and move in the real world: live role-play.
This thesis examines several organised examples of live role-play: Southron Gaard, a branch of the Society for Creative Anachronism based in Christchurch, New Zealand; larping, as represented by two documentary films, Darkon and Monster Camp, that document the activities of larping organisations in the USA; and 'Lord of the Rings Tour', a tourism trip from Christchurch to 'Edoras', a fictional location from Middle-earth, the fantasy world of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings Novels and Peter Jackson's filmic adaptations thereof. These organised leisure activities provide platforms for the pursuit of active, physical involvement with the images and ideas of medieval fantasy. In them, participants find ways to bring these fantastic images and ideas onto their bodies in reality and, perhaps as a result, closer to their everyday lives in ways that have more significant social implications than may at first be apparent.
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Olson, Ted. "James Still's Short Stories." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2012. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/1190.
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Carlson, Heidi. "Dandyism: Creating a Tradition for Consumption in London Society." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2012. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/319.
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Zida, Raguidissida Emile. "Les industries culturelles dans les pays francophones d'Afrique subsaharienne : cas du Burkina Faso." Thesis, Université Grenoble Alpes (ComUE), 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018GREAL022/document.
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L’Afrique n’échappe pas aux débats sur les industries culturelles, déjà en vogue, au niveau mondial. Bien développées dans les pays du Nord, les industries culturelles connaissent cependant un développement très faible en Afrique. Dans le continent, si quelques pays ont des modèles réussis de développement de ce secteur, à l’instar du Nigéria ou de l’Afrique du Sud, les industries culturelles des pays francophones d’Afrique subsahrienne demeurent encore dans un état précaire. Cela semble probablement dû à une prise de conscience tardive de leurs enjeux, à des considérations socio-politiques, ou encore à une mauvaise compréhension des rôles des acteurs. D’où notre intérêt à étudier le rôle des pouvoirs publics dans le processus de développement des industries culturelles au Burkina Faso, à travers le sujet suivant : Les industries culturelles dans les pays francophones d’Afrique subsaharienne : cas du Burkina Faso. Pour mener à bien notre réflexion sur le sujet, la méthodologie a consisté aussi bien à un débroussaillage théorique et à des enquêtes de terrain, permettant de confirmer les hypothèses émises. Au Burkina Faso, les industries culturelles connaissent, par leur organisation, une certaine dynamique, malgré quelques insuffisances dans le développement des filières culturelles. Cette dynamique, favorable à la mise en place d’initiatives et d’évènements culturels d’envergure, fait sans doute considérer le pays comme un « carrefour culturel » en Afrique. Les industries culturelles génèrent des enjeux sociaux, politiques et économiques considérables pour le pays. Cependant, ces enjeux sont l’objet de conflits entre surtout les industriels de la culture et l’Etat. Aussi, est-il indispensable que les pouvoirs publics et les industriels de la culture travaillent en synergie, avec des rôles bien définis, pour prendre au sérieux les défis, pour un secteur plus viable, dynamique et durableTHESIS SUMMARYAfrica is no exception to the debates on the cultural industries, already in vogue, at the global level. Although well developed in the North, cultural industries are less developed in Africa. In the continent, while some countries have successful models of development in this sector, like Nigeria or South Africa, the cultural industries in francophone countries of sub-Saharan Africa are still in a precarious level. This seems likely due to a late awareness of their issues, socio-political considerations, or a misunderstanding of the roles of the actors. Hence our interest in studying the role of public authorities in the process of cultural industries development in Burkina Faso, through the following subject: Cultural industries in francophone countries of sub-Saharan Africa: case of Burkina Faso. To carry out our reflection on the subject, the methodology consisted as well of a theoretical brusaillage and field investigations, allowing to confirm the hypotheses emitted.In Burkina Faso, the cultural industries are dynamic, by their organization, despite some shortcomings in the development of cultural sectors. This dynamic, favorable to the implementation of major initiatives and cultural events, makes the country as a "cultural crossroads" in Africa. Cultural industries generate considerable social, political and economic impacts for the country. However, these profits are the subject of conflicts between mainly industrial culture sector and the public sector. It is therefore essential that public authorities and cultural private sector work in synergy, with well-defined roles, to take the challenges seriously, for a more viable, dynamic and sustainable sector
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Pickert, Mary Alice. "Creating citizens : volunteers and civil society, Japan in comparative perspective /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/10752.
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Harker, David. "Creating Scientific Controversies: Uncertainty and Bias in Science and Society." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2015. http://amzn.com/1107692369.
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For decades, cigarette companies helped to promote the impression that there was no scientific consensus concerning the safety of their product. The appearance of controversy, however, was misleading, designed to confuse the public and to protect industry interests. Created scientific controversies emerge when expert communities are in broad agreement but the public perception is one of profound scientific uncertainty and doubt. In the first book-length analysis of the concept of a created scientific controversy, David Harker explores issues including climate change, Creation science, the anti-vaccine movement and genetically modified crops. Drawing on work in cognitive psychology, social epistemology, critical thinking and philosophy of science, he shows readers how to better understand, evaluate, and respond to the appearance of scientific controversy. His book will be a valuable resource for students of philosophy of science, environmental and health sciences, and social and natural sciences.https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu_books/1017/thumbnail.jpg
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Forkapa, Dan. "The Other Side of Fun." Cleveland State University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1513106622529833.
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Bigley, James C. II. "As Tall As Monsters." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1396875288.
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Matsuki, Keiko. "Creating Showa memories in contemporary Japan: Discourse, society, history, and subjectivity." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/187311.
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The present discourse-centered study examines how Japanese people currently in their sixties construct, in and through discourse, their memories of the indigenous historical era called Showa (1926-1989). These contemporaries are particularly called Showa hitoketa ("Showa single digit") since they were born between 1926 and 1934, or during the first nine years (i.e., single-digit years) of the era. As Showa has been often referred to as the "turbulent era" mainly because of its dramatic transformations caused by the nation's defeat in World War II, the generation of Showa hitoketa also has been widely discussed in the postwar Japanese society because of their particular ways of experiencing this historical period. By analyzing their concrete instances of discourses which emerged during our ethnographic interviews, I delineate the dynamic processes of meaning creation, and the interactions between discourse, society, history, and subjectivity. In particular, I focus on the Showa hitoketa informants' personal experience narratives of wartime as significant sites of their Showa memories. Based on my linguistic, semiotic, and interpretive approach to their narrative constructions of the past, I capture how each speaker generates specific experiential meanings, creates particular self-identities, authenticates his/her own memories, and establishes his/her understanding of the era itself. My exploration of the interdependence between text and context inherent in narrative discourse is crucial for the deeper understanding of how the speakers create meaning-filled memories of Showa. By focusing on the metapragmatic functions of signs in narrative discourse, I illustrate how the past is indexically linked to the present, and also how the self is indexically connected to others. The nature of the relationship between these elements is critically important for the investigation of how my informants as Showa historical actors create epistemological, ideological, and affective meanings of their memories. The era of Showa consists of several disjunctive moments for each individual, yet my informants construct their sense of continuity and coherence by transforming their experiences into narrative language.
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Chender, Isabel, Raquel Luna Viggiani, and Zulma Patarroyo. "The Role of Rural Development Interventions in Creating a Sustainable Society." Thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Institutionen för strategisk hållbar utveckling, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-2431.
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The inter-related social and ecological facets of global sustainability imply that the way society develops will impact the environment. Development presents complex, multifaceted challenges. Interventions in the developing world in the form of projects created by the agencies, organizations and agents of the international development community increasingly appreciate and seek to address these challenges. Yet, to do so effectively, interventions need to shift from fragmented, sector-specific approaches based on formal data reports to approaches that anticipate, adapt, transform, and learn. This research aims to complement and support the practical and theoretical knowledge of rural development agents with insights from practitioners using approaches that consider complexity in other fields, in order to explore how development interventions could play a role in moving society toward sustainability. A prototype guide for rural development interventions synthesizes results gathered from interviews with rural development agents within Latin America and learning experience designers into three levels: system, interaction, and personal. The Framework for Strategic Sustainable Development (FSSD) provides a systems perspective and unifying definition of sustainability. The interaction level presents key recommendations, rationale, and methods for action, and the personal level presents reflection questions. This research hopes to inspire mutual learning between development actors and communities.
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Bria, Rosemarie Dorothy. "How Jell-O molds society and how society molds Jell-O : a case study of an American food industry creation /." Access Digital Full Text version, 1991. http://pocketknowledge.tc.columbia.edu/home.php/bybib/1029871x.
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Thesis (Ed.D.)--Teachers College, Columbia University, 1991.Typescript; issued also on microfilm. Sponsor: Joan Dye Gussow. Dissertation Committee: Isobel Contento. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 198-203).
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Sonoquie, Neesa. "Lucky Creature." PDXScholar, 2013. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/1013.
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Lucky Creature is a collection of poems that considers particular aspects of being human, specifically love, death, isolation, and the nature of knowledge. A primary concern is the body, explored as a vehicle for shame. The role of imagination as a means of escape is also paramount, leading always toward an act of transformation as a chance at immortality in an entropic universe where everything has a shelf life.
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Patrick, Holly. "Challenging legitimacy in cultural fields : the case of Dundee Rep." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/4111.
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This thesis argues for a dualistic, epistemological, framework for the study of legitimacy which recognises the different ways it might be understood to exist, and as such be managed, within organisations. It is based on an ethnography of a Scottish professional theatre, Dundee Rep, undertaken over a 30 month period. The research adopts a social constructionist ontology and an epistemological framework based on the knowing that / knowing how framework of Gilbert Ryle to present three accounts of the legitimacy of the theatre – as belonging, becoming and integrated- and to challenge the notion implicit in the organisation studies literature that legitimacy is treated (and should be treated) as a belonging by organisations. The proposed integrated epistemological framing of legitimacy explains how notions of legitimacy as an emergent, negotiated perception and as a competitive resource possessed are both crucial to developing an integrated understanding of how legitimacy is produced at the organisational level.
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Yin, Zhiguang. "The politics of art : Creation Society and the making of Chinese Marxist individuality." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.609835.
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Engel, Rebecca Ellen. "The state, society and international interventions in Timor-Leste : creating conditions for violence?" Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 2015. http://eprints.soas.ac.uk/22809/.
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International peace and state-building interventions in conflict-affected states have been on the rise for decades. This research identifies and examines the mechanisms used by the international community in Timor-Leste and assesses the implications of their use for a nationally negotiated political settlement. This research considers the following mechanisms: the establishment of a UN transitional authority, use of aid conditionality and provision of technical assistance, and suggests that the interplay between highly complex intra-East Timorese relationships and expectations with very prescriptive and pervasive international interventions contributed to a deformed and dysfunctional political settlement. Three interrelated sub-themes are explored in support of this hypothesis: international development partners interrupted and appropriated the political settlement negotiation process; international development partners failed to analyse Timor-Leste's context-specific political economy and conflict dynamics; and 'technocratic' policy advice was used to erode the state's ability to act as an agent of development. The mechanisms used by the international community produced outcomes that distanced the population from the state and rapidly altered the structure of the economy without a transition strategy. The international community must therefore assume some responsibility for the resultant political crisis and violence in 2006. Within the context of increasing international focus on conflict-affected states, evidence from Timor-Leste provides a unique lens that demonstrated how donors can negatively impact the trajectory of political settlements by using inappropriate mechanisms. This research comprises an innovative effort to bring together wide-ranging East Timorese perspectives and diverse literatures to construct a nuanced explanation of how international actions influence key dynamics of power. Drawing on the author's extensive experience living and working in Timor-Leste, it bridges existing gaps between disciplines and seeks to provide an explanatory construct that can be of use to policy-makers and practitioners in other conflict-affected states.
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Munakash, Kris E. "SOCIAL NETWORKING: CREATING A SOCIETY OF NARCISSISTS OR HELPING PEOPLE REACH SELF-ACTUALIZATION?" CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2016. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd/273.
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Social networking sites (SNSs) are growing in popularity and diversity. Prior research has shown that SNSs use is correlated with various personality traits including narcissism. To date, no work has examined the association between SNSs use and self-actualization. Given the potential overlap of narcissism and self-actualization, the goal of the present study was to first examine the conceptual overlap of these two intrapersonal characteristics. We then sought to examine the associations between SNSs use, narcissism, and self-actualization with an expectation that self-actualization would mediate the association between SNSs use and narcissism. One thousand six hundred and four adults completed an online survey with questions to assess their demographic traits, SNSs activities, and personality characteristics. Results indicated some overlap between narcissism and self-actualization; but, in general, each was a distinct personality trait. Results also demonstrated that the association between self-actualization and SNSs usage was not significant. Contrary to our prediction, self-actualization did not mediate the association between SNSs activities and narcissism. Finally, the study found that narcissism scores were reportedly higher after using SNSs than they were prior to SNSs use.
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Åslund, Anna. "Value creation within societal entrepreneurship : a process perspective." Licentiate thesis, Mittuniversitetet, Avdelningen för kvalitetsteknik, maskinteknik och matematik, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:miun:diva-20184.
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Social entrepreneurship is given considerable attention within literature and academic research despite that fact it is an area that needs considerable attention and research. The main purpose for societal entrepreneurs is to create societal value but there can be difficulties to understand value creation within the area. Important components within Total Quality Management (TQM) are process orientation and value creation. A TQM perspective with processes in focus provides opportunities to clarify societal value creation within societal entrepreneurship initiatives. The main purpose of this thesis has been to explore how societal value is created within the area of societal entrepreneurship and the underlying purpose has been to contribute to the development of knowledge and understanding about the societal entrepreneurship area. In order to fulfil the purpose one literature case study and three empirical case studies have been conducted with processes in focus. The literature case study was conducted first and it resulted in a theoretical process map based on a process perspective, which showed how societal value was created within a societal entrepreneurship initiative. After that the three empirical case studies were conducted separately and the findings from the empirical case studies were compared with the previously developed theoretical process map. A cross case analysis was made to find out if the process map could be confirmed, developed or rejected. The result of the case studies contributes to earlier findings within research and gives a common, comprehensive and simplified picture of a complex phenomenon and an opportunity to understand how societal value is created. A general overall process map is presented that gives a picture of how value is created within the area of societal entrepreneurship. The result shows the management process and support process fields. The map also shows a main process that is further developed with input, output and sub processes. The studies point out that societal value is created through processes and that societal value creation can be described out of a process orientation perspective. Important components to create societal value have been found to be: 'unidentified needs'; 'knowledge about the context'; 'identified need'; 'an idea or a vision'; and some kind of 'organization' and important activities to create value seem to be: 'being in the context'; 'analysis of knowledge'; 'searching for solution'; 'organize and mobilize'; and 'realize'. Fields where support processes are performed that are of importance in societal value creation have been identified. Those fields are 'creation of financing opportunities'; 'performance of political decisions and acts'; 'development and use of networks'; 'establishment of initiative'; 'creation of media information'; 'development and use of scientific results'; and 'development and use of competence'. The map does have potential for development. Further studies need to be done within the area concerning how societal value is created and to get an even more comprehensive process map of the societal entrepreneurship area but the result presented in this thesis is a start to understanding how societal value is created and to develop knowledge and understanding of the societal entrepreneurship area.
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Hedberg, Per Henrik. "Interpersonal society : essays on shared beliefs, trust, mnemonic oppression, distributive fairness, and value creation." Doctoral thesis, Handelshögskolan i Stockholm, Institutionen för Marknadsföring och strategi, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hhs:diva-1761.
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Chingono, Mark. "War, social change and development in Mozambique : catastrophe or creation of a new society?" Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.296741.
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Kanamaru, Hiroyuki 1962, and Hikaru 1963 Kawachiyama. "The re-positioning and new brand creation of telecommunications companies in an IT society." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/17607.
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Thesis (M.B.A.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 2003.Includes bibliographical references (leaf 119).
The telecommunications industry has developed differently, in each nation, depending on the political, economic, and cultural environment within each country. Only the technology has achieved some standardization in order to facilitate smooth connections between nations, with the assistance and coordination of the United Nations International Telecommunication Union (ITU). For the past twenty years, the telecommunications industry had faced multiple challenges, including privatization, deregulation, fierce competition, dramatic technological change, and a variety of market changes. Today, telecommunications companies need to quickly reposition themselves in order to survive. In Part One, we identify and discuss various long-term assumptions of customer needs. In Part Two, we construct scenarios relevant to the telecommunications industry, based on Fahey and Randall's competitive foresight scenarios methodology. Then we analyze strategies for NTT Group which we believe could revitalize the Japanese economy which has already endured ten years of stagnation, followed by suggestions for the world economy.
by Hiroyuki Kanamaru and Hikaru Kawachiyama.
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Popplewell, Rowan. "Creating spaces for peace? : civil society, political space, and peacebuilding in post-war Burundi." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2017. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:de8ceecd-10b6-435e-9b1c-0747fcb3b335.
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This thesis examines civil society, political space, and peacebuilding in post-war Burundi by critically engaging with international discourses and considering the extent to which they reflect the experiences and perspectives of activists on the ground. It is based on qualitative research with civil society groups and the individuals that work for them in Burundi. Fieldwork took place over five months between July 2014 and April 2015. This was a period of crisis in which civil society faced mounting restrictions, from the introduction of legislation that banned public gatherings, to the harassment and intimidation of prominent activists. The thesis analyses the extent to which civil society groups were able to navigate these constraints to create and maintain spaces for peace that transform dominant social norms which produce violence and repression. It also considers the factors that frustrated these efforts, from the sustained influence of past violence and trauma, to the climate of fear and uncertainty that emerged following the 2015 elections, and the divisive elite politics that continues to disrupt everyday peace in Burundi. It finds that emerging policy discourses on political space fail to engage with the historical, political, and discursive nature of government restrictions in Burundi, and the temporal and relational dimensions of violence, especially the ways in which it shapes the everyday lives of activists and their ability to challenge the institutions and structures within which violence is reproduced. The research situates these experiences in historical context â a process that enables it to consider broader questions about the evolution of civil society and the extent to which it becomes embedded in post-conflict contexts once international funding and attention decreases and external peacebuilding activities conclude. Civil society groups in Burundi received significant support from the international community in the post-war years, yet increasing restrictions suggest that the Burundian government has not accepted the presence of certain organisations which it views as a threat to its political authority and legitimacy. This leads the thesis to argue that curbs on civil society should be seen as part of a broader pattern of resistance to international peacebuilding in Burundi.
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Reinders, Michael Bongani. "Decolonial reconstruction : a framework for creating a ceaseless process of decolonising South African society." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/73485.
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This dissertation explores the notion of decolonial reconstruction to promote the decolonising process in South Africa. Decolonial reconstruction entails the creation of a new South African society through a clear paradigmatic shift from a Eurocentric one to a decolonising paradigm. Decolonising is required in South Africa due to its colonial past, as well as the fact that contemporary South African society is neocolonial. In order to change the neocolonial status quo, it is necessary to create a decolonising framework. For the purposes of this dissertation the framework will be applied to South African universities. Universities are the focus because they exist as microcosms of the broader South African society. A tetralogy of books by Kenyan author Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o provide the blueprint for the four aspects of the decolonising framework. These four aspects are: decolonising the mind; moving the centre; re-membering Africa; and globalectics. Decolonising the mind addresses the fact that in order to begin decolonising one must start with the minds of the coloniser and colonised and begin to shift their minds away from a colonial or neocolonial paradigm. In terms of the second aspect of the decolonising framework, it is necessary to move the centre away from Eurocentrism towards a multiplicity of centres. Another aspect of the decolonising framework is re-membering Africa, this is pertinent as Africa underwent dismemberment through colonialism which brought about epistemicide. As a result, it is necessary to put African cultures and epistemologies back together by re-membering them. The final aspect of the decolonising framework is to enter into global dialectics so that cultures and epistemologies can learn from each other and come to coexist in a pluraversal world. Through applying this framework to South African universities, they can undertake a decolonising process of decolonial reconstruction that will make them into pluriversities which promote harmony and coexistence.Mini Dissertation (LLM)--University of Pretoria, 2019.
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Johnson, Amanda. "Twitter and the body parodic : global acts of re-creation and recreation." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/113741.
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Thesis: Ph. D. in History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology and Society (HASTS), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Science, Technology and Society, 2017.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 306-317).
This dissertation investigates Twitter parody accounts as a form of social critique and linguistic play across English, Japanese, and Arabic-one that is collaboratively created by the users, policymakers, and architects of Twitter. Together, apart, and in different constellations with governments and news media, these actors use parody accounts to recreate and experiment with everything from law to what constitutes a person. I argue that the Twitter parody account, both as negative critique and ambiguous personification play, is an off-platform use-an unintended use of platform, site, or app that is allowed to endure, with varying degrees of official encouragement, silence, and ignorance. Drawing on ethnographic, linguistic, and legal analysis, the dissertation details the contours of this use, its adversaries and proponents among traditional structures of authority, and how the platform has ratified and deployed it globally. Chapter 1, Aspect Shift, examines how a parody account works at a linguistic level through the name and profile photo play of a classic political parody account. Chapter 2, The Account-Person, proposes that personhood on Twitter is a cyborg entity and investigates five elements the shape this account-person: number, body, position, world, and time. Turning to parody accounts' relationship with authority, chapter 3, Warranting Parody, investigates why some in positions of authority mobilize apparatuses of power against parody accounts. Not all governmental employees, however, see parody accounts as threats. Chapter 4, Tweeting Like a State, explores the development of norms around parody among a key, but often overlooked group of contemporary interpreters of representative government: governmental social media managers. Chapter 5, The Social Media Contract, argues that the history of Twitter's parody policy is the history of its still-emerging social contract, a contract shaped by user demands, the abdication of traditional authorities, and Twitter's own interests. This social contract has uneven globality-as chapter 6, Of Policyness and Global Polysemy, shows through examining Twitter's parody policy across languages. Finally, in the conclusion I bring these various strands together through the concept of usership, a member relationship entangled with citizenship yet largely asserted and negotiated with corporations rather than governments.
by Amanda Johnson.
Ph. D. in History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology and Society (HASTS)
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Weber, Manuela. "The business case for corporate societal engagement development and evaluation of value creating societal strategies." München Oekom-Verl, 2008. http://d-nb.info/989736903/04.
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Davidson, Michael R. (Michael Roy). "Creating markets for wind electricity in China : case studies in energy policy and regulation." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/119914.
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Thesis: Ph. D. in Engineering Systems, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Engineering, Institute for Data, Systems, and Society, 2018.This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-360).
China's rapid economic growth -- largely industrial, energy-intensive, and reliant on coal -- has generated environmental, public health, and governance challenges. While China now leads the world in renewable energy deployment, curtailment (waste) of wind and solar is high and increasing, generating much discussion on the relative contributions of technical inflexibilities and incomplete institutional reforms on integration outcomes. These integration challenges directly affect China's ability to meet long-term environmental and economic objectives. A second, related challenge emerges from how wind integration interacts with China's reinvigoration in 2015 of a three-decade-old process to establish competitive electricity markets. A "standard liberalization prescription" for electricity markets exists internationally, though Chinese policy-makers ignore or under-emphasize many of its elements in current reforms, and some scholars question its general viability in emerging economies. This dissertation examines these interrelated phenomena by analyzing the contributions of diverse causes of wind curtailment, assessing whether current experiments will lead to efficient and politically viable electricity markets, and offering prescriptions on when and how to use markets to address renewable energy integration challenges. To examine fundamentals of the technical system and the impacts of institutional incentives on system outcomes, this dissertation develops a multi-method approach that iterates between engineering models and qualitative case studies of the system operation decision-making process (Chapter 2). These are necessary to capture, respectively, production functions inclusive of physical constraints and costs, and incentive structures of formally specified as well as de facto institutions. Interviews conducted over 2013-2016 with key stakeholders in four case provinces/regions with significant wind development inform tracing of the processes of grid and market operations (Chapter 3). A mixed-integer unit commitment and economic dispatch optimization is formulated and, based on the case studies, further tailored by adding several institutions of China's partially-liberalized system (Chapter 4). The model generates a reference picture of three of the systems as well as quantitative contributions of relevant institutions (Chapter 5). Insights from qualitative and quantitative approaches are combined iteratively for more parsimonious findings (Chapter 6). This dissertation disentangles the causes of curtailment, focusing on the directional and relative contributions of institutions, technical issues, and potential interactive effects. Wind curtailment is found to be closely tied to engineering constraints, such as must-run combined heat and power (CHP) in northern winters. However, institutional causes -- inflexibilities in both scheduling and inter-provincial trading -- have a larger impact on curtailment rates. Technical parameters that are currently set administratively at the provincial level (e.g., coal generator minimum outputs) are a third and important leading cause under certain conditions. To assess the impact of China's broader reform of the electricity system on wind curtailment, this dissertation examines in detail "marketizing" experiments. In principle, spot markets for electricity naturally prioritize wind, with near zero marginal cost, thereby contributing to low curtailment. However, China has not yet created a spot market and this dissertation finds that its implementation of other electricity markets in practice operates far from ideal. Market designs follow a similar pattern of relying on dual-track prices and out-of-market parameters, which, in the case of electricity, leave several key institutional causes of inefficiency and curtailment untouched. Compared to other sectors with successful marketization occurring when markets "grow out of the plan," all of the major electricity experiments examined show deficiencies in their ability to transition to an efficient market and to cost-effectively integrate wind energy. Although China's setting is institutionally very different, results support implementation of many elements of standard electricity market prescriptions: prioritize regional (inter-provincial) markets, eliminate conflicts of interest in dispatch, and create a consistent central policy on "transition costs" of reducing central planning. Important for China, though overlooked in standard prescriptions: markets are enhanced by clarifying the connection between dispatch and exchange settlement. As is well established, power system efficiency is expected to achieve greatest gains with a short-term merit order dispatch and primarily financial market instruments, though some workable near-term deviations for the Chinese context are proposed. Ambiguous property rights related to generation plans have helped accelerate reforms, but also delay more effective markets from evolving. China shares similarities with the large class of emerging economies undergoing electricity market restructuring, for which this suggests research efforts should disaggregate planning from scheduling institutions, analyze the range of legacy sub-national trade barriers, and prioritize finding "second-best" liberalization options fit to country context in the form and order of institutional reforms.
by Michael R. Davidson.
Ph. D. in Engineering Systems
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Kim, Myunghee. "A critical examination of global practices in Korean society: creating socially just diversity in English pedagogy." Thesis, McGill University, 2011. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=103711.
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This dissertation investigates the impact of globalization on educational policy and contemporary social life in Korea. Using bricolage, a qualitative research methodology that encompasses multiple critical social theories, I interrogate the notion of globalization and its practices. I examine current English pedagogy as well as cultural practices that exist in Korean society from a critical hermeneutical stance. Within the policy goal of achieving globalization, competence in English is excessively promoted in Korea, being considered the dominant global method of communication. However, far from its goal to raise global citizens or leaders through English education, Korean English pedagogy neglects or ignores the non-western range of cultures, races, and languages in the terrain of globalization. Korea's growing multicultural population and its geopolitical location require a global citizenship that is not limited in its global perceptions. In raising concerns and awareness of the different power stratification within the concept of globalization, I explore the intersection of English education with critical social theories. Being informed by the bricolage of discursive theories, I extend the notion of English learning into human interactions among different groups of people. I interrogate the construction of knowledge and subjectivity and pertinent unequal social treatment depending on one's different socioeconomic, cultural, racial, and linguistic background within the context of English use. I challenge Korea's excessive investment in English language learning and western ideology pushed by globalization, stressing that the Korean English education system needs an alternative pedagogy—one that better addresses social justice and promotes diversity. In conclusion, I highlight the implications of this study for policy makers and teachers to demonstrate that English education can provide a solution towards socially just diversity within Korea's unique multicultural context when it aims for a "critical global consciousness."Cette thèse examine l'impact de la mondialisation sur la politique d'éducation et sur la vie sociale contemporaine en Corée. En utilisant le bricolage, une méthodologie de recherche qualitative qui comprend de multiples théories sociocritiques, je questionne la notion de mondialisation et ses applications concrètes. Par une approche herméneutique critique, j'explore la pédagogie actuelle de l'enseignement de l'anglais et les pratiques culturelles dans la société coréenne. Dans l'objectif politique de parvenir à une mondialisation, acquérir une compétence en anglais est excessivement encouragé en Corée; l'anglais étant le mode de communication le plus répandu internationalement. Cependant, loin de son objectif d'élever des citoyens ou des dirigeants du monde par l'éducation en anglais, l'enseignement de l'anglais en Corée ignore ou néglige toute un éventail non-occidental de cultures, de races, et de langues face à la mondialisation. La croissance de la population multiculturelle et la situation géopolitique de la Corée nécessitent l'émergence d'une citoyenneté mondiale qui ne se limite pas à ses perceptions du monde. En éveillant la conscience des différentes couches du pouvoir et en soulevant les préoccupations présentes dans le concept de la mondialisation, j'explore la rencontre de l'enseignement de l'anglais avec les théories sociocritiques. En juxtaposant plusieurs théories discursives, j'étends la notion de l'apprentissage de l'anglais aux interactions humaines intergroupes. Je questionne la construction du savoir, la subjectivité ainsi que les inégalités sociales selon le milieu socioéconomique, culturel, racial et linguistique dans le contexte d'utilisation de l'anglais. Je conteste l'investissement excessif de la Corée dans l'apprentissage de l'anglais et à l'idéologie occidentale -résultat de la mondialisation- en insistant sur le fait que le système éducatif anglophone en Corée a besoin d'une pédagogie alternative: une pédagogie qui tient mieux compte de la justice sociale et qui promeut la diversité. Pour finir, je souligne que les retombées de cette recherche, qui s'adressent aux responsables politiques et aux enseignants, démontrent que l'enseignement de l'anglais peut être une solution à une diversité socialement juste dans un contexte multiculturel unique tel que la Corée, lorsqu'il a pour but une « conscience critique mondiale ».
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Hutter, Katharina, Stefan Hoffmann, and Robert Mai. "Carrotmob: A Win– Win–Win Approach to Creating Benefits for Consumers, Business, and Society at Large." Sage, 2016. https://tud.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A35437.
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The call for business practices that create benefits for companies, customers, and society is getting louder. This article analyzes a new implementation of such a win–win–win approach: the carrotmob. Activists and managers jointly organize a shopping flashmob in which consumers collectively purchase the products of a target company to reward its intent to act more socially responsible. Given that carrotmobs are only efficient if they are supported by a critical mass of consumers, a survey study of 337 young consumers explores the critical drivers of carrotmob participation. Accordingly, object-oriented, personal, and social motives jointly determine carrotmob participation with social motives having the strongest impact.
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Delannoy, Leïla. "L'expérience artistique en prison : d'une triple inertie à l'expérimentation de transformations sociales." Thesis, Paris 10, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017PA100028/document.
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Cette recherche, menée dans le cadre d'un doctorat de sociologie sous la direction de Philippe Combessie, repose principalement sur une enquête de 24 mois dans des ateliers de création artistique installés dans la maison d’arrêt pour hommes du centre pénitentiaire de Marseille, que nous avons conjuguée à une enquête de 13 mois dans le centre éducatif fermé de Montfavet. Le travail engagé a surtout reposé sur la volonté d'examiner le maillage entre art, prison et société, considérant finalement que l'enfermement le plus visible pouvait, quand il devenait le point central d'une expérience artistique de collaboration entre le dedans et le dehors, permettre de mener une réflexion sur d'autres types de cloisonnements à l’oeuvre dans la société. Prenant appui sur un dispositif de création collaborative, développé avec des groupes de participants incarcérés et de la société civile, nous nous sommes questionnée sur son sens, ses fonctions, ses effets, à trois niveaux : individuel, institutionnel et sociétal. Nous avons envisagé cette action artistique comme un terrain d’expérimentation de transformations multiples et avons élaboré comme point d’appui conceptuel la notion de triple inertie. Il nous fallait alors tenter une analyse qui ne compartimente pas les impacts en fonction des différents champs de répercussion, s'appuyant sur une perspective d'analyse des agencements préexistants et des réagencements produits. C'est ainsi qu'a émergé une problématique centrale, constituant une armature pour structurer l'ensemble des questions que nous souhaitions abordées dans ce travail, et qui peut ainsi se formuler : en quoi l'expérience artistique collaborative en prison, dans une dynamique transformative, constitue une mise en mouvement et un dépassement des inerties et frontières carcérales à trois niveaux indissociables, individuel, institutionnel et sociétal?This research, led for the purpose of a PhD in sociology under the supervision of Philippe Combessie, is based on a 24 months long study in the artistic experience workshops set up inside the Marseille correctional institution, combined with a 13 months study in Montfavet’s closed educative center. The work that has been undertaken rested upon the ability to examine the links between, art, prison and society, arguing that the most visible imprisonment can, when it becomes the central point of an artistic experience of collaboration between the inside and the outside, give the possibility to think of new forms of confinement at work in society. This project was developed according to an apparatus of collaborative creation established with various groups of participants that were either in custody or coming from civil society. Its meaning, its functions, and its effects, were questioned on three levels: individual, institutional, and societal. This artistic action came about as a space of experimentation for various transformations and gave the possibility to coin the notion of triple inertia, hereby used as conceptual tool. It was important to bring about an analysis that did not divide the impacts in terms of the various fields of repercussion, and instead, relied on an analysis of both pre-existing layouts, and the new forms of layouts produced. That is how the central issue emerged, becoming the framework that would structure the totality of the questions that were to be discussed in this work, and that can be stipulated as such: How does the collaborative artistic experience in prison, through a transformative dynamic, constitute a movement as well as an overcoming of inertias and prison frontiers on three inseparable levels, individual, institutional and societal