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MEIRELLES, RODRIGO CORREA. "TV DIGITIZATION AND THE CULTURAL CONTEXTS." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2010. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=16670@1.
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COORDENAÇÃO DE APERFEIÇOAMENTO DO PESSOAL DE ENSINO SUPERIOREste trabalho tem como objetivo estudar a introdução da TV Digital terrestre no Brasil sob os aspectos de Educação e Cultura. Voltar o olhar para as instâncias culturais que mediam tal transição foi considerado fundamental, uma vez que os pensadores de televisão, seja no plano mercadológico, seja no campo acadêmico, enxergam no recém-implantado e já em operação Sistema Brasileiro de TV Digital terrestre (SBTVD-t), uma oportunidade para a inclusão digital, para a criação de novos conteúdos e para a convergência com outras mídias digitais. A pesquisa teve como fontes de consulta documentos oficiais, trabalhos publicados, entrevistas com especialistas e participação em conferências internacionais sobre o tema. As representações sociais, nos termos propostos por Moskovici e Jodelet, dadas à TVD por professores e estudantes foi também outro campo de investigação. A análise do material permitiu o surgimento de quatro eixos temáticos: alta-definição, multiprogramação, interatividade e portabilidade, sendo que neste trabalho é dada ênfase aos dois últimos. As conclusões mostram que existem muitas expectativas em relação à TV Digital , embora atualmente ainda não passe de sinônimo de alta definição de imagem e som. No sentido de mudanças significativas, a TV tem seu papel a ser repensado entre os meios de comunicação, principalmente quando relacionados à educação, permanecendo a incógnita de qual função social a TV Digital passaria a ter no contexto dos modos de recepção das novas mídias digitais como a interatividade da internet, redes sociais virtuais e vídeos sob demanda. Finalmente, a pesquisa aponta para necessidade de novas investigações que avancem no sentido da reverberação das vozes do campo da educação sobre esse que é um dos temas mais relevantes na discussão atual de mídia no Brasil.
This work aims to study the introduction of digital TV in Brazil under the aspects of education and culture. To examine the cultural instances that mediate this transition was considered crucial, since both in the marketplace and in academia, the newly established, operating Brazilian System of Digital Terrestrial TV (SBTVD-t) is seen as an opportunity for digital inclusion, as well as for creating new content and bring about synergies with other digital media. The research is based on official documents, published papers, interviews with experts, and participation in international conferences on the subject. The study of teachers’s and students’s “social representations” of digital TV constituted another subject of the present research. Four themes emerged through the analysis of the material: high definition, multiprogramming, portability and interactivity. Emphasis was given to the last two. The conclusions show that while expectations are extremely positive, digital TV currently is no more than a synonym of high-definition for picture and sound. Its role has to be rethought in the communication scenario, especially in relation to education. Moreover, its social function still needs to be better understood in the context of the reception of new digital media (e.g. internet interactivity of the Internet, virtual social networks, video on demand). Finally, the research points to the need for further research to move towards more connections with the field of education, which is central in discussions about the media in Brazil.
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Valtolina, S. "Interactive Knowledge Management in Cultural Contexts." Doctoral thesis, Università degli Studi di Milano, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2434/50125.
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The research I present will focus on the design of knowledge intensive interactive systems able
to facilitate an effective collection, organization, interaction, valorisation and experience of
cultural heritage (CH). The effective presentation of cultural heritage information, typically
complex and rich, requires sophisticated systems integrating techniques from different areas,
mainly human computer interaction (HCI) and knowledge management. The key is the design
of information architectures able to combine different fruition data patterns into specific
interactive environments. Cultural heritage is a knowledge intensive domain that requires
information interaction techniques in order to address the complexity of the information and
knowledge base in each cultural aspect. This research proposes a conceptual framework for
interaction methods in the context of knowledge-intensive interactive systems; the goal of
such methods is to exploit mechanisms for integrating, enhancing and interacting with
information in a form that responds to the fruition context of the final user.
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Puckreesamy, Sashika. "Therapist perceptions of narcissism in traditional cultural contexts." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/19872.
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Narcissism, often linked to a sense of entitlement and inflated sense of self, is a complex condition that has been studied for approximately a century. It is typically associated with individualistic cultures, which place emphasis on the self. Although much is known about narcissism, there is far less knowledge on narcissism in collectivist cultures. The Xhosa culture is commonly seen as a collectivist culture. No research to date has been conducted on this construct with Xhosa-speaking South Africans. The aim of the study was to explore and describe therapist perceptions of narcissism in traditional cultural contexts. The objectives of the study included an investigation into how narcissism presents in the Xhosa culture, and an exploration of the narcissistic elements that manifest more prominently. A qualitative, exploratory descriptive research design was employed, and snowball sampling was used to identify psychologists from the Nelson Mandela Metropole for inclusion in the study. Semi-structured interviews were used to gather data, and data was analysed by thematic analysis. The findings of the thematic analysis consisted of six themes, which are thoughts on the Xhosa culture, culture and personality, contemporary Western theory lacking, traits, parenting, and interpersonal and personal difficulties. These themes reflect the participants’ experience, thoughts, and opinions on narcissism in individuals from the Xhosa culture.
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Buchanan, Sarah. "Remapping Galatians in new cultural and linguistic contexts." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2016. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.705652.
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This study brings together insights from translation studies, linguistics, church history and biblical studies in a comparative analysis of keywords from the New Testament book of Galatians. The overarching question of this work is: how do concepts travel? The main theoretical catalyst for this research is Raymond Williams' "Keywords: a vocabulary of culture and society" (1976), in which Williams recognises the importance of certain words in key debates and subtle connections between words that may exhibit ideological positions and worldviews. The subsequent research questions are: how are keywords translated to reveal ideological positions? And, how might the mapping and remapping of keywords from Galatians serve to reflect and indeed effect religious identities and inter-confessional relations today? Nine keywords are explored in terms of their mappings and remappings in both pivotal moments in Church history (such as the Reformation and the emergence of Liberation Theology and Pentecostal ism) and in the practice of contemporary Bible translation. The corpus comprises sixteen Bible translations written for a variety of purposes across French, German, Spanish and English.
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Lusher, Dean Stewart. "Masculinities in local contexts : structural, individual and cultural interdependencies /." Connect to thesis, 2006. http://eprints.unimelb.edu.au/archive/0002448.
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Stirling, D. Grant. "The narrativity of narcissism cultural contexts of contemporary American metafiction /." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape15/PQDD_0011/NQ27324.pdf.
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Al-Maiyah, Sura Ali. "Daylighting and sustainability of place in cultural built heritage contexts." Thesis, University of Ulster, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.479159.
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Baker, Robert Patrick. "Contexts of cultural capital in collaborative practice in further education." Thesis, Sheffield Hallam University, 2012. http://shura.shu.ac.uk/19306/.
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This study explores ownership and manifestations of cultural capital (Bourdieu 1984) demonstrated by a sample of lecturers in the UK Further Education ('FE') sector and the influence this has on cross-college collaborative practice. The research was conducted at three colleges in the English Midlands in 2010-11 employing a researcher-as-bricoleur approach (Kincheloe 2002). Knowledge explaining inhibitor or activator mechanisms involved in collaborative working is essential if the sector is to gain from the opportunities of innovative problem solving afforded by communities of practice (Wenger et al. 2002). The significance of this knowledge is amplified when considered against the background of efficiency pressures resulting from funding cuts to FE proposed in the Government's 2010 Comprehensive Spending Review. The study found the types and magnitude of lecturers' cultural capital and the patterns of its deployment should act, in the main, as enablers for collaborative practice. Despite their middle-class professional status lecturers tend to exhibit popularist to middlebrow cultural affinities. The minority of practitioners who possessed 'highbrow' cultural capital tend to classify as cultural omnivores rather than exhibiting traits solely associated with univores (Peterson 1992, Peterson and Kern 1996). Few lines of cultural cleavage were found, with one notable exception. There was evidence of antipathy resulting from dislocations of capital owned by lecturers delivering Higher Education programmes in the FE environment and their predominantly FE line managers and FE lecturer colleagues. The asset value of cultural capital is depressed in comparison to more valuable 'organisational knowledge' capitals, for example an understanding of college bureaucratic practice and procedure. Deployment of high cultural capital where it might be exchanged for status tends to be suppressed. There was evidence of strong enthusiasm for collaboration, possibly due to the tolerance of the cultural omnivore (Erickson 1996), but Homo Actificivm is encountering significant obstacles to cross-college working: physical isolationism, the precarite of job insecurity (Bourdieu 1998a), andrestrictions imposed by inter-departmental competition within college. The thesis argues that to promote innovative collaborative practice Further Education colleges should rebalance the emphasis in their accommodation strategies to give more of an equal weighting to staff provision as they do for students. In the light of the findings, wherever possible, colleges should consider enlarging staffrooms and providing additional cost-efficient informal social network spaces for their staff organised around the optimum 'Dunbar number' (Dunbar 1992) in order to catalyse 'community'. The lecturer 'species' Homo Artificium is contrived from the study's results. Its name, etymologically from the Latin 'artificium', encompasses the notion of skill, ability and opportunity. It attempts to encapsulate FE's raison d'etre that of the UK's "Lifelong Learning and Skills Sector". The characteristics of the species are dissimilar to a distant relative, Homo Academicus, postulated by Bourdieu (1984b) following his research into the cultural capital possessed by Parisian university academics [pun intended]. My interpretation of Homo Artificium is depicted on the bookmark.
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Preechachanchai, Oraphin, and Promporn Wangwacharakul. "From Japan to Sweden; Lean Product Development System in Cultural Contexts." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Institutionen för ekonomisk och industriell utveckling, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-70175.
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Irresistibly, Lean has been well-known among manufacturers around the world for quite sometimes due to Toyota success story of Toyota Production System (TPS) or so-called Lean manufacturing. Now that many organizations are going toward the concept of Lean enterprise, this thesis tries to study about Lean Product Development System (LPDS) which is a part it. Owing to the fact that LPDS is a socio-technical system originated from Japanese cultural background, to understand and should how LPDS is adopted in Swedish organizations become our main purpose. The thesis consists of three research questions- i.e. 1) what are pros and cons of LPDS, 2) what is Swedish style LPDS and how does it compare to the original Japanese one, and 3) should Swedish companies transform LPDS into their organizations; if yes, how. This study adopts a cultural framework to analyze and compare the Swedish LPDS and the Japanese one. The thesis can be separated into three main theoretical parts- i.e. LPDS, cultures, and change management. Two managers from two companies, one LPDS consultant, and one PhD student were interviewed for empirical data. Regarding to the first research question, both primary (interview) and secondary data are used; in order to analyze advantages and weaknesses of LPDS. Then, based on a literature review and empirical findings, Swedish LPDS principles were concluded and compared to the Japanese ones according to the second research question. Lastly, Swedish cultures, creativity perspective, and change management theories were deployed to provide managerial guidelines on how Swedes interpret and adopt LPDS in their organizations. Accordingly, there are several pros and cons of LPDS (e.g. systematic decision making enhancement, transparency of information sharing, dynamic organizational learning) and they occur along the process of LPDS transformation into organizations. For cons, conclusion as of now is that most of LPDS weaknesses come from the method level, in which no one really knows what the real "Lean" is and leads to misinterpretation of principles. Owing to the fact that LPDS is a socio-technical system, it requires firms to adapt their strategies and cultures before adopting LPDS principles. Hence, LPDS needs to be interpreted and put into use case by case, depending on organizational characteristics. There are 14 principles of Swedish LPDS as concluded in this study. They are both similar and different from the Japanese original ones. The basic principles of LPDS, which are standardization, supplier involvement, continuous improvement, and visualization, are employed explicitly in both Japanese and Swedish LPDS. Moreover, both apply set-based concurrent engineering, front-loading, leveled product development process, and cross-functional team in NPD projects in their LPDS practices. The main differences are that Swedish LPDS focuses more on enhancing creativity than those of Japanese. Moreover, leadership style differs due to different cultural background. Besides, some other minor differences are also pointed out in this report. This leads to an answer to the last research question. Swedes should adopt LPDS in incremental manners to develop their organizations into the direction lead by LPDS, while preserving the creativity which is beneficial to product development processes. Finally, some guidelines of LPDS interpretation and adoption are also suggested based on change management theories and Swedish cultures.
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Partovi, Tazeh Kand Parviz. "Adaptations of Hamlet in different cultural contexts : globalisation, postmodernism, and altermodernism." Thesis, University of Huddersfield, 2013. http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/19264/.
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Although there has traditionally been a resistance to the study of adaptations, adaptation studies as a subsection of 'intertextuality‘ currently has a significant place in academic debates. Hamlet is "the Mona Lisa of literature" (T.S. Eliot), and has been the subject of constant scrutiny, mythologizing and adaptation. Hamlet has been adapted and appropriated into and by various cultural contexts. Even confining our attention to the same medium as Shakespeare‘s text, there exists an array of theatrical adaptations in languages and cultures as diverse as Persian, Korean, Arabic, German, Russian, and Turkish. Borrowing Ludwig Wittgenstein‘s metaphor of 'family resemblance,‘ I argue the usefulness of his idea, enabling us to examine not simply a small number of common properties among adaptations of Hamlet, but rather to explore the 'complicated network of similarities overlapping and criss-crossing‘ (Philosophical Investigations, §66). I further propose subdividing the 'global family‘ of Hamlets from around the world that participate in this/these web-like resemblances into 'local families‘ of adapted Hamlets, to enable better intercultural and cross-cultural studies. In this thesis I analyse seven theatrical adaptations of Hamlet in Turkish, Russian, Arabic and Persian cultural contexts, from the perspectives of postmodernism, globalisation and altermodernism. I also scrutinise the Persian family of Hamlet in the light of 'intertextuality‘. Given that each adaptation per se brings together 'self‘ and 'other‘ at the same time, I go on to coin two new terms: homointertextuality and heterointertextuality, in order to explore fully the various connections of the adaptations of Hamlet in Iran with the 'cultural self‘ (Persian culture) and the 'cultural other‘ (Anglophone culture).
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Hatton, MacDonald Darla. "Three papers in natural resource valuation, accounting for cross-cultural contexts." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp02/NQ34775.pdf.
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Elizondo, Gloria M. "Designing for sustainable behaviour in cross-cultural contexts : a design framework." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2011. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/9229.
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This thesis investigates the influence that cultural differences have in the designing of products and services that encourage sustainable lifestyles. This was researched through a case study of dishwashing practices in Mexico and the UK, and the development of a methodological framework for supporting designers working in cross-cultural contexts. Designers can shift user behaviour to be more responsible, and by doing this, reduce a product s impact on the use phase of its lifecycle. Nevertheless, designing products that successfully drive behaviour towards a more sustainable path can only be accomplished if they are conceived to fit the user and the specific context of interaction. In order to do so, designers must truly understand the users, and take into account the complex web of factors that lay behind individual behaviour. A comprehensive review of the literature established an understanding of human behaviour and the emergence and evolution of practices and routines. This brought to light the diverse behavioural patterns in different contexts; and was further investigated with a scoping study in two different locations (Mexico and the UK), exploring general water consuming practices in the home, specifically manual dishwashing practices. The preliminary findings shaped a study that aimed to deepen the understanding of these practices in the selected sites, involving the use of Cultural Probes and videoing people in their common kitchen environment. A robust and clear image of washing-up practices emerged with rich and detailed data presented in different media, ideal to be implemented in a design process. To this end, a series of multicultural Personas were created as the direct outcome of the Cultural Probes and the scoping study, giving way to the design studies phase of the project, carried out with industrial design students in Mexico and the UK. A design brief for sustainable washing up practices was delivered. Design experiments were used to provide interesting evidence of the influence in the design process of the designers understanding of the target user. The findings indicate that designers benefit from exploration and creativity tools tailored directly from the user-research findings in the early design process. This increases the level of empathy towards the user, particularly making it easier to design for users with different needs and contexts than the designers themselves. It also helps designers to better apply design for sustainable behaviour framework to their concept designs.
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Audley-Miller, Lucy. "Tomb Portraits under the Roman Empire : Local Contexts and Cultural Styles." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.519748.
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Lachner, Florian [Verfasser], and Andreas [Akademischer Betreuer] Butz. "User experience in cross-cultural contexts / Florian Lachner ; Betreuer: Andreas Butz." München : Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, 2019. http://d-nb.info/1182228453/34.
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Van, Der Watt Jacobus Stephan. "Images of men and masculinities within cultural contexts : a pastoral assessment." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/19742.
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Thesis (DTh) -- Stellenbosch University, 2007.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study is an endeavour on the cutting edge of the field of practical theology. It engages in a pastoral assessment of contemporary men and masculinities in their manifold representations and embodiments. An in-depth assessment of current schemata of interpretation (on the issue of masculinity), is done within different cultural contexts, aiming to hermeneutically put this into dialogue with a pastoral-anthropological view on masculinity. This dialogue is initiated in order to gain deeper insight into diverse masculinities and the challenges they face in their search for meaning, intimacy and vitality. The point of the dialogue here is rather to describe than to prescribe. The dissertation analyses ‘masculinities as experienced and enacted’ in life and ‘masculinities as represented’ in the mass media as well as in other forms of pop culture, through a multidisciplinary perspective. It is further aimed at the contextual, theological deconstruction of these cultural representations and the establishment and furthering of meaningful connections between male identity, human dignity and Christian spirituality. The focus in contemporary (sociological and psychological) research on masculinity is on enactment of masculinities or ‘doing’ masculinities rather than ‘being’ masculine. The dominant cultural images of masculinity within a globalising life-order suggest and promote materialistic values such as efficiency, performance, mechanisation and functionality. These images are assessed and the interplay between it (the cultural images) and conceptualisations of God (God-images) are explored. This study asserts that men’s identity, self-understanding and spirituality is shaped in many ways by these images, but that the image of the crucified and risen Christ can indeed serve as a meaningful and normative-critical counter-image to the macho-images portrayed by most postmodern masculinities (which many men presently experience as confusing). This counter-image of Christ can transcend the abuse of power, the focus on performance and the commodification of male embodiment, in men’s lives, as they engage in a spirituality of vulnerable courage. A pastoral-anthropological perspective is employed in order to shift the emphasis on male identity in terms of gender and sexuality, towards a spiritual understanding of male identity in terms of human dignity and human destiny (i.e. the quest for meaning). The important question of the relationship between power, masculinity and male embodiment is addressed. Essentialist ideas about masculinity are deconstructed, and a re-interpretation thereof is introduced within a view of reality that affirms and embraces an earth-centred and embodied spirituality. Masculinity and male identity is in that sense “saved” from a commercial reduction by means of an eschatological and pneumatological perspective. This theological re-interpretation of masculinity presents a critical factor on the cultural notion that manhood is something that must be validated by means of performance (especially on the terrain of sexuality). Masculinity, viewed from an eschatological perspective, is thus more than virility that has to be manifested by doing functions. The culturally-determined understanding of masculinity - in terms of brutal power and control – is in this sense ‘emasculated’ in this study. In the light of Christ’s resurrection, there is new hope for the re-interpretation of masculinity. The postmodern man’s resurrection is therefore not guaranteed by the “Viagra-magic blue pill”, but in actual fact by the resurrection of Christ who daily unleashes and affirms new meaningful dimensions of hope in the globalised life-matrix. The power of masculinity thus lies in embodying vulnerability and mutual relationality, contesting unilateral and hierarchical relations. Within this context manhood is not equal to the size of achievement or success, nor performances or powerful penetration, but it rather denotes the capacity for lovingly hospitable relationships and the measure of the soul’s depth of character, i.e. its capacity to embody and affirm the courage to be.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie studie is ‘n navorsingsreis op die snykant van die veld van praktiese teologie. Dit neem deel aan ’n pastorale ondersoek van hedendaagse mans en manlikhede in die verskeie opsigte waarop hul verteenwoordig en beliggaam word. ’n In-diepte assessering van huidige interpretasie-skemas - oor die onderwerp van manlikheid - word gedoen binne verskillende kulturele kontekste, met die doel om dit hermeneuties in dialoog te bring met ’n pastoraal-antropologiese perspektief op manlikheid. Hierdie dialoog word geïnisieër ten einde dieper insig te verkry in diverse manlikhede en die uitdagings wat hulle die hoof moet bied in hul soeke na sin, intimiteit en vitaliteit. Die punt van hierdie dialoog is eerder om te beskryf as om voor te skryf. Die dissertasie analiseer – deur ’n multi-dissiplinêre invalshoek - ‘manlikhede soos dit ervaar en uitgeleef word’ in die lewe asook ‘manlikhede soos dit verteenwoordig word’ in die massa media sowel as in ander vorme van populêre kultuur. Dit is verder gemik op die kontekstuele, teologiese dekonstruksie van hierdie kulturele verteenwoordigings, asook die tot stand bring en bevordering van betekenisvolle verbande tussen manlike identiteit, menswaardigheid en Christelike spiritualiteit. Die fokus in hedendaagse (sosiologiese en sielkundige) navorsing oor manlikheid val op die uitleef van manlikhede oftewel die ‘doen’ van manlikhede, eerder as om manlik te ‘wees’. Die dominante kulturele beelde van manlikheid binne ’n geglobaliseerde lewensbestel suggereer en bevorder materialistiese waardes soos effektiwiteit, prestasie, meganisasie en funksionaliteit. Hierdie beelde word ge-evalueer en die interaksie tussen dit (die kulturele beelde) en moontlike konseptualiserings van God (Godsbeelde) word verken. Hierdie studie voer aan dat mans se identiteit, selfverstaan en spiritualiteit op velerlei maniere gevorm word deur hierdie beelde, maar dat die beeld van die gekruisigde en opgestane Christus inderdaad kan dien as ’n betekenisvolle en normatief-kritiese kontra-beeld tot die “macho”-beelde wat deur meeste postmoderne manlikhede versinnebeeld word (maar wat baie mans huidiglik as verwarrend ervaar). Hierdie kontra-beeld van Christus kan die misbruik van mag, asook die fokus op prestasie en die kommodifisering van manlike beliggaming oorstyg in mans se lewens – deurdat hulle deelneem aan ’n spiritualiteit van weerlose moed. ‘n Pastoraal-antropologiese perspektief word dus hier benut ten einde die klem op manlike identiteit in terme van gender en seksualiteit te verskuif, in die rigting van ‘n spirituele verstaan van manlike identiteit in terme van menswaardigheid en menslike bestemming (d.i. die soeke na sin). Die belangrike vraagstuk van die verhouding tussen mag, manlikheid en manlike beliggaming word aangeraak. Essentialistiese idees oor manlikheid word gedekonstrueer, en ’n herinterpretasie daarvan word voorgestel binne ’n werklikheidsverstaan wat ’n aards-gesentreerde en beliggaamde spiritualiteit bevestig en waardeer. Manlikheid en manlike identiteit word in hierdie opsig “gered” van ’n kommersiële verskraling deur middel van ’n eskatologiese en pneumatologiese perspektief. Hierdie teologiese herinterpretasie van manlikheid bied ’n kritiese faktor op die kulturele opvatting dat manwees iets is wat gevalideer moet word deur middel van prestasie (veral op die gebied van seksualiteit). Manwees, gesien vanuit ‘n eskatologiese perspektief, is dus meer as viriliteit wat gemanifesteer moet word deur doen-funksies. Die kultureel-bepaalde verstaan van manlikheid – in terme van brutale mag en beheer - word in hierdie opsig ‘ontman’ binne hierdie navorsingstuk. In die lig van Christus se opstanding is daar nuwe hoop vir die herinterpretasie van manlikheid. Die postmoderne man se opstanding word daarom nie gewaarborg deur die “Viagra tower blou pil” nie, maar eintlik deur die opstanding van Christus, wat daagliks nuwe sinvolle dimensies van hoop in die geglobaliseerde lewensmatriks vrystel en bevestig. Die krag van manlikheid lê dus in die beliggaming van weerloosheid en wederkerige relasionaliteit, tesame met die weerstand bied teen unilaterale en hiërargiese verhoudings. Binne hierdie konteks is manwees nie gelyk aan die grootte van doelwitte wat bereik is of sukses, prestasie of kragtige penetrasie nie. Nee, manwees omvat eerder die kapasiteit vir liefdevolle, gasvrye verhoudings asook die afmeting van die siel se diepte van karakter, d.i. die kapasiteit daarvan om die ‘moed om te wees’ te beliggaam.
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Driver, Toby. "The hillforts of north Ceredigion : architecture, landscape approaches and cultural contexts." Thesis, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.683329.
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Hughes, John Charles. "Leonhard Lechner's Passion (1593): cultural contexts, musical analysis, and historical implications." Diss., University of Iowa, 2014. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/1469.
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The Historia der Passion und Leidens unsers einigen Erlösers und Seligmachers Jesu Christi (1593) by Leonhard Lechner (c. 1553-1606) is frequently cited as an important work in the development of the Passion idiom. Given the work's notoriety, it is therefore odd that little substantive analysis of the piece exists. Aside from some scholars' cursory comments about the piece, only James Morgan Sides's dissertation has discussed the work at length. Sides's findings give a somewhat limited picture of Lechner's Passion because he primarily focuses on technical aspects of Lechner's musical language. This essay instead seeks to provide a more comprehensive examination of Lechner's composition by taking into account social factors that influenced the history, reception, and stylistic influence of the work. The essay seeks to understand Lechner's Passion according to its cultural context, place it within the Passion genre and Lechner's biography, reception history, as well as explore its influence on later Passion settings. It then uses these factors as a means to explore Lechner's musical language to a greater extent than previous scholarship.
The first chapter explores how social trends in sixteenth-century Württemberg, where Lechner was a chorister when he composed his Passion in 1593, affected his musical language. When Lechner wrote his Passion, the duchy was at a crossroads, balancing religious tradition and a more secular, modern future. On the one hand, over the 1500s, secularization occurred within the duchy's political, religious, and musical institutions. On the other hand, Württemberg's acceptance of Lutheranism in 1534 also shaped the duchy's culture. Additionally, despite its vehement anti-Catholic rhetoric and actions, Württemberg retained some of its long-standing Catholic religious and musical practices after its conversion to Lutheranism. Württemberg's dichotomous culture-a blend of secular, as well as Catholic and Lutheran influences-affected both the duchy's musical culture and Lechner's composition.
The second chapter explores how Württemberg's societal changes, the history of the Passion genre, and Lechner's biography influenced specific musical devices in Lechner's Passion setting. Throughout the work, Lechner seems to use incongruous compositional language-the work not only boasts forward-looking expressive devices, such as text painting, but also incorporates compositional devices typically associated with older Catholic Passion settings. Lechner's setting of Biblical texts in the German vernacular, however, reflects the principles of the Reformation, as well as Württemberg's acceptance of Lutheranism. As the essay traces Lechner's use of text and text setting, expressive devices, and Passiontons throughout each of the piece's five movements, Lechner's musical language is understood to be a product of the Passion idiom, his personal faith, and sixteenth-century culture.
While the first two chapters primarily focus on the relationship between Württemberg's culture and Lechner's musical language, the final chapter deals with the influence of Lechner's Passion, which has a bipartite legacy. In part, Lechner's Passion was summative because it is one of the last motet Passion settings, a subgenre that quickly disappeared due to the rise in popularity of instrumental music. Few motet Passions were composed after Lechner's; however, his work did influence later compositions, including pieces by Heinrich Schütz (1585-1672), Hugo Distler (1908-1942), and Kurt Thomas (1904-1973). It is significant that Lechner's Passion not only influenced Schütz, perhaps the greatest seventeenth-century Lutheran composer, but was also admired centuries later by twentieth-century composers.
The approach of this essay recognizes that no work of art is created in a vacuum and therefore seeks to explore how cultural factors influenced the composition of Lechner's Passion. Lechner's dichotomous compositional language is an outgrowth of sixteenth-century Württemberg's culture, the history of the Passion idiom, and his own biography. As the essay progresses from the piece's social framework to its historical implications, Lechner's Passion is framed as both a product of its time and a model for future compositions. This essay therefore provides a more comprehensive perspective of Lechner's Passion than what previous musical analyses have offered.
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Hardiman, Craig I. "The nature of Hellenistic domestic sculpture in its cultural and spatial contexts." Connect to resource, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1117560146.
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Henning, Annette. "Ambiguous Artefacts : Solar Collectors in Swedish Contexts. On Processes of Cultural Modification." Doctoral thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Miljöteknik, 2000. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-950.
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This is a book about solar collectors and the place of these artefacts in a political energy debate that has aroused strong feelings in Sweden during the last twenty-five years. It is a book about the hopes for a less polluted earth, which solar collectors have come to symbolise, and a book about the ways in which problems in utilising solar energy are culturally perceived. One main aims of this study has been to find out more about the conflicting perceptions of solar collectors as 'saviours of the world' and simultaneously as uninteresting or less credible artefacts that 'may come in the future'. Another main purpose of the study has been to describe and explain those cultural processes of modification that are taking place around solar collectors in active attempts to integrate these into established cultural structures.
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Kinder, Katherine E. "Ubiquitous computing in industrial workplaces : Cultural logics and theming in use contexts." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.536055.
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Ubiquitous computing has become a major trend in computer science research and development but there have been few accounts of what has happened when the technology has been applied in practice, mainly because most such applications thus far have remained at the prototype stage. In this thesis the aim is to explore the design, deployment and use of ubiquitous computing technologies within the specific setting of industrial workplaces in the UK. This thesis was written from a cultural anthropological perspective, and builds on insights from research examining Human- Computer Interaction, Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Science and Technology Studies. Ubiquitous computing technologies in workplaces at a UK road construction and maintenance company were investigated during a two and a half year ethnographic study. The concept of 'cultural logics' is used to emphasise the fact that, even though answers to what it is that ubiquitous computing does can be found in the very specific settings of industrial workplaces, these local settings are also connected to wider 'trends' and more general developments. Contributing to the larger debate about the impact of ubiquitous computing on our lives in general, the presented findings suggest that what is new about ubiquitous computing is not the technologies themselves but what can be found in the entanglement of such technologies with wider, contemporary trends. Trends such as the increased importance of health and safety become important on the local level of specific workplaces and technologies. The research offers an 'under-the-skin' account of what happens when people and ubiquitous computing meet that is also aimed at 'informing' the design process.
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Lindsay, Cora Forrest. "Political, poetic and cultural contexts in Arthur Hugh Clough's Amours de Voyage." Thesis, Birkbeck (University of London), 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.425347.
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Beke, Lili. "ARTISTIC IDENTITIES IN DIFFERENT CULTURAL CONTEXTS : Case studies from Hungary and Norway." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Konstvetenskapliga institutionen, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-352762.
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The following master’s thesis considers as its main objective to prove that corresponding socio- cultural processes manifest themselves differently in Hungarian and Norwegian artistic spheres respectively. This is a cross-cultural case study analysis, focusing specifically on a selection of sociological factors that might affect the identities of artists differently depending on social background and cultural heritage. Seeing as this is a qualitative investigation, an exploration of the working conditions and individual development of six Hungarian and six Norwegian artists assist the study. The thesis examines the cultural environments into which the assembled artists of the research are socialized, in order to map their varying artistic practices, careers and even personal lives. The comparative approach of the case studies is situated within the framework of art sociological and cultural political theories. Findings and implications of the study are likely to yield results that show not only generational differences and contrasting progression within the two cultural contexts separately, but will also expose similarities and dissimilarities in the cultural dynamics governing the two art worlds in question.
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Takano, Takako. "Bonding with the land : outdoor environmental education programmes and their cultural contexts." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/30814.
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While there is now general acceptance of the importance of sustainable living, only recently have educators or researchers paid much attention to people’s relationships with the environment. ‘Western’ advocates of education for sustainable living generally present as models the traditional approaches of indigenous peoples. However, contemporary attempts by indigenous people seeking to help young people ‘bond’ with the land have not been extensively investigated. Following a careful selection process a total of seven educational programmes in the UK and North America were chosen to explore participants’ core values and concerns regarding the environment. The research design was ‘mixed’ and based primarily on participant observation, supported by interviews and written surveys. For the indigenous groups in North America, being ‘on the land’ was ‘life’ itself, and was tied strongly to their identity and well-being. Aspects of their culture and history were inseparable from the programmes, whereas for the groups in the UK, people visited ‘wild places’ primarily for personal enjoyment. The UK programmes studied aimed to cultivate a caring attitude towards the environment chiefly through conservation work. However, in contrast to the North American cases the experience was largely divorced from daily life and paid little attention to cultural and historical heritage. The present study has made three significant contributions to the education literature concerning people’s relationships with the environment. First, the nature of these relationships varies depending on cultural and social settings and the local context plays a vital role in developing the relationships. Second, a fundamental change in people’s relationships with nature requires ontological transformation. Third, while it may be beneficial to adopt certain elements from North American programmes in the UK or vice versa, educators cannot simply duplicate cultural models as education needs to be culturally and locally appropriate. These programmes were experimental and evolving. Further research is required to investigate models of education for sustainability that are culturally and locally appropriate to each place.
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Adams, Mark Richard. "Unpacking the industrial, cultural and historical contexts of Doctor Who's fan-producers." Thesis, Brunel University, 2016. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/14609.
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The approach that emphasises the active audience, and the subversive potential of audience encounters with texts, has greatly influenced the study of media fandom which has tended to see media fans, and the cultures they produce, as set in opposition to writers and producers. My thesis challenges this view of the relationships between fans and producers by examining fan-producers in contemporary television. This research challenges the influential theoretical models that see authorship as a major source of social control and thus sees audiences that 'poach' meanings from texts as engaged in rebellion. The approach that perceives fandom as in opposition to the meanings of production falls short in representing the complexity of fan and producer interactions and thus curtails our understanding of these relationships. My thesis moves beyond the untenable opposition between fans and producers and, in doing so, paves the way for an understanding of fan studies more suitable for the contemporary, and still developing, climate of audience interactions. I believe that the practices of fandom demonstrate that consumption and authorship are more closely linked than previous tendencies to divide them would suggest. Previous works have served to both underestimate fandom, as powerless rebels or dupes, or exaggerate its position as a force of political or cultural resistance. My research engages with the contemporary developments within fan culture, and emphasises the importance of deconstructing monolithic ideas of the media industry in order to better understand the influences and pressures placed on the figure of the fan-producer. I argue that the media industries are not as homogeneous as previously implied, and that the fan-producer is forced to negotiate the complex and often conflicting relationships within the worlds of both fandom and official production.
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Sloan, Bridgette Marie. "Body image among African American women : a comparison of two cultural contexts." Connect to resource, 1995. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1239803079.
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Nicholls, Timothy James. "Jonathan Edwards and the inclusivist debate cultural contexts, Stockbridge, and Prisca theologia /." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2004. http://www.tren.com.
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Sutherland, Ian. "From Weimar Republic to Third Reich : composing agency in changing socio-cultural contexts." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10036/99393.
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This dissertation interrogates the nature of composers as aesthetic agents re-orienting from the socio-cultural contexts of the Weimar Republic (1919-1932) to those of the Third Reich in Germany (1933-1945). Work in the sociology of culture, sociology of arts and sociology of music has focused on cultural consumption, including music, as bound up in the reflexive projects by individuals and groups to constitute and reconstitute their social reality. Within my research I focus on the creation of cultural artefacts, in this case ‘works’ in the Western art music tradition, as central to processes of aesthetic agency where composers are engaged in reflexive projects of constituting and reconstituting their social reality and acting within those constructs. To begin the opening historical chaper, ‘Mortification of Modernism’, uses Goffman’s work in Asylums (1968) to contextualize the cultural policies and activities of the Weimar Republic, considered the classical era of modernism, as a home world from which those involved in modernist ventures developed presenting cultures supported by bespoke institutions established in the early post WWI years. During the waning years of the Republic and the rise of National Socialism, these support structures, including the individuals that made up the cooperative networks of modernism, were destroyed removing most connections to the Weimar Republic modernist home world. In the first years of the Third Reich through numerous denunciations, dismissals, policies, etc. the presenting culture of Weimar modernists was mortified through abasements, degradations and humiliations. Having identified – through qualitative mapping of concert programmes, music reviews and festival participation – composers involved in modernist circles in the Weimar Republic, their career paths and compositional outputs were traced throughout the years of the Third Reich to interrogate the aesthetic agency of composers in light of significant situational and perspectival incongruity. The dissertation then considers each of five composers in depth in separate chapters – Paul Hindemith, Rudolf Wagner-Regeny, Ernst Pepping, Heinrich Kaminski and Wolfgang Fortner. The five were selected based on four criteria: a high degree of activity in Weimar modernist circles (festivals, concerts, societies); continued presence in Germany for a significant portion of the Third Reich; continued professional activity as composers during the Third Reich; access to relevant source material both secondary (biographies, reviews, stylistic analyses, etc.) and primary (scores, letters, diaries, authored texts, etc.) from the subjects. The data illumines complex repertoires of adaptive strategies these individuals engaged in – with, through and to musical products – and how music is not only shaped by wider socio-cultural contexts, but how its construction is a primary resource for agents to respond to and structure the socio-cultural contexts around them. Key findings include the constitution of music as resource for showing both complicity with and subversion against the Nazi Kulturpolitik; as a resource for proxy presence in multiple social spaces (private homes, concert halls, opera houses, etc.) affording the construction and dissemination of composer identity and philosophy; as a technology of self for personal therapy; and in total as a resource for weltanschauung - world-building activity where composers construct and re-construct their social realities through musical creation – music as an active tool in and reflexive resource for individual social reality.
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Akil, Hatem Nazir. "The visual divide Islam vs. the West, image peception in cross-cultural contexts." Doctoral diss., University of Central Florida, 2011. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/4733.
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Do two people, coming from different cultural backgrounds, see the same image the same way? Do we employ technologies of seeing that embed visuality within relentless cultural and ideological frames? And, if so, when does visual difference become a tool for inclusion and exclusion? When does it become an instrument of war? I argue that we're always implicated in visuality as a form of confirmation bias, and that what we see is shaped by preexisting socio-ideological frames that can only be liberated through an active and critical relationship with the image. The image itself, albeit ubiquitous, is never unimplicated - at once violated and violating; with both its creator and its perceiver self-positioned as its ultimate subject. I follow a trace of the image within the context of a supposed Islam versus the West dichotomy; its construction, instrumentalization, betrayals, and incriminations. This trace sometimes forks into multiple paths, and at times loops unto itself, but eventually moves towards a traversal of a visual divide. I apply the trace as my methodology in the sense suggested by Derrida, but also as a technology for finding my way into and out of an epistemological labyrinth. The Visual Divide comprises five chapters: Chapter One presents some of the major themes of this work while attempting a theoretical account of image perception within philosophical and cross-cultural settings. I use this account to understand and undermine contemporary rhetoric (as in the works of Samuel Huntington and Bernard Lewis) that seems intent on theorizing a supposed cultural and historical dichotomies between Islam and the West. In Chapter Two, I account for slogan chants heard at Tahrir Square during the January 25 Egyptian revolution as tools to discovering a mix of technology, language and revolution that could be characterized as hybrid, plural and present at the center of which lies the human body as subject to public peril. Chapter Three analyzes a state of visual divide where photographic evidence is posited against ethnographic reality as found in postcards of nude and semi-nude Algerian Muslim women in the 19th century. I connect this state to a chain of visual oppositions that place Western superiority as its subject and which continues to our present day with the Abu Ghraib photographs and the Mohammed cartoons, etc. Chapter Four deploys the image of Mohamed al-Durra, a 3rd grader who was shot dead, on video, at a crossroads in Gaza, and the ensuing attempts to reinterpret, recreate, falsify and litigate the meaning of the video images of his death in order to propagate certain political doxa. I relate the violence against the image, by the image, and despite the image, to a state of pure war that is steeped in visuality, and which transforms the act of seeing into an act of targeting. In Chapter Five, I integrate the concept of visuality with that of the human body under peril in order to identify conditions that lead to comparative suffering or a division that views humanity as something other than unitary and of equal value. I connect the figures of der Muselmann, Shylock, Othello, the suicide bomber, and others to subvert a narrative that claims that one's suffering is deeper than another's, or that life could be valued differently depending on the place of your birth, the color of your skin, or the thickness of your accent. Finally, in the Epilogue: Tabbouleh Deterritorialized, I look at the interconnected states of perception and remembering within diasporic contexts. Cultural identity (invoked by an encounter with tabbouleh on a restaurant menu in Orlando) is both questioned and transformed and becomes the subject of perception and negotiation.ID: 030646224; System requirements: World Wide Web browser and PDF reader.; Mode of access: World Wide Web.; Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Central Florida, 2011.; Includes bibliographical references (p. 204-217).
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Li, Shengnan. "The Relationship Between Social Phobia, Peer Attachment, and Identity Within Different Cultural Contexts." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2012. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/5398.
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This study investigated the relationship between social phobia, peer attachment, and identity development, within three different countries: China, India, and the USA. It was hypothesized that social phobia interferes with peer attachment, and that poor peer attachment interferes with identity development among late adolescents and emerging adults, thus peer attachment mediates the relationship between social phobia and identity. It was further hypothesized that this relationship between variables is moderated by culture such that in collectivistic cultures, where identity is more dependent upon group affiliation and identification, the interference of social phobia (through peer attachment) on identity would be much greater than in individualistic cultures where identity may be based more on unique characteristics. Participants were 422 undergraduate students from three locations: China (n = 180), India (n = 96), and the USA (n = 146). Results varied by country. For the combined sample collectivism, social phobia, and peer attachment each independently predicted identity. Collectivism also negatively predicted social phobia and positively predicted peer attachment. None of the variables served as a mediator or moderator between the other variables. In the USA sample, collectivism predicted identity but was mediated by peer attachment. Social phobia negatively predicted peer attachment and identity, but was not related to collectivism. In the Chinese sample, peer attachment predicted identity, but was mediated by social phobia. Collectivism predicted identity, but was not related to the other two variables. Among the Indian sample none of the variables predicted identity. A number of possible reasons for these complex results are explored.ID: 031001431; System requirements: World Wide Web browser and PDF reader.; Mode of access: World Wide Web.; Adviser: Steven Berman.; Title from PDF title page (viewed June 24, 2013).; Thesis (M.A.)--University of Central Florida, 2012.; Includes bibliographical references (p. 92-100).
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Keyvanara, Mahmoud. "Towards an understanding of suicide in Iranian society : social, cultural and medical contexts." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.406959.
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Rhinehart, Linda Maria. "Major themes in contemporary ecopoetry : four poets and their literary and cultural contexts." Thesis, Aberystwyth University, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2160/ab9bbaa1-ca4f-485c-9199-0527ba5fa417.
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Altringer, Bethanne. "Team creative problem solving in multi-disciplinary, cross-cultural and inter-organisational contexts." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.609513.
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Borre, Alicia. "ADJUSTMENT PROFILES AMONG YOUTH IN DIVERSE CULTURAL CONTEXTS: INDIVIDUAL, FAMILY, AND CONTEXTUAL INFLUENCES." VCU Scholars Compass, 2016. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/4656.
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Recent literature has noted that not all youth who experience adverse circumstances (e.g. poverty, exposure to violence, maltreatment) end up displaying expected unfavorable outcomes (e.g. academic failure, depression, drug dependence); in fact, some youth display “resilience,” broadly understood as adaptive functioning in the face of adversity (Luthar, Cicchetti, & Becker, 2000). Overall, research on resilience has offered a new approach to the study of at-risk populations, emphasizing the study of strengths, processes, and mechanisms among individuals and communities that may favor positive adaptation, rather than emphasizing deficits among those experiencing adversity (Schoon, 2012). Although resilience research has come a long way, the importance of cultural processes in resilience only recently has been considered, there is still a dearth of studies among diverse contexts and cultural groups (Betancourt et al., 2011), and there is a lack of prospective analyses examining the stability of resilience over time (O’Dougherty et al., 2015). The present study examined the existence of profiles of adjustment among youth who had experienced some kind of adversity in three contexts: (1) Medellin, Colombia (n = 967); (2) Guatemala (n = 2.470); and (3) Chicago, USA (n=491), as well as protective factors associated with profile classification. Furthermore, the continuity of profiles over time was examined in the Chicago sample. Results showed that for each context, diverse profiles of adjustment emerge in the presence of adversity. For all contexts some youth were classified as either resilient (defined as scoring 1 SD above or below the mean on selected indicators) or as holding steady (scoring above the mean but less than 1 SD). Profiles exhibiting high levels of internalizing symptoms, externalizing problems, or problems across domains also were identified across contexts. Protective factors at the individual (e.g. sex, intelligence, prosocial behavior) and at the contextual (e.g. family cohesion, prosocial peers, positive relationship with teacher) levels proved relevant for profile classification, with some factors being relevant in one context but not in another. Prospective analyses revealed both continuity and discontinuity in profile classification among youth in Chicago, with some youth remaining classified in the same group across time points, whereas others transitioned between groups. These results highlight the importance of studying resilience in context, given that what constitutes a salient protective factor for some youth may not be relevant for others. Moreover, these results show that as youth negotiate developmental tasks within their ecologies, there is potential for both continuity and discontinuity in resilience processes. The results can inform prevention and intervention efforts aiming to work from a strength based approach.
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Da, Silva Anna Paula Peixoto. "Emotional Self-Regulation: Voices and Perspectives of Teachers within Diverse Socio-Cultural Contexts." Scholar Commons, 2016. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/6609.
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Given the importance of emotional self-regulation to a child’s ability to develop social competence and prosocial behavior, and the significant role early childhood teachers play in supporting young children’s emotional self-regulation, it is important to explore the concept from the perspective of teachers, or from the socio-cultural context through which they (i.e., teachers) make sense of the world.
This study used an exploratory case study methodology to explore the understandings of emotional self-regulation among three Head Start teachers working with varying socio-cultural contexts and to identify the socio-cultural perspectives that influenced their ability to effectively apply their understandings.
Findings indicate that while the participants’ definitions of emotional self- regulation were aligned with those that are commonly used in the field, it was their implementation of strategies that diverged, reflecting the influence of learning goals and varying socio-cultural contexts.
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Cope, Nicholas. "Northern Industrial Scratch : the history and contexts of a visual music practice." Thesis, University of Sunderland, 2012. http://sure.sunderland.ac.uk/3287/.
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The critical commentary presents and contextualizes a film and video making practice spanning three decades. It locates a contemporary visual music practice within current and emerging critical and theoretical contexts and tracks back the history of this practice to the artist’s initial screenings of work as part of the 1980’s British Scratch video art movement. At the heart of the body of work presented here is an exploration and examination of methods and working practices in the encounter of music, sound and moving image. Central to this is an examination of the affective levels that sound and image can operate on, in a transsensorial fusion, and political and cultural applications of such encounters, whilst examining the epistemological regimes such work operates in. A combination of factors has meant that work such as this, arising in the UK provinces, can fall below the historicizing and critical radar – these include the ephemeral and transitory nature of live performance work; the difficulties of documenting such work; the fragility and degeneration of emerging and quickly obsolescent formats; and a predominance of a London–centric focus on curating, screening and historicizing of experimental film and video art practices. My film and video practice has been screened nationally and internationally over three decades, and has been recognized as exemplary practice both in the early 1980s at the inception of the Scratch movement and in more recent retrospectives. The critical commentary argues that this work contributes new knowledge of the history, contexts and practices of film and video art and audiovisual and visual music practices.
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Minors, Helen Julia. "La Peri, poeme danse (1911, Paul Dukas) in its cultural, historical and interdisciplinary contexts." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2007. http://eprints.kingston.ac.uk/16148/.
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Paul Dukas (1865-1935) is a formidable figure in early twentieth-century French music, yet little recent scholarship has properly recognised his importance. To remedy this situation this dissertation explores Paul Dukas's last large-scale work La Peri, poeme danse (composed in 1911), with the specific aim of revealing ways in which musical multimedia correspond in order to express the scenario in a balletic context.
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Dorrer, Nike Cornelia. "Women, body and eating : a social representational study in British and Tobagonian cultural contexts." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/21460.
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In this thesis I explore women's engagement with body, weight and eating from a socio-cultural perspective. I discuss the limitations of current research on body dissatisfaction and propose that women's negative appraisal of their body needs to be understood as an active engagement with their social context. Research that focuses on the interaction of ethnic/cultural differences and body dissatisfaction seeks to clarify the interrelationship between femininity, gender and culture and suggests that women's dissatisfaction with their body is linked to levels of global Westernisation. My criticism of this research is that it conceptualises culture and social knowledge in a simplistic way. I propose social representations theory and the principles of dialogicality as an alternative research paradigm and argue that such an approach can overcome the dichotomy of individual and social, inner and outer. In order to explore the interaction of the subjective with the social in relation to the negative and positive appraisal of the body an interview study was conducted in two distinct cultural contexts. In depth interviews were conducted with 14 women in the UK and 12 women in Tobago, WI. The thema recognition/disrespect was used as an interpretative frame. The results show that the meanings that were assigned to the body interlinked with socially enacted representations of self, other and femininity. While the thema recognition/disrespect could be seen to be problematised through contradictory conditions of worth in the UK, it was the notion of 'disrespect' in interrelation with representations of others that was foregrounded in women's reflections in Tobago. In both research locations women negotiated constraining or contradictory demands of femininity and 're-presented' themselves through the construction of alternative identities.
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Tian, Qirui. "Mind perception in two different cultural contexts : religious targets and food animals as examples." Thesis, Toulouse 2, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014TOU20116/document.
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Cette thèse de doctorat porte sur l’étude de la perception dans le domaine de la religion et de l'alimentation dans deux contextes culturels différents: chinois et français. Dans deux chapitres indépendants, nous avons étudié l'effet de la croyance religieuse sur la perception des cibles religieuses et l'effet du comportement de la consommation de viande sur la perception des animaux. Le chapitre 1 présente une brève introduction à propos de la perception, et le chapitre 2 explore les différences culturelles sur la religiosité et la perception, notamment, la façon dont la croyance religieuse affecte la perception des individus vis-à-vis des dieux et des chrétiens en utilisant un amorçage du paradigme religieux. Les principaux résultats montrent que sur la religiosité, les participants agnostiques chinois étaient plus semblables aux participants religieux chinois, mais les participants agnostiques français étaient plus semblables aux participants athées français. Quant à la perception, les participants agnostiques chinois étaient plus semblables aux participants religieux chinois, mais pour les participants français, les athées, les agnostiques et les religieux étaient différents les uns des autres. Quand des concepts liés aux dieux sont amorcées, la perception des dieux est attribuée davantage à la dimension agence dans l'échantillon chinois, mais non pas dans l'échantillon français. Les participants religieux chinois ont attribué davantage la perception des dieux sur la dimension agence que les athées chinois. Les participants religieux et agnostiques français attribuent davantage la perception des dieux à la fois sur la dimension agence et sur la dimension expérience que les athées français. Cependant, l'objectif chrétien est moins attribué à l'esprit par les participants athées chinois, et plus par les participants religieux chinois sur la dimension de l'expérience, lorsque les concepts de Dieu connexes sont amorcés. Dans l'échantillon français, l'amorçage religieux n'a aucun effet sur l'attribution de l’esprit à la cible chrétienne, mais les participants religieux attribuent davantage l'esprit à la cible chrétienne que à l'objectif control, et les participants agnostiques attribuent davantage l'esprit à la cible chrétienne qu’à la cible athée. Le chapitre 3 traite la question de savoir si des rappels du paradoxe de la viande vont influencer la réduction de la volonté de manger de la viande et/ou de l'attribution de l’esprit à des animaux. Les résultats suggèrent que lorsque le lien entre la viande et son origine animale est relativement claire et forte, à la fois les participants français et les participants chinois déclarent une grande volonté de manger de la viande dans un état qui met l'accent sur la viande elle-même, et une volonté faible dans un état qui met l'accent sur l'abattage de la production viande. Les participants français accordent moins d'esprit à un animal comme nourriture quand ils ont établi le lien entre la viande et son origine animale, alors que les participants chinois ne le font pas. Lorsque le lien est relativement vague et faible, le paradoxe de la viande n'a pas d'effets significatifs sur la réduction de l'attribution de l’esprit à des animaux chez les participants chinois et français, mais permet de comprendre pourquoi les chinois déclarent une volonté plus faible de manger de la viande dans un état qui met l'accent sur l’origine animale de la viande. Enfin, le chapitre 4 traite des implications théoriques et pratiques de nos résultats empiriquesThis doctoral dissertation focuses on mind perception in the field of religion and diet in two different cultural contexts: Chinese and French. In two independent chapters, it investigates the effect of religious belief on mind perception concerning religious targets and the effect of meat-eating behavior on mind perception concerning food animals. Following a brief introduction of mind perception in Chapter 1, Chapter 2 explores cross-cultural differences in religiosity and mind perception and how religious belief affects people’s mind perception of gods and Christians using a religious priming paradigm. The main results reveal that on religiosity, Chinese agnostic participants were more similar to Chinese religious participants, but French agnostic participants were more similar to French atheist participants; on mind perception of gods, Chinese agnostic participants were more similar to Chinese religious participants, but French atheist, agnostic and religious participants were different from each other. When God-related concepts are primed, gods are attributed more mind on the agency-dimension in the Chinese sample, but not in the French sample. The Chinese religious participants attributed more mind to gods on the agency-dimension than the Chinese atheist ones. The French religious and agnostic participants attributed more mind to gods on both the agency-dimension and the experience-dimension than French atheist ones. However, the Christian target is attributed less mind by the Chinese atheist participants, and more mind by the Chinese religious participants on the experience dimension, when God-related concepts are primed. In the French sample, religious priming has no effect on mind attribution to the Christian target, but religious participants attribute more mind to the Christian target than to the Control target, and agnostic participants attribute more mind to the Christian target than to the atheist target. Chapter 3 addresses the question of whether reminders of the meat paradox will influence reduction of willingness to eat meat and/or mind attribution to food animals. The results suggest that when the link between meat and its animal origin is relatively clear and strong, both French and Chinese participants report high willingness to eat meat in a condition that emphasizes meat itself, and low willingness in a condition that emphasizes the slaughter required to produce meat. French participants attribute less mind to a food animal when they realize the link between meat and its animal origin, but Chinese participants do not. When the link is relatively vague and weak, the meat paradox does not have significant effects on the reduction of mind attribution to food animals among Chinese and French participants, but makes Chinese participants report lower willingness to eat meat in a condition that emphasizes the animal origin of meat. Finally, Chapter 4 discusses the theoretical and practical implications of our empirical findings
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Zhao, Li. "Socio-Cultural Adjustment of International Students as Expatriates in America." TopSCHOLAR®, 2010. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/228.
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This study examined the relationships between international students’ ethnic identity, self-efficacy, uncertainty avoidance, and their socio-cultural adjustment. A total of 65 international students (aged 18 to 33 years) from seven countries completed the online questionnaire. As hypothesized, path analyses demonstrated a positive relationship between students’ self-efficacy and their socio-cultural adjustment. International students’ uncertainty avoidance had a negative relationship with their self-efficacy, but a positive relationship with ethnic identity. The hypotheses that international students’ ethnic identity and uncertainty avoidance are negatively correlated to their socio-cultural adjustment were not supported in the present study.
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Li, Yue. "Oriental mysteries, Occidental dreams? : perception, experience and cultural reinterpretation in contemporary cross-cultural contexts : a comparative analysis between China and the West." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2014. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/5068/.
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This study is a qualitative analysis of direct cultural encounters between China and the West. It examines the subjective experiences of Chinese students in Britain and Western expatriate teachers in China from their own viewpoints – how they understood and interpreted different cultures and made sense of similarities and differences between one another, that is, how they experienced cultural translation. It employs focus group and individual interviewing methods. This study adopts an analytical framework of a before-during-after logic to answer three questions: 1) why did participants come to the host country and what did they think of it before arrival? 2) how did they relate to the host environment and make sense of differences? and 3) how these direct cross-cultural experiences influenced them as well as the wider context of cultural relations between China and the West? It presents the historical background of cultural and educational exchange between China and the West and identifies motives of participants coming to the host country under the current context of global cultural flows. Furthermore, it highlights factors that differentiated the subjective experiences of participants, such as gender, duration of time spent in the host country, relationships with local people and the subjects of study. The effects of participants’ experiences in the host country also varied according to these factors. What underpins the relationship between China and the West in terms of cultural and educational contacts, presented by Chinese students in Britain and Western expatriate teachers in China, is fundamentally an interplay between economic and cultural factors. Differences between China and the West are as much cultural as institutional. This study provides a detailed account of such differences. It discusses what aspects of Western cultural values have a strong influence on China and which traditional Chinese values still hold their importance during direct cultural encounters with the West. It reveals the internal struggle, caused by cultural differences and institutional limitations, amongst both Chinese students in Britain and Western expatriate teachers in China, but it also highlights the ways in which some differences have been exaggerated during direct cross-cultural encounters as well as the profound social and cultural similarities shared by China and the West, which tend to be overlooked.
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Häggström, Terttu. "Life-story perspective on caring within cultural contexts : experiences of severe illness and of caring /." Luleå : Univ, 2004. http://epubl.luth.se/1402-1544/2004/12.
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Lin, FangChi. "British and American Chinese children's negotiation of popular cultural texts in bilingual and bicultural contexts." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2009. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/10721/.
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This PhD thesis presents an investigation of how British Chinese and American Chinese children, situated in bilingual and bi-cultural context, negotiate the meaning of a popular culture text, Yugioh within their sociocultural practices. The research draws on two theoretical frameworks, reception analysis and New Literacy Studies. Data were collected from surveys, diaries, participant observations and semi-structured interviews with children and parents in the UK and US, over a sixteen-month period from October, 2002 and February, 2004. It is argued that the children’s appropriation of popular culture texts in cross-cultural context is subject to the interwoven effects of a variety of and interconnected situational factors and follows the pattern of product life cycle. In each phase of product life cycle, the children draw on textual and symbolic meanings of Yugioh texts to represent their understandings and interactions with their social world. The analysis shows the textual meanings are used to facilitate the practice of Yugioh activities and literacy learning while the symbolic meanings are to serve different purposes in the children’s socialisation, identity formation and childhood development.
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Hou, Jenny Zhengye. "An institutional approach to understanding public relations in Chinese cultural contexts: Field and institutional work." Thesis, University of Queensland, 2013. https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:313108.
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Little research has questioned the sociological root of the adoption and adaptation of Western originated public relations (PR) in a non-Western context. To fill in this gap, this research explores how Chinese actors, ranging from PR agency consultants, in-house PR practitioners, media people, and regulatory body, reflexively and creatively navigate the pre-existing cultural contexts to construct and institutionalize the field of PR practices in China. Specifically, this research aims to understand how China’s hybrid contexts foster the complexities and dynamics of the PR field, as well as how the field actors’ creative agency reshapes the broad contexts. This research contributes an alternative to the dominant managerial-functionalist scholarship of PR through a critical examination of PR as a socially constructed field in China.
To investigate the interplay between PR actors’ practices and the pre-existing contexts, this research applies an institutional theoretical approach, specifically by applying the key notions of field and institutional work. The notion of field is used to examine the complexities and dynamics of Chinese PR practice, which is governed and legitimized by multiple logics, and which is influenced by actors’ evolving inter-relation. The notion of institutional work is adopted to uncover Chinese PR actors’ strategic responses to various institutional pressures, and particularly their “broad agentic work” to create PR as an institution. In addition, Chinese culture, in the form of guanxi and harmony, are incorporated in the institutional analysis of PR of this thesis. Bourdieu’s concept of social capital is used to interpret the role of guanxi in both PR practices and institutional work of Chinese PR.
This research employs a multi-method qualitative approach consisting of 70 semi-structured interviews, participant observation, and document review. Participants were selected from the cities of Chongqing (n=16) and Beijing (n=54), comprising four groups of actors — PR agency consultants, in-house PR practitioners, media people and PR association regulators. Participant observation was conducted in a top local PR agency in Beijing, from which extensive documents, such as PR proposals, agency-client service contracts, internal training materials and the like were accessed and collected. The data set was analyzed through interpretive thematic analysis.
This research provides significant insights into the extant body of PR knowledge in three ways. Firstly, studying PR at a field level enables a sociological account of PR practice in terms of logic and legitimacy. As found in this research, the field of Chinese PR is co-shaped by multiple, interwoven logics that are derived from China’s hybrid contexts. While the market-oriented logic leads to multi-way interactive and pragmatic PR practices, the state authoritarian logic wields constraints of ideological surveillance and domination. Guanxi is creatively used by Chinese PR actors to facilitate PR practices through exploring room for negotiation over the fuzzy edges of ambiguous rules. The logic of harmony mediates those potential conflicts (e.g., market vs. state) while allowing for actors’ ongoing contestation and compromise to achieve consensus about PR practice in China.
Secondly, confronted with various institutional pressures (e.g., state, media), Chinese PR actors apply different strategies, ranging from camouflage, seeking logic resonance, and harnessing the social capital of guanxi to accomplish specific PR tasks. Moreover, those active PR actors, who initiate the creation of PR as an institution, adroitly convert those pressures to opportunities through cultivating coalition and leveraging resources from other powerful or even rival actors. Such field level institutional work has led to the increasing marketization and democratization of state level PR practices. The Chinese government appears to be gradually loosening its ideological control over the field of PR, and shifting away from the top-down, propagandistic logic towards marketorientated, multi-way interactive logic of PR.
Thirdly, the perspective of social capital extends current understanding of power in the PR literature. This thesis argues that power in PR may not necessarily mean domination or manipulation. Rather, power can be understood from the perspective of negotiating policies and empowering PR initiatives. As exemplified in this research, Chinese PR practices are empowered by the social capital like guanxi through its fluidity within social networks and its convertibility to other economic, cultural and symbolic forms of capital.
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May, Harvey Brian. "Australian Multicultural Policy and Television Drama in Comparative Contexts." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2004. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/15835/1/Harvey_May_Thesis.pdf.
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This thesis examines changes which have occurred since the late 1980s and early 1990s with respect to the representation of cultural diversity on Australian popular drama programming. The thesis finds that a significant number of actors of diverse cultural and linguistic background have negotiated the television industry employment process to obtain acting roles in a lead capacity. The majority of these actors are from the second generation of immigrants, who increasingly make up a significant component of Australia's multicultural population. The way in which these actors are portrayed on-screen has also shifted from one of a 'performed' ethnicity, to an 'everyday' portrayal. The thesis develops an analysis which connects the development and broad political support for multicultural policy as expressed in the National Agenda for a Multicultural Australia to the changes in both employment and representation practices in popular television programming in the late 1990s and early 2000s. The thesis addresses multicultural debates by arguing for a mainstreaming position. The thesis makes detailed comparison of cultural diversity and television in the jurisdictions of the United States, the United Kingdom and New Zealand to support the broad argument that cultural diversity policy measures produce observable outcomes in television programming.
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May, Harvey Brian. "Australian Multicultural Policy and Television Drama in Comparative Contexts." Queensland University of Technology, 2004. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/15835/.
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This thesis examines changes which have occurred since the late 1980s and early 1990s with respect to the representation of cultural diversity on Australian popular drama programming. The thesis finds that a significant number of actors of diverse cultural and linguistic background have negotiated the television industry employment process to obtain acting roles in a lead capacity. The majority of these actors are from the second generation of immigrants, who increasingly make up a significant component of Australia's multicultural population. The way in which these actors are portrayed on-screen has also shifted from one of a 'performed' ethnicity, to an 'everyday' portrayal. The thesis develops an analysis which connects the development and broad political support for multicultural policy as expressed in the National Agenda for a Multicultural Australia to the changes in both employment and representation practices in popular television programming in the late 1990s and early 2000s. The thesis addresses multicultural debates by arguing for a mainstreaming position. The thesis makes detailed comparison of cultural diversity and television in the jurisdictions of the United States, the United Kingdom and New Zealand to support the broad argument that cultural diversity policy measures produce observable outcomes in television programming.
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Hammam, Jasmine. "Investigating a Social Entrepreneurial Business Model in India and its Applicability to Wider Contexts." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Kulturgeografiska institutionen, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-277223.
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Social entrepreneurship has grown in popularity since Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in the year 2006. Pollinate Energy is an Australian social business working to improve the lives of the urban poor in India. The purpose of this study is to investigate the portability of the organisation’s business model to other geographical locations, e.g what adjustments might be needed if transferring and implementing the concept in new cities and locations. A qualitative case study approach was conducted by gathering experiences from Bangalore through interviews and secondary sources and field observations from a field study conducted in Hyderabad, India. The results indicate that the local cultural context shapes the structure of the concept. It was found to be easier to establish relationships through products with immediate tangible benefits, which indicates that products are highly context dependent. Therefore, local trials of products are needed for the concept to be effective. Moreover, further investigations of the model would be required if the concept were to be transferred to other geographical locations. The model can generate spin-off effects contributing to development, and can thus be a catalyst for social change.
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Gonzalez, Ana Sofia M. "The influence of cultural contexts in learners' attributions for success and failure in foreign language learning." Thesis, University of Reading, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.590139.
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Attribution theory has deserved increasing attention over the last fifteen years as far as foreign language (FL) learning is concerned. Several studies have been conducted with the purpose of relating students' perceptions of success and failure in FL learning to the students' age, gender, perceived level of success, and language studied. The fact that learners' perceptions of success and failure in foreign language learning can be influenced by their own culture is an idea put forward in the 19805 and that has recently been explored in studies on attribution theory. However, these studies did not involve thorough research of the 'cultures' investigated, being therefore simply based on assumptions about the nations' cultural traits, resulting on scientifically inconsistent findings, mainly due to stereotyping. Considering culture as a set of habits, values and beliefs shared by a group of people and construed by them over time in interaction with each other and the environment surrounding them, leading to similar patterns of behaviour, the purpose of this study is to show how students' cultural characteristics may influence the attributions they present for their successes and failures in learning English as a foreign language. It also attempted to identify differences between the way attributions are classified by learners in relation to their dimensions and the way researchers have classified these attributions, to see whether learners' success and failure attributions differed depending on learners' degree of exposure to other cultures, cultural orientation and age, and if these learners' attributions differed from their teachers'. The study took place in a public and a private university in Luanda, capital of Angola (a West African country), with 366 learners and their English teachers. Learners were involved in three different forms of inquiry: focus groups (conducted to uncover cultural parameters that described learners' culture), questionnaires (aimed at confirming these cultural factors and relate them to attributions for success and failure), and interviews. Data findings were analysed from a social constructivist perspective. A mixed methods approach to data analysis was carried out, starting with a qualitative analysis (through constant comparative analysis and grounded theory), followed by quantitative analysis using principal component analysis ~ (to identify significant factors) and logistic regression (to determine to what extent each factor predicted the occurrence of the attributions mentioned). Results, from all the data gathering methods were brought together. These suggest that the most frequently mentioned attributions and the way these were classified as internal/external. controllable/uncontrollable, stable/changeable by respondents differed from the results presented in previous studies conducted in different cultural contexts. A relationship between some of the attributions mentioned by Angolan learners and characteristics of learners' context was established. This relationship was especially observed in relation to new categories of attributions mentioned, the frequency with which specific attributions were mentioned (especially attributions that were part of initial models of attribution theory), and the lack of difference in attributions mentioned by teachers from the public institution for their learners' successes and failures and these learners' attributions. Implications for teachers and learners are discussed.
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Krüger, Johanna Alida. "The Cherry Orchard transposed to contemporary South Africa : space and identity in cultural contexts / J.A. Krüger." Thesis, North-West University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/5001.
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The transposition of Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard (originally published in Russian in 1904) to contemporary South Africa in Suzman's The Free State (2000) is based on the corresponding social changes within the two contexts. These social changes cause a binary opposition of past and present in the two texts. Within this context memory functions as a space in which the characters recall the past to the present and engenders a dialogue between past and present. Memory is illustrated in the two plays by associations with place as an important aspect of identity formation. Memory and place are fused in the plays by means of Bakhtin's concept of the chronotope which is best observed in the plays in memories of specific places such as the respective orchards, houses and rooms such as the nursery and the ballroom in. The Cherry Orchard and the garden in The Free State. Furthermore, the influence of the past is also evident in the present when ideas of social status, class, race (in the case of The Free State) and behaviour are contrasted and when various characters express their perceptions of personal relationships and ideas about marriage. The influence of the past is also evident when the characters voice their different perceptions and expectations of the past and future. In The Cherry Orchard these cultural differences are evident in the concept of heteroglossia. However, in The Free State, these dialogues are directed by a specific politically liberal view which diminishes the heteroglossia in the text. The juxtaposing of past and present is also illustrated in The Cherry Orchard by various subversive strategies such as comedy of the absurd in order to portray the behaviour of the characters as incongruous. Another subversive strategy is the contrasting of characters and ideas in order to expose pretensions and affectations in speech and actions to parody both the old establishment and the ambitions of former peasants. These conventions are best illustrated by the concept of the carnivalesque that also features as one of Bakhtin's terms to capture incongruous ideas and situations in literature. In The Free State, comedy is unfortunately much diminished and in contrast to Chekhov's ambiguity, only directed against politically conservative characters. The prevalence of these three Bakhtinian concepts in the texts shows how identity formation is to a large extent influenced and defined by occupied space. When social change affects the distribution of land, a character's concept of identity is destabilised. Although Suzman uses this similarity in the two contexts in order to transpose Chekhov's text to contemporary South Africa, she organises the various stances in the text to advocate a specific politically liberal view. Thus, Suzman's transposition leads to an interesting comparison between the Russian and South African contexts as well as between the two texts. However, her text is limited by her political interpretation of Chekhov's text.Thesis (M.A. (English))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2009.
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Downs, David J. "The offering of the Gentiles Paul's collection for Jerusalem in its chronological, cultural, and cultic contexts." Tübingen Mohr Siebeck, 2007. http://d-nb.info/988941287/04.
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Mohammed, Selina A. "The intersectionality of diabetes and the cultural-political contexts of urban American Indians / Selina A. Mohammed." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/7302.
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