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Prior, Ann. "Friends in business : the interaction of business and religion within the Society of Friends, 1700-1830." Thesis, Lancaster University, 1995. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.364360.

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Holmes, Rose. "A moral business : British Quaker work with refugees from fascism, 1933-39." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2015. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/54158/.

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This thesis details the previously under-acknowledged work of British Quakers with refugees from fascism in the period leading up to the Second World War. This work can be characterised as distinctly Quaker in origin, complex in organisation and grassroots in implementation. The first chapter establishes how interwar British Quakers were able to mobilise existing networks and values of humanitarian intervention to respond rapidly to the European humanitarian crisis presented by fascism. The Spanish Civil War saw the lines between legal social work and illegal resistance become blurred, forcing British Quaker workers to question their own and their country's official neutrality in the face of fascism. The second chapter draws attention to both the official structures and the unofficial responses of humanitarian workers. Female domestic servants were the largest professional category of refugees from fascism to enter Britain. Their refuge was largely negotiated by other women, which has not been acknowledged. In the third chapter, I focus on intimate histories to approach a gendered analysis of humanitarian intervention. Finally, I argue that the Kindertransport, in which Quaker leadership was essential, represents the culmination of the interwar voluntary tradition and should be seen as the product of a complex, inter-agency effort. I argue that the Quaker work was hugely significant as a humanitarian endeavour in its own right. Beyond this evident and momentous impact, the Quaker work should be seen as a case study for the changing role of both voluntarism and humanitarianism between the wars. This dissertation illustrates the ways in which the interwar period saw both the professionalization of the humanitarian sector, and an increasing recognition that governments had to support private charities in their humanitarian responses to international crises.

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Haagen, Christopher. "Rebuilding the Quaker church Henry Hodgkin and the Progressive Quaker Missionary Movement of the 19th century /." Diss., Connect to the thesis, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10066/1008.

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Kennedy, Maria Helen. "The Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Ireland : sectarianism and identity." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2016. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/6843/.

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This thesis is a sociological study of Quakers in Ireland that investigates the impact that sectarianism has had on identity construction within the Religious Society of Friends. My research highlights the complex identities of individual Friends in respect of culture, national identities and theology – mirrored by the Society’s corporate identity. Jennifer Todd’s work on sectarianism and oppositional identities in Ireland provides part of the theoretical framework for this thesis. An identity matrix formulated from interview data is used to illustrate how different identities overlap and relate to each other. I argue that the range of ‘hybrid’ or multilayered identities within Irish Quakerism has resulted in tensions which impact on relationships between Friends and on the Society. The thesis discusses how Friends negotiate these ‘hybrid’ identities. Irish Quakers prioritise ‘relational unity’ and have developed a distinctive approach to complex identity management. I contend that in their external relations ‘Quaker’ represents a meta-identity that is counter-cultural in its non-sectarianism, although this is more problematic within the organisation of Friends. Furthermore, by modelling an alternative, non-sectarian identity, Friends are building capacity for transformation from oppositional to more fluid and inclusive identities in Ireland.

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Juterczenka, Sünne. "Über Gott und die Welt : Endzeitvisionen, Reformdebatten und die europäische Quäkermission in der Frühen Neuzeit /." Göttingen : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2008. http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=016390753&line_number=0002&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA.

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Cooper, Benjamin. ""We leave every reader to draw his own inferences" or, language and the construction of community in the Quaker journal The Friend /." Diss., Connect to the thesis, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10066/769.

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Kline, Douglas Aaron. "Quakerly conflict : The cultural logic of conflict in the Religious Society of Friends." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.535507.

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Allen, Richard C. "The Society of Friends in Wales : the case of Monmouthshire, c.1654-1836." Thesis, Aberystwyth University, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.326520.

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Burton, Paul F. "An active and united body : change in the Society of Friends in Scotland." Thesis, University of Strathclyde, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.417428.

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Plant, Helen. "Gender and the aristocracy of dissent : a comparative study of the beliefs, status and roles of women in Quaker and Unitarian communities, 1770-1830, with particular reference to Yorkshire." Thesis, University of York, 2000. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/2496/.

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Adams, K. R. "The growth and development of the Society of Friends in New Zealand, 1840-1920." Thesis, University of Canterbury. History, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/8117.

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This thesis investigates the growth and development of the Society of Friends (Quakers) in New Zealand, from 1840-1920. It is concerned with looking at the way a small handful of individuals in 1840 grew into a fully fledged church in 1920. Also to be examined is the role, if any, the English society played in this development, through the visits of ministering Friends. It is divided into five chapters each following a set period of time in which these questions are examined.

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Johnson, Jamie R. "Banked on biblical authority the role of Joseph John Gurney in American evangelical Quakerism /." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2003. http://www.tren.com.

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Burdick, Tim. "Neo-evangelical identity within American Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) : Oregon early Meeting, 1919-1947." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2013. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/4152/.

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This thesis is an historical case-study using archival written data to analyse the formation of a neo-evangelical identity within Oregon Yearly Meeting (OYM) of the Religious Society of Friends, with emphasis on the years 1919-1947. The argument of this thesis is that by 1919 there were fundamentalist thinking patterns developing within the corporate religious identity of the Yearly Meeting (YM) marked by ecumenical separatism, world-rejecting views, biblical literalism and decreasing social action. The values of this fundamentalist identity became dominant by 1926, pervading the mindset of the YM until the late 1940s when it was replaced with a more socially-concerned, world-engaging expression of evangelicalism. This neo-evangelicalism attempted to highlight positive Christianity, while maintaining the supernatural orthodox theology of its fundamentalist predecessors. The pattern that unfolded in OYM shares similarities with a larger pattern taking place throughout Protestant Christianity in America over the same period. This research makes original contributions to scholarship in three ways. Firstly, it analyses a particularly influential group among evangelical American Quakers during the twentieth-century. Secondly, it starts to redress the dearth of scholarship specific to evangelical Quakerism, and, thirdly it adds to the scholarship on twentieth-century American Protestantism by focusing on an understudied region and denomination.

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Simmons, Brian G. "An analysis of the Quaker doctrine of inner light guidance with respect to their use of John 1:8-10 and John 16:12-15." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1991. http://www.tren.com.

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Payne, Brett I. "The Five Years Meeting Rufus M. Jones, the Richmond Declaration of Faith, and the fundamentalist-modernist controversy /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2000. http://www.tren.com.

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Ozbay, Duygu. "“Fighting to Get Friends” - The Effect of Civil Society Activities on Social Integration of Refugees: Experiences of Refugees from a Danish Civil Society Organization." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-21556.

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This thesis investigates how refugees experience their participation in civil society organizations and how such participation affects their social integration. Focusing on the experiences of refugees from a community center in Denmark, this qualitative study explores what resources refugees gain from civil society activities and whether these gains affect their social relationships within the host society. Data collected via seven semi-structured interviews and observations is analyzed using the concepts of social capital, human capital and social integration. The findings demonstrate that resources gained through civil society participation pave the way for socialization opportunities between refugees and communities in the host society, thus, enhance social integration. Social resources such as social networks, mental support and civic values, as well as human capital gains in the form of language skills and information foster refugees’ social integration. The study demonstrates that social capital, human capital and social integration are interconnected, as social and human capital affect each other’s accumulation and eventually contribute to social integration. Another significant finding is that refugees think integration needs to be a mutual process between newcomers and the native population. The study further indicates the importance refugees attach to language as an essential tool for social integration.

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Lehin, Barbara. "Cinema and society : Thatcher's Britain and Mitterand's France." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2003. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/1249/.

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This thesis examines the representation of society in British and French cinemas of the 1980s. In this comparative study, the choice of this particular decade was motivated by the coming to power of the Conservative Party in Britain and the Socialist Party in France. Since the two governments adopted 'extreme' policies increasing the strengths and weaknesses traditionally found in their film industries, British cinema struggled even harder while French cinema enjoyed a strong financial support from the state. A significant feature of these two national cinemas in relation to films about society was the predominance of the realist vein in Britain and the comedy genre in France. This generic discrepancy was highly influential in the way the two national cinemas referred to social issues in the 1980s and most scholars have argued that British cinema widely discussed the state of its society whereas, on the whole, French cinema avoided to do so. What this research hopefully demonstrates is that, despite different generic approaches, British and French cinemas equally contributed to depict their contemporary societies. To analyse how these two societies were represented on screen, three main areas are studied thematically: first people in power (public institutions and individuals), second the world of work, and third the family. After a brief summary of social issues in Britain and France in relation with the aforementioned themes, discussions of their filmic representations are based on the films themselves, the textual analysis of films taken as case studies and their critical reception. I will argue that in the 1980s, British cinema offered the overall image of a class-bound society where individuals - living side by side - were unable to escape their social fate. The paradox of this cinema made by a majority of left-wing filmmakers was that ultimately it favoured a rather traditional view of society. By contrast, my research shows that the idea of friendship and solidarity prevailed over economic and social hardship in French cinema. Although this depiction of society was largely consensual, it nevertheless opened the debate for social alternatives.

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Powers, John. ""Growing up Quaker" in the Civil War era." Diss., Connect to the thesis, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10066/667.

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Halvorsen, Maren Elizabeth. ""The day of small things" : the Quaker understanding of conversion and the inner light in the writings of Isaac Penington the Younger /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/10518.

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Tonsing, Betty Kathryn. "The Quakers in South Africa a social witness." Thesis, Rhodes University, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002417.

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The Religious Society of Friends, or Quakers, began their witness in the 1600s during a time of religious debate when competing doctrines reflected the political, social and intellectual turmoil of seventeenth-century England. George Fox (1624-1691), the founder, preached that people are guided by God's inner light which is present in the hearts and conscience of all people and reflects God's 'divine' will. The Quakers form a small religious membership not larger than 200,000 people sect, its world-wide. Yet, historically, the group's impact on social issues has always outweighed its numerical strength. The earliest Quakers to reside more permanently in South Africa were British settlers, several of whom became outspoken civic leaders. Quaker humanitarian gestures led to the opening of a multi-racial school for poor children in Cape Town (1840) and investigations into the treatment of Afrikaner women and children in concentration camps during the Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902). Early Quakers are also credited with initiating the Joint Council Movement of Europeans and Africans (1920s), forerunner to the South African Institute of Race Relations. This study traces the Quaker presence in South Africa from its earliest history to the present, with particular emphasis on the twentieth century. Specifically, the examination of the Quaker presence addresses the group's reaction to South African society and politics in reference to segregationist and apartheid legislation. The study includes a comparative analysis of the response among South African Quakers to these issues with Quaker response in England and the United states. The purpose of this analysis is to attempt an assessment of the extent to which South African Quaker practices were consistent with the philosophies of their world-wide religious fellowship. Relevant to the Quaker belief in peace and justice for all, with no discrimination, specific issues that involved South African Quakers and for which sufficient primary sources were available are closely examined. Of particular interest is the opening of a Quaker boarding school during the early 1930s, the Quaker response to the Defiance Campaign in 1952, and South African Quaker response to the call for international sanctions and boycotts against South Africa. More recent Quaker activities, including mediation between the African National Congress and the government, provide significant data. South African Quakers have defined themselves as members of a religious body whose belief of pacifism and commitment to non-violence dictates to a certain extent their obedience to a higher authority -- which some call their conscience and others call God -- if a civil law is deemed immoral and unjust . Thus, the study seeks to define the individual and corporate Quaker witness in South Africa in relation to the Society's principles.

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Bell, Erin Alison. "Discipline and manhood in the Society of Friends : a study with particular reference to Durham, c. 1650-1750." Thesis, University of York, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.398905.

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Geremek, Bronisław Birrell Jean. "The Margins of society in late medieval Paris /." Cambridge ; New York ; Melbourne : Paris : Cambridge university press ; Éd. de la Maison des sciences de l'homme, 1987. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb375923200.

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Zhang, Candace Irene Rodman. "Language use in two Indiana Monthly Meetings of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) : a comparative ethnography of speaking." Virtual Press, 1997. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1115717.

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The present study looks at language use in the worship of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), especially that of two Indiana Monthly Meetings, one programmed and one unprogrammed, located within thirty miles of one another. This study discusses the juncture of language and religion studies, or theolinguistics. The study looks at the Meeting for Worship comprehensively in both settings as a performative event, i.e. at what constitutes error as well as good performance, and the written and unwritten rules for participation therein.A comparative ethnography was done on the two Monthly Meetings. A questionnaire was distributed in both Monthly Meeting populations and the results compiled. Meetings for Worship were taped and transcribed at both sites, and the frequency of Quaker Plain Speech items counted. Monoconc keyword searches of important texts for each branch of Quakerism were done and compared. A glossary of these terms was compiled and Friends' speechways analyzed.Many commonalities emerged in the underlying structure of the Meeting for Worship as an event at both sites, but a divergence in belief influences the religious language items and style used at each site. A model for this divergence, the QPS Continuum, containing the six traditions of Quakerism was constructed, describing the variations as a matter of degree rather than completely separate types.
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Son, Daye. "Associations Among Different Types of Prosocial Behavior Toward Friends, Friendship Quality, and Mental Health Outcomes During Adolescence." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2018. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/6931.

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The current study used a multidimensional approach to prosocial behavior by a) exploring various types of adolescent prosocial behavior toward friends (physical helping, sharing, defending, emotional support, including) using both qualitative and quantitative data, and b) examining longitudinal associations among prosocial behavior toward friends, friendship quality, and mental health (anxiety, life satisfaction, depression). The data were taken from Waves 8, 9, and 10 of the Flourishing Families Project. Participants at Wave 8 consisted of 470 adolescents (M age = 18.4 years, SD = 1.04, 49% male, 32% high school students, 33% single-parent families) from the United States. Results revealed that overall prosocial behavior for boys and emotional support for girls were positively associated with friendship quality over time. Overall prosocial behavior was also associated with increased life satisfaction. Discussion focuses on the multidimensionality of prosocial behavior and implications regarding friendships and mental health during adolescence.

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Hetel, Ioana Laura. "Selves and Shelves. Consumer Society and National Identity in France." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1211959481.

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Driskel, Michael Paul. "Representing belief : religion, art, and society in nineteenth-century France /." University Park (Pa.) : Pennsylvania State university press, 1992. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb35716402q.

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Judd, Marion Buchanan. "Who joins a UK right to die society and why? : a study of members of Friends at the End (FATE)." Thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 2012. http://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/2681.

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The thesis presents quantitative and qualitative thematic analyses of a postal survey and interview study of members of Friends at the End (FATE), a Glasgow-based right to die society. This is one of the first UK studies aimed toward filling a gap in knowledge about who joins a UK right to die society, and their reasons for doing so. The thesis attributes responsibility for the right to die movement’s continuing existence to contemporary socio-cultural norms of individualism and self-determination in promoting desire for autonomy and choice surrounding dying and death. It shows how and why a distinct group of predominantly older and higher social class individuals, 22% of whom have health and social care professional backgrounds, have decided to join FATE. The right to die movement is shown to be a new social movement concerned with health, ageing and death activism that challenges contemporary biomedical models of managing dying and death. The thesis shows how ageing, social class, religiosity, socio-medical constructs of dying, risk management and altruism toward others all contribute toward the ongoing existence of pro-right to die attitudes and beliefs. It also shows how personal fears about the manner of future dying, both physical and existential are frequently informed by personal experiences, identified as critical factors in decisions made to join the movement. FATE exists in a culture in which assessing risk has become very pervasive, and joining FATE is, for many members, a risk-avoidance strategy, given their concerns that future dying and death may be unpleasant. Conditional desire for hastened death is also shown to be informed by desire to avoid placing burden on others, a form of reciprocal altruism in which hastened death benefits both the dying person and family members as well as society as a whole.

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Lauer, Laura Elizabeth. "Women in British Nonconformity, circa 1880-1920, with special reference to the Society of Friends, Baptist Union and Salvation Army." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1997. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:ff846f2b-fe1f-4cb5-a38f-d0844d1b45df.

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The reclamation and analysis of women's experiences within three Nonconformist denominations is the focus of this thesis. The first chapter places each denomination in its social and theological context, and describes its governing structures. The bulk of the thesis is devoted to situating women within this context and examining the ways in which women sought representation within male-dominated governing structures. Chapter two examines the conflict between Friends' egalitarian theology and women's lack of governing power. Although women Friends gained access to the governing body of the Society, the issue of equality remained problematic. The chapter finishes with a discussion of the Society's split over women's suffrage. The Baptist Zenana Mission is the focus of the third chapter. Zenana missionaries claimed spiritual and imperial authority over "native" women and used the languages of separate spheres to carve out a vocation for single women in keeping with denominational norms. In so doing, they marginalised the work done by missionary wives. The fourth chapter begins with an examination of the life and theology of Catherine Booth, whose contribution to the Salvation Army is often neglected. Catherine advocated women's ministry in terms that validated both "women's work for women" and public preaching. This chapter looks at the appeal of officership for women, especially the empowering experiences of salvation and holiness, and charts the growth of the Women's Social Work. Despite the Army's egalitarian theology, conflict was felt by women officers who struggled to combine corps and family duties. The final chapter briefly examines idealised representations of women to conclude that their defining power, while significant, was by no means hegemonic.

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Kline, Douglas A. "The cultural constuction of conflict and conflict mangement among Quakers." Virtual Press, 1996. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1027120.

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This thesis explores conflict and its management among Quakers by probing deeply the dynamics of cultural and social change. This interpretation is based on three months of participant observation, semi-structured interview with informants, and a brief literature review of Quaker literature regarding conflict management. Conflict was examined by revising the model employed by Clifford Geertz to study social change. The model uses the concepts of social structure, culture and self to identify potential areas of conflict among Quakers. Four constructions are identified. The first, 'The Principled Construction of Conflict is based on Quaker principles of conflict and its management found in their formal statements. The 'Conceptual Definitions' come from the informants conscious attempts to define 'conflict.' A 'Folk Construction' is based on the informants informal discussions about conflict. A'Practiced Construction of Conflict' deals with the manner Quakers go about managing conflict in their daily behavior.
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Dunne, John. "Notables and society in Napoleonic France : the Seine-Inferieure, 1799-1815." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.320715.

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Magee, James. "Politics, society and the Crusade in England and France, 1378-1400." Thesis, University of Leicester, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/31057.

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Herring, Gerard Nicholas. "The society & economy of Poitou-Charentes in the Roman period." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.670353.

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Pyle, Maurine Hebert. "CONTEMPORARY QUAKER USE OF METAPHOR." OpenSIUC, 2014. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/1534.

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This qualitative sociolinguistic study focuses on the contemporary usage of metaphor in religious speech among North American Quakers of the Religious of Society of Friends with a particular emphasis on the two historical metaphors of Light and Dark. Beginning with the 20th century, a diverse religious population has been steadily arising in Quaker meetings including many non-Christians. Individual American Quakers are currently choosing a variety of spiritual and/or religious identities and practices ranging from Evangelical or mystical forms of Christianity to Neo-paganism and Non-theism. Thus, the traditional meanings of these metaphors, which were rooted in biblical passages, are changing. This study is based primarily upon six in-depth interviews which provide a sample of a variety of religious viewpoints on the experiential usage of the metaphors of Light and Dark to embody spiritual feelings in worship. These two metaphors are embedded in many religious practices making them central to religious experience. Although Critical Discourse Analysis is used as the primary lens for investigation, the theories of Sapir, Whorf, Lakoff and Johnson also provide an additional basis for analysis. Additionally, a corpus which demonstrates collocations of the metaphors of Light and Dark has been created from archives of Early Friends' journals of the 17th century and compared to the writings of contemporary American Quakers.

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Pryor, EmmaLee Elizabeth Haight. "Making Friends to Last A Lifetime: An Ethnographic Study of Parasocial Relationships and Soap Opera Characters." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2002. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/5055.

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The purpose of this study was to build theory about parasocial relationships and to examine what affect, if any, religion had on parasocial relationships. Using qualitative methods, the researcher watched the show three times with five women followed by an in-depth interview. The women chosen were LDS stay-at-home moms who had watched a soap opera for at least a year. From this data came several surprising findings about religion and soap opera viewing. The women said they did not feel guilty about the content of the shows, rather the time required to watch. This guilt was alleviated by structuring their daily tasks around watching the shows. Also, since the women viewed the show as entertainment, they were less likely to judge the actions of the characters as harshly as if it were real-life. Current life situation was also the biggest factor in whether or not a parasocial relationship existed and how strong that relationship is. This thesis illustrates the need for a comprehensive theory about parasocial relationships. As the media becomes more prominent in our lives, parasocial relationships will need to become understood in greater detail in order to understand what possible effect, if any, they could have.

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Alsulami, Abdulwahab M. "Examining Online Communication Attitude and its Antecedent Factors on Relational Closeness among Purely Online Friendships in Saudi Society." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1554175691616345.

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Olsson, Sara. "Capacity Development within ENGOs: A case study of Swedish Society for Nature Conservation, Friends of the Earth Sweden and Keep Sweden Tidy Foundation." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Uppsala centrum för hållbar utveckling, CSD Uppsala, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-303340.

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This thesis explores the capacities, challenges and differences of three Swedish environmental non-governmental organizations (ENGOs). It uses a case study method to examine the ENGOs Swedish Society for Nature Conservation, Friends of the Earth Sweden and Keep Sweden Tidy Foundation. The study will explore what capacities and challenges the organizations have to sustain and develop, using capacity development as an analytical framework. Qualitative methods are used for gathering data. The findings of this study indicates that all three of the organizations have several capacities that is suggested by the theory capacity development, such as monitoring and evaluating the organization, developed communication to donors and supporters, accountability, clear aim and goals, etc. These three ENGOs is well established in the society of Sweden and have been active for a minimum of three decades. However, there are always capacities and strategies that can develop and be more effective, as well as addressing organizational challenges. The challenges founded in this study that all three organizations have in common, is the issues of being dependent on external funding and donations, and the communication between branches of the organizations as well as among members of the staff. Increased communication could better unify the organization and less dependence of external funding and donations could make the organizations more stable as well as sustainable.

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Evans, Owain Gethin. "Benign neglect : the activities and relationship of London yearly meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) to Wales, c.1860-c.1918." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.532312.

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This thesis outlines the activity of London Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Wales in the late Victorian and Edwardian periods [c.l860-1918], examining its understanding and sympathy to Wales and Welsh identity. It explores the Quaker understanding ofnationalism, issues of Quaker self-identity, whilst locating the Yearly Meeting within the national life of Wales, at a time of renewal in Welsh national consciousness, with a confident Welsh nonconformity, and a hegemonic 'Welsh' Liberal Party. Undetpinning this the problematic of Welsh and British identity, and ofthe way the nature ofleadership and authority was exercised within the Yearly Meeting, is examined. The prism for analysis is through three themes: political issues, Quaker mission and spiritual awakening in Wales. In Welsh political affairs L YM was an . observer taking no active part compared to the Welsh nonconformist bodies, as evinced for example in activity around the disestablishment of the Anglican Church or the 'Welsh Revolt' in response to the 1902 Education Act. The home mission work ofthe Yearly Meeting proved crucial to the continuance of Quakerism in Wales without this the Society would have disappeared but this was geographically restricted to the urban English speaking urban areas of the South and Radnorshire, and never touched the industrial valleys or North Wales; general neglect and inability to use Welsh demonstrates this. The Welsh Revival of 1904-05 proved to be a stimulant to Friends some of whom saw it as the precursor to a broader Quaker awakening. This awakening was never realised as such, although in 1912 this seemed still to be a hope amongst some Friends as they conducted mission work amongst the 'Children of the Revival.' The study is enhanced by consideration of the contribution and lives of three Quakers living in Wales; Henry Tobit Evans (1844 -1908) a convinced Quaker publisher and minor politician of the Unionist cause; John Edward Southall (1855 -1927), an English birthright Quaker who proved to be a champion for the Welsh language and nationalism, and Hercules David Phillips (1869 -1944) a convinced Quaker and home mission worker who loyally witnessed as such in Radnorshire for all of his life. The thesis challenges and adds to the small amount of previous research in this area in highlighting the specifics of ~e Welsh context. The principal conclusion of the study is that by the nineteenth century, ~n rel:~tion to Wales, London Yearly Meeting was by default an English institution, living Its WItness there as an observer through an attitude of benign neglect. .

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Tao, Yu. "Enemies of the state or friends of the harmonious society? : religious groups, varieties of social capital, and collective contention in contemporary rural China." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.711796.

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Keller, Alison E. ""And a little child shall lead them" romanticism and Quakerism in Edward Hicks' Peaceable Kingdoms /." Morgantown, W. Va. : [West Virginia University Libraries], 2007. https://eidr.wvu.edu/etd/documentdata.eTD?documentid=5537.

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Thesis (M.A.)--West Virginia University, 2007.
Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains v, 100 p. : ill. (some col.). Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 97-100).

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Horler-Underwood, Thomas. "The Querimoniae Normannorum (1247) : land, politics, and society in thirteenth-century Normandy." Thesis, Swansea University, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.668343.

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Gowers, Bernard George. "Fulbert of Chartres and his circle : scholarship and society in eleventh-century France." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.440708.

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Marshall, Lisa Marie. "“I’ll be There for You” if You are Just Like Me: An Analysis of Hegemonic Social Structures in “Friends”." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1182538485.

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Comshaw-Arnold, Benjamin W. "Feudalism in Decline: The Influence of Technology on Society." Kent State University Honors College / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ksuhonors1399675397.

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Munakash, Kris E. "SOCIAL NETWORKING: CREATING A SOCIETY OF NARCISSISTS OR HELPING PEOPLE REACH SELF-ACTUALIZATION?" CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2016. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd/273.

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Social networking sites (SNSs) are growing in popularity and diversity. Prior research has shown that SNSs use is correlated with various personality traits including narcissism. To date, no work has examined the association between SNSs use and self-actualization. Given the potential overlap of narcissism and self-actualization, the goal of the present study was to first examine the conceptual overlap of these two intrapersonal characteristics. We then sought to examine the associations between SNSs use, narcissism, and self-actualization with an expectation that self-actualization would mediate the association between SNSs use and narcissism. One thousand six hundred and four adults completed an online survey with questions to assess their demographic traits, SNSs activities, and personality characteristics. Results indicated some overlap between narcissism and self-actualization; but, in general, each was a distinct personality trait. Results also demonstrated that the association between self-actualization and SNSs usage was not significant. Contrary to our prediction, self-actualization did not mediate the association between SNSs activities and narcissism. Finally, the study found that narcissism scores were reportedly higher after using SNSs than they were prior to SNSs use.

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Larose, Mary Elizabeth. "The congruence between the values of the principal and the values espoused in the mission of a Quaker School /." Access Digital Full Text version, 1995. http://pocketknowledge.tc.columbia.edu/home.php/bybib/12136499.

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Thesis (Ed.D.)--Teachers College, Columbia University, 1995.
Includes tables. Typescript; issued also on microfilm. Sponsor: Josue Gonzalez. Dissertation Committee: Pearl Rock Kane. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 154-159).

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Johnston, A. J. B. "L'ordre à Louisbourg mesures de contrôle dans une socíeté coloniale française, 1713-1758 /." Ottawa : Library and Archives Canada, 1999. http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape17/PQDD_0012/NQ36279.pdf.

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Lloyd, Stephanie 1975. "An anxious society : the French importation of social phobia and the appearance of a new model of the self." Thesis, McGill University, 2006. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=102807.

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This dissertation examines the introduction of social phobia into France. My analysis is concerned with how this diagnosis, which is inconsistent with the psychoanalytic model that dominates French psychiatry, is increasingly being accepted by French physicians and patients. I argue that the diagnosis social phobia offers physicians and patients a justification for life difficulties that was not provided by existing diagnoses such as phobic neurosis, obsessional neurosis or 'normal' shyness.
In 2003-4 I carried out one year of fieldwork in North America and France. During this time I conducted participant observation and interviews with clinicians and members of a social phobia support group. Throughout this thesis, it is my objective to understand the disorder from three perspectives: historical, ethnographic, and sociocultural.
First, I examine French psychiatrists' claims that social phobia has existed in French psychiatric literature since the nineteenth century. I investigate the efforts of these French psychiatrists to prove that the diagnostic category has a legitimate place in French medicine. Second, I look at how a small group of Parisian psychiatrists who practice cognitive and behavioural therapy are fighting for greater awareness and acceptance of social phobia. Promoting social phobia is a means of spreading awareness of their therapeutic model. Their aim is to unseat psychoanalysis from its dominant position in French psychiatry. Many individuals prefer cognitive and behavioural therapists' explanations of social phobia symptoms to those of psychoanalysts because they are less stigmatizing and their predicted outcomes more optimistic. But many French clinicians reject the diagnosis social phobia and prefer psychoanalytic explanations for patients' symptoms. Some see it as a 'fashionable' disorder overly promoted by the pharmaceutical industry. Third, I investigate how social phobia is related to cultural behavioural ideals and societal expectations. I look at how these factors lead more people to become concerned about the symptoms of social phobia than in the past.
In the end, I explain that French physicians and patients are choosing social phobia from among other possible labels for this set of symptoms. The way that they describe this diagnosis, however, blends multiple therapeutic models and they create an explanation of the disorder which most thoroughly and positively describes patients' experiences.

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Young, Michael Lawrence. "The style of Quaker consumption in British Colonial New Jersey : the link between religious beliefs and values and the archaeological record of the Society of Friends." Thesis, University of Leicester, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/33070.

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This research focuses on the role of beliefs and values at domestic Quaker sites in British Colonial North America and their transformations through time. Evidence is drawn from building techniques, ceramic and glass tablewares, foodways as manifest through storage/preparation vessels and faunal remains, alcohol and tobacco-related objects, and materials related to dress and personal adornment. The aim of this research is to make substantial contributions to the study of Quakers, to the study of the influence of beliefs and values in colonial situations and past cultural traditions in general, and to the study of the rise and spread of eighteenth-century consumerism associated with the Industrial Revolution. Beliefs and values possess material manifestations. To link the material archaeological evidence to cultural ideals, this proposed research focuses on behavior which may be documented in the archaeological record. The full potential of the archaeological contribution to issues surrounding the varying degree of adherence to Quaker beliefs and values may be realized through consideration of all available types of material culture. An analytical focus on the style of consumption and technology is considered essential for the study of tenets, beliefs, and values in the archaeological record. The revival of archaeological theories of style is advocated as the primary means archaeologists have available to study the manifestation of beliefs, values, and the underlying ethos through variation in material culture. The revival of an archaeological focus on style enables a more full realization of the goals of social archaeology and the consideration of the significance of a research project at the higher scales of relevance: the scale of issues of importance in history and the social sciences in general, and the scale of the contribution research may render towards developing solutions to contemporary social problems.

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Wood, Catrin Mair Lewis. "The role of the nobility in the creation of Gallo-Frankish society in the late fifth and sixth centuries AD." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2002. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/12175/.

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The aim of this dissertation is to explore the contribution made by the nobility, both Gallo-Roman and Frankish, to the creation of a new society after the collapse of imperial authority in the west, Gallo-Frankish society. The first chapter of this dissertation is a review of the sources, both ancient and modern, used in the research undertaken for this dissertation. It is important to realise that, while not as numerous as those of other periods, sufficient ancient material survives to make a study such as this valid. Modern issues and debates will be highlighted, including an indication of what led me to this particular thesis. The second chapter outlines the history of Gaul and the barbarians to the middle of the fifth century. It then looks at the institutions that were the backbone of Gallo-Roman society. The third chapter explores the lives of a number of individuals who lived in Gaul during the late third and fourth centuries. They exemplify the challenges that faced the nobility and the ways they found of facing them. Chapter four introduces the Franks as the successors to imperial rule in Gaul. A narrative history is followed by a study of the institutions that they made use of in establishing their power. Chapter five narrows the focus still further and looks at the role that the monarchy and the nobility had to play in the creation of Gallo-Frankish society. It will look at specific examples in order to demonstrate the vital role that the fusion taking place between Gallo-Romans and Franks played in this process. The final chapter, chapter six reaches the conclusion that Gallo-Frankish society was based on an amalgamation of Gallo-Romans and Franks, an amalgamation that was remarkably peaceful, given the events of the period.

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Boyson, David B. "The first Kingdom of Burgundy : the history and archaeology of a successor state in the south eastern France and western Switzerland." Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.315601.

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