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Journal articles on the topic "Male friendship – Rome"
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Peretti, Peter O., and Beverly Lowrey. "Intimacy in the Confidant Role in Closest Friendships of Nonconfined Aged Males." Psychology and Human Development: an international journal 1, no. 2 (1986): 75–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.2224/sbp.6316.
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It has been suggested that elderly individuals need intimate social contact to enhance their well-being. Closest friendships can be the greatest source of social contact within the confidant role of the friendship unit. In this study, we aimed to determine self-perceived intimacy criteria in the confidant role in closest friendships of nonconfined aged males. For this purpose, we examined the most frequently perceived intimacy criteria with reference to the males' particular structural friendship units. Results showed that the most frequently self-perceived criteria were communication, personal concern, belongingness, commitment, and self-worth.
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Mumford, Elizabeth A., Bruce G. Taylor, and Peggy C. Giordano. "Perpetration of Adolescent Dating Relationship Abuse: The Role of Conditional Tolerance for Violence and Friendship Factors." Journal of Interpersonal Violence 35, no. 5-6 (2017): 1206–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0886260517693002.
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Research has pointed to the salience of friendships in predicting abuse in adolescent dating relationships. The current study investigates the perpetration of physical and sexual dating abuse as predicted by individual conditional tolerance for dating abuse within the context of friendship behaviors and group characteristics. Using two waves of the National Survey of Teen Relationships and Intimate Violence (STRiV; N = 511 daters aged 12-18 years), we investigated the effects of baseline individual tolerance for hitting dating partners and friendship factors on perpetration of physical and sexual adolescent dating abuse (ADA) approximately 1 year later. Conditional tolerance for hitting boyfriends was associated with ADA perpetration in the absence of friendship characteristics. Daters who reported recent discussion of a problem with friends and female daters who named all-girl friendship groups were more likely to report ADA perpetration. Close friendships are an avenue for preventing ADA perpetration. Furthermore, ADA perpetration may be reduced by targeting conditional tolerance for violence particularly against male partners within female friendship groups.
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Heverly-Fitt, Sara, Maureen A. Wimsatt, Melissa M. Menzer, et al. "Friendship Quality and Psychosocial Outcomes among Children with Traumatic Brain Injury." Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society 20, no. 7 (2014): 684–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1355617714000393.
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AbstractThis study examined differences in friendship quality between children with traumatic brain injury (TBI) and orthopedic injury (OI) and behavioral outcomes for children from both groups. Participants were 41 children with TBI and 43 children with OI (Mage=10.4). Data were collected using peer- and teacher-reported measures of participants’ social adjustment and parent-reported measures of children’s post-injury behaviors. Participants and their mutually nominated best friends also completed a measure of the quality of their friendships. Children with TBI reported significantly more support and satisfaction in their friendships than children with OI. Children with TBI and their mutual best friend were more similar in their reports of friendship quality compared to children with OI and their mutual best friends. Additionally, for children with TBI who were rejected by peers, friendship support buffered against maladaptive psychosocial outcomes, and predicted skills related to social competence. Friendship satisfaction was related to higher teacher ratings of social skills for the TBI group only. Positive and supportive friendships play an important role for children with TBI, especially for those not accepted by peers. Such friendships may protect children with TBI who are rejected against maladaptive psychosocial outcomes, and promote skills related to social competence. (JINS, 2014,21, 1–10)
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Ellis-Sloan, Kyla, and Amy Tamplin. "Teenage Mothers and Social Isolation: The Role of Friendship as Protection against Relational Exclusion." Social Policy and Society 18, no. 2 (2018): 203–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1474746418000106.
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This article explores links made between teenage mothers and isolation: in particular, the notion of ‘relational exclusion’ (Kidger, 2004). Political conceptualisations of social exclusion often ignore this aspect and instead focus on the economic dynamics of exclusion. As a consequence, policies aimed at addressing the exclusion of teenage parents often focus on education and employment as solutions. This article argues that friendships are overlooked as a source of potential support. It therefore builds on work that has observed teenage mothers’ isolation and loneliness to examine how a teenage pregnancy affects a young woman's friendship networks. It then goes on to expand understanding of how new friendships are formed and the types of support they provide. The article concludes by proposing that social policy has a role in facilitating friendship support through investment, integrating group support with one-to-one methods and tackling stigma.
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Sharabany, Ruth, Yohanan Eshel, and Caesar Hakim. "Boyfriend, girlfriend in a traditional society: Parenting styles and development of intimate friendships among Arabs in school." International Journal of Behavioral Development 32, no. 1 (2008): 66–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0165025407084053.
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The development of intimate same- and other-sex friendships in Arab children and adolescents in Israel was investigated in relation to their perceived parenting styles. It was hypothesized that girls would show higher levels of intimacy than boys, and that cross-sex intimacy in both groups would increase with age, whereas same-sex intimate friendship maintains rather stable over the school years. We hypothesized further that intimate friendship would be contingent more readily on perceived parental authoritative style rather than on either permissive or authoritarian styles. Participants were 723 Arab students drawn from four schools, and from the 5th, 7th, 9th, and 11th grades. The Parental Authority Questionnaire and Intimate Friendship Scale were employed as measures. Findings indicated that girls were more intimate with their female friends than boys were with their male friends, especially in the higher grades, replicating previous studies. However, boys tended to score higher than girls on intimacy with the other gender. Girls equaled their level of intimacy only at the 11th grade. These findings suggest that traditional societies may foster specific characteristics of intimate friendship. A novel finding is the central role of the authoritative parenting style in determining intimate friendships. Results are discussed in terms of universal aspects of friendship and of their expression in the investigated cultural setting.
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Lim, Emily, Changmin Peng, and Jeffrey Burr. "Volunteering and Friendship in Later Life: Does Gender Moderate the Relationship?" Innovation in Aging 4, Supplement_1 (2020): 416. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igaa057.1341.
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Abstract Friendship, which is an essential part of social life and beneficial to individuals’ well-being, plays a crucial role in maintaining social connectedness in late life. Volunteering is an avenue for older adults to stay socially engaged, and also provides older adults the opportunity to meet and make new friends. A limited literature suggests that volunteering may be associated with friendship, but many studies are limited by reliance on small, non-probability samples and overly simplistic analytic approaches. The literature is also unclear with respect to how volunteering behaviors relate to specific characteristics of friendships and whether there are gender differences underlying these relationships. Using the 2014 wave of the Health and Retirement Study (N=5,306), this study investigates the association between volunteering characteristics (i.e., volunteer status and hours) and friendship characteristics (i.e., the number of close friends, friendship quality, and contact frequency) among community-dwelling older adults. We also examine whether gender moderated these relationships. Results from linear regression analyses indicate that volunteer status and the number of volunteer hours were positively associated with each dimension of friendship. Also, the positive association between volunteering at 1–99 hours, 100–199 hours, and 200 hours or more and number of close friends, friendship quality, and contact frequency were stronger for older women than for older men. Findings demonstrated that volunteering is integral in shaping late-life friendships. The differential benefits of volunteering between older men and women also suggest that volunteering might be more critical for older women’s friendships.
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Langlands, Rebecca. "Latin Literature." Greece and Rome 60, no. 2 (2013): 320–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0017383513000132.
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Among this latest batch of books to review are a number whose endeavour, very much to my own taste, is intellectual and cultural history through the study of Latin literature. Cream of the crop is Craig Williams’ study of Roman friendship. Admirers of Williams’ excellent Roman Homosexuality, recently reissued in second edition, will recognize the approach; this is a theoretically informed and meticulously argued work of cultural history that also shows fine appreciation of philological, linguistic, and literary issues. In Chapter 1 (Men and Women), Williams has a simple and compelling point to make: basing their idealization of friendship on our male-authored ancient literary texts (Cicero's De amicitia, Seneca's Letters), the great thinkers of Western civilization have asserted that ideal friendship is a man's game, and even that women are by and large incapable of real friendship, at the very least being excluded from the most interesting parts of friendship's history. As Williams shows, the epigraphic evidence tells a different story; here we can gain a new appreciation of friendships between women, and indeed between men and women. In its divergence from the well-trodden literary tradition, the epigraphic material opens up new ways of understanding the ancient world, but it can also be used to bring a fresh perspective to familiar literary texts, especially when one is as open-minded and attentive to linguistic nuance as Williams. Chapter 2 explores some of the key conceptual issues and themes related to the (vexed) distinction between amor and amicitia, and then in Chapter 3 Williams turns to the close reading of particular Latin texts, bringing his new interpretative framework to Catullus, Horace, Virgil, and Propertius, Petronius’ Satyricon, and the letters of Cicero and of Fronto. The fourth and final chapter, ‘Friendship and the Grave’, turns again to the epigraphic evidence, and funerary inscriptions in particular, where friends are shown to play an important role in the commemoration of the dead, usually associated in the Western tradition with close family. Williams’ work showcases Classics as a vitally and productively interdisciplinary academic subject, where significant new readings can be achieved with the right methodologies and approach. He has some big claims to make about Roman society, of which ancient historians will certainly want to take note, but his fresh analysis of familiar literary texts is also highly illuminating and the book has many smaller-scale insights to offer as well.
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Gasser-Haas, Olivia, Fabio Sticca, and Corina Wustmann Seiler. "The longitudinal role of early family risks and early social-emotional problems for friendship quality in preadolescence—A regression model." PLOS ONE 16, no. 7 (2021): e0253888. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0253888.
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The quality of a best friendship provides information about how developmentally beneficial it is. However, little is known about possible early risk factors that influence later friendship quality. The present study examined the role of family risks and social-emotional problems (behavioral problems, peer problems, anxious, and depressive symptoms) in early childhood for positive (i.e., support and help) and negative (i.e., conflicts and betrayal) dimensions of friendship quality with their best friend in preadolescence. 293 children (47.9% female) aged 2–4, their parents and teachers participated in the study with three measurement occasions (T1; Mage = 2.81, T2; Mage = 3.76, T3; Mage = 9.69). The last measurement occasion was at the age of 9–11 years. Results of the longitudinal regression model showed that depressive symptoms in early childhood were associated with a lower positive dimension of friendship quality in preadolescence. In contrast, early anxious symptoms were related to a higher positive dimension of friendship quality six years later. Neither family risks, nor behavioral problems and peer problems in early childhood were linked to the positive dimension of friendship quality in preadolescence. No early predictors were found for the negative dimension of friendship quality. Possible reasons for the lack of associations are discussed. Findings suggest that children with early depressive symptoms at 3–5 years of age should be the targets of potential interventions to form high quality friendships in preadolescence. Possible interventions are mentioned.
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Garcia, Agnaldo, Tayssa Grassi Rodrigues, Lorena Schettino Lucas, and Daniela Marisol Pérez-Angarita. "Friendship and internal migration in Brazil: Vulnerability and coping." Interpersona: An International Journal on Personal Relationships 11, Supp1 (2017): 47–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.5964/ijpr.v11isupp1.232.
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Friendship has been investigated in the context of international migration, but little is known about the subject in relation to internal migration, a phenomenon of great social importance in Brazil. The purpose of this article is to present and discuss data obtained in an investigation on the relations between internal migration and friendship as perceived by citizens from the state of Espírito Santo who were living in other states of Brazil, in the North, Northeast, Midwest, South and Southeast regions. Twenty adults born in the state and who had migrated to another Brazilian state participated in the investigation. The participants have been interviewed about how they perceived the relationship between friendship and migration and the data were subjected to thematic content analysis. Among the results difficulties to maintain friendships with people of the place of origin as well as difficulties in forming new friendships were observed. Friends were considered relevant for adaptation to the new state, affecting the perception of the same. The article also discusses the origin of friends, the perception of cultural differences and difficulties to make friends in another state. It is concluded that friends play a relevant role in the lives of Brazilian internal migrants and further investigations are necessary.
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Eom, Mi-Sun, and Yen-Yoo You. "A Study on the Effect of Workplace Friendship Level on Consultant's Customer Orientation - Focusing on the Mediating Effect of Job Commitment." Research in World Economy 11, no. 2 (2020): 136. http://dx.doi.org/10.5430/rwe.v11n2p136.
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Background/Objectives: The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of the relationship between human resources and members on the consultant's customer service orientation as a way to secure a competitive advantage in order to continuously grow and develop a consulting firm.Methods/Statistical analysis: This study surveyed the consultants of consulting firms. The total number of samples used in the study was 180. The survey items consisted of 33 questions and the Likert 5-point scale was used for the measurement. As an empirical analysis, SPSS 22.0 was used for frequency analysis, exploratory factor analysis, reliability analysis, correlation analysis, regression analysis, and mediation effect analysis.Findings: According to the results of this study, the results were summarized as follows. First, Supervisor's friendship will affect the consultant's Job commitment. Second. Co-worker's friendship will affect the consultant's Job commitment. Third, Subordinate's friendship will affect the consultant's Job commitment. Fourth Supervisor's friendship will affect the consultant's customer orientation. Fifth, Co-worker's friendship will affect the consultant's customer orientation. Sixth, Subordinate's friendship will affect the consultant's customer orientation. In addition, there is no direct influence on customer orientation in the mediation of job commitment between friendship with supervisors, friends with co-workers, friends with subordinates, and consultants' customer orientation. Job involvement between friends, friends with subordinates, and consultants' customer orientation has been found to play a full mediating role as an indirect effect.Improvements/Applications: As a means of securing sustainable competitiveness, the relationship between the level of friendship in the workplace and the customer orientation of consultants was identified. Therefore, by measuring the level of friendships for the bosses, colleagues, and subordinates in various ways, the group that had the most positive influence was identified, and the opportunity to make practical contributions was prepared. However, in the future, it is required to consider the contract type of the members of the organization, the project status of each team, and the compensation system as a control variable.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Male friendship – Rome"
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Desroachers, Stephen. "Effect of gender role, valence, income, and occupational status of males." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1992. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/530.
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Francois, Daphne. "Amicitia in the plays of Terence." Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2011-05-3588.
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Amicitia – Roman friendship – is delineated as an ideal reciprocal relationship between elite Roman males of fairly equal social standing. When individuals of unequal rank share this ideal reciprocal relationship, amicitia is labeled as “patronage” or “clientship”. This report seeks to test these ideals by examining the language of amicitia between individuals of equal and unequal rank in the plays of Terence. The results of this study show that Terence’s plays broaden the definition of amicitia to encompass a wide range of various friendships, including clientships. The language of amicitia supports the evidence available from late Republican and Imperial Rome that the measurement of reciprocity is indeterminate, amicitia and clientship share the same terminology of friendship, and that it can illuminate character development throughout the plays of Terence.<br>text
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Guvensel, Onurkan. "The Relationship Among Normative Male Alexithymia, Gender Role Conflict, Men's Non-romantic Relationships With Other Men, and Psychological Well-being." 2016. http://scholarworks.gsu.edu/cps_diss/115.
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Normative Male Alexithymia (NMA; Levant 1992) and Gender Role Conflict (GRC; O’Neil, 2008) have emerged in the literature as empirically supported masculinity-based constructs that could be possible predictors of men’s psychological well-being. Moreover, several researchers examined the impact of masculinity in the contexts of men’s romantic relationships. Yet, there exists a paucity of research that investigates the intersection of the GRC, NMA, and men’s friendships, and psychological well-being of men. The purpose of this study was to examine the triadic relationship of GRC, NMA, and men’s friendships with other men; and the impact of this triadic relationship on men’s psychological well-being. The researcher collected survey data from 216 participants who identified as male. Data collection included responses to demographic questionnaires, Normative Male Alexithymia Scale (NMAS; Levant et al., 2006), Gender Role Conflict Scale (GRCS; O'Neil et al, 1986), Network of Relationships Questionnaire- Relationship Qualities Version (NRI-RQV; Buhrmester, 1992; Buhrmester & Furman, 2008), and the scales of Psychological Well-Being (SPWB; Ryff, 1989). Bivariate correlations revealed significant correlations among all four variables. NMAS scores yielded a small positive correlation (Cohen, 1988) with the NRI-RQV discordant scales scores (r = .202, p < .01), and a moderate negative correlation (Cohen, 1988) with the total full scale scores of PWB (r = -.427, p < .01). NRI-RQV discordant had a strong negative correlation (Cohen, 1988) with total scores of PWB (r = -.517, n = 216, p < .01). GRCS had a small negative correlation (Cohen, 1988) with the total scores of PWB full scales (r = -.166, n = 216, p < .05). The moderation analysis indicated that GRC significantly moderated the effect of NMA on men’s PWB scores (∆R² = .073, F (1,212) = 20.795, p < .001). High levels of NMA and friendship discords factored in as the best predictor of men’s PWB, and accounted for the 37% variation in overall PWB scores with an effect size of f² = .60. Clinical implications for mental health counselors are discussed based on the study’s results; limitations of the study and future directions are provided.
Books on the topic "Male friendship – Rome"
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Queer company: The role and meaning of friendship in gay men's work lives. Ashgate Pub., 2011.
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Hutson, Lorna. The usurer's daughter: Male friendship and fictions of women in sixteenth-century England. Routledge, 1997.
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The usurer's daughter: Male friendship and fictions of women in sixteenth-century England. Routledge, 1994.
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Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky. Between men: English literature and male homosocial desire. Columbia University Press, 1992.
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Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky. Between men: English literature and male homosocial desire. Columbia University Press, 1985.
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Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky. Between men: English literature and male homosocial desire. Columbia University Press, 1993.
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Olyan, Saul M. "Introduction." In Friendship in the Hebrew Bible. Yale University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.12987/yale/9780300182682.003.0001.
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What is friendship? At first blush, the answer seems obvious: Friendship is a voluntary association between people who enjoy one another’s company and care, at least to some degree, about one another’s welfare. But this definition, which would probably elicit few objections from most present-day Europeans and North Americans, does not address a number of contested issues in contemporary Western friendship. For example, is it possible for men and women to be friends? Must friends be peers in every respect, or is there room for age differences, or inequality of income, social status, or power? Can parents and children be friends? Might sexual relations play a role in friendship? Does friendship necessarily involve emotional intimacy? Are there contrasting male and female, gay and straight, working-class and middle-class friendship patterns? Each of these questions would very likely stimulate debate among the people I know, and the answers would probably depend on some combination of the generation, gender, sexual orientation, class, and cultural background of the respondent. Apart from agreeing that friends associate voluntarily, like one another, and take an interest in one another’s well-being, there might not be much consensus among my friends, neighbors, colleagues, students, and family members about the contested aspects of friendship that I have mentioned. Were we to go beyond speculation about the views of the people I encounter in my life, and conduct research on the beliefs about friendship held by a larger population of contemporary North Americans or other Westerners, I would expect to find even less agreement about what constitutes friendship. In short, friendship as we know it in contemporary Europe and North America is shaped by a variety of socio-cultural influences and ...
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Balcerski, Thomas J. "Hardening, 1820–1834." In Bosom Friends. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190914592.003.0003.
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Chapter 2 turns to how Buchanan and King established themselves within the Democratic Party of Andrew Jackson. In both cases, the chapter stresses the roles of intimate male friendships and the Washington boardinghouse, or mess, in developing a cross-sectional, though partisan, approach to their politics. Equally, it looks at important moments of conflict in each man’s life: King’s factional fighting with Democrats in his adopted state of Alabama, where he established a plantation called Chestnut Hill near Selma, and Buchanan’s struggles against the various elements of the Democratic Party of Pennsylvania. It also recounts Buchanan’s experience as the American minister to Russia, highlighting the ways in which his foreign exile connected him to King and prepared him for his future role as senator and secretary of state. These formative experiences served to harden their future political convictions and bespoke the continued need for intimate male friendships in their future endeavors.
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Wallace, Jerry L., and Jessica Thompson Falla. "Leveraging Institutional Articulation Agreements to Support Collegiate Pathways for Black Males." In Developing an Intercultural Responsive Leadership Style for Faculty and Administrators. IGI Global, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-4108-1.ch011.
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The purpose of this chapter is to highlight the importance of how articulation agreements between collaborating institutions influence departmental curriculum, retention strategies to support marginalized groups, and how they can be a mechanism to disrupt institutional racism in an effort to support Black male academic persistence. Partnerships among institutions can help foster strategic alignment for overall student success and impact marginalized groups. Chickering and Reiser argued that seven key factors related to environmental influences exercise dominant stimuli on student development. The key factors explored in this chapter are institutional objectives, student-faculty relationships, curriculum, teaching, friendships and student communities, student development programs and services, and integration of work and learning. Williams and Wood referenced that persistence research should not focus completely on the student's involvement within the institution, but also on the institution's role in assisting student outcomes, namely Black male students of color.
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Rex, Richard. "Corpus Christi College and the Early Reformation." In History of Universities. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198848523.003.0013.
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This chapter discusses the experience of the first scholars of Corpus Christi College beyond Corpus. As Bishop Richard Fox had hoped, Corpus Christi College in its first years became a place not only of learning but of sociability and hospitality, where lasting friendships were made. Leaving the cloisters of the College for the City and the court, the young scholars found households where humanist learning was already valued as well as networks of the like-minded who shared books and conversation. Beyond the College, the scholars often retained connections with each other and the College. As chaplains, secretaries, physicians, and tutors, they served the commonwealth. However, in the fractured world which Henry VIII’s ‘Great Matter‘ and Break with Rome had made, living in service of both God and the commonwealth became more difficult; their choices became harder and consciences were tested.
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Donzelli, Aurora. "Hardly Speaking." In Reimagining Rapport. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190917074.003.0006.
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Within anthropological folk theory, rapport has often been understood as pivoting on unproblematic notions of co-presence, fuzzy relations of friendship, and the centrality of denotation—that is, what people talk about, rather than how they talk (see Goebel, Chapters 1 and 2, this volume). Contrary to this conventional view, this chapter focuses on the semiotic and meta-pragmatic components of the ethnographic encounter. Drawing on her gradual and unplanned involvement in the domestic chores of the household where she was hosted, the author describes how during her fieldwork in upland Sulawesi she learned how to make offers and elicit preferences in a pragmatically acceptable way. As her role shifted from being a guest to being a host of her host’s guests, she discovered, through a series of misunderstandings, the role of food-mediated commensality in the reproduction of local hierarchies and developed a new understanding of how ethnographic rapport is built through minute, yet meaningful, instances of conversational exchange.
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Adams, Natalie G., and James H. Adams. "Resistance through Exodus." In Just Trying to Have School. University Press of Mississippi, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496819536.003.0010.
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This chapter suggests that the establishment of private segregationist academies throughout the state was the ultimate form of white resistance to school desegregation. In some school districts, the entire white, school-age population left the public schools in the first few years of desegregation, never to return. However, the varied responses to private schools also demonstrates that the white community was not unified or homogeneous in its beliefs about race, the role of public schools for a strong community, or the personal choices parents should make on behalf of their children's education. Indeed, the public–private school debate divided the white community in some towns, leaving severed friendships and church divisions in its wake.
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Kazienko, Przemyslaw, and Dymitr Ruta. "The Impact of Customer Churn on Social Value Dynamics." In Networking and Telecommunications. IGI Global, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-986-1.ch074.
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Modern telecommunication service providers implicitly create interactive social networks of individuals that both depend on and influence each other through complex social relationships grown on friendship, shared interests, locality, and so forth. While delivering services on the individual basis, the network effects exerted from customer-to-customer interactions remain virtually unexplored and unexploited. The focus of this article is on customer churn, where social network effects are widely ignored yet may play a vital role in revenue protection. The key assumption made is that a value loss of a churning customer extends beyond his revenue stream and directly affects interaction within local neighborhoods. The direction and strength of this impact are evaluated experimentally by direct measurements of the total neighborhood value of the churning customer along with other standard social network measures taken before and after the churn event.
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Griffiths, Mark, Zaheer Hussain, Sabine M. Grüsser, et al. "Social Interactions in Online Gaming." In Developments in Current Game-Based Learning Design and Deployment. IGI Global, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-1864-0.ch006.
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This paper briefly overviews five studies examining massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs). The first study surveyed 540 gamers and showed that the social aspects of the game were the most important factor for many gamers. The second study explored the social interactions of 912 MMORPG players and showed they created strong friendships and emotional relationships. A third study examined the effect of online socializing in the lives of 119 online gamers. Significantly more male gamers than female gamers said that they found it easier to converse online than offline, and 57% of gamers had engaged in gender swapping. A fourth study surveyed 7,069 gamers and found that 12% of gamers fulfilled at least three diagnostic criteria of addiction. Finally, an interview study of 71 gamers explored attitudes, experiences, and feelings about online gaming. They provided detailed descriptions of personal problems that had arisen due to playing MMORPGs.
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Allcock, Thomas Tunstall. "Introduction." In Thomas C. Mann. University Press of Kentucky, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5810/kentucky/9780813176154.003.0001.
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We have problems everywhere. —Thomas Mann to Lyndon Johnson, June 1964 On 11 April 1967, President Lyndon Baines Johnson made a rare foray outside the United States to spend three days in Punta del Este, Uruguay, attending a conference of American presidents. Six years previously, that same coastal resort town had been the location from which John F. Kennedy’s ambitious cooperative aid program, the Alliance for Progress, had been launched, yet Johnson hoped the meeting could be more than a celebration of his predecessor’s achievements. Having played a leading role in organizing the hemispheric summit, he pushed his aides to draft a wide-ranging series of proposals intended to launch a renewed and reinvigorated Alliance for Progress, focusing on regional economic integration through a common market and cooperative infrastructure projects. His public dedication to renewed efforts at hemispheric development would result in a rewarding trip, with constructive private and public meetings followed by a joint declaration that incorporated all his key proposals. The United States, he told the gathered presidents, was committed “by history, by national interest, and by simple friendship to the cause of progress in Latin America.”...
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Glancy, Mark. "Chapter 4." In Cary Grant, the Making of a Hollywood Legend. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190053130.003.0005.
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Archie Leach’s struggle to establish himself in show business during the years 1922 to 1927 is discussed in Chapter 4. He was able to find work as an acrobat and, now in the Lomas Troupe, he continued touring in vaudeville throughout North America. However, with no experience of speaking on stage, he found it difficult to find any other form of stage work. To make ends meet, he took a job on the Coney Island boardwalk, advertising Steeplechase amusement park by stilt-walking outside the park’s entrance. In 1924, his maturing, handsome good looks caught the eye of writer-producer Jean Dalrymple, who gave him his first speaking role, in the vaudeville playlet The Woman Pays (1924), a show he toured with this show for 14 months. It was also during these years that he became friends with the future costume designer Jack Kelly (who would become known as Orry-Kelly). Drawing on Orry-Kelly’s recently published autobiography, Women I’ve Undressed (2016), the chapter discusses the friendship between Archie and Jack, concluding that it was not, as suggested in the documentary Women He’s Undressed (2015), a romantic or sexual one.