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Landau, Mark Jordan. "The Poetry of Everyday Life: Toward a Metaphor-Enriched Social Cognition." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/193759.
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How, at a fundamental level, do people construe their social world? Mainstream perspectives on social cognition posit that we do so largely by applying hierarchically structured concepts (or schemas) about similar classes of people and events to selectively interpret and elaborate on the complex array of social information. In this dissertation I propose a complementary perspective according to which people lend meaning to the social world in large part through conceptual metaphors that use the structure of familiar, typically concrete concepts to reason about and evaluate information in dissimilar, typically more abstract conceptual domains. I describe a model of metaphor-enriched social cognition (MESC) that provides a preliminary framework for understanding the role of conceptual metaphor in everyday social thought and action. I review research supporting hypotheses derived from the model with respect to the effects of conceptual metaphor on social perception, attitudes, and behavior, and I present four studies designed to further test these hypotheses. Study 1 shows that the sensation of being physically burdened increased the subjective obligatory nature of everyday activities. Study 2 shows that images depicting historically significant people and events (both positively and negatively valenced) were perceived as larger in size than those depicting historically insignificant people and events. In Study 3, priming participants with the beneficial consequences of physical covering led to more permissive attitudes toward the government withholding information from the public, and this effect was specific to those with ambivalent prior attitudes toward the value of governmental secrecy. Study 4 showed that a heightened motivation to protect one's own body from contamination led to harsher attitudes toward immigrants entering the United States among those subtly primed to conceptualize the country as a body but not those primed with a literal conception of the country. Although further research and theoretical refinement are necessary, the MESC model is a step toward acquiring a richer, more general conception of everyday social meaning-making and its implications for social life.
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劉陽河. "清代女性詩詞的日常化書寫研究= A study of women's poetry on everyday life in the Qing dynasty." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2018. https://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_oa/570.
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閨秀是清代文壇的一股新興力量，她們以獨特的女性寫作風格和視角為清代文學乃至整個中國文學注入了新鮮的水源。清代閨秀作家相較於前代，在詩詞創作方面出現一個不容忽視的特點，即在前代女作家重複傳遞的閨情閨怨之外，開拓了對日常生活的書寫。然而目前學界未有圍繞清代閨秀詩詞日常生活書寫的專著，涉及清代閨秀詩詞日常化的論文也十分稀少。有見於此，本文圍繞「清代閨秀如何書寫日常生活」這一問題展開論述，試圖彌補前人之不足。本文包含七章，除第一章「緒論」及第七章「結論」之外，二至六章的主要內容分別如下: 第二章主要通過史料文獻還原清代女性的日常生活樣貌。清代閨秀的日常生活，既有中饋理家和侍親課子等方面對於婦德的順從，又有讀書吟詠和閨外行旅等傳統婦德之外的內容。第三章以清代女性詠物詩詞為重點研究文本，主要分析詠物詩詞中大量湧現的日常化吟詠對象；同時探討詠物詩詞的日常化寫作手法和情志表達。第四章重點分析自清代才大量出現的女性家務詩詞。一方面與男性文人筆下對勞動女性的書寫作對比研究，另一方面探討家務書寫對於閨秀的意義。第五章從三個方面對清代閨秀書寫日常生活的方式進行梳理，包括拓展選材範圍、增添日記元素和關注現實生活。第六章考察清代女性詩詞日常化的原因。清代女性詩詞出現日常化的趨勢，是創作主體的改變、儒家禮儀道德規範的引導，以及文壇風氣等多重因素共同作用的結果。Elite women writers (guixiu 閨秀)were are vitalizing force in the literary field of the Qing Dynasty. With their unique gendered writing style and perspective, they brought fresh blood to Qing Dynasty literature, and in a broader sense, to Chinese literature as well. Compared with the previous generations, Qing elite women writers had a prominent feature in their writing of poetry. That is, in addition to the lyrical themes already repeatedly dealt with by earlier female writers, they started writing about their daily life. However, no monograph has been published on the writing of daily life in Qing elite women's poetry and little has been discovered on how their attention turned to the writing of daily life. This thesis fills this research gap through addressing the following question: how did Qing elite women write about everyday life? This article is divided into seven chapters, flanked by an introduction in Chapter One and a conclusion in Chapter Seven. Abstracts of Chapters Two to Six are as follows: Chapter Two outlines a reconstruction of the daily life of women in the Qing Dynasty through historical texts. It touches upon the expansion of Qing elite women's living space through comparison with previous generations. Besides taking on familial and parental responsibilities, Qing elite women expanded their living space by writing poetry and traveling. Chapter Three focuses on poems on objects (yongwu shici詠物詩詞) written by women in the Qing Dynasty. It analyzes the daily objects that appeared in a large number of poems. It also discusses the writing techniques and artistic expressions of these poems. Chapter Four focuses on women's poems on housework, a genre which did not appear until the Qing Dynasty. On the one hand, the chapter compares such poems with working women depicted by male literati; on the other hand, it discusses the significance of writing about housework for elite women of the time. Chapter Five organizes the approach Qing elite female writers had taken in writing about daily life from three aspects, namely, broadening their scope of topic selection, adding diary-like elements to their works and showing interests in family livelihood. The Sixth Chapter investigates the reasons behind the popularization of writing about daily life in Qing women's poetry. This trend is the result of a number of reasons: the change of writing subject, the guiding of Confucian moral norms and the climate of the literary circle at the time.
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Naismith, Earl George. "Bai Juyi (Bai Lo Tian) 易居白 772-846AD Tang Dynasty poet, midst everyday life, musings on the ordinary, influences of the not so obvious." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/6659.
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Bai Juyi (易居白, 772-846AD) was one of the greatest scholar-intellectuals and poets of China‘s Tang dynasty period (朝唐, 618-907 AD). He is generally considered to be one three most outstanding poets of his day, alongside Tu Fu(杜甫712-770) and Li Bai(李白 701-762). Arguably, he was by far the most popular amongst the general population. The aim of this thesis is to describe the poet‘s life, using as much as possible his own poetry and prose to provide a lens for Bai‘s sensitivity to those socio-cultural forces, particularly Buddhism, that powerfully influenced his desire to be effective and of value to his society and his family while seeking inner peace and tranquility. The ideological flux of Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism permeated Bai‘s entire spiritual and psychological being, warring with a continual awareness of his self-proclaimed political and administrative incompetence. These ideologies are discussed in the context of the poet‘s life. His inner and outer life is regarded, indeed scrutinized, through the poet‘s own words as he candidly and poignantly deals with the great issues of loyalty and service to the sovereign, compassion for the sufferings of the common people, responsibility to family and friends, and the insatiable and driving need to write poetic verse. Buddhism reached its peak as a social force during the mid-Tang period around the reign of Empress Wu (武后reign period 684-705, lived 609-705). The evolution of Chan (禪) and other variant forms of Mahayana Buddhism is briefly studied while citing the monumental contributions of Fazang (法藏643-712) of the Hua Yan School (華嚴) and Hui Neng (慧能638-713) of the Chan School. Bai‘s own philosophical interests and religious proclivities seem derivative of his times. The influence of these ideological fluxes and social tensions, coupled with a growing awareness of his own mortality, is clearly evidenced in Bai Juyi‘s poetry and memorials. His temple poem You Wu Zhen Si Shi (詩寺真悟遊) will be examined closely to reflect some of these impressions.
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Toledo, Cláudia Gisele Gomes. "Entre o céu e a terra: a presença de Grande sertão: veredas na poesia de Adélia Prado." Universidade de São Paulo, 2012. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8151/tde-08012013-142527/.
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O presente estudo propõe-se a explorar a carga de afinidades entre a poesia de Adélia Prado e a obra de Guimarães Rosa Grande sertão: veredas. Os aspectos característicos da poeta, que se aproximam e se afastam daqueles do escritor, mostram uma poética em que se reconhece a presença do romance, que a própria Adélia Prado assume como matriz de inspiração de seu fazer poético. Posteriormente, a pesquisa particulariza-se em relacionar trechos do romance rosiano a alguns poemas de Poesia Reunida e A duração do dia, em que a autora, movida pela percepção híbrida do sagrado em meio ao cotidiano, faz uso da linguagem como canal de passagem do imanente para o transcendente e da relação possível entre a experiência mística e a poesia, configurando-se para a poeta Grande sertão: veredas como sua Bíblia Literária.The present study proposes to explore the burden of affinities between the poetry of Adelia Prado and the work of Rosa Grande sertão: veredas. The characteristic features of the poet, that approach and recede from those of the writer, show a poetics which recognizes the presence of the novel, which takes itself as matrix Adelia Prado inspiration of his poetic. Subsequently, research particularizes in excerpts of the Rosa\'s novel relate to some poems of Reunited Poetry and The duration of the Day, in which the poet, driven by the perception hybrid of the sacred amid the everyday uses of language as a channel for passage of immanent to the transcendent and the possible relationship between mystical experience and poetry, becoming Grande sertão: veredas as \"Literary Bible\" for her.
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Pereira, Érica Antunes. "De missangas e catanas: a contrução social do sujeito feminino em poemas angolanos, cabo-verdianos, moçambicanos e são-tomenses." Universidade de São Paulo, 2010. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8156/tde-04012011-101230/.
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As angolanas Alda Lara e Paula Tavares, a cabo-verdiana Vera Duarte, a moçambicana Noémia de Sousa e as são-tomenses Alda Espírito Santo e Conceição Lima são as escritoras que melhor representam a poesia de autoria feminina em seus respectivos países e, embora pertençam a contextos socioeconômicos e culturais bastante diferentes, suas obras se aproximam tanto pela abordagem temática, quanto pela existência de um projeto de construção social do sujeito feminino. Assim, embasamo-nos, teoricamente, nos estudos em especial os de Michel de Certeau (2005) e Maria Odila da Silva Leite Dias (1992; 1994; 1998) em torno da hermenêutica do cotidiano feminino, a fim de demonstrar a importância dos papéis informais, das experiências vividas e da resistência das mulheres no processo de formação de suas subjetividades. Recorremos, ainda, a relatórios baseados em recenseamentos e a diversos documentos elaborados por organismos internacionais, a exemplo da ONU e da UNESCO, para estabelecer os pontos de contato entre a situação das mulheres e os contextos históricos-sociais em que estão elas inscritas, ou seja, Angola, Cabo Verde, Moçambique e São Tomé e Príncipe. Finalmente, aliando os aspectos teóricos e os contextuais, analisamos poemas contidos nas obras iniciais de cada uma das já referidas autoras respectivamente, Poemas (1966), Ritos de passagem (1985), Amanhã amadrugada (1993), Sangue negro (2001), É nosso o solo sagrado da terra (1978) e O útero da casa (2004) e procuramos demonstrar que as mulheres, muitas vezes portadoras de uma voz quase silenciosa e marcada pelas miudezas do cotidiano, inscrevem suas marcas na sociedade e têm o poder de (trans)formá-la e de transformar-se, decorrendo daí o título de nossa tese, De missangas e catanas, alusivo à simbologia da resistência empreendida por elas em favor do afloramento de suas subjetividades e do registro de suas historicidades.The Angolan Alda Lara and Paula Tavares, the Cape Verdean Vera Duarte, the Mozambican Noémia de Sousa and the Santomean Alda Espírito Santo and Conceição Lima are the writers who best represent the poetry authored by women in their respective countries and, although belonging to very distinct socioeconomic and cultural contexts, their works approach both thematically and as a project of social construction of the female subject. Therefore, our work is based specially in the studies of Michel de Certeau (2005) and Maria Odila da Silva Leite Dias (1992, 1994, 1998) concerning the hermeneutics of everyday life of women in order to demonstrate the importance of informal roles, the experiences of women and the resistance in the formation of their subjectivities. We also recall the reports based on different censuses and documents prepared by international bodies such as the United Nations and UNESCO to establish points of contact between the situation of women and the social-historical contexts in which they are inscribed: Angola, Cape Verde, Mozambique and São Tome and Principe. Finally, combining the theoretical and contextual aspects, we analyzed poems contained in the initiation works of each of the aforementioned authors respectively - Poemas (1966), Ritos de passagem (1985), Amanhã amadrugada (1993), Sangue negro (2001), É nosso o solo sagrado da terra (1978) and O útero da casa (2004) and we demonstrated that even though women often suffer from an almost silenced voice, marked by the offal of daily life, they inscribed their mark on society having the power of (trans)form it. Hence, this is the origin of the title of our thesis, Of beads and machetes which illustrates the symbols of resistance undertaken by the authors for the blossoming of their subjectivities and for the registering of their historicities.
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Friskics, Scott. "Wilderness and Everyday Life." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2011. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc84205/.
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I challenge the dualistic view of wilderness that has influenced wilderness philosophy, politics and experience in recent years. In its place, I offer an alternative vision that recognizes wilderness areas and working landscapes as complementary elements of a larger, inhabited landscape characterized by a heterogeneous mixture of human-land relational patterns representing various points along an urban-wilderness continuum. In chapters 2 through 4, I explore the philosophical, political and experiential implications of this wilderness-in-context vision. Experienced and understood as part of the landscape we call home, wilderness may engender, renew, and sustain an engaged and integrated wilderness practice involving regular contact with wilderness places, committed activism on behalf of wild lands and their inhabitants, and grounded reflection on the meaning and value of wilderness in our everyday lives.
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Stumpf, Jonathan Lee. "Pottery In Everyday Life." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1272910473.
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Endo, Jucimeire Ramos de Souza. "A poetização do cotidiano na poesia de Manuel Bandeira." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2006. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/14797.
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The purpose of this Master dissertation is to apprehend the process of poetic construction in Manuel Bandeira s Libertinagem s poems. The selected poems are Evocação do Recife , Poema tirado de um notícia de jornal and Poema de Finados , which were put together, rounded up in three thematic nucleus: childhood, social conscience and death. In its analysis, this study tries to explore the elements that led to lyric simplicity, the thematic of colloquialism, the prosaic, childhood reminiscences and death. It starts with the everyday life thematic, in which the self lyric retrieves its richest poetic element from commonplace and real life situations. Then it asks the questions: What formal or structural elements work as poetic resources to translate everyday life? How the hybridization of the lyric gender produce in Manuel Bandeira s poetry an effect that describes a peculiar treatment of his poetry? Trying to meet this poetic proposal, it was used as theoretical bases, Victor Chklovski, Roman Jakobson, Iuri Tynianov, Octavio Paz and Hugo Friedrich s conceptions. Among other aspects, were studied the irregular rhythmic movements, random or absent rhymes, multiplicity of sounds, arbitrary cut, proselike approach, generation of images particularities of poetic language. As a conclusion, the study suggests that when Manuel Bandeira introduced in his poetry everyday life elements, colloquial language and characteristics of narrative gender, for example, he broke the laws of the traditional poetic form and produced an hybrid poetic, which allowed him to go free and led him to a new form of poetic: the everyday life poetic
O propósito desta dissertação é apreender como se dá o processo de construção poética em poemas de Libertinagem (1930), de Manuel Bandeira. Foram selecionados os poemas Evocação do Recife , Poema tirado de uma notícia de jornal e Poema de Finados , nos quais se encontram marcas prosaicas na exploração de imagens brasileiras. Os poemas foram agrupados em torno de três núcleos temáticos: a infância, a consciência social e a morte. Procura-se explorar, na análise, os elementos composicionais que constroem a simplicidade lírica, a temática do coloquialismo, do prosaico, das reminiscências infantis e da morte. Partindo da recorrência da temática do cotidiano, em que o eu lírico extrai do lugar-comum, das situações concretas da vida, o seu mais rico elemento poético, perguntou-se: que elementos formais ou estruturais operam como recursos poéticos para traduzir o cotidiano? como a hibridização do gênero lírico produz, na poesia de Manuel Bandeira, um efeito que se caracteriza como tratamento peculiar de sua poesia? Para tentar responder a essa proposta poética, foram utilizadas, como fundamentação teórica, as concepções de Victor Chklovski, Roman Jakobson, Iuri Tynianov, Octavio Paz e Hugo Friedrich. Entre outros aspectos, refletiu-se sobre cadência rítmica irregular, rimas aleatórias ou ausentes, multiplicidade de tom, corte arbitrário, aproximação da prosa, geração de imagens, enfim, sobre particularidades da linguagem poética. Concluiu-se que Manuel Bandeira, ao introduzir em sua poesia elementos do cotidiano, a linguagem coloquial e características do gênero narrativo, por exemplo, rompeu com as leis da forma poética tradicional e produziu uma poética transgressora e híbrida, que o libertou e o enveredou para a construção de uma nova forma poética: a poetização do cotidiano
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Highmore, Benjamin John Nathaniel. "Everyday life and cultural theory." Thesis, Birkbeck (University of London), 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.395977.
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Schweitzer, Pierre. "Cognitive ageing in everyday life." Thesis, Paris Sciences et Lettres (ComUE), 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017PSLEP061/document.
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Les objectifs de cette thèse sont multiples: 1. concevoir un nouvel outil d'échantillonnage des expériences utilisant les technologies mobiles, qui soit durable et évolutif, et qui permette d'implémenter des tests cognitifs mobiles; 2. utiliser cet outil pour obtenir des informations écologiques sur les comportements et les performances cognitives; 3. valider la méthode; 4. analyser les interactions entre comportement et performance afin d'identifier les comportements sains ou à risqueThis thesis has several objectives: 1. design a new experience sampling tool that is durable and evolutive, and allows to implement mobile cognitive tests; 2. use this tool to obtain ecological information on behaviors and cognitive performance; 3. validate the method; 4. analyze the relationships between behavior and performance to identify which behaviors are healthy or risky
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Sartawi, Mohammad M. M. A. S. "Everyday life in London's mosques : Islam, identities, and everyday practices." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.551336.
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It is often hypothesized that at times of social change and identity confusion, lslamist and reactivist ideologies gain ground. Is this true for British Muslims? Are the difficulties and contradictions experienced in the midst of multidimensional forms of discrimination, creating fertile ground for reactivist ideas to take root? This thesis explored the everyday lives of Muslims in London in their places of worship to answer these questions by employing the ethnographic method. Part of the study analyzes fundamentalist, lslamist, and reactivist texts, along with core Islamic texts such as the Quran and Hadeeth, in order to uncover the points of connection and contention between them. The other part explores the role of Islam and Islamic institutions in informing identity processes and everyday practices on individual, inter-personal, and inter-group levels. The diversity of Muslim communities and Muslims' relationships to Islam is investigated on all three levels. The hypothesis that the situation of Muslims in London is heading towards an upsurge of reactivist ideologies was found not to hold. On the contrary, it was found that local Muslim populations, particularly those born in London, have created ethno-geographical clusters. Within one of these clusters, an emergence of a local British Islam and Muslim community that identifies strongly with its Britishness was found. In addition, the lslamism adopted by this particular community has driven its members towards participation in local politics. In the community's attempts to better its situation, it has built institutions organized according to British models and standards. The thesis concludes that following the failure of reactivist ideologies, British Muslims in London, particularly those that are 2"d (or more) generation, have adopted an lslamism that is a positive force in their integration and advancement within British society. Far from being reactivist, their relationship to Islam still informs every aspect of their lives; private, public, and political.
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Fenner, Bevis. "Defamiliarising the familiar : everyday tourism as the art of everyday life." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2016. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/393136/.
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This practice-based thesis explores the relationship between tourism, art and everyday life. Centred on the touristic spaces and settings of the British seaside town of Bournemouth the project explores how living in a tourist resort can facilitate transitory creativities, through which new modes of thinking and being can be developed. It also focuses on the blurring of tourism and everyday life, and more specifically, as the project develops, the conflation of work and leisure in neoliberal society. I argue that the blurring of work and leisure produces pseudo-individualised creativities that mask power and property relations to the extent that it becomes hard to negotiate ontological authenticity. In this direction, I suggest that it is not the closing of the gap between work and leisure that is the 'problem' with everyday life but our lack of capacity to govern how this pseudo-emancipatory relaxing of boundaries structures itself in the lifeworld. Though practice-based research methods, the project explores the notion of 'everyday tourism' as a methodology for developing a praxis of everyday production that attempts, not only to 'make visible' the ambiguities and paradoxes of leisure and tourism, but also, in bringing tourism and art to the centre of everyday life, works in opposition to neoliberal modes of work and leisure and their appropriation of creativity and other subjective and affective productive forces. This thesis asserts the notion and art practice of 'everyday tourism', which triangulates art, tourism and everyday life, not simply as the development of more tourist-like relations within life-world but also as new emergent field of practice involving strategies or tactics for defamiliarising the familiar, to disrupt dominant representations and habitual ways of being. In borrowing from the performances and performativities of art and tourism practices, I argue that we must develop an attentive ethics of practice if we are to reclaim everyday life from its occupation by the aggressive forces of neoliberalism. The thesis also suggests that the notion of 'everyday tourism', in its acknowledgement of emergence, contingency, transience, useless expenditure and our place in networks of affective forces and non-cognitive relations, becomes a means of liberating the self or moving beyond subjectivity and the habitual in order to go permanently 'on tour', in a world forever unfolding and never finished. 'Everyday tourism' thus becomes a means of envisioning alternative ways of being and seeing – of imagining possible futures and entertaining the idea of flux and change, of seeing difference in de-differentiation, of seeing through the eyes of the 'alien' other, in order to see beyond the alienating same. In this direction, 'everyday tourism' is intended as a strategy for moving beyond our current period of neoliberal, technocratic 'democracy' often referred to as 'the end of history'.
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Johed, Gustav. "Accounting, Stock Markets and Everyday Life." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala universitet, Företagsekonomiska institutionen, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-7750.
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The backdrop of this dissertation is one ubiquitous element of everyday life: the stock market. Traditionally, accounting and stock markets are logically coordinate entities and this thesis analyzes how accounting supports private investors in their role as shareholders – as investors in shares and owners of companies. This analysis is carried out in four independent essays. The first two essays analyze the privatization of Telia, a former state-owned Telecommunication Company in Sweden that went public in 2000. The field material for the two essays consisted of newspaper articles, government bills and interviews. Qualitative and quantitative analyses demonstrate how accounting is used among different actors to realize the privatization. Theoretically, the first two essays lend themselves to the governmentality debate as introduced to accounting research by Miller and Rose (1990). The third and fourth essays are analyses of annual general meetings (AGMs). The field material was generated from a study of participants at 36 AGMs during the spring of 2004. The choice of these two seemingly unrelated cases was done deliberately. Both cases are stock market events that typically involve an audience of a large number of non-professional investors. In the privatization of Telia over 1 million people took part in the offer. The AGMs are typically seen as the single event by which non-professional investors have an opportunity to meet with top management. Thus, each event represents an instance in which accounting is confronted by a predominantly non-professional audience. The contribution of this study is two-fold. First, earlier work inspired by the Miller and Rose framework (1990) has favored an analysis of the programmatic. This study develops the technological aspect of the theoretical framework by means of a rich empirical description. In addition the two essays on the privatization of Telia contribute with an analysis of how once a specific technology translates to become and becomes understood at the site of intervention. Second, the two studies of AGMs contest earlier criticism against the meeting as a corporate governance mechanism detached from the overall corporate governance system. The argument here is that the AGM offers a valuable setting for private investors to discuss stewardship issues. That this opportunity is taken advantage of is suggested by the present field material.
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Gough, Brendan. "Postmodernism, social psychology and everyday life." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.359068.
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Agre, Philip. "The dynamic structure of everyday life." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/14422.
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Harris, William. "The uncanny in everyday urban life." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/1983/0fc830ab-e240-42af-beb7-6257c2b1e2fb.
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Ritchie, Christopher. "Stand up comedy and everyday life." Thesis, Goldsmiths College (University of London), 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.299784.
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Geesin, Beverly. "Resistance to surveillance in everyday life." Thesis, University of York, 2012. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/2697/.
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This thesis examines resistance to surveillance in everyday life and, in doing so, responds to gaps within the field of surveillance studies through the development of a more rigorous framework for understanding power, surveillance and resistance. This framework reflects the development of more technologically enhanced forms of surveillance and takes into account the cultural and social influences upon notions of privacy and monitoring which hinder opposition to surveillance. As opposed to earlier frameworks for understanding power and surveillance, this framework places resistance as a central focus. This is developed through engagement with the work of Henri Lefebvre and Guy Debord with a focus on their critiques of everyday life, depiction of rhythms for understanding power, the notion of the spectacle for understanding the seductive aspects of surveillance and the use of their practices of resistance as conceptual tools for developing a theoretical framework for understanding practices of resistance to surveillance in everyday life. This framework is developed through the exploration of these conceptual tools within the context of contemporary forms of surveillance and engagement with contemporary theorists whose ideas resonate with those of Henri Lefebvre and Guy Debord in their depiction of contemporary forms of monitoring, control and resistance. Three sites of surveillance are explored within this thesis through which this framework is explored and deployed. The first examines the difficulties of resistance within the urban environment. The second explores the seductive aspects of surveillance through an exploration of how surveillance is consumed and embraced, these things complicating the development of practices of resistance. The third case explores artistic engagements with surveillance practices and illustrates the framework developed through examples from these artists. These case studies demonstrate the importance of the framework developed here. The thesis as a whole suggests new ways of thinking about surveillance and resistance to surveillance.
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Lincoln, Toby. "Urbanizing wuxi : Everyday life of everyday people in early 20th century china." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.530050.
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Purkis, Harriet. "Real life stories in everyday objects: approaches and methodologies in the documentation of everyday life through material culture." Thesis, Ulster University, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.591043.
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Museum curators have the potential to make diverse representations of present day everyday life through everyday things. The aim of this research is to demonstrate that everyday objects have a significant role in the recording, representation and communication of everyday life. This thesis contributes to curatorial theory, by suggesting ways and means by which everyday life and things can be 'documented', that is collected, interpreted and displayed. Different theoretical approaches and methods from three bodies of literature are explored, that have a bearing on the primary research question: How can the interpretation, collection, and display of everyday life through present day everyday objects be enhanced in museums and galleries? By synthesizing ideas from different bodies of literature, Material Culture Studies, Everyday Life Studies and Museum Studies, the research brings a new theoretical contribution to the way everyday mass-produced things are curated in museums. A diverse range of approaches documenting present day everyday life with objects is explored through three studies: contemporary art, contemporary collecting in museums, and an exhibition. Methods used include interviews with artists and curators and mounting an exhibition. The first study analyses the meanings and materiality of artworks revealing deeper understandings of the subjective experience of everyday life. The second study evaluates the ethnographic approach to collecting the home by Swedish museums. The third study demonstrates how cultural diversity can be displayed through clothes and personal possessions of twelve individuals, in an exhibition as 'contact zone'. The conclusions are that: documentation of present day everyday life in museums can incorporate the subjective experience of everyday life; concepts of proximity and materiality can contribute to a better understanding of everyday things, and a social history curator of contemporary life can become a bricoleur - an active, creative collector and maker of meanings about everyday life using things.
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Sutanto, Agustinus. "Let everyday life become a work of art! : A comprehensive study of architecture - the city and everyday life." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.505566.
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Tipping-Ball, Bethany-Alicia. "Everyday Life on Planet Jedward: Thinking of John and Edward Grimes. On Everyday Life as a Jedward fan." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Institutionen för kultur och kommunikation, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-124157.
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Identical twins John and Edward Grimes (artist name "Jedward") have been active for six years and have a heterogeneous following of fans. This thesis aims to investigate how and in which situations fans think about Jedward as part of their everyday life. Each of the three informants, plus the author, kept diaries recording the above for the course of one week. The diaries were subsequently coded into the groups Traditional Fandom, Social Media, Music, Places, Family & Friends, Interests & Hobbies, Studies, Film & TV and Food & Drink respectively. Auto-ethnographic method was implemented and combined with work within the spheres of fandom and music. At a later date informants were asked if there are any products or causes that they associate with John and Edward; in lieu of comprehensive answers, the author compiled such a list. For the fours fans taking part, John and Edward are experienced as being close to them in many different situations during their day-to-day lives, in much the same way as a close friend or loved one. The conclusion is that through aiming to portray my own interpretation of fandom, it has been possible to see just how creative and imaginative fans are, an enlightening reflection contrary to those which in many cases have been none too positive.
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Carabelli, Giulia. "Readdressing Mostar : the architecture of everyday life." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.600631.
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This thesis investigates the process of post-war reconstruction in Mostar (Bosnia and Herzegovina), particularly focusing on the post reunification phase (since 2004). Drawing on the theory of "the production of space", as elaborated by Henri Lefebvre, this project explores the ways in which the urban space is produced socially . By re-appropriating Lefebvre's methodological tool of the spatial triad, this research investigates both the ways in which space is imagined, designed, and built at the level of political administration, and the various practices through which this space is re-appropriated, experienced, and lived in everyday life in order to produce a more complex account of the post-war rehabilitation process. Hence, this project adopts an ethnographic perspective to explore the ways in which space is produced (and reproduced) in the quotidian of Mostar to engage with the extent of its polarisation in everyday life. Accordingly, the project sets out the question of how Mostar becomes a divided city by critically engaging with how the city is administered, planned, represented (in political and academic discourses) and also the ways in which the city• is lived and used by the citizens. Empirical evidence of this research shows that Mostar is not merely a divided city but also a shared space and, more importantly, a platform for the activities of engaged actors in Civil society working towards a more just (and shared) future (in the city and beyond). As a general conclusion, this thesis argues that investigations about Mostar should start by unravelling the multifarious dynamics that produce its space as complex, rather than picturing the city as solely divided (or united) . Furthermore, this project suggests that more investigations about Mostar should engage with its spaces of resistance in order to share the story of those who are already producing change.
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Noblet, Susan M. "Revolutions in Individual Everyday Life: Differential Space." The Ohio State University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1291166012.
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Taumberger, Katharina Cornelia. "Rethinking generations : epochal identity, everyday life, intersectionality." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2016. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.723456.
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Sheffet, Malka, and Ronit Bassan-Cincinatus. "Probability in Mathematics: Facing Probability in Everyday Life." Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2012. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-83075.
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Pálsdóttir, Ágústa. "Health and lifestyle : Icelanders ̕everyday life information behaviour /." Åbo : Åbo Akad. Förl. [u.a.], 2005. http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy0611/2006402076.html.
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Karlou, Gkolfo. "A phenomenological exploration of fear in everyday life." Thesis, Regent's University, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.646058.
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Fear is a natural phenomenon often avoided due to its aversive nature or embarrassing character. Traditionally, fear has been studied empirically in humans and animals. Research on human fear has been mainly quantitative aiming to classify it in terms of common and uncommon fears, holding implications of normality. This existentialphenomenological study approaches fear in its everyday normative form. It attempts to explore how everyday fear affects our life and individual psychology. Six people shared with me their lived experience of being afraid in semi-structured interviews conducted for the purposes of the present study. The interviews were analyzed following Colaizzi's (1978) method and the findings are presented in themes and in a final statement revealing the essence of the phenomenon under investigation. Fear was found to be a complex experience, often evoked by some kind of anticipated pain that the individual wishes to avoid. Fear was found to be in close connection to change, choice, regret, death and loss. It brings a sense of lack of control and uncertainty and it affects the individual in behavioural, mental, emotional and physical levels. Acknowledging one's fear may be instant or gradual, and it may also lead to action. Reflecting on one's fear experience becomes possible at a later point. In therapy, fear is brought up as part of other issues and not as fear as such. Talking about one's fear in therapy can be helpful, unhelpful, neutral, or even painful. In some cases, naming one's fear and verbalizing it makes the person feel less scared.
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Hellgren, Mattias. "Energy Use as a Consequence of Everyday Life." Doctoral thesis, Linköpings universitet, Tema teknik och social förändring, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-122253.
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Energy use is a part of everyday life and the use of energy is a part of the global climate change. Policy makers urge individuals to change their daily behaviour in order to mitigate climate change and care for our common environment. The dissertation regards daily behaviour as activities performed by individuals. The theoretical base is the time-geographic approach wherein everyday life is regarded as a sequence of interlinked activities performed by indivisible individuals. The dissertation investigates individuals’ energy use as an outcome of the activities they perform in everyday life. The empirical base of the dissertation is time-diaries from the Swedish time use survey 2010/2011. The diary data is explored as sequences of daily activities by using sequence analysis and clustering. The results show that individuals’ energy use is closely interweaved with how they live their everyday lives in terms of activity sequences. The results imply that changing an activity affects both the intricate web of interaction in the household and the interdependence of activities in everyday life. Change does not only affect the singular activity that was the object for the change, but rather major parts of the sequence of activities. In order to address energy conservation in information campaigns considerations ought to be taken on how everyday life is shaped and formed by the individual, by negotiations between the individuals in households, and societal structures. Information can be targeted to groups of individuals with similar activity sequences as they are revealed by cluster analysis.Energianvändningen är en del av vardagen likaväl som användningen av energi är en del av den globala klimatförändringen. För att mildra effekterna på vår gemensamma miljö uppmanas människor av politiker och andra beslutsfattare att förändra sitt vardagsbeteende. I avhandlingen betraktas vardagsbeteendet som människors dagliga aktiviteter. Avhandlingens teoretiska grund är den tidsgeografiska ansatsen, där människors vardag betraktas som en sekvens av de aktiviteter som utförs av odelbara individer. Människors dagliga sekvens av aktiviteter undersöks för att ta reda på vilken energianvändning som genomförandet av aktiviteterna ger upphov till. Den empiriska grunden för avhandlingen är tidsdagboksdata från den svenska tidsanvändningsstudien från 2010/2011 och avhandlingen utforskar tidsdagböckerna som sekvenser av aktiviteter med hjälp av sekvens- och klusteranalys. Resultaten visar att individers energianvändning är nära sammanvävd med de aktivitetssekvenser som visar hur vardagslivet levs. Resultaten pekar vidare på att förändringar av enskilda aktiviteter också påverkar andra aktiviteter i det dagliga livet. Förändringar av en aktivitet påverkar således hela den dagliga sekvensen av aktiviteter. I utformningen av information som syftar till att minska hushållens energianvändning bör hänsyn tas till hur vardagslivets aktivitetssekvens formas av den enskilde i samspelet både med andra individer i hushållet och med samhällsstrukturerna. Målgruppsinriktad information kan utformas med utgångspunkt from människors likartade aktivitetsmönster så som de framgår genom klusteranalys.
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Maček, Ivana. "War within everyday life in Sarajevo under siege /." Uppsala : Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis : Uppsala University Library [distributor], 2000. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/51681203.html.
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UCHOA, CAMILA WIELMOWICKI. "CROSSINGS OF EVERYDAY LIFE: FROM BANAL TO RADICAL." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2017. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=32091@1.
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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIROCOORDENAÇÃO DE APERFEIÇOAMENTO DO PESSOAL DE ENSINO SUPERIOR
PROGRAMA DE SUPORTE À PÓS-GRADUAÇÃO DE INSTS. DE ENSINO
A modernidade representou um novo período de mudanças para o mundo, com o desenvolvimento da indústria, das máquinas e das tecnologias, além da metropolização das grandes cidades, que alterou a percepção e os quadros de vida do citadino. Com as mudanças empreendidas durante este período, foi possível notar um novo interesse pelo cotidiano urbano. Os acontecimentos históricos, assim como a revolução estética na Arte e o fim das utopias levam a crer que o olhar crítico para o cotidiano é uma das maneiras de indagar o pensamento contemporâneo. A partir de exemplos de travessias deste cotidiano na arte, como a exposição Cotidiano radical, de Marco Paulo Rolla (2015) e o filme Relatos Selvagens, de Damián Szifron (2014), esta dissertação pretende elucidar de que maneira a arte consegue mobilizar não só o cotidiano banal, mas também o cotidiano radical, definindo esta radicalidade, que potencializa o efeito reflexivo do contemporâneo.
The modernity represented a new period of changings to the world, with the development of Industry, the machines and the technologies, besides the metropolization of the great cities, that changed the perception and the scenes of the urban life of citizen. With the changing during this period, as the aesthetic revolution in Art, and the end of the utopias, makes us wonder that the critic view to the everyday life is one of the many ways to inquire the contemporary thinking. From the examples of crossings of this everyday life in art, like the exhibition Radical everyday life, from Marco Paulo Rolla (2015), and the film Wild tales, from Damián Szifron (2014), this dissertation intend to elucidate in which way art can mobilize not just the banal everyday life, but also the radical everyday life, defining this radicality, that potencializes the reflexive effect in the contemporary.
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Banerjee, Sinchan. "Visual interfaces to share and highlight everyday life." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/76906.
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Thesis (M. Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2012.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [47]-48).
In this thesis, I have designed, implemented and evaluated different user interfaces that enable users to get a deeper understanding of life in different cultures. Specifically, I have focused on user interfaces that enable and inspire the contribution and consumption of visual media that highlights the subtleties of everyday life. This thesis was completed via the researcher-as-designer approach where I explored and tackled the different design challenges in the intersection of cultural understanding and photo-sharing that this thesis lies within.
by Sinchan Banerjee.
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Lindkvist, Camilla, and Jeanette Göransson. "Vardagsrelaterad matematikundervisning. Mathematics education related to everyday life." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Lärarutbildningen (LUT), 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-34830.
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Syftet med vår undersökning var att se huruvida lärare, elever och föräldrar i skolår tre samt iskolår sex anser att skolans matematikundervisning är relaterad till vardagen.Som metod för att få svar på denna fråga använde vi oss av en enkätundersökning somgenomfördes av lärare, elever och föräldrar i år tre och sex.Resultatet visar att föräldrarna anser att matematikundervisningen i skolan till stor delkan kopplas till den vardagsrelaterade matematiken medan majoriteten av elever och lärareendast menar att koppling förekommer till viss del.
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Claypool, Richard C. "AUTOMOBILE MALFUNCTION IN PERSONAL NARRATIVE AND EVERYDAY LIFE." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1143235179.
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Rudnick, Justin J. "Performing, Sensing, Being: Queer Identity in Everyday Life." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1466084273.
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DiPiero, Frank Daniel. "Contingent Encounters: Improvisation in Music and Everyday Life." The Ohio State University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1553003282221435.
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Ekoluoma, Mari-Elina. "Everyday Life in a Philippine Sex Tourism Town." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för kulturantropologi och etnologi, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-312183.
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Sabang used to be a small, marginalized Philippine fishing village that in the span of three decades became a well-known international sex tourism site. This thesis deals with the implications of tourism (including sex tourism) and how it has become embedded in the daily life in today’s Sabang. The thesis highlights the local populations’ diverse reactions to the various changes associated with tourism growth, in particular how various symbolic, moral, and spatial boundaries are constructed and maintained. The ethnographic material examined in this thesis builds on several periods of fieldwork, in total 18 months, that were carried out between 2003 and 2015. Analytical tools found in tourism anthropology and in particular the branch of postcolonial tourism studies has guided the discussion and analysis of the socio-cultural effects of becoming a tourism town. This thesis argues that complex networks of boundaries are significant in maintaining a sense of order and social cohesion in times of change. Notions of cultural differences are expressed through the narratives and behaviors of the various inhabitants, and contribute to the maintaining of boundaries within and between groups. From the beginning of tourism growth commercial sex has been central and has become a significant factor in the tourism economy. While residents acknowledge their dependency on the go-go bars, the business of the night is framed so as not to defeat the inhabitants’ struggles to maintain local community’s sense of morality, or at least to set up boundaries between the outsiders’ immorality and insiders’ morality. Tourism has also offered opportunities to challenge conventional social hierarchies and local seats of power, and there are also recurrent discussions about who has the right to control resources and who can claim entitlement to a place now shared by people from all over the world.
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Johansson, Maria. "Cognitive impairment and its consequences in everyday life." Doctoral thesis, Linköpings universitet, Avdelningen för kliniska vetenskaper, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-115349.
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The overall aim was to improve knowledge of the consequences of cognitive dysfunction in everyday life and of instruments to make these assessments. The thesis contains four studies each of different design using different populations. In study I, the relationship between cognitive function, ability to perform activities of daily living and perceived health-related quality of life were investigated in a population of 85-year-old individuals in the community of Linköping (n = 373). The study was part of the Elderly in Linköping Screening Assessment 85 (ELSA 85). Even mild cognitive dysfunction correlated with impaired ability to perform activities of daily living and lower health-related quality of life. In study II, the diagnostic accuracy and clinical utility of Cognistat, a cognitive screening instrument, were evaluated for identifying individuals with cognitive impairment in a primary care population. Cognistat has relatively good diagnostic accuracy with a sensitivity of 0.85, a specificity of 0.79 and a Clinical Utility Index (CUI) of 0.72. The corresponding values were 0.59, 0.91 and 0.53 for the Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE), and 0.26, 0.88 and 0.20 for the Clock Drawing Test (CDT). In study III, the aim was to develop an instrument measuring self-perceived or caregiver reported ability to perform everyday life activities in persons with suspected cognitive impairment or dementia and to perform psychometric testing of this instrument, named the Cognitive Impairment in Daily Life (CID). The CID was found to have good content validity. In study IV, experiences of cognitive impairment, its consequences in everyday life and the need for support in persons with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) or mild dementia and their relatives were explored. Interviews were performed with five people with MCI, eight people with mild dementia and their relatives (n = 13). The main finding was that persons with MCI and dementia experienced cognitive changes that could be burdensome and result in changed activity patterns. In conclusion, the findings support earlier research and show that cognitive dysfunction even at mild stages has an impact on everyday life and reduces perceived quality of life. To improve interventions for persons with cognitive impairment, it is important to assess not only cognitive function but also its consequences in everyday life activities.
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Hornsey, Richard Quentin Donald. "Homosexuality and everyday life in post-war London." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.400366.
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Jones, Kelly. "Still Life Moving Fast." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2013. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1639.
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Ryan, Caitlyn G. "Rubik’s Cube Life." Youngstown State University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ysu1343057479.
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Wakewich, Pamela. "Contours of everyday life : reflections on embodiment and health over the life course." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2000. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/56209/.
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This study explores lay perceptions of embodiment and health through the narratives ofa group of 'everyday' women and men in a Canadian community. Gender, class and cultural influences on individual and collective experiences of embodiment are examined along with the ways in which these concepts evolve over the life course. The research is based on in depth interviews with a sample of forty working- and middle-class white women and men between the ages of30 and 65. I argue that notions of embodiment and health are multiple, fluid and contextual. They are shaped and reshaped over time in relation to individual biographies and social and cultural influences, and negotiated in relation to the prescribed values of the larger body politic. I suggest that research must attend to the spatial and temporal dimension of ideas about embodiment and health. In the context of this case study, I argue that everyday ideas about regional identity are enmeshed with the cultural codes which signify racial, class and gender identity. These frame peoples' understandings and representations of 'healthy selves' and 'unhealthy others' and are central to their notions of embodiment. Based on these findings, I propose a more nuanced approach to theorizing 'the body' and health in feminist and sociological theory. I argue for a closer engagement between theoretical frameworks and empirical studies with the aim of developing a more fully embodied social theory.
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Evelyn, Markwei D. "Everyday life information seeking behaviour of urban homeless youth." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/44049.
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Youth homelessness, or the issue of street children, is a growing phenomenon in cities across the world, including Sub-Saharan Africa. Homeless youth, like all adolescents, deserve relevant information for successful transition to adulthood and for mastery of the challenges of homelessness. The pre-requisite for efficient provision of quality information services to any group is knowledge and understanding of their everyday life information seeking (ELIS) behaviour.
The main objectives of this study of homeless youth in the market area of Accra, Ghana are to investigate their information needs, sources of information, patterns and problems encountered in information seeking and to determine how libraries and other stakeholders can meet their information needs. The study adopted the interpretive tradition and the ethnographic methodology. The field activities involved recruitment of 41 homeless youth, comprising 22 males and 19 females, ages 15 to 18 years using a snowball sampling procedure, collection of data using the critical incident technique and in-depth interviews, transcription of recorded interviews, and identification of categories and themes from participant interviews through content analysis using the NVivo qualitative data analysis software.
The findings revealed eleven categories of needs comprising physiological, safety, esteem and self-actualization needs. Preferred sources of information are primarily interpersonal. Other sources are television, radio, print media and libraries. Information seeking patterns include active and passive searching, passive attention, and a heavy reliance on a social network of friends. Barriers to meeting information needs include cost, lack of education, lack of time, lack of access to relevant information and educational infrastructure, information poverty, powerlessness, and lack of confidence. iii
The study is significant in many ways. It is the first study of ELIS behaviour of homeless youth in Africa. It makes a new proposition that, in an environment of limited information resources, people rely on their social networks to meet their information needs. The findings of the study add to knowledge and understanding of youth information seeking behaviour and ELIS of youth, especially homeless youth. They have implications for information dissemination and public library after-school programs and policies to facilitate provision of services and information resources for homeless youth in Ghana.
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Pitcher, Sarah Marie. "Risky women: The everyday life of an allergic woman." Related electronic resource: Current Research at SU : database of SU dissertations, recent titles available full text, 2002. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/syr/main.
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Ziegert, Kristina. "Everyday Life among Next of Kin of Haemodialysis Patients." Doctoral thesis, Linköping : Halmstad : Dept. of Medicine and Care, Linköping University ; Scool of Social and Health Sciences, Halmstad University, 2005. http://www.bibl.liu.se/liupubl/disp/disp2005/med926s.pdf.
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Smith, Christine E. "State Violence, Mobility and Everyday Life in Cairo, Egypt." UKnowledge, 2015. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/geography_etds/34.
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State violence in Egypt is an embedded part of daily life and popular culture, and well documented in social and news media. The uprisings of January 11, which took place in Egypt were organized in large part against violence and torture regularly delivered by police forces. In this dissertation I examine the implications of chronic state violence on everyday life for low-income Egyptians. In doing so, this dissertation provides analysis of how violence shapes forms of intimacy within social life, how it shapes urban landscapes and the politics therein and how it informs individual piety and banal practices of security. This work contributes to studies within feminist geopolitics, memory and emotion within geography by understanding the lives of Cairenes through their experience of the landscape and places they inhabit, maneuver through, and create with the memory and threat of state violence.
The project focuses on four selected sites in Greater Cairo: Kholousy Street in Shoubra, Musky Market in Old Cairo, Cairo University in Giza, and Tahrir Square in downtown Cairo. These sites have been chosen because they represent different nodes of daily life (shopping, leisure, education, and political participation) for low-income Cairenes. Research methods include participant observation at the four sites, eleven focus groups and thirty-one interviews with low-income Cairo residents in two age cohorts: one group of participants between the ages of 18 and 26, and a second cohort between the ages of 49 and 57.
For each of these questions, this project provides a gender sensitive comparison of the two age cohorts in order to gain insight into the role of youth and memory and gender in Cairenes’ interpretations and representations of the Mubarak era and the recent revolution.
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Dzadonova, Jana. "Spaces of Trade in Tallinn: Uncertainty and Everyday Life." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Arkitekthögskolan vid Umeå universitet, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-108594.
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The everyday survival of the other at the border between ‘East’ and ‘West’ is the object of this study. The country in-between, Estonia, is a ‘melting pot’ of Russian, Western and Nordic influence, what makes this zone an active, diverse, nevertheless invisible in the global awareness. The process of transition and rapid neoliberalization, which is characteristic for the post-socialist country such as Estonia, brings together number of side-effects, lots of redundant people, who could not adapt to the new regime, who speculate and trade. The investigation of ‘Russian’ semi-official spaces of trade in Estonian capital, Tallinn, reveals the values and defects of the open-air markets. The thesis highlights the need to politicize the processes around the disappearing and/or transforming the open-air markets in the city. In spite of the fact, that the informal trading is often connected with poverty, illegality, low hygiene, distrust and crime, this work explores the alternative ways of trading, the power of immediacy and aesthetics in confrontation to the global capital. The architecture as the transversal practice cuts across the patterns of trading based on irresponsible consumerism and desire, and experiments with the original concept of the market with the dialogue in front. The speculative interventions are the sites of the common life, production and renewal.
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Saxbe, Darby Elizabeth. "Stress, mood, and social engagement in everyday family life." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1973896511&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Ellis, Julie Carmel. "Family practices during life-threatening illness : exploring the everyday." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2010. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/12814/.
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This thesis explores the experiences of individuals living in a family where a member is dying or has a life-threatening illness. It focuses in particular upon how families are actively produced in the everyday `doing' of day-to-day family life (Morgan, 1996) in circumstances of severe ill-health and when facing death. Using an ethnographic approach combining informal, in-depth interviews with 9 families and participant observation on a hospice ward, the research provides insight into how families experience themselves as family in the `here-and-now' of their daily lives. It will be argued that in both popular culture and theoretical work there is a pervasive tendency to associate death with crisis and that the more ordinary, everyday and mundane aspects of dying experiences are less well understood. Therefore, the analysis of family lives presented here moves away from the more familiar model of emotional crisis and rupture in relation to severe ill-health and dying, to ask new questions about the `everydayness' of people's feelings and experiences during this time. A more nuanced picture of living with life-threatening illness and dying is provided as the data chapters explore the everyday and mundane in relation to families' experiences. Analysing empirical data about various aspects of dayto- day life - including eating practices, spatial dynamics and material objects - the thesis shows how ill-health and dying are not discrete ontological experiences existing outside and separate from everyday life. Rather, in paying attention to the `doing' of being a family day-to-day, this research brings more squarely into view, the everyday as a lived experience (Felski, 1999) within which families come to `know' their experiences of illness and dying.
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Cano-Viktorsson, Carlos. "Social Media and the Networked Self in Everyday Life." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-143415.
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Internet has become increasingly ubiquitous and with the introduction of Web 2.0 technologies and concepts it has almost become second nature for many Internet users. This study attempts to view the “social life” of this “new” online environment through its current manifestation in the form of the popular social networking site Facebook. It argues that Facebook has become a tool for the management of one's self both online and offline and that people's reflexive relation to their self-identity is made visible through their engagement with this social media. How such a new form of social media incorporates itself into everyday life but also how the media acts as an extension of the reflexive self has been the main focus of this study.