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Watson, Ashleigh. "Engaging Public Sociology, Fiction and the Sociological Imagination." Thesis, Griffith University, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/381012.
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This thesis explores public sociology, fiction writing and sociological imagination,
and presents a sociological fiction novel titled Into the Sea. Building from what Mills
(1959) calls the promise and cultural meaning of sociology, I address how and why
we might engage people in sociological imagination through fiction. I approach this
imagination as a lively activity in a creative (Beer, 2014: 12) and arty way (Back,
2012) that builds on contemporary approaches to public sociology (Burawoy, 2005).
Bringing together methods of autoethnography, literature analysis and arts-based
research fiction writing, using an innovative methodological approach that I term the
methods braiding technique, I explore how sociological fiction may contribute to the
task of ‘assist[ing] the influence of the sociological imagination in society’ (Furedi,
2009: 17). This involves a consideration of creative adaptations of the craft of
sociology (Mills, 1959), as well as broader challenges including the ‘deeply
antisociological’ ethos and governance regime of neoliberalism (Burawoy, 2005: 7)
which public sociology struggles against.
Into the Sea is an experiment in sociological imagination. The novel primarily
follows Taylor Brown, a twenty-six year old Australian woman, as she lives through
work, parties, her relationship, a funeral, a wedding, shopping, and family issues. The
fictional story line of Taylor’s everyday life is interweaved with national and
international events and issues from the year 2014. The chapters of the novel are not
thematically structured however key sociological concepts do orient and drive the
narrative. In the novel I explore various social processes and cultural tensions; rather
than present a sociological argument about disciplinary concepts, with the novel I aim
to float ideas about society and bring sociological imagination to life. With Taylor
Brown’s story I consider the promise and cultural meaning of sociology.
Through the novel I explore the everyday processes of relation that link
biographies and histories (Mills, 1959), as well as the neoliberal context within which
these relations are contemporarily lived through. To think through and challenge the
individualistic common sense of the neoliberal imaginary – which is problematic for
public sociology, considering that neoliberalism is ‘hostile to the very idea of
“society”’ (Burawoy, 2005: 7) – I turn to the relational and affect-centred work of
Benedict Spinoza (2005 [1677]). From Spinoza I draw conceptual tools for
considering the fundamental and constitutive meaning of ‘social embeddedness’ (Armstrong, 2009: 60), and for exploring the ‘possibilities for autonomy of an
individual conceived in a profoundly relational way’ (Armstrong, 2009: 45). I see that
these Spinozan concepts may enliven the activity of sociological imagination. To
ground and realise the promise of a Spinozist sociology, I consider the temporal and
spatial ways that moments and narratives are made meaningful; I focus my attention
on forms of Australian cultural meaning, to consider the value of exploring and
utilising such cultural meaning for doing affective public sociology that engages
people in sociological imagination.
This thesis makes two key contributions to sociology. The first is the novel
artefact, which operates as an affective form of public sociology that may engage
publics, and specifically a student-public, in sociological imagination. The second
contribution is the methodological process for doing arts-based public sociology with
which I developed and crafted my sociological fiction novel, which I have termed the
methods braiding technique. From my analysis I argue that the value of sociological
fiction lies in its ability to affectively affirm society. I argue that centring affect in the
project of public sociology is important for progressing conceptual and practical approaches to public engagement.<br>Thesis (PhD Doctorate)<br>Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)<br>School of Hum, Lang & Soc Sc<br>Arts, Education and Law<br>Full Text
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Robinson, Katherine. "An everyday public? : placing public libraries in London and Berlin." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2014. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/3090/.
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This thesis is a study of three public libraries, two in the Berlin district of Wedding, and one in Thornton Heath, south London. In these neighbourhoods with high levels of ethnic diversity, poverty and transience, the libraries offer a ‘window’ onto their localities, spaces in which local concerns, ideas and practices of contemporary multicultural urban life are played out. Through ethnographic fieldwork in two European cities, this thesis reflects on the particularity of the library as a local institution, and the ways in which larger political concerns emerge in these institutions. In interviews with library staff and in participatory work with library users, I trace how forms of social need and competency, questions of social difference and social justice, and pervasive concerns with demonstrations of value are spoken and unspoken in each site. In considering institutional narratives from library staff alongside the voices of library users, multiple interests and needs are made audible, and the library emerges as a space where expectations and priorities must be negotiated on a daily basis. The thesis explores the library as offering forms of public life and visibility to groups for whom ‘publicness’ is not a given: young children, older women, and teenagers. It argues for the library as an important interstitial space, a place ‘between’ the public life of the street and other forms of public participation, and as a site of social mediation. At the same time, it demonstrates the contingency of public space, the tensions around its use, and points where the library comes up against the limits of its institutional capacity. This thesis contributes to the sociology of public life, public space and public goods, exploring these issues through a highly visible yet under-researched institution, ‘placing’ this discussion within a nuanced account of the city neighbourhoods in which the research is located.
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Gurkan, Ceyhun. "Towards S Critical Sociology And Political Economy Of Public Finance." Phd thesis, METU, 2010. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12612630/index.pdf.
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The exploration of this thesis on public finance proceeds on two axes. First, it aims at developing an ontological perspective to public finance. Accordingly, public finance is defined to be the concrete political relation between the state and society. The thesis that presents a political and historical evaluation of public finance from a critical sociological and political economy approach associates the components of this definition such as public, the political etc. with the relevant debates in social and political theory. In line with this, the traditional harmony-perspective of neoclassical public finance theories, which is ignorant of the political, is criticized, calling it as &lsquo<br>police finance&rsquo<br>instead of &lsquo<br>public finance&rsquo<br>. Secondly, the thesis explores the history of fiscal thought between the 15th-19th centuries with special reference to the Ottoman Empire. All in all, with these topics this thesis aims at making a contribution to the field of &ldquo<br>fiscal sociology&rdquo<br>from a critical sociological and political economy approach.
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Dixon, Lindsey. "Public Trust in the Mass Media." TopSCHOLAR®, 2007. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/394.
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The purpose of this research is to determine whether the public has an elevated amount of trust in the industry of the mass media. The data for the research come from the 2005 Eurobarometer 64.2. The participants consist of the population of the respective countries of the European Union Member States. The participants are all more than 15 years of age. The results of this study show that certain groups of people have an elevated amount of trust in the media, but overall the dependent variables used explain little with regard to trust in the mass media.
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Phillips, Amy. "Framing the Public Library| The Public Perception of the Public Library in the Media." Dominican University, 2013.
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Seymour, Wendy, and mikewood@deakin edu au. "Remaking the body : Explorations in the sociology of embodiment." Deakin University, 1995. http://tux.lib.deakin.edu.au./adt-VDU/public/adt-VDU20050728.111439.
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As embodied social agents our lives are preoccupied with the production and reproduction of bodies. Making, unmaking and remaking our embodiment are ongoing activities. Eating, exercise, washing, grooming, dressing, for example, are activities in which the body engages in routine tasks of bodily management. Such activities can be seen as everyday rehabilitation.
The study explores the impact of major physical impairment on embodiment, and on the processes involved in re-embodiment after catastrophic injury or disease. The experiences of the people in this study dramatically highlight the continuous, but largely taken for granted processes involved in our embodiment.
Four analytical strands are interwoven throughout the study. The first strand relates to the frailty and vulnerability of the human body, characteristics which are epitomised by the bodies of the informants in this study. The second strand engages with key aspects of the context in which re-embodiment takes place, namely a context replete with crisis, danger, fear, uncertainty and risk. The third strand projects into the future in considering the ongoing project of self. The fourth strand addresses the institutional and social impediments which may confine vulnerable bodies and limit the exploration of more expansive bodies.
The study is situated within the general theoretical approach of the sociology of the body. While recognizing the powerful impact of social discourse in the production of bodies, the study focuses on the critical role of embodiment in the reconstitution of self. The people in this study have experienced profound bodily change, but although this damage has disrupted, it has not annihilated their embodied selves. The people still possess and occupy their bodies. It is the obduracy of embodiment which directs the processes involved in remaking the body.
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Barnes, Latarcia R. "Public opinions of the courts| Does mass media influence public opinion?" Thesis, Capella University, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3614483.
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<p> The general public knows very little about the criminal justice system overall, which can result in an assorted, often negative, opinions of the criminal justice system. The public's confidence in the criminal justice system is imperative to the operation of the criminal justice system. Our criminal justice system relies on the participation from the community in order to work. One speculation as to why the public has a less than favorable opinion of the criminal justice system is that the system is viewed a mystery. The public has no idea how each component of the criminal justice system works because the majority of the public has had no direct contact with the criminal justice system. Most information obtained about the criminal justice system, the public gathered from what they hear and see from the media or from other people. Using secondary data from a national survey, this dissertation analyzed mass media, specifically TV news, newspapers, and TV judge programs, to determine these variables have an influence on the relationship of the courts and public opinion in the United States. This dissertation can be viewed as ground zero in terms of how the media began to influence the public's opinion of the criminal justice system, especially the court component. For this study, a quantitative approach using a descriptive survey design was used. It was determined that the respondents were not as influenced by mass media as anticipated. The findings of this study were more consistent with the international literature than domestic literature on this topic. This dissertation offers a better understanding of the connection between mass media, even without the more modern aspects of the media such as the internet, and the public's views of the courts. This dissertation presents valuable information for satisfaction with the courts and attitude toward the courts that has not been seen in the current literature on this subject. In conclusion, recommendations were provided offered to further advance the research in this area.</p>
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Pal, Maia. "The politics of extraterritoriality : a historical sociology of public international law." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2013. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/45248/.
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This dissertation develops a historical and theoretical reconstruction of the category and praxis of extraterritoriality in the fields of International Relations and Public International Law. The analysis first addresses the dominant Neo-Liberal tradition and its focus on the concept of 'judicial globalisation', before engaging with critical and Marxist studies that rely on imperialism and capitalism as explanatory phenomena. In response, the thesis argues that extraterritoriality is a political process, covering a set of jurisdictional struggles determined by contested social property relations. As legal strategies of accumulation, these struggles can neither be explained by a chronologically and discursively progressive deterritorialising world order, through which they emerge as depoliticised events, nor by structural and functional theories of capitalist or Western imperialism that narrowly assume their logic and behaviour. This argument emerges from the analysis of three historical case studies: 16th to 17th century Spain, 17th to 18th century France, and 19th century Britain. Each case, set in its international context, evinces the role of specific intellectual debates, juridical institutions and legal strategies of accumulation in shaping contending extraterritorial regimes and legal world orders. Thereby, the thesis reformulates a Political Marxist approach as a historical sociology that places the actors and politics of international legal processes at the forefront of the history of Public International Law. This approach enables a non-determinist understanding of contemporary extraterritoriality. It dissociates its analysis from a naturalised history of judicial globalisation and from a monolithic history of capitalism, to resituate extraterritorial practices in a more open and contested field in between those of International Relations and Public International Law. In conclusion, examining the politics of extraterritoriality exposes Public International Law as a practical site of struggle between legal strategies of expansion, accumulation and resistance. This historical and theoretical reconstruction asserts the political legitimacy and agency of otherwise excluded legal actors and ideas, affected by and involved in the multiple transitions in the forms of sovereign jurisdiction and territorial control.
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Sin, Chih Hoong. "Ethnic residential segregation in Singapore's public housing." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.326831.
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Tufts, Jennifer. "Understanding public attitudes toward sentencing." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/MQ58517.pdf.
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Woolley, Richard. "Living uncertain lives : a study in the sociology of uncertainty /." View thesis, 2002. http://library.uws.edu.au/adt-NUWS/public/adt-NUWS20030721.144500/index.html.
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Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Western Sydney, 2002.<br>"Dissertation submitted in fulfillment of the requirements for the award of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, September 2002." Bibliography: p. 445 - 466.
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Pina, Almeida Jose Carlos. "Commemorations of Portugal : national identity and public celebration." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.369870.
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SHEK, King Fan Veronica. "Spousal abuse and social workers : when private sphere goes public." Digital Commons @ Lingnan University, 2011. https://commons.ln.edu.hk/soc_etd/4.
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This study uses the concept of public and private spheres to analyze how Hong Kong‘s social workers manage spousal abuse cases. Victims of spousal abuse in Hong Kong generally see their experiences as "family shame‖" something that belongs to the private domain - and are therefore reluctant to disclose them to third parties. However, there is a public conviction that social workers are appropriate agents to handle spousal abuses. This study examines the roles and responsibilities of social workers and their service recipients in spousal abuse cases. The analysis is based on eleven semi-structured, in-depth interviews conducted with social workers affiliated to local welfare agencies that handle spousal abuse.
I found that counseling services enable clients as well as professionals in spousal abuse cases to rethink their roles and responsibilities. Social workers tend to reaffirm the necessity and usefulness of their interventions, but often complain about the conflicting attitude of their clients who expect effective services but are reluctant to compromise. More importantly, whether clients will proactively seek public resources that will help their situation depends on, as explained by social workers, whether they can successfully enter the private domain of their recipients.
This finding echoes academic discourses on the private sphere. Individuals may set a soft, spongy, rigid or flexible boundary when communicating with external parties and their selection of such boundaries reveal their self-perception and their readiness to be empowered by service professionals during crisis situations. Strategic intervention from well-trained professionals may facilitate service recipients in spousal abuse cases to let down their self-imposed barriers.
These findings contribute to our understanding of two key issues in spousal abuse intervention in Hong Kong. Firstly, they explain clients' accusations of the 'unprofessional and useless services' provided by the social workers. Secondly, it brings in a valuable reference point for policy makers to re-examine the prevailing management of spousal abuse cases, and provides a platform for further academic debates on public and private boundaries.
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Delman, Aimee Bogdan Robert. "Self matters representations and displays of emotional suffering in public culture /." Related electronic resource: Current Research at SU : database of SU dissertations, recent titles available full text, 2004. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/syr/main.
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Coffey, Jacqueline M. ""Post-Racial" Yet Still Unequal: Educational Disparities in Ohio Public Schools." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1448888149.
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Baker, Joseph O., David Cañarte, and L. Edward Day. "Race, Xenophobia, and Punitiveness Among the American Public." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2018. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/5574.
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We outline four connections between xenophobia and punitiveness toward criminals in a national sample of Americans. First, among self-identified whites xenophobia is more predictive of punitiveness than specific forms of racial animus. Second, xenophobia and punitiveness are strongly connected among whites, but are only moderately and weakly related among black and Hispanic Americans, respectively. Third, among whites substantial proportions of the variance between sociodemographic, political, and religious predictors of punitiveness are mediated by levels of xenophobia. Finally, xenophobia is the strongest overall predictor of punitiveness among whites. Overall, xenophobia is an essential aspect of understanding public punitiveness, particularly among whites.
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Hayward, Claire Louise. "Representations of same-sex love in public history." Thesis, Kingston University, 2015. http://eprints.kingston.ac.uk/35048/.
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This thesis analyses the ways in which histories of same-sex love are presented to the public. It provides an original overview of the themes, strengths and limitations encountered in representations of same-sex love across multiple institutions and examples of public history. This thesis argues that positively, there have been many developments in archives, museums, historic houses, monuments and digital public history that make histories of same-sex love more accessible to the public, and that these forms of public history have evolved to be participatory and inclusive of margnialised communities and histories. It highlights ways that Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans*, Queer (LGBTQ) communities have contributed to public histories of same-sex love and thus argues that public history can play a significant role in the formation of personal and group identities. It also argues that despite this progression, there are many ways in which histories of same-sex love remain excluded from, or are represented with significant limitations, in public history. This thesis shows that the themes of balancing trauma and celebration, limited intersectionality, complex terminology, shared authority and the ghettoisation of same-sex love have emerged across a variety of public history types and institutions. It discusses examples of successful and limited representations of same-sex love in order to suggest ways that public history can move forward and better represent such histories.
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Anstee, Mark. "The relevance of Nietzsche : a Nietzschean critique of popular ideals in social theory and sociology /." [St. Lucia, Qld.], 2006. http://adt.library.uq.edu.au/public/adt-QU20060829.112541/index.html.
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Power, Dominic. "The alienation of the public in the City of London." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.243065.
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Montgomery, Heather Kate. "Public vice and private virtue : child prostitution in Pattaya, Thailand." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1996. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/271976.
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Picone, Simone. "Refugees and public health in the Cape Town area : treating the Other." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/14805.
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Includes bibliographical references (leaves 79-86).<br>The main focus of my thesis is the role and the faults of the welfare system in promoting public policies for the overall wellbeing of refugees in a South African global perspective; as indicator of such a system a study of the Health Sector has been carried out. The thesis takes into account the main sociological streams developed in migration studies (Karl Marx, Max Weber, Emile Durkheim, Georg Simmel, Robert Ezra Park) and it is focused on the analysis of the more recent pattern of multiculturalism and citizenship (Loren Landau, Alessandro Dal Lago, Francesco Remotti, Jonathan Crush, Francis B. Nyamnjoh, Jeremy Waldron, Etienne Balibar, Catherine Cross); the latter used as unit of analysis to understand the perverse mechanism of inclusion/exclusion from basic necessities, such as healthcare, for citizens and non-citizens.
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Lin, Pei-Ling. "Media representations and public attitudes towards nanotechnology in Taiwan." Thesis, University of Essex, 2018. http://repository.essex.ac.uk/22085/.
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In order to provide a comprehensive and clear investigation of media representation and public attitude toward Nanotechnology (Nano) in Taiwan, this thesis includes three studies. Study 1 investigates the media representation of Nano in Taiwan and the relationship among different Nano-based themes, frames, and media attitudes in the Taiwan. Study 2 is attempts to make salient the most visible actors of Nano-related news in the Taiwanese media discourse and how the relationship among main actors, framing effects, and media attitudes toward Nano Study 3 explores the overview of the Taiwanese public attitude toward Nano and how the Taiwanese public attitude toward Nano is influenced by framing effects and public confidence in news sources. In short, the results of the above studies showed that the Taiwanese media attitude and public attitude toward Nano are both overwhelmingly positive. The impression and role of Nano in the Taiwanese media has been shaped as an emerging scientific idol which not only benefits public daily life but also increases the national interest and competitiveness of Taiwan. This is of concern, since there is little evidence that the public understands the risks associated with Nano. This lackluster public and media-related risk awareness regarding Nano is exacerbated by a weak connection between the public and scientists. Nano has become a vital component of future science and technology development and a potential competitive economic benefit for Taiwan in the global economy. However, the importance and necessity of increased and enhanced science communication regarding Nano has not kept pace with public interest or commercial production of Nano-based products that are quickly becoming ubiquitous in Taiwanese society.
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Kolka, Alexandra. "The public sphere according to UK stem cell scientists." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2012. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/391/.
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In this thesis the concept of social representations is made relevant to the study of the ‘public sphere’ according to scientists. This is elaborated by the re-examination of the notion of a ‘consensual’ and a ‘reified universe’ substantiating a more sociopsychological approach in the study of relevant phenomena. Two processes generate social representations of the public: anchoring and objectification. The empirical study investigates the scientists’ views of the public sphere, in relation to public perceptions, media coverage and the regulation of cloning technology. Elite media coverage of the stem cell debate and conversations with stem cell scientists are systematically analysed with multiple methods. Findings are based on 461 news articles that appeared in Nature and Science between 1997 and 2005 and on interviews with 18 U.K based stem cell researchers conducted between February and October 2005. The analysis compares the debate before and after the ‘stem cell war’ of 2002, and typifies a high tension in representing the public sphere, elaborated in metaphors and prevailing arguments. Central elements of the representation assume a strong disassociation of science from the public sphere; peripheral elements operate with a degree of blurring of those same boundaries, which recognises a common project. This representation, while being expressive of its context of production, constitutes a functional response to it.
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Rosen, Eva. "The Rise of the Horizontal Ghetto: Poverty in a Post-public Housing Era." Thesis, Harvard University, 2014. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:11503.
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In the past two decades, changes in American housing policy have transformed the landscape of high-rise ghetto poverty. In its place, has emerged what I call the horizontal ghetto, where high-rise public housing has been demolished and poverty is turned on its side, spreading across the cityscape. Researchers are now beginning to document the reconcentration of voucher holders in moderately poor neighborhoods. This dissertation examines how residents come to live in this type of neighborhood, and how this new context shapes social organization for those who reside within it. I examine a case study neighborhood in Northwest Baltimore called Park Heights, in which I conducted 15 months of ethnographic fieldwork and 102 in-depth interviews. This neighborhood has a large population of working class black families who settled there in the late 1960's, a recent influx of voucher holders, and also a population of residentially unstable unassisted renters. I examine two complementary explanations for how and why voucher holders end up in neighborhoods like Park Heights. I propose that the landlord is an important piece of the puzzle; landlord practices sort the most disadvantaged voucher holders into some of the most disadvantaged neighborhoods, serving as a mechanism in the reproduction of spatial inequality and the concentration of poverty. I also consider how residents' experiences in contexts like Park Heights shape their decisions to remain in, and move to similar neighborhoods. Finally, I examine how the neighborhood context shapes social organization, and I argue that although poverty may be more moderate than in neighborhoods dominated by large-scale public housing, the horizontal context of instability and clustered voucher use may have deleterious consequences for social relations.<br>Sociology
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Chrysanthou, Marc. "Mapping health in a (post)modern landscape : fragments towards a sociology of public health." Thesis, University of Salford, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.365954.
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Fatsis, Lambros. "Making sociology public : a critical analysis of an old idea and a recent debate." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2014. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/51588/.
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The current thesis attempts to discuss, critique, and repair the idea of public sociology as a public discourse and a professional practice. Emerging in the writings of C W. Mills and Alvin Gouldner in the late 1950s and 1970s, “public sociology” was given its name in 1988 by Herbert J. Gans, before it was popularised by Michael Burawoy in 2004, reflecting a recurring desire to debate the discipline's public relevance, responsibility and accountability to its publics: academic and extra-academic alike. Resisting a trend in the relevant literature to treat the term as new, it is argued that the notion of making sociology “public” is as old as the discipline itself, suggesting that the recent public sociology debate does not describe a modern predicament, but an enduring characteristic of sociology's epistemic identity. A detailed critical review of recent controversies on public sociology is offered as a compass with which to navigate the terms and conditions of the term, as it has been espoused, critiqued and re-modelled to fit divergent aspirations about sociology's identity, status and function in academia and the public sphere. An invitation to understand the discipline beyond a language of crisis concludes the thesis, offering eleven counter-theses to M. Burawoy's approach that seek to reconstruct sociology's self-perception, while also suggesting ways of making it public in the context of intellectual life at the 21st century.
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Rawaf, Monirah. "Women in public administration in Saudia Arabia : the need for reform." Thesis, University of Bath, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.237258.
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Sinclair, Stephen P. "The ideology of entitlement : public opinion, social division and social security." Thesis, University of Kent, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.300943.
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Tai, Ching Ling. "Relocation and high-rise living : a study of Singapore's public housing." Thesis, University of Hull, 1986. http://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:14429.
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Public housing in Singapore is one of the most significant development programmes in the state. It has been centrally planned and implemented by the Government not only to tackle housing problems and rebuild the decaying inner city areas, but also to restructure Singapore society in terms of the visions of the power elite. This study attempts to examine the social and political implications of relocation and public housing in Singapore, and to analyse the difficulties faced by and the impact of relocation on individuals and families from the various constrasting groups of relocatees, with an emphasis on problems of economic hardship, adaptation to high-rise living, and neighbourliness in the public housing estates. To achieve this task, three types of material have been used, viz. official data, empirical material from previous studies, and empirical data and information collected during fieldwork. The fieldwork comprises a sample survey of 1,200 households and an in-depth study of 27 relocated families. The thesis consists of three parts. The first part reviews the literature on relocation and public housing and the conceptual framework employed in their study. The second part examines the policies underlying and the salient social and political aspects of relocation and public housing in Singapore. The final part analyses the data and information obtained from the sample survey and the in-depth study. The findings of the present study show that while the Singapore Government has made some impressive quantitative achievements of its public housing programme, some of its original objectives may never be fully achieved. Two of the eight hypotheses deduced from the assumptions and observations of the previous studies are refuted by data obtained from the present study. Five of them are however supported, and one is inconclusive. Some sensitive issues relating to public housing in Singapore, which have significant social and political effects and yet are usually avoided by most researchers, are also analysed and discussed in the light of their policy implications.
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Wheelock, Daniel. "Unremarkable and uncontroversial? : climate change actions in advertising and public discourse." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2018. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/111864/.
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Despite widespread public awareness, climate change remains a low priority compared to other public issues. This study’s starting point is the normative importance of public discourse about climate change in representing and legitimising public actions as responses to climate change. The study also explores public connection, how and to what extent the public engage with public discourse about climate change. The study has two main elements: (i) a discursive content analysis of 55 corporate, governmental and NGO websites, based on advertising, a widely consumed form of media discourse that has received relatively little attention in this context; and (ii) 23 semi-structured public interviews. A small number of individual domestic emissions reduction actions, often framed as unremarkable and uncontroversial, dominated the media sample, reflecting corporate communicators domination of this discourse. The same actions were integral to interviewees’ understanding of climate change, not due to acceptance of their efficacy, but a lack of awareness of alternative forms of action. Five linguistic repertoires used to frame these actions in the media sample are described in detail. Public connection to climate change reflected the strength of people’s wider public connection, both their talk about public issues and the quality and quantity of their news use. Overall, public connection to climate change was weak, reflecting low media coverage and norms of ‘climate silence’ in everyday life, resulting in a lack of opportunities for climate talk or deliberation about climate actions. The study identifies the need for both greater opportunities for public involvement in agenda setting, and more public interest content, in both the media and academia. These weaknesses of public connection to climate change reflect many wider concerns about public connection to democratic politics. The study highlights the crucial role that the construction of public opinion plays in legitimising both specific climate actions and a wider shift to a low-carbon society.
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Gray, Jane K. "The tearoom revisited : a study of impersonal homosexual encounters in a public setting /." The Ohio State University, 1988. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487596807820861.
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Sisneros, Chris. "Understanding Westerners' Relationship with Public Lands and Federal Land Managers Through Attachment to Public Lands." DigitalCommons@USU, 2015. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/4534.
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The vast swathes of public lands in the western U.S. have long been connected with both the culture and daily lives of the people that live near them. The purpose of this study is to understand the relationship that individuals have with public lands and how that relationship relates to their opinions about the federal agencies (specifically the Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management) that oversee those public lands. This is done through the use of the effective bond attachment to public lands, which is the degree to which individuals feel connected to public lands through both the opportunities they provide to enjoy their desired lifestyle, functional connections, and the ways in which personal identity is tied to those lands, emotional connections. Assessing this bond is done through analysis and interpretation of selected data from the 2007 Public Lands and Utah Communities survey, which looked at a variety of connections Utah residents have to the state’s many public lands. This study utilizes a novel statistical method known as the “inverted-R analysis,” which groups respondents based on answers to a variety of attitudinal measures, to develop three distinct typologies of attachment to public lands. Analysis of differences between the groups of respondents that expressed different types of attachment revealed no correlation between attachment to public lands and opinions about land managers. All respondents expressed generally negative sentiment towards both Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management land managers. However, respondents who expressed a stronger attachment to public lands also demonstrated higher levels of interaction with public lands. Additionally, functional and emotional connections to public lands were shown to operate as two separate parts of attachment to public lands. This reinforces the modeling of the conceptualization attachment to public lands after the related concept, place attachment. This study demonstrated both the strong connections individuals in Utah have with public lands and the strong opinions held about the agencies that manage those lands.
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Saleh, Suliman. "The role of public relations and public diplomacy in building Libyan relationships with Italy in the Gaddafi and post-Gaddafi era." Thesis, Northumbria University, 2017. http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/36290/.
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Relationships between Libya and Italy, both during and post Colonel Gaddafi’s rule, have witnessed many developments and changes, with the Italian colonialism of Libya from 1911 to 1942/1943 playing an important role in shaping those relationships. Thus, this thesis seeks to examine the roles of Public Relations (PR) and Public Diplomacy (PD) in building the Libyan-Italian relations. In order to explore those roles, the Grunig and Hunt’s (1984) Four PR Models, and the two International Models, have been applied. Furthermore, Relationship Management has been applied as a general theory of PR. For the purpose of this study, twenty Libyan and Italian diplomats, including Prime Ministers, Foreign Ministers and Ambassadors, were interviewed. Significant attention has been paid to the process of selecting the sample, where the method of purposive sampling has been selected as the most appropriate qualitative method for this study. Moreover, the thematic analysis technique has been applied in order to identify patterns and meaningful themes about the phenomenon under investigation. The results of this study reveal that PR and PD, as important communication tools, have played a significant role in building the Libyan-Italian relations. Furthermore, it has been made clear that the Libyan and Italian diplomats, had been aware of practising the original four models and the two international models. This study has also found evidence suggesting that these models could be applied to the field of PD. Furthermore, the two-way symmetrical model, the cultural interpreter model and the personal influence model are the most suitable models in building relationships between governments as they are considered to be the bridges that connect PR with PD in terms of theory and practice. Findings of this research have also shown that there are convergences between both fields, especially concerning their roles in building relationships; however, a difference between the fields does also exist.
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Haney, David Paul. "Democratic ideals, scientific identities, and the struggle for a public sociology in the United States, 1945-1962 /." Digital version accessible at:, 1998. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.
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Wolson, Rosemary A. "The evolving policy landscape for technology transfer from public research organisations in South Africa." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/3845.
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Morishita, Masaaki. "Empty museums : transculturation and the development of public art museums in Japan." Thesis, Open University, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.272957.
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Moran, James Joseph Jr. "The public realm : urban design within Suburbia." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/23140.
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Pereira, Ana Lúcia [UNESP]. "Famílias quilombolas: história, resistência e luta contra a vulnerabilidade social, insegurança alimentar e nutricional na Comunidade Mumbuca - Estado do Tocantins." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/106244.
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pereira_al_dr_arafcl.pdf: 1796366 bytes, checksum: 150d6f832bb26729e02d5ae71c78385a (MD5)<br>Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)<br>A pesquisa na Comunidade Mumbuca, situada na cidade de Mateiros no Estado do Tocantins tem como objetivo compreender a dinâmica das relações entre Estado (políticas públicas) e sociedade (Comunidade Mumbuca), no que se refere à identidade étnico-racial da comunidade, sua situação de vulnerabilidade social e insegurança alimentar e nutricional, bem como as políticas públicas desenvolvidas no período de 2003 a 2010. Verifica-se através da metodologia da pesquisa etnográfica, com a utilização dos instrumentos de coleta de dados baseados em entrevistas semiestruturadas, observação direta e formulário de investigação social que a comunidade habita esta localidade há mais de um século. Historicamente praticava uma economia de subsistência baseada na agricultura, na criação de animais e no extrativismo. O estudo verifica também que, no que se refere à insegurança alimentar e nutricional, a utilização da escala EBIA – Escala Brasileira de Insegurança Alimentar e Nutricional, permitiu averiguar o grau de insegurança alimentar leve, moderada e grave nos domicílios, atestando a não existência de um único domicílio em situação de segurança alimentar. As políticas públicas recentes, tais como a criação do Parque Estadual do Jalapão; o reconhecimento da comunidade como remanescente de quilombo e a potencialização da reorganização produtiva local em torno do capim dourado e do turismo vem impactando a cultura e organização da comunidade sem necessariamente melhorar a qualidade de vida da maioria desta população. A demora na titulação definitiva do território e a falta de equacionamento do conflito entre a área de preservação ambiental do Parque Estadual e da produção efetiva de alimentos das famílias, conforme a tradição e organização produtiva local têm agravado a situação de vulnerabilidade social dos moradores da comunidade<br>This research was made in Mumbuca Community, in the city of Mateiros in the State of Tocantins; we need to understand what the dynamics of relationships between state (public policy) and society (Mumbuca Community) in relation toethno-racial community, their situation social vulnerability and food insecurity and nutrition, as well as public policies developed in the period 2003 to 2010. It is through the methodology of ethnographic research with the use of instruments to collect some information based on semi-structured interviews, direct observation and form social research that the community this locality has a century more than. Historically practiced a subsistence economy based on agriculture, animal husbandry and harvesting.The study also notes that, in relation to food and nutrition insecurity, using the scale EBIA-Brazilian Scale of Food Insecurity and Nutrition, allowed to as certain the degree of food insecurity, moderate and severe inhouse holds, confirming the absence of in a singlehouseholdfood security situation. Recent publicpolicies, suchas the creation ofthe JalapãoState Park, the community's recognition as aremnant of Quilombo reorganization and enhancement of local production around the Capim Dourado and tourism is impacting the culture and organization of the community without necessarily improving the quality life of the majority of this population. The delay indefinitive titling of the territory and the lack of addressing the conflict between environmental preservation area of the State Park and the effective production of food by families, according to local tradition and organization of production have exacerbated the situation of socially vulnerable community residents
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Elliott-Brennan, Patrick. "Dumb questions - blustering hostility nature/nurture, the body and the sociology of child abuse /." View thesis, 2001. http://library.uws.edu.au/adt-NUWS/public/adt-NUWS20040730.151852/index.html.
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Randolph, Michelle. "African-American Women and Welfare: A Qualitative Study of African-American Women Receiving Public Assistance." TopSCHOLAR®, 2002. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/631.
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Using information obtained from interviews of a sample of fifteen African-American women from two counties in a border state, the overall perceptions of women receiving public assistance and the labels and stigmas (i.e., welfare checks, food stamps, and medical cards) associated with receiving public assistance were examined. Research findings indicate that there is stress associated with receiving public assistance, and the stigmas associated with public assistance influence people in the public domain to brand recipients socially. The findings from the interviews produced results indicating that the perceived differences and mistreatment felt by welfare recipients were, in part, the result of welfare stigma symbols (i.e., welfare check, food stamps, and medical card). The respondents felt that race exacerbated labeling and stigmatization.
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Woolley, Donald Patrick. "Perceptions of the Presidency: Civil Religion and the Public?s Assessment of Candidates and Incumbents." NCSU, 2004. http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/theses/available/etd-08292004-154503/.
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Robert Bellah introduced the concept of American civil religion more than thirty year ago. While interest has waxed and waned over time, there has been an increase in the level of attention paid to civil religion in the United States since the beginning of the 21st Century. Much of this interest has been rhetorical however, and very little actual research has taken place. This study examines the relationship between the civil religious beliefs of the American public and the public?s perception of the presidency. Randomly selected subjects from stratified samples in Raleigh, North Carolina were collected during two separate, yet similar, studies in 1984 and 1998. Data from then 1984 Reagan-Mondale presidential contest are used to examine presidential electoral preference for candidates who are seen as more civil religious. It is contended that the candidate who is seen as more civil religious will have an electoral advantage. Further data collected during the fall of 1998 are used to look at the relationship between civil religious beliefs and feelings of outrage or betrayal at the perceived actions of President Clinton leading to his impeachment trial are explored. In this case it is contended that the stronger a member of the public?s feelings of civil religiosity, the greater their feelings of outrage. It would appear from the results of these studies that the lens of civil religion is used by the public in their perception of the presidency. It would also appear that the traditional view of American civil religion has changed since Bellah?s original thesis. The implications of these findings, in terms of theory methodology and policy are discussed.
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Strommer, Bernice Helen. "Status attainment processes in the United States : analyses by gender, race, and public/private employment /." The Ohio State University, 1988. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487595712158414.
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Moskowitz, Adam N. "Economic, social and racial attitudes among the American mass public : implications for maintaining mass democracy /." The Ohio State University, 2001. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1488205318508206.
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YAO, Yechen. "Leisure and life satisfaction among Tai Chi and public square dance participants in Hong Kong." Digital Commons @ Lingnan University, 2015. https://commons.ln.edu.hk/soc_etd/38.
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Public Square Dance, or Guang Chang Wu (GCW) is a form of group dance that originated from Mainland China and has emerged gradually in Hong Kong. Like the more traditional Tai Chi, GCW is popular among the middle-aged and older adults, and is carried out in public spaces. However, the two activities seem to be treated quite differently by both government authorities and the general public. The study aims to compare the physiological, social and psychological benefits of the two forms of exercise. It also seeks to explore whether and how social determinants affect people’s choice to participate in either Tai Chi or GCW. 189 Tai Chi and 188 GCW participants were surveyed. Binary logistic regression, MANOVA and univariate ANOVA were used for data analysis. It is shown that age, gender, birthplace, employment, residence, as well as people’s leisure attitude, all influence the likelihood that someone participates in Tai Chi or GCW. On the other hand, the effects on well-being, social inclusion, social network and life satisfaction are similar between Tai Chi and GCW participants, though the two groups differ in terms of their opinions on leisure satisfaction and utilisation of public space. As GCW is largely an unsanctioned activity in Hong Kong, policy makers should acknowledge the advantages of GCW activity, and adopt measures that regulate GCW participation in Hong Kong. This is not only one of the early studies focused on the cultural differences between Mainland immigrants and natives in Hong Kong, it also has important implications for future research in leisure, gender, ageing and cultural studies.
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White, John Angus. "Legal Abortion: An Examination of Public Support from 1972 to 1988." W&M ScholarWorks, 1990. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539624402.
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Pollak, Michael. "Crime, public housing and social policy : a study of an inner city estate." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.297216.
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Al-Hedaithy, Mesaid Ibrahim. "Modernization and Islam in Saudi Arabia : a sociological study of 'public morality committees'." Thesis, Durham University, 1989. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/1018/.
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Nilsson, Jenny. "A Divided Role : - a qualitative study exploring how public library professionals are facing change within their profession." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-94740.
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Due to changes within the public library profession and a lack of previous research regarding its societal role, this essay explores this phenomenon. The objective of this empirical study is to explore the societal role of public library professionals in Canada through the analyzation of semi-structured interview transcripts and a guideline document for professionals. The results were analyzed and sensitized through the theoretical frameworks of Abbott’s professionalization theory (1988) and Bourdieu’s praxeology theory (1986; 1992). Through grounded theorization, the study found that the role of professionals has changed, and is changing, due to not only external but also internal factors in the form of a conflict. This conflict was conceptualized through sensitization of Bourdieu’s framework as challenging and enabling ideas of the doxa of the profession. This conceptualization was understood further through the lens of Abbott’s system of professions where claims of expertise, which is viewed as a crucial part of professionalization, was theorized as an important part of that conflict.
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Ross, Wanda. "The Westray Mine explosion: The production of a public inquiry." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/9299.
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The Westray Mine disaster, that occurred on May 9, 1992 in Pictou County, Nova Scotia led to the death of twenty-six miners and has been linked to gross corporate violations. A public inquiry into the Westray Mine explosion was called on May 15, 1992 by Nova Scotia premier Donald Cameron. In this thesis a qualitative discourse analysis is applied to the examination of the Westray Mine Inquiry Report, the seventy-four recommendations from the Inquiry and a sample of the Inquiry transcripts. This research includes the exploration of the key players, problematizations which emerged in the discourse, the formal and informal rules and the relationships of truth and power. There is also an analysis of several key themes, including: the nature of the Inquiry discourse, the Inquiry's conceptualization of risk and its construction of the distinction between the private and public sectors. The theoretical framework for this thesis was provided by literature on governmentality which I found particularly pertinent to the analysis of public inquiries. In this thesis, the governmentality framework was helpful in formulating research questions and an analytics of government approach provided useful research guidelines for my study. Public inquiries are also analyzed as an example of reflexive government since they react to governability problems by including the public and developing recommendations for changes in the governing style. The aim of this thesis is to examine how the Westray Mine Inquiry evolved as a form of governing. This is accomplished through an exploration of mechanisms, practices and discourses related to the production of the Inquiry. The thesis traces its frame of reference, formal and informal rules, power relations, hierarchies of knowledge, tactics, rules of inclusion and exclusion as well as the relationship between the Inquiry discourse and the final set of recommendations.
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Rosen, Jennifer Lindsay. "Attitudes towards gender roles in the public sphere: an individual and contextual analysis in 39 countries." The Ohio State University, 2002. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1407506456.
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