Dissertations / Theses: 'Self-in-society'

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Sagorje, Marina. "Self and society in Mary McCarthy's writing." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2015. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:8fd1de71-c10c-4341-8283-ccebfeebf2a7.

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My thesis analyses the oeuvre of the American writer Mary McCarthy (1912-1989), with the focus on the figure of the outsider looking in. McCarthy uses outsider figures in her texts as prisms through which distinctive historical moments as well as problems of gender, race and religion are studied against the backdrop of the changing climate of the American 'red' 1930s, the anxious '50s, and the late '60s torn by the Vietnam war. Examples of McCarthy's recurring protagonists are the New York Bohemian girl of the '30s in the predominantly male world marred by the Great Depression, the Jewish character stereotyped as the Other by the poorly hidden anti-Semitism of the American society of the early 1940s, and the orphan child exposed to adult cruelty, who finds her only solace in the Catholic religion. Their position of being outsiders who live in a society not their own by birthright, is shown to be crucial for their acquisition and knowledge of truth, and links insight to marginality, which is reinforced by McCarthy's technique of ironically detached observation, the 'cold eye' of her prose. McCarthy herself appears as an outsider character throughout her writing, both as the historical figure and as the protagonist of her autobiographies. Her self-image, shaped by her orphaned childhood and her youth as a Bohemian girl among leftist intellectuals, is subject to conflicting impulses of confession and concealment. McCarthy's wide use of autobiographical details in her fiction and elements of fiction in her autobiographies led most critics to study her work from a chiefly biographical point of view. My own approach to Mary McCarthy's writing takes their findings into consideration, and includes the analysis of the historical, political, and social contexts of McCarthy's texts, as well as the intertextual dialogue with a few select writings by McCarthy's contemporaries such as Philip Roth and Sylvia Plath.

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Tang, Chi Kin. "Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie and the self in consumer society." Thesis, University of Macau, 2010. http://umaclib3.umac.mo/record=b2456357.

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Khanlou, Nazilla. "Adolescent cultural identity and self-esteem in a multicultural society." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape8/PQDD_0030/NQ66214.pdf.

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Kelman, Kate. "Female 'self culture' in Edinburgh : the Ladies' Edinburgh Debating Society." Thesis, Queen Margaret University, 2002. https://eresearch.qmu.ac.uk/handle/20.500.12289/7335.

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The Ladies's Edinburgh Debating Society met on the first Saturday of each month between 1865-1936 to discuss the books they were reading and to debate prearranged issues. For the first fifteen years its members produced a magazine which carried fictive and general interest articles. This thesis will study the archive of the Society and the magazine that it produced to arrive at an understanding of the women's reading practices, their intellectual lives and their attitudes to the society in which they lived and how these experiences impacted upon them. At a time when women's societal role was limited and access to education was based on wealth or the philanthropy of others, these women were able (through their privileged place in the middle and upper classes) to construct their own canon of improving reading and to set guidelines for the education of others. Working against the hegemonic discourse of the time, yet seeking to exert some controlling influence over others, the women's attempts at self culture throw into rellief the context of their cultural experiences and the correlation between self improvement and women's emancipation. This thesis argues that prevailing ideas about Victorian women's existence in 'separate spheres' needs to be revised. It argues that the members of The Ladies' Edinburgh Debating Society make a move from the private to the public sphere through their utilisation of culture. Moreover, they are able to blend this notion of spheres to make society their concern through collective and individual action; improving themselves and the community in which they lived.

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Neal, Derek. "Meanings of masculinity in late medieval England : self, body and society." Thesis, McGill University, 2003. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=84534.

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Masculinity is a set of meanings, and also an aspect of male identity. Understanding masculinity in history, therefore, requires attention to culture and psychology. The concept of a "crisis of masculinity" cannot address these dimensions sufficiently and is of little use to the historian.
This analysis of evidence from late medieval England begins with the social world. Legal records show men defending, and therefore defining, masculine identity through interaction among male peers and with women. Defamation suits suggest a fifteenth-century identification of masculinity with "trueness": an uncomplicated, open honesty. A "true man," in late medieval England, was not just an honest man, but a real man.
Social masculinity constituted honest fairness, permitting stable social relations between men. Transparent honesty, good management of the household ("husbandry"), and self-command preserved males' social substance, their metaphoric embodiment represented tangibly by money and property. Lawsuits and personal letters show how masculine social identity took shape through competition and cooperation with other men. "Power," "dominance" and self-fulfilment were less important than sustaining this network of relations.
Men's relations with women are best understood within this homosocial dynamic. Men's adultery trespassed on other males' substance, while women's adultery indicated poor management of one's own. Sexual slander against men could injure their social identity, but was unlikely to demolish it, as it would for a woman. The celibate minority of men shared these concerns.
Medical texts, late medieval men's clothing, satirical poems, and courtesy texts prescribing self-control show that the male body provided important meanings (phallic and otherwise), through failure, inadequacy or excess as often as not. Sexual activity, and other uses of the body, might be managed differently as self-restraining or self-indulgent discourses of masculinity demanded.
A psychoanalytic reading of medieval romances reveals fantasized solutions to the problem of males' desire for feminine and masculine objects. Romance literature displays a narcissistic subjectivity created in defensive fantasies of disconnection. Such features derive from a culture demanding incessant social self-presentation of its men, which permitted very little in daily life to be kept from the scrutiny of others.

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Cockell, John G. "Managing Self Determination in Ethnic Conflict : International Society and Kosovo Crisis." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.498139.

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Aikins, Ama de-Graft. "Social representations of diabetes in Ghana : reconstructing self, society and culture." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2005. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/2905/.

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Diabetes is a significant cause of adult disability and death in Ghana. Current research leaves significant questions unanswered about the integrated ways in which psychological and socio-cultural factors mediate chronic illness experiences and practices. This thesis develops a social psychological approach to address conceptual gaps in the field and outline practical possibilities for improving diabetes care. It draws on and expands the conceptual framework of social representations theory by incorporating socio-cultural theories of emotions, phenomenological perspectives on chronic illness experience, and the social psychology of participation. Rural and urban accounts of health, illness and diabetes (experiences) were elicited through semi-structured individual and group interviews with 68 people with diabetes, 62 lay healthy individuals and 23 health professionals working in the biomedical, ethnomedical and faith healing spheres. Further, six-month ethnographies were carried out in the life-worlds of 3 people with diabetes and 11 significant others. Using Atlas-ti, a systematic analysis identified the nature and inter-relationship between (1) cognitive-emotional polyphasia - shared/contested thinking, feeling and embodied action on health, illness and diabetes; (2) biographical disruption - life changes caused by diabetes and inter-subjective meanings evoked; and (3) illness action - coping strategies and styles in response to biographical disruption. Three sets of social representations of diabetes were identified: (1) the social representation of diabetes as a life-changing or life-threatening disease which emerged at the level of self; (2) the social representation of diabetes as a 'sugar disease' which circulated in the public sphere and (3) the social representation of diabetes as a spiritual disease which drew on cultural thought and practice. Each had positive and negative consequences for illness action. Informed by the social psychology of participation, the thesis outlines possibilities for transforming negative dimensions of social representations as a basis for improving diabetes care.

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Penny, Richard. "Self-respect in the just society : a Rawlsian reconstruction and defence." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2015. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/389734/.

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This thesis is concerned with the status of the good of ‘self-respect’ within John Rawls’s account of the just society. Self-respect has a central place within Rawls’s theory of justice—and yet, as many recognise, Rawls’s discussion of this good is both fragmented and opaque. As such, very basic questions remain unanswered. What is the nature of this good? Precisely how does it relate to justice? And what moral implications follow from this for organising the basic structure of a just society? In the first part of this thesis I address these (and other) important questions. I begin by reconstructing a Rawlsian account of self-respect, so as to arbitrate between the multiple uses Rawls ascribes to the term. What emerges, I argue, is an account of self-respect which is not only more coherent than Rawls’s exposition may suggest, but one which has an interesting and sophisticated relationship to the account of justice which Rawls develops. I use this account to argue that considerations of self-respect act as a constraint upon the principles of justice Rawls sets out, and I set out what I take to be a covert distributive standard for this good. These findings not only shed light on the status of self-respect within Rawls’s work, but also on a number of theoretical debates over the kind of project in which Rawls was engaged. With this exegesis completed, the second part of the thesis asks what the implications are for three contemporary debates over the Rawlsian ‘legacy’. I first address G.A. Cohen’s ‘incentive-based’ critique of Rawls, and argue that the good of self-respect serves to deepen the thrust of this challenge. I then address recent accounts of ‘Market Democracy’ and argue that its proponents are wrong to argue self-respect can act as the bridge between Rawlsian and libertarian thought. Finally, I address the recent work done to expand upon the Rawlsian ideal of a ‘property-owning democracy’. I argue that—subject to some minor revisions—this interpretation comes closest to realising thevision that Rawls had for the status of self-respect in the just society.

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Marchi, Márcia Regina Eichholz. "The reconciliation between self and society in John Steinbeck's major novels." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UFSC, 2013. https://repositorio.ufsc.br/handle/123456789/106151.

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Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, 1981.
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Griffiths, Owen. "The reconstruction of self and society in early postwar Japan 1945-1949." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/NQ48640.pdf.

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Nagano, Ami. "Doing lone motherhood in Japan : the 'project of self' in a precariously transforming society." Thesis, Durham University, 2008. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/2239/.

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The thesis explores the position and situation of lone mothers in Japan via a multi-scalar analysis, involving the consideration of public policy discourses, street level state bureaucracy, and experiences of lone mothers. It offers a rich account of practices of lone motherhood and the Japanese state, changing state policies, and social and economic change in Japan. The study draws on the empirical work with lone mothers and frontline welfare workers in J^an, which is balanced with extensive theoretical reflections and critically reflexive analysis of pubic policy discourses. A feminist perspective informs and enriches the analysis throughout. The thesis unveils the 'minimalist state' of Japan that lingers behind the front-screen renewal efforts of the Japanese state that recently involved eye-catching calls for a 'gender-equal society' (Danjyo Kyodo Sankaku Shakai) and universalisation of welfare. On the cusp of precariously modernising Japan are the frontline welfare workers who both struggle to enact and refract progressive policies, and lone mothers who face scripted normality that is coined by a policy trend that emphasises "differences should make no difference" without matching structural redress. The thesis shows lone mothers are faced with both the traditional and detraditionalising pressures of 'doing the self - as a 'good mother' and gender norm deviator, that is, the stigmatised self, as well as a self that is a reflexive endeavour. The thesis presents an innovative geographical enquiry into problems of lone mothers in Japan. A variety of geographic accounts are signposted that could be developed to reflect the various intersecting scales and topics that unfold in the thesis.

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Clarke, Philippa J. "Well-being following stroke in later life, the interplay of self and society." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/NQ53666.pdf.

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PROCÓPIO, MURILO RAMALHO. "PRIVACY, ANONIMITY AND SELF-DETERMINATION: THE REGULATION OF POLITICAL PARTICIPATION IN SURVAILANCE SOCIETY." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2015. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=26703@1.

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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO
CONSELHO NACIONAL DE DESENVOLVIMENTO CIENTÍFICO E TECNOLÓGICO
Esta dissertação procura realizar uma investigação do fenômeno social de manifestações políticas individuais e coletivas exercidas de forma anônima sob a ótica do direito à privacidade, principalmente em razão da tendência proibitiva adotada pelos entes institucionais brasileiros nas oportunidades em que se manifestaram sobre o tema. Neste sentido, desenvolve-se uma pesquisa teórico-prescritiva, de método hipotético-dedutivo, cujo principal objetivo se refere à construção analítica de determinados conceitos relacionados à participação política democrática na atualidade, ao anonimato e à privacidade. Pretende-se, portanto, identificar e propor alguns princípios regulatórios do exercício da manifestação política anônima, de acordo com limites explorados no desenvolvimento da própria pesquisa. A construção destes princípios regulatórios, por sua vez, foi realizada a partir dois conjuntos conceituais principais. Primeiramente, foi utilizada a concepção de Michael Hardt e Antonio Negri a respeito de Multidão (2005), o sujeito político responsável por guiar as ações políticas atuais, bem como a descrição das manifestações em rede feita por Manuel Castells (2013). No que diz respeito aos contornos assumidos atualmente pelo direito à privacidade e sua relação com o anonimato das ações políticas, foi utilizada a noção de privacidade desenvolvida por Stefano Rodotà (2007, 2011). A partir destes dois eixos teóricos principais, identificamos que, nas diversas formas de atuação política contemporâneas, influenciadas, principalmente, pelo paradigma comunicacional das tecnologias digitais, o anonimato, além de característica essencial da comunicação e expressão em diversos casos, apresenta benefícios sociais que devem ser levados em consideração em qualquer proposta regulatória sobre o assunto.
The present dissertation intends to realize an investigation about the social phenomenon of individual and collective political actions conducted anonymously from the perspective of the right to privacy, especially because of the prohibitive trend adopted by Brazilian s institutional agents, in the opportunities they have spoken on the subject. In this sense, we develop a theoretical and prescriptive research, using the hypothetical-deductive method. Our main objective is the analytic construction of certain concepts related to democratic political participation today, to the anonymity and to privacy. It is intended, therefore, to identify and propose some regulatory principles of the exercise of anonymous political action, according to limits exploited in the development of the research. The construction of these regulatory principles, in turn, was made from two major conceptual perspectives. First, we used the concept of Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri about Multitude (2005) , the political entity responsible for guiding the current political actions, as well the description of events in network made by Manuel Castells (2013) . With regard to the contours currently assumed by the right to privacy and its relation to the anonymity of political actions, we used the privacy notion developed by Stefano Rodotà (2007, 2011). From these two main theoretical axes, we found that, in the various forms of contemporary political activity, mainly influenced by the communication paradigm of digital technologies, anonymity, as an essential feature of communication and expression in several cases, has already social benefits that should be considered in any regulatory proposal on the subject.

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Jakubowicz, Rosa. "Art, the self, and society : the human possibilities in John Dewey's Art as experience." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/MQ64160.pdf.

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Sasaki, Tomoyuki. "An army for the people the self-defense forces and society in postwar Japan /." Diss., [La Jolla] : University of California, San Diego, 2009. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3371708.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego, 2009.
Title from first page of PDF file (viewed September 17, 2009). Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 210-219).

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Kuwahara, Yukiko. "Social representations of self and society : a cross-cultural investigation in Britain and Japan." Thesis, University of Surrey, 2004. http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/2733/.

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The theory of Individualism and Collectivism (I -C) has been pervasively used in the cross-cultural investigation as a dimension, making a typology of culture. In this project, cross-cultural differences were investigated in how people talk about their society and how the meanings of self are constructed among British and Japanese nationals, from the perspective of Social Representation Theory (Moscovici, 1984, 1988, 1998, 2001). Moreover, how individualistic and collectivistic characteristics are reflected in such representations was investigated. The approach to identity, proposed by Chryssochoou (2003), which assumes a cyclical relationship among Self-knowledge, Self-claim and Recognition to construct the sense of self, was used to investigate social representation of identity. Three empirical studies were conducted in order to investigate representation of society and identity. The first study investigated the social context in which the meaning of self is constructed and the 'Self-knowledge'. A series of semi-structured interviews were performed with British and Japanese women in order to elicit the belief about the society and success. Data was analysed by Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (Smith, 1996), in order to understand participants' subjective experience of their society and success. The second study investigated the 'Self-claim' and the social norms reflected in the way people describe themselves in different contexts.Twenty Statement Test (Kuhn and McPartland, 1954) was used to elicit 10 self-expressions from 106 British and 151 Japanese women university students. Half of the participants were asked to present themselves to their close friends, and the others, to their co-workers. Self-expressions were categorised into I dioce ntric, Allocentric, and Group self-references (Bochner, 1994) and positive, negative and neutral self-evaluations (Watkins and Gerong, 1997) in order to identify I-e elements in their self-expressions and to study cross-cultural differences in Self-claims. The third study investigated social representation of a person and how people conventionally recognise other people among 169 British and 288 Japanese women university students. Participants were presented with 4 self-expressions of a hypothetical person. Self-expressions were manipulated by ldiocentric, Allocentric and Group self-references (Bochner, 1994) in order to elicit the representation of an 'individualistic' or a 'collectivistic' person. Participants were asked to make judgment about this person in a series of questions. The evaluation of the fictitious person was expected to reveal the social norm which regulated the wayan individualistic or a collectivistic person was accepted in British and Japanese societies. Results from three empirical studies showed consistent meanings given to society and self and cyclical relationships between Self-knowledge, Self-claim and Recognition to construct the sense of self. These studies also identified both individualistic and collectivistic properties in British and Japanese society to uniquely characterise their cultures. The findings from this thesis supported the importance of meanings given to the social world and the ability of SRT to advance the knowledge in the area of cross . cultural study.

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Han, Jina. "The roles of self and society in the relationship between physical health, self-perception of aging, and depressive symptoms in later life." The Ohio State University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1306851809.

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Schmidt-Ott, Anja C. "'Young love' : negotiations of the self and society in selected German novels of the 1930s." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.391063.

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Dahiya, Bharat. "Whither urban governance? : self-help civil society, political conflicts and environmental services in Chennai, India." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.620472.

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Studholme, Ashley. "Ecology, Society, and Self: Toward a Multi-Tiered Framework for Participatory Approaches in Knowledge Generation." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/23815.

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Participatory approaches in knowledge generation have become increasingly important in understanding our environments and integrating human and natural systems. Such approaches have been used to discover new species, address environmental injustices, and develop land management practices. However, frameworks and models used to explore participatory approaches tend to be oversimplified or focus on a specific component. Here, I present an integrated multi-tiered framework to gain insight into how project context and design interact to create outcomes that shape the socio-ecological system. The framework accounts for the nested scales, i.e. ecological, societal, and individual, of both the context and the outcomes. I then demonstrate the utility of the framework by applying it to two case studies in Ecuador: 1.) a climate change monitoring network and 2.) Andean bear para-biologists. Using this framework, it was evident that in both projects, gendered landscapes and how participants engaged were primary factors in shaping outcomes.

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Alomair, Miznah. "Collegiate Women in Saudi Arabia: Leading Collectively for the Development of Self, Others, and Society." Chapman University Digital Commons, 2018. https://digitalcommons.chapman.edu/ces_dissertations/18.

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This is a constructivist grounded theory study that explored and investigated the leadership understandings of collegiate women in Saudi Arabia’s private non-profit universities, the opportunities they have to develop leadership, and how and why they develop leadership. The researcher engaged in semi-structured interviews with 25 collegiate women who have experiences in student leadership in one or more cocurricular program at their respective university. The findings revealed that collegiate women: (a) have a collective sense of the importance in developing their leadership potential to better themselves, to better each other, and for the betterment of the Saudi Arabian society; (b) they are interested in and motivated to develop their leadership potential; (c) develop leadership in inconsistent and informal ways; and (d) understand leadership as a relational practice. This is an unprecedented study in the field of college student leadership development within the context of Saudi Arabia. The findings have a number of important implications for action and future research in Saudi Arabia, as well as in neighboring countries that share similar complexities pertaining to women’s role and status in society.

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Campbell, Neil. "The unfinished scream : the disintegration of the self and society in the works of Paul Bowles." Thesis, Aberystwyth University, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/2160/c9a5ff06-d237-4fb6-898e-5f0f494696c0.

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This thesis shows how Bowles's style and themes have developed from a number of sources, including Dada and Surrealism and Edgar Allan Poe, but moved beyond them to a writing which is unique and radical. The thesis traces the progress of Bowles's work from his examination of representative Western characters undergoing immensely testing journeys into their deepest selves, to his fascination with altered states of perception and Moroccan culture. It argues that Bowles has recognised a double division within humanity; from the natural world itself, and from a true and authentic relationship to our unconscious. As a result of this double division, the self and society which Bowles examines are distorted and corrupted. The thesis explores how Bowles has consistently worked to undermine the system of values and perceptions which permit such divisions to exist. In order to do this, he attacks the self, as the centre of our own importance within the world, and society, because it conditions us into an acceptance of values and ways of seeing life. Much of his fiction aims to disintegrate and destroy these two key areas in order that he might expose their failings and suggest alternative ways of existing. In particular, Bowles has grown more interested in preserving elements of Moroccan culture as remnants of a more open, less rational way of life. This thesis, therefore, examines the final balance between a destructive urge and a desparate need to preserve and learn from what remains when the distorted and corrupt has been stripped away.

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Weibels-Balthaus, Gregor. "The self in trouble: young adults in the urban consumer society of the 1980s in Janowitz, Ellis, and McInerney." [S.l. : s.n.], 2005. http://deposit.ddb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?idn=976449706.

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Keitner, ChimeÌ€ne Ilona Robbins. "Revolutionizing international society : the principle and practice of national self-determination in the French Revolution and beyond." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.342731.

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Eriksson, Lina. "Mind vs. Body and Society : Androgynous Self-Perception and Social Preconceptions of Gender in Virginia Woolf’s Orlando." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-31844.

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This essay argues that Virginia Woolf’s Orlando (1928) suggests that self-perception is not tied to sex and gender because of the difference in the protagonist’s perceptions of his/her gender and sex and the society’s perceptions of the protagonist’s gender and sex. In the essay, a distinction between the mind and the body of the protagonist is used to stress the difference between his/her self-perception and his/her biological sex. Furthermore, gender as a social construction is used as a third part in discussing self-perception, sex and identity. The essay discusses how Orlando does not change as a person even though the body and sex do, and how s/he has to conform to society’s gender norms in various ways. Finally, the essay shows how Orlando is not an exception since other characters’ gendered behavior is determined by society’s preconceptions as well. The essay concludes that society’s gender norms oppress people who live or want to live outside these norms.

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O'neill, Megan Elizabeth. "From Reflection to Reflexivity: Challenging Students' Conceptions of Writing, Self, and Society in the Community Writing Classroom." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/77360.

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This dissertation, "From Reflection to Reflexivity: Challenging Students' Conceptions of Writing, Self, and Society in the Community Writing Classroom," examines the disconnect that characterizes much of the discussion of reflective writing in community writing studies and argues for the potential of reflexivity as a concept to further develop the kinds of reflective writing assigned in community writing classrooms. Many practitioners and scholars view reflective writing as a potentially powerful tool that may help students learn challenging or abstract theories and practices from their own community writing experiences. With such potential, it can be disappointing when student reflective writing does not achieve teacher expectations of critical thinking and analysis, stopping before critical engagement and understanding is achieved. Instead, it often centers on students' personal feelings and motivations that shape or arise from their community experiences. This dissertation argues that one reason for such a disconnect between teacher expectations and actual student writing, comes from the word "reflection" itself. While a traditional understanding of reflective writing asks students to look back on their experiences, observations, feelings, and opinions, community writing teachers use the term "reflection" with qualifiers like "critical," "sustained," or "intellectually rich." In qualifying their expectations for reflective writing, teachers are in fact asking for something very different from reflection, namely, reflexivity. When reflexive thinking is presented to students as "qualified reflection" it loses the considerable theoretical grounding that makes it a particularly unique way of using experiences as the foundation for inquiry. Building on theories of epistemological reflexivity for researchers in the social sciences, this dissertation highlights the methodological reflexivity theorized and practiced by feminist researchers. Feminist reflexivity specifically affords researchers more nuanced ways of looking at issues of positionality, social transformation, and agency. Such strategies have the potential for moving student reflections from private writings toward writings that impact students' understandings of the rhetorical and theoretical issues that community writing hopes to illustrate. This combination of feminist reflexivity and community writing reflections can provide community writing theorists and practitioners with alternative ways to solve reflective writing's challenges.
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Turner, Carlton. "Overcoming self-negation : an examination of the relationship between Junkanoo and the Church in contemporary Bahamian society." Thesis, University of Gloucestershire, 2015. http://eprints.glos.ac.uk/3788/.

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Self-Negation as understood in this research project is the tendency for the African Caribbean people to belittle their African heritage and valorise their European one while being a product of both. This has led to deeply considered critical responses from Caribbean historians, literary and cultural icons, and revolutionary figures. However, this has not been adequately addressed within Caribbean theological reflection, particularly in the way that Self-Negation manifests in the relationship between the Church and African Caribbean indigenous cultural productions. Located in the field of Caribbean Theology, this research project explores and describes the complex relationship between the Church and Junkanoo in contemporary Bahamian society for the purpose of suggesting praxes for addressing Self-Negation. It employs an interdisciplinary Practical, Contextual approach to Theology using ethnographic methods such as interviews and observations to access and reflect on the inner experiences of Bahamians as they integrate or separate the two in every day life. The following conclusions are made as a result of the findings: firstly, the Junkanoo/Church relationship is complex and self-negating; it is marked by dichotomy, ambivalence, and dissonance in identity. Secondly, both the Church and Junkanoo contribute to Self-Negation, but can, and do, also contribute to Overcoming, the opposite process. While the former is perpetuated by a hermeneutic of dichotomy, which continually sees Church and Junkanoo as incompatible, the latter is perpetuated by a hermeneutic of embrace, which sees them as already integrated, mutually critical and creative spaces in which African Bahamian religiocultural identity is affirmed. Thirdly, theologically reflecting on the problematic concept of sin at the heart of the Junkanoo/Church relationship, namely the conflation of African religious and cultural heritage with sinfulness, the research argues for a hermeneutic of embrace to undergird integrative practices between Junkanoo and the Church.

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Yirmibesoglu, Gozde. "Trade Unionism In Turkey: The Self-understanding Of Turk-is And Its Role In Society And Politics (1950-1982)." Phd thesis, METU, 2007. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12608291/index.pdf.

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The arguments concerning the trade unionism and working class movement in Turkey as well as the largest confederation, Tü
rk-iS, in relation to the involvement in the political arena is debated in this thesis by underlining the lack of class identity among the workers. The main argument is that Tü
rk-iS was not established by the will and efforts of the workers. Another major discussion point of the thesis is the nonpartisanship policy of Tü
rk-iS. It has been found that Tü
rk-iS participated quite actively in the political sphere until the 1980 military intervention. However, the limits of this participation were widely drawn by the major political parties of the country. The thesis defends that there are problems stemming from the lack of class consciousness among the Tü
rk-iS workers, the hierarchal structure of Tü
rk-iS and the profit oriented approaches of the political parties towards Tü
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Evans, Simon. "Virtual selves in virtual worlds : towards the development of a social psychological understanding of the self in contemporary society." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2015. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/3229/.

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Digital technology has given opportunities for multiple experiences of Self in contemporary society. Implications for this “Virtual Self” were investigated using “Second Life”, a digital virtual world with an avatar population of 42 million. The research spanned a period of almost 5 years, adopting a digital ethnographic approach, emphasising the virtual world user perspective, and adapting conventional research procedures. It employed frameworks that emphasise the individual in context, such as Symbolic Interaction and Activity Theory, and investigated five aspects of the Virtual Self: representation, activity, processes, the intersection of social worlds, and trajectory. 64 participants were followed, some over the whole period, yielding 150 hours of interview data across five sets and a total of 92 procedures. Individual interviews and group discussions were held within a purpose-built virtual research centre, while Subjective Evidence-Based Ethnographic procedures were conducted in the physical world to directly access participants’ experiences. All research was informed by participant observation in Second Life, with inductive Thematic Analyses used to reveal findings. There are five main results. First, Virtual Self representation can be characterised as a succession of milestones: “name and avatar choice”, “profile construction”, “recording”, “refinement”, “avatar change”, “begin again”, and “stability”. Second, a “Player Taxonomy” has been constructed defining users as members of at least one of the following categories: Extensionist, Experimenter, Gamer, Resource User, Alternative Seeker, and Cynic. Third, a Virtual Self Processes Model has been constructed, illustrating how Virtual Self experience is contingent on Self-virtual world reflection, and Self-Other/ Self-virtual world/ virtual-physical world interactions. Fourth, Virtual Self experience is contingent on the mediation of technology in a corelationship between the physical and virtual realms. Finally, a Matrix of Player Timelines has been constructed, which indicates how the Virtual Self emerges from multiple trajectories relating to experience of the virtual world and Self, relationships and interactions with others, and the virtual world in context. Overall, despite the potential for multiple Selves and experiences through digital media, the contemporary individual actively integrates virtual and physical experiences using multiple identities, from which emerges a Self that for them is unified and coherent.

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Shimamura-Willcocks, Yuka. "Social inclusion and museums : understanding 'self' and 'other' in the context of Japanese society and visually impaired people." Thesis, University of Leicester, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/10301.

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This thesis explores museums’ social role in supporting an inclusive society, the nature of ‘difference’ and relationships between ‘self’ and ‘other’ in the context of Japanese society and disabled people. My research question is: can museums and galleries contribute to the creation of an inclusive society, enhancing the understanding of difference as well as of self and other? In particular, it considers the relationship between disabled people and non-disabled people with a special interest in visually impaired people. My thesis’s objectives are to think disability sociologically, to investigate the mechanism of exclusion and to develop socio-cultural learning in museums as an inclusion practice. The methodology of this thesis is Symbolic Interactionism. Fieldwork was conducted in Japan examining attitudes towards people with ‘difference’. Qualitative fieldwork research was conducted combining two methods: a ‘single-designs’ case study and a questionnaire given to participants at gallery workshops, in which sighted and visually impaired people viewed artworks together. Collected data was analysed with theories of communication, Symbolic Interactionism and socio-cultural learning. The preliminary fieldwork was conducted using the method of semi-structured interviews with key people working in art museums and art organisations (including blind people) aiming to increase knowledge about Japanese museums and disabled (visually impaired) users. Fieldwork results indicated that participants learned ‘we are all the same and different’, and demonstrated changes to their attitude. This thesis contributes to the development of a discourse about disability, exclusion/inclusion, museum and ‘self’ and ‘other’. It brings content from Museum Studies, Disability Studies and Sociology together in the museum and disability contexts. The broad aim of my thesis is to contribute to an improvement in social well-being, understanding, and celebration of difference.

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Bommersbach, Marjorie Lynn. "Voice and self in adolescence: Exploring relationships among voice, self and friendship." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1998. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1830.

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Winn, M. V. "Gender in modern British society : self perceptions of women as wives and mothers with special reference to battered women." Thesis, Keele University, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.293527.

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Cashman, Nicky. "Subjectivity and society : mid-twentieth-century reconfigurations of the self, family and community in African American literature, 1940-1970." Thesis, Aberystwyth University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2160/0ae1f26a-b923-48d9-a59b-b3fe1a21c3a4.

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The primary historical focus of this thesis falls in the years between 1940 and 1970. My main area of interest lies in the individual subject and how that child, adolescent or adult functions in particular situations and most importantly, how my chosen African American writers have portrayed their male and female protagonists in various environments and circumstances. Each of the seven chapters of this thesis covers specific experiences: an emotional journey toward one‘s sexual orientation; a trans-national urban experience of homosexuality; 1950s suburbia and the socio-cultural issue of interracial relationships; historical and legal concepts of interraciality; rural poverty and childhood trauma; communal responsibility and child abuse; and maturation and intergenerational relationships. An emphasis upon family, community and environment are threads that run throughout the thesis. Accordingly, social, political and legal histories are engaged, as are environmental studies. Furthermore, queer, black feminist, trauma and gender theories are utilised along with sociological studies, child development and psychology. This research has enabled my close textual examination of each narrative so as to ascertain how each writer deals with the relationship between subject and society, thus, I argue how they offer differing viewpoints than the ones we find presented by traditional theories and criticism that predominantly comprise issues of race. Finally, the aim of this thesis is to propose alternative avenues of critical inquiry regarding the treatment of child development and individual trauma through individual readings of these mid-twentieth-century examples of autobiography, drama and novel.

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Barteet, C. Cody. "Colonial contradictions in the Casa de Montejo in Mérida, Yucatan Space, society, and self-representation at the edge of viceregal Mexico /." Diss., Online access via UMI:, 2007.

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Gunnarsson, Malin. "Self-care and injury prevention in the Swedish welfare society : An anthropological study on how physical activity and cardio exercise are used to self-care both physically and mentally." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för kulturantropologi och etnologi, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-332239.

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The broader aim of this essay is twofold: Firstly, I study what motivate people to engage in physical activities, particularly walking or running. Secondly, I contextualize the experiences and understanding in relation to governmentality and technology. I pay particular attention to perceived benefits of physical activities and cardio exercises, both physical and mental benefits, which include feelings, motivations and experiences. The essay focuses on the perceived benefits of physical activities, which is deeply tied to health and self-governing. Therefore, this essay examines how physical activities is viewed as good for people’s health, how it is motivated by pain and illness, monitored by self-govern and technology, and desired for its ability to maintain capability and freedom. In order to analyze perceived benefits of physical activities, this study draws from several theoretical orientations of governmentality, concept of illness, embodiment, place, mobility and freedom. I have used medical anthropology, public health studies as well as historical studies of sport and exercises to contextualize physical activities. As method I have drawn mostly from interviews with the participants in the study and some observations of the environment. Besides that, I have used my own senses to experiences walking in different areas. Furthermore, I have analyzed written material from the public health agency and the ministry of health and social affairs in Sweden, health organizations and newspapers.

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Smolen, Carol Tueting. "Reconciliation of the Prostitute, Anchoress, and Wandering Shepherd: Coming to Terms with Self, Society, and the Divine in Thirteenth Century Iberia." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2017. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/446331.

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This doctoral dissertation examines the manifestation of Christian reconciliation in three thirteenth century literary works from the Iberian Peninsula and the island of Mallorca, then part of the Crown of Aragon. This study discusses interpretations of the term “reconciliation” and applies the term to each work with regard to three aspects: reconciliation of self with self, of self with society, and of self with the divine. Chapter 1 discusses the various connotations of the term “reconciliation.” It outlines reconciliation as a synonym of penance, as in the four-steps in the Catholic Sacrament of Penance, now referred to as the Sacrament of Reconciliation. It also discusses the related Pauline concept of reconciliation and Paul’s possible sources. Chapter 2 will analyze these three aspects of reconciliation in an anonymous thirteenth century Castilian work in verse: La Vida de Santa María Egipciaca, or the Life of Santa María, the Egyptian. The prepubescent Alexandrian prostitute has an epiphany outside a church in Jerusalem, realizes the error of her ways, repents at the moment of intersection between human activity and divine intervention, and changes how she views herself, interacts with society, and regards the connection between earthly life and divinity. Chapter 3 takes a look at Gonzalo de Berceo’s cuaderna vía poem, written in Castilian about 1250 , Vida de Santa Oria, the Life of Saint Oria, through the same three lenses of reconciliation. This time the female figure is the Egyptian’s polar opposite. Oria is a young anchoress who has behaved in a saintly way mortifying the flesh since childhood. It might seem that in her case there is no need of reconciliation with herself because her virtue exceeds that of the majority of humans around her. I posit that, even in her case, there is room for acceptance of inner conflict. In addition, Oria reconciles herself to society (which admires her but tries to pull her back toward Earth against her will) and to the divine (which promises she will receive what she most desires when God deems it time). Chapter 4 studies the Romanç d’Evast e Blaquerna, a prose work in Catalan which dates from 1283-85. This early text provides an opportunity to analyze not only the protagonist’s reconciliation with self, society, and the divine but also that of an array of fictional characters including family members, his potential fiancée and the many people he meets along his journey to become a hermit. Finally, the Epilogue suggests that the idealistic notion of reconciliation has already been put to practical use in modern times in large-scale conflicts within and across borders. Coming to terms and living peaceably with differences, even grave ones, was accomplished at moments in Medieval Iberia among the three monotheistic religions: Christianity, Judaism, and Islam, and hope remains that such moments of peace will extend beyond borders and be found again today.
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O'Brien, Lauren Leigh. "Self, family and society in Nadine Gordimer's Burger's Daughter, Rachel Zadok's Gem Squash Tokoloshe, and Doris Lessings's The Grass is Singing." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006771.

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This dissertation examines Nadine Gordimer’s Burger’s Daughter, Rachel Zadok’s Gem Squash Tokoloshe, and Doris Lessing’s The Grass is Singing. It focuses on the development of each of the protagonists’ identities in three realms: the individual, the familial and the societal. Additionally, it is concerned with the specific socio-political contexts in which the novels are set. It employs psychoanalytic and historical materialist frameworks in order to engage with the disparate areas of identity with which it is concerned. The introduction establishes the analytical perspective of the dissertation and explores the network of theoretical frames on which the dissertation relies. Additionally, it contextualises each of the novels, within their historical contexts, as well as in relation to the theory. The first chapter examines Nadine Gordimer’s Burger’s Daughter. It focuses on the protagonist’s assertion of an identity independent of her father’s role as a political activist, and her eventual acceptance of the universal difficulty in negotiating a life which is both private and political. The second chapter, on Rachel Zadok’s Gem Squash Tokoloshe, examines the relationship between the protagonist’s traumatic experiences as a child and her inability to assert an identity as an adult. The similarities between the protagonist’s attempts to address her traumas and thereby create herself anew and South Africa’s employment of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission as a means to acknowledge and engage with its traumatic history is of import. The third chapter which deals with Doris Lessing’s The Grass is Singing traces the life of its protagonist, whose identifications remain childish as a result of having witnessed her parents’ difficult relationship. Her understanding of the world is informed by a rigid, binary understanding, which is ultimately disrupted by her relationship with a black employee. She is incapable of readjusting her frame of reference, however, and ultimately goes mad. I conclude that, while my focus has been on personal, familial and social identifications, the standard terms in which identity is examined, namely, race, class, and gender, are present in each of the three tiers of identity with which I have been concerned.

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Chadderton, Helena Louise. "Marie Darrieussecq's textual worlds : an analysis of self, society and language in 'Bref sejour chez les vivants', 'Le bebe' and 'Le pays'." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.547955.

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Graham, Sarah. "Retirement: self-esteem and leisure lifestyles." Lincoln University, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/10182/859.

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The objective of this study is to examine the relationship between participation in leisure activities and the self-esteem and life satisfaction of retired New Zealanders. A mail questionnaire and interviews were used to gather information from 100 retirees in Christchurch, New Zealand. The issues examined were: the individual's perceived self-esteem and life-satisfaction levels, their pre- and post-retirement leisure activities and their own personal characteristics that may be related to the types of leisure activities in which they participate. A number of hypotheses were proposed. Results from this research supported the proposed hypotheses at a 95% confidence level. There were no significant differences between catagories of retirees, classified according to such things as their leisure activities, life satisfaction and self-esteem. Results showed that although there was no relationship at such a high confidence level, there were relationships at a lower confidence level. Those retirees who participated in the questionnaire and interviews appeared to be well adjusted to retirement, and involved in a wide range of leisure activities. Overall, there was an increase in the number of activities regularly participated in after retirement. The majority rated themselves as being in very good or excellent health. Not only do those who are married and live with others participate in all types of activities, but so do those who are widowed, never married and live alone. For those who live alone, their leisure participation provides the opportunity for social interaction and skill development. "Just as the ancient Greeks believed the life of leisure required extensive preparation, so too does retirement" (Godby, 1985:179). My research suggests that those with a wide range of recreation and leisure skills adapt best to retirement. There is a need for leisure activity to be a part of pre-retirement planning. Those with limited leisure interests may need to rekindle old interests or develop new leisure pursuits so that, in retirement, they will enjoy some continuity of lifestyle.

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Stoianova, Christina. "The Eastern European crisis of self-knowledge (1948-1989) : the relationship between state and society as reflected in Eastern European film : a genre approach." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape10/PQDD_0021/NQ47691.pdf.

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Castro, Christina. "The relationship between perception of child-rearing and self-esteem and its effect on perceived and actual scholastic competence in children." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1992. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/526.

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Elementary-school children (4th-6th grades)--Perceived parenting methods and scholastic achievement--Harter's Self-Perception Profile--Parent-Child Relationship Questionnaire--Gender and ethnicity factors.

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Thunander, Pia, and Manjula Anbratt. "Samband mellan upplevd stress och självtillit på arbetsplatsen : En studie utförd på kvinnor i arbetsrelaterade situationer." Thesis, Swedish School of Sport and Health Sciences, GIH, Department of Sport and Health Sciences, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:gih:diva-412.

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Syftet med denna studie var att söka samband mellan upplevd stress och självtillit hos kvinnor i arbetsrelaterade situationer. Frågeställning: Finns det ett samband mellan upplevd stress och självtillit hos kvinnor i arbetsrelaterade situationer? Vår hypotes var att det finns ett samband mellan en kvinnas upplevda stress och självtillit i arbetsrelaterade situationer.

För vår undersökning krävdes att vi kan mäta två variabler; stressnivå och självtillit hos en individ. Vi har genomfört en kvantitativ studie där vi har använt oss av en webbaserad enkät. Vi har valt att studera yrkesverksamma kvinnor och har tillfrågat 100 kvinnor som alla har någon form av relation till oss. 62 % av kvinnorna svarade på enkäten vilket gav oss ett externt bortfall på 38 %. Det interna bortfallet eliminerade vi genom att utforma enkäten så att deltagarna antingen svarade på alla frågor eller ej registrerades.

Våra resultat valde vi att sammanställa i Excel och statistikprogrammet SPSS. Vi fick fram en korrelationskoefficient på -0,326 med en signifikansnivå på 0,010. Detta visar att korrelationen var svag men signifikant och att det fanns ett statistiskt säkerställt negativt samband mellan upplevd stress och självtillit. 60 % av kvinnorna som deltog i studien upplevde sitt arbete stressande ofta eller alltid och 90 % av studiedeltagarna upplevde att de ibland hade för mycket att göra på sitt arbete. 52 % av kvinnorna kände att de ofta eller alltid fick det stöd de behövde för att klara sina arbetsuppgifter. 50 % uppgav att de alltid eller ofta hade tillräckligt med tid att koppla av medan 29 % kände att de ibland hade tillräckligt med tid att koppla av.

Vi kan konstatera att det finns ett troligt samband mellan upplevd stress och självtillit hos kvinnor i arbetsrelaterade situationer då både tidigare forskning och vår undersökning tyder på detta förhållande. I vår studie hade studiedeltagarna generellt en hög självtillit och en relativt låg upplevd stressnivå. Den stress som deltagarna upplevde verkar kompenseras genom upplevelsen av kontroll över sitt arbete och möjligheten till återhämtning. Vi kan således konstatera att det kan vara positivt för en arbetsgivare att främja balans mellan medarbetarnas krav och kontroll.

I framtiden kan det vara av intresse att studera orsakssambandet mellan de undersökta faktorerna då det i vår studie inte var möjligt.

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The aim of this study was to find out whether there is a correlation between experienced strain and self-efficacy for women in work related situations. Question at issue: Is there a correlation between experienced strain and self-efficacy for women in workrelated situations?

To make the wanted comparison we had to be able to measure two variables; ones experienced strain level and the extent of self-efficacy. We have carried out a quantitative study by using a questionnaire. The population for the study consisted of 100 women in work related situations. 62 % decided to participate which gave us an external loss of 38 %. We were able to eliminate the internal loss by designing the questionnaire so that the participants either answered all the questions or where not registered.

We have compiled the result of the study in Excel and in the statistics program SPSS. That gave us the correlation coefficient -0,326 at a signification level of 0,010. This shows that the correlation was weak but significant and that the relation between strain and self-efficacy was negative. 60 % of the women in the study found their work to be stressful often or always and 90 % of the participants in the study found that they sometimes had too much to do at work. 52 % of the women found that they often or always received the support they needed to manage their work. 50 % stated that they always or often had time to relax whereas 29 % felt that they sometimes had time to relax.

We can establish that there is a possible correlation between strain and self-efficacy for women in work related situations. Both prior research and our study showed this relationship.

In our study the participants generally showed high levels of self-efficacy and relatively low levels of strain. The strain that the participants were experiencing seems to be compensated by high levels of control of their work situation and the possibility of recovery. Thus it may be positive for an employer to promote a balance between demands and control.

Further ahead it may be of interest to study the relation of cause between strain and self-efficacy as this was not possible in our study.

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Vandenboom, Deborah Ann. "Family mealtimes: Topics associated with the adolescent's academic standing and self-esteem." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2002. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2099.

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The purpose of this study is to investigate family mealtime dynamics from the adolescent's perspective and explore what topics are discussed compared to what topics they would like to discuss, and to examine the association among mealtimes and the adolescent's academic status and self-esteem.

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Short, Timothy Wayne. "Effects of acculurative stress and coping on academic self-concept in minority children." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2000. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1700.

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Sullivan, Martin Joseph. "Paraplegic Bodies: Self and Society." Thesis, University of Auckland, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/2292/1917.

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In this dissertation it is argued that humans constitute themselves as subjects in a complex of interrelationships between body, self, and society, The effects of these interrelationships are examined through the ways in which traumatic paraplegics constitute themselves as subjects following their accidents. Subsequent to paralysis there is a radical break in how paraplegics experience their bodies, in what they are physically able to do, and in the ways in which their bodies are interpreted socially, assigned meanings, and allocated space in which to do and be. Experiential accounts of paraplegia are presented as a means to exploring the implications of these changes in the ways paraplegics constitute themselves as subjects.

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Britz, Etienne Francois. "Emergence in the self-organizing city : a mult-functional intervention." Pretoria : [s.n.], 2007. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-11162007-152819.

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Rackham, Erin L. "Understanding Relapse in Self-Perceived Problematic Pornography Users." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2020. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/8655.

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This study explored reasons for relapse among a sample of 938 self-identified problematic pornography users. A combination of numeric content analysis and qualitative coding of responses to an open-ended question about pornography relapse revealed six main categories of reasons for relapse. The mental, emotional, and relational categories were then analyzed in detail, and this analysis revealed significant overlap of responses from the emotional and relational categories. Hence, a new category of relational-emotional reasons for relapse was created and analyzed. The findings from this study highlight the complex interactions of different types of factors driving relapse in self-perceived problematic pornography users and future research and clinical applications are discussed.

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Vogt, Jason. "Investigating the Social-Ecological Resilience of Water Management Practices within Ethnic Minority Hill Tribes of Northern Thailand." Thesis, Linköping University, The Tema Institute, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-9465.

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Resilience is an essential and highly desired characteristic of a social-ecological system’s ability to adapt and adjust to various stresses and shocks that cause disruption. As social and ecological systems are intertwined and continually experiencing changes and disturbances, a major challenge appears revolving around the ways in which this resilience can be built and investigated. Social-ecological resilience can be defined as the amount of stress or disturbance that a particular system can tolerate, while still maintaining the same functions and identity. This paper uses social-ecological resilience concepts as a research framework, and examines three main themes that allow for the building of water management resilience to occur. These themes include learning to live with change, nurturing the ability to adapt/adjust to changes, and also on creating opportunities for self-organization. Two ethnic minority villages in Northern Thailand were chosen as research sites, in which the village water management practices were studied within a specific time period. Varying degrees of quantity and quality water issues within both villages have brought about stress and disturbances within their water management practices and increased the need to deal with these problems. Research was conducted at a community scale and resilience analysis pertains only to this specific level. Through the utilization of focus groups and interviews, qualitative data was collected and analyzed within a SE resilience context. This paper sets out to explore how social-ecological resilience has been built or not, and to what degree this has occurred within these two villages water management practices. The analysis indicates how complex and interconnected the social and ecological systems are and how the water management practices of these two communities play a role in this complex, dynamic process. Conclusions drawn are not limited to these two communities, but can be applied to the wider Northern Thailand region.

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Fleming, Elizabeth Ann. "Exploring the influence of culture on diabetes self-management : perspectives of Gujarati Muslim men." Thesis, University of Central Lancashire, 2005. http://clok.uclan.ac.uk/21828/.

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In this qualitative study I sought to explore the influence that culture has on diabetes (type 2) self-management for Gujarati Muslim men. In particular, I aimed to develop a theoretical understanding of this influence. I used an interpretive approach, which involved combining ethnographic and phenomenological methodologies. Interview and participant observation methods were used to capture data about the lived experiences of diabetes self-management, for a small number of Gujarati Muslim men. These accounts, along with further narrative data from significant others, were thematically analysed over several cycles. The cyclical nature of analysis enabled me to gain deeper and more meaningful insights into the influence that culture has on diabetes self-management. Also central to the research process and analysis, has been my journey and reflexive experiences as a researcher. The study has taught me much about myself, and I have changed and evolved as a response. Therefore the representations presented in this work are inseparable from me and my life, and I have endeavoured to reveal this within the thesis. The study was informed by a contemporary perspective on culture, in which culture is part of the self. A person's culture is in a constant state of flux, as the self continually recreates and negotiates the meaning of culture within the context of the present lived experience. Similarly, and in contrast to current health care policy, which frequently perceives self-management as a set of interjected behaviours, self-management was perceived as the ways in which the man chooses to incorporate his diabetes into the totality of his life. The synthesis of the literature with the findings, demonstrates that culture does not influence diabetes self-management in a rigid and prescriptive way, but instead culture and self-management are interwoven through the self. Since self-management is negotiated by the self and culture is part of the self, it is the self which connects and interweaves the two. The influence of cultural beliefs on diabetes self-management is negotiated by the self within a complex context of interacting factors. This complex context includes other aspects which are equally as important as culture in shaping self-management, such as material, structural and practical factors. Because culture exists within a shifting and fluid context, its influence on self-management is subject to change, negotiation and re-creation. The perspective I have fostered in this thesis, is a considerable move away from the essentialist perspective of culture, taken in much current health care policy and research. I present a challenge to the dominant perspective in which culture is often oversimplified and consequently blamed for deviant or noncompliant self-management behaviours. The subjective perspective of culture that I have adopted in this thesis, enables the realisation that culture influences self-management in neither homogenous nor deterministic ways.

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Ozkan, Esra. "Executive coaching : crafting a versatile self in corporate America." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/42423.

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Thesis (Ph. D. in History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology and Society (HASTS))--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Science, Technology and Society, 2008.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 207-218).
In recent years, coaching has become a major form of personal and professional development service offered to executives to help develop leadership skills, enhance performance, and remediate patterns of problematic workplace behavior. This dissertation examines the emergence and development of executive coaching in the United States as a new form of professional expertise. Drawing on eighteen months of ethnographic research, the majority of which took place in New York City, this study analyzes the ways in which executive coaching brings together theories of individual psychology and of organizational efficiency in order to increase functionality and productivity at work. Executive coaching is: a) a new form of professional expertise, b) a management tool to increase productivity and efficiency at work, c) a window to changing notions of the self and personhood in America and, finally d) an access point to the corporate world. This study explores these four dimensions of executive coaching. I argue that the emergence of coaching is a product of and a response to a fast changing business environment where continuous improvement is required to adapt to the volatility of changes. Change in the larger context (corporate settings and business environments) is not to be resisted or criticized but to be enabled through the change of the self. This dissertation illustrates and explains the grounds of a shift away from systemic approaches and systemic criticism towards individualistic approaches. Coaching emerges in and becomes an illustration of a neo-liberal economy that emphasizes constant retraining of a self that is versatile, pragmatic and fragmented.
by Esra Ozkan.
Ph.D.in History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology and Society (HASTS

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