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Cheng, Diana Wai Mui. "Propagation of perception and reality construction in organisations by measurement." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.340523.
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Duggan, Aaron Robert. "A fictive reality| The social construction of mythologies and the mythologizing of social interactions." Thesis, Pacifica Graduate Institute, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3633910.
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Human beings organize and navigate their experience of everyday life and their interactions with others through the creation, presentation, and representation of myths. This dissertation expands the definition of myth beyond stories of gods and humans to include social narratives used by groups and individuals to contextualize and define everyday situations. As such, they perform vital social functions. These include providing common narratives that have the power to bind otherwise independent beings into more or less coherent collectives capable of joint actions, as well as reducing feelings of individual isolation and existential anxiety by narratively making sense out of the violence, unpredictability, and discontinuity that accompany life. Myths are constructed narratives that masquerade as common sense; they appear to have a supernatural or supra-human basis or origin. Their created nature is collectively, and often unconsciously, denied by those who adhere to them.
This dissertation outlines an approach to mythology grounded in sociological principles as an alternative to the more familiar approaches of the humanities, religious studies, or psychology. Synthesizing principles drawn from the sociological schools of social constructionism and symbolic interactionism, this dissertation proposes that humans, as users of complex, symbolic language, necessarily experience the world through a matrix of narratives both written and unwritten. But this approach is not simply social constructionism or symbolic interactionism with a mythological gloss. Instead, it serves as a bridge between the macro view of social constructionism and the micro view of symbolic interactionism.
This dissertation treats myths not as currencies of belief, but rather as currencies of behavior and consequence. For illustration, three examples from the modern world are presented: 1) How same-sex inclusion challenges traditionalist myths of marriage; 2) How myths of divine providence and expansionism have influenced American domestic and foreign policy from the nation's inception to the present; and 3) The role that the propagandizing of engrained cultural myths and stereotypes played during the 1994 Rwandan genocide. Ethical and moral implications of human-constructed myths are also considered.
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Hornidge, Anna-Katharina. "Knowledge society : vision and social construction of reality in Germany and Singapore." Berlin ; Münster Lit, 2007. http://deposit.d-nb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=2984111&prov=M&dokv̲ar=1&doke̲xt=htm.
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Ramsey, Evelyn Michele Eaton. "Enacting Racism: Clarence Thomas, George Bush, and the Construction of Social Reality." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1995. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc278489/.
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This study analyzes the confirmation hearings discourse of Clarence Thomas and George Bush. Language constructs social reality. The United States has a history of racism and this history manifests itself in our language. The discourse of Clarence Thomas and George Bush created a social reality that equated opposition to Thomas' confirmation with racism using rhetorical strategies that included metaphor and narrative construction.
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Domanski, Maciej. "The construction of social reality in minority discourse : Polish immigrants in Montreal." Thèse, [Montréal] : Université de Montréal, 2003. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/umontreal/fullcit?pNQ92753.
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Thèse (Ph.D.) -- Université de Montréal, 2004."Thèse présentée à la Faculté des études supérieures en vue de l'obtention du grade de Philosophiae Doctor (Ph.D.) en anthropologie" Version électronique également disponible sur Internet.
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McGahon, Mark James Peter. "Acts of injustice and the construction of social reality in James Joyce's Ulysses." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2016. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.707837.
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This thesis looks at discursive conflicts in James Joyce’s Ulysses. By using the theories of the French philosopher, Jean-Francis Lyotard, and his work on conflicts between phrases, the thesis analyses how characters are silenced because of such conflicts. Silence not only points, according to Lyotard, to feelings of injustice. It is this silence, Lyotard argues, which intimates the existence of differends. This thesis concentrates on how Ulysses depicts the creation of such injustices as lead to differ ends. It examines the extent to which constructions of, and assumptions about, social realities perpetrate unpresentable injustices. With this in mind, five episodes are analysed as indicative of the whole: ‘Nestor’, ‘Hades’, ‘Cyclops’ ‘Circe’, and ‘Penelope’. Each chapter concerns itself with a different type of injustice and differ end, from the religious differe nd affecting Leopold Bloom in ‘Hades’ to the sexual differend affecting Molly Bloom in ‘Penelope’. The aim of this is not only to show that anticipatory intimations of Lyotard’s concept of the differend can be seen in Ulysses, but to argue that the main characters - Stephen Dedalus, Leopold Bloom, and Molly Bloom - are not the only characters to be silenced because of the assumptions of others. Rather, silence is a common occurrence for other characters in the book who respond to assumptions about social narratives in variously effective ways. As such, acts of injustice will be shown to pervade the book and affect a range of characters.
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Stoutmeyer, Stacie L. "New Reality Resembles Old: An Examination of the American Public's Social Construction of Reality Following September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attacks." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2004. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc4481/.
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This thesis examines whether the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks caused a significant, lasting change in the American public's social construction of reality. A framework of everyday reality was created which focused on beliefs, behaviors, and cultural institutions in the United States. Data regarding specific beliefs and behaviors was collected from numerous survey sources, and content analysis was performed on media literature from September 11, 2001 to September 11, 2003. Findings from this study show that beliefs examined did change, while behaviors on similar topics did not. These finding represents an interesting paradox to be evaluated in future studies. Cultural institutions, as related to the public's knowledge of and relationship with each, also appeared little changed. Therefore, while some aspects displayed adjustment, this study cannot conclusively state that American public's social construction of reality experienced a "new reality" paradigm shift as proclaimed by the media immediately following the attacks.
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Elmore, Scott Richard. "Brothers & sisters a new impetus for social construction and its impact on traditional cultivation analysis /." Orlando, Fla. : University of Central Florida, 2008. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/CFE0002137.
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Tian, Xiaoping. "Co-construction of social reality: ICA’s strategic planning with Native Americans for community development." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 1992. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1056551268.
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Wattebot, A. M. "The experience of time in early modern England, with special reference to Eastern England." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.368180.
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Martin, Maximilian. "Globalization, macroeconomic stabilization, and the construction of social reality : an essay in interpretive political economy /." Münster : London : Lit ; Global, 2004. http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=012801517&line_number=0002&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA.
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Castor, Theresa Rose. "Account vocabularies and social accountability : constructing social reality in decision-making talk /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/8219.
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Spash, Clive L. "Policy analysis: Empiricism, social construction and realism." Österreichische Gesellschaft für Politikwissenschaft (ÖGPW), 2014. http://epub.wu.ac.at/5783/1/Spash_2014_OZP_Policy%2Danalysis.pdf.
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In a recent article Ulrich Brand has discussed how best to perform policy analysis. I reflect upon the paper as an interdisciplinary researcher experienced in public policy problems and their analysis with a particular interest in the relationship between social, economic and environmental problems. At the centre of the paper is the contrast between two existing methodologies prevalent in political science and related disciplines. One is the rationalist approach, which takes on the character of a natural science, that believes in a fully knowable objective reality which can be observed by an independent investigator. The other is a strong social constructivist position called interpretative policy analysis (IPA), where knowledge and meaning become so intertwined as to make independence of the observer from the observed impossible and all knowledge highly subjective. Brand then offers his model as a way forward, but one that he closely associates with the latter. My contention is that policy analysis, and any way forward, needs to provide more of a transformative combination of elements from both approaches. Indeed I believe this is actually what Brand is doing.
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McGowan, Su Y. "“The Other Side of the Pacific”——Social construction of reality of Chinese students in the United States." Scholarly Commons, 2021. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/3752.
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The film addresses the problem of why it is challenging for Chinese
college students to study, socialize and succeed in American universities
and how language barriers, differences in family communication,
educational systems and socialization between the United States and
China contributes to the challenges that Chinese students are facing in the
The United States. Some of the problems that Chinese students encounter are
getting worse, leading to serious mental health problems or even
Chinese students committing suicide.
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Blasdell, Raleigh. "Reel or Reality? The Portrayal of Prostitution in Major Motion Pictures." Scholar Commons, 2015. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/5912.
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This study examined media portrayals of street-level prostitution. The objectives of this research were twofold. The first was to examine the nature of the film industry’s portrayal of females engaging in street-level prostitution in the United States in the following areas: 1) entry into sex work; 2) the economic need behind the women’s involvement; 3) experiences of childhood victimization; 4) presence and role of pimps; 5) drug/alcohol abuse; 6) victimization; and 7) mental/physical health. The second objective was to determine if this media coverage is analogous to extant research on these aspects of prostitution culture.
The Unified Film Population Identification Methodology was used to identify 15 major motion pictures depicting street-level prostitution that were released in the United States between 1990 and 2014; these films were analyzed using media content analysis. The review of the prostitution literature (encompassing the disciplines of criminology, sociology, victimology, and health) consisted of an examination of 77 studies. The content of this literature was used to determine if the portrayal of prostitutes and prostitution in film are accurate. In addition, an Assessment Index was created to allow for the comparison of films to characteristics of prostitution in the extant literature.
Media content analysis revealed that the films in this study did not accurately portray female street prostitutes; while not necessarily misrepresented, movies tended to provide an incomplete picture of the reality of prostitution. These findings are important because media portrayals of prostitution have the capacity to influence public opinion of prostitutes and prostitution. Overall, films in this sample presented prostitutes in such a way that failed to mobilize moral outrage and did not encourage viewers to care about the issue of prostitution. This can subsequently affect the types of policies they expect legislators to implement and police to employ as a means of responding to prostitution. Therefore, it is important that researchers and educators involve themselves in the social construction of public opinion, thereby having the capacity to offer alternate themes of crime, criminals, and justice. This will allow for a better-educated public to make a distinction between the veracity of prostitution and what is created by the media.
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Stevenson, Hamish. "Expert systems, hype and the social construction of reality : with particular reference to the UK financial services sector." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.335108.
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Mehrgani, Shahla. "Baha'i faith and the construction of social reality : how do Baha'is translate the word of God into practice?" Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2017. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/21674/.
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In this thesis I focus attention on the Baha’i process of community-building within its periodic context. Towards this aim, I answer the question of how Baha’is translate the word of God into practice to construct their social reality. This project takes a constructionist approach and applies Peter Berger’s conceptual framework to interpret Baha’i scriptures. This study also takes an ethnographic methodology that includes semi-structured interviews as well as observations to study the lived experience of the Bahá’ís in Sheffield. I demonstrate that the stability of the Bahá’í community-building efforts was maintained from 1934 up until 1996. Nonetheless, since 1996, radical shifts have happened in the Bahá’í community, regarding the aims and the means of the community building. In this research I have identified the shifting period of the community-building among the Bahá’ís as deconstruction. The study verifies the changes in community-building have been radical enough to change the nature of the community from an international, institutionalized community into various, similar, local communities spread all around the world. Accordingly, an institutional community aiming to establish a New World Order through the institutes of the Bahá’í Administrative Order is turning into an individual-centred community aiming for the betterment of the world through starting from the neighbourhoods. The study adds to Berger’s conceptual framework for the social construction of reality by introducing the notion of “deconstruction”. Through this research, I will also enrich the literature of the sociology of religion regarding studying Baha’is constructing their desired community based on their interpretations of their holy writings.
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Mills, Hailey L. "Avatar Creation: The Social Construction of "Beauty" in Second Life." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1352436009.
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Atkinson, Joshua. "Building a resistance performance paradigm : an analysis of the roles of alternative media in the social construction of reality in social justice movements /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 2004. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p3137677.
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Cresshull, Errol. "The making of technological reality in schooling : a study of the social construction of "knowledge" about computers and education /." Title page, contents and abstract only, 1994. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phc922.pdf.
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Miller, Paul K. "The social reality of depression : on the situated construction, negotiation and management of a mental illness category in primary care." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2003. http://insight.cumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/75/.
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This project is a study of the way that people use language actively to achieve certain ends in communication, the way that they organise their spoken discourse to construct, convincingly, the state of their lives, both ‘internal’ and ‘external’. It does this primarily through an analysis of the systematic properties of the descriptive, communicative and interpretative skills which members use in the accomplishment of the meanings central to everyday existence. More specifically, this project is a study of verbal accounts of, and doctor-patient interaction relating to, clinical depression. The project begins from the premise that most social studies of depression and its diagnosis have been subject to the same problematic treatment of language as a ‘transparent medium’ as the psychiatric frames upon which the modern clinical understanding of depression in the UK is itself based. I aim, in view of this, to demonstrate how hitherto neglected elements in the social analysis of the condition can be revealed with the application of an alternative methodology, a methodology which treats talk-in-interaction as a dynamic and constructive phenomenon rather than a neutral conduit for the passage of information. The empirical data takes the form of a set of General Practitioners from a single practice in the North West talking freely about depression and their experiences of diagnosing it, and actual consultations between these GPs and their patients. Drawing upon Wittgenstein, Ethnomethodology, Discursive Psychology and, particularly, Conversation Analysis this project examines the ways in which doctors and patients construct, negotiate and manage ‘depressive’ meanings in the course of medical interaction, always holding tightly to Wittgenstein’s maxim that practice gives words their significance.
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Shahrani, Shahreena. "The Social (Re)Construction of 'Urfi Marriage." The Ohio State University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1276045137.
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Milstam, Kajsa. "Jakten på den rätta i rutan : En kritisk diskursanalys av könsrolls- och kärlekskonstruktioner i två svenska dejtingprogram." Thesis, Örebro universitet, Institutionen för humaniora, utbildnings- och samhällsvetenskap, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-55806.
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Reality TV dating shows have increased in popularity during the last decade. The producers of this kind of reality TV tend to claim that their shows represent a true portrayal of social reality. Viewing the world from a social constructivist perspective, social reality and behavior are understood as social constructions. From that perspective the content of dating shows are viewed as constructions shaped by, for example, the producers. The purpose of this study is to examine how love ideals and gender roles are constructed within the Swedish dating shows Farmers wants a wife [Bonde söker fru] and Faith, hope and love [Tro, hopp och kärlek].Further this study aims to compare the constructions from each show. To investigate this, an adjusted version of Norman Fairclough’s critical discourse analysis has been used. There is not much previous sociological research done concerning reality TV in general, or dating TV more specifically. However, other disciplines have investigated these fields more. For example, several feminist studies have shown that dating TV shows enforces stereotypic gender roles, and a research study in psychology has shown that dating shows may affect attitudes toward sexual behavior among youths. The study shows that the constructions about love and gender roles are similar in both dating shows. In the shows constructed ideal of love, intimacy is one of the most important things. This love ideal could be understood in the context of Anthony Giddens theory of the pure relationship. The gender role constructions in the shows contain contradictions. In many aspects the constructed gender roles reflect upon the show’s love ideal, in sense of equality and the importance of mutual commitment to the dating process. But in some ways there are more traditional gender role expressions, for example women’s criticism towards passivity amongst men.Tv-sända dejtingprogram har blivit en alltmer populär företeelse de senaste åren. Produktionerna bakom denna form av dokusåpor anser ofta att programmen speglar en sann social verklighet. Utifrån ett socialkonstruktivistiskt perspektiv förstås samhället och socialt beteende som sociala konstruktioner. Med ett sådant perspektiv ses skildringar i dejtingprogram som en konstruktion formad av bland annat produktionen. Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka hur kärlek och könsroller konstrueras i de svenska upplagorna av dejtingprogrammen Bonde söker fru och Tro, hopp och kärlek. Vidare syftar studien till att göra en jämförelse av programmens konstruktioner rörande kärlek och könsroller. För att undersöka detta har studien utförts enligt en anpassning av Norman Faircloughs kritiska diskursanalys. En översikt av tidigare forskning visar att det inte finns mycket sociologisk forskning på området dokusåpor i allmänhet, och dejtingprogram mer specifikt. Angränsande discipliner har dock utforskat problemområdet mer. Bland annat har flera feministiska studier visat att stereotypa könroller förstärks i dejtingprogram och en studie i psykologi visade att ungdomars konsumtion av dejtingprogram kan påverka deras attityder kring sexuellt beteende. Denna studie visar att de båda programmens konstruktioner, gällande kärlek och könsroller, har stora likheter. I dejtingprogrammens genomsyrande kärleksideal betonas bland annat vikten av intimitet. Detta ideal kan förstås utifrån Anthony Giddens begrepp det rena förhållandet. Studien visar även att könrollskonstruktionerna i programmen präglas av en slitning. Till stor del går könsrollerna i linje med dejtingprogrammens kärlekskonstruktioner, då könsrollerna utmärks av en jämlikhetssträvan och vikten av ömsesidigt engagemang i dejtingen. Samtidigt innehåller könsrollkonstruktionerna bland annat kvinnors kritik mot passiva män, vilket kan förstås som ett uttryck för mer traditionella könsroller.
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Doucette, Jason Francis. "The social construction of a torture sustaining reality: A rhetorical analysis of claims-making about terrorism as a social problem in the United States post 911." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/28513.
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This study examines how rhetoric was used to socially construct a torture sustaining reality in the United States after the September 11th terrorist attacks, by both print journalists and President George W. Bush's Administration. After the 9/11 attacks terrorism received wide attention from the media and public. As a result of these attacks, the United States began the ''war on terror" and invaded Afghanistan and later Iraq. During these invasions allegations of torture by the American military began to emerge.
This study carries out a content analysis of claims about terrorism and responses to allegations of torture. This analysis is guided by the contextual social constructionist approach of Joel Best (1990) and Stanley Cohen's (2001) study of "denials". The contextual social constructionist approach of Best (1990) is the theoretical departure point for a sample drawn from the New York Times as well as a sample drawn from the Internet website for the Whitehouse during George W. Bush's tenure as President. A final sample drawn from the same Whitehouse website will be engaged through an amalgamation of Best's (1990) contextual social constructionist approach and Cohen's (2001) study of "denials".
This study reveals that the construction of terrorism as a social problem aided the maintenance of a torture sustaining reality. This study further explains how rationalizations are used by a liberal government to maintain a torture sustaining reality through the use of rhetoric and denials. In addition, this study shows that a torture sustaining reality is supported through the mobilization of language that dehumanizes (the process of othering) those who stand in opposition to it. As well, this study demonstrates how the concepts of risk and moral panic also help to explain how this torture sustaining reality is maintained in a liberal state. Furthermore, this study also investigates the claim-making process. In pursuing these areas, the study illustrates how denials are rhetorically composed, or in other words what language is used and how it is used to form denials. More specifically, this study reveals how the rhetoric of denial is formed and shifts to support a torture sustaining reality during a claims-making episode. Secondly, claims-making about terrorism does not always follow the "typical" path of most claim-making about social problems. Claims-making about terrorism sometimes involves the "Rhetoric of Rectitude" and the "Rhetoric of Rationality", which can be intertwined to help predicate a torture sustaining reality, or may predominantly rely upon the "Rhetoric of Rectitude". Finally, this study alerts us to very paradoxical nature that freedom occupies in this world, and how easily the notion of freedom may be championed to justify atrocities.
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Rowe, Joy. "Constructing social reality in conversation : a generic and transitivity analysis of life history texts." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/6936.
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Bibliography: leaves 75-78.Language is a primary medium through which members of society construct a social reality in which they may meaningfully conduct day-to-day lives. The choices speakers make in language encode experiences and notions of the world in particular ways but may be constrained by context. In this study, I analyze the life history interviews of two gay black HIV-positive South African men to explore how speakers use contextually-available linguistic resources to negotiate meaning. Linguistic resources of speech genre, story type, and transitivity offer structural options to speakers but also introduce constraints. Using Fairclough's Foucauldian conception of 'orders of discourse', I establish that life history interviews are a unique hybrid of genre types that draw on conventions of casual conversation and interview genres, providing speakers with new resources for articulating their social world. Generic analysis, incorporating insights from Fairclough (1995), Eggins and Slade (1997), and systemic functionalism, is used to examine the story types that speakers may draw upon to structure their experiences. Given structural and functional constraints within story types, I look at the transitivity choices that speakers make to represent their social realities. Transitivity analysis, also based on systemic functionalism, is used to investigate choices of process (verbs) and their associated participants (nouns) that encode speakers' experiential meanings. The purpose of this study is threefold: to establish that the genre of life history interviews offers speakers opportunities to negotiate power relations and influence genre conventions; to demonstrate that generic analysis may be usefully applied to oral texts to understand speakers' deeper systems of life order; and to describe through generic and transitivity analysis the individual social realities of two gay HIV -positive men. Results include a structural analysis of life history interviews, a structural argument for including Observation and Reminiscence texts within the 'story' typology, and an in-depth analysis of two unrepresented voices of South Africa's HIV/AIDS epidemic.
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Farias, Steven Kalani. "A grammar of edification : constructing our social reality via efficient quotidian management with rhetorical forms." Scholarly Commons, 2011. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/778.
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The following rhetorical criticism is an investigation of two public service announcements released by the Council on American-Islamic Relations. Utilizing a composite method derived from Osborn (1994), Brummett (1991) and Burke (1945), this study investigates what it means when to say how others ought to act and why they ought to act that way. This investigation demonstrates how the manipulations of identities, ideologies, and action are the elements used to motivate people to act in affirmation of an identity. Moreover, it demonstrates why the motivated social actions serve as foundations for constructing our social reality. Ultimately, it discovers and clarifies a grammar of edification, how that grammar allows for efficient quotidian management, and, thus, why it serves as a tool for managing everyday meaning in our social world.
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Härd, Sofia. "En kontextuellt varierande uppfattning av sexuella trakasserier: : En kvantitativ studie om genusidentitetens roll i bedömningen av sexuella trakasserier i skolmiljön." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Sociologiska institutionen, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-130414.
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Uppsatsen syftar till att undersöka bedömningen av en situation som inbegriper sexuella trakasserier med genusidentitetens betydelse som central aspekt. En stor andel av den tidigare forskningen berör sexuella trakasserier på arbetsplatser, organisationer och liknande verksamheter. Forskning har även synliggjort skolan som en arena för beteende motsvarande sexuella trakasserier, en arena som även tycks öka i omfattning. Ytterligare en generell trend inom den tidigare forskningen i ämnet är att utifrån teoretiska resonemang diskutera fenomenet i termer av genusnormer, makt och strukturer. I uppsatsen besvaras frågeställningar rörande dels hur attityden till sexuella trakasserier i skolmiljön kontextuellt kan variera beroende på de centrala aktörernas genusidentitet, dels med explorativa avsikter huruvida dessa attityder är kvantitativt mätbara. Via ett bekvämlighetsurval skickades en internetbaserad enkät ut till medlemmar i Lärarnas Riksförbund Stockholm och insamlat datamaterial genomgick statistiska analyser motsvarande ANOVA för upprepade mätningar samt Post Hoc-analyser. Resultaten visar att bedömningen av en situation inbegripande sexuella trakasserier skiljer sig beroende på de centrala aktörernas genusidentitet. Situationer där förövaren är en man uppfattas mer allvarliga än situationer där förövaren är en kvinna, oberoende av den utsattes genusidentitet. Resultatet diskuteras sedan utifrån teoretiska resonemang gällande socialt konstruerade strukturer och mönster.
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Hassan, Toqa A. "SPEAKING THROUGH THEIR CLOTHES: THE IDENTITY CHALLENGES OF MUSLIM WOMEN USING SOCIAL MEDIA IN THE WESTERN WORLD TO NEGOTIATE BEAUTY FRAMES." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron154142654997689.
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Le, Roux Janell. "A cut and paste identity : an investigation of reality TV's role in postmodern identity construction with special reference to ordinary people as celebrities." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/1462.
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This study aimed to examine the construction of the identity of the participants within the reality TV programmes (Style Her Famous, My Celebrity Home and How Do I Look) as well as examined the representation of that identity as reflected in the change in participants from the beginning to the end of the program. Drawing on literature from fields such as postmodernism and its influence on culture, identity constructions and ordinary people as celebrities, an analysis of the three American reality TV shows Style Her Famous, My Celebrity Home and How Do I Look was conducted. An indepth content analysis with specific reference to comparative analysis further aided this study. A total of 18 episodes (six episodes for each programme) were collected and thoroughly analyzed where the ‘cut and paste identity’ of ordinary people as ‘celebrities’ constituted the hermeneutical key of the study. The episodes and programs have been scrutinized and have been systematically classified to enable an analysis of the observations. This study attempted to not only describe, but also to foster change in the representation of the identity of the participants of the above mentioned reality TV programmes. The study found that reality television plays a role in shaping the postmodern identity of ordinary people as celebrities. The study also found that the participants involved in the above mentioned programmes found it easy to make someone else’s identity their own. It appeared that the postmodern mind is easily influenced and willing to adopt an identity especially that of a celebrity. The participants involved in these programs claimed this identity as their own and then believed that the new identity was in fact who they ‘really are’ but in actual fact it is a beginning of a new sameness with somebody else. Hence the participants possessed a ‘cut and paste identity.’
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Hedberg, Per Henrik. "Interpersonal society : essays on shared beliefs, trust, mnemonic oppression, distributive fairness, and value creation." Doctoral thesis, Handelshögskolan i Stockholm, Institutionen för Marknadsföring och strategi, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hhs:diva-1761.
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CAEIRO, Rui Miguel Pereira. "Transexualidade(s) e travestilidade(s) no jornalismo: uma análise discursiva das notícias produzidas em Pernambuco pelo Aqui PE e Jornal do Commercio." Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, 2016. https://repositorio.ufpe.br/handle/123456789/17750.
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A presente investigação é instigada por dois pressupostos: 1) compreendendo a grande mídia como instituição integrada, e originada, no sistema capitalista, ela é foco de complexas lutas de/pelo poder para/de influenciar a produção de significados e representações sociais – ou seja, é espaço privilegiado no (re)conhecimento da (in)existência e (in)visibilização de vozes, temas e mundos, assim colaborando na (re)construção social da realidade; 2) na sociedade brasileira, pessoas trans constituem um dos grupos político-identitários que maior marginalização sofre diariamente – de ordem estrutural, muitas das violências transfóbicas/ cissexistas que enfrentam são resultado, e resultam, do/no apagamento de suas vozes, historicamente patologizadas/ criminalizadas pelos saberes ‘oficiais’ (principalmente os construídos pela medicina e ciências psi, reproduzidos nos mais variados espaços públicos e privados). Nossa hipótese é que a mídia é, também, espaço de (re)produção de violências e exclusão de pessoas trans – hipótese essa que ao final afirmamos, e justificamos, como verdadeira. Desta forma, o trabalho tem três objetivos centrais: 1) analisar os discursos produzidos (jan.2014 – jan.2015) por Aqui PE e Jornal de Commercio (versões impressas) acerca de transexualidade(s) e travestilidade(s); 2) através de entrevistas semi-estruturadas com alguns dos sujeitos envolvidos na produção noticiosa (editoras/es dos cadernos analisados), lançar pistas sobre algumas das concepções acerca de transexualidade e travestilidade que circulam nas redações dos jornais, bem como sobre outras variáveis que condicionem a construção noticiosa dos temas; 3) alinhavando teorizações provenientes, principalmente, das Teorias do Jornalismo, Estudos Críticos do Discurso e Estudos Queer, refletir sobre as possibilidades de mudança discursiva, portanto social, acerca da(s) transexualidade(s), travestilidade(s) e, necessária-simultaneamente, cisgeneridade(s).
The investigation is instigated by two assumptions: 1) understanding the mainstream media as an institution integrated, and originated, in the capitalist system, it is the focus of complex struggles of/for power to influence the production of meanings and social representations – i.e., its a privileged space for the recognition of (in)existence and (in)visibility of voices, themes and worlds, thus collaborating in the reconstruction of reality; 2) in Brazilian society, transgender people are one of the political/identity groups that, on daily bases, experience social marginalization – structural, many of the transphobic/ cissexists violence they face are the result, and result, from / in the deletion of their voices, historically pathologized/ criminalized by 'official' knowledge (mostly built by medicine and psychological sciences, reproduced in various public and private spaces). Our hypothesis is that the media is, also, space of (re)production of violence and exclusion of transgender people - a hypothesis that at the end we found to be true. Thus, the work has three main objectives: 1) to analyze the discourses produced (jan.2014 - jan.2015) on Aqui PE and Jornal do Commercio (printed versions) about transsexuality(s); 2) through semi-structured interviews with some of those involved in news production (publishers of the analyzed books), provide clues about some of the conceptions of transsexuality circulating in newsroom and newspapers, as well as other variables that condition the construction of news topics; 3) tacking theories derived mainly from Journalism Theories, Critical Discourse Studies and Queer Studies, reflect on the possibilities of discursive change, therefore social changes, about transgenderity and, necessary- simultaneously, cisgenderity.
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Stott, Luke. "Ipseity : using the Social Identity Perspective as a guide to character construction in realist fiction." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2016. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/23379.
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"Instead of studying, for example, how the psychology of personality limits and prevents real social and political change, we should be studying how political and ideological changes create new personalities and individual needs and motives." The above quotation is from social psychologist Professor John Turner, who is one of the two theorists, the other being Henri Tajfel, most responsible for the Social Identity Perspective, the principle subject of this thesis. The Social Identity Perspective is an approach to Social Psychology that incorporates two sub-theories: Tajfel's Social Identity Theory and Turner's Self-Categorization Theory. This thesis is based upon using the perspective for the purposes of creating more realistic and believable fictional characters in realist fiction. For the purposes of this thesis Pam Morris' definition of realism will be used, that being, 'any writing that is based upon an implicit or explicit assumption that it is possible to communicate about a reality beyond the writing.' According to both theories, individuals can develop two principal identities: the personal self, which is to say a collection of idiosyncratic qualities that define them as a unique individual, and a collective self (or social identity) that encapsulates the status and characteristics of the social groups they belong to in opposition to other social groupings. Turner theorised that the personality of a human being is heavily influenced by their social context at an unconscious level. This influence can be made manifest by their parents, by their school friends and work colleagues, by their romantic partners, and especially by the collective cultural expectations native to the area they choose to reside in. Turner put forward the concept that our personality and actions are therefore influenced by society at the level of how the individual defines himself or herself. This occurs without agency on the part of the individual. These social belief systems therefore mould what the individual thinks, their actions, and their motivations. This thesis will demonstrate a method of usage for elements of Social Psychology, specifically the Social Identity Perspective that underpins the actions, interactions and motivations of the fictional characters contained within the thesis's creative element. It is the contention of this thesis that The Social Identity Perspective will assist an author in marrying together ever more realistic characterisation to other areas of writer research already extensively drawn upon by the author such as those projects focused upon creating a more realistic setting in a historical novel for instance. As previously stated it is the intention of this thesis to apply aspects of social psychology to the creation of realist texts only, the findings however may also be of use to authors who write in other genres, after all even the writer of fantastic fiction still requires characters whose actions are fundamentally recognisable and justifiable to the reader in order for them to be able to make sense of the fiction and as Henry James said, 'one can speak best from one's own taste, and I may therefore venture to say the air of reality (solidity of specification) seems to me to be the supreme virtue of a novel'. It is the aim of this thesis that its findings may highlight the potential of using The Social Identity Perspective and other adjuncts of Social Psychology as tools for both plot construction and character development that is completely realistic. This may then lead to other areas of research, some of which are suggested in the concluding chapter of this thesis.
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Tannous, Angela. "Where are you Really from? (Trans)formation and (Re)construction of Identity." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-22817.
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Within migration studies, the concept of identity has come to play a significant role in both immigrants’ and the descendants’ lives. The aim of this paper is to get more in-depth knowledge of how the Lebanese community construct their identity in Sweden by focusing on Scania region. This is done by analysing their self-identification, ethnic identity, cultural identity and how they feel they are perceived by the mainstream society. This qualitative study is based on six semi-structured interviews with first-generation Lebanese immigrants who came to Sweden in the 1980s because of the civil war in Lebanon. In addition, six semi-structured interviews with the descendants who are born in Sweden to two Lebanese parents. The results of the study show that the first-generation immigrants have a strong sense of being Lebanese. However, the descendants have developed a bicultural identity that is context dependent.
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Afflerback, Sara. "Rock-a-Buy Baby: Consumerism by New, First-Time Mothers." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2012. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/5097.
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Rock-a-Buy Baby: Consumerism by New, First-Time Mothers, is the first known sociological exploration of need-based consumption for babies, despite the baby gear industry being a $6-billion-dollar business (whattoexpect.com). Data stemmed from qualitative, semi-structured interviews with new, first-time mothers (3 months – 1 year postpartum) conducted within participants' households. The insights gained from the present study tell us a great deal about the “needs” that predominantly white, middle-class mothers socially constructed in anticipation of their first child, and the consumptive behaviors used to accomplish these "needs." Respondents had turned to similar resources (other mothers, online forums, consumer reports, books, magazines, etc.) to help them construct “need” and formulate decisions among commodities. Provided they were relying on comparable, if not overlapping, bodies of knowledge, mothers' narratives about consumer “need” were often congruent. Additionally, the ways expectant mothers accumulated items are ritualized and made tradition. The baby shower and gift registration process (which all of my respondents participated in to some variation) are social constructions; these practices, which are so strongly tied to consumption, also constituted reality for mothers, and inevitably, their babies.ID: 031001369; System requirements: World Wide Web browser and PDF reader.; Mode of access: World Wide Web.; Title from PDF title page (viewed May 20, 2013).; Thesis (M.A.)--University of Central Florida, 2012.; Includes bibliographical references (p. 126-130).
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Hora, Carmem Daniela Sp?nola da. "O silenciamento no texto jornal?stico e a constru??o social da realidade." Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, 2008. http://repositorio.ufrn.br:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/16141.
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Previous issue date: 2008-03-06This research analyses the silencehood use by the A Rep?blica journal (Natal/RN), today not being distributed, during the Second World War. Its objective is to unveil the production condition of the news texts, and it was observed that the use of silencehood as a speech strategy with its implications that falls upon the way of behaving and thinking of the society, all that time, influencing the reader in the construction of his image of the reality. During the coverage of the conflict by the local journal it was possible to also observe different speech marks that represented the change in attitude of the Brazilian Government, responsible for the control of what was spread as news. The country lived the dictatorship of the New State and as the war went on the government changed its speech, according to political, social and economical interest s thoughts being played, silencing themes in the name of the national security. We admit as research material journalistic texts that refer to the main facts that occurred during the six years of the world conflict and that is why we used as theoric-metodological support the Speech Analysis
Este trabalho analisa a utiliza??o do silenciamento pelo jornal A Rep?blica (Natal/RN), hoje sem circula??o, durante a cobertura da Segunda Guerra Mundial. Objetivando desvendar as condi??es de produ??o dos textos noticiosos, observou-se o uso do silenciamento como estrat?gia discursiva, cujas implica??es reca?am sobre o modo de agir e pensar da sociedade, ? ?poca, influenciando o leitor na constru??o de sua imagem da realidade. Durante a cobertura do conflito pelo jornal natalense, foi poss?vel observar, ainda, marcas discursivas distintas que representavam a mudan?a de atitude do Governo Brasileiro, respons?vel pelo controle do que era noticiado. O pa?s vivia a ditadura do Estado Novo e, face ao desenrolar da guerra, o governo mudava seu discurso, atendendo aos seus interesses pol?ticos, econ?micos e sociais em jogo, silenciando temas em nome da unidade e seguran?a nacional. Admitimos como material de an?lise textos jornal?sticos referentes aos principais fatos ocorridos durante os seis anos em que se deu o conflito mundial e, para tanto, utilizamos como suporte te?rico-metodol?gico a An?lise do Discurso
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Earle, Everton. "Constructing reality : social worker and adoption panel member perceptions of children of mixed parentage and why they are disproportionately represented in adoption statistics." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.435391.
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Agostini, Agostinho Luís. "O pampa na cidade : o imaginário social da música popular gaúcha." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UCS, 2005. https://repositorio.ucs.br/handle/11338/272.
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Estudo da Música popular Gaúcha como fenômeno característico da década de 1980. Inclui a análise do corpus da MPG mediante a seleção de trinta letras representativas. Abordagem do Tradicionalismo e Nativismo com vistas à verificação da presença do gaúcho idealizado nas letras da música popular. A realidade social é vista como uma construção imaginária em que as ações significativas dos atores sociais, como a linguagem e o discurso, caracterizam suas constituintes.Submitted by Marcelo Teixeira (mvteixeira@ucs.br) on 2014-05-19T17:32:56Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao Agostinho Luis Agostini.pdf: 717091 bytes, checksum: 564b4604e5ee15e568cab8eb447c8380 (MD5)
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Study of the Folkloristic Gaucha Music as a characteristic event in the 80 s. It includes a study of FGM s structure by selecting thirty representative lyrics. Approaching of the cultural and native traditions, searching to find the gaucho characteristics idealized in the folkloristic music s lyrics. Social reality faced as na imaginary construction in which the significative actions of the social actors, such as language and speech, characterize its components.
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Umbelino, Filho José Eduardo Mendonça. "O que não é espelho - uma análise da imagem do público-leitor no campo jornalístico." Universidade Federal de Goiás, 2013. http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tede/3720.
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This research intends to study how Goiânia´s press journalists define, understand and describe their audience. As a primary goal, the researchers seek to ascertain whether there is a shared image of the reader, which would be different from those images provided by the newspaper companies, the common-sense or other instances. Knowing that Media increases vagueness and doubt about to “whom we speak to”, we start from the premise that the journalists need to build up a picture of the audience. How they do it, based upon which cognitive subsidies, impressions or ideologies – that are relevant issues for this research.
Esta dissertação de mestrado pretende estudar como os jornalistas de jornais impressos de Goiânia definem, entendem e descrevem seu público. Como objetivo básico, visa-se averiguar se existe uma imagem compartilhada de leitor, que seja independente ou pelo menos distinta das imagens fornecidas pela empresa jornalística ou pelo senso comum. Uma vez que a comunicação midiática potencializa a indefinição do interlocutor e distancia os contextos daqueles que produzem e dos que consomem as informações, parte-se da premissa de que o jornalista precisa construir a imagem de quem o lê. Como ele a constrói, a partir de que subsídios cognitivos, baseado em que impressões ou ideologias, são questões relevantes para esta pesquisa.
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Melo, Rostand de Albuquerque. "Telejornalismo e Cotidiano: a construção de enquadramentos sobre a vida urbana no JPB 1ª edição." Universidade Federal da Paraíba, 2010. http://tede.biblioteca.ufpb.br:8080/handle/tede/4495.
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Previous issue date: 2010-04-16Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior
Considering the journalism while a way of specific knowledge with an own logic of perception about the everyday life, this dissertation purpose is understand the relationships between the common sense knowledge and the apprehension forms of the social reality adopted in the news production process. For so much, the theoretical perspective of Alfred Schutz's phenomenology is adopted to observe the journalists' behavior in the work place. The objective is to describe and to understand the operation mechanisms of the intrinsic relevance s system to the journalistic field. To understand the constitution of what we can call a journalistic "common sense" and the construction of established visions about the everyday life on the city, is opted for an etno-construcionist approach, based in the notion of social construction of the reality. Addressing the analysis focus to the TV local journalism, the methodological choice is the application of the Etnomethodology. The purpose is to understand as the journalists of TV see (perceive) the urban life and that it sorts out that peculiar framing is reverse-built in a narrative marked by the techniques and procedures of journalistic counting and of the audiovisual language. It was delimited as studies object the routines of production of the television news JPB 1st Edition, exhibited daily by Cabo Branco TV and Paraíba TV, affiliated stations to the Globo Broadcasting Network in the State of Paraíba. A field research was accomplished systematized in two apprenticeships: the participant observation and the application of interviews semi-structured with the responsible journalists by the production and edition of the analyzed television news. The information and obtained inferences were divided in two different perspectives. First the "regularities" of the productive routines and way of work organization will be analyzed, as well as the hierarchical and organizational structure in which the production of the television news is inserted. In a second moment, analytical narratives will be presented on episodes and circumstances observed during the field research. They are peculiar situations that reveal the compound linkage of relationships that settles down in the news production process and how the editorial choices are permeate from subjective and symbolic aspects.
Considerando o jornalismo enquanto um modo de conhecimento específico com uma lógica própria de percepção do cotidiano, esta dissertação busca compreender as relações entre o conhecimento do senso comum e as formas de apreensão da realidade social adotadas no processo de produção de notícias. Para tanto, adota-se a perspectiva teórica da fenomenologia de Alfred Schutz aplicada à observação do comportamento dos jornalistas no ambiente de trabalho: a redação. O objetivo é descrever e compreender os mecanismos de funcionamento do sistema de relevâncias intrínseco ao campo jornalístico. Para compreender a constituição do que podemos chamar de um senso comum da redação e a construção de visões apriorísticas sobre o cotidiano da cidade, optou-se por uma abordagem etno-construcionista, fundamentada na noção de construção social da realidade. Direcionando o foco de análise ao telejornalismo local, propõe-se como escolha metodológica a aplicação da Etnometodologia. O propósito é compreender como os jornalistas de TV vêem (percebem) a vida urbana e de que maneira esse enquadramento peculiar é re-construído em uma narrativa marcada pelas técnicas e procedimentos de apuração jornalística e da linguagem audiovisual. Delimitou-se como objeto de estudo as rotinas de produção do telejornal JPB 1ª Edição, exibido diariamente pela TV Cabo Branco e TV Paraíba, emissoras afiliadas à Rede Globo no Estado da Paraíba. Foi realizada uma pesquisa de campo sistematizada em dois estágios: a observação participante e a aplicação de entrevistas semi-estruturadas com os jornalistas responsáveis pela produção e edição do telejornal analisado. As informações e inferências obtidas foram divididas em duas perspectivas distintas. Primeiro serão analisadas as regularidades das rotinas produtivas e modo de organização de trabalho na redação, bem como a estrutura hierárquica e organizacional no qual a produção do telejornal está inserida. Num segundo momento, serão apresentadas narrativas analíticas sobre episódios e circunstâncias observadas durante a pesquisa de campo. São situações particulares que revelam o complexo encadeamento de relações que se estabelece no processo de produção de notícias, bem como os aspectos subjetivos e simbólicos que permeiam as escolhas editoriais.
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Câmara, Clara Bezerril. "O bem comum, o poder e a liberdade no discurso político: uma análise das noções de política enunciadas no jornal da paraíba e no Correio da Paraíba nas eleições estaduais de 2010." Universidade Federal da Paraíba, 2015. http://tede.biblioteca.ufpb.br:8080/handle/tede/7500.
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Considering that journalism assists the construction of reality rather than reflect it, this thesis seeks to show how Newspapers from the state of Paraiba build the notion of politics. For this purpose, we analyze the Paraiba political journalism in an essentially vital context for politics: elections. Specifically the race for state governor in 2010. With the help of the phenomenological approach of Alfred Schutz, we observed that newspapers understand very well the subjects of their political coverage. But, also, these same papers present state politics as a broader object than it appears to be. The political journalism dedicated to the State's actions and the interaction of its main characters is therefore only a part of what the papers understand as politics. The other part, more complex and less apparent, is related to sociocultural constructions that permeate the journalistic production context. Therefore, to get to the proposed analyses, we were dedicated to examine the components of these sociocultural constructions: the notion of politics as interpreted by three authors - Aristotle, Max Weber and Hannah Arendt - how the political imaginary of a place is permeated by sociocultural aspects, the characteristics of political journalism and the theoretical perspectives that include journalism in a constructivist sense. The disposition of these subjects is justified by understanding that journalism is driven from technical and news production rules, but is also in a constant interaction with the environment in which it is produced as well as reframes and reproduces the results of these interactions on their content. In this sense, we use the methodological framework supported by Discourse Analysis to grasp and understand how these results are explained in the news and how they make their own notions of policy. To develop this study were collected in total, 23 stories, 15 from the “Jornal da Paraíba” and 8 from “Correio da Paraíba”. The gathering of these materials took place from July to November of 2010 and took into account factors such as incidence of speeches of leading candidates of the elections we analyze here and the relevance of these speeches for the proposed analysis. With the aforementioned information, we present an analysis of the meanings of politics built by the newspapers of Paraíba during this period: the common good of Aristotle, the power of Weber and the freedom of Arendt, each occupying a specific function in these senses.
Considerando o jornalismo um exercício que, longe de refletir o “real”, auxilia na construção da realidade, esta dissertação procura apresentar como jornais paraibanos constroem a noção de política. Para isso, analisamos o jornalismo político paraibano em um contexto essencialmente vital para a área política: as eleições, especificamente as estaduais de 2010, na Paraíba. Com a ajuda da abordagem fenomenológica de Alfred Schutz, observamos que a cobertura política, por um lado, compreende bem a política que lhe serve de objeto de relato, mas também apresenta essa política como um objeto mais amplo do que aparenta ser. O jornalismo político voltado para as ações do Estado e para a interação de seus principais personagens é, então, apenas uma parte do que os jornais compreendem do que é a política. A outra parte, mais complexa e menos aparente, está relacionada com construções socioculturais que permeiam o contexto de produção jornalística. Por isso, para chegarmos à análise proposta, nos dedicamos a examinar os componentes dessas construções: a noção de política como foi interpretada por três autores – Aristóteles, Max Weber e Hannah Arendt –, a forma como o imaginário político de um local é permeado pelos aspectos socioculturais, as características do jornalismo político e as perspectivas teóricas que englobam o jornalismo em um sentido construtivista. A disposição desses assuntos se justifica por compreendermos que o jornalismo é conduzido a partir de técnicas e regras de produção de notícias, mas também está em constante interação com o meio em que é produzido. E ressignifica e reproduz os resultados dessas interações em seu conteúdo. Nesse sentido, utilizamos o arcabouço metodológico sustentado pela Análise do Discurso para captar e compreender como esses resultados se explicitam nas notícias e constroem noções próprias de política. Para o desenvolvimento deste trabalho foram coletadas, ao todo, 23 notícias, sendo 15 do Jornal da Paraíba e 8 do Correio da Paraíba. A coleta dessas matérias aconteceu no período de julho a novembro de 2010 e levou em consideração fatores como incidência de falas dos principais candidatos das eleições aqui analisadas e a pertinência dessas falas para a análise proposta. De posse de todas essas informações, apresentamos uma análise de quais os sentidos de política que os jornais paraibanos construíram ao longo desse período: o bem comum de Aristóteles, o poder de Weber e a liberdade de Arendt, cada um ocupando uma função específica nesses sentidos.
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Krasniqi, Njomza, and Sofia Boman. "The Kanun of Lekë Dukagjini among Kosova Albanians in Sweden." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-22547.
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The Kanun of Lekë Dukagjini is the most famous and comprehensive compilation of Albanian customary law. For centuries it strictly governed social behavior and everyday life among Albanians in different historical periods. Even if the Kanun is not legal today, it is widely respected and still practiced in parts of Albania and Kosova. The aim with this thesis is to study how Kosova Albanians in Sweden relate to the customary laws concerning family and marriage in the Kanun. In order to reach the aim, a qualitative research method was used. We have conducted seven semi-structured interviews with Kosova Albanians living in Sweden, more precisely in Helsingborg, and compared their answers to the traditional laws in the Kanun. The theoretical framework for the thesis is based on the concepts ethnicity and culture, Berger’s and Luckmann’s theory on the social construction of reality and Baumann’s conception of the idea of ethnicity as cultural identity. In our study we found that the Kanun is a good example on how culture is institutionalized and socially constructed. Our results show that the laws stipulated in the sections family and marriage are still practiced with certain changes by Kosova Albanians in Sweden and that there are some gender differences in how the informants perceive their ‘reality’.
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Cole, Julian C. "Practice-dependent realism and mathematics." Connect to resource, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1124122328.
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Singh, Arshdeep. "Teaching Landscape Construction Using Augmented Reality." DigitalCommons@USU, 2018. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/7132.
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This thesis describes the design, development, and evaluation of an interactive Microsoft HoloLens application that projects landscape models in Augmented Reality. The application was developed using the Unity framework and 3D models created in Sketchup. Using the application, students can not only visualize the models in real space but can also interact with the models using gestures. The students can interact with the models using gaze and air-tap gestures.
Application testing was conducted with 21 students from the Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning department at Utah State University. To evaluate the application, students completed a usability survey after using the application. Students also participated in a focus group. Results indicate that students were excited to use the application and found it helpful for learning landscape construction concepts. Some of the students found the application and the HoloLens device cumbersome to use, and they offered suggestions for how to improve the application. The thesis concludes with recommendations for future work.
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Ersoy, Duygu. "Manipulation Of History And Language In Three Dystopias." Master's thesis, METU, 2006. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12607679/index.pdf.
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In this study, the manipulations of history and language in the dystopias of &ldquoNineteen Eighty-Four&rdquo
by George Orwell, &ldquo
We&rdquo
by Yevgeni Zamyatin and &ldquo
Brave New World&rdquo
by Aldous Huxley are examined. The principal aim of this investigation is to demonstrate that in these imaginary societies absolute stability is achieved through the manipulations of these two domains. The thesis argues that if the domains of history and language are not taken under control, they are to provide the subjects with the standard of comparisons which would enable them to realize that they are in fact dominated. However, once these domains are manipulated, they are transformed into the means of the dystopian rulers for mentally impoverishing people in a way that they would not be capable of conceiving the flaws within the system and therefore, would not attempt to challenge the order or require a change. In this sense, it is proposed that the subjects of these closed societies, who are formed as a result of the reshaping of history and language, would lack the mental capabilities to identify their subjection and behave automatically in the manner that is imposed on them by the political order. Moreover, in this study, the relationship of the genre dystopia with political theory is explored
it is indicated that dystopias are not only literary works, but rather they are also texts of social criticism containing certain warnings about the future course of events. Relying on this argument, it is claimed that such an invasion of the minds by the control over history and language in our three dystopias is the exaggerated version of the ideological relationships of the individuals to these two realms in the contemporary societies. Thus, having in mind that in the dystopias examined here the manipulations of history and language are the preconditions of the use of other realms (such as religion, sexuality and science), it is concluded that these texts enable modern individuals to see that in order to maintain a critical distance with the established political and social order, the multiplicity of linguistic resources and knowledge of history are very crucial.
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Kan, Yen-sam Sammy. "The reality of the paperless construction project." Thesis, Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2006. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B36789239.
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Sylvan, Thilda, and Natassja Schmidt. "Peter Pan i skolbänken : Att förmedla normer och värden genom karaktären Peter Pan." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för svenska språket (SV), 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-49402.
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This study investigates the extent to which a story written 100 years ago, full of moral, patriotic, heroic and freedom-influences messages, can be used as a teaching instrument to convey the norms and values needed for active participation in society. Two versions of the classic tale of Peter Pan, an illustrated chapter book Peter Pan and Wendy (2013) and a picture book Peter Pan (2014), were analysed with the focus on the character of Peter Pan. The results show that both books can be used very well as teaching aids because Peter Pan is a complex and multifaceted character. The analysis reveals his positive and negative qualities, which can be discussed in the teaching as a way to communicate norms and values. The study shows useful examples of what this work can look like.
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Neto, Paulo Macedo Garcia. "A influência do realismo jurídico norte-americano no direito constitucional brasileiro." Universidade de São Paulo, 2008. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/2/2139/tde-27022012-165826/.
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O objetivo desta dissertação de mestrado é analisar a assimilação antropofágica (Utilizarei, nesta dissertação a metáfora da expressão Antropofagia realizada pelo Movimento Modernista brasileiro. Assim como os índios canibais devoravam seus inimigos, acreditando que assim assimilavam as suas qualidades, os artistas Modernistas propunham uma devoração simbólica da cultura estrangeira, aproveitando suas inovações artísticas sem perder a identidade cultural brasileira.) do debate jurídico norte-americano produzido em torno da questão social durante a Era Roosevelt por parte do pensamento jurídico brasileiro da Era Vargas. Desse modo, estudar-se-á a forma como os autores norte-americanos da Sociological Jurisprudence e do Realismo Jurídico foram utilizados pela doutrina jurídica brasileira do período entre guerras na formação de um pensamento jurídico antiliberal e anticonceitualista. No centro da crise do capitalismo mundial, as universidades (Roscoe Pound, 1870-1964, e Karl Nickerson Llewellyn, 1893-1962), a Suprema Corte (Benjamin Nathan Cardozo, 1870-1938, e Louis Dembitz Brandeis, 1856-1941) e o corpo burocrático do governo (1933-1945) Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945) (James MacCauley Landis, 1899-1964) produziam alternativas ao mecanicismo judicial e ao modelo liberal. Na periferia do capitalismo mundial, o corpo burocrático de Vargas (Oliveira Vianna, Francisco Campos e Francisco Sá Filho) e as revistas e debates jurídicos (João Mangabeira e Alípio Silveira) questionavam o liberalismo da República Velha (1889-1930) e buscavam, no mercado global de idéias, modelos institucionais que pudessem ser antropofagizados, substituindo as idéias fora do lugar implantadas pelo bacharelismo utópico da República Velha. Era o momento de explicar o Brasil, encontrar o desenho institucional mais adequado à realidade nacional, construir uma opinião pública e descobrir as soluções para converter o atraso em modernização. Assim, nos principais palcos do debate jurídico dos dois países e, em especial, na Suprema Corte norte-americana e na doutrina jurídica brasileira, percebia-se essa tentativa de revisão do método jurídico, como uma forma de se adequar o direito a um novo quadro de relações do capitalismo industrial. Desse modo, não só se via a necessidade de implantação de um aparato jurídico apto a tratar a questão social (como a regulação das relações do trabalho), como também se observava a necessidade de se reconstruir a forma como se aplicava o direito. O modelo formalista e conceitualista que havia se consolidado sob uma perspectiva privatista e liberal durante o século XIX, mostrava-se ineficiente para atender as novas demandas da sociedade. Esse aspecto de integração entre a questão social e o antiformalismo é essencial para compreender o paralelo entre o pensamento jurídico norte-americano e brasileiro durante o período entre guerras, uma vez que é por meio desse eixo comum que se estabeleceram os principais canais de leitura antropofágica do pensamento jurídico norte-americano pelo pensamento jurídico brasileiro.The objective of this Master\'s Degree dissertation is to analyze the \"anthropophagical\" (I will use, in this dissertation, the metaphor of the word Anthropophagy made by the Brazilian Modernist Movement. Like the cannibal Indians used to devour their enemies, with the belief that, as such, they would assimilate their qualities, the Modernist artists used to propose a symbolic devouring of the foreign culture, taking advantage of their artistic innovations without losing the Brazilian cultural identity) assimilation of the North-American legal debate, arising from the social issue during the Age of Roosevelt, by the Brazilian legal thought of the Age of Vargas. Therefore, one will study the way how the North-American authors of the Sociological Jurisprudence and of the Legal Realism have been used by the Brazilian legal doctrine of the interwar period, in the formation of an anti-liberal and anti-conceptualist legal thought. In the core crisis of the worldwide capitalism, Universities (Roscoe Pound, 1870-1964, and Karl Nickerson Llewellyn, 1893-1962), Supreme Court (Benjamin Nathan Cardozo, 1870-1938, and Louis Dembitz Brandeis, 1856-1941) and bureaucratic body of the Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945) government (1933-1945) (James MacCauley Landis, 1899-1964) produced alternatives to the legal mechanicism and to the liberal model. At the periphery of the world capitalism, the bureaucratic body of Vargas (Oliveira Vianna, Francisco Campos and Francisco Sá Filho) and the legal magazines and debates (João Mangabeira e Alípio Silveira) questioned the liberalism of the Old Republic (1889-1930) and searched, in the global market of ideas, for institutional models that could be anthropophagized, replacing the out-of-place ideas implemented by the utopic bachelorism of the Old Republic. That was the time of explaining Brazil, finding the institutional drawing that is the most proper to the national reality, building a public opinion and discovering the solutions to convert the delay into modernization. Thus, in the main background legal debate of the two countries legal debate, and especially in the United States Supreme Court and in the Brazilian legal doctrine could be perceive such attempt of review of the legal method, as a way of fitting the law to a new picture of relations of the industrial capitalism. Therefore, it would be seen not only the need of implementation of a legal apparatus proper to treat the social issue (such as the regulation of the work relations), as well as one would observe the need of rebuilding the way how the law was applied. The formalist and conceptualist model that would be consolidated under a privativistic and liberal perspective during the 19th Century showed to be ineffective to deal with the new demands of the society. This aspect of integration between the social issue and the anti-formalism is essential to understand the parallel between the North-American and Brazilian legal thought during the interwar period, since the main channels of anthropophagic reading of the North-American legal thought by the Brazilian one have been established by means of this common axis.
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Attindéhou, Olivier-Charles Bernardin. "Penser l'instabilité socio-politique en Afrique subsaharienne. Examen des causes et revendication heuristique : la stabilité par le chaos. Les cas illustratifs de la Côte d'Ivoire et du Rwanda." Thesis, Lyon, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017LYSE3053.
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L’Afrique subsaharienne se présente, involontairement, comme une région en proie à une succession de crises, de conflits, de guerres civiles. Ces externalités négatives de l’instabilité socio-politique s’appréhendent, souvent, par le truchement du rite jaculatoire causal. D’où, les vocables « ethnies », « identité » – lorsqu’il n’est pas question de sous-développement, ou de l’injection du déficit démocratique –, auprès des commentateurs, sont, de façon cursive, convoqués pour expliquer le désordre perçu. Ainsi, les événements de 1994 au Rwanda sont ramenés à un conflit – « ethnique » – Hutu/Tutsi; négligeant par voie de conséquence l’acuité de la complexité de la réalité, ou à défaut, celle de la convergence de variables. Et pourtant, en descendant dans cette profondeur cognitive, tout observateur constaterait que l’instabilité socio-politique en Afrique subsaharienne reste une construction dans le temps et dans l’espace, optimisée par l’impénitent désir de pouvoir des acteurs politiques. Les structures historiques, loin d’être de véritables déterminants, participent à la construction sociale de la réalité porteuse d’idées, de règles et de pratiques représentationnelles qui érigent la nécessaire grammaire du bouleversement social. Nos présents travaux, non seulement, viennent examiner les causes habituellement avancées, mais s’opposent également aux arguments culturalistes mobilisés pour l’explication ou la compréhension de l’instabilité socio-politique en Afrique subsaharienne. C’est pourquoi, nous retenons que la justesse scientifique afférente à la compréhension du mouvement mécanistique socio-politique en Afrique subsaharienne est fonction du mode de connaissance de la réalité perçue. Par conséquent, nous estimons que l’instabilité socio-politique en Afrique subsaharienne, est un processus dynamique évolutif qui, nonobstant le désordre structurel, tend vers une stationnarité relative, puis absolue avant l’avènement de la stabilitéSubsaharan Africa presents itself, involuntarily, like an area in the grip of a succession of crises, conflicts, civil wars. These negative externalities of sociopolitical instability are apprehended, often, by the means of the causal ritual. That's why, the terms "ethnic group", "identity" - when it isn't question of underdevelopment, or the injection of democratic deficit - near the commentators, in a cursory mention, are convened to explain the perceived disorder. Thus, the events of 1994 in Rwanda are brought back to a "ethnic" conflict Hutu/Tutsi; negleging consequently the acuity of the complexity of reality or failing this, that of the convergence of variables. And yet, while going down in this cognitive depth, any observer would note that sociopolitical instability in subsaharan Africa remains a construction in time and space, optimized by the unrepentant desire of power of the political actors. The historical structures, far from being true determinants, take part in the social construction of reality carrying ideas, rules, and practices representational which set up the necessary grammar of the social upheaval. Our present work, not only comes to examine the usually advanced causes, but is also opposed to the culturalist arguments mobilized for the explanation or the comprehension of sociopolitical instability in subsaharan Africa. This is why, we retain that the scientific accuracy related with the comprehension of sociopolitical mechanisitc movement in subsaharan Africa is function of the mode of knowledge of perceived reality. Consequently, we estimate that sociopolitical instability in subsaharan Africa, is an evolutionary dynamic process which, notwhithstanding, the strutural disorder, strives for a relative stationnarity, then absolute before the advent of stability
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Woksepp, Stefan. "Virtual reality in construction : tools, methods and processes." Doctoral thesis, Luleå : Division of Structural Engineering, Department of Civil, Mining and Environmental Engineering, Luleå University of Technology, 2007. http://epubl.ltu.se/1402-1544/2007/49/.
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Tunstall, Patricia Ann. "New educational assessment and the construction of reality." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2000. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10020354/.
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