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Robinson, Anthony Quinn Jr. "Facebook Identity: Virtual Interaction and Life Satisfaction." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/52897.

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Objectives. Social Networking Sites (SNSs) have exploded in popularity around the world and are composed of hundreds of millions of users. SNSs give the ability to communicate, share photos, send files, and update personal information instantaneously and continuously. Research is now being done on these sites to determine their usefulness and study whether or not its existence can enhance learning and the lives of people. The purpose of this study is to examine whether or not Facebook use has an effect on life satisfaction through Facebook identity salience and Facebook role enactment. Methods

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Miller, Zachary Anderson. "Like and Shout: Brand Loyalty, Framing, and Fan Interactions on the BYU Football Facebook Page." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2018. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/6922.

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This research is intended to provide the stewards of social media for Brigham Young University's football program with information that will allow them to make better decisions on what kind of content will maximize engagement and enhance brand loyalty among fans and consumers on Facebook. Using several variables, including the type or theme of content, post frequency, and sponsorship, content was compared against that from the University of Oregon's football program for the 2017 season. The results, found using quantitative data analysis, reveal that some variables have a significant impact on

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Draszka, Anastasia. "Irakiska flyktingars integrering i Sverige under 80-talet : En kvalitativ studie om fyra irakiska flyktingars resa för att integrera sig i det svenska samhället." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Etnologi, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-45754.

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The war between Iraq and Iran started 1980 and ended 1988. During the war it came approximately 11 811 Iraqi refugees to Sweden. In this essay. I will explore how Iraqi refugees who came in the 1980s have integrated themselves in the Swedish society. To enhance this understanding, I used previous research material presented in the essay but, most importantly, I also used a qualitative method with organized interviews. The interview material consists of 4 individual interviews for 90 minutes each, and all interviewees are highly educated men in the ages of 62-66 years. I structured the intervie

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Örulv, Linda. "Fragile identities, patched-up worlds : Dementia and meaning-making in social interaction." Doctoral thesis, Linköpings universitet, Hälsa och samhälle, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-11736.

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Denna avhandling fokuserar på det meningsskapande och begripliggörande som fortgår vid tilltagande demenssjukdom, i det sociala samspelet, och de utmaningar för demens-omsorgen som detta innebär. Studien är aktörsorienterad och adresserar frågan om hur personer med åldersrelaterade progressiva demenssjukdomar i den vardagliga kommuni-kationen söker förstå sina situationer, omgivningen och sina liv – alltsammans inom ra-men för det dagliga samspelet på ett demensboende. Av särskilt intresse är hur dessa per-soner hanterar problem som har att göra med att handla tillsammans med andra i en gemens

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Fürst, Henrik. "Doing Internet Dating : In the Search for the Future Someone." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Pedagogiska institutionen, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-44302.

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In this explorative study internet dating is studied as shared commitment to a common collective activity. Focus is on social formative emotions and internet dating in the rhythm of everyday life. The study is based on an interactionist theory/method package related to grounded theory and situational analysis. Sixty-eight participants of a Swedish internet dating site have been interviewed by e-mail. Fifteen of these interviews were followed up by a second one. Internet dating mainly occurs during evenings at home. It is kept separate from other commitments in daily life, such as work, as coll

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Hays, Jay W. "Interactional Commitment: 'Like Me' and 'Not Like Me,' An Extension and Test of Identity Theory." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1492618537308404.

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Knight, Judith. "Occupational identity in later life." Thesis, University of Northampton, 2013. http://nectar.northampton.ac.uk/8868/.

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Occupational identity in later life represents a lifetime of occupational choices which encapsulate multiple meanings derived from the past and interpreted as a source of being in the present. Engaging in meaningful occupations has the potential to promote successful ageing, but health and declining capacities can influence that choice. The aim of this study was to explore the occupations that older people have engaged in during their lives, in particular, to discover how this influences occupational choice in later life. Ninety six people, aged 55 and over were recruited using local groups, o

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Taylor, Jacqueline Ann. "Electronic mail, communication and social identity : a social psychological analysis of computer-mediated interactions." Thesis, University of Portsmouth, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.282542.

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The aims of the research are to study the effects of computer-mediated communication (CMC) on individual communication processes and group interaction under realistic conditions. This contrasts with previous research which has been conducted using inexperienced users in artificial situations. A study investigated communication issues in an organisation where a new electronic mail (e-mail) system had been implemented. Data regarding usage patterns and subjective evaluations of e-mail showed that usability of the system was not critical, but communication and social interaction were important is

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Negrini, Chiara. "Ageing in the city : geographies of social interactions and everyday life." Thesis, Kingston University, 2015. http://eprints.kingston.ac.uk/30594/.

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The ageing of the population in the United Kingdom poses urgent challenges to urban policy and planning committed to create accessible and inclusive public spaces. Issues of accessibility of outdoor environments have been addressed extensively in terms of design and service provision. However, the same attention has not been paid to more intangible factors related to older people’s personal experiences of navigating the built environment. In particular, everyday encounters and social interactions between older people and other users of public spaces have been identified in policy and academic

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Myers, Gary L. III. "The V.A.L.O.R. Leadership Shift: The Impact of Identity Verification Through Virtual Platform Interactions." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent156500172325042.

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Bergquist, Kathleen Leilani Ja. "Racial identity, ethnic identity, and acculturation in Korean adoptees." W&M ScholarWorks, 2000. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539618676.

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This study explored the relationships between racial identity, ethnic identity, and acculturation in transracial Korean adopted adolescents. The research questions were as follows: What is the relationship between racial and ethnic identity for adoptees? What is the relationship between racial identity and adoptees' level of acculturation? What is the relationship between adoptees' level of acculturation and ethnic identity? The research was exploratory in nature and entailed a quantitative design comprised of (1) a demographic profile, (2) Helm's (1995) People of Color Scale to measure racial

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Humphries, David. "Labourism and the commodification of work and social life." Department of Sociology - Faculty of Arts, 2004. http://ro.uow.edu.au/theses/231.

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The thesis explores concepts of alienation and commodification in relation to public and private themes of identity, in contemporary Australia. It is argued that as labour conditions have intensified and the social safety net has eroded the emphasis on private themes of identity have increased. These themes emphasise sexuality and gender, and down-grade the issue of work and labour. The Australian Labor Party helped create the conditions for postmodernist identity politics weakening their commitment to working class improvement in favour of emphasising hypercapitalism and hyperliberal gender d

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Winkelmann, Oscar. "I ”Like” it. Jag ”Gillar” det : En studie av hur användares beteende och upplevelser påverkas av en "like-funktion", vid bildpublicering i sociala medier." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Institutionen för naturvetenskap, miljö och teknik, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-26326.

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The purpose of this paper has been to study how users experiences and behaviors are influenced by a "like" function, when publication of images in social media with the photo app Instagram as the selected base. In this study respondents has been part of a study regarding their experiences and behavior related to "like" function in Instagram. The results of the question form have then been analyzed to find patterns in their behavior and to exemplify/reinforce different type of user-behavior found in related scientific articles. The study has shown that the behavior of Instagram users is affecte

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Brandão, Mariana da Fonseca. "Working an identity, buying a life: the remains of Disney way of life among ICP alumni." reponame:Repositório Institucional do FGV, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10438/11349.

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Van, Klyton Aaron. "The social life of music : commodification, space, and identity in world music production." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2012. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/the-social-life-of-music(3f90ae17-2c87-43f9-b396-3334cf3fe10f).html.

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This project examines the ways in which commodification and identity work in the particular context of world music production. I trace the path of world music of West African origin as it connects different people, ideas, and objectives in the London world music scene. I look at how commodification occurs in this context and the implications for how identity gets (re)-constructed during the commodification processes to suit a variety of individual needs. The paper empirically examines some theoretical assumptions about space, representation, and commodification by problematizing them as three

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Richardson, James Colin. "Cultural identity and disorganised capitalism : broadening political interactions beyond the market-orientated social contract /." Title page, contents and abstract only, 1998. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09AR/09arr5229.pdf.

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Nilsson, Peter. "Essays on social interactions and the long-term effects of early-life conditions /." Uppsala : Department of Economics, Uppsala University, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-109671.

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Martindale, Anne-Marie. "A life lived : experiencing an acquired facial 'disfigurement' and identity shift." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 2014. http://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/2014399/.

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With the advent of facial transplantation some academic authors have suggested that faces are significant for humans and that identities are located corporeally within faces and therefore transplantable. However, there has been little evidence to support these claims, particularly from a qualitative, theoretically informed social science background. Responding to this hiatus, in this thesis I set two interconnected research objectives: • to examine socio-cultural values associated with human faces in predominantly Western societies using secondary sources; • to explore the relationship between

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Betancourt, Brittany Mimi. "Life through a Lens| The Influence of Facebook on Multiracial Student Identity." Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10840161.

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<p> Using the Multidimensional Model of Racial Identity, this qualitative study examined the influence the News Feed function of Facebook had on multiracial community college students. Entering college at a time when racial identity development is heightened and social networking sites have changed the college experience, multiracial students are constantly engaging with peers. As multiracial students receive messages about their racial identity on social media, there is a need to understand the role these platforms have in shaping how multiracial students understand their identity. </p><p>

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Kamlager, Carolee. "Identity Making Process of Individuals with Mild Intellectual Disabilities." UKnowledge, 2013. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/csw_etds/8.

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The shadow of stigma theory typically surrounds the research investigation of the lives of individuals with mild intellectual disabilities. McAdams’ life story theory and methodology provide a human development framework as an alternative to the prevailing framework in the field of disability. This study moves out of the shadow of otherness and examines the personal identity making process of twelve individuals with mild intellectual disabilities in the light of human development theory. Findings dispel the assumption that individuals with mild intellectual disabilities construct their lives s

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Tulle, Emmanuelle. "'Running is my life' : embodied agency, social change and identity amongst veteran elite runners." Thesis, Glasgow Caledonian University, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.415439.

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The work presented in this thesis examines experiences of ageing amongst 21 male and female Veteran elite runners. Experiences of ageing continue to be understood within a discourse of decline. The body plays a central role in this process but primarily in its biological manifestations. Sociology has neglected ageing bodies and little is as yet known about the phenomenological dimension of growing older. The ageing literature is beginning to give some attention to the place of the body in experiences of ageing and some theoretical development has been in progress since the pioneering conceptua

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Francis, D., and Roux A. Le. "Using life history to understand the interplay between identity, critical agency and social justice education." Journal for New Generation Sciences, Vol 10, Issue 3: Central University of Technology, Free State, Bloemfontein, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/11462/605.

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Published Article<br>In this article we use the concepts identity, agency and social justice education as a lens to explore the role of life history research in the study of the interconnection between emerging teacher identities, critical agency and social justice education. By exploring the life history of a white woman pre-service teacher, this study foregrounds the use of life history research to help teacher educators to understand the contexts through which student teachers' identities are constructed, and how these identities feed into agency and a stance to bring about social change.

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Coronado, Suzán Gabriela, of Western Sydney Hawkesbury University, and Faculty of Social Inquiry. "Silenced voices of Mexican culture : identity, resistance and creativity in the interethnic dialogue." THESIS_FSI_SEL_Coronado_G.xml, 2000. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/378.

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Interethnic communication is the focus of this thesis, as the basis for understanding Mexican culture and identity as a dynamic and complex process, which acts, from the past and in the present, to create what Mexicans are and will be.By exploring different instances where interethnic communication occurs and produces various representations of culture, this work shows the complexities of interethnic exchanges at different levels of Mexican society (in the community or in the nation) and at different moments of its history (from the conquest to the present).This complex picture is constructed

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Pierce, Tamarha. "Global and specific relational models in the experience of social interactions and significant life events." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape11/PQDD_0024/NQ50238.pdf.

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Kramer, Jos [Verfasser]. "Influence of ecology and social interactions on the early evolution of family life / Jos Kramer." Mainz : Universitätsbibliothek Mainz, 2017. http://d-nb.info/1125736747/34.

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Sergeant, Sandra A. "The impact of personal identity and intimacy on the use of social media." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2014. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/67647/1/Sandra_Sergeant_Thesis.pdf.

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Personal identity and intimacy levels change over time and this can influence the way consumers buy and use goods and services. This thesis examined how levels of personal identity and intimacy influence the use of social media by consumers of different ages. A survey of 208 users of facebook demonstrated that consumers with weak levels of personal identity use social media to increase their identity and popularity, while consumers with strong levels of personal identity use social media for self-expression. Consumers with high intimacy levels use social media for socian connection and social

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Ladwig, Enno. "Cultural Identity in Urban Beijing - Cycle of Change - Life and Development in Beijing." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-23423.

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With Chinas recent and quick uprising coming as a surprise for many of 'us' in the so-called western world, the changes and effects of the recent developments must have also been a big surprise for many of those most effected by the change – the Chinese people. Then, at the turn of the century, China's bid to host the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing has brought further changes; the winning has finally propelled Beijing's speed of change to previously unknown proportions. Today, the government pushes to finish many projects in time for 2008 and institutionalises the Olympic Games as an excuse for

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De, Bromhead Antoinette. "Masculinity and sexual identity among a small group of petty criminals in a Florentine street." Thesis, University of London, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.322041.

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Hsu, Yu-Chien. "Exposure to bright light and social interactions in every-day life in healthy mildly seasonal people." Thesis, McGill University, 2010. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=86590.

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We examined the effects of bright light on social interaction and mood in healthy individuals with mild seasonality. In a cross-over design, 38 mildly seasonal individuals received three weeks of bright light and three weeks of placebo (low-density negative ions). Using an event-contingent method participants recorded their mood and behaviours during social interactions and wore a light-sensor actigraphy at the wrist to monitor adherence to home based light exposure. During light administration, 23 participants adhered to the light protocol and exhibited more quarrelsome behaviours and no chan

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Gårdh, Emil, and Felix Åberg. "A PUGs Life : A study on social interactions in Classic and RetailWorld of Warcraft Pickup Groups." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för speldesign, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-446457.

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This paper investigates how players interact in classic and retail World of Warcraft by conducting a participant observation study by joining Pickup Groups (PUGs) to play through dungeons. Chat activity is logged and all messages are categorised into different types depending on what is conveyed in an attempt to see if and how social interactions differ between the games. The results indicate that classic players communicate more, both for instrumental value and for purely social reasons. All players met throughout the classic PUGs interacted to some extent through the chat. Most retail player

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Schultz, Rebecka A. "Staff Perceptions of Quality Interactions in Dementia Care." DigitalCommons@USU, 2019. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/7629.

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The national aging trend suggests that population of those aged 65 and older will reach 83.7 million by the year 2050. With increasing age comes the growing possibility of one getting some form of dementia. The Alzheimer’s Association expects the number of American’s with dementia to triple from the reported 5 million cases in 2014 by 2050. With a rise in this cognitively impaired population there is reason to look closely at the needs of persons with dementia living in residential facilities and whether or not they are being met. The main focus of residential facilities is to provide aid with

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Koutsogianopoulos, Ralia. "Thonging for identity : learning about girlhood, sexuality and feminity in a tween retail space." Thesis, McGill University, 2005. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=83190.

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Children learn from a variety of sources. One of the most powerful pedagogical sites for kids is the consumer sphere. Marketers recognize this and have recently carved out a new consumer niche for those between childhood and adolescence, marking them as tweens. La Senza Corporation, which specializes in women's lingerie, responded to this trend by opening a tween store with a name heavily laden with meanings of sexuality: La Senza Girl. This study will apply a textual analysis to the tween retail space, in an effort to understand the informal pedagogy that takes place within this milieu

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Cesare, Nina Lyn. "Wearing Your Life as a Sleeve: Examining tattooing as a form of postmodern identity expression." Ohio University Honors Tutorial College / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1308253420.

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Komlosy, Anouska. "Images of the Dai : the aesthetics of gender and identity in Xishuangbanna." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/7293.

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This thesis is based on fieldwork carried out m Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China. The main focus of the work is the Dai people, one of China's fifty-five so called 'Minority Nationalities'. I aim to paint a picture of the complex processes through which Dai ways of being and images of them are created and recreated. This is not to suggest that the Dai constitute a bounded group. Although Chinese official discourse presents a static, rigid picture of the so-called 'Minority Nationalities', I hope to have demonstrated that the everyday experiences of those in Banna

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Nikitina, Svetlana. "Understanding the interplay between technology and social ties in later life: How social ties promote use of technology and how technology can promote social relationships." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Trento, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/11572/243027.

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Meaningful social connections are an important part of our lives, especially as we age, and are associated with life satisfaction and psychological well-being. At the same time making friends and creating connections is known to be challenging in older age. In this thesis, we focus on studying how technology can help to collect information about older adults that can be useful for facilitating friendship formation and social interactions among users. We start by describing early work that shows the opportunities of technology in improving well-being of older adults. The conducted studies and r

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Nikitina, Svetlana. "Understanding the interplay between technology and social ties in later life: How social ties promote use of technology and how technology can promote social relationships." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Trento, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/11572/243027.

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Meaningful social connections are an important part of our lives, especially as we age, and are associated with life satisfaction and psychological well-being. At the same time making friends and creating connections is known to be challenging in older age. In this thesis, we focus on studying how technology can help to collect information about older adults that can be useful for facilitating friendship formation and social interactions among users. We start by describing early work that shows the opportunities of technology in improving well-being of older adults. The conducted studies and r

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Winn, Alisha R. "Beyond the Business: Social and Cultural Aspects of the Atlanta Life Insurance Company." Scholar Commons, 2010. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/1809.

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The dissertation research is an examination of the social and cultural dynamics of the Atlanta Life Insurance Company (ALIC) in Atlanta, GA. During the Jim Crow era (and post Jim Crow era), the ALIC provided economic mobility through employment, home loans, life insurance, and community solidarity. The company was one of the largest and most successful African-American financial institution in the country during the 20th century. It was founded in 1905 by Alonzo F. Herndon, a prosperous black barber and entrepreneur who rose from enslavement to become by 1927 the wealthiest African American in

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Guest, Marc Aaron. "SOCIAL NETWORKS, IDENTITY, HEALTH, AND QUALITY OF LIFE AMONG OLDER GAY AND LESBIAN INDIVIDUALS IN RURAL ENVIRONMENTS." UKnowledge, 2019. https://uknowledge.uky.edu/gerontol_etds/16.

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The goal of this dissertation was to explore aging lesbian and gay individuals living in rural communities, in terms of their social networks and the relationships between these networks, identity, health, and quality of life. Guiding the study were three overarching questions. Using a multi-method design, the research was grounded within a socio-ecological context and focused on how structural systems create pathways for health and are affected by social position (intersectionality). Participants (n=25) were recruited from Kentucky (n=20), West Virginia (n=3), and Tennessee (n=2). Thirteen pa

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Vela-Beltran-del-Rio, Cesar. "The Human Robot: A Narrative Study of Identity Change in Mexico Through an Analysis of Mexican Films." NSUWorks, 2014. http://nsuworks.nova.edu/shss_dcar_etd/42.

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In order to succeed in an intellectually, economically, socially, and politically controlled system, as México, one has to develop a sense of inner direction and empowerment, where critical thinking is vital yet patriarchy becomes an impediment to the development of an inner compass and empowerment when it shapes and controls the masses’ identity and behavior through different strategies, methods, and institutions. One of the most powerful and popular identity shaping strategies is film making. Film is considered by most as a source of entertainment portraying social interactions. Yet it is a

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Daniels, Michelle. "Facebook and depression in late adolescence : intensity of use, quality of interactions, and the role of self-definition and identity." Thesis, Royal Holloway, University of London, 2014. http://digirep.rhul.ac.uk/items/bb6e5c71-2df1-9a28-e0ab-ccccaa2f9b99/1/.

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In contemporary society, online Social Networking Sites (SNS) such as Facebook provide increasingly popular contexts within which late adolescent peer interactions and accompanying identity experiments can occur. Consequently, of increasing interest is exploring the impact of SNS use on psychological functioning in this age group. There is some evidence suggestive of a relationship between greater SNS use and increased depressive symptoms. However, findings are inconsistent, with a large body of literature also indicative of possible beneficial effects of SNS use on adolescent social and emoti

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McCleary-Gaddy, Asia. "A Social Identity Threat To Merit: The Effects Of Similar Experience On Empathic Concern." ScholarWorks @ UVM, 2018. https://scholarworks.uvm.edu/graddis/862.

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Past research indicates that having a similar life experience as another person leads to greater empathic concern towards that person. Two studies empirically investigated if similar experiences of race-based social identity threat can increase the empathic concern of White Americans toward African Americans. Study 1 revealed that White Americans randomly assigned to think about White privilege and then randomly assigned to read a passage about an African American whose accomplishments are attributed to Affirmative Action policies (versus an African American whose accomplishments are attribute

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Booi, Laura Marie. "Social interactions, wellbeing and health in the oldest old: what can we learn from daily life approaches?" Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/37101.

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Canada, like many Western societies, has an aging population. Past research indicates that social interactions are meaningfully associated with physical and mental health. Unfortunately, very few studies have included individuals older than 85 years. This is important because the Oldest Old are the fastest growing segment of the Canadian population. This study is based on a subsample of the Berlin Aging Study (N = 83; Mean age = 81.1 years) who participated in an intensive, one-week time-sampling module. I examined how older adults regulate their social interactions by looking at two competing

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Higgins, Rylan G. "Negotiating the Middle: Interactions of Class, Gender and Consumerism Among the Middle-Class in Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/196062.

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This urban ethnography examines the everyday lives of young adults participating in middle-class culture in Ho Chi Minh City. My analysis illuminates the motivations and processes by which middle-class people create a social and moral middleness. Middleness refers both to the experiences of this group and to the cultural space wherein individuals perform their gender-specific, consumption-driven roles and negotiate identities as modern Vietnamese people. In attempting to understand precisely how social class functions and is experienced, my analysis focuses on how it relates to other processes

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Presi, Caterina. "Investigating Identity Communication Online in Forum-Based Virtual Communities of Consumption with Comparison to Face-to-Face Social Interactions." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.485262.

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How identity is communicated in forum-based Virtual Communities of Consumption (VCCs) and the role of the medium in identity communication are investigated by comparing what occurs online and face-to-face, using a conceptual framework of Symbolic Interactionism and Medium Theory. Ten qualitative case studies are applied, where one individual's online and offline experience represents a case. Principal data gathering techniques in the two environments (online and omine) were observations and semi-structured interviews. Data were analysed using socio-semiotics and grounded theory. The findings r

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Morrice, Linda Mary. "Managing the transition to a new life : a longitudinal study of learning processes and identity (re)formation among refugees in the UK." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2010. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/2527/.

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Over the last two decades there have been dramatic increases in the movement of people around the globe. The UK, like other wealthy countries in the global north, has become the recipient of increasing numbers of refugees, many of whom are highly qualified and have professional backgrounds (Kirk 2004; Houghton and Morrice 2008). This thesis captures the experiences of refugees with professional and higher level qualifications as they seek to rebuild their lives in the UK. Rather than look at migration through more traditional lenses of assimilation and acculturation it instead links the experi

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Hsu, Anne Y.-J. "The lived experience of transcultural identity explorers| a descriptive phenomenological psychological study on making a life in a new land." Thesis, Saybrook University, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10928675.

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<p> Transcultural migration is a growing phenomenon, yet research on the lived experience of individuals who willfully leave the security and comfort of their home nation and socio-cultural support to migrate alone as adults to a foreign nation where they do not have citizenship, do not look like the locals, and do not share the local mother tongue had not been previously researched. Marcia’s (2002) work on identity exploration and May’s existential psychological works (e.g., 1953), particularly his notion of “the stages in consciousness of self” (p. 100), served as maj

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Quest, A. Del. "Out of the Way and Out of Place: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of the Experiences of Social Interactions of Bisexually Attracted Young People." PDXScholar, 2014. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/2002.

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Research addressing the concerns of bisexually attracted youth has markedly increased in the past few years, yet remains limited in comparison to that addressing the issues of lesbian and gay youth (Brewster & Moradi, 2010). Those few studies treating bisexual participants as distinct from lesbian and gay participants have findings indicating that some youth who identify as bisexual experience higher rates of depression, pregnancy, substance abuse, suicidal ideations, and suicide attempts compared to their lesbian and gay peers (Kennedy & Fisher, 2010; Lewis, Derlega, Brown, Rose, & Henson, 20

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Winterton, Mandy Teresa. "The life-histories of male 'non-traditional' students in two of Scotland's ancient universities." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/17589.

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This exploratory study examined the life-histories of 21 men who were mature (27 years +), full-time students in two Scottish ancient universities. Most were first-generation entrants. Individual semi-structured interviews asked about the men's origins and lives so far. The aim was to understand men as gendered beings, and to consider the dynamics that had impacted on their lives. Though useful findings in their own right, the research also used this data to consider sociological theories of contemporary identity/ies, and to contemplate Bourdieu's theories of social-class reproduction. The leg

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Rose, Cassidy. "Activities and Quality of Life for Persons with Dementia." DigitalCommons@USU, 2017. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/5363.

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This study was conducted to better understand how activities may impact quality of life on dementia care units. Researchers observed dementia care units, and looked into how different activity types impacted emotional affect in the person with dementia, and how they elicited different levels of positive staff interaction. Results indicated that there were significantly higher levels of positive affect from participants on certain activity types, compared to no activity. Activities that had high levels of staff to client interactions had more positive affective outcomes. Researchers concluded t

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Carrington, Charlotte Victoria. "Dissent and identity in seventeenth-century New England." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.609724.

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