Dissertations / Theses: 'Family embeddedness in community'

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Abbas, Zaheer. "Is job embeddedeness good for individuals and organizations? : a conservation of resources theory perspective." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Aix-Marseille, 2021. http://theses.univ-amu.fr.lama.univ-amu.fr/211018_ABBAS_794mmypos352l841kinyph604vsoyv_TH.pdf.

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Durant ces cent dernières années, les chercheurs étudient le turn-over (roulement/rotation) volontaire des employés dans le but de trouver les raisons pour lesquelles les gens quittent leur poste de travail et leur organisation. Plusieurs modèles et théories de turn-over du personnel ont été́ proposés afin de trouver la solution à ce dernier. Pour la plupart, ces théories et modèles de turn-over tournaient autour des seuls facteurs organisationnels qui ignoraient le fait que l'individu fait partie d'un système social plus large ; de ce fait, leurs actions ne peuvent pas être expliquées sans tenir compte de l'impact de ces forces extérieures sur les relations entre l'employé́ et l'employeur. Néanmoins, au tournant du 21è siècle, les chercheurs ont officiellement commencé à intégrer les facteurs hors travail dans les modèles de recherche sur le turn-over volontaire des employés. L'une de ces théories, qui combine l'impact des forces organisationnelles et communautaires, est l'intégration au travail (job embeddedness). Malgré́ les avancées significatives de cette théorie, nos connaissances sont encore limitées quant à la manière dont les attachements familiaux à la communauté́ peuvent affecter la décision d'un individu de rester dans une organisation. Si les individus restent à cause de ces forces intérieures et extérieures ? : sont-ils aussi performants ? Comment leur santé psychologique est-elle affectée lorsque ces forces les obligent à rester dans un environnement de travail défavorable ? Dans la présente thèse, nous avons tenté de répondre à ces questionnements en menant trois études quantitatives distinctes
Researchers have been studying the employees’ voluntary turnover for the last hundred years to find the answer to why people leave. Several turnover models and theories have been proposed in quest of finding the solution to employee turnover. For the most part, these theories and turnover models hovered around the organizational factors alone. Which ignored the fact that the individual is a part of a larger social system; therefore, their actions cannot be explained without considering the impact of these outside forces on employee & employer relationship. At the turn of the 21st century, however, the researcher formally started incorporating off-the-job factors into the voluntary turnover research models—one such theory which amalgamated the impact of organizational and community forces is job embeddedness. Despite significant advancement of this theory, our knowledge is still limited as to how family attachments to the community may affect an individual’s decision to stay in an organization? If individuals do stay due to these inside and outside forces: do they also perform? How is their psychological health affected when these forces cause them to remain in an adverse working environment? In the current thesis, we tried to answer these questions by conducting three separate quantitative studies. These three studies have collectively contributed to the theory and practice by demonstrating the importance of organizational, community and family influences on individuals’ turnover intentions, organizational citizenship behaviour and psychological wellbeing

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Breton, Isabelle Le. "Appropriation versus stewardship in family business : A social embeddedness reconcilisation." Thesis, Imperial College London, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.501082.

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Bird, Miriam. "The Impact of the Family on Entrepreneurial Outcomes : The Role of Social Embeddedness." Doctoral thesis, Handelshögskolan i Stockholm, Institutionen för Företagande och Ledning, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hhs:diva-2284.

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Most entrepreneurs have families that highly influence their business activities. However, scholars have paid limited attention to how the family as a specific social context impacts entrepreneurial outcomes, such as new venture creation, firm growth, and exit from entrepreneurship. This thesis investigates how the family influences such outcomes at different levels of analysis: the individual level, the firm level, and the regional level. The theoretical framework is developed by integrating the theory of social embeddedness with literature on family business and entrepreneurship. Empirical evidence is based on a unique multi-level Swedish database combining individual-, firm-, and regional-level data. By providing an in-depth understanding of whether the family influence pertains to the whole entrepreneurial process or only to particular entrepreneurial outcomes, this thesis contributes to a new understanding of the family’s role in entrepreneurship.

Diss. Stockholm : Stockholm School of Economics, 2014.

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Oyler, Jennifer D. "Core Self-Evaluations and Job Satisfaction: The Role of Organizational and Community Embeddedness." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/29360.

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This study extends job embeddedness and job satisfaction theory in several notable directions. As hypothesized, structural equation modeling revealed that community embeddedness was a partial mediator of the relationship between core self-evaluations and job satisfaction. Contrary to job embeddedness theory, this study found that organizational embeddedness and job satisfaction were best represented by a single latent factor. Thus, organizational embeddedness did not act as a mediator of the relationship between core self-evaluations and job satisfaction nor did it act as a multiple mediator with community embeddedness. Explanations of these results and new avenues for research are discussed.
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Collier, Maraiah Wenn. "Barangay my community, my family /." unrestricted, 2005. http://etd.gsu.edu/theses/available/etd-03212005-202405/.

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Thesis (M.F.A.)--Georgia State University, 2005.
Mark Burleson, Michael Murrell, committee co-chairs; Junco Sato Pollack, committee member. Electronic text (24 p. : col. ill.) : digital, PDF file. Description based on contents viewed July 16, 2007. Includes bibliographical references (p. 23-24).

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Huang, Kun. "THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EMBEDDEDNESS AND ORGANIZATIONAL SOCIAL PERFORMANCE IN A COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH NETWORK UNDER MANAGED CARE." Diss., Tucson, Ariz. : University of Arizona, 2005. http://etd.library.arizona.edu/etd/GetFileServlet?file=file:///data1/pdf/etd/azu%5Fetd%5F1211%5F1%5Fm.pdf&type=application/pdf.

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Welk, Kara L. M. "Family Business Contributions to the Community: A Comparison of Copreneurs and Other Family Business Owners on Community Social Responsibility." Thesis, North Dakota State University, 2012. https://hdl.handle.net/10365/26564.

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Copreneurs, defined as couples who jointly operate a business and share business-related responsibilities and decisions, represent a growing portion of family business (Fitzgerald & Muske; 2002; Marshack, 1993, 1994). However, knowledge of copreneurs remains limited in the research literature. The uniqueness of copreneurs may be particularly meaningful with respect to community social responsibility, referring to the contributions a business provides to the community beyond the products and services offered (Besser, 1999). This study explores the potential differences between the socially responsible behaviors of copreneurial and noncopreneurial businesses using the Sustainable Family Business Theory as a framework. Analysis focuses on the influence of business owner, business, community, and family characteristics on the community social responsibility of copreneurs and noncopreneurs. Data from the 2000 panel of the National Family Business Survey (NFBS) was used. Findings indicate that certain characteristics and contexts influence community social responsibility, although copreneurship is not a significant predictor.

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Bailey, George William Clair. "A Family Literacy Curriculum for Community ESL Courses." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2007. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd2038.pdf.

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Brooks, Simon. "Economic rationality, embeddedness and community : a critical study of corporate social responsibility among small to medium sized enterprises." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2008. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/54498/.

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The research question addressed by this thesis is whether corporate social responsibility is constructed and practiced as an economically rational phenomenon by small to medium sized enterprises. Corporate social responsibility is a deeply contested concept, with ongoing debates over its legitimacy that in turn inform a literature preoccupied by definitional problems and characterized by the search for a link between responsible practice and firm performance. My thesis critiques this approach to CSR and takes an approach more suitable for small to medium sized enterprises. It also seeks to address calls for more critical thought in the fields of business ethics and the sociology of economic behaviour. The qualitative evidence presented here shows that, in contrast to the dominant picture from the literature (dominated by large firm studies), small to medium sized enterprises rarely construct or justify their social responsibility in rational economic terms. Indeed, in many cases their social engagement is not described in terms of corporate social responsibility at all and seems to be legitimized more by the firm's relationship with community. This invites reflections on Karl Polanyi, and cautiously suggests Alastair Maclntyre's pessimism about a 'society of strangers' may be premature. In this study, corporate social responsibility spring from personal contacts and preferences among staff and managers, and could best be described as 'emergent'. Furthermore, I also found that some practitioners questioned the very efficacy of using societal engagement as a managerial intervention in the first place. The raises the question of whether the predominant CSR discourse is making a fundamental mistake in proposing that corporate social responsibility could be an instrumental tool of management at all. This may be uncomfortable news for those in the academy engaged in the search for the elusive link between corporate social responsibility and firm performance since around 1972. I argue that the focus on the 'performance link' has allowed rational economic thought to colonize the academic discourse and has foreclosed debates based on morality as a result. I also argue that my study shows how, in the main, social engagement is legitimized through relations with community rather than with reference to economic performance.

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Smith, Dalenna Ruelas. "Evaluating family engagement| Program application of the parent, family, and community engagement framework." Thesis, California Institute of Integral Studies, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3726295.

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This study examined how an Early Head Start and Head Start grantee, the Institute for Human and Social Development (IHSD), implemented the Office of Head Start’s research-based Parent, Family, and Community Engagement (PFCE) Framework. This study also evaluated IHSD’s performance and determined whether the organization accomplished its set intention of fostering family engagement in support of positive child development and education outcomes.

This formative, outcome-based program evaluation utilized qualitative and quantitative analysis to evaluate IHSD's systematic implementation of engagement. Parent survey data, interview transcripts, and a review of existing agency data provided a parent-oriented perspective on the IHSD’s engagement outcomes relative to the PFCE Framework.

Participants included parents of children in each of IHSD's five program options during 2012–2013 or 2013–2014. They participated by completing either a parent survey (n = 842) or an interview ( n = 12) regarding engagement-focused services, focusing on the parents’ perspectives of the services’ implementation and outcomes. Results from the surveys and interviews were analyzed with available IHSD data related to family services as well as child outcomes, including gains in social-emotional development and language and literacy development within the Desired Results Developmental Profile (DRDP). Results indicate that the children made improvement gains within the DRDP domains investigated. Parents surveyed and interviewed identified the program environment as engaging and named the staff’s helpfulness as responsible. Among the aspects of the program they were asked to rate, parents identified the strategies of parent training, parent leadership council membership, home activities, home visits, parent meetings, and volunteerism as ideal in meeting their needs.

In general, IHSD is a high-quality agency providing early childhood education that engages families and grows parent engagement by teaching parents to be their children’s advocates and teachers. The results of this study indicate that if IHSD continues to effectively implement strategies and incorporates feedback from these findings, the organization’s child development programs will likely continue to excel.

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Aguiar, Margarida. "Childhood, schooling, family, and community, reflections of mothers." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp05/NQ63571.pdf.

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Richmond, Heather Jardine. "Community and family literacy partnerships in New Brunswick." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.299559.

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Keynan, Nitzan. "Family Art Assessment Praxis In Community Mental Health." Digital Commons at Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School, 2013. https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/etd/16.

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This study endeavors to explore the use of Helen B. Landgarten’s Family Art Assessment as a consultation service, in community mental health clinic settings. This research is a continuation of a pilot project initiated by director of the Helen B. Landgarten Art Therapy Clinic, Dr. Paige Asawa, MFT, ATR-BC, in which Dr. Asawa implemented the Landagarten Family Art Assessment at a local clinic with five families. The initial results of that study were examined and analyzed by Meirav Haber, who used a survey and an art response component to document the participants’ experience. In this study, a focus group was conducted, which consisted of various stakeholders in the agency from administration to the clinicians who participated in the initial pilot project. They shared their thoughts and feelings about the experience in a semi-structured conversational setting. The focus group recording was transcribed and analyzed into three themes: procedural recommendations, assessment conceptualizations, and therapeutic relationship indications. This indication pertained to the formation and stability of the therapeutic relationship between the family and its primary clinician, which must exist prior to conducting the Family Art Assessment. A synthesis of the existing protocol, focus group conversation, and the literature reveals that it is beneficial to have both the assessing art therapist and the primary clinician present in the therapy room during the consultation of the Family Art Assessment, in order for the results of the assessment to be as authentic and valid as possible. These results may contribute to a better understanding of the possibilities of having art therapy consultations as this local clinic, and to promote collaboration between art therapists and mental health professionals.

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Perry, Brant Patrick. "The School-Family-Community Partnership: A Superintendent's Perspective." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2006. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc5492/.

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The purpose of this study was to describe, from a superintendent's perspective, the current status of school-family-community partnerships in North Texas school districts. A secondary purpose of this study was to allow the superintendents to express themselves in an open-ended format regarding factors that encourage and limit the development of these partnerships, as well as their three-year goals for creating successful partnerships in their districts. A review of the literature revealed that very limited research exists regarding the relationship between the school superintendent and the school-family-community partnership. This literature review focused on research related to the school-family-community partnership including its place in federal legislation, and a historical and current perspective of the school superintendency. The target population for this study included 156 superintendents from the two educational service centers that make up the Dallas/Fort-Worth Metroplex. This research study employed an online survey research methodology. The instrument used in this study was the Measure of School, Family, and Community Partnerships by Dr. Joyce Epstein of Johns Hopkins University. Participants were asked to respond to fifty-two items placed in the six categories that represent Dr. Epstein's six types of involvement. Superintendents were also asked to respond to open-ended questions regarding what they perceive to be major factors that contribute to and limit the success of their school districts' school-family-community partnership efforts and what their primary goals were for improving these partnerships over the next three years. An analysis of district size in relation to superintendent perceptions of their district's school-family-partnership practices yielded no significant partnership practices. An analysis of district accountability ratings in relation to superintendent perceptions of their district's school-family-partnership practices yielded seven significant partnership practices. Finally, an analysis of superintendent experience yielded four significant superintendent partnership practices. The major factors superintendents perceive as not only contributing to, but limiting the success of their partnership programs revolved around parent involvement. The primary three-year goal that superintendent's reported for improving their district partnership programs overwhelmingly involved enhancing parent involvement.

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Sabattini, Laura. "Building a community : single mothers manage family responsibilities /." Diss., Digital Dissertations Database. Restricted to UC campuses, 2004. http://uclibs.org/PID/11984.

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Kismono, Gugup. "The relationships between job embeddedness, work-family conflict, and the impact of gender on turnover intention : evidence from the Indonesian banking industry." Thesis, Curtin University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/2256.

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This research examined the relationships between job embeddedness, work-family conflict and turnover intention. It also examined the impact of gender on the relationships between these variables. While previous studies had been undertaken to date regarding organisations in Western (individualistic) countries, the relationships between these variables had not been empirically tested using samples from Eastern (collectivistic) cultures.A quantitative research design and methodology were adopted for the research. Data was drawn from a sample of 1,122 employees in the Indonesian banking industry, through a questionnaire survey measuring job embeddedness, work-family conflict and turnover intention. The sample consisted of 606 male and 516 female respondents.An evaluation of items measuring job embeddedness using formative model procedures produced 16 valid items; 10 items measuring on-the-job embeddedness and 6 items measuring off-the-job embeddedness. The items measuring workfamily conflict and turnover intention were confirmed to have adequate validity and reliability.A Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) approach with Amos 7 (Arbuckle 2006) was used to test the hypothesised relationships between job embeddedness, workfamily conflict and the impact of gender on turnover intention. Analyses found that on-the-job embeddedness negatively correlated with turnover intention, and the relationship between off-the-job embeddedness and turnover intention was insignificant. A significant negative correlation was found between work interfering with family (WIF) and turnover intention, in addition to a significant positive correlation between family interfering with work (FIW) and turnover intention. It was also found that gender has no impact on the relationships between the variables studied. The results support the importance of on-the-job embeddedness, the need to support employees in carrying out their family and community activities, and the lack of difference between genders in seeking work-life balance.The implications for business practices in light of the relationships between job embeddedness, work-family conflict and the impact of gender on turnover intention were considered in this research. Organisations need to develop employees' levels of on-the-job embeddedness, as well as job involvement, given that on-the-job embeddedness negatively, and WIF positively, correlated with turnover intention. The application of flexible working hours and provision of flexibility in taking maternity (or parental) leave should also be encouraged. These policies are beneficial for both male and female employees as it was found that gender had no moderating impact on the relationships between the variables.

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Calhoun, McKenzie L. "Community Forum: 2019 Legislative Priorities." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2019. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/6900.

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Suter, Casey Ryan. "Economic evaluation of a community-based, family-skills prevention program." Pullman, Wash. : Washington State University, 2010. http://www.dissertations.wsu.edu/Thesis/Spring2010/c_suter_042010.pdf.

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Thesis (M.A. in human development)--Washington State University, May 2010.
Title from PDF title page (viewed on July 8, 2010). "Department of Human Development." Includes bibliographical references (p. 46-52).

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Rainie, Stephanie Carroll. "Promoting Family and Community Health through Indigenous Nation Sovereignty." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/594540.

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BACKGROUND: Indigenous populations in the United States (US) experience worse health outcomes and higher disease prevalence compared to the US all race population. The World Health Organization (WHO), Canadian research on Indigenous-specific determinants, the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development, and the Native Nation's Institute have all identified governance as a determinant that impacts community health and development. This dissertation explored the active and potential role of Indigenous nations' governance, since the Native nation building era commenced in the 1970s, in protecting and promoting family and community health. OBJECTIVES: The dissertation aims were to: (1) describe the state of population data for US Indigenous nations and benefits of engaging with data, data sovereignty, and data governance for US Indigenous nations, (2) outline the history and current state of tribal public health relative to other US public health systems, and (3) elucidate the assumptions and applicability of the social determinants of health framework to Indigenous health contexts. METHODS: This mixed-methods study integrated retrospective quantitative and primary quantitative and qualitative data from case studies with six reservation-based American Indian tribes with qualitative data collected in a focus group and two consensus panels of public health practitioners and scholars. RESULTS: The results by aim were: (1) self-determination with regard to health and other population data offers Indigenous nations opportunities to create and access relevant and reliable data to inform policy and resource allocations, (2) the federal government and others have not invested in tribal public health authority infrastructures in ways similar to investments made in federal, state, and local public health authorities, resulting in tribal public health systems falling below other public health authorities in function and capacity, and (3) underlying Euro-Centric assumptions imbedded in the social determinants of health framework reduce its applicability in Indigenous health contexts. CONCLUSIONS: This study contributes to understanding the roles of Indigenous nation self-determination and sovereignty in defining health to align with Indigenous philosophies of wellness. Guided by Indigenous-specific determinants of health, tribes can set community-based, culture-informed methods and metrics for establishing, monitoring, and assessing public health policies and programs to support healthy communities and families. RECOMMENDATIONS: Indigenous nations, in partnership with researchers and other governments as appropriate, should develop framework(s) for tribal health that include broad, shared, and nation-specific definitions of health, healthy families and communities, and health determinants. Federal, state, and local governments should partner with Indigenous nations to improve tribal public health infrastructures and to support tribal data sovereignty and data governance through building tribal data capacity, aligning data with tribal self-conceptions, and forming data sharing agreements.

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Bills, George F. "Am I my neighbors keeper? toward a community-based model of local violence /." Huntington, WV : [Marshall University Libraries], 2003. http://www.marshall.edu/etd/descript.asp?ref=257.

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Heilmann, Sharon Gibson. "The impact of community embeddedness on turnover an investigation of the moderating effects of career plateauing, occupational portability, and occupational commutability /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2005. http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/fullcit/3185397.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, 2005.
Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-08, Section: A, page: 2997. Chair: George F. Dreher. Title from dissertation home page (viewed Oct. 5, 2006).

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McLennan, Vanette. "The role of family and community resilience in Indigenous wellbeing." University of Sydney, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/6237.

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Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
The alarming rates of ill-health and social disadvantage amongst Australian Indigenous peoples has continued despite improved understanding of the determinants behind these conditions. There appears to be an urgent need to review and re-orientate health and social programs, from a deficit-focused to a strengths-based model, whereby a community’s capacity and resilience is enhanced utilising, and building on, existing strengths and resources. The current study set out to investigate the meaning and role of resilience in the wellbeing of Indigenous Australians. The aim of the study was to examine resilience within an Indigenous context, its potential role in strengthening the Indigenous response to adversity, and the prospective ways in which this may be used in initiatives aimed at boosting health and wellbeing in Indigenous communities. The study involved qualitative in-depth interviews and focus groups within the Indigenous Yaegl community of north-eastern New South Wales. This was achieved through extensive consultation with the community, and a strong commitment to upholding cultural sensitivities and ethical considerations. The data was analysed using a phenomenological framework, involving objective and in-depth thematic analysis, with specific focus on the relationships within the data and their associations with the research questions posed. The study indicates the resilience of the Yaegl community, involving individual, family and community level resilience, involves interdependent protective factors and support structures. The experience of hardship itself, and the ability to employ positive adaptational/coping skills and recruit a variety of protective resources are key to the development of resilience throughout the life continuum. The study demonstrates the importance of these mechanisms not only at the individual level, but also in the resilience of family units and the community. This appears particularly important within the Indigenous context where these levels of functioning are interdependently connected. The study has implications for health and social practitioners looking to broaden their understanding of the Indigenous experience, to one that acknowledges the many existing strengths and protective factors present in Indigenous communities. Practitioners and program developers would benefit from utilising this holistic model of resilience, in which individual, family and community based protective factors play important roles in the prevention of risk and the development of resilience. Programs incorporating this understanding are expected to be more effective in both service delivery and outcomes, because all levels of functioning would be viewed and addressed as interdependent elements in the development of resilience and response to adversity.

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Parker, Andrea. "Family functioning and mental health in the Serbian refugee community /." Title page, contents and abstract only, 1998. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PM/09pp238.pdf.

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Sekhon, A. K. "Understanding family coping with alcohol problems in the Sikh community." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.506124.

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This thesis examines the coping mechanisms employed by the wives and daughters of male Sikh problem drinkers using both qualitative and quantitative data gathered through structured and semi-structure interviews. Interviews were carried out in either English or Punjabi with a main sample of 24 wives in addition to a sub-sample of 10 problem drinkers and 7 daughters. From analysis of the qualitative data several themes emerged including 'the role of the wife', 'marriage' and 'the changing role of Sikh women'. Analysis was done in two stages and enabled the development and subsequent modification of a model showing the different stages of the wives' coping strategies. Quantitative results largely supported these models. Daughters exhibited similar coping strategies to their mothers while the problem drinkers tended to deny that their wives' behaviour (which they reported as becoming more independent and assertive) had changed. The implications of this work for practice in clinical settings are discussed given that findings challenge the stereotypical view of 'passive' Sikh wives.

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Galvin, John. "Partnership pedagogies : family-school-community educational partnerships in disadvantaged settings." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.521989.

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Nguyen, My Ngoc T. "School-family-community partnerships for establishing a college-going culture." Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1527571.

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This project examined the college-going culture at David Starr Jordan High School, an urban high school in North Long Beach, California. Drawing from two conceptual frameworks, Joyce Epstein's six elements of school-family-community partnerships and Patricia McDonough's nine elements of a college:.going culture, a new conceptual framework was developed: school-family-community partnership collegegoing culture. This new conceptual framework emphasizes the three C's: (a) communication, (b) college-information, and (c) collaboration, bridging schoolfamily- community partnerships and college-going culture.

To increase the college-going rate at David Starr Jordan High School, two community events were implemented at the school utilizing this new conceptual framework-providing a link between theory and practice. As a result, the project helped build school-family-community alliance, disseminated college information to students and families to debunk myths about college-related options, and promoted David Starr Jordan High School as a safe and caring high school.

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Korovushkina, Irina. "Marriage, gender, family and the Old Believer community, 1760 - 1850." Thesis, University of Essex, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.388137.

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Reilly, James Michael. "Leadership Practices that Affect Student Achievement: Family and Community Partnerships." Thesis, Boston College, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:107957.

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Thesis advisor: Diana Pullin
It is widely accepted that school leadership has both a direct and indirect impact on student achievement. Hitt and Tucker’s (2016) Unified Leadership Framework summarized a decade of work by numerous researchers identifying the five most effective leadership domains that influence student learning. Using that work as a conceptual framework, this qualitative case study analyzed one of the five interdependent leadership domains in an urban elementary school that succeeded in educating traditionally marginalized students and outperformed other schools with similar demographics in the district. This study focused on Hitt and Tucker’s (2016) leadership domain of connecting with external partners. Specifically, it examined whether leadership practices that supported family and community partnerships were present at the school. Family and community partnerships are important because they support two essential, yet frequently overlooked, contexts where student learning and development take place. In addition, this study examined whether school leadership practices promoted these partnerships in a culturally proficient manner. This analysis was informed by the culturally responsive school leadership (CRSL) framework, which describes principal behaviors that promote cultural responsiveness in urban settings. Several leadership practices that supported the criteria established by Hitt and Tucker (2016) under the domain of connecting with external partners were evident at the school, including: building productive relationships with families and the community; engaging families in collaborative processes to strengthen student learning; and anchoring the school in the community. However, leadership practices promoting family and community partnerships did not fully support a finding of being a culturally proficient school culture. This finding was primarily based on a “one size fits all” approach to working with students and families, which has been described in the literature as “cultural blindness”. Recommendations to practitioners as a result of this study include expanding informal opportunities for parent input and engagement, conducting an equity audit, and pursuing cultural proficiency professional development
Thesis (EdD) — Boston College, 2018
Submitted to: Boston College. Lynch School of Education
Discipline: Educational Leadership and Higher Education

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Bitter, James. "Adlerian Family Counseling: Toward a Therapeutic Community (pre-convention workshop)." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 1995. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/6124.

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Fagan, Donna M. "Rosacea a review of family history and community of origin /." St. John's, NF : [s.n.], 2001.

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McLennan, Vanette. "The role of family and community resilience in Indigenous wellbeing." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/6237.

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The alarming rates of ill-health and social disadvantage amongst Australian Indigenous peoples has continued despite improved understanding of the determinants behind these conditions. There appears to be an urgent need to review and re-orientate health and social programs, from a deficit-focused to a strengths-based model, whereby a community’s capacity and resilience is enhanced utilising, and building on, existing strengths and resources. The current study set out to investigate the meaning and role of resilience in the wellbeing of Indigenous Australians. The aim of the study was to examine resilience within an Indigenous context, its potential role in strengthening the Indigenous response to adversity, and the prospective ways in which this may be used in initiatives aimed at boosting health and wellbeing in Indigenous communities. The study involved qualitative in-depth interviews and focus groups within the Indigenous Yaegl community of north-eastern New South Wales. This was achieved through extensive consultation with the community, and a strong commitment to upholding cultural sensitivities and ethical considerations. The data was analysed using a phenomenological framework, involving objective and in-depth thematic analysis, with specific focus on the relationships within the data and their associations with the research questions posed. The study indicates the resilience of the Yaegl community, involving individual, family and community level resilience, involves interdependent protective factors and support structures. The experience of hardship itself, and the ability to employ positive adaptational/coping skills and recruit a variety of protective resources are key to the development of resilience throughout the life continuum. The study demonstrates the importance of these mechanisms not only at the individual level, but also in the resilience of family units and the community. This appears particularly important within the Indigenous context where these levels of functioning are interdependently connected. The study has implications for health and social practitioners looking to broaden their understanding of the Indigenous experience, to one that acknowledges the many existing strengths and protective factors present in Indigenous communities. Practitioners and program developers would benefit from utilising this holistic model of resilience, in which individual, family and community based protective factors play important roles in the prevention of risk and the development of resilience. Programs incorporating this understanding are expected to be more effective in both service delivery and outcomes, because all levels of functioning would be viewed and addressed as interdependent elements in the development of resilience and response to adversity.

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Ortega, Erin. "Mobile Application Use to Support Family, School, and Community Partnerships." ScholarWorks, 2019. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/6734.

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Globally, a phenomenon has transpired involving the fast-paced growth of mobile technology and the rapid adoption of smart technology. As technology continues to become more mobile, it could be beneficial for educational systems to begin to evaluate how mobile applications impact family, school, and community relationships; however, little research exists on this specific topic. The purpose of this qualitative study was to uncover the experiences of district-level administrators during the implementation of mobile applications for a number of school districts. The diffusion of innovation theory, the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology, and various school, family, and community partnership frameworks informed this study. Administrators who oversaw the implementation of district mobile apps participated in this study. Data were collected using electronic questionnaires and phone interviews, with supportive information from archival documents. The resulting data were analyzed to uncover the unique experiences of each study participant and compared and contrasted to explore emerging themes. Families were identified as the target stakeholder group intended to be reached through mobile apps and participants recommended engaging diverse stakeholder groups when planning to implement apps. Focusing on the integration of new mobile apps with existing systems and supplying the apps with content emerged as themes. Communicating the availability of mobile apps to families and participant responsibilities associated with the implementation of mobile apps were areas of concern. This study potentially informs school districts regarding how to reach more diverse families.

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Stroope, Samuel, and Joseph O. Baker. "Structural and Cultural Sources of Community in American Congregations." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2014. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/493.

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Religious institutions are among the deepest reservoirs of social belonging in America, but what determines whether belonging is cultivated in these institutions? Previous research shows that individuals’ social network composition is a primary predictor of feelings of belonging. However, less is known about how group characteristics condition the influence of social networks on belonging. We use data from the 2001 U.S. Congregational Life Survey and multilevel modeling to examine how organizational characteristics such as group size, in-group network density, and aggregate ideological uniformity moderate the effects of individual social networks on sense of belonging. Results indicate that both structural (network density, church size) and cultural (ideology) characteristics of groups significantly condition the effects of individual social networks on belonging. Smaller group size, network density, and ideological unity cultivate contexts that amplify the relationship between personal networks and belonging.

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Kelleher, Killarney, University of Western Sydney, and Faculty of Health. "Evaluation of the Cottage Community Care Pilot Project." THESIS_FH_XXX_Kelleher_K.xml, 1999. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/743.

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The outcomes of a child protection/family support programme, the Cottage Community Care Pilot Project, were evaluated in this study. The evaluation employed a non-equivalent comparison group design of 'at risk' consenting first-time mothers in the perinatal period with babies up to 6 weeks of age. Ninety-three families were recruited and 58 of these were matched with a trained volunteer home visitor. Analysis of assessment items and questionnaires, reviews of hospital records and the Department of Community Services Child abuse and neglect notification register and focus groups with mothers and volunteers provided the information used in this study. The CCCP had an impact on particular aspects of family function, certain infant and maternal health indices and the families' use of community services, but its contribution to reducing the incidence of child abuse and neglect is less clear. Client and volunteer feedback indicated support for the programme. While home visitation by trained volunteers is not proposed as the total answer for effective child protection or family support, the findings of this evaluation suggest that there is a place for similar programmes.
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Banderker, Shahida. "The use of low dose tricyclic antidepressants at Heideveld Community Health Centre." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8630.

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AIM OF THIS STUDY: To describe how doctors are prescribing low dose antidepressants at Heideveld Community Health Centre. OBJECTIVES: 1. To determine how many patients are being prescribed low dose antidepressants at Heideveld Community Health Centre. 2. To see what sort of dosages are being prescribed as low dose most frequently. 3. To see if indications for the use of low dose tricyclic antidepressants are being recorded. 4. To identify the indications for the use of low dose tricyclic antidepressant. METHOD: A total of 500 patient folders were reviewed. 50 patient folders, (10 folders each from five medical officers), were systematically sampled, per day, for ten days over a two week period. Records were reviewed and data was captured on a data capture sheet. Demographic data: age and gender was recorded. The dose of the antidepressant per patient was recorded. The indication for its use was recorded. Where the indication of its use was not recorded, this was also documented. RESULTS: 1. Of the 500 folders reviewed, a total of 153 (30,6%) of the patients were prescribed low dose tricyclic antidepressants at the consultation, during the time that the study took place. 2. The minimum dose used was 10mg and the maximum dose used was 75mg of tricyclic antidepressant. The median dose used was 25mg. 3. 83% of the folders had reasons for the use of low dose tricyclic antidepressant recorded. 17% of the folders had no reason recorded. 4. The reasons for using low dose tricyclic antidepressants, were for chronic pain syndromes, insomnia, somatic symptoms and for psychological or psychiatric reasons (anxiety or depression related symptoms). CONCLUSION: Low dose tricyclic antidepressants were justifiably prescribed for the many non-psychiatric and psychiatric conditions that respond to it, at Heideveld Community Health Centre.

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Keller, Christine. "Community Connections Factors Related to Army Wives' Adaptation." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/34472.

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When military members deploy or temporarily relocate, spouses are left behind to maintain not only their normal day-to-day activities, but also assume the responsibilities of the absent spouse. In cases such as these potentially stressful events, it is important to have adequate support networks within the community to assist individuals in sustaining a sense of personal well-being. The data source of the study is the 2001 Survey of Army Families IV. The survey focuses on randomly selected wives of active duty Army members (n=6451). The research model for this study includes wives' adaptation as the criterion variable, with community connections as independent variables and a set of contextual influence measures also considered as independent variables. Regression analysis for the entire sample indicated that wives with greater adaptation utilized more formal network resources. Among wives of officers, the most important predictors were volunteering and having a close confidant, whereas among wives of enlisted military members most important factors were participating with the Family Readiness Group and employment status.
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Zhang, Yangchen. "I WAS HERE : A service to engage families exploring and preserving stories about their city." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen Designhögskolan, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-56393.

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Nowadays, most aspects of our daily lives have been changed by digital technology. Digital content as a new medium has been used widely as memorial to bring back memories of a person, an event or old times. Since all the data probably will exist longer than our lifetime, how should we deal with them and treat them as a heritage? In this project, I am exploring the possibilities of an innovative service that would engage people to preserve memories in the digital age by sharing their stories with future generations. I aim at result that not only allows people to collect stories, but also brings new perspective on how people view their present lives in the community. Moreover, I hope this design will not be limited to Norsjö municipality, but could also bring an extra value to other small communities with similar needs.

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Salman, Abdul-Jalil M. "Fertility and family planning patterns in Qatar." Thesis, City University London, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.307877.

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Semler, Mirko. "Enacting a limit case of autonomous service-learning : insights from an ethnographic inquiry into a contemporary application of the pedagogy." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/12223.

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Service-learning (SL) is a socially embedded and experience-based pedagogy that develops the link between theory and practice through community engagement. It fosters learning outcomes for students and benefits for community members. This thesis builds on recent applications of the pedagogy and advances our understanding of SL by studying a limit case of student autonomy in the absence of faculty intervention. Student-community and peer-to-peer relationships are particularly influential on students' lived experience if their interactions are unmediated by educators. This thesis firstly explores how students enact SL if left to their own devices. Secondly, by adopting a relational embeddedness perspective, it investigates the influence of student-community and peer-to-peer relations on participants' learning experience. An organisational (“at-home”) ethnography in a student-led social enterprise yielded insights into the two streams of research. The findings suggest that students' learning process consisted of a blend of emergent and deliberate micro learning processes that highlight the importance of - among other components of students' learning experience - role enactment, student autonomy, peer engagement, informal learning, and community co-education. With regards to the relationality of this limit case of SL, community and peer relations had an enabling and constraining influence on student learning. The findings further speak to the causality of such impact and suggest that the nature of inter-personal relationships determined the effects they had on students' experiential basis for learning. These findings contribute to the debate about the promise, effectiveness, and principles of SL in business and management education by problematizing student autonomy and faculty intervention. Moreover, this thesis responds to a gap in the literature and sheds light on the relationality of the pedagogy.

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Chapman, Paul Eugene. "Multiple Community Services: One Family's Experience." Diss., Virginia Tech, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/29813.

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The family support movement in the United States has its roots in the early years of the 20th century when progressives like Jane Addams worked to improve the lives of disadvantaged children and their families. Family support today is provided by multiple public and private agencies. How families experience these services is not well known. Such information could help service providers give meaningful support to those in need.This is a case study of how one family experienced the receipt of multiple community services. The family lived in Virginia, and four family members participated in the study. The family consisted of Elizabeth, the matriarch, age 39; Allen, third husband of Elizabeth, age 30; Bradley, middle son of Elizabeth, age 16; and Benjamin, youngest son of Elizabeth, age 14. Elizabeth's eldest son C. C., age 18, did not participate in the study.The services received by the family were focused on Elizabeth, a childhood victim of parental abuse and a cancer survivor, and Bradley, who was identified with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Bradley was a resident in a wilderness program for at-risk boys. The wilderness program was partially funded by the Virginia Comprehensive Services Act.The study had four purposes: (1) to inform policy makers about how families are affected by policy decisions on issues pertaining to families, (2) to influence the decisions of policy makers, (3) to add to the definition of quality family support, and (4) to provide information useful to educators and service providers in developing programs for at-risk children and families.Data sources were observations of, and interviews with, family members. Data were analyzed with the constant comparative method as described by Maykut and Morehouse (1994). The analysis and findings are presented in a narrative report.
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Scyner, Andrew Julian. "Family and community medicine in Costa Rica, where professionalization meets development." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ29512.pdf.

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Jones, Katherine Martha May. "Spatial dynamics and community structure in coral reef fishes (family Labridae)." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape2/PQDD_0035/NQ62323.pdf.

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Hull, Angela M. "Beyond money relating local school taxation to family and community risk /." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri-Columbia, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/4678.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2007.
The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file (viewed on September 25, 2007) Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

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Ginn, Carla S., and University of Lethbridge Faculty of Health Sciences. "Urban First Nations grandmothers : health promotion roles in family and community." Thesis, Lethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Faculty of Health Sciences, c2009, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10133/2512.

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The purpose of this participatory action research study was to gain an awareness of the meanings of health for urban First Nations grandmothers, and how they promote it in their families and communities. Active participation of 7 urban First Nations grandmothers in the research process involved 4 group and 1 individual interview. Meanings of health included maintaining balance in all areas of life; physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual. Control imposed through the residential schools resulted in secrets kept, yet the survival and resiliency of the grandmothers were identified as part of being healthy. Personal health was linked with the health of their families and communities, and an awareness of living in two cultures vital in the intergenerational transmission of knowledge. Relationships with grandchildren were catalysts for change, and the grandmothers described working to “turn it around” throughout their challenges in health and life, as one strategy for health promotion.
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Scyner, Andrew. "Family and community medicine in Costa Rica : where professionalization meets development." Thesis, McGill University, 1997. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=26706.

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Family and Community Medicine was introduced to Costa Rica through the McGill-CENDEISSS Project of 1989-1994. The development of this new speciality is interpreted as a "professionalization" drive, which, while appropriating the discourse of the international primary health care movement, in fact places more importance, as a social movement, on negotiating for and expanding its own jurisdictional space. Two bodies of literature are called upon to provide theoretical guidance, namely, writing on "professionalization" and ethnographic interpretations of "development" in the so-called Third World. The phenomenon of Family and Community Medicine in Costa Rica is described as an international, national, and local movement. The town of Puerto Viejo de Sarapiqui is the focus of an ethnographic description of the speciality's local-level implementation.

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L'Heureux, Marie Alice. "The ideology of gender and community : housing the woman-led family." Thesis, McGill University, 1993. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=69708.

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Housing typologies based on the traditional family no longer satisfy the needs of the majority of households. Woman-led families are impeded in their search for appropriate housing by their low wages and family responsibilities, compounded by the blindness of housing-policy makers to their existence. Historical models of collective dwellings are steeped in the ideology of the period and yield few direct practical solutions to the current dilemma. The richness of this housing, however, which evolved during a time of dramatic social change underscores the blandness of current housing solutions. Feminists insist that housing and urban design solutions should challenge the gender defined roles of "homemaker" and "childcare giver" and the restricted mobility of women in cities and suburbs. The endorsement of new housing typologies must be translated into their realisation and subsequent analysis.

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Storm, Alan. "Family and maritime community : Robin Hood's Bay, c.1653-c.1867." Thesis, University of Leicester, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/7668.

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This study of a coastal settlement, in challenging its traditional classification as a "fishing village", may strengthen the case for more investigations of the kind. Coastal erosion at Robin Hood's Bay created a compactness which contributed to the cohesion of the population. Confined between Highland and the North Sea, the settlement shared the remoteness, cultural even more than geographical, of seaward-looking Whitby. With enclosure as a detectable factor, population was probably drawn from the adjacent countryside in the fifteenth century, to accumulate around a fishing-farming nucleus. In the seventeenth century the traditional manorial situation in Fylingdales began to change, with the introduction of 1,000-year leaseholds in Robin Hood's Bay. This contributed to relative immobility of the settlement's population. Servicing by sea of the local alum industry, and the rise of the east-coast coal trade, became the means of extending the equalitarian and co-operative order of fishing to seafaring and shipping enterprise. The return on this, assisted by the unusually long tenure, was sufficient to support the growth of networks of kin so forbidding in their complexity that family reconstitution, from parish registers and wider genealogical sources, became essential to the study. Concern to protect the family is observable, but the growth of strong, puritanical Nonconformity did not frustrate opportunities presented by smuggling. Attitudes, traditional skills and the economic and social order enabled great advantage to be taken of the increase in nineteenth-century shipping, until steam-power intervened. At the heart of both enterprise and resistance to change was the finest mesh of long-standing, entrepreneurial kin testifying to the powerful socialisation that had fostered continuity of residence and maritime employment. The ethic, and the social and economic order by which this obscure community made the description "fishing village” inadequate, suggests that further scrutiny of the coast, not only for the history of merchant shipping, but for people conditioned to the ordering of their own lives, might be profitable.

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Alam, Md Shafiqul. "Quality of primary education: family and community factors in rural Bangladesh." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2011. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B47228866.

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Literature suggests that the quality of education has diverse meanings in different contexts. This research aims to discover the perceptions of teachers and parents regarding the quality of primary education in rural Bangladesh. Family and community have important roles to play in child education. This research has also identified family and community factors that affect education quality. The research uses case studies (ethnographic in characteristic) and survey methods. Qualitative data were captured by semi-structured interviews and participant observations. Informants were teachers and parents. Data analysis was done by a process which was borrowed and adapted from the grounded theory approach. Data interpretation was underpinned by concepts derived from human capital and social capital theories. In the quantitative study, data were collected by questionnaire surveys among teachers and parents. The quantitative research findings complement the qualitative findings. The research findings unveiled three dimensions of education quality as perceived by teachers and parents: (a) the acquisition of good results and awarded scholarships, (b) the acquirement of skills, and (c) the development of values and attitudes. Here, (a) and (b) could belong to human capital concepts, and (c) may refer to social capital. The perceptions of teachers and parents are similar. Nonetheless, teachers pay more attention to children’s performance, whereas parents emphasize on their well-being. According to teacher and parent perceptions, the research suggests seven family factors affecting education quality: parental involvement in schools, family involvement in the children’s education at home, family structure, educational status, economic status, parental awareness and concern, parental commitment and family environment. The research reveals that the notion of “rural family roles” would be along the lines of a “co-institution of the school”, by means of the parents and family getting involved in the children’s education both at school and at home. In terms of the community factors, six factors that affect the quality of education, as perceived by teachers are: community involvement in the school, relationship between the community and school, community support and cooperation, values, willingness to become involved in the schools, its economic status and environment. Regarding the perceptions of the parents, the research identified five factors: financial position and environment, educational status, communication and support given to schools, community child care, as well as unity and cooperation among community people. The research also suggests that the notion of “rural community roles” would tend to be thought of as “doing something for the children”. There is also an ecological balance in the relations between the community and school. The research suggests that the human capital and social capital of the family, community and children reinforce each other in a reproductive loop. That means the human and social capital of family and community play a role in the creation of the human and social capitals of the children (quality education), and vice-versa. These observations on education quality add a new horizon to the knowledge base of primary education, and one that may contribute to policy-making and facilitate further research.
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Botterill, Katherine. "Polish mobilities and the re-making of self, family and community." Thesis, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10443/1647.

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The thesis explores the social and spatial mobilities of young Polish people and the ways in which the self, the family and the community are being re-made through mobility in an enlarged European Union. The research is based on an empirical study with post-accession current and return migrants in Edinburgh, Kraków and Katowice. It explores young people‘s perceptions and experiences of mobility in three key areas: the personal histories of mobility; the practice of mobility; and the relations of mobility. The thesis argues that social and spatial mobility are differentially and relationally experienced by young Polish people. Furthermore, through a critical engagement with theories of mobility and modernity it is argued that collective social forms (family and community) are being re-configured through mobility. Conceptually, the research is positioned within the inter-disciplinary study of mobilities, which assert the centrality of movement in contemporary social life (Urry and Sheller, 2006). Drawing on empirical evidence, the thesis provides an intimate reading of the personal transformations of mobility for young Polish migrants and offers micro-level analysis of theories of migration, mobility and modernity. As such it responds to calls for empirically grounded studies on mobilities (Cresswell, 2006; McDowell, 2006) and reflexivity (Atkinson, 2010), and contributes to a growing area of research post-accession Polish migration and mobility (Burrell, 2009).

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Farazi, Mehzabin. "Experiences of the Australian Bangladeshi Muslim Community in Family Dispute Resolution." Thesis, University of Sydney, 2020. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/23768.

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The Bangladeshi Muslim community has a very short history of migration and settlement in Australia, and hence tends to blend into the woodwork, as a silent portion of larger migrant groups, such as the Muslim community and the ‘culturally and linguistically diverse’ (CALD) community. These more vocal voices tend to speak on behalf of Bengali Muslims, and the unique Bengali Muslim identity becomes lost in the chorus. This is certainly the case in family dispute resolution. It is undeniable that crucial research on both the barriers that the CALD community faces in accessing mainstream family dispute resolution services, and on the family law and dispute resolution practices of the Australian Muslim community, relate to Bengali Muslims to some degree. However, it cannot provide a complete picture of Bengali Muslim needs, values and practices. Do they follow the same Islamic family law principles in resolving disputes as all other Muslims? Do they face the exact same barriers as all the other ethnic minorities? Or, is it reasonable to assume that their unique identity tells a different story? In an effort to tell this story, this study will take a twofold approach. Firstly, it is proposed that the CALD community is not a homogenous entity, but is composed of numerous cultural and religious groups, of which the Bangladeshi Muslim community is only one. Hence, the barriers faced by the Bangladeshi Muslim community in accessing mainstream family dispute resolution are distinct to their identity. Secondly, it is proposed that the Australian Muslim community, although religiously connected, is composed of many different cultural groups, of which the Bangladeshi Muslim community is just one. Therefore, the way this community adopts and engages with Islamic family dispute resolution processes is also distinct to its identity.

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