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Wayland, Ted. "High risk modernism /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9343.
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Pelser, Suraya. "(De)Constructing worlds: high Modernism, architecture and photography." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/27852.
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Since the last decade of the twentieth century, there has been renewed interest in photographing high Modernist structures and architectures. A significant portion of these images has tended towards the autotelic or spectacle, with far fewer functioning as social commentary or critique. However, the need for an independent and critical photography of architecture remains. Such a practice furthers our understanding of the lasting legacy of architectural modernity and its ongoing impact/s. This dissertation investigates the critical representation of high Modernist structures, architectures, and urban planning in specific works by contemporary artists and photographers, Andreas Gursky, Filip Dujardin, David Goldblatt, and Beate Gütschow. However diverse their practice, each of these artists and photographers engages with the authoritarian impetus of high Modernism: a drive towards social order and control enacted through its structures and architectures. Through investigation of a range of photographic projects produced with a view to critique the social expression of high Modernism, I argue that contemporary photography which takes architecture as its subject has the ability to communicate wider notions about society. These artists and photographers reveal the degree to which humanity has been elided by high Modernist architectures and planning. By discussing these projects I contribute to a relatively under-researched area of study.
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Clissold, Bradley. "Recovering the common sense of high modernism : embodied cognition and the novels of Joyce, Faulkner, and Woolf." Thesis, McGill University, 2000. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=36895.
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This thesis argues that the popular characterization of high modernist fiction as esoteric, elitist, uncommunicative, and far too difficult for the common reader obscures the democratic principles at the heart of modernist experimentation and its poetics of difficulty. Recent theories of embodied cognition when applied to representative examples of high modernist novels help dispel the myth of inaccessibility and reveal the many ways in which these works actually accommodate the common reader. Once the stigma of inaccessibility is removed from the study of modernist novels, it becomes possible to see how their formal experiments with language as well as the themes and issues they contain operate for readers and writers alike as a means of exploring everyday cognitive activities and responses. To this end, the concept of cognitive dissonance provides a heuristic device for understanding what lies behind the motivations of writers who aestheticise experiences of dissonance in their texts and the responses of readers who confront these texts. This cognitive approach to modern literature challenges assumptions about high modernism's "uncompromising intellectuality" and replaces them with a view of modernism that is more accessible and inclusive without diminishing its radical difficulty. It also paves the way for new readings of highly canonical modernist fiction. For instance, I examine how James Joyce places "inscribed" readers into Ulysses to guide actual readers through some of the difficulties of the novel. I then read William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury as a novel that both thematises and formally resists the modern threat of behaviouristic human conditioning. Finally, I look at how the theme and form of Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway reinforce the embodied equation of dissonance with illness and incompletion.
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Gibson, Jeffrey Lanham. "The early high-rise in Germany a study in modernism and the creation of a modern metropolis /." The Ohio State University, 1994. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487859313347215.
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Hansson, Grönroos Tove. "Creating Urbanity – Destroying Cultures : Relationships Between Public and Private in Kathputli Colony, New Delhi." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Konstvetenskap, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-34588.
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Through the story of Kathputli Colony, thiss essay; Creating Urbanity – Destroying Cultures, Relationships Between Public and Private in Kathputli Colony, New Delhi, India, discusses various degrees of public and private in urban architecture. It compares the architecture of the former Kathputli Colony with the new architecture proposed for the site. Striving to become a “world class city”, Delhi has, through the Master Plan 2021, decided to raze all informal settlements and replace them with high-rises. Kathputli Colony was such an informal settlement; an urban environment built up by an architecture that responded to the needs and economic means of its inhabitants. Its design was the result of network connections and personal relationships merging public and private life. The essay concludes that Kathputli Colony consisted of a heterogeneous architecture, that had more in common with pre-industrial urbanism and village-architecture, than with the modernist architecture of the high-rises with its clear separation between public and private, work and leisure.
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Guillard, James. "The United States and Cuba: A Study of the US’s First Military Occupation and State Building Efforts." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2020. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/3829.
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This paper examines the US-Cuban relationship during the first military occupation of Cuba from 1898 to 1902, to show the role of high modernist state building in the occupation and the scope of Cuban participation in this endeavor. This is evidenced by heavily examining the annual reports of the US Military Governor General of Cuba and the US appointed civil secretaries of the Cuban government. This research differs from previous studies in the field by introducing James C. Scott’s concepts of legibility and high modernist state building, as well as suggesting that the Cuban civil secretaries participated within a limited scope to help form an independent republic.
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com, LKSHIS@gmail, and Kah Seng Loh. "The 1961 Kampong Bukit Ho Swee Fire and the Making of Modern Singapore." Murdoch University, 2008. http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/adt/browse/view/adt-MU20090219.104739.
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By 1970, Singapores urban landscape was dominated by high-rise blocks of planned public housing built by the Peoples Action Party government, signifying the establishment of a high modernist nation-state. A decade earlier, the margins of the City had been dominated by kampongs, home to semi-autonomous communities of low-income Chinese families which freely built, and rebuilt, unauthorised wooden houses. This change was not merely one of housing but belied a more fundamental realignment of state-society relations in the 1960s. Relocated in Housing and Development Board flats, urban kampong families were progressively integrated into the social fabric of the emergent nation-state. This study examines the pivotal role of an event, the great Kampong Bukit Ho Swee fire of 1961, in bringing about this transformation. The redevelopment of the fire site in the aftermath of the calamity brought to completion the British colonial regimes emergency programmes of resettling urban kampong dwellers in planned accommodation, in particular, of building emergency public housing on the sites of major fires in the 1950s. The PAPs far greater political resolve, and the timing of and state of emergency occasioned by the scale of the 1961 disaster, enabled the government to rehouse the Bukit Ho Swee fire victims in emergency housing in record time. This in turn provided the HDB with a strategic platform for clearing other kampongs and for transforming their residents into model citizens of the nation-state. The 1961 fires symbolic usefulness extended into the 1980s and beyond, in sanctioning the PAPs new housing redevelopment schemes. The official account of the inferno has also become politically useful for the government of today for disciplining a new generation of Singaporeans against taking the nations progress for granted. Against these exalted claims of the fires role in the Singapore Story, this study also examines the degree of actual change and continuity in the social and economic lives of the people of Bukit Ho Swee after the inferno. In some crucial ways, the residents continued to occupy a marginal place in society while pondering, too, over the unresolved question of the cause of the fire. These continuities of everyday life reflect the ambivalence with which the citizenry regarded the high modernist state in contemporary Singapore.
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Korolczyk, Marousia Ludwika. "Polsk poesi under mellankrigstiden: ett paradigmskifte : Exempel marialyriken." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för moderna språk, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-158821.
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The dissertation examines how medieval poetic tradition was reactivated in the production of poetry from the period between the two world wars—the Polish interwar period, defined here as one of literary transition. The positioning in regard to certain literary conventions and the quest for a new normativity that is so prevalent in interwar poetry is also reflected in the era’s poetry on the theme of Mary. Marian lyrics, owing to their strong position in Polish literature (but also by dint of their role in Polish piety and national identity), serve as an indicator in identifying and defining certain poetic processes. Central to this are the respective relationships of Marian themes to tradition and to the poetic norms of the era: is a given poem located along the traditional axis (if so, which), does it run counter to it, or is it an innovation? The poems analysed—Julian Przyboś’ Heavenly Blue, Jerzy Liebert’s Litany to the Virgin Mary, Tytus Czyżewski’s De profundis, Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska’s The Black Portrait, Józef Czechowicz’ pious rhymes—represent disparate poetic models: the Krakow Avant-garde, Catholic literature, formism/futurism, the circle of Skamander, the Poetics of the Third Sphere in the Second Avant-garde. Reflected here is the broad spectrum of the period’s poetic trends, tendencies, and constellations—as are the historical and literary events of the era. Despite important differences in the poetic/aesthetic models, in these poems it is possible to identify shared characteristics relevant to this study, that is, elements of medieval poetry. The identifying criterion for these elements here is the concept of dogmatic formal language. In the poems medieval poetics are transformed into their own modern form and integrated into the respective poetic models. No other literary epoch offers what the poets are seeking better than poetic formal language modelled on medieval liturgical language. The five poets all participate in what has been called the interwar paradigm shift in Polish poetry—a parameter that only indirectly relates to modernism. The term high modernism (in the sense of the culmination of Polish poetic modernism) can serve to summarize the historical and literary delimitations and definitions in the study. As interwar poetry is indeed part of the definitive emergence and full expansion of modernism in Polish literature, serving as a link between tradition and innovation, such a study of the influence of high modernism and Marian lyrics on each other aspires to reflect general processes in the poetry of the time.
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West, Emma. "The highs and lows of modernism : a cultural deconstruction." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2017. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/101029/.
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Over the past two decades, scholars have shown that the modernist ‘Great Divide’ between high and low culture is culturally-constructed, reductive and oversimplified. Yet, despite these critical disavowals, the field of modernist studies is still informed by the Divide’s binary systems of evaluation and classification. ‘High’ and ‘low’ texts are studied in isolation and modernism is privileged over popular culture. This thesis argues that we must address the Great Divide’s structure if we are to move beyond it. The Divide is underpinned by three structural myths: that of essence (texts are inherently high or low), mutual exclusivity (texts are either high or low) and precedence (high texts come before low ones). Over the course of four chapters, this study seeks to define, challenge and reconfigure the Great Divide, exploring new approaches which allow us to study texts from across the cultural spectrum together. After an initial chapter which maps out the Great Divide in early-twentieth-century Britain, the following three chapters interrogate the structural myths in turn. Chapter 2 disputes the myth of essence, arguing that both ‘little’ and ‘popular’ magazines are shaped by external factors; Chapter 3 considers travel posters, showing that they exhibit apparently mutually-exclusive aesthetic and publicity functions at once; and Chapter 4 examines the extent to which innovations in mass-market fashion predated their modernist counterparts. Informed by theory but rooted in print culture, this thesis combines cultural history and deconstruction to displace the Great Divide as a system of classification and reinstate it as an object of study. Only by viewing high, low and middlebrow texts together can we trace the effects that socio-economic conditions, prevailing aesthetic norms and audience demands had on a text’s production, circulation and reception.
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Woldegebrael, Edegilign Hailu. "The politics and materiality of a developmental state in the EPRDF's Ethiopia : a view from the Gibe III hydropower development project." Thesis, Paris 10, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019PA100107.
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Depuis le début du millénaire, le régime dirigé par le Front démocratique révolutionnaire du peuple éthiopien -FDRPE- (The Etiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front -EPRDF-) a mené une série d’opérations visant à atteindre un objectif clé du gouvernement : l’État de développement démocratique autoproclamé du régime. Cette thèse, inspirée par des idéologies politiques particulières, tente de comprendre la notion et la matérialisation du développementalisme démocratique dans le contexte d’un modèle de gouvernance ethno-fédéral, en utilisant le projet hydroélectrique Gibe III comme cas d’étude illustratif.À cette fin, il m’a semblé pertinent d’opter pour une approche de recherche empirique axée sur la matérialité et les pratiques quotidiennes de l’État, dans une perspective multi-scalaire. A cela s’ajoute un travail de terrain de 18 mois, mené à la fois à l’échelle nationale mais aussi à des échelles plus locales, s’appuyant sur une approche qualitative. L’analyse met en évidence la complexité des processus relatifs à la matérialisation d’un État de développement dans la vallée de l’Omo : d’une part, le gouvernement central accroît sa capacité de contrôle et d’extraction des ressources dans cette périphérie, au sein d’une république fédérale, en tant qu’ « effets d’État de développement », et renforce la légitimité des performances grâce à la construction d’un barrage, du moins à l’échelle nationale; d’autre part, la matérialisation d’un État de développement prend de plus en plus une forme autoritaire dans ce processus et le déni des revendications des populations affectées et de leurs résistances grandissantes semble compromettre sa légitimité politiqueThe EPRDF-led regime, since the turn of the new millennium, has been conducting a series of operations that seek toachieve a key government objective: the regime’s self-declared democratic developmental state. However, literature on thisissue has been dominated by technocratic and macro-intuitionalist analyses. There has been, surprisingly, little in-depth qualitative research on its materiality and concrete practices, and multiscaled effects. This thesis, inspired by political explanations, tries to understand the notion and materialization of the democratic developmentalism in the context of ethno-federal model of governance by using the Gibe III hydropower project as a case study. To this end, it opted for a grounded empirical research approach that focuses on materiality and everyday practices of the state from multi-scalar perspective. A qualitative case study design was employed, which was a product of 18 months of fieldwork conducted both at the national and sub-national scales. The analysis points at complexity of the processes regarding the materialization of a developmental state in the Omo Valley: on the one hand the central government increases its capacity of resource control and extraction in this periphery, within a federal republic, as “developmental state effects” and garners performance legitimacy through delivering the dam [“development”]-at least at the national scale; on the other hand increasingly an authoritarian form it takes in this process and lack of recognition of the affected peoples’ claims and their growing dispersed resistances seemingly jeopardizes its political legitimacy
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Sircar, Ajanta. "Framing the nation : languages of #modernity' in India." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.361480.
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Schoenberg, Christian. "High modernist difficulty as commodity : Ezra Pound and James Joyce an the literary marketplace." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.416778.
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Wheaton, Pat. "High style and society : class, taste and modernity in British interwar decorating." Thesis, Kingston University, 2011. http://eprints.kingston.ac.uk/24563/.
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This thesis explores the way in which interior decorating developed as a practice during the interwar period in Britain and seeks to address broader contexts of gender, class, taste and styles. While traditional design histories have tracked the development of the interior design model through a direct sequence of movements and ideologies through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, this thesis addresses issues which have been problematic within the context of art and design history. It acknowledges the more linear dimension of the original strand and seeks to offer a complementary appraisal which considers and appreciates the role of class, wealth and privilege and deconstructs boundaries which have marginalized gender and obscured certain important influences. The study examines the way in which decorators, many of whom were female, negotiated a design agenda which engaged with modernity without fully renouncing hard-fought signifiers of their class, taste and individuality. It argues that in the development of its practices, significant alliances were formed with fashion and that the vital role performed by media representation and social commentary underpinned its commercial profile and provided the public locus of its discourse. The nature of professional decorating is explored against a background of emerging practices in the first decades of the twentieth-century which included the antiques trade; grand scale establishments such as Lenygon & Morant, White Allom, Thornton-Smith and Keebles; department-store studios including those at Heal’s, Waring & Gillow and Fortnum & Mason; and individual practitioners and designers including Syrie Maugham, Sibyl Colefax, Dolly Mann and Ronald Fleming. In a period rife with social and political upheavals and conflicting ideologies as well as technological advancement and life-style changes, the study’s analysis aims to provide a broader understanding of the way in which decorators proactively negotiated such conditions and presented a cultural and aesthetic response to modernity through the diversity of their styles.
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Sigler, Krista. "Kshesinskaia's Mansion high culture and the politics of modernity in revolutionary Russia /." Cincinnati, Ohio : University of Cincinnati, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view.cgi?acc_num=ucin1243013516.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Cincinnati, 2009.Advisor: Willard Sunderland. Title from electronic thesis title page (viewed Aug. 18, 2009). Keywords: modern; Russia; revolution; Kshesinskaia; culture; Bolsheviks; Petersburg. Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references.
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Sigler, Krista Lynn. "Kshesinskaia's Mansion: High Culture and the Politics of Modernity in Revolutionary Russia." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1243013516.
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Brinkman, Joshua. "From 'Hicks' to High Tech: Performative Use in the American Corn Belt." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/81991.
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This study traces the history of how farmers have used technologies from the eighteenth century to the present to form identities, not simply as ways of making greater economic profits. Using technologies becomes a way to 'perform' a person's sense of him or herself. This insight serves historians because it suggests that users, not just important inventors, drive technological change. My study also suggests that the relationship people have with technology (and how they use it to form their identities) has historical genealogies. Engineers and business people will also find my history useful because the notion of 'performative use' means that people's views of themselves can influence the way they adopt and employ technologies. Policy scholars will gain from my study because I show that the way people use technology to understand themselves has consequences in determining how they participate in controversies over science and technology policy.
This narrative begins in the eighteenth century by analyzing how elites like Benjamin Rush viewed the agricultural practices of German farmers, regarded by many in the upper classes as backwards. I show how observances of German farmers by elites created a pattern repeated throughout American history where rural people would use technology to perform their identities for an outside observer. In addition, I describe an identity, which I call 'German agrarianism,' and contend that this rural self-image migrated to the Midwest when German farmers moved westward. German agrarianism had several important features including the association of morality with family-based production practices, an obsession with owning personal property, the inclusion of women in farming and land ownership, and the practice of performing identity through the use of material objects. Next, I describe a rural identity with English origins, one that other scholars have named 'Jeffersonian agrarianism.' This Jeffersonian identity saw farmers as heroes who conquered the frontier, preserved American democracy, and supported less moral urban dwellers. I argue that Jeffersonian agrarianism in the nineteenth century began to reject technological and social change and that this view of rural people as anti-modern has influenced the way observers of rural life have viewed farmers up to the present.
This study then analyzes the rural-urban conflict of the 1920s, contending that farmers used technologies to develop their own rural modern identity, which I call 'rural capitalistic modernity.' Farmers used technology this way to combat a version of modernity, which I name 'urban industrialism.' This modern identity, arising from the cities, advocated improving rural life by making farms resemble urban factories. This factory model threatened German and Jeffersonian rural identities that existed prior to the 1920s because it removed the family as the center of production and advocated work processes that took control and property ownership away from farmers. In addition, urban industrialism saw farmers as backward and in need of reform, which offended farmers who saw themselves in heroic terms as a result of Jeffersonian agrarianism. I argue that many rural people in the 1920s used technology to perform an identity of rural capitalistic modernity as a means of combating these urban efforts to restructure farms as factories and stereotype farmers as 'yokels' or 'rubes.' This rural modern identity became reinforced during the Cold War because the farmer saw Soviet collectivized agriculture as posing the same threats as previous urban industrialism. In addition, the way farmers used technology to reinforce their views of themselves as modern became valuable to government actors in the United States who saw increased agricultural production as a weapon in defeating the Soviet Union.
By the 1970s, farmers formed an identity called 'rural ultramodernity' in which they began to think of themselves as more modern than urban dwellers because of their design and use of advanced technologies and their role as producers in the global food network. This ultramodern identity incorporates aspects of previous rural identities, including an obsession with combating urban stereotypes of farmers as 'hicks.' In addition, this rural ultramodern identity views farmers as having an inborn modernity inherited from previous generations of farmers. I argue that this ultramodern way farmers think of themselves explains why rural people in the Midwest have embraced the erection of wind turbines, unlike residents of other regions in the U.S.
From a policy perspective, this study also contends that debates over science and technology, such as efforts to render agriculture more sustainable and organic, are impacted by unexpressed fundamental views about nature and morality. Statements about these controversies often take the form of proxy arguments that sound 'rational' but mask these unstated ideas, and they often alienate those with opposing views. Current debates over genetically modified organisms, from a rural perspective, are actually unspoken clashes over rural ultramodern and organic identities hidden by 'objective' points made by both sides involving science or economics. This study also challenges the common notion that technology and production are male domains by showing how both men and women have used technology to construct their identities as producers on Midwest farms. This insight illustrates how disagreements over gender roles underlie current policy debates about agriculture. Farmers view organic discourse as threatening rural women's identities as modern producers by framing farming as an immoral, industrial, and male domination of a moral and female nature. Rural people view organic discourse as carrying on the tradition of urban industrialism, which saw farmers as backwards and farm women as unhappy and occupying an exclusively domestic sphere. This study suggests that any effort to reform agriculture must include farmers and incorporate the way rural people use technologies to form and reinforce their identities. At the same time, the conclusion advocates for a new rural identity that avoids farmer's tendencies to view all technologies as 'progress' regardless of their environmental or social impacts.Ph. D.
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Klimpel, Jill M. "Performing Modernity through Birth: Exploring High Rates of C-Sections in São Paulo, Brazil." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1321638880.
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Oh, Se il. "High Modernity and Multiple Secularities: Various Forms of Religious Non-Affiliation in the United States." Thesis, Boston College, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/1945.
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Thesis advisor: Paul SchervishThe rapid increase in the number of religious non-affiliates in the United States makes non-affiliation an important issue to study. Traditional secularization theories have explained the overall increase in the number of people who report not belonging to a specific religion, but have not explored the diversity among them. Studies attempting to explain the rise in non-affiliation have been basically descriptive, focusing on sociodemographic characteristics or social networks of religious non-affiliates, examining the effects of cohort, political orientation, parents' religions, and peer religions. There is no comprehensive social theory on the dynamics of religious non-affiliation. In sum, the previous literature requires us to reconsider the theoretical limits of modernity and the unilateral understanding of secularization and suggests a new framework for multiple secularities in accordance with high modernity. In this study, I conceptualize religious non-affiliation as "multiple secularities," creating a new framework that takes into account the existence of various forms of non-affiliation in the United States. Specifically, I identify three types of worldviews (theism, spiritualism, immanent frame) and two categories of institutional religious affiliation (affiliation and non-affiliation). Thus, six forms of belief are considered--affiliated theism, affiliated spiritualism, affiliated positivism, unaffiliated theism, unaffiliated spiritualism, and unaffiliated positivism. Utilizing the 2005 Baylor Religion Survey and the Religion Module of the 2008 International Social Science Survey, this dissertation explores differences among multiple secularities in the U.S. with respect to three dimensions of holistic implications: head, heart, and hand. Findings indicate that there are distinct differences among unaffiliated individuals based on belief types. Compared to unaffiliated spiritualists and unaffiliated positivists, unaffiliated theists place less importance on the role of human agency as compared to divine agency, have lower levels of moral liberalism, are more likely to favor religion when considering the tension between religion and science, more likely to report experiences of being filled with the Spirit, more likely to participate in political associations, but less likely to attend political rallies and demonstrations. Unaffiliated spiritualists have the highest rates of reporting experiences of oneness with the universe and interest in New Age (astrology and alternative medicine), and they are most likely to participate in political rallies or public protests among the unaffiliated individuals. Unaffiliated positivists are most likely to place importance on human agency, and they have the lowest rates of religious and spiritual experiences among the unaffiliated. These findings make several important contributions to the literature. First, they contribute to the recognition of the limits of the `secularization' thesis in a high (or late) modern society such as the United States and provide a new framework for understanding `multiple secularities' by examining interactions between the institutional level of secularity (non-affiliation) and the individual level of secularity (privatization of belief). Second, they confirm the Weberian insight that `elective affinities' exist between worldviews and ideological, experiential, and social aspects of life in a high modern society. Third, they demonstrate that social research should further explore the subdivisions among "unchurched believers" (unaffiliated theists and spiritualists). Fourth, they contribute to the debate on "spiritual individualism" versus "engaged spirituality" by demonstrating that spirituality promotes various forms of social engagement. Finally, this dissertation suggests that contemporary social scientists should recognize the limits of the traditional secularization thesis and face a new conundrum of post-secularity beyond belief types and affiliation types in order to promote social cohesion
Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2011
Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: Sociology
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Århem, Nikolas. "Forests, Spirits and High Modernist Development : A Study of Cosmology and Change among the Katuic Peoples in the Uplands of Laos and Vietnam." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för kulturantropologi och etnologi, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-236880.
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This thesis explores how Katuic-speaking indigenous groups in the Central Annamitic Cordillera of Vietnam and Laos understand their environment – hills, streams and forest. Katuic eco-cosmology assumes that the natural landscape is imbued with spirit agents, with whom people must continuously communicate lest misfortune will strike and their livelihoods fail. The thesis posits the hypothesis that these spirit beliefs, and a variety of taboo notions accompanying them, can be interpreted as expressions of a complex socio-environmental adaptation. Today, the indigenous groups in the study region are confronted with a massive development- and modernisation push on two fronts – that of the global development industry on the one hand, and the implementation of national development policies and programs as part of the high-modernist state project in communist Vietnam and Laos, on the other. A second objective of the thesis, then, is to examine the effects of this multi-layered and multi-scaled confrontation on indigenous cosmology, livelihood and landscape. It is argued, this confrontation at the development frontier can be conceived of as an interface between different ontologies or reality posits – one animist, articulated in a relational stance towards the landscape; the other, a naturalist or rationalist ontology, expressed as an objectivist stance towards nature and embodied in the high-modernist development schemes and programs unfolding in the region with the aim of re-engineering its indigenous societies and exploiting its natural resources. Large parts of the Central Annamites were severely impacted by the Vietnam War; uncounted numbers of minority people were killed, or had their villages destroyed or relocated while defoliants, bombs, and forest fires ravaged the landscape. In the decades that followed the war, the entire social and natural landscape has been reshaped by national development policies and the modernist visions that underpin them. The thesis attempts to understand this physical and cultural transformation of the landscape, focusing particularly on the gradual breakdown of the complex indigenous socio-religious institutions that appear to have played an important functional role in maintaining the pre-war structure of the landscape. The thesis is based primarily on fieldwork carried out between 2004 and 2009 in the provinces of Quảng Nam and Thừa Thiên–Huế in Vietnam and Sekong in Laos.
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Antunes, Cristiane de Oliveira. "A REPRESENTAÇÃO DA(S) IDENTIDADE(S), NA ALTA MODERNIDADE, EM A VENDEDORA DE FÓSFOROS." Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, 2015. http://repositorio.ufsm.br/handle/1/9920.
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Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível SuperiorThe purpose of this work is to analyze the book A vendedora de fósforos in order to identify some literary resources that may be representatives of the personal identities of the historical period known as High Modernity, considering that the book brings in its composition a hodgepodge of exchanging narratives voices, a construct of complex characters due to obscurity of their identities (discursive and personal), a thematic replete of creation and discovery of selfidentity and a temporal organization of the narration without fidelity to the chronological order. In this sense, it will be analyzed the literary and the stylistic resources used by the author in the construction of the characters and narrator(s), and how this process can illustrate the personal identity narratives and what are these identities; similarly, the great formal dilemma of the novel will be examined, which is the issue of the voices and the narrative point of view (interlaced), aiming to infer how this structural dynamism represents the identities of High Modernity. In order to do this, the principles of narratology will be used interwoven with the theories of sociology about these theoretical categories. The entanglement resulting from the (con)fusion of voices that apparently alternate in the narrative point of view leads to believe that there are two narrators in the text. Throughout the analysis, however, It is possible to see that one of the voices (the younger sister) is just a ventriloquist voice, a construction of the real narrator (the older sister), which represents in a significant way the amalgam and the mutual mirroring of the identities of the two sisters, either as discursive as characters, in the plot.
Este trabalho tem como proposta analisar o romance A vendedora de Fósforos com o objetivo de identificar alguns recursos literários que podem ser representativos das identidades pessoais do período histórico conhecido como alta modernidade, considerando-se que o livro traz, em sua composição, uma miscelânea de vozes narrativas cambiantes, um construto de personagens complexo devido à obscuridade de suas identidades (discursivas e pessoais), uma história que traz claramente, em sua composição, o processo de criação e descobrimento da autoidentidade e uma organização temporal da narração sem fidelidade à ordem cronológica. Nesse sentido, analisar-se-ão os recursos literários e estilísticos utilizados pela autora na construção das personagens e narradora(s) e como este processo pode estar representando as narrativas identitárias pessoais do sujeito da alta modernidade e que identidades são essas; da mesma forma, será examinado o grande dilema formal do romance, que é a questão das vozes e focos narrativos (entrelaçados), objetivando inferir como esse dinamismo estrutural está representando as identidades da alta modernidade. Para isso, serão utilizados os princípios da narratologia entrecruzados com as teorias da sociologia acerca dessas categorias teóricas. O enredamento que resulta da (con)fusão das vozes que aparentemente alternam-se no texto leva a acreditar que existem duas narradoras. Ao longo da análise, no entanto, percebe-se que uma das vozes (a da irmã mais nova) é apenas uma voz de ventríloquo, uma construção da real narradora (a irmã mais velha), que representa de forma significativa o amálgama e espelhamento mútuo das identidades das duas, tanto discursivas (quem é, afinal, a narradora, ou seriam ambas?) quanto como personagens (quem são, efetivamente, essas irmãs na ficção?).
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Braga, Raimunda Nonata Fortes. "Cantigas de roda em tempos de alta modernidade : representações sociais dos docentes e dos pais de alunos das escolas do campo em Chapadinha (MA)." Universidade de Taubaté, 2013. http://www.bdtd.unitau.br/tedesimplificado/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=652.
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Nursery Rhymes are understood as popular demonstrations and express feelings of regionality, ascendancy and originality, reflecting the rooting of acquirements and everyday
experiences of the individual and the social group of belonging. Characterized as cultural practices, the nursery rhymes carry elements that cross generations and move in time and space. This research aims to analyze the Social Representations (SR) of teachers and parents of students on the played and sung nursery rhymes within schools that belong to the Sistema Municipal de Educação de Chapadinha, in Maranhão. The Social Representations in this research acquire a main character, because they allow recognizing at the same time the importance of nursery rhymes as a cultural practice and a didactic teaching, which provides the appreciation of the local culture and the rescue of values that tend to disappear on the current modernity in which we live. The exploratory and descriptive research is guided by a plan that gathers as instruments of data collection semi-structured interviews with teachers, meetings with focus groups of parents of students, previously marked and organized according to their availability of time and space, as well as the analysis of official documents that establish the guidelines to be worked in the first and second years of elementary school (Escolas do Campo) of the city of Chapadinha, besides observation reports, resulting from
remarks made in situ. The data comprehension was performed by content analysis underneath the theoretical perspective that guides this approach, providing as a result the understanding that nursery rhymes meet childhood needs of the students because as cultural practices where
they find the possibilities that can guide their learning, socialization and intersubjective exchanges interests, which, for them, are significant because they see themselves and find
themselves within the perspectives of experienced context.As cantigas de roda, entendidas como manifestações culturais populares, expressam sentimentos de regionalidade, de ascendência e de originalidade, traduzindo o enraizamento dos saberes e das experiências cotidianas do indivíduo e do grupo social de pertencimento. Caracterizadas como práticas culturais, as cantigas de roda carregam elementos que perpassam as gerações e se movimentam no tempo e espaço. Esta pesquisa se propõe a analisar as Representações Sociais (RS) de docentes e de pais de alunos sobre as cantigas de roda brincadas e cantadas no âmbito das escolas pertencentes ao Sistema Municipal de Educação de Chapadinha, no Maranhão. As Representações Sociais, nesta pesquisa, adquirem um caráter central, pois permitem reconhecer, a um só tempo, a importância das cantigas de roda como práticas culturais e didático-pedagógicas, que propiciam a valorização da cultura local e o resgate de valores que tendem ao desaparecimento na atual modernidade em que se vive. A pesquisa exploratória e descritiva orienta-se por um plano, que reúne como instrumentos de coleta de dados as entrevistas semi-estruturadas com os professores, os encontros com os grupos focais dos pais de alunos, previamente marcados e organizados de acordo com suas disponibilidades de tempo e de espaço, bem como a análise dos documentos oficiais que estabelecem os saberes a serem trabalhados nos 1 e 2 anos do ensino fundamental das Escolas do Campo da cidade em questão, além de notas de campo, resultante de observações realizadas in loco. A interpretação dos dados foi realizada por meio da análise de conteúdo, sob a perspectiva teórica que orienta esta abordagem, oferecendo como resultado a compreensão que as cantigas de roda atendem às necessidades lúdicas dos alunos, porque, como práticas culturais, nelas encontram as possibilidades que podem guiar os seus interesses de aprendizagens, de socialização, de trocas intersubjetivas, que, para eles, são significativas, porque se vêem e se encontram dentro das perspectivas do contexto vivenciado.
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Haupert, Isabelle. "Etude des hauts et bas topographiques dans les marges profondes de type « upper plate » : exemple des unités du Briançonnais et du Prépiémontais dans les Alpes et comparaison avec des analogues modernes." Thesis, Strasbourg, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015STRAH016/document.
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Cette étude se concentre sur la caractérisation des blocs-H préservés dans les marges de type « upper plate ». L’approche terre-mer a permis de diviser l’architecture crustale d’une « upper plate » en trois terrasses et deux zones d’escarpement, possédant leurs propres architectures crustales et stratigraphiques. Les limites de terrasses sont liées à des changements dans les modes d’extensions et définissent des points majeurs. Dans les Alpes il apparait que les principales structures Alpines correspondent à la réactivation des zones d’escarpements ou des failles de détachement. La collision finale est contrôlée par la présence des butoirs pouvant coïncider avec la zone de necking et le point de couplage de la marge de rift. La comparaison entre les observations de terrain et l’imagerie à l’échelle crustale, a permis d’intégrer plus de détails géologiques dans les observations sismiqueThis study focused on the characterization of so called “H-blocks” recorded in upper plate. The onshore-offshore approach used in this study enabled to characterize and divide the crustal architecture of upper plate margins in three terraces and two ramps, characterized by diagnostic structural and stratigraphic features. Limits of terraces and location of ramps are considered to coincide with changes in the mode of extension and to define major limits/points. It appears that major Alpine structures result from the reactivation of former ramps or extensional detachment faults. Final collision appears to be controlled by the presence of strong buttresses that may coincide with the necking zone/coupling point of the former margin. The comparison of the different datasets ranging from field outcrops to seismic sections enables integrate more detailed geological observations in seismic observations
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Perombelon, Brice Désiré Jude. "Prioritising indigenous representations of geopower : the case of Tulita, Northwest Territories, Canada." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2018. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:71e14c26-d00a-4320-a385-df74715c45c8.
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Recent calls from progressive, subaltern and postcolonial geopoliticians to move geopolitical scholarship away from its Western ontological bases have argued that more ethnographic studies centred on peripheral and dispossessed geographies need to be undertaken in order to integrate peripheralised agents and agencies in dominant ontologies of geopolitics. This thesis follows these calls. Through empirical data collected during a period of five months of fieldwork undertaken between October 2014 and March 2015, it investigates the ways through which an Indigenous community of the Canadian Arctic, Tulita (located in the Northwest Territories' Sahtu region) represents geopower. It suggests a semiotic reading of these representations in order to take the agency of other-than/more-than-human beings into account. In doing so, it identifies the ontological bases through which geopolitics can be indigenised. Drawing from Dene animist ontologies, it indeed introduces the notion of a place-contingent speculative geopolitics. Two overarching argumentative lines are pursued. First, this thesis contends that geopower operates through metamorphic refashionings of the material forms of, and signs associated with, space and place. Second, it infers from this that through this transformational process, geopower is able to create the conditions for alienating but also transcending experiences and meanings of place to emerge. It argues that this movement between conflictual and progressive understandings is dialectical in nature. In addition to its conceptual suggestions, this thesis makes three empirical contributions. First, it confirms that settler geopolitical narratives of sovereignty assertion in the North cannot be disentangled from capitalist and industrial political-economic processes. Second, it shows that these processes, and the geopolitical visions that subtend them, are materialised in space via the extension of the urban fabric into Indigenous lands. Third, it demonstrates that by assembling space ontologically in particular ways, geopower establishes (and entrenches) a geopolitical distinction between living/sovereign (or governmentalised) spaces and nonliving/bare spaces (or spaces of nothingness).
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Purmale, Zané. "Habiller le mur : les relations entre la tapisserie et la peinture sous la Troisième République : le cas des Gobelins (1870-1925)." Thesis, Bordeaux 3, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020BOR30017.
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Sous la Troisième République, les quatre administrateurs successifs de la manufacture nationale des Gobelins, Alfred Darcel, Edouard Gerspach, Jules Guiffrey et Gustave Geffroy, cherchent à imprimer, chacun à leur manière, un renouveau à l’art de la tapisserie. Si les trois premiers cherchent à retrouver la vraie nature de la tapisserie, dont les principes peuvent être découverts en étudiant le passé, pour lui redonner une vigueur nouvelle dans le présent et augmenter ainsi son indépendance vis-à-vis de la peinture, le dernier cherche, au contraire, à faire entrer les Gobelins dans la modernité en rapprochant la tapisserie de la peinture. Cette thèse cherche à comprendre, de façon aussi complète que possible, la création artistique à la manufacture des Gobelins pendant cette période, qui se caractérise par une activité extraordinaire. Grâce à l’analyse du contexte intellectuel, il a été précisé les idées qui ont permis de donner l’impulsion et la direction à ce renouveau en détaillant également les conditions matérielles, institutionnelles et économiques qui permettent d’étudier les moyens dont dispose la manufacture. Ainsi sont révélés les impératifs imposés par les conditions matérielles et l’organisation du processus créatif impliquant un nombre d’acteurs et de procédures important, ralentissant et rendant contraignante toute démarche. Surtout il a été montré dans quelle mesure les moyens économiques étaient en totale inadéquation avec les objectifs de la manufacture. Malgré ces difficultés, la manufacture joue un rôle central dans le renouveau de la tapisserie. Si les progrès sont lents à émerger en raison de la nature même du fonctionnement des Gobelins, ils donnent une impulsion formidable à l’industrie privée grâce à son intense activité intellectuelle et artistique et le rayonnement international qu’ils exercent, et ceci malgré les critiques portant sur le choix des modèles. En effet, si les efforts de la manufacture sont justement reconnus, les choix esthétiques sont souvent remis en cause. Ainsi, la seconde partie de cette thèse étudie la politique artistique de chaque administrateur afin de comprendre comment cette dernière se concrétise, et quelles sont les principales lignes de l’action artistique de chacun des administrateurs. Ce travail s’appuie sur un catalogue exhaustif fait de notices approfondies et d’une iconographie abondante, retraçant l’historique des tentures murales en haute lisse et au point noué de Savonnerie réalisées à la manufacture des Gobelins, leurs cartons et maquettes mais aussi d’un nombre important de projets non aboutis, dessinant ainsi le panorama le plus complet sur la création à la manufacture des Gobelins dans les années 1870-1925During the French Third Republic, the four successive administrators of the National Gobelins’ manufactory, Alfred Darcel, Edouard Gerspach, Jules Guiffrey and Gustave Geffroy, sought to give an impulsion, each in his own way, in order to provoke a tapestry revival. The first three administrators seek to rediscover the true nature of tapestry, the principles of which can be discovered by studying the past, in order to give it new vigour in the present and increase its independence from painting. Geffroy, on the contrary, seeks to guide the Gobelins to modernity by imposing the tapestry to follow the paths of painting. This thesis makes understand the artistic creation at the Gobelins’ manufactory during this period of extraordinary activity. It specifies not only the intellectual context and ideas which give its direction to the tapestry revival, but also it takes into consideration the material, institutional and economic conditions of the manufactory. Thus are revealed the imperatives imposed by the material conditions of creation, its organization involving a large number of actors and highly restraining procedures, but, above all, economic means revealed to be in total inadequacy with the goals of the manufacture. Despite these difficulties, through intense intellectual and artistic activity, the manufactory plays a central role in the revival of tapestry. If progress is slow to emerge due to the very nature of the Gobelins' functioning and despite criticism of the choice of models, Gobelins gives a tremendous boost to private industry thanks to the international influence that the manufactory plays into tapestry field. Indeed, if the contemporary critics recognized the efforts of the manufacture to be in the right direction, very often this is not the case for the models. As in most of cases they are still unknown to modern art historians, the second part of this thesis studies the artistic policy of each administrator in order to understand how it was carried out and what were the main lines of the artistic action of each administrator. This work is accompanied of an exhaustive catalog records and images retracing the history of the conception of wall hangings in haute lisse (high-warp loom) and Savonnerie murals woven at the Gobelins’ manufactory and also their cartoons and preparatory models including abandoned projects, thus drawing a most complete panorama on artistic creation at the Gobelins manufactory from 1870 to 1925
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Marques, Alex Sandro. "Tempos Pré-Modernos: a Matemática escolar dos anos 1950." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2005. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/10926.
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Previous issue date: 2005-11-04The purpose of our search, to verify how mathematics was organized at junior high school in 1950 s, it s located between two fundamental moments in brazilian mathematics education history: the born of mathematics as a subject, in 1929, and the advent of Modern Mathematics Movement (MMM), in the beginning of 1960 s decade. Inicially, to analyse this question, we worked out on a synthesis about the educational reforms Francisco Campos and Gustavo Capanema, that are responsable for the criation of mathematics as a subject and junior high school, respectivily. After that, based on the new educational legislation, the Ministry Edict of 1951 we verified the estabilishment of Minimum Programs to be carried out obrigatorily, motivating a worry about the possibility of that among the teachers. On this context, we analysed the Annals of the 1st National Congress of Mathematics Teaching in High School, that happened in Salvador in 1955, witch counted on the participation of the teacher and author of the school books Osvaldo Sangiorgi, one of the protagonists of MMM in Brazil, and we verified that the discussion epicenter wasn t around the programs but had been dislocated to the quastion of weekly number of this subject classes. With the purpouse to get traces of the school daily we analysed the collection of the most representative brazilian school books of pre-modern times, that authorized us to certificate the subject estability on this decade. That way, we conclued that the pre-modern times didn t represent an ideal setting for a revolution on this subject; on the contrary, were years of agreement among the teachers about the methods and contents to be taught, were years of estability
O objeto de nosso trabalho, a verificação de como estava organizada a matemática escolar do ginásio nos anos 1950, está situada entre dois momentos fundamentais da história da educação matemática brasileira: o nascimento da disciplina matemática, em 1929, e o advento do Movimento da Matemática Moderna (MMM), no início do decênio de 1960. Inicialmente, para análise desta questão, elaboramos uma síntese sobre as reformas educacionais Francisco Campos e Gustavo Capanema, responsáveis pela criação da disciplina matemática e do ginásio, respectivamente. Em seguida, partindo da nova legislação educacional, a Portaria Ministerial de 1951, verificamos o estabelecimento de Programas Mínimos a serem cumpridos obrigatoriamente, motivando uma preocupação entre os professores em relação à viabilidade de tal medida. Nesse contexto, analisamos os Anais do I Congresso Nacional de Ensino da Matemática no Curso Secundário realizado em Salvador no ano de 1955, que contou com a participação do professor e autor de livros didáticos Osvaldo Sangiorgi, um dos protagonistas do MMM no Brasil, e verificamos que o epicentro das discussões não estava em torno dos programas e havia se deslocado para a questão do número de aulas semanais para a disciplina matemática. Com a finalidade de obter indícios do cotidiano escolar analisamos as coleções de livros didáticos brasileiros mais representativas dos tempos pré-modernos, o que nos autorizou atestar sobre a estabilidade da disciplina nessa década. Assim, concluímos que os tempos pré-modernos não representavam um cenário ideal para uma revolução na disciplina; pelo contrário, foram anos de consenso entre os professores sobre métodos e conteúdos a serem ministrados, foram anos de estabilidade
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MARQUES, IGOR EMANUEL DE SOUZA. "A DIVERSIDADE RELIGIOSA NO ESPAÇO ESCOLAR ADVENTISTA DO ABCD PAULISTA." Universidade Metodista de Sao Paulo, 2015. http://tede.metodista.br/jspui/handle/tede/1563.
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Against the backdrop of the denominational status of network Adventist education present in a remarkable way in the school space and the intense religious diversity students, this research analyzes the relationship of possible tensions between the denominational school status and religious diversity present. It takes into account the process of modernity causing significant change in education, in religion and in the form of the two institutes relate to each other. It took into account the socio-economic and religious profile of the students and how is the reception of religious education in Adventist school space, including students who declare themselves Adventists. The area chosen for this research was the Adventist schools located in the ABCD Paulista context, which offer high school. These school units are located in the cities of Diadema, Santo Andre and Sao Caetano do Sul, cities located in the same micro region, but with different socioeconomic realities.
Tendo como pano de fundo a confessionalidade da rede adventista de educação presente de maneira marcante no espaço escolar e a intensa diversidade religiosa discente, esta pesquisa analisa a relação de possíveis tensões entre a confessionalidade escolar e a diversidade religiosa presente neste espaço. Leva em consideração o processo de modernidade causadora de importantes transformações na educação, na religião e na forma dos dois institutos se relacionarem. Levou-se em consideração o perfil socioeconômico e religioso dos alunos e possíveis tensões na recepção do religioso no espaço escolar adventista por parte dos discentes, inclusive por aqueles que se declaram adventistas. O espaço escolhido para esta pesquisa foi o de colégios adventistas localizadas no contexto do ABCD Paulista, que ofertam o Ensino Médio. Estas unidades escolares estão situadas nas cidades de Diadema, Santo André e São Caetano do Sul, cidades localizadas na mesma microrregião, mas com distintas realidades socioeconômicas.
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Barakat, Mohammed, and Rolf Östergren. "”Maten är kass, men lärarna är snälla” : Recensioner av gymnasieskolor - ett beslutsunderlag för gymnasievalet på skolmarknaden." Thesis, Gymnastik- och idrottshögskolan, GIH, Institutionen för idrotts- och hälsovetenskap, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:gih:diva-5597.
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Syfte och frågeställningar Syftet med uppsatsen är att få en förståelse för vad det är elever som söker till gymnasieskolan kan tänkas möta då de läser recensionstexter. Syftet är således att kartlägga recensionssystemets omfattning och innehåll kvantitativt; vad som tas upp i recensionstexterna, samt att undersöka hur recensionstexterna är konstruerade. Avslutningsvis syftar uppsatsen till att diskutera recensionssystemet i en större samhällskontext - som ett resultat av och en del i vår samtid. Vilka ämnen och teman förekommer i recensionstexter av gymnasieskolor samt hur frekvent är förekomsten? Hur värderas (positivt, negativt eller neutralt) de olika temana i recensionerna? På vilket sätt är recensionstexterna konstruerade och hur kan det tolkas? På vilket sätt framträder en skolmarknadsdiskurs i recensionstexterna? Metod De kvantitativa frågorna undersöks genom en innehållsanalys av slumpmässigt utvalda recensioner på gymnasieskolor i Stockholms län. De förekomna orden kvantifieras och delas in i teman, kategorieroch subkategorier. En bedömning görs även utifrån om de förekomna orden lyfts i en positiv, negativ eller neutral kontext. Den kvalitativa delen utgörs av en textanalys inspirerad av diskursanalysen. Av ett antal utvalda recensioner, baserat på dess innehållsliga relevans, analyseras dessa semantiskt med diskursanalytiska verktyg. I diskussions- och analysdelen behandlas resultatet utifrån det teoretiska ramverket och tidigare forskning. Resultat Av innehållsanalysen framgår att de vanligast förekommande temana var allmänna värdeomdömen om skolan, att kommentera lärare samt skolans upplägg och utbildningens kvalité. Det är även vanligt att sociala aspekter så som atmosfär och gemenskap lyfts fram i recensionerna. Av den kvalitativa delen framgår det att recensenterna uttrycker sig på ett sätt som speglar skolmarknadsdiskursen. I somliga fall framgår tydligt hur recensenten anammat skolmarknadsdiskursen. Slutsats Resultatet indikerar att recensionssystemet riskerar att generera segregerande effekter. Framförallt utifrån den asymmetriska tillgången av information och att skola och identitet knyts allt närmare varandra. Detta förtydligas och ställs på sin spets i hur recensionerna är konstruerade och kan, i vissa fall, tänkas vara svårare att bearbeta då gemene elev tenderar att se recensenter som objektiva (till skillnad från övrig tillgänglig information).Aim The aim with this study is to explore what kind of information pupils, searching for upper secondary school, might get from reading reviews of schools. The purpose is thus to quantify the scope and content of the review system quantitatively; what is mentioned in the review texts, and to examine how the review are textually constructed. Finally, the paper aims to discuss the review system in a larger social context - as a result of and a part of our time. What topics occur in reviews of upper secondary schools and how frequent is the occurrence? How are the different themes in the reviews valued (positive, negative or neutral)? In what way are the review texts constructed and how can it be interpreted? In what way does a school market discourse appear in the reviews? Method The quantitative questions are examined through a content analysis on randomly selected reviews of upper secondary schools in Stockholm County. The words in question are quantified and divided into themes, categories and subcategories. An assessment is also made based on whether the existing words are lifted in a positive, negative or neutral context. The qualitative part consists of a text analysis inspired by the discourse analysis. From a number of selected reviews, based on its substantive relevance, these are semantically analyzed with discourse analytics tools. In a merged discussion and analysis section, the result is treated on the basis of the theoretical framework and previous research. Results The content analysis shows that the most common themes were general value reviews of the school, commenting on teachers and the school's structure and the quality of the education. It is also common to mention social aspects such as atmosphere and cohesion. From the qualitative part it appears that the reviewers express themselves in a way that reflects the school market discourse. In some cases, it is clear that the reviewer has adopted the school market discourse. Conclusion The result indicates that the review system risks generating segregating effects. Especially based on the asymmetric availability of information and the fact that school and identity are getting more connected. This is clarified and put on its tip in how the reviews are constructed and, in some cases, may be more difficult to process when the common student tends to see reviewers as objective (in contrast to other available sources of information).
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Doleshal, Zachary Austin. "Life and death in the kingdom of shoes : Zlín, Bat'a, and Czechoslovakia, 1923-1941." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2012-05-5276.
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Life and Death in the Kingdom of Shoes is an exploration into the lives of the people of Zlín, Czechoslovakia from 1923 to 1941. During this period Zlín became the headquarters for one of the most successful commercial concerns in the world, the Bat’a Company. Alongside its explosive economic growth, the company attempted to transform its workforce and town into a highly rationalized operating system, which held strikingly new determinants for inclusion and exclusion within the body politic.
From planners, architects, and executives to criminals, housewives, and students, Life and Death in the Kingdom of Shoes encompasses high and low to suggest that the conflicts and compromises of those living in Bat’a’s model industrial towns produced a distinct ideology with its own symbols, heroes, and discourse. The ideology, Bata-ism, was part of a transnational project to design, build, and control cities based on scientific principles of rationalism. The project transcended national, class, and religious boundaries to offer a new way of identification: the Bata-man or woman. Work, play, gender, loyalty to the company, and appearance became much more important in deciding one's place within Bat’a’s twenty four towns, and some 3,600 retail outlets, than nation, class, or religion.
This dissertation challenges dominant historical narratives of Czechoslovakia and Bat’a in the interwar period, which have focused almost exclusively on national conflict and on the designs of the executives. By turning attention to the debates and implementation of something that radically changed people’s lives - the rationalization of everyday life – Life and Death in the Kingdom of Shoes adds a crucial chapter to our understanding of interwar Czechoslovakia The primary aim is to peel away the facade of the utopian company project to locate, in the words of the historian Richard Stites, “oceans of misery, disorder, chaos, corruption, and whimsicality that went with it.” With the stories of people like Marie Urbašková, a prostitute who led police on a fool’s errand, Life and Death in the Kingdom of Shoes allows disparate narratives to unravel tidy conceptions of Bat’a’s utopian project.text
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Lu, Yingjiu. "Vernacular modernism Zhang Ailing and high and low modern fiction in urban China /." 2009. http://hdl.rutgers.edu/1782.2/rucore10001600001.ETD.000051988.
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Reeves, Andrew W. "Water from the North: Nature, Freshwater, and the North American Water and Power Alliance." Thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1807/18842.
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The North American Water and Power Alliance (NAWAPA), a high modernist continental water diversion project drafted in Los Angeles in 1964, is examined for the impact it had upon social conceptions of nature, the scale of water diversion in North America, and the extent of American Southwestern efforts at sustaining unsustainable Northern lifestyles. Drafted to address the anxiety of perceived ecoscarcity regarding water shortages in the early 1960s, NAWAPA emerged after a century of increasingly large-scale diversion projects, and seemed a logical continuation of such grandiose, “jet-age” type thinking. It proposed to re-engineer the North American landscape to provide water from the North to the arid Southwest. Reasons for the plans failure (including the monumental shift in scale, and Canadian territorial and environmental opposition) are examined in relation to how nature was conceived – or forgotten – in the proposal.
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Rusňáková, Lucia. "Vysoké Tatry jako pole konfrontace české a slovenské moderní architektury." Master's thesis, 2019. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-408872.
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The diploma thesis author will conduct a study about architecture in the territory of the High Tatras in the period from the beginning of the recreational and spa architecture to the preparation of the World Championships in the classic ski disciplines in 1970. The topic will be developed firstly in the wider context of the discovery of the mountains by the European culture, gradual settlement and the economic use of the mountains and the emergence and development of climate baths and mountain sports centres. The heart of the study will show the High Tatras as an area of contacts of the Slovak, Czech, Hungarian and Polish architecture, with an emphasis on the mutual influences of Czech and Slovak architecture in the years 1918- 1970. Selected buildings in the area of High Tatras will be subject to comparative analysis and some of them will be compared with similar works of their authors in other parts of Slovakia and the Czech Republic. The aim of the comparative part is to determine the specifics of Slovak and Czech modern architecture and to determine the specific features of the High Tatras architecture. Keywords High Tatras, Slovak Architecture, Czech Architecture, Spa Architecture, Sports Architecture, Historism, Art Nouveau, Modernism, Functionalism
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Hanes, Samuel Paris. "The high modernist moment oysters, knowledge production, and conservation in the Progressive Era, 1878-1917." 2008. http://hdl.rutgers.edu/1782.2/rucore10001600001.ETD.17485.
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Al-Thani, Hessa. "Modernity Aspirations: The Struggle of Qatari Male Public High School Students to Become Successful Academically." Thesis, 2017. https://doi.org/10.7916/D8PN9CKC.
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The small Gulf nation of Qatar, despite its vast oil and gas wealth, suffers from a lack of human capital, particularly with respect to deficits in academic outcomes. Despite extensive investment in education, Qataris, and in particular Qatari boys, are still underperforming relative to international standards and relative to its wealth. In this dissertation I explored political, economic, and sociological approaches to investigate factors contributing to the underperformance of male Qatari students. Specifically, I have examined how male Qatari high school students internalize social values and economic and political policies as “signals” that inform and are reflected in their attitudes towards education and learning. I have hypothesized that Qatari male students who perceive the economic entitlement signals, and who perceive wasta (social status) as a venue of success, and who lack civic engagement, will do worse academically. My research focused on Qatari males attending public high schools in Qatar, which are operated by the Ministry of Education, and examined their performance on national standardized tests. To investigate my research question, I conducted a quantitative study using an original survey instrument. The target population included a representative sample of Qatari high school students who were in grades 10, 11, and 12 in the public schools in Qatar. My analysis of the data found mixed results in which economic signals appear to be strongly associated with male academic performance. Furthermore, Qatari high school boys’ perceptions of the value of wasta was correlated with their achievement on test scores. Surprisingly, Qatari high school boys’ perceptions of civic engagement did not appear to associate with Qatari males’ academic underperformance.
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李育賢. "The Influences of Parent-Child Psychological Traditionality Fit and Modernity Fit on Happiness of Senior High School Students." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/39237423437968247572.
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黃鐙潤. "A Study of Police Suicide and the Intimacy in Taiwan- The Reflection from the Intimacy in Anthony Giddens’ High Modernity." Thesis, 2016. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/nde9a6.
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Abstract The advanced technologies created in the modern society have been dramatically changing our lifestyle. The Industrial Revolution in 18th century significantly impacted on economic, political, and cultural development. The prevailing industrialism promoted capitalism and technological development catalyzed globalization. However, new technology brings froth numerous challenges that accompany the convenience it creates. Modern citizens now encounter challenges from trust and personal relationships. Unprecedented factors such as bachelorism, decreasing birth rate, suicide, hardship in friendship and marriage, and other problem regarding interactions between individual are now appearing in a new form of predicament. As we know, the electronic equipment and the internet, helpful to promote efficiency, have become necessity in our lives. Nevertheless the reliance on internet and its efficiency is breaking down physical and face to face interaction. By the internet, we might only care about those who are far away instead of these near us. It seems like people have more interaction with each other than before, yet it not only reflects our innermost loneliness but also creates an intimacy that is possibly more problematic. This thesis analyzed aims to apply the character of high modernity analysis by Anthony Giddens(1938- ), combining it with Nihilism, Existentialism and Postmodernism to examine the transformation of intimacy in modern society. By analyzing the suicide data between the general public and the law enforcement, the article explored the connection between the intimacy and suicide, and the problem of intimacy in modern society which the police have to face. This research thus intends to reflect on the suicide prevention strategy and provides possible solutions according to traits and features of the modern society.
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Lo, Chin-chuan, and 羅錦全. "The High Modernity and Identity in Taiwan :The case study of TV Campaign Commercials in the Year 2008 Presidential Election." Thesis, 2009. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/65942355263553978610.
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"Teachers’ mo(u)rning stories: A living narrative inquiry into teachers’ identities on emergent high school inquiry landscapes." Thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10388/ETD-2013-08-1154.
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This particular telling and retelling from a living narrative inquiry (Clandinin & Connelly, 2000) into the early experiences of three high school science teachers – Beth, Joel, and Christina – explores the emergent inquiry landscapes constructed as we implemented a renewed, decolonizing, science curriculum in Saskatchewan founded on a philosophy of inquiry and on a broader, more holistic definition of scientific literacy, both Western and Indigenous. This inquiry draws on an ontology of lived experience (Dewey, 1938) and, more subtly, on the borderland of narrative inquiry and complexity science in order to illustrate the emergence and coming to knowing (Delandshire, 2002; Ermine, as cited in Aikenhead, 2002) of our identities in a way that avoids the reduction in complexity of our experiences. While my initial wonders persisted throughout the research as I lived alongside Beth, Joel, and Christina for two years, they diffracted into the contextualized wonder: how do we share a philosophy of inquiry with each other and with our students? As such, this inquiry is a sharing about our own identities, about our own agency, about identity work, and about which experiences we choose to (re)engage with as we attempt to (re)find the narrative diversity, both individual and collective, necessary to shift from enacted identities to 'wished-we-could-enact' identities. This exploration of our 'mo(u)rning stories', early experiences from our shifting identities after stepping through the liminal and onto emergent inquiry landscapes, or our 'stories to relive with' provides a language and context to our shifting identities and hence, to science education, as we move towards a more holistic and humanistic form of scientific literacy for all our students. What emerged through the enmeshing of our landscapes and through the construction of voids in existing practices, followed by deformalizations in assessment and planning, was the development of a way of sharing our philosophy of inquiry and hence, our shifting identities. The artifacting and sharing of our contextualized inquiry experiences highlighted the rich assessment making, and curriculum making experiences (Huber, Murphy & Clandinin, 2011) we shared with our students and highlighted a view of assessment as a relationship. As we told and retold our stories to relive with, our identities shifted towards those more akin to facilitator and anthropologist and away from sage and engineer/architect.