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Chowning, Elizabeth Jane. "Harmony and Dissonance: Mennonite Visions of Community and Identity." W&M ScholarWorks, 1993. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625796.
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Benjamin, Sarah. "The theory of identity dissonance, mass communication, romance fiction, and the self-concept." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/mq43370.pdf.
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Frodin, Oskar, and Luna Karaberg. "Flygparadoxen - Den moraliska identiteten och dess betydelse för obehag vid kognitiv dissonans." Thesis, Örebro universitet, Institutionen för juridik, psykologi och socialt arbete, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-87661.
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Klimatförändringar har en ökad negativ påverkan på miljön. Detta utgör en stor utmaning för människor, eftersom mänsklig aktivitet spelar en avgörande roll i det som orsakar de negativa klimatförändringarna. Flygresor har exempelvis en stor negativ påverkan på miljön, men trots medvetenheten om detta används flyg som transportmedel mer än någonsin tidigare. Syftet med denna studie var att bidra till förståelsen för hur människor hanterar denna moraliska konflikt i relation till flygresor, genom att undersöka upplevd kognitiv dissonans och moralisk identitet. Vi genomförde en experimentell enkätundersökning, där deltagarna (N=148) antingen fick information som var tänkt att utlösa kognitiv dissonans (flygresors negativa påverkan på klimatet; experimentgrupp) eller information om fördelarna med flygresor (kontrollgrupp). I båda grupperna mättes affekt före och efter informationen. En skala över moralisk identitet fylldes också i. Resultaten visade en ökad negativ affekt i samband med kognitiv dissonans i experimentgruppen än i kontrollgruppen. Denna effekt visade ingen skillnad mellan könen. Det fanns en positiv korrelation mellan självrapporterad moralisk identitet och ökad dissonans, i relation till negativ affekt. Sammanfattningsvis påvisar studien att flygresande och dess negativa påverkan på miljön väcker kognitiv dissonans hos människor och att det finns ett samband mellan kognitiv dissonans och en persons moraliska identitet.Climate change has an increasing negative impact on the environment. This poses a big challenge on humans, since human activity plays a crucial role in causing negative changes in climate but we also have the opportunity to reverse climate change. Air travel for instance has a major negative impact on the environment, but despite the awareness of this, there are more flights than ever before. The aim of this study was to contribute the understanding of how people deal with moral conflict related to air travel, by taking into account perceived cognitive dissonance and moral identity. We conducted an online experimental survey in which participants (N=148) were either presented with information about air travel´s negative impact on the climate, that was supposed to trigger cognitive dissonance (experimental group) or with information about the advantages of air travel (control group). In both groups, affect was measured before and after the information and all participants completed the moral identity scale. The results revealed increased negative affect related to cognitive dissonance in the experimental group than in the control group. This effect did not depend on gender. There was a positive correlation between self-reported moral identity and increased dissonance, related to negative affect. Taken together, the study shows that air travel and its negative impact on the environment evoke cognitive dissonance in people and that there is a connection between cognitive dissonance and a person's moral identity.
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Zhang, Jing. "Grounded theory analysis of hospital-based Chinese midwives' professional identity construction." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/9823.
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Background: The professional development of midwifery in China has been challenged by its marginalised professional status and the medical dominance within midwifery practice in the contemporary maternity care system. There has been growing confusion about, ‘Who the midwife is and what does the midwife do?’ within and outside the profession. The sense of identity crisis for the profession has become particularly salient when Chinese midwifery becomes a sub-branch of the nursing profession during the contemporary period. If, however, we consider the International Confederation of Midwives (ICM) Mission Statement (2008: 32) that midwives are the ‘most appropriate professionals for childbearing women in keeping childbirth normal’, then the focus on a greater understanding of midwives is needed. It is the aim of this research to facilitate this understanding by exploring how hospital-based Chinese midwives construct their professional identity in the contemporary maternity care system and the factors that significantly influence the process. Design and Method: A Constructivist Grounded Theory (CGT) study was conducted to achieve the research aim. A sample of 15 midwives and 5 women participants was recruited between October 2010 and May 2011 from a capital city in one province of China. The accounts from the participants in the form of in-depth individual interviews were digitally recorded and three work journals from midwife participants were also included to facilitate the exploration of the study subject. NVivo 8 was used to assist with data management for the analysis. Findings: Six principle categories were identified: ‘institutional position’; ‘organisational management’; ‘professional discourse’; ‘compromising strategies’; ‘engaging strategies’; and ‘hybrid identity’. The integration of the principle categories has developed the theoretical model ‘navigating the self in maternity care’, which suggests that professional identity construction in midwives is a dynamic process, involving a constant structural and attitudinal interplay between the external (‘obstetric nurse’) and internal (‘professional midwife’) definitions of the midwife. The model indicates that the midwives’ professional identity construction was contextualised in their ‘institutional position’ in the contemporary maternity care system. In everyday practice, midwives experienced identity dissonance in relation to two competing identities: the ‘obstetric nurse’, bound up to the ‘organisational management’ in hospital settings; and the ‘professional midwife’, associated with the ‘professional discourse’ in the midwifery profession. Two types of strategies were identified to reduce the identity dissonance – ‘compromising strategies’ and ‘engaging strategies’ – which resulted in a ‘hybrid identity’, as the construction of professional identity in individual midwives is navigating along an identity continuum with ‘obstetric nurse’ and ‘professional midwife’ at opposing ends. This thesis has expanded on the current theoretical knowledge of identity work by elaborating on the discursive practices professionals employ to legitimate their professional identity and the various strategies individuals use to negotiate their identities at work. It has also extended attention to the influence of institutional forces on professional identity construction. With specific regard to Chinese midwifery, this emerging theoretical model provides a number of possible implications for midwifery practice, education and policy which would facilitate the exploration of effective operational processes for midwives in China to develop professionally.
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Schaible, Lonnie Matt. "The impact of emotional labor, value dissonance, and occupational identity on police officers [sic] levels of cynicism and burnout." Online access for everyone, 2006. http://www.dissertations.wsu.edu/Dissertations/Spring2006/L%5FSCHAIBLE%5F042506.pdf.
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Wegner, Christine E. "Organizational Membership and the Formation of Dissonant Identities." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2016. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/404057.
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Tourism and SportPh.D.
The purpose of this research is to explore the processes and strategies through which members of a group or organization use their organizational identity to make salient a normatively dissonant identity. Using both the functionalist perspectives of social identity theory and the existing narrative literature on identity formation in organizations, a conceptual process model of identity formation is created that integrates the identification process with the interaction of multiple identities, including the identity as members of an organization, a normatively dissonant identity, and other salient preexisting identities such as race and gender. This research also examined part of this conceptual model empirically, using members of a national running organization for Black women, Black Girls Run!, using a mixed-methods design including interviews and surveys of participants. Distance running, as a form of physical activity, is not a normative identity for Black women in the United States. Findings from Study 1 showed that members developed a running identity that informed their running behavior. Study 2 highlighted the process through which members used their identity as members of the organization to negotiate through their dissonance and become runners using modeling strategies. Findings from this study contribute to both sport management and organizational literature by empirically demonstrating the effects of and the processes through which an organizational identity might create a pathway for marginalized groups to adapt previously dissonant identities. It highlights the importance of organizational identities in the formation of deeper connections with physical activity, which has been shown to be an essential element of health maintenance and a conduit for sustainable active behaviors.
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Mannberg, Andréa. "Risk and Rationality : Effects of contextual risk and cognitive dissonance on (sexual) incentives." Doctoral thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för nationalekonomi, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-34116.
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Paper [I] theoretically analyzes how the level and uncertainty of future prospects affect incentives to abstain from sexual risk taking in the presence of HIV. The results suggest that, for individuals with limited access to HIV treatment, uncertainty of future health may be an important factor driving unsafe sex practices and support the empirical finding of a weak link between sexual behavior, HIV prevalence, and HIV knowledge in poor countries; therefore suggesting that AIDS policy needs to be calibrated in order to fit within different social contexts. Paper [II] empirically tests the link between uncertainty of future prospects and sexual risk taking in a group of young adults in Cape Town, South Africa. The findings indicate that expected income and health and future uncertainty are significant determinants of current patterns of sexual risk taking. However, the empirical results only provide limited support to a link between expected health and sexual risk taking. Paper [III] theoretically analyzes effects of affect and defensive denial on incentives to engage in sexual risk taking related to HIV. The results of the theoretical analysis suggest that the effect of rationalization of personal risk depends on the risk of being HIV positive. Although rationalization causes excessive risk taking behavior for individuals with a relatively low lifetime risk, it may prevent fatalism among individuals whose lifetime risk of HIV is perceived as overwhelming. Paper [IV] theoretically analyzes the role of identity conflict for the evolution of female labor supply over time. The results suggest the fear of becoming an outsider in society may have prevented a complete transition of women from housewives to breadwinners. In addition, our analysis shows that not recognizing that the weights attached to different social identities are endogenous may imply that the long-run effects on labor supply of a higher wage may be underestimated.
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Jones, David Colin. "Apart and a part : dissonance, double consciousness, and the politics of black identity in African American literature, 1946-1964." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2015. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/apart-and-a-part-dissonance-double-consciousness-and-the-politics-of-black-identity-in-african-american-literature-19461964(10a43f75-7272-42c5-a39b-7f0e01f75902).html.
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This thesis examines the politics of black identity in African American literature during what has come to be known as the ‘age of three worlds’. Across four chapters, I analyse texts by Ralph Ellison, Richard Wright, James Baldwin, and Lorraine Hansberry, exploring the way in which their writing plays out within and against the geopolitical exigencies of the Cold War and contemporaneous discourses of Civil Rights and black (inter)nationalism. In doing so, I explore the contrasting ways in which each of them displaces the binary logic that is typically seen as defining the 1950s, as a means of reconstituting both American and African American identity. Rejecting either/or identities, they all decentre prevailing notions of national and cultural identity by juxtaposing them with alternative spaces and temporalities, the result of which is a dual perspective that is simultaneously local and transnational. By extricating themselves, whether physically or intellectually, from a monolithic discursive framework, Ellison, Wright, Baldwin, and Hansberry recast the idea of double consciousness famously articulated by W. E. B. Du Bois in The Souls of Black Folk (1903). Instead of being a self-negating non-identity that serves as the psychological corollary to African Americans’ marginalised status, ‘two-ness’ is transmuted into a privileged vantage point that allows them to both intervene on the world historical stage as empowered modern subjects and renegotiate their relationship with the United States. What this two-ness amounts to, I argue, is a kind of dissonance. ‘Dissonance’, Duke Ellington claimed in 1941, names black people’s ‘way of life in America. We are something apart, yet an integral part’. The principle of introducing a ‘wrong’ note into a piece of music in order to generate new modalities of expression found in jazz is transposed into a social and literary context by the writers examined in this thesis. Each of them embodies and mobilises the socially grounded sense of being apart and a part alluded to by Ellington as a means of defamilarising normative notions of race, gender, and sexuality as they pertain to American-ness. In their place, they posit alternative forms of knowledge and politicised identity that reconstitute what it means to be both black and American in the middle of the twentieth century.
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Jansson, Mari, and Molly Tally. "Är cannabis den nya folkölen? : Unga cannabisanvändares tal om cannabis." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för socialt arbete - Socialhögskolan, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-118085.
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The aim of this study was to examine young adult cannabis users’ attitudes towards cannabis and their perception of the normalization of cannabis. The purpose was also to explore how their views of cannabis correspond with norms regarding cannabis. This study is based on interviews with five young adult cannabis users. The theoretical framework is based on Parker’s normalization thesis, Goffman’s notion of stigma, Becker’s definition of outsiders and the definition of social identity developed by Stone. The theory of cognitive dissonance was also used to analyze the empirics. The result shows that the interviewees experience a normalization of cannabis, although a process of stigmatization cannot be disregarded. The result also indicates that the respondent’s views of cannabis do not conform to society. The main conclusions are that cannabis is normalized in certain groups, which creates a discrepancy between the attitudes of cannabis users and Swedish society. The reasons for using cannabis are individual and one recurrent explanation is that the respondents experience less negative consequences of cannabis, compared to the effects of alcohol. These findings are supported by earlier research. In order to develop a constructive dialogue about cannabis, the understanding of these attitudes is important for social work.
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Strain, Laura M. "Reducing Vicarious Dissonance: The Role of Group-Related Attributes and Ingroup Identification in Reduction Strategy Selection." Oxford, Ohio : Miami University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=miami1261403844.
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Chapaux-Morelli, Pascale. "La dissonance identitaire au travail : développement théorique et demarche operationnelle par une approche mixed-method." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Paris 8, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020PA080006.
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Avec l’intérêt croissant envers les questions identitaires, la dissonance identitaire au travail devient un enjeu majeur. Il s’agit d’un inconfort psychologique sévère suite à une divergence consciemment éprouvée par l’individu entre ce qu’il pense être et ce qui le contraint dans son sentiment identitaire. Après une présentation des aspects historiques touchant à l’identité nous avons élaboré, dans le cadre de la Théorie de la Divergence du Self (Higgins, 1987), un instrument de mesure à travers une approche inductive, au vu du manque de littérature spécifique. La construction de l’IDS-Work a donné lieu à une structure, en deux dimensions indépendantes, pour un total de onze items. La latitude d’expression identitaire mesure le degré par lequel l’individu exprime sa personnalité et son identité au travail, et la pression normative mesure le degré de contraintes perçues au niveau identitaire. Nous avons ensuite procédé à l’analyse des effets de la dissonance identitaire sur les processus de santé au travail, puis à une étude qualitative où la dissonance est envisagée comme un levier d’évolution. Les résultats de ces différentes études ont permis : de souligner l’effet direct massif de la dissonance identitaire sur l’intention de quitter, le bien-être eudémonique et, très massivement, sur la dissonance émotionnelle ; de dégager des profils latents séparant les individus souhaitant changer de métier ou pas, les premiers ayant des scores faibles d’estime de soi et de focus promotionnel ; de souligner l’importance de phénomènes tels que l’héritage social ou le multi-jobbing. Les résultats sont discutés et les perspectives futures envisagéesConsidering the increasing interest in identity issues, identity dissonance at work is becoming a major issue. It is a severe psychological discomfort as a result of a conscious discrepancy experienced by the individual between actual self and ought self, at the workplace. After a presentation of the historical aspects of identity and on the basis of Higgins’ Self-Discrepancy Theory, we developed an instrument of measurement through an inductive approach, given the lack of specific literature. The construction of the IDS-Work resulted in an independent two-dimensional structure for a total of eleven items. The latitude of expressive identity measures the degree by which the individual expresses his/her personality and identity at work, and normative pressure measures the degree of perceived constraints at an identity level. We then analyzed the effects of identity dissonance on occupational health processes, and realized a qualitative study, in which dissonance is seen as a lever for evolution. The results of such studies have allowed: to highlight the direct effect of identity dissonance on the intention to leave, the eudemonic well-being and, very massively, on emotional dissonance; to identify latent profiles separating individuals who wish to change occupation or not, the former with low scores of self-esteem and promotional focus; to underline the importance of phenomena such as social heritage or multi-jobbing. The results are discussed, and the future research envisaged
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Allen, Lynn. "Finding a comfortable fit : practitioners' understanding of the sociopolitical context and its role in psychotherapy." Thesis, University of Wolverhampton, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2436/209930.
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Objectives: Inclusion of sociopolitical context in therapeutic interventions is under-researched, largely limited to practitioners’ addressing diversity issues in therapy. Relevant studies have shown both trainees and qualified practitioners experience anxiety and discomfort associated with uncertainties about effectively incorporating diversity and sociopolitical context. Although various models exist to aid systematic case conceptualisation incorporating sociopolitical factors, these are not widely used. The majority of relevant literature continues to concentrate on idiosyncratic conceptual models specific to theoretical approaches. This study aimed to discover how qualified practitioners currently conceptualise and incorporate diversity and sociopolitical factors into practice. Design: Given the lack of research available to inform the area, a grounded theory study was conducted as an exploratory exercise. The qualitative approach was adopted to investigate practitioners’ subjective experiences of their current practice. Constructivist assumptions underpinned the approach to the data, leading to use of Charmaz’s (2006) version of the grounded theory approach. Method: Theoretical sampling was used to recruit the 13 participants. Two focus groups and 8 individual interviews were conducted. Analysis: Two models emerged, representing the processes practitioners engaged in to “find a comfortable fit”, and the range of contexts within which the processes took place. Personal and professional dissonance emerged as a central feature of practitioner development. Discussion: The study highlighted the contribution of dissonance and the situated nature of the practitioner as major contributors affecting how sociopolitical issues are conceptualised and addressed in therapy. Further research is needed to clarify how these factors may most usefully contribute to best practice. However, multiple ecological contexts cited as levels of influence add a degree of complexity that will require operationalizing by those wishing to investigate this area in the future.
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Johansson-Nogués, Elisabeth. "The construction of an EU foreign policy identity: Identitarian resonance and dissonance in the European Union's relations with the Mediterranean, Northern European and Western Balkan borderlands." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/5239.
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La UE ha desarrollado desde el final de la Guerra Fría un modelo distintivo de la política exterior hacia los países socios en el Mediterráneo, en el norte de Europa y en los Balcanes occidentales basado en el multilateralismo regional, la cooperación multisectorial, el intervencionismo, así como una narrativa en torno a la noción de que la Unión tiene una "responsabilidad" hacia los países en estas áreas. Este modelo representa una proyección de la identidad internacional de la UE en relación a estos países vecinos. No obstante, al mismo tiempo la UE ha experimentado dificultades en tener un impacto decisivo y positivo en estas mismas zonas y se podría incluso argumentar que los países socios de la UE desconfían del modelo que la UE les ofrece. La presente tesis doctoral pretende examinar la falta de resonancia del modelo de política exterior de la UE en zonas colindantes. Con este fin nos proponemos responder a las siguientes preguntas de investigación: ¿qué es identidad internacional de la Unión Europea? ¿Cómo se construye? ¿Cómo impacta la identidad internacional de la UE en su relación con terceros países, en particular, con tres áreas muy priorizadas por la UE como el Mediterráneo, el norte de Europa y los Balcanes occidentales? La primera parte de la tesis examina los diferentes nodos cognitivos sobre los que la UE construye su identidad internacional y estudia la evolución histórica de la política exterior de la UE en términos de su identidad internacional hacia el Mediterráneo, el norte de Europa y los Balcanes occidentales. La segunda parte analiza las relaciones entre la UE y cada una de estas áreas en profundidad por vía del Proceso de Barcelona, la Dimensión Septentrional y el Proceso de Estabilización y Asociación y políticas asociadas. La tercera parte de la tesis analiza como el modo en que la UE construye su identidad causa resonancia y disonancia en relación con los países socios en las mismas zonas.The EU has developed a distinctive foreign policy model towards partner countries in the Mediterranean, Northern European and Western Balkans since the end of the Cold War based on regional multilateralism, multi-sectorial cooperation, interventionism and a strong narrative around the notion of the Union having 'responsibility' toward the countries in these areas. This model represents a projection of the EU's burgeoning foreign policy identity vis-à-vis neighboring countries. Nevertheless, the EU has had a hard time since the fall of the Berlin Wall to make a decisive positive impact in these same areas and one could even argue that partner countries in the EU borderlands are becoming wary of EU's model. The present doctoral dissertation aims to explore the lack of resonance of the EU model in the Union's borderlands. For this purpose we aim to respond to the following research questions: what is the EU's foreign policy identity? How is it constructed? How does the EU's international identity play out in relation with third countries, in particular with three by the EU highly prioritized areas such as the Mediterranean, Northern Europe and the Western Balkans? The first part of the dissertation will examine the different cognitive nodes upon which the EU constructs its international identity and survey the historical evolution of the EU's foreign policy identity in terms of the Mediterranean, Northern Europe and the Western Balkans. The second part will explore the relations between the EU and each one of these areas in depth by ways of the Barcelona Process, the Northern Dimension and the Stabilization and Association Process and accompanying policies. The third part of the dissertation intends to analyze how the EU's foreign policy identity causes resonance and dissonance in relation to its partner countries in the same areas.
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Galley, Ghislaine. "Une identité hybride construite dans les interstices organisationnels : le cas des moniteurs des maisons familiales rurales." Thesis, Lille 3, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019LIL3H024.
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La fonction d’enseignant revêt des réalités différentes selon le contexte d’exercice du métier. Il peut s’agir d’enseigner à temps plein dans les parcours initiaux (primaires et secondaire) ou de former de futurs professionnels par alternance (CFA, MFR), situations qui impliquent des pratiques et des identités professionnelles très différentes pour ceux qui en sont chargés. En raison de cette très grande variabilité des situations de formation, les personnes s’engageant dans la fonction d’enseignant peuvent être confrontées à des prescriptions professionnelles éloignées de la fonction qu’elles avaient le projet d’occuper lorsqu’elles se sont mobilisées pour accéder à ce métier. C’est précisément de cet écart entre le métier d’enseignement visé et celui effectivement occupé qu’il sera question dans ce travail.Nous interrogerons en particulier les modes d’engagement dans le métier et les transitions identitaires de formateurs de l’enseignement professionnel privé par alternance, exerçant en Maisons Familiales Rurales (MFR) après avoir échoué aux concours de recrutement de l’Éducation Nationale. Recrutées de manière un peu fortuite en MFR, les prescriptions pédagogiques auxquelles ils se voient soumis sont tout à fait éloignées de celles qu’ils anticipaient et avaient intériorisées en vue de leur recrutement par l’Éducation Nationale : ils partagent avec les maîtres de stage le travail de formation, accompagnent les apprenants dans une démarche de production des savoirs, ne se limitent pas à l’enseignement d’une discipline dont ils seraient les experts, par exemple. La confrontation à une forme d’enseignement qui déroge à celle anticipée crée une dissonance d’autant plus forte qu’elle est d’abord la conséquence d’un échec et d’une réorientation contrainte. Cette dissonance entre le métier visé et le métier effectivement prescrit est susceptible d’être source d’inconfort.Cette thèse analyse les postures professionnelles que valorisent les formateurs par alternance pour résoudre cette dissonance, pour se construire une identité professionnelle subjectivement satisfaisante. Étudiant les modes d’investissement dans le métier de moniteurs de MFR (pratiques privilégiées, postures professionnelles adoptées), elle entend rendre compte des stratégies identitaires mises en œuvre dans le contexte de structures employeuses à l’organisation relativement plastiqueThe teaching function has different realities depending on the context of the trade. This may include teaching full time in the initial stages (primary and secondary) or training of future professionals by alternance training methods(CFA, MFR), situations that involve very different professional practices and identities for those in charge. Because of this very variability in training situations, people who are engaged in the teaching function may be faced with professional prescriptions that are far removed from the job they had planned to perform when they mobilized to enter the trade. It is precisely this gap between the occupation of instructor concerned and the one actually occupied that will be discussed in this work.In particular, we will be interviewing modes of engagement in the trade and identity transitions of trainers practising alternance training, working in “Maisons Familiales Rurales” (MFR) after failing National Education recruitment competitions. Recruited in a somewhat incidental way in MFR, the pedagogical prescriptions to which they are subjected are quite distant from those which they anticipated and had internalized for their recruitment by National Education: they share with the teachers of the traineeship the work of training, they accompany the learners in a process of knowledge production, they are not limited to the teaching of a discipline of which they would be experts, for example. Confrontation with a form of education that deviates from that anticipated creates a dissonance all the more important because it is first the consequence of failure and then of a constrained reorientation. This dissonance between the occupation concerned and the occupation actually prescribed is likely to be a source of discomfort.This thesis analyses the vocational positions that trainers by alternance training value to resolve this dissonance, in order to build themselves a subjectively satisfactory professional identity. Studying investment patterns in the MFR instructor trade (preferred practices, professional postures adopted), she intends to report on the identity strategies implemented in the context of relatively plastic organisational structures
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Karlsson, Tobias. "Climate change beliefs and attitudes relationship to informational influences and demographic factors." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Institutionen för datavetenskap, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-159208.
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One of the biggest challenges for the modern society is that of climate change. Despite the growing accumulation of scientific evidence that points towards a strong need for action to be made regarding anthropogenic (human made) climate change, there is a lack of unity in what actions are needed and an outspread passivity amongst both establishments and the public. The reason behind this is attributed to lack of belief in anthropogenic climate change, and lack of pro-environmental attitudes amongst the public. Furthermore, these issues have been found to relate to identity related beliefs and attitudes that conflict with pro-environmental beliefs and attitudes, where political orientation has proven to be a strong factor. One way of dealing with these issues could be through informational influences. By presenting people to information shaped in different ways, one could increase the belief in anthropogenic climate change and pro-environmental attitudes. This study examined the relationship between three different informational influences, and its potential effect on climate change beliefs and attitudes. Furthermore, this study examined the relationship between demographic factors such as age, gender and political orientation with regards to their potential effect on climate change beliefs and attitudes. 449 participants completed a survey with intent to measure the potential effects informational influences and demographic factors had on climate change beliefs and attitudes. Despite that indications where found, no significant results could be identified for the informational influences. All demographic factors had some significant effect on climate change beliefs or attitudes, where political orientation was the strongest influencing factor. This relates to earlier research and further implications were discussed for future studies.
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Ames, Justin B. "ANTECEDENTS TO MANAGERIAL MORAL STRESS: A MIXED METHOD STUDY." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1521118306726279.
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Brousse-Tricoire, Elodie. "Rester anonyme ou décliner son identité dans le paradigme de l'hypocrisie induite." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015AIXM3025.
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Aronson, E., Fried, C., Stone, J., (1991) ont cherché à mettre en place une procédure permettant aux acteurs de la vie sociale de promouvoir de nouveaux comportements socialement souhaitables, comme l’utilisation du préservatif. C’est ainsi que va naître le paradigme de l’hypocrisie induite. Ce paradigme résulte de l’enchaînement de deux facteurs : l’engagement dans le comportement pro-normatif et, le rappel et la saillance des transgressions récentes passées. L’articulation des deux phases provoque un état de dissonance qui va générer une modification du comportement dans le sens du discours pro-normatif. Cette thèse a cherché à démontrer de quelle manière ce paradigme de l’hypocrisie induite est le plus efficace en termes de modification du comportement : en restant anonyme ou en déclinant son identité. Fried (1998), identifie les sujets avec leurs transgressions en déclinant leur identité afin d'augmenter leur dissonance. Toutefois, les résultats obtenus ont démontré le contraire. Cette thèse, présente quatre expérimentations, reprenant la manipulation du facteur « déclinaison de son identité » dans le paradigme de l’hypocrisie induite, lors des deux phases. Les résultats obtenus répliquent en termes de changement de comportement, ceux obtenus par Fried. L’effet d’hypocrisie disparaît lorsque les sujets sont identifiés avec leur rappel des transgressions. Il résulte de nos travaux que la formule la plus efficace à l’obtention de l’effet d’hypocrisie est celle combinant un prêche et un rappel des transgressions anonymes. De plus, la dissonance éveillée suite à la manipulation d’hypocrisie peut être réduite par d’autres voies que la modification du comportementAronson, E., Fried, C., Stone, J., (1991) sought to establish a procedure allowing the actors of society to promote new socially desirable behaviors such as condom use. Thus is born the paradigm of the induced hypocrisy.This paradigm results from a chain of two factors: engagement in pro-normative behavior and recall and salience recent past transgressions. The articulation of the two phases causes a state of dissonance that will generate a change in behavior in the direction of pro-normative discourse. In this thesis, we sought to demonstrate how the paradigm of the induced hypocrisy is the most efficient in terms of behavior modification: remaining anonymous or stating his identity. In a study done by Fried (1998), subjects are identified with their transgressions by declining their identity. This was to increase dissonance. However, the results have shown otherwise.This thesis presents four experiments, taking one hand manipulation of the factor "version of its identity" in the experimental procedure paradigm induced hypocrisy, not only for the transgression phase but also in the phase of preaching. And secondly, introducing new ways of reducing cognitive dissonance.The results obtained replicate in terms of behavior change, those obtained by Fried. The hypocrisy effect disappears when subjects are identified with their recall of transgressions. It is clear from our work that the most effective formula to obtain the effect of hypocrisy is by combining a sermon and a reminder anonymous transgressions. Our studies also show that the dissonance aroused from manipulating hypocrisy can be reduced by means other than behavior modification
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Hultén, Peter. "Managing a cross-institutional setting : a case study of a Western firm's subsidiary in the Ukraine." Doctoral thesis, Umeå universitet, Företagsekonomi, 2002. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-67937.
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This study explores the development of a Western firm's subsidiary in the Ukraine and sets out to contribute to the theoretical development about the managing of subsidiaries in the Post-Soviet market. The cross-institutional approach to analyse the subsidiary has been adopted to explore influence from the institutional setting of the parent firm and from local institutions. In the theoretical framework, special attention is directed to studies analysing the challenges that Western firms encounter when operating in the Post-Soviet market. Institutional theory therefore serves as a framework for theories on market entries, networks and management transfers.The empirical study is based on a case study conducted in connection to a training project for local employees of a Western firm's subsidiary operating in the Ukraine. Besides being a source of inspiration, the training project provided good access to respondents and insights about the challenges that the subsidiary faced.The analysis shows that the introduction of the Western firm's management in the subsidiary reflects in the local employees' forming of identities. A clear pattern is that local employees' development of identities in line with the Western firm's norms is supported by socialisation in settings dominated by the Western firm. A setting dominated by conflicts between Western and local norms, in contrast, resulted in developments of conflict identities. The analysis of the subsidiary's managing of influences from the local institutional setting indicates that this concerned filtering. Striking was that the subsidiary was successful in managing influences when the filtering conditions were characterised by consonance. Looking into aspects making the filtering of external influences difficult, the analysis points out barter trade and local actors' boundary spanning towards authorities in the Ukrainian society as aspects creating dissonances and vacuum. Thus, influences characterised by dissonance and/or vacuum made it particularly difficult for the subsidiary to manage these influences.One of the major contributions of this thesis is the cross-institutional approach to analyse developments in a subsidiary in the Post-Soviet market. By applying this approach the study suggests that the managing of a cross-institutional setting concerns both internal and external boundary spanning. Of vital importance for the internal boundary spanning are issues influencing local employees' forming of a 'we' with the Western firm's representatives. The standpoint is that this concerns local employees' identity identification, which is a new perspective on management transfers towards a subsidiary in the Post-Soviet market. Concerning the managing of external boundary spanning, the study points towards the importance of observing local actors' ways of dealing with dissonances and vacuum in local networks.digitalisering@umu
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Hansson, Mikael, and Stefan Karlsson. "A Matter of Perspective : A Qualitative study of Player-presence in First-person Video Games." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för informatik, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-121058.
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In this study we aimed to investigate the process through which players of video games situate, and form an understanding of their presence within the virtual game environment. This study specifically investigates this process in games played through a first person perspective with the intention of minimising the amount of visual information provided the participants. For this purpose we created two scenarios within a videogame environment specifically design for the study. A total of thirteen participants took part in the study, and after each season a semi structured interview was performed. In a qualitative content analysis we identified patterns and commonalities ascertaining to our line of questioning, and conclude that while the player-presence relationship would appear to be largely dependent on the individual’s type of play, the varying focus on either narratology or ludology in our two scenarios did indeed influence the participants to approach this relationship similarly within the separate groups. Finally we defined four types of player-presence relationship, and how they can be said to relate to the varying ludonarrative dynamics within the two specified genres, as well as the varying types of play observed amongst the participants in our study.
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Bensaada, Merzeghe. "Perception de la parole télévisuelle en Algérie. Dissonances et dyscommunication." Thesis, Montpellier 3, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013MON30064/document.
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Les émissions de parole nous paraissent comme un espace de cristallisation des conflits linguistiques et identitaires que connaît la société algérienne, un lieu tout autant d'aboutissement que d'amplification des dysfonctionnements de la communication télévisuelle et publique en Algérie. Cette étude consiste à tenter de comprendre les contextes et les modalités d’articulation des déterminations psychosociales à partir de situations d'échanges et de transmission qui laissent deviner une sorte de “malaise” communicationnel à la télévision. À travers la parole, comme marqueur psycho-identitaire, nous avons cherché à identifier les symptômes de la “dyscommunication”. Les manifestations de cette dernière se révèlent comme la conséquence d'un raté politico-idéologique et l'indicateur d'un clivage identitaire des sujets parlants. La problématique que nous soulevons relève principalement du phénomène d'inadaptation de la langue utilisée à la télévision et qui semble influer sur le comportement expressif (langagier et paralangagier), et affaiblit les potentiels émotionnels et phatiques des locuteurs à la télévision. Nos observations et notre enquête montrent que les récepteurs sont sensibles aux messages émotionnels et aux implicites culturels véhiculés par les emblèmes mimogestuels, le langage paraverbal, la prononciation, et que ceux-ci sont des facteurs déterminants dans la qualité d'une interaction communicative, à la télévision comme dans la vie quotidienne. La langue, seule, ne suffit pas à transmettre la totalité du message. Le téléspectateur est très attentif aux “énoncés coopératifs” et de reconnaissance mutuelle, ainsi qu'aux compétences socioculturelles et émotionnelles qui accompagnent et émergent naturellement d'une parole endogèneTV programs based on words/debate/discussion appear to us as a space of crystallization of the linguistic and identity conflicts which the Algerian society knows. They show and amplify the dysfunctions of television and public communication in Algeria. This study consists in trying to understand the contexts and modalities of articulation of the psychosocial and ideological determinations by exploring situations of exchange and transmission which seem to reveal a kind of communicational discomfort on television. By analysing the word as a marker of identity and psychology, we have tried to identify symptoms of "dyscommunication". The expressions of the latter appear as the consequence of a politico-ideological failure and the indicator of an identity cleavage between the speaking subjects/enunciators. The problem which we raise has to do wit the phenomenon of maladjustment of the language used on television, which seems to influence the (both linguistic and paralinguistic) capacity of expression and to weaken the emotional and phatic potential of the speakers on television. Our observations and our investigation show that the receivers/viewers are sensitive to the emotional messages and to implicit cultural signs conveyed by mimogestual emblems, paraverbal language, pronunciation, and that these are determining factors in the quality of a communicative interaction, on television as in everyday life. Language alone is not enough to convey the totality of the message. The televiewer is very attentive to the "cooperative statements" and to processes of mutual recognition, as well as to the sociocultural and emotional skills which accompany and naturally emerge from endogenous speech
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Villanova, Pâmella de Caprio 1988. "Feminilidade dissonante em cena : uma exploração andrógena e vadia do mito de Helena." [s.n.], 2014. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/285304.
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Orientador: Verônica Fabrini Machado de AlmeidaDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Artes
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Resumo: Uma atriz investiga as performatividades que envolvem os gêneros masculino e feminino. Como rata de laboratório e sujeito científico, experimenta em si e em corpos a seu redor a mitologia da mulher erótica, procurando ultrapassar dualidades em uma exploração andrógena. O mito grego de Helena foi escolhido como campo de provas, material poético estudado principalmente a partir da tragédia As Troianas, de Eurípedes; das pesquisas históricas de Bettany Hughes; das análises do Prof. Junito de Souza Brandão e do romance da francesa Sophie Chaveau. As questões de Helena serão problematizadas pelo viés dos estudos de gênero de Judith Butler e Beatriz Preciado; e da perspectiva do Imaginário, principalmente em Gaston Bachelard e CG Jung. Abordada a partir de suas subversões da feminilidade, como figura dissonante que permanece na arte ocidental desde Homero, a pesquisa busca a exploração andrógena porque os corpos procuram assumir o feminino e o masculino, se propondo a permanecer nas fronteiras, longe das universalizações, ali onde tudo parece confuso e caótico. Assume-se também uma exploração vadia porque a forma de organização das ideias permite o ir e vir entre teoria e prática sem pudores. Este trabalho é teórico-prático, interdisciplinar e autobiográfico
Abstract: An actress investigates performativities involving males and females roles. As a laboratory rat and scientific subject, experiences itself and the bodies around her with the mythology of the erotic woman, looking to overcome dualities in an androgeny exploration. The Greek myth of Helen is the field trials, an engaging poetic material studied mostly from the tragedy "The Trojan Women", by Euripides; the historical research of Bettany Hughes; the analysis of Prof. Junito de Souza Brandão and the novel of the French Sophie Chaveau. Helen's issues will be problematized from gender studies of Judith Butler and Beatriz Preciado; and the perspective of the Imaginary, especially in Gaston Bachelard and CG Jung. Approached from its subversions of femininity, as dissonant figure that remains in Western art from Homer, the research seeks to an androgeny exploration because the bodies seeking to assume the feminine and the masculine, proposing to remain at the border, away from universalizations, where there everything seems confused and chaotic. It is also assumed a slutty exploration because the organization of ideas allows the coming and going between theory and practice shamelessly. This work is theoretical and practical, interdisciplinary and autobiographical
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Teatro, Dança e Performance
Mestra em Artes da Cena
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Östling, Robert. "Bounded rationality and endogenous preferences." Doctoral thesis, Handelshögskolan i Stockholm, Samhällsekonomi (S), 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hhs:diva-454.
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Jacot, Grapa Caroline. "Homo dissonans : figures de l'être dissocié au XVIIIe siècle : différence et identité, exclusion et indétermination." Paris 7, 1993. http://www.theses.fr/1993PA070065.
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Ce travail porte sur des expressions de la difference dans un corpus ouvert de textes du 18e siecle, particulierement l'encyclopedie et les oeuvres de diderot et de rousseau. L'idee de difference n'est pas abordee du point de vue de l'historien ou du sociologue, en tant que paradigme de la marginalite sociale. Elle est envisagee comme fondement de la reflexion sur la constitution de l'identite individuelle dans ses rapports avec l'autre. L'expression de ces rapports passe par une mise en scene de l'experience de l'individuel, du particulier et du different, qui est etudiee a partir de ses liens avec differents domaines : langage, musique, politique, esthetique, anthropologie. Ce travail entre litterature et histoire culturelle est focalise sur des "petits mots" (en regard des concepts fondamentaux de l'histoire semantique et culturelle), et des expressions qui glissent de domaines specialises dans les textes litteraires, faisant l'objet d'un discours descriptif et ou theorique, puis d'une metaphorisation ou d'une thematisation liees a l'imaginaire de la difference ainsi, les idiotismes conduisent de la grammaire raisonnee au langage prive, les dissonances, de la theorie de l'harmonie a l'apprehension des relations sociales, le paria, de l'ethnographie a la figuration de soi, et les "etres indecis", de la biologie a la scene sociale (monstres, travestis). Ces figures de l'etre dissocie permettent de penser et de mettre a l'epreuve les conditions de la differenciation, jusque dans des situations ou se defont les signes qui la marquentThis work studies some expressions of difference in an open corpus of eighteenth-century texts, particularly the encyclopedie and works of diderot and rousseau. The idea of difference is not considered from the purely historical or the sociological point of view as a paradigm of social marginality. Instead, it is conceived as the foundation of eighteent-century thought on individuation and identity in relation to other entities. Literary representations reflect on that relation and the intimate experience of individuality, particularity and difference. The literary rpresentations are built from several domains that are considered in the work, such as language music, esthetics, politics, and anthropology. The research, defining it s method between cultural history and literature, is focused on "small words" (compared to fundamental concepts of semantic and cultural history), and expressions that went from a descriptive and or theoretical discourse to a literary metaphorisation or thematisation working on imagined differences. Thus, idiotisms lead from grammar to private language, pariah from ethnography to self-representation, and "undecided beings" from biology to the social stage (monsters, masks). These figures of dissociated beings allow to reflect upon and experiment with the conditions of differentiation in situations where its signs are questioned
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Gunn, Ariel Antares *. ""He might have read between the lines" dissonant identity in the early works of John Oliver Hobbes /." [Gainesville, Fla.] : University of Florida, 2003. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/UFE0000693.
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Cabéro, Alain. "Différent, différence et différends : essai anthropologique sur les dissonances de la surdité mal-entendue." Thesis, Bordeaux 2, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010BOR21749/document.
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Considérés pendant de longues décennies comme étant « inéducables », les Sourds ont dû subir la farouche volonté des « Entendant » : les faire parler à tous prix. Faire oublier qu’ils étaient sourds. Sans doute faut-il considérer que la surdité représente « l’handicap de la communication », handicap qui ne se voit pas d’emblée. C’est ainsi qu’au fil des années, il apparu comme nécessaire de faire parler les sourds. Les faire parler pour qu’ils puissent appartenir à cette « normalité » prônée par les Entendant Oralistes ( comme Heinicke au XVIIIème siècle) : « La normalité réside dans la parole vocale et l’anormalité dans la surdité. » Au même moment l’Abbé de l’Épée recommandait la « méthode gestuelle ». La Langue des Signes naissante devint le frontispice de ce que les sourds revendiquent : L’ « Identité Culturelle Sourde ». Actuellement la loi promulgue le « tout intégration », intégrer des enfants sourds en « milieu ordinaire » Cette intégration semble représenter un certain danger pour la communauté sourde qui pressent une atteinte à cette notion d’identité. D’autant que les idées reçues concernant la surdité vont « bon train ». Nous verrons que celles-ci ne correspondent pas à la réalité, que les sourds n’appartiennent pas à ce « monde du silence » dans lequel on veut paradoxalement les enfermer. Bien au contraire, ils vivent dans un monde sonre, allant même jusqu’à écouter et faire de la musique. Et cela c’est eux qui le disent, alors pourquoi ne pas tenir compte de leurs parolesConsidered for many decades as "uneducable" Deaf people had to endure the fierce desire of "hearing" them to speak at all costs. To forget that they were deaf. Without doubt it should consider that deafness is "the handicap of communication," disability is not immediately. Thus, over the years, it seemed necessary to speak to the deaf. Talk to them they can belong to this "normalcy" advocated by hearing oral (Heinicke as in the eighteenth century): "Normality is the voice and speech abnormalities in deafness. " At the same time Father of the Sword recommended method gestures. " Sign language became the nascent frontispiece that deaf claim: The "Deaf Cultural Identity." Currently the law promulgates the "any integration, integration of deaf children in" mainstream " This integration appears to represent a certain danger for the deaf community to urge an attack on the notion of identity. Especially as the myths about deafness are "good". We will see that they do not correspond to reality, as the deaf do not belong to this "world of silence" which is, paradoxically, the lock. On the contrary, they live in a world of sounds, even listen to and make music. And it is they who say, why not heed their words
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Ankarvik, Max. "Att köra eller inte köra : En studie av miljömedvetna bilisters dissonansreducerande- och identitetsupprätthållande strategier." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS), 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-34062.
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Att köra eller inte köra is a qualitative study aiming to show how environmentally conscious people who utilizes cars deal with their dissonant behavior, but at the sametime maintain an identity as environmentally conscious. The study is based on the fact that a third of those who drive cars in the municipality of Växjö would like to decrease their use of cars while at the same time having the infrastructural conditions to utilize other means of transportation. The study investigates inner obstacles in the form of habits and lifestyle, but also the different strategies the motorists use to reduce their cognitive dissonance and maintain a green identity. The indicators show that the reason the majority of the motorists continue to utilize cars is part due to inner obstacles (it's adeeply rooted habit, but also a big part of their lifestyles), part due to that the individuals have defenses for their use of their cars, defenses designed to have a dissonance reducing effect. The indicators also show that the motorists value their family higher than the environment, and in this way they can legitimize many of their car uses. The study finds hints suggesting that the motorists associate good parenting with using cars and therefore risk another type of dissonance linked to parenthood if they should stop using cars. The majority of the motorists in the study have grown up in a rural environment suggesting that the car is a big part of a norm system linked to the motorists' cultural background, which in it self could be an explanation for why the individuals associate good parenting with the use of cars.
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Druenne, Loïc. "Rends-moi ce qui est mien : le patrimoine religieux, entre intérêts politiques et identités religieuses." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/38087.
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« L’union fait la force », dit l’adage : de tout temps, l’être humain a fait jouer le meilleur de son capital social (Putnam 2001) pour s’allier avec d’autres et faire société (Ponthieux 2006). Les groupes ainsi formés, unis par des intérêts communs et selon des géographies variables, se trouvent invariablement confrontés tôt ou tard à d’autres groupes aux objectifs parfois bien différents des leurs. Quel que soit le terme employé ou la théorisation envisagée pour qualifier et modéliser les modalités de cette rencontre, l’interaction force invariablement les groupes impliqués à confronter les habitudes et visions des uns et des autres. Mais que faire lorsqu’une incompatibilité se pose, lorsque les intérêts des uns et des autres ne semblent pas pouvoir se réaliser simultanément ? L’idée défendue dans cette thèse est qu’une intégration maximale des parties dans les processus de gestion du patrimoine accompagnée d’une réforme des systèmes de justice et d’un enseignement de qualité pourra faire du patrimoine un vecteur de développement à part entière. Afin de démontrer la pertinence de cette affirmation, deux cas d’étude bien différents mais néanmoins complémentaires ont fait l’objet d’une recherche approfondie : la mosquée-cathédrale de Cordoue (Espagne) et la mosquée de Babri à Ayodhya (Inde). Toutes deux font l’objet de conflits à géométries variables, entre des groupes politiques et religieux poursuivant des objectifs distincts. A travers une analyse des arguments et des modes d’action des différents acteurs des deux débats, cette thèse aboutit à la conclusion que ces conflits patrimoniaux relèvent directement des droits culturels des groupes concernés. Sans proposer de solution unique, est esquissée à l’issue de cette recherche une approche compréhensive et inclusive faisant du patrimoine et de la culture qui l’inclut un outil de développement pour les sociétés qui l’accueillent.
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Gustafsson, Marcelo. "[BEYOND FLESH] : Archives § Documents." Thesis, Konstfack, Ädellab, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:konstfack:diva-5546.
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Dunfield, Timothy. "The role of dissent in the creation of Seventh-day Adventist identity." Master's thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10048/645.
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This thesis studies the benefits that a religious organization acquires from its identification of, and reaction to, deviants within it. If an organization is to continue growing while still maintaining a unique identity, periodically it must have deviant movements within it. Theoretically, I apply insights from sociologists of deviance (particularly Durkheim and Erikson) about the functional benefits of deviance labeling for several aspects of group functioning, such as beliefs and the means of disseminating them, structure and hierarchy, internal policies, and leadership styles.
I studied the Seventh-day Adventist organization, applying Festingers cognitive dissonance theory to it, in order to better illuminate its history and reaction to dissenters. I focused on three Adventist dissenters; Dudley Canright, John Harvey Kellogg, and the threat posed by Ellet J. Waggoner and Alonzo T. Jones, showing how the organization reinforced its boundaries and maintained control of its members by identifying and punishing these supposed deviants.
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Dunfield, Timothy L. "The role of dissent in the creation of Seventh-day Adventist identity." 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10048/645.
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Thesis (M. A.)--University of Alberta, 2009.Title from pdf file main screen (viewed on Dec. 28, 2009). "A thesis submitted to the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Religious Studies, [Department of Religious Studies], University of Alberta." Includes bibliographical references.
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Binns, Carole L. "Module design in a changing era of Higher Education: academic identity, cognitive dissonance and institutional barriers." 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/11686.
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NoThis book explores the module design experiences and practices of academics employed within one UK university, and during a period of social and economic change in which university staff are designing and delivering curricula for changing student populations, with different profiles and expectations than previous generations. The book raises issues such as why, in a climate of reduced resources, staff increase their own workloads by re-writing lectures to accommodate changing student needs, and how institutional practices that are used to encourage curriculum innovation are often having a perceived opposite effect. It will appeal to academic staff, students of higher education studies, and policy-makers within the education sector.
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Hall, Deborah Lee. "Outgroup Similarity as a Source of Cognitive Dissonance: An Investigation of the Turncoat Effect." Diss., 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10161/2360.
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A long tradition of social psychological research suggests that perceptions of similarity and common ground can promote more harmonious relations among otherwise diverse social groups. Yet perceived similarity with and empathy for members of an outgroup can also intensify intergroup bias by threatening the positive distinctiveness of one's group. In the present research, cognitive dissonance theory is used as a framework for understanding how people experience and react to similarity with members of a rival outgroup and for clarifying the conditions under which outgroup similarity reduces or intensifies intergroup prejudice. Four studies tested the hypothesis that outgroup similarity elicits subjective feelings of cognitive dissonance, including psychological discomfort and negative self-evaluation. Study 1 was a pilot test in which similarity to an outgroup member was associated with negative self-evaluation but not psychological discomfort. Study 2 strengthened the interpretation of the turncoat effect as cognitive dissonance by demonstrating that the effect varies as a function of a classic dissonance moderator--perceived choice. Participants induced to experience outgroup similarity reported psychological discomfort and negative self-evaluation, but only when they believed their feelings of similarity resulted from a high degree of personal choice. Study 3 identified strength of ingroup identification as another key moderator of the effect: Only participants who were highly identified with their ingroup reported feelings of dissonance after an induction of outgroup similarity. Finally, Study 4 investigated the implications of three dissonance reduction strategies for intergroup prejudice.
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Hawthorne, Rhonda. "A teacher's journey to transform her math identity." 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1993/32014.
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This study explored the transformation of a teacher’s math identity. The researcher used narrative inquiry to live alongside the participant (Clandinin, 2013) as she experienced teaching in a pedagogically courageous way to make math meaningful to her students. Along the way the participant experienced cognitive dissonance but through intense collaborative professional reflection she persevered and evolved. The study addressed the questions: What factors influence a teacher’s motivation to grow and to make math meaningful to their students? What factors influence a teacher to commit to lifelong learning in math? Four themes emerged through the observations, journals, and reflective conversations including sharing of interim texts and the final narrative. The importance of the relationship with the researcher/coach, the trust that the participant had in the coach, the process, and herself, her desire for balance in her teaching life, and her improved sense efficacy led to her transformed math identity.February 2017
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Jean, Michel. "Émotions et identité : le rôle des émotions dans la formation de l'identité narrative." Thèse, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/5367.
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Cette thèse met en place un modèle permettant d'éclairer les relations entre certaines émotions et la conception que l'individu a de lui-même. En accord avec plusieurs auteurs contemporains, il est ici défendu que la conception que nous avons de nous-mêmes prend la forme d'une identité narrative, c'est-à-dire d'un récit à l'intérieur duquel nous tentons de structurer une image cohérente de nous-mêmes. Dans cette perspective, il est proposé qu'un certain groupe d'émotions, comme la honte, la fierté et la culpabilité, occupe une place cruciale dans la formation et le maintien de cette image de soi. Ces émotions, que nous pouvons qualifier d'auto-évaluatives, conditionnent l'évaluation que nous avons de nous-mêmes et participent ainsi à l'élaboration de la représentation de soi. De plus, cette identité narrative, à travers un certain aspect normatif et motivant, vient à son tour influencer la manifestation et l'interprétation de ces mêmes émotions. Ainsi, la relation entre les émotions auto-évaluatives et l'identité narrative serait une relation complexe d'influences réciproques. L’analyse proposée devrait permettre de clarifier de nombreux aspects de l’économie mentale de l’individu et plus particulièrement de sa motivation morale.This thesis establishes a model to understand the relationships between a particular group of emotions and the individual's conception of himself. In agreement with several contemporary authors, it is argued here that the conception we have of ourselves is in the form of a narrative identity, namely a story within which we try to structure a coherent picture of ourselves. In this perspective, it is proposed that a group of emotions, including shame, pride and guilt, occupies a crucial place in the formation and maintenance of this self-image. These emotions, that we can describe as self-assessing, would influence self assessment and thus participate in the development of self-image. Moreover, narrative identity, through a normative and motivational aspect, will in turn influences the manifestation and interpretation of those same emotions. So the relationship between emotions and self-assessing narrative identity is a complex relationship of mutual influence. The analysis proposed here might help clarify many mental processes of the individual and especially its moral motivation.
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Chugani, Sunaina Kumar. "Social forces and hedonic adaptation." 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/21729.
Abstract:
Consumers acquire products to enhance their lives, but the happiness from these acquisitions generally decreases with the passage of time. This process of hedonic adaptation plays an integral role in post-acquisition consumer satisfaction, product disposal and replacement behavior, and the "hedonic treadmill" that partially drives the relationship between consumption and happiness. Humans are social animals, however, and we know little about the relationship between the social environment and hedonic adaptation. My dissertation addresses this gap by exploring the moderating role of social presence (Essay 1) and self-concepts (Essay 2) on hedonic adaptation to products. Essay 1 explores how social presence affects hedonic adaptation to products. Research on general happiness has shown that significantly positive life events tend to maintain their positivity for longer periods of time when they involve active social interactions. I examine a more common situation in the domain of product consumption, i.e., the presence of others during consumption, and test whether hedonic adaptation to products is moderated by public contexts. By tracking happiness with products over time, I show that a "social audience" (i.e., the presence of others and the perception that those others notice the consumer) moderates hedonic adaptation through a consumer's inference of the social audience perspective. Inferring that the social audience is admiring one's product slows down adaptation, and inferring that the social audience is negatively viewing one's product accelerates adaptation. Essay 2 explores the role the identity-relevance of a product plays in hedonic adaptation. Extant research illustrates that consumers avoid consuming identity-inconsistent products in order to avoid dissonance arising from product choices conflicting with important self-concepts. I show that dissonance can also arise from consuming identity-consistent products because of the force of hedonic adaptation. I provide evidence that consumers feel uncomfortable experiencing declining happiness with identity-consistent products and thus resist hedonic adaptation to such products in order to resolve the dissonance.text
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Gow, Greg. "The language of culture and the culture of language : Oromo identity in Melbourne, Australia." Thesis, 1999. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/30250/.
Abstract:
Until recently, the Oromo were largely unknown among scholars of Africa.
Since the Abyssinian conquest of the vast Oromo land-known today as Oromiyain
the late-nineteenth century, Oromo within the Ethiopian empire state (where
they number more than half the population) have remained politically,
linguistically, economically and historically marginalised. Since the late 1970s,
almost a century after their conquest, when the Derg military junta's campaign of
terror was at its peak, and continuing with the present regime, large numbers of
Oromo have fled Ethiopia to neighbouring countries. By 1997 a small number
(approximately 500) had resettled in Melbourne, Australia. Over these past two
decades Oromo nationalism has grown into a mass movement in east Africa and
among the worldwide exilic communities. Central to the growth of nationalism has
been the assertion of a pan-Oromo national identity (Oromumma, 'Oromoness').
Like all identity politics, Oromo nationalism remains academically deadlocked
between essentialism and social constructionism: Oromo anti-colonial nationalists
posit an atavistic account of Oromo identity, while 'Western' scholars generally
conceive of it in politically disabling constructionist terms.
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Tito, Wheatland Fiona. "Patient harm and medical error as threats to the Doctor Identity - a new lens for improving patient safety?" Phd thesis, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/117703.
Abstract:
Preventable patient harm and medical error occur frequently in
health care. Despite the apparent widespread commitment to the
“First do no harm” aphorism in medicine, it has proved
difficult to get prompt, effective and sustained action to detect
and prevent these. The existence of preventable patient harm and
medical error has been well established over the past 50 years
and its high frequency has been confirmed in many international
studies over the past two decades.
The thesis used a secondary source research methodology across a
wide range of disciplines that have looked at medical error,
preventable harm and doctor behaviour to explore possible
explanations for these phenomena. The thesis concludes that
there is an alternative plausible explanation for why action on
identification and action on these issues by doctors, as leaders
in health care, have been so slow and inconsistent. The thesis
provides evidence in support of three hypotheses that form part
of this explanation.
Hypothesis 1: the occurrence of patient harm and medical error
can be perceived psychologically by a doctor as a fundamental
threat to his or her identity;
Hypothesis 2: a serious threat to identity causes a range of
psychological defences, often rooted in the biological responses
of the brain to threats to existence, and these defences can make
it hard for a doctor to recognise, identify or accept the risk of
patient harm;
Hypothesis 3: elements of the Doctor Identity deny ordinary human
psychological responses and physical limitations, and thus
promote unrealistic self or group perceptions. This creates risks
to both doctors and patients. Many of these risks may be
avoidable through modifying these perceptions and developing more
realistic self-and professional schemas.
The thesis concludes that these hypotheses provide potential new
ways to address the issues, and reduce harm caused to both
patients and doctors.
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Simms, Ian Melville. "The pastor as spiritual antagonist : re-assessing the role of South African Baptist pastors in an environment of conflict." Thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/3107.
Abstract:
Baptist pastors in the early years of the twenty-first century find themselves in a challenging yet exciting
period of South African history. Much has changed in the socio-political and religious contexts, yet
Baptist pastors are still prone to operate according to earlier models of leadership and ecclesiology,
with the result that they find themselves in situations of heightened conflict. Their position with respect
to the laity, with whom they share a common priesthood of believers, is also an ambiguous one.
After orientating the reader to the nature of the problem and various starting issues (chapter 1), this
practical-theological thesis seeks to explore the nature of the changes in the socio-political milieu
(chapter 2), as well as in the religious context (chapter 3). Baptist pastors are affected by a range of
expectations that emerge from a particular view of the Bible and from the wider church community, as
well as from the media and their own experience of pastors. Chapters 4 and 5 seek to understand these
expectations, especially as these expectations have combined to produce role conflict and role
ambiguity. In such a situation it is more understandable that ministry can lack a pastoral centre and an
unclear identity. Pastors have adopted a stance in the midst of such competing demands on their role
identity and chapter 6 attempts to make their position clearer through empirical analysis, before
embarking – in chapters 7 and 8 – on a description of a new model of pastoral ministry that is founded
on the theatrical notion of the antagonist. Several implications for future ministry are explored in chapter
9, as we look forward to a revised praxis.
The pastor as spiritual antagonist is approached from the vantage-point of the world of drama, since
this angle, in its metaphorical richness, is seminal for a new understanding of the provocative role of the
pastor in a world that is steadily devaluing spiritual leadership. The spiritual antagonist is described in
terms of his/her character and ministry actions as one who is profoundly spiritual in his awe of God and
in his determination to live reflectively. At the same time the spiritual antagonist is one who has an
imaginative grasp on the communicative possibilities of being with people, and alongside people,
intensely and for the purpose of provoking decision and faith. Whatever conflict is generated by such a
stance is deliberately incorporated for educational and transformational purposes. Whatever is
modelled – in the mode of the spiritual antagonist – by ordained pastors / elders becomes facilitatory for
fellow believers in the congregation to fashion a similar identity. Thus an old division in Baptist
ecclesiology is healed.Practival Theology
(D. Th. (Practical Theology))
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Mojapelo-Batka, Emily Mapula. "Interracial couples within the South African context: experiences, perceptions and challenges." Thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/2153.
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In this study the experiences, perceptions and challenges of being in a mixed-race relationship (M-R) were explored against the backdrop of previous South African pieces of legislation meant to keep the various race groups apart. The study was located within a conceptual framework predominantly informed by a constructivist approach, as well as some tenets from the social constructionist approach.
This study focused only on M-R relationships consisting of black and white partners. The couples were recruited through the use of a snowball sampling method. In-depth interviews were used as the primary tool for collecting data. All participants were interviewed by the researcher either at their own homes or in the researcher's office. The collected information was later transcribed and qualitatively analysed.
The results of the study indicate that individuals found their involvement in M-R relationships to be a positive experience, and thus resulting in a positive attitude change and a sense of personal growth. M-R couples and their extended families experienced cognitive dissonance which required them to discard their previously internalised racial stereotypes, using strategies such as cognitive differentiation, re-categorization and de-categorization, allowing shifts toward non-racial socially constructed categories. Most of the challenges of being in M-R relationships were experienced on interpersonal and inter-group levels. The losses, disadvantages, challenges, concerns and pains experienced by M-R couples were mainly related to family and social disapproval of the relationship as well as efforts to discourage race mixing.
The study concludes that the non-conformist nature of M-R relationships requires from the participants a high level of self-differentiation and individuation that challenges racial norms and cultural collectivism. Albeit being a personal or private matter, a M-R relationship carries the burden of easily being the subject of public discourse. It is in this sense that M-R relationships cannot be understood without taking the socio-political context within which they occur into consideration.Psychology
D.Phil. (Psychology)