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Boyd, Nichole M. "Menominee Identity Maintenance Through Termination." OpenSIUC, 2012. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/899.

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Historically, the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin has rested their identity on tribalism, self-determination, and connection to their land. Much of their history has been about their fight to maintain their identity as a people through struggling against the US government over land control through the various termination and restoration periods. As the Menominee tried to maintain their traditional ways, they often found themselves in conflict with mainstream values and culture. This paper discusses their history through the role of identity. Many Menominee found themselves becoming bicultural as a way to balance life both inside and outside of their indigenous culture.
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Sargent, Leisa D. "Identity, its maintenance during downward organisational role transitions." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape2/PQDD_0021/NQ53790.pdf.

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Paull, Jessica Lynn. "Identity construction and maintenance in domestic violence shelters." Thesis, Kent State University, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3618854.

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Abusive relationships often minimize and devalue women's identities on a regular basis, leaving them with a diminished self-concept. As a result, domestic violence shelters have been recognized as sites of identity repair and construction, as well as an emergency refuge for women and their children. However, shelters are microcosms of the larger society, and the inequality and bureaucracy that exist in society are often replicated in the shelter community. It is within these complex communities that shelter residents and staff construct and maintain their identities. My research takes a symbolic interactionist approach to explore identity building and maintenance within domestic violence shelters, and considers how the delicate balance between ideology and practice, in addition to inequalities that exist within the shelter environment, influence identity construction. More specifically, I consider (1) How do inequalities of sex and gender, sexuality, class, and race and ethnicity, affect identity formation? (2) How does the balance between feminist ideology and the structure of formal organizations affect identity formation? (3) How does identity construction take place within the shelter setting? Which identities are constructed, and why? How are the identities constructed by shelter staff different from those of the residents? and (4) How do women in shelters manage stigmatized identities? Using a grounded theory approach, my data was collected at a domestic violence shelter in Ohio, where I engaged in participant observation for a period of three and a half years and interviewed 31 residents and 15 staff members. I found that while domestic violence shelters are sites of identity repair, the presence of inequality and the difficult balance between feminist ideology and practice influenced identity construction not only for residents, but for staff members as well. However, the type of interactions that occurred largely influenced the identities that were constructed; as a result, staff and residents' identities varied significantly, both in their construction and their maintenance.

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Paull, Jessica L. "Identity Construction and Maintenance in Domestic Violence Shelters." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1365522220.

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Sheppard, William James. "The Tanner and Boundary Maintenance: Determining Ethnic Identity." W&M ScholarWorks, 1989. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625498.

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Kahil, Ragda Farid. "Communicative Construction and Maintenance of Palestinian Identity in Diaspora." OpenSIUC, 2013. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/785.

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This study investigated the construction and maintenance of Palestinian identity in diaspora. It provided a synopsis of the political and cultural meanings behind concepts such as home, identity, diaspora, hybridity, culture and visions of return. The dissertation yielded the way in discovering the meaning of place/homeland in relation to Palestinian diasporic identity in the city of Chicago, U.S.A. Further, the study examined the relationship between diaspora and identity construction among Palestinians living in Chicago and how the concept of identity is seen as multilayered. This study also looked at differences in relation to identity construction and maintenance across generational lines. To achieve the primary purpose of this study, I utilized a multi-method qualitative research approach to data collection. The qualitative data includes findings from thirty personal in-depth interviews and five focus group interviews. I interviewed members of the Palestinian community in Chicago who belong to the same culture I belong to. Being Palestinian myself granted me a privileged positioning as an insider within this particular community. The data collected from these interviews included personal reflections, narratives and historical memories. After listening to the narratives of the participants and after a careful translation and transcription of the data, several themes emerged. These themes are: The role of collective memory, the role of culture and communication, family and kinship diaspora and identity construction, meaning of homeland, transient lives and hybrid identities, notions of assimilation/integration, language, religion, notions of home and return, globalization and diaspora, and local and global media. Overall, the data revealed that there are differences between Palestinian communities in Chicago with regard to their identity construction/maintenance in terms of gender, age, their first home of refuge, and their educational and cultural background. The data also showed that the younger generation in diaspora are living in two worlds, two cultural systems and two identities: Palestinian and U.S. American. Data also revealed that the identity of the younger generation in diaspora is never purely Palestinian nor is it a hundred percent U.S. American.
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Sallabank, Julia Margaret. "Attitude shift : Identity and language maintenance in Guernsey Norman French." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.504182.

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Plastow, Nicola Ann. "Food activities and the maintenance of identity in later life." Thesis, Brunel University, 2014. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/10893.

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Background: Participating in meaningful activities, and maintaining identity, are each embedded within best practice guidelines to improve mental well-being among older adults in the United Kingdom. Food plays a part in many meaningful activities that are important to health and wellbeing. Although there is moderate evidence that participating in food activities contributes to identity maintenance and change, only six studies include British older adults. Aim: To explore the relationship between food activities and identity maintenance among community-living older adults in West London. Methods: A concurrent mixed-methods design from a pragmatist perspective was used. Data collection included semi-structured interviews with 39 older adults (60 to 89 years). Qualitative data were analysed using grounded theory methods. Quantitative methods were used to investigate the relationship between demographic data, transformed qualitative data, and the Occupational Performance Measure of Food Activities. Q methodology data were analysed using centroid factor estimation and interpretation, and triangulated with the qualitative and quantitative components using qualitative matrix analysis and quantitative methods. Findings: This study found three predominant past and present identities as ‘food-lover’, ‘non-foodie’ and ‘not bothered’. These food identities are defined as a composite sense of who one is, derived from one’s experience of participating in food activities. Maintenance of food identities was explained in the processes of ‘Participation and maintenance’, ‘Threat and compensation’, and ‘Changes in meaning and identity’. These processes varied according to the importance and meaning of food activities for each participant. There was no consistent relationship between maintenance or change in food identities, and participants’ hoped-for, feared and expected possible selves. Conclusions: Participation in food activities maintains older adults’ important identities and mental wellbeing when food activities are an important and pleasurable part of daily life. Nevertheless, older adults whose food activities and identities change continue to experience mental well-being in later life.
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Bullock, Denise M. "Sexual identities in the balance : trajectory formation and maintenance /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase free online, 2002. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/preview?3052154.

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Paul, John Michael. "Collective and collected memories the construction and maintenance of Chickasaw identity /." Full text available online (restricted access), 2003. http://images.lib.monash.edu.au/ts/theses/Paul.pdf.

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Knight, Dayanna. "Identity construction and maintenance in the North Atlantic c. AD800-1250." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2014. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/14078/.

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This study is a multivalent investigation of Scandinavian identity formation and cultural structures within the north Atlantic that looks specifically at the construction and maintenance of island identities circa AD800-1250. This not only includes consideration of the Norse settlers but also the effects of contact between the emerging island cultural identities and continental Europe. In order to do this zones of settlement have been defined to better compare the expansion of medieval Scandinavian populations in terms of microscale practices and interactions within family groups and the macroscale vectors of social, economic and political change. It employs a wide variety of material that makes use of aspects of both prehistoric and historic sources. The variety of enabling conditions ultimately provided for a time the circumstances necessary for the long-term success of a number of the settlements established during this period. The evidence is considered in as subjective manner as possible with the sources available also reflecting the conditions of initial region excavation and publication.
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Crane, Tara Christopher. "Adoption, construction, and maintenance of ethnic identity : a Scottish-American example /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 1999. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p9946251.

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Markowski, Kelly Lorraine. "Including the Counter-Normative in Identity Theory: The Case of Vegans and Group Participation on Identity Maintenance." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1467905905.

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Carkeek, Anina. "Cornish language revival : Attitudes, behaviour and the maintenance of an ethnic identity." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.514216.

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Midgley, Madelaine. "Not just passing : the maintenance of Gypsy cultural identity in contemporary Cornwall." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.507247.

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Novelli, David Lee. "A social identity understanding of depression : implications for onset, maintenance and recovery." Thesis, University of Hertfordshire, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2299/17178.

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The literature on depression is dominated by theories which focus on individualistic variables, including biological differences, personality, and individual cognition. Whilst the importance of social variables for depression risk and recovery has also been recognised, there has been a notable absence of a unifying theory explaining, how, when, and why they might impact on depression. In recent years, the Social Identity Approach (SIA) - a theoretical framework with roots in social psychology - has been used to provide a new understanding of the role of group processes in depression. The aim of this thesis was to add to a growing body of evidence in support of the SIA to depression by replicating previous findings using a sample, who on average, scored high on a measure of depression symptomology, and by identifying additional mediators of the relationship between social identity processes and depression. Specifically, it was theorised that optimism - a personality variable associated with depression, but traditionally conceptualised as a fixed trait - would vary along with group memberships and mediate the effect of social identity processes on depression. Participants who had experienced depression (N = 288) completed an online survey. It was found that in support of previous research, an increase in group involvement predicted lower depression scores. However, this relationship was mediated by increased optimism. Similarly, identifying more strongly with a specific group predicted depression indirectly through an increase in perceived social support, and increased optimism. For a sub-sample of participants with experience of psychological therapy (N = 135), the negative association between a good therapeutic alliance and depression was serially mediated by increased identification with the therapist, internalisation of the therapist identity between sessions, and increased optimism. The extent to which the therapist was perceived as prototypical of therapists in general also indirectly reduced depression via increased identification with the therapist category, and increased optimism. These findings are discussed in relation to the further development of the social identity approach to depression, with consideration of their implications for onset, maintenance and recovery.
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Minney, James David. "The Flemish movement of French Flanders and the maintenance of Vlaemsch." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.310292.

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Clemot, Marie. "Role of CAF-1 in the establishment and maintenance of cellular identity during development in Drosophila." Thesis, Paris 6, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016PA066149.

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L’organisation de l’ADN sous forme de chromatine joue un rôle crucial dans la régulation de l’identité cellulaire. De par son rôle clé dans l’assemblage de la chromatine couplé à la synthèse d’ADN, le chaperon d’histone CAF-1 apparaît comme un acteur potentiel dans la transmission de l’information portée par la chromatine au cours des générations cellulaires. Bien que CAF-1 soit essentiel pour la survie au stade larvaire chez la Drosophile, les outils génétiques disponibles chez cet organisme permettent d’analyser sa fonction dans des types cellulaires ciblés. Mon travail montre que la grande sous-unité de CAF-1 (P180) est essentielle pour le maintien de la lignée germinale femelle. L’arrêt précoce de l’ovogénèse induit par la perte de P180 dans les cellules germinales a pu être attribué à l’activation de checkpoints, vraisemblablement en réponse à une accumulation d’ADN simple-brin liée à des défauts de réplication. De façon remarquable, les cellules souches germinales (GSCs) traversent une « crise identitaire » en absence de P180 : elles présentent des caractéristiques de cellules en cours de différenciation, dont une abscission incomplète, tout en conservant des propriétés spécifiques aux GSCs. En revanche, mon analyse n’a pas révélé de défaut d’identité des neuroblastes, une autre population de cellules souches, qui continuent de se diviser de façon asymétrique sans P180. De même, les cellules des disques imaginaux se divisant de façon symétrique prolifèrent en absence de P180, bien que plus lentement. Des analyses complémentaires permettront de déterminer si des mécanismes alternatifs d’assemblage de la chromatine compensent la perte de CAF-1 dans ces cellules
The organization of DNA into chromatin is dynamic and plays important roles in the establishment and the maintenance of cellular identity. By virtue of its central role in replication-coupled chromatin assembly, the histone chaperone CAF-1 constitutes an interesting candidate in a search for molecular players involved in the inheritance of chromatin states in mitotic cells. In Drosophila, dCAF-1 is essential for viability at the larval stage. Yet, the genetic tools available in the fruit fly allow to analyze the function of dCAF-1 in specific tissues. Mainly, my thesis work shows that the large subunit of dCAF-1 (P180) is essential for oogenesis. I have shown that the early arrest of oogenesis observed upon depletion of P180 in germ cells results from the activation of checkpoints pathways and cell death, possibly in response to the accumulation of single-strand DNA as a consequence of replication defects. Strikingly, P180 plays an essential role in the female germline stem cells (GSCs), which upon depletion of P180 enter an “identity crisis” and harbor features of differentiating cyst cells, including incomplete abscission, while maintaining at the same time some GSCs features. In contrast, the loss of P180 does not seem to alter the identity of larval neuroblasts, another population of stem cells, which continue to divide in an asymmetric fashion in its absence. Finally, the cells of the imaginal discs, which divide symmetrically, are able to proliferate upon loss of P180, albeit at a slower rate. Further analyses are required to determine whether alternative chromatin assembly pathways compensate for the loss of dCAF-1 activity in these cells
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Longo, Maria. "Self-esteem, ethnic identity and maintenance of traditions in second generation Italo-Australians /." Title page, table of contents and abstract only, 1994. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09ARPS/09arpsl856.pdf.

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Hildebrand, John. "Games Consumers Play| The Construction, Maintenance, and Defense of Elective Identity Through Play." Thesis, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3558510.

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Play is a means to express and explore an individual’s or a community’s identity. The individual uses play to communicate meaning about who they are. People perform identity when they meet role expectations (Goffman, 1959). Play involves accepting or rejecting the role expectations of the situation in which we find ourselves (Grayson, 1999). We don’t have to play when there are role expectations, but we can if we so choose.

All play has meaning (Huizinga, 1956). It points to and signifies other things. It reflects and rewards the values of the players’ community. If shopping is more than buying things but the buying of identity (Clammer, 1992; Johnstone and Conroy, 2005), then play is the demonstration and the performance of this purchased (and elective) identity. The acquired ‘things’ become the props we use to make identity performances real, visible, and readable by others. This research will look at the effort consumers go through to construct, maintain, and defend elective identities within the environments within which they are enacted—what I will refer to throughout this document as ‘playscapes’. I ask the questions,

1. “Why take the effort to construct, maintain, and defend an elective identity within a playscape? (What are the payoffs?).

2. “What role does the environment play in affecting elective identity consumption processes?” and

3. “[How] do players differentiate between other players and spectators within a playscape?”

What I show through this research is how the explicit recognition of play in the elective identity process enables us to better understand how consumers approach consumption. Once we are freed from the obligations of necessity—once we are free to play—we can approach our consumption differently. Once we begin to play, we don’t all play the same way.

Identities are not static; they are ongoing projects. They are a process. We can work at these projects or we can play at these projects. We can make these projects a game and, in doing so, they take on the characteristics and components of any other game. They have a playscape—boundaries within which they are played. They have rules determining what you can and cannot do. They have pieces, props, and other paraphernalia. They involve the suspension of the ‘real world’ for the acceptance of an imaginary world that—while it is active—takes precedence over the outside world. Finally, games have other players.

One of the things this research makes apparent is that other players, in the form of spectators, are more important to play and games—especially elective identity games—than we may at first realize. In consumer behavior and consumer culture theory we tend to treat the observer as a given; as something that is fixed. As a result we tend to see elective identity performances as one-sided communication—as presentations made to relevant audiences. What, in fact, my research shows is that elective identity performances are more like multi-sided games with both moves and countermoves. Elective identity becomes a form of negotiation between the performer and an active audience who are also involved in the performance—or, in keeping with this dissertation, a negotiation between players playing the same or similar games. As an open game—one whose goal is to keep playing and not end the game—elective identity games involve the creation, maintenance, and defense of different elective identities within a playscape. Successful play means the creating, maintaining, and defending playscape-compatible elective identities. It is through the ongoing play within these playscapes that boundaries are tested and performances assessed. It is an iterative process, a conversation, between presenter and observer in which a consumer can choose to play either role. If we study just one side of this equation we cannot get a proper understanding of the role played by each—like hearing only one side of a phone conversation. We can try to piece some of it together, but we can be more confident in what we hear and understand if we have both sides of the conversation.

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Vangeli, Eleni. "An exploration of the role of identity in smoking, cessation, maintenance and relapse." Thesis, City University London, 2010. http://openaccess.city.ac.uk/1184/.

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Objective: A recent theory of motivation (PRIME theory) has proposed that the formation of a ‘non-smoker’ identity is necessary for long-term abstinence. This programme of research aimed to explore how a smoker’s sense of identity changes following smoking cessation and also relapse after a sustained period of abstinence. Design: Two qualitative, semi-structured interview studies with a purposive sample of individuals who had quit smoking were conducted. An interpretative phenomenological approach was taken to elicit in-depth accounts of the participants’ understanding of smoking, stopping and maintaining abstinence. A survey study to examine the findings of the previous studies particularly those of residual attraction and smoker identity in exsmokers, and ‘first lapse’ characteristics in relapsed smokers. Methods: 10 participants who quit smoking with the support of an NHS stop-smoking service in England and were still abstinent a year later were interviewed (Study 1) and 10 participants who had relapsed within the year following at least six months of abstinence (Study 2). An interpretative phenomenological analysis of the interview transcripts was conducted. Prospective contextual detail of motivational and other variables pre-quit were also obtained from the clinic assessment form participants completed at the first group 14 session. A postal questionnaire was then sent to 1390 adults known to have been abstinent 4 weeks after treatment support with the same stop smoking service (Study 3). Time since the end of treatment varied between 6 weeks and 3 years. Results: In Study 1 a process of identity change was observed towards that of a ‘nonsmoker’, assisted initially by a transient identity of ‘team stop-smoker’ accompanied by a sense of achievement. All participants retained a residual attraction to smoking suggesting that the process was not complete. Participants labeled themselves as non-smokers regardless of how much transition had occurred. In Study 2 an identity conflict was seen to precede relapse and an identity reevaluation observed among those abstinent (i.e. Study 1 participants). Following relapse a distancing of the ‘smoker self’ from the ‘spoiled’ smoker identity particularly from perceptions of health irresponsibility was observed with smoking constructed as integral to the maintenance of a socially desirable identity. Forty percent (40.0%, n=556) of those invited to take part in Study 3 responded of whom 357 (64.5%) were not currently smoking. The proportion of ex-smokers reporting a residual attraction to smoking, a ‘smoker identity’, and a vulnerability to relapse declined with duration of abstinence (all p<0.001), although even among those having 2 years or more of abstinence 37.4% reported some residual attraction and 16.3% retained a ‘smoker identity’. By contrast, after 2 or more years of abstinence only 7% thought they would ever return to smoking. Among relapsed responders, at the time of first lapse only 27.1% had made a decision to return to smoking while 48.9% intended to smoke only one or two cigarettes before stopping again. In 45.7% of cases, respondents bought cigarettes to smoke 15 again. Prior to lapse the majority (53.8%) reported 'really needing a cigarette'. Similarly 53.8% reported being miserable at the time, while only 16% were happy. Conclusions and implications: It appears useful to distinguish two levels of ‘non-smoker’ identity: a surface level comprising the simple label and a deep level made up of often conflicting thoughts and feelings about oneself in relation to smoking. A total coherent ‘non-smoker’ identity does not appear to be necessary for long-term abstinence. The findings of Study 2 indicate that smoking affects a sense of identity beyond the micro-identity of smoker/non-smoker. Encouraging identity re-evaluation to accommodate the absence of smoking may reduce the identity conflict that appears to precede relapse. The findings of Study 3 suggest that residual attraction to cigarettes is common among long-term ex-smokers and a significant minority retain a smoker identity. Further studies are needed to determine how far these characteristics are associated with late relapse. The most common pattern of late lapse among relapsed smokers appears to be intending to suspend the quit attempt temporarily in circumstances of needing to smoke and of negative emotional state, and in many cases cigarettes are actually sought out. Promoting strong ‘not a puff’ rules, a non-smoker identity and identifying negative mood as a potential vulnerability are important components of relapse prevention intervention.
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Parnell, Matthew B. "Palestinian-Americans: construction and maintainence [i.e. maintenance] of political and cultural identity in diaspora /." Electronic version (PDF), 2006. http://dl.uncw.edu/etd/2006/parnellm/matthewparnell.pdf.

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Peplinski, Kyle P. "The effects of antiretroviral access on the creation and maintenance of HIV-seropositive identity." unrestricted, 2008. http://etd.gsu.edu/theses/available/etd-07122008-133945/.

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Thesis (M.A.)--Georgia State University, 2008.
Title from file title page. Cassandra White, committee chair; Kathryn A. Kozaitis, Susan McCombie, committee members. Electronic text (95 p.) : digital, PDF file. Description based on contents viewed Sept. 29, 2008. Includes bibliographical references (p. 90-94).
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Buchholz, Frank, Anja Nitzsche, Maciej Paszkowski-Rogacz, Filomena Matarese, Eva M. Janssen-Megens, Nina C. Hubner, Herbert Schulz, et al. "RAD21 Cooperates with Pluripotency Transcription Factors in the Maintenance of Embryonic Stem Cell Identity." Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2016. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-191596.

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For self-renewal, embryonic stem cells (ESCs) require the expression of specific transcription factors accompanied by a particular chromosome organization to maintain a balance between pluripotency and the capacity for rapid differentiation. However, how transcriptional regulation is linked to chromosome organization in ESCs is not well understood. Here we show that the cohesin component RAD21 exhibits a functional role in maintaining ESC identity through association with the pluripotency transcriptional network. ChIP-seq analyses of RAD21 reveal an ESC specific cohesin binding pattern that is characterized by CTCF independent co-localization of cohesin with pluripotency related transcription factors Oct4, Nanog, Sox2, Esrrb and Klf4. Upon ESC differentiation, most of these binding sites disappear and instead new CTCF independent RAD21 binding sites emerge, which are enriched for binding sites of transcription factors implicated in early differentiation. Furthermore, knock-down of RAD21 causes expression changes that are similar to expression changes after Nanog depletion, demonstrating the functional relevance of the RAD21 - pluripotency transcriptional network association. Finally, we show that Nanog physically interacts with the cohesin or cohesin interacting proteins STAG1 and WAPL further substantiating this association. Based on these findings we propose that a dynamic placement of cohesin by pluripotency transcription factors contributes to a chromosome organization supporting the ESC expression program.
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Buchholz, Frank, Anja Nitzsche, Maciej Paszkowski-Rogacz, Filomena Matarese, Eva M. Janssen-Megens, Nina C. Hubner, Herbert Schulz, et al. "RAD21 Cooperates with Pluripotency Transcription Factors in the Maintenance of Embryonic Stem Cell Identity." Public Library of Science, 2011. https://tud.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A29134.

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For self-renewal, embryonic stem cells (ESCs) require the expression of specific transcription factors accompanied by a particular chromosome organization to maintain a balance between pluripotency and the capacity for rapid differentiation. However, how transcriptional regulation is linked to chromosome organization in ESCs is not well understood. Here we show that the cohesin component RAD21 exhibits a functional role in maintaining ESC identity through association with the pluripotency transcriptional network. ChIP-seq analyses of RAD21 reveal an ESC specific cohesin binding pattern that is characterized by CTCF independent co-localization of cohesin with pluripotency related transcription factors Oct4, Nanog, Sox2, Esrrb and Klf4. Upon ESC differentiation, most of these binding sites disappear and instead new CTCF independent RAD21 binding sites emerge, which are enriched for binding sites of transcription factors implicated in early differentiation. Furthermore, knock-down of RAD21 causes expression changes that are similar to expression changes after Nanog depletion, demonstrating the functional relevance of the RAD21 - pluripotency transcriptional network association. Finally, we show that Nanog physically interacts with the cohesin or cohesin interacting proteins STAG1 and WAPL further substantiating this association. Based on these findings we propose that a dynamic placement of cohesin by pluripotency transcription factors contributes to a chromosome organization supporting the ESC expression program.
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Call, Robert M. "Anatomy of a Rupture: Identity Maintenance in the 1844 Latter-day Saint Reform Sect." DigitalCommons@USU, 2017. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/5858.

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Dissent riddled Mormonism almost from the day of its inception. Competing prophets and dissatisfied adherents challenged Joseph Smith’s leadership of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Perhaps the most serious of Smith’s challengers was the dissent of his counselor William Law. In 1844, Law confronted Smith over the implementation of the latter’s doctrinal innovations (particularly plural marriage) and Zion building activities in Nauvoo, Illinois.At the height of the dissent movement,anti-Mormon citizens in the region (some say inflamed by Law’s newspaper the Nauvoo Expositor)assassinated Smith. The assassination caused a religious rupture in Mormonism called the Succession Crisis. This thesis examines identity formation, maintenance, and evolution inLaw’s 1844 dissenting group. It argues that several factors, notably estrangement and social networks, were key in forming the group’s identity. As other scholars acknowledge, the group intended on a Mormon reformation. It also argues that a more accurate understanding of the dissent organization is one of an extralegal internal reform body rather than (as current scholarship puts forth) an external separatist church. The reform sect maintained their distinct identity during the closing months of 1844, but evolved into the 1845 Church of Christ that Sidney Rigdon helmed.Lastly, this thesis surveys the reformers’ navigation of a turbulent religious climate and offers some analysis on why those reformers most committed to Mormonism ultimately rested in the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
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Webster, Kaye Louise. "The Maintenance of Group Identity Through Social Networks in the Bay of Plenty Dutch Community." The University of Waikato, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10289/2335.

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Abel Tasman, a Dutchman, was the first person to put New Zealand on European maps over three hundred years ago (in 1642) and today there are over twenty-eight thousand people living in New Zealand who identify themselves as Dutch and twenty-seven thousand people speaking the Dutch language. Previous research has explored various aspects of Dutch migration, including migrant experiences, culture and language yet only de Bres (2004) compares the experiences of Dutch immigrants across time periods of their arrival. Cultural retention and maintenance has mainly been assessed via the use of the Dutch language rather than through other methods, such as Dutch customs and social networks. The main reason for this research is to compare the experiences and cultural identity of the three 'waves' of Dutch migrants, which has not been undertaken before. This study interviewed six Dutch settler families living in the Bay of Plenty, from three time-periods (1950s; 1960s to 1980s; and 1990s to today) and across generations in order to compare their experiences and assess if and how they maintain their Dutch identity through their use of customs and social networks. Open-ended questionnaires and interview schedules were used to interview the sixteen participants. Content analysis was undertaken for the majority of the questionnaire and interview schedules. For the remaining questions that focused on social networks, the structural aspects of the social support for participants were measured in terms of the social network characteristics, size, density and multiplexity. The study found an overall retention of Dutch identity across all time-periods for generation one (generation one refers to the migrating parents) with all families using the Dutch language within their own homes, yet only one family maintaining their Dutch identity through social networks and only one family maintaining their Dutch identity through the use of customs. The second and third generation participants have little to no interest or involvement in the Dutch culture or community. One second generation participant considered herself Dutch-Kiwi, with the remaining second generation participants considering themselves New Zealanders. Only one person from the third generation participated and she identified herself as a Dutch-Kiwi. Overall, this study supports the perception of the 'invisible Dutch' however due to the small sample size it is impossible to make conclusive statements concerning the Bay of Plenty Dutch community. There is a limited amount of research comparing the experiences of Dutch migrants and how their cultural identity is maintained through their social networks; therefore further research is required to fill this gap.
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Grobgeld, David. "Resisting Assimilation: Ethnic Boundary Maintenance Among Jews in Sweden." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Sociologiska institutionen, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-150267.

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This paper applies the ethnic boundary making theory developed by Andreas Wimmer to understand the maintenance of Jewish ethnic identification in Sweden, as expressed in thirteen interviews with Swedish Jews. Wimmer’s theory holds that ethnic conflict and persecution routinizes and entrenches perceptions of ethnic difference; I argue that the antisemitic persecutions of the 20th century has entrenched the perception of the ethnic distinctiveness of Jews among Jews themselves. These persecutions also contribute to alienation from Swedish society, which does not share the same historical identity and frames of understanding. These factors in turn motivate the participants to maintain the ethnic boundary between Swedes and Jews and guard it against assimilation. Ethnic consciousness also motivates Jews to endow the category of “Jewish” with cultural content, sometimes having previously lacked knowledge of Jewish culture; the cultural distinctiveness of Jews is thus shown to partly be a result of the ethnic boundary between Jews and others, and not just an explanation for that boundary. However; the participants are generally not prepared to restrict the choice of romantic bonds to fellow Jews; since social closure is required to maintain ethnic boundaries (as stressed by Wimmer), this puts the participants in a contradictory situation.
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Vallazza, Oscar. "Processes of nurturing and maintenance of multicultural identity in the 21st century : A qualitative study of the experience of long-term transcultural sojourners." Thesis, Linköping University, Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-59533.

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In today’s world, exposure to other cultures has become a symbol of increasing globalization processes. Many people leave their home area to embark on a voyage of discovery and learning that affects their original cultural identity.

This study explores the life experience of independent transcultural sojourners, i.e. people who freely decide to relocate to different cultural contexts after their formative years. The inquiry covers three major themes of their intercultural experience: Multicultural identity, processes of intercultural adaptation, and change and transformation ensuing from multiple intercultural relocations. The aim of this study is to show the effects of multiple intercultural experiences on the identity of transcultural sojourners, and how they dealt with relevant emerging processes of intercultural adaptation.

Following a format suggested by Seidman (1996), five respondents were asked to recount and reflect on their transcultural experience in three separate, asynchronous interviews that covered three dimensions of their intercultural experience: past, present, and reflections. The ensuing text comprised about 16,000 words and was analyzed using both a narrative and a thematic approach using a mixed typology of categories and sub-themes made up of indigenous typology stemming from relevant scholarly literature and researcher-constructed typology suggested by the researcher and the respondents.

The analysis indicates that personal factors like mindfulness, motivation, resourcefulness, and intercultural awareness strongly influence processes of Intercultural communication competence and Multicultural identity development. Contextual factors are also relevant, as they include issues of avowed and ascribed identity. The analysis also shows no specific, generalizable link between the presence of intercultural stimuli in the original cultural milieus and the decision to relocate across cultural boundaries. Furthermore, it points to a strong relation between Piagetian constructivist learning theories and the development of ICC competence. The study also indicates that independent transcultural sojourners are in a position to negotiate the level of their integration and marginality, which in turn affects the spectrum of their Intercultural communication competence.

Finally, this study indicates the limited applicability of traditional functionalist approaches to understanding and conceptualizing processes of intercultural adaptation and multicultural identity building. It also suggests the need for a shift towards a dialogical perspective informed by systems-thinking and Chaos theory.


The author would like to acknowledge the inspiration and passion for intercultural issues provided over the years by the Intercultural Insights on-line community.Seattle, summer 2010.
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Okuno, Aoi. "Ethnic identity and language maintenance, a case study of third generation Japanese-Canadians in Toronto." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1993. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/MQ51563.pdf.

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Bolton, Derek. "Identity maintenance & foreign policy decision-making : the quest for ontological security in the DPRK." Thesis, University of Bath, 2018. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.760979.

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This thesis analyzes how the need for ontological security (OS), the ‘security of being’,impacts the foreign policy decision-making of states. Traditional security studies focus primarily on physical threats to the state. By contrast, an OS framework argues individuals feel secure when they are able to maintain communal narrative. This narrative in turn becomes the lens through which policymakers, and thus states, analyze events, while also becoming a potential source of conflict if challenged. Therefore, while physical security is still important, one is better positioned to account for perceptions of physical (and non physical) threats, and subsequent policies seemingly contradictory to traditional security studies, by employing an OS framework. While this will be explored within the context of the DPRK, the applicability of such a framework is far greater, holding key insights for International Relations and Foreign Policy Analysis (FPA). DPRK narrative formed out of the postcolonial nationalism of Japanese occupation, culminating into the hyper-nationalist ideology of Juche. North Korea’s seemingly ‘abnormal’ behavior might in turn be indicative of its unique national narrative and history of colonization and humiliation, leading to a different set of behavioral expectations than states whose narratives do not encompass such stories or reference points. While not all states are expected to act in the same manner as North Korea, the framework would expect them to defend and promote their respective national narratives. Moreover, while narratives can double as sources of legitimacy, as seen increasingly in the DPRK, this in no way detracts from, and merely compounds, the emphasis on narrative maintenance. Examining the historical record, it is argued the OS framework is consistently better at accounting for DPRK policies than traditional security studies. Therefore, more broadly in FPA, by taking seriously group narrative as a key component of OS, one can better account for perceptions and foreign policy decision-making.
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Cutler, Richard Henry. "Creation and maintenance of identity in a voluntary, text-based electronic forum on the Internet /." Digital version accessible at:, 1998. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.

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Kang, Hana. "Heritage language maintenance, acculturation, and identity : Chinese and Korean 1.5 generation immigrants in New Jersey /." Connect to resource, 2004. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1143819278.

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Thesis (M.A.)--Ohio State University, 2004.
Advisor: Marjorie K.M. Chan, Dept. of East Asian Languages and Literatures. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 79-82). Available online via OhioLINK's ETD Center
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Liao, Wenting. "Defining and negotiating identity and belonging : ethnic name change and maintenance among first-generation Chinese immigrants." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/37960.

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The purpose of this grounded theory study was to examine the little researched sociopsychological process behind ethnic name change and maintenance in cross-cultural transitions, including precipitating contexts, events, interpretations and motivations that led to the decision to change or maintain ethnic names, the internal and external experiences pertinent to ethnic name change and maintenance, the patterns and strategies to cope with acculturative stress and perceived barriers in respect to changing and maintaining ethnic names, and the impacts of ethnic name change and maintenance on immigrants’ lives. In order to answer these research questions, ten participants comprising first-generation Chinese immigrants from Mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong, including two males and eight females ranging in age between 19 and 45, were interviewed. The findings showed that although many ethnic Chinese felt compelled to adopt western names as a way of adapting to the host society due to feelings of insecurity over their ethnic identities, ethnic name change may not guarantee success in acculturation. In contrast, one’s self-efficacy was much more essential in delivering desired outcomes and coping with acculturative stress. However, ethnic name change likely exerts certain influences on one’s life by affecting the perceptions of an individual by themselves and by others. Based on the differences in the patterns and strategies to cope with acculturative stress between ethnic name changers and non-changers, three styles of defining and negotiating identity and belonging were proposed: enmeshed style, restricted style, and open style. Those who used the open style seemed to be more likely to achieve cultural integration by setting an open, dynamic yet clearly defined cultural boundary. Accordingly, the study proposed a variety of essential components to facilitate acculturation and consolidate cultural identity.
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Brown, Rebecca R. "Mothering behind bars: the role of contact maintenance programs on the mothering identity of incarcerated women." Thesis, Kansas State University, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/32723.

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Master of Arts
Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work
Lisa A. Melander
The number of women incarcerated within the American penal system has been increasing in recent years. Coinciding with this rise in the incarceration rate for women, there has been increasing concern regarding women parenting behind bars and how incarceration impacts a woman's identity as a mother. As such the purpose of this paper is to examine the connection between participation in contact maintenance programs at the Topeka, Kansas Correctional Facility and their resulting impact on identity work using a sample of 34 incarcerated mothers who participated in this contact maintenance program. Results revealed that through participation in contact maintenance programs incarcerated mothers begin to develop and sustain a more pro- social image of themselves as 'good mothers.' Foundational practices of parenting and the development and sustainment of the mother-child bond are reinforced to facilitate the development of a positive self-image and to lay the groundwork for successful parenting post- release.
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Attaallah, Israa Maher. "Arabic-speaking Immigrant Parents´ Views on Heritage Language Maintenance and identity Construction for Children in Sweden." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Institutionen för tema, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-173460.

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This study investigates how Levantine Arabic-speaking immigrant parents´ language ideologies, i.e how they think and feel regarding heritage language maintenance, and language policies influence heritage language maintenance or loss for their children. This overarching topic is explored by examining the following questions; (1) What do parents think about maintenance of heritage language for their children? and which concerns do they have? (2)How do they talk about and describe their children´s readiness or resistance to learn/maintain their heritage language? (3) What do parents believe their role is in maintaining heritage language? (4) In which way, according to parents, does maintenance of heritage language influence children´s construction of identity and sense of belonging? In order to answer these questions, I conducted five semi-structured interviews with five Levantine Arabic-speaking immigrant parents, from Palestine and Syria, residing in Sweden and analysed recurring themes using Braun´s and Clarke´s (2006: 87- 93) thematic analysis method. The study findings show that parents attached great significance to preserving their children's heritage language due to its close relationship with their cultural, religious, ethnic, and social backgrounds as well as strengthening their success opportunities in future. Furthermore, parents stated that their children did not resist maintenance of heritage language. Instead, results show that children were actively involved in discussions about heritage language maintenance and language practices. Parents confirmed that Arabic language is their children's heritage language. In relation to influence of heritage language maintenance on constructing children´s identity and sense of belonging, parents´ views varied between emphasizing its role in strengthening children´s sense of belonging to their Arabic background, allowing them a flexible ability to belong to two different cultures or communities, and that maintenance of heritage language is not the major influencer on constructing children identity. Participants discussed the methods they use to enhance Arabic language among their children, challenges they encounter, and potential solutions.
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Tetschner, Ben. "The story of a writer : a study of the creation and maintenance of a writer's identity /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 2004. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p1422970.

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Grantham, Minna. "THE MAINTENANCE OF ETHNIC CULTURE AND MANIFESTATIONS OF ETHNIC IDENTITY IN THE LIFE STORIES OF FINNISH IMMIGRANTS." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2005. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/3800.

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This study examined whether Finnish immigrants show evidence of assimilation or if they have maintained their ethnic culture in the United States. More specifically, the purpose was to examine how the ethnic culture has been maintained and the ways that ethnic identity manifests itself in their life stories. Ten qualitative, semi-structured interviews were conducted with Finnish immigrants and children of Finnish immigrants, and emerging themes were identified in the data. The results indicate a strong ethnic identity among Finnish immigrants, yet it appears to be a very much taken for granted experience for them. The immigrants' lives were influenced by their ethnicity in that they lived in predominantly Finnish areas, preferred Finnish as their daily language, participated in Finnish activities, especially the Lutheran church, followed customs, and kept regular contact with friends and family in Finland. One of the major differences between the immigrants and children of immigrants was their language use. The norms and policies have been that ethnic groups will assimilate; yet this cohort of Finnish immigrants demonstrates a high level of maintenance of their ancestral culture, thus providing support for Cultural Pluralism. Future studies should address the specific organizations, mainly the Lutheran church, and its influence on the maintenance of Finnish culture, and future studies should address the meaning of language in more detail.
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Applied Sociology
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Chooi, Cheng Yeen. "Blooding a lion in Little Bourke Street : the creation, negotiation and maintenance of Chinese ethnic identity in Melbourne." Title page, contents and summary only, 1986. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09ARM/09armc548.pdf.

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Smith, Aimee J. "An exploration of the creation and maintenance of Catholic identity in young people in post-conflict Northern Ireland." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2014. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=225960.

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This research explores the creation and maintenance of young Catholic identity in Northern Ireland. It examines the influence of segregation and deprivation on identity, seeks evidence of change and continuity and the capacity for young people to contribute to peacebuilding and social change. Taking into account that identity is not created within fixed spaces, but is subject to change in location and over time, a multi-sited ethnographic research design was employed across locations in Belfast and Derry. These included Catholic majority/minority and mixed spaces. We find that segregation has an impact on identity content; in single-identity areas we find exclusive identities based on opposition. In shared spaces we find that identities can be inclusive. In addition, we find that performance of identity ranges from strong to low, given quality of intergroup contact. Deprivation had an impact on the strengths of these performances rather than the content (exclusive/inclusive) of identity. In conclusion identity in young people can operate along a continuum, with differing levels of content and performance where identity is subject to change within spaces and movement between locations. Therefore divisive identities are not inevitable; given the right circumstances and support, social cohesion can flourish in a divided society.
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Comstock, Jayne Marie. "Predicting adolescents' responses during conflict with their parents: An explication and initial test of the Identity Maintenance Model." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/185785.

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The Cognitive Communicator Characteristic Model was reformulated to form The Identity Maintenance Model (IMM), a cognitive-affective model of interpersonal interaction. The IMM postulates that cognitive structures in the form of role identity goals have considerable impact on behavioral dispositions. However, these dispositions are moderated by contextual self-esteem (CSE) in moderately or highly negative affective conditions. The model was tested in the context of parent-adolescent conflict. Study One determined the triggers of affective assessment and Study Two tested the hypotheses stipulated by the model. When applied to parent-adolescent conflict, the IMM predicted that as adolescents' CSE and negative affect increased, adolescents would use more competitive than cooperative strategies while as CSE decreased and negative affect increased, adolescents would display no change in use of cooperative relative to competitive strategies. This hypothesis was not supported. Rather, main effects for CSE and affect intensity obtained such that as CSE increased, the use of cooperative strategies increased and as affective intensity increased, the use of competitive strategies increased. It also was predicted that as contextual self-esteem decreased and negative affect increased, adolescents would use more avoidance rather than competitive approach strategies. This hypothesis also was not supported. Instead, a main effect for affective condition obtained such that as negative affect increased, the use of competitive approach moves also increased. Self-monitoring was added to the model because the IMM stipulates that high self-monitors are more likely to recognize identity needs and make the related adjustments in behavior. This stipulation was not supported. Results revealed that high CSE and high self-monitoring had similar effects on conflict strategy choice. That is, they both were associated with relatively competent use of conflict strategies, unless the conflict was highly charged. However, low CSE/low self-monitoring adolescents clearly showed little change in behavior across minimally, moderately and highly negative affect conditions. Implications and suggestions for future research are discussed. Most notably, the influence of self-monitoring should be reassessed and improvements should be made in the manipulation of affect condition and the operationalization of the dependent variable, conflict strategy choice.
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Sim, Allan James. "The maintenance of cultural identity : a comparative study of the Windward Maroons of Jamaica and the Amish of Ohio." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.480834.

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In the past the theories of the Cooley/Mead "looking-glass self" [1934, 1964] and the social negotiation of identity have been applied to the individual. This research aims at studying whether the theory can also be applied to specific groups strategies for the maintenance of their identity. The Windward Maroons and the Amish of Ohio were chosen for this research on the basis of factors of comparability. The origins and the social structure of each of the two subject groups is discussed in detail. Their communal development is discussed in detail in terms of the three central bases of group solidarity, ie. myth/ritual, language and land. The origin myths of both the Amish and the Maroons are discussed within the context of a general analysis of the topic of the interpretation of myths. The manner in which myth is utilised by the two cultures to maintain their identity is examined. The effects of tourism on the Maroons and the Amish is an integral piece of this research. The economic repercussions of tourism on identity are analysed. The appropriation and commodification of cultural symbols is discussed and linked with the theory of the "looking-glass self". Due to the greater concentration of the tourist sites and tourist centred advertising there is a greater focus on the Amish in this matter than on the Maroons. The relative ease of access to the Amish sites, in comparison to those of the Maroons, also contributes to this. My findings reveal that there is at the present time a possibility that both of the cultures studied will be subject to the increased erosion of their distinct cultural identity. As their defining symbols continue to be commodified their capability of negotiating their identity with the wider society will be impoverished.
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Liang, Feng. "Adult Chinese Heritage Language Learners in the United States: Investments and Identities." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1593273136986069.

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Ogbay, Sarah. "The social and linguistic construction and maintenance of girls' and boys' gender identity in two urban secondary schools in Eritrea." Thesis, Lancaster University, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.310579.

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Hossain, Mohammad Delwar. "IN THE WEB WE CONNECT: USES OF SOCIAL MEDIA AMONG THE SOUTH ASIAN DIASPORA IN THE U.S." OpenSIUC, 2014. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/904.

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Social media usage is a paradigm shift in mass communication history, and members of the diasporic communities use social media for building and maintaining relationships. Social media have taken an important step by allowing the users to communicate in their native languages online. Because of this new step, communication through social media has become easier for the diasporic people who lack language and communication skills in their host countries. The diasporic people can communicate with the members of the same diasporic community in the host society and also with friends and family back home by using their native languages. Diasporic people have various motivations for using social media including gratifications. This dissertation examines patterns of use of social media among the South Asian diaspora living in the U.S. In doing so, the study uses a broader framework of bridging and bonding social capital to examine how South Asian people in the U.S. maintain relationships with friends both back home and in their host society via social media. Moreover, the influence of language for socio-cultural adjustment of the South Asian immigrant people was also explored in this study. An online survey following a snowballing technique was conducted among 535 South Asian people in the U.S. The results found that bonding relationships are related to native language use in social media, information sharing about back home and frequencies of social media use. Bridging relationships are related to relationship maintenance with friends in the U.S. and frequencies of social media use. The results of this study show the English language preference is not related to cultural and psychological behaviors in social media. However, English language preference is related to home country media related behaviors.
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Stewart, Dorris Kamiya. "LOSING CONTROL: THE CONSEQUENCES OF INDIVIDUAL- AND GROUP-BASED SOCIAL EXCLUSION ON LATINA WOMEN’S SELF-REGULATION OF UNHEALTHY EATING." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2017. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd/573.

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Social exclusion is a psychologically stressful experience that impairs people’s ability to control specific behaviors or events. In the current study, I attempted to reconcile competing predictions regarding whether exclusion is especially harmful to control, or self-regulate, when it is attributed to individual- or group-based characteristics of a person. Per the self-evaluation maintenance (SEM) model, social exclusion should be most detrimental to self-regulation when it is directed at a person’s unique traits, or individual self. In contrast, social identity theory (SIT) predicts that exclusion is especially damaging when it is directed at a person’s group membership. I examined whether the seemingly contradictory predictions made by SEM and SIT are because they relate to different circumstances concerning the fairness of the exclusion experience. Most research regarding individual-based exclusion involves situations in which the exclusion seems fair, or deserved, whereas research regarding group-based exclusion focuses on discrimination, or unfair exclusion. An online exclusion paradigm (i.e., “College Survivor”) was used to examine the role of fairness. During the Survivor game, Latina women experienced either individual- or group-based exclusion that was either fair or unfair. Afterwards, participants were asked to taste and rate three bowls of chocolate that were ostensibly manufactured in three countries that used different recipes. The findings demonstrated that participants consumed the most calories (i.e., showed the greatest loss of self-control) when exclusion was fair and directed towards their individual selves, or when exclusion was unfair and directed towards their group selves.
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Park, Seong Man. "The linguistic and cultural influence of Korean ethnic churches on heritage language and identity maintenance among Korean Canadian students in Quebec." Thesis, McGill University, 2010. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=86720.

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In this qualitative study, I explore the linguistic and cultural influence of Korean ethnic churches on Korean Canadian students' heritage language and cultural identity maintenance in Montreal. Despite the extensive involvement of Korean immigrants in ethnic churches, very little is known about the linguistic and cultural role of these churches for adult Korean immigrants, let alone for their younger generations who grow up in Canada. Therefore, my research questions focus on how Korean ethnic churches support heritage language and cultural identity maintenance for the younger generations of Korean immigrant families in the Montreal context. I employed an ethnographic and qualitative approach and elicited data from qualitative interviews, participant observation, and group discussions. Data collection took place over a four month period from January through April, 2008. The participants (n=37 in total) were Korean Canadian students who live in Montreal and attend a Korean ethnic church (n=15), their parents (n=10), heritage language and Bible study teachers (n=4), and pastors of the church and of other Korean ethnic churches in the city (n=4). Another group of Korean Canadian students who were not members of a Korean ethnic church was also included (n=4). The results of the study show that Korean ethnic churches in Montreal do indeed play important roles for the maintenance of the HL and cultural identity for the younger generations of Korean immigrant families as major ethnic community institutions. Thus, the Korean ethnic churches are found to have roles far beyond their original religious role. The findings of this study suggest that all the members of the Korean ethnic churches should be more aware of their responsibility for upholding the linguistic and cultural role of the Korean ethnic churches. In addition, all the members of the Korean ethnic churches should make better use of current institutional resources such as the use of heritage language within t
Dans cette étude qualitative, j'explore l'influence linguistique et culturelle des églises ethniques coréennes sur le maintien de la langue d'origine et de l'identité culturelle chez des étudiants canadiens d'origine coréenne à Montréal. Malgré l'implication importante d'immigrants coréens dans les églises ethniques, on en sait très peu au sujet du rôle linguistique et culturel de ces églises pour les immigrants coréens d'âge adulte, sans parler de leur rôle pour la nouvelle generation qui grandit au Canada. Par conséquent, mes questions de recherche se concentrent sur comment les églises ethniques coréennes supportent le maintien de la langue d'origine et de l'identité culturelle pour la nouvelle génération de familles immigrantes coréennes dans le contexte montréalais. A partir d'une approche ethnographique et qualitative, j'ai obtenu des données à partir d'entrevues qualitatives, d'observation participatoire et de discussions de groupe. La collecte de données se fit au cours d'une période de quatre mois entre janvier et avril, 2008. Les participants (n=37 au total) étaient des étudiants canadiens d'origine coréenne qui habitent Montréal et qui fréquentent une église ethnique coréenne (n=15), leurs parents (n=10), des enseignants de la langue d'origine et d'études bibliques (n=4), et des pasteurs de cette église ainsi que d'autres églises ethniques coréennes à Montréal (n=4). Un autre groupe d'étudiants canadiens d'origine coréenne qui ne sont pas membres d'une église ethnique coréenne fut aussi inclus (n=4). Les résultats de l'étude démontrent que les églises ethniques coréennes jouent en effet des rôles importants pour le maintien de la langue d'origine et de l'identité culturelle pour la nouvelle génération de familles immigrantes coréennes en tant qu'institutions communautaires principales. Alors, nous voyons que les églises ethniques coréennes ont des rôles qui surpassent largement leur rôle rel
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Totoricaguena, Gloria Pilar. "Comparing the Basque diaspora : ethnonationalism, transnationalism and identity maintenance in Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Peru, the United States of America, and Uruguay." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2000. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/1592/.

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Through a comparison of Basque diaspora populations in six countries, this thesis describes and analyzes ethnicity maintenance, transnational consciousness, and ethnonational tendencies of self-defining Basques. I argue that despite geographical and generational differences, the core elements of Basque identity are defined in a constant manner, and ethnic institutions have developed according to similar patterns. I categorize these populations as 'diaspora' utilizing Cohen's definition, and give examples of their (1) traumatic dispersal from an original homeland; (2) expansion from the homeland in pursuit of colonial ambitions, trade, or work; (3) shared myth and collective memory of their homeland; (4) idealization of their homeland; (5) return movement; (6) sustained strong ethnic group consciousness; (7) sense of solidarity with co-ethnic members in other countries; and (8) distinctive and enriched lives in tolerant host countries. I suggest chain migration and consistent interaction with the homeland have strengthened transnational ties and diasporic consciousness. Contemporary relations between Basque diaspora communities and the Basque Government have fomented and reinvigorated ethnicity maintenance for many from the thirty-eight Basque associations represented. Tajfel's 'positive social identity' theory aids in partially explaining ethnic identity preservation in Uruguay, Argentina and some areas of the United States, though respondents in Australia, Peru, and Belgium tend to employ primordialist vocabulary to interpret their persistent ethnonationalism. While homeland definitions of "Basqueness" have progressed to a more civic and inclusive nationalism, diaspora definitions tend to follow the traditional conservativism of Sabino Arana and ancestry, language, and religion. A multimethod approach creates original quantitative and qualitative data from 832 written anonymous questionnaires and 348 personal interviews. SPSS empirical data analysis facilitated cross-tabulations and comparisons.
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MacDonald, Fiona M. "Women and death on the Isle of Lewis : the cultural management of a life crisis and the maintenance of gendered identity." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/22432.

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This study examines the involvement of women in responses to death on Lewis, in the Western Isles, focusing especially on the ways in which individuals are always engaged in a process of maintaining a coherent gendered identity. Several themes are given extended investigation and an attempt has been made to undertake, where appropriate, experimental analysis of gender as process. Death and its consequences are seen outside institutional settings, in the home or community, as an extended crisis provoking reactions that are often culturally distinctive. Individual identity is taken as emerging perpetually from ongoing construction processes through actions and understandings shaped within culturally mediated discursive matrices which combine in this constitution (of the idea and the 'realization') of gender. The study offers fresh interpretations of previously collected and new ethnographic and oral traditional material derived from several sources: primary evidence and secondary description in published works; ethnographic documentation, including that from participant observation, interviews and correspondence conducted by the researcher; and primary resources such as interviews and songs in the Archives of the School of Scottish Studies, at the University of Edinburgh. Qualitative analysis is made of local practices and concepts, from the past and present, as founded in both orthodox religion and in 'folk belief', or 'para-religious', tradition, as well as secular custom. Data from other predominantly Protestant and, less often, from Roman Catholic island communities are brought in for comparison.
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Vdovichenko, Susan E. C. "The Beholder’s Eye: How Self-Identification and Linguistic Ideology Affect Shifting Language Attitudes and Language Maintenance in Ukraine." The Ohio State University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1305582855.

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