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Khalid, Amr. "Aspects of Islam and social coexistence : the case of Britain." Thesis, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.683357.
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Higgins, Jennifer R. 1952. "Vanguards of postmodernity : rethinking midlife women." Monash University, School of Political and Social Inquiry, 2001. http://arrow.monash.edu.au/hdl/1959.1/8896.
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Chiko, Wilson Mungoma. "The social influence of Islam in Kenyan society since 1963." Thesis, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.683274.
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Honeywill, Greer 1945. "Colours of the kitchen cabinet : a studio exploration of memory, place, and ritual arising from the domestic kitchen." Monash University, Dept. of Fine Arts, 2003. http://arrow.monash.edu.au/hdl/1959.1/5621.
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Brigaitis, Peter. "Religious Engagement and Social Capital in the Islamic Context." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2005. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc4788/.
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Social capital research has traditionally been conducted in western and Christian settings as a precursor of changes such as democratization and development. This paper focuses on Islamic religious engagement and its potential to foster social capital. The model presented here is designed to suggest whether the Islam's influence occurs through doctrinal channels, or through Islam's capacity to organize social structures. The analysis conducted is a linear regression model with measures of social capital as dependent variables and measures of religious engagement as independent variables. The analysis is conducted on data from the fourth wave of the World Values Survey. Results suggest that religious engagement and social capital have both belief and behavioral elements that should be treated as separate entities in quantitative research.
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Nicholls, Paul. "The social expectations of Anglican clergy in England and Australia, 1850-1910." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1988. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:52828db5-d273-41db-8516-c873e1e7a91a.
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In the early nineteenth century, the ideal type of Anglican parish clergyman was a member of a gentlemanly profession. Although he had few formal duties, he exercised a benevolent influence in a small, deferential community. His liberal education, independent income and ample leisure enabled him to pursue scholarly hobbies. In every English village, he was a light of civilization. The parson was spiritual half-brother of the squire, and the Church as a whole was closely identified with the landed classes in the social rank, governing role (the magistracy) and political sympathies of the parochial clergy. Urbanisation was the main force that largely destroyed the authenticity of this ideal. As society became horizontally divided, the power of locality dwindled. The Church's opponents - sceptics, Dissenters and organised labour - gained confidence. Rival authorities (to the pulpit) overwhelmingly established themselves in popular favour - especially the mass circulating press. The franchise was extended to the working classes, or at least to the aristocracy of labour with whom the Church of England had rarely felt easy. Finally, two of the props of the old ideal were knocked away - the prosperity of the agricultural sector, and the acceptance of the clergyman's calling as a learned profession. In Australia, there were similar problems for the Anglican minister, although most were in a more intense form. A lack of endowment, the prevailing democratic and anti-clerical sentiment in much of the political debate, and the high degree of geographical and social mobility characteristic of much of the colonial population, made the problems of the Church and of her parochial ministers appear overwhelming. The result was the development of a form of careerism in the clerical order that seemed to some censorious contemporaries to have been not merely improper but quite destructive of the ideal of the parish priest, an ideal which was still upheld despite its manifest inappropriateness.
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Wolska, Barbara. "History, culture and alcohol: Drinking patterns in Poland and Australia." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2001. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/1040.
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It is a widely held view in Poland that for centuries those in power have promoted heavy drinking among their subjects in order to achieve their various goals and that this contributed to the development of Polish drinking patterns. There is some empirical evidence that the political economy of alcohol in Poland promoted heavy drinking among the Polish population. Drinking alcohol in Poland was an important aspect of social situations. The most popular beverage was vodka(s). Social pressure to drink in the extreme was attributed to the tradition of hospitality. Cultural norms encouraged very heavy drinking among men and imposed heavy social sanctions on women who were supposed to display virtues of abstinence. The typical model of drinking was intermittent very heavy drinking, leading to intoxication on most occasions. These norms reinforced the notion that "we can drink more because we are Poles" and the view that safe drinking messages are designed for other nations because "Poles are accustomed to drinking strong alcohol, unlike others". Adult male informants reported drinking much less in Australia than in Poland. The biggest change was a lack of social pressure to drink. Although men claimed that they drink less, some still drink in an unsafe manner. These were largely those whose English skills restricted their employment and friendship networks. Women, on the other hand, admitted that in Australia they drink more often and more alcohol at a sitting than in Poland. Although informants did not mention any alcohol-related family problems in Australia, others reported alcohol related violence within some families. Some safety messages about alcohol do not reach this sample of people. Many view drink driving rules as purely revenue raisers for the government. However, advice from their medical practitioners to reduce their alcohol intake for serious health reasons is given more credibility. Young Polish Australians formed two groups in their attitude to drinking. The first group consisted of people who attended tertiary educational institutions and consumed alcohol in a similar fashion to other Australian students. It is likely that the university environment influenced their drinking patterns. Those who witnessed drinking at home and perceived it as a good thing, modelled their drinking on their parents' and other adults at home. Others, who perceived their parents as non-drinkers, learned to drink from their friends and displayed similar drinking patterns to their peers. The second group was older; some were in the workforce and manifested drinking patterns akin to those in the general Australian population in the same age bracket. Both groups of these young Polish Australians were much more aware of alcohol health messages and more likely to modify their behaviours such as not to drink and drive, than was the older population. However, other drinking related health warnings were largely disregarded. This research demonstrates the negative impact of reduced government funding for English programs and ethno-specific services for migrant groups. More research is needed on migrant drinking in Australia, specifically among those groups whose drinking continues to be problematic.
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Yu, Xin 1956. "Conceptualising and assessing intercultural competence of tour guides : an analysis of Australian guides of Chinese tour groups." Monash University, Dept. of Management, 2003. http://arrow.monash.edu.au/hdl/1959.1/5637.
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Reinke, Leanne 1964. "Community, communication and contradiction : the political implications of changing modes of communication in indigenous communities of Australia and Mexico." Monash University, School of Political and Social Inquiry, 2001. http://arrow.monash.edu.au/hdl/1959.1/8812.
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Othman, Zulkeplee. "Privacy, modesty, hospitality and the design of Muslim homes in Australia." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2016. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/92619/1/Zulkeplee_Othman_Thesis.pdf.
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This cross-disciplinary, exploratory case study architectural research adopts a social science methodological approach to investigate the influence of cultural traditions and religious teachings on domestic behaviours and utilisation of interior spaces of six Muslim families' homes in Brisbane. Based on the tripartite principles of privacy, modesty and hospitality (PMH), this study acknowledges the contributions of Australian homes in providing a safe and private domain for these families to undertake daily activities while continuing their cultural and religious traditions. This research further acknowledges the significance of Australian homes to these families in the promotion of social inclusion to the wider society.
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Jackiewicz, Stephanie. "The lived experience of a group of mothers, geographically isolated from their extended families, in establishing their social support networks." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 1998. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/984.
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This study explores the Jived experience of a group of women, geographically isolated from their extended family, as they establish their new support networks. It is based on the assumption that the shape and structure of families are constantly changing and evolving and this change in family structure impacts on both the parents and the children. One of the significant changes families are experiencing is the increasing isolation of the nuclear family from traditional family networks. It is the purpose of this study to explore the experience of this group of women to identify how the members establish their support networks. It determines the process they used in developing these networks and discovers the essential elements which contributed to the formation of new networks. The women participating in the study have all moved to Western Australia and as a result are isolated from their extended family. They all have at least one pre school aged child, speak English and have been involved in a self-help group for families separated from their extended family. A phenomenological approach was adopted to explore how this specific group of women in this situation has established their new support networks. The aim is to explore this phenomenon from the participant's perspective. A small sample of participants was selected from the self-help group with the help of a key informant. The data were collected over an extended period using in depth interviews. Each interview was transcribed and analysed for themes and concepts. These were taken back to the participants for verification. The findings have been reported using the narrative style as this is a style that fits comfortably with women. The narratives were verified by the individual participants as a true account of their experience. The themes extracted from all the participants are also reported and verified by the individual participants. The themes answer the questions of how these women establish their networks and what influences and affects the formation of these new networks. This study has implications for both policy and practice. It identifies areas where policy needs to be reviewed in order for additional funding to be provided to current health services so that they can continue with current services and expand these. Other services need to provide alternate models in order to meet the needs of various clientele. Services need to become more responsive to the community in order to meet their current needs. Additionally, some new and alternate services could be explored in order to meet the needs of this particular group. The need for further research has been highlighted by this study in the area of NESB migrants and their establishment of new networks, mothers of older school age children and those in full time employment trying to establish networks. In general the role of women in establishing networks within families still needs further researching. This study has identified some important factors in the establishment of networks by mothers of pre-school children, who are geographically isolated from their extended family.
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Reif, Alison. "Waves of change : economic development and social wellbeing in Cardwell, North Queensland, Australia." University of Western Australia. School of Social and Cultural Studies, 2008. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2009.0184.
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This thesis is an anthropological study of local understandings of economic development in a small regional town in far North Queensland, Australia. How do preferences regarding lifestyle and social wellbeing impact on those living in the community? The study takes a particular interest in the aspirations, values and choices of the residents and their desires for the future and the future of their town. Throughout this thesis I argue that social wellbeing and lifestyle are important factors in Cardwell residents' choices and feature predominantly in their approaches to economic development. I contextualise this study through a comparative analysis of the effects of economic development on the wellbeing and lifestyle of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people in the Cardwell region of north Australia. This comparison arises firstly from an anthropological interest in the circumstances of Australian Aboriginal people as a significant minority in regional towns. Explicit attention is directed toward the Aboriginal people of the Cardwell region as they constitute a socially and culturally distinct sector of the local population. Secondly, my study explores ways in which comparative work of this kind may be instructive on cultural issues relevant to economic development. This is a study of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people, who live in similar circumstances, and who, I propose, regard factors other than economic development as important. It is argued that while the Cardwell region does not provide ample nor a variety of economic opportunities, outward migration remains undesirable to many residents.
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Featherstone, Lisa. "Breeding and feeding: a social history of mothers and medicine in Australia, 1880-1925." Australia : Macquarie University, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/38533.
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Thesis (PhD)--Macquarie University, Division of Humanities, Department of Modern History, 2003.Bibliography: p. 417-478.
Introduction: breeding and feeding -- The medical man: sex, science and society -- Confined: women and obstetrics 1880-1899 -- The kindest cut? The caesarean section as turning point -- Reproduction in decline -- Resisting reproduction: women, doctors and abortion -- From obstetrics to paediatrics: the rise of the child -- The breast was best: medicine and maternal breastfeeding -- The deadly bottle and the dangers of the wet nurse: the "artificial" feeding of infants -- Surveillance and the mother -- Mothers and medicine: paradigms of continuity and change.
The late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries saw profound changes in Australian attitudes towards maternity. Imbibed with discourses of pronatalism and eugenics, the production of infants became increasingly important to society and the state. Discourses proliferated on "breeding", and while it appeared maternity was exulted, the child, not the mother, was of ultimate interest. -- This thesis will examine the ways wider discourses of population impacted on childbearing, and very specifically the ways discussions of the nation impacted on medicine. Despite its apparent objectivity, medical science both absorbed and created pronatalism. Within medical ideology, where once the mother had been the point of interest, the primary focus of medical care, increasingly medical science focussed on the life of the infant, who was now all the more precious in the role of new life for the nation. -- While all childbirth and child-rearing advice was formed and mediated by such rhetoric, this thesis will examine certain key issues, including the rise of the caesarean section, the development of paediatrics and the turn to antenatal care. These turning points can be read as signifiers of attitudes towards women and the maternal body, and provide critical material for a reading of the complexities of representations of mothers in medical discourse.
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Wood, Lisa Jane. "Social capital, neighbourhood environments and health : development of measurement tools and exploration of links through qualitative and quantitative research." University of Western Australia. School of Population Health, 2006. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2006.0111.
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[Truncated abstract] BACKGROUND This thesis explored the relationship between social capital, sense of community and mental health and wellbeing; and factors that may influence these within the environments in which people live. Area variations in health are well documented and are mirrored in emerging evidence of geographic and neighbourhood variations in social capital. Little is known, however, about the specific facets of the impact of local physical environment on social capital; or about the mechanisms by which these are linked with each other, and with health determinants and outcomes. Despite the recent proliferation of social capital literature and growing research interest within the public health realm, its relationship to mental health and protective factors for mental health have also been relatively unexplored. AIMS The overall aim of this thesis was to explore the potential associations between social capital, health and mental health, and neighbourhood environments. In particular, the thesis considered whether the physical attributes and street network design of neighbourhoods are associated with social capital or particular dimensions of the social capital construct. It also examined the relationship between social capital and demographic and residency factors and pet ownership ... CONCLUSION The combined use of qualitative and quantitative research is a distinguishing feature of this study, and the triangulation of these data has a unique contribution to make to the social capital literature. Studies concerned with the measurement of social capital to date have tended to focus on dimensions pertaining to people’s involvement, perceptions and relationship with others and their community. While these constructs provide insight into what comprises social capital, it is clear that each is in turn influenced by a range of other factors. Elucidating what fosters trust and neighbourly interactions in one community and not in another, and by what mechanisms, is one of many research questions unanswered in the published literature to date. The consideration of measures of social capital that relate to the physical environment is therefore of relevance to the growing research and public policy interest in identifying what might build or restore social capital in communities.
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Brown, Robert Bruce. "Holy war as an instrument of theocratic and social ideology in Judaic, Christian, and Islamic history." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1997. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1428.
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Stephens, Anthony W. "Improving the aesthetic and other experiential design aspects of bicycle paths in Western Australia." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2010. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/874.
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Governments around Australia are in the process of promoting cycling as both a sustainable form of transport that can be a viable alternative to the motor vehicle, particularly for shorter trips, and as a healthy recreational pursuit that can play an important role in addressing the growing problem of obesity and illnesses associated with a sedentary lifestyle in the community. As part of this initiative, the development of effective and efficient infrastructure for bicycles is seen as a vital step for achieving higher participation rates.
A major component of the nation’s bicycle infrastructure is the growing networks of paved paths and natural surface trails located in both urban and regional areas. A well-designed path or trail must meet agreed standards related to safety and function and, in order to achieve maximum usage, it must also create a desirable riding experience. While requirements for safety and function are well understood by path and trail planners, little empirical information has been produced to enable these planning professionals to understand the elements that impact upon an individual’s riding experience and to then incorporate them into the design process.
Accordingly, the overall aim of this research was to investigate how the aesthetic, cultural and other experiential design aspects of bicycle paths and trails can enhance the perceived riding experience. A secondary objective of the project involved a determination of the procedural factors guiding the local path and trail design protocols and process. A third objective was to gain an insight into the most effective method of communicating the benefits of these riding environments to important target groups.
Following the establishment of a theoretical framework incorporating the psychophysical nature of cycling, the effect of landscape and current design practices, the research progressed through several stages beginning with an autoethnography examining the researcher’s extensive experience in the promotion of cycling in Western Australia, augmented by in-depth discussions with leading key informants. This was followed by a mix of quantitative and qualitative methodology to gauge perception of various elements of in-situ and photo-surrogate path-riding environments among the general population in Perth, Western Australia.
The findings indicate that there are specific experiential design aspects related to the riding environment, surrounding landscape or associated features that can directly influence a person’s decision to use a particular path, trail or route. The research also identified preferred communication strategies and found deficiencies in the current design process that if addressed, could lead to the development of better received and patronised riding environments.
It is intended that the outcome of this research will be to provide a design framework to guide path and trail planners in the development of facilities that enhance the overall riding experience. A number of agencies responsible for developing bicycle infrastructure, or design standards, have indicated a desire to access parts of this research project for use in the decision-making process, thus achieving a better balance between safety, functional and experiential aspects.
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Aly, Anne M. "Audience responses to the Australian media discourse on terrorism and the 'other' : the fear of terrorism between and among Australian Muslims and the broader community." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2008. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/176.
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The terrorist attcks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon on 11 September 2001 heralded an era of unprecedented media and public attention on the global phenomenon of terrorism. Implicit in the Australian media's discourse on terrorism that evolved out of the events of 11 September is a construction of the Western world (and specifically Australia) as perpetually at threat of terrorism.
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Southcott, Jane Elizabeth, and mikewood@deakin edu au. "Music in state-supported schooling in South Australia to 1920." Deakin University, 1997. http://tux.lib.deakin.edu.au./adt-VDU/public/adt-VDU20050915.104134.
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This thesis is a study of the establishment of the music curriculum in state-supported schools in South Australia from the beginnings of such schooling until 1920. There will be a discussion of issues to be explored and the method by which this investigation will proceed. A literature survey of relevant research will be included, after which there will be a sketch of the development of state-supported schooling in South Australia. Several broad themes have been chosen as the means of organising the historical material: the rationales offered for the inclusion of music in schooling, the methodologies, syllabi and materials of such music instruction, the provisions for teacher training in music, both preservice and as professional development for established teachers, and the place and function of music in schooling. Each of these themes will form the framework for a chronological narrative. Comparisons will be made with three neighbouring colonies/States concerning each of these themes and conclusions will be drawn. Finally, overall conclusions will be made concerning the initial contentions raised in this chapter in the light of the data presented.
Although this study is principally concerned with the establishment of music in state-supported schooling, there will be a brief consideration of the colony of South Australia from its proclamation in 1836. The music pedagogical context that prevailed at that time will be discussed and this will, of necessity, include developments that occurred before 1836. The period under consideration will close in 1920, by which time the music curriculum for South Australia was established, and the second of the influential figures in music education was at his zenith. At this time there was a new school curriculum in place which remained essentially unchanged for several decades.
As well as the broad themes identified, this thesis will investigate several contentions as it attempts to chronicle and interpret the establishment and development of music in state-supported schooling in South Australia up to 1920. The first contention of this thesis is that music in state-supported schooling, once established, did not change significantly from its inception throughout the period under consideration. In seeking a discussion of the existence and importance of the notion of an absence of change or stasis, the theory of punctuated equilibria, which identifies stasis as the norm in the evolutionary growth of species, will be employed as an insightful analogy. It should be recognised that stasis exists, should be expected and may well be the prevailing norm.
The second contention of this thesis is that advocates were and continue to be crucial to the establishment and continued existence of music in state-supported schooling. For change to occur there must be pressure through such agencies as motivated individuals holding positions of authority, and thus able to influence the educational system and its provisions. The pedagogical method introduced into an educational system is often that espoused by the acknowledged advocate. During the period under consideration there were two significant advocates for music in state-supported schools.
The third contention of this thesis is that music was used in South Australia, as in the other colonies/States, as an agent of social reform, through the selection of repertoire and the way in which music was employed in state-supported schooling. Music was considered inherently uplifting. During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the music selected for school singing carried texts with messages deemed significant by those who controlled the education system. The repertoire was not that of the receiving class but came from a middle class tradition of fully notated art music in which correct performance and notational reading were emphasised. A sweet, pure vocal tone was desired, as strident, harsh, speaking tones were perceived as a symptom of incipient larrikinism which was not desired in schooling. Music was seen as a contributor to good order and discipline in schooling.
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Andayani. "Spiritual sensitive social work : a descriptive analysis of working with the dying." Thesis, McGill University, 2005. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=99159.
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It is generally accepted that spirituality can play an important role in the end stage of the life of a person. Spirituality can provide a source of comfort and guidance and in so doing be a coping strategy. Social workers should take into account this spiritual component of their work particularly with clients who use spirituality as a form of social support. This thesis provides a theoretical understanding of spiritual based practice. It identifies the principles and competencies central to this practice, including the need for worker self awareness. It then illustrates how certain social work students have applied these principles in their practice with dying clients.The author's own identification as an individual from a religiously oriented Muslim country is used to illustrate the importance of understanding and working from the world view of clients. The author concludes that spirituality should not be ignored by social workers in their practice.
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Smith, John H. "Fear, frustration and the will to overcome: A social history of poliomyelitis in Western Australia." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 1997. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/921.
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This thesis investigates community responses to Poliomyelitis, and the Impact of the disease on those who experienced It, particularly during the epidemics that occurred In Western Australia between 1938 and 1956. The research sources an.: W.A. Health Department records, held mostly at the Battye Library, records held by Australian Archives and Royal Perth Hospital, newspaper reports, comparative studies from several states in Australia and overseas, oral history interviews, biographies and personal records. The history of polio has several layers and the presence or the disease In the community evoked varied and ambiguous reactions, summarised here as fear, frustration and the will to overcome. I have examined the discussion the virus generated amongst members of the public. researchers, health professionals and polio survivors, In order to draw conclusions about the relationship between disease and western society. Polio evoked greater level of fear amongst all members of the community, compared with other Infectious diseases which had a far higher mortality rate. The behaviour of the polio virus challenged theories of Infection current during the first half of the twentieth century. Health and scientific professionals, and the general public, were frustrated by a lack of accurate knowledge concerning the disease. Uncertainty led to the Implementation of a variety of preventative measures, some of which, such as quarantine, were unpopular while others, such as nasal clips, were ineffective. Research aimed at developing a vaccine to conquer the Virus was maintained but scientific and medical professionals disagreed amongst themselves, while members of the general public questioned their capabilities and offered their own homespun solutions. At the same time polio survivors were often noted for their determined efforts to recover from the effects of paralysis.
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au, bsteels@iinet net, and Brian Steels. "Declared guilty, a never-ending story : an analysis of the impact of the criminal justice system upon the self." Murdoch University, 2005. http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/adt/browse/view/adt-MU20060615.125712.
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This study explores the experience of people who have been publicly declared guilty. It retells the narratives of offenders from the point of arrest through to conviction and, where relevant, imprisonment and release. The experiences of close relatives are also explored and provide an important part of the thesis. These accounts are set against the institutional context of the criminal justice system and a systemic account of police, courts, prisons and community corrections is provided. The main aim of the study is to investigate and document the impact of the criminal justice process on offenders sense of self.
At a theoretical level, the study is informed by symbolic interactionism, particularly the work of Erving Goffman. This enables the development of insights into issues such as loss, shame, humiliation and loss of self. The asymmetrical power relationship in which these feelings are engendered and maintained is emphasised. At the same time, the study records the level and types of resistance among the subjects of the criminal justice system.
The findings are significant for our sociological understandings of the impact of being declared guilty, for they suggest that the criminal justice process per se contributes to a severely damaged self, and that the subjective experience of being found guilty starts at the moment of arrest and persists well after sentencing as subjects try to re-integrate into the community with a record of conviction.
The study also suggests that these processes are not passively absorbed by subjects. As well as describing feelings of shame and loss, those participating in the research talked about the unfairness of the system, their preparedness to resist in numerous ways, and of their longing for an older, better life in which their sense of self was undamaged.
The study concludes by arguing that profound change to the culture of the criminal justice system is needed if rehabilitation is to be successful. In this context it emphasises the importance of accountable and transparent human services concerned with the human and civil rights of offenders, court diversion schemes, alternatives to custody, and the practical application of restorative and therapeutic justice.
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Hagemann, Helen. "Silhouettes of Alice." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2006. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/345.
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This thesis comprises three sections. Section One is a novel Silhouettes of Alice, divided into four parts. Parts I and II are set in the fifties and sixties, and Part IV is set in the twenty-first century. The novel highlights the formative years of a girl's life from the age of five to twelve years, leaving home at twenty, and later, at mid-life, getting divorced and starting over. Section Two is a collection of twenty poems that form part of the creative writing component, a new work entitled Country Girl. Section Three is an essay on Views from the Veranda: Visual Maps of Place, Culture and Identity. This area of research highlights the veranda as a significant cultural contribution to the Australian way of life, place and identity. The veranda is featured in both manuscripts, and is integral to themes of love, home, friendship and familial guardianship. In the essay, by utilizing several authors' works, I discuss how the veranda acts as a caesura, a pause on the edge of the house, a reflective space where families interact, educate, communicate, and socialize. The research into the veranda, especially Philip Drew's work Veranda: Embracing Place, has facilitated my inquiry into the social, physical and cultural significance of the veranda. The essay also utilizes Gaston Bachelard's The Poetics of Space, primarily for theoretical insights into spatial environments, and his philosophical and metaphysical theories on intimate places where the mind rests, evoking the imagination, memories and daydreams - the writer's essential tools .
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Groves, Ronald George. "Fourth world consumer culture: Emerging consumer cultures in remote Aboriginal communities of North-Western Australia." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 1999. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/1201.
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Over the two centuries since the arrival of European settlers in Australia, the material culture and lifestyle of the indigenous Aboriginal people of Australia has undergone dramatic change. Based on qualitative fieldwork in three remote Aboriginal communities in north-western Australia, this study examines the emergence of unique consumer cultures that appear to differ significantly from mainstream Australia and indeed from other societies. The study finds that the impact of non-indigenous goods and external cultural values upon these communities has been significant. However, although anthropologists feared some fifty years ago that Aboriginal cultural values and traditions had been destroyed, this study concludes that they are still powerful moderating forces in each of the communities studied. The most powerful are non-possessiveness, immediacy in consumption, and a strong sharing ethos. Unlike findings in the so-called Second and Third Worlds, these Fourth World consumer cultures have not developed an unquenchable desire for manufactured consumer goods. Instead, non-traditional consumption practices have been modified by tradition oriented practices. The consumer cultures that have emerged through a synthesis of global and local values and practices have involved Aboriginal adoption, adaption and resistance practices. This process has resulted in both positive and negative impacts on the Aboriginal people of these communities. Ways of dealing with the negative effects have been suggested, while the positive effects have been highlighted as examples of what can possibly be learned from Aboriginal culture. The study also finds differences between the emerging consumer cultures of each community, concluding that this can be attributed to historical and cultural differences. The main conclusion is that the development of a global consumer culture is by no means inevitable.
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Gleeson, Damian John School of History UNSW. "The professionalisation of Australian catholic social welfare, 1920-1985." Awarded by:University of New South Wales. School of History, 2006. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/26952.
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This thesis explores the neglected history of Australian Catholic social welfare, focusing on the period, 1920-85. Central to this study is a comparative analysis of diocesan welfare bureaux (Centacare), especially the Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide agencies. Starting with the origins of professional welfare at local levels, this thesis shows the growth in Catholic welfare services across Australia. The significant transition from voluntary to professional Catholic welfare in Australia is a key theme. Lay trained women inspired the transformation in the church???s welfare services. Prepared predominantly by their American training, these women devoted their lives to fostering social work in the Church and within the broader community. The women demonstrated vision and tenacity in introducing new policies and practices across the disparate and unco-ordinated Australian Catholic welfare sector. Their determination challenged the status quo, especially the church???s preference for institutionalisation of children, though they packaged their reforms with compassion and pragmatism. Trained social workers offered specialised guidance though such efforts were often not appreciated before the 1960s. New approaches to welfare and the co-ordination of services attracted varying degrees of resistance and opposition from traditional Catholic charity providers: religious orders and the voluntary-based St Vincent de Paul Society (SVdP). For much of the period under review diocesan bureaux experienced close scrutiny from their ordinaries (bishops), regular financial difficulties, and competition from other church-based charities for status and funding. Following the lead of lay women, clerics such as Bishop Algy Thomas, Monsignor Frank McCosker and Fr Peter Phibbs (Sydney); Bishop Eric Perkins (Melbourne), Frs Terry Holland and Luke Roberts (Adelaide), consolidated Catholic social welfare. For four decades an unprecedented Sydney-Melbourne partnership between McCosker and Perkins had a major impact on Catholic social policy, through peak bodies such as the National Catholic Welfare Committee and its successor the Australian Catholic Social Welfare Commission. The intersection between church and state is examined in terms of welfare policies and state aid for service delivery. Peak bodies secured state aid for the church???s welfare agencies, which, given insufficient church funding proved crucial by the mid 1980s.
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Ahmad, Abu Umar Faruq, University of Western Sydney, College of Business, and School of Law. "Law and practice of modern Islamic finance in Australia." 2007. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/38404.
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The dissertation seeks to contribute to the existing body of work in the area of Islamic finance by examining the extent of divergence in practice of Islamic financing from the traditional Shari`ah in the Australian context. To this end, the dissertation presents a discursive analysis of the regulation of Islamic Finance in Australia in terms of (a) the financing instruments used, (b) certainty of transactions between participants in the system, and (c) institutional risk management of Islamic Financial Institutions (IFIs). The methodology chosen for the study is through the Shari`ah, where law, finance, economics and business form a single dimension only, even though a very significant one. Examination of the issues of this study is undertaken through the literature in the relevant field as well as the author’s personal expertise and working experience with several Islamic banks (IBs) and IFIs for a considerable period of time, in addition to his active involvement with at least two of Islamic Financial Services Providers (IFSPs) in Australia.Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
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Maadad, Nina. "Adaptation of Arab immigrants to Australia: psychological, social, cultural and educational aspects." Thesis, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/70149.
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This study examines the psychological problems that were overcome, and the social and cultural adaptations which were made, by Arab immigrants in the process of settling in Australia. The research was based on a group of forty participants, sixteen of whom migrated to Australia between 1973 and 2004. The other twenty-four were all of Arab descent and born in Australia. The methodology for undertaking this research utilized humanistic sociology principles for the collecting and analysis of qualitative data. The major finding of this portfolio of stodies is that the Arab immigrant families did adjust to the new country wholeheartedly, even in the first generation, partly by maintaining the core values of their Arab home culture.Thesis (D.Ed.) -- University of Adelaide, School of Education, 2007
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Hawkins, Kathryn Morton. "Attitudes towards eucalypt clearcutting among Australian foresters : a social ecological analysis." Phd thesis, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/143457.
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Chia, Tai Tee. "Returns to higher education in Australia." Phd thesis, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/138458.
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Coppard, Sally A., University of Western Sydney, and of Arts Education and Social Sciences College. "The dance between cosmography and chorography : mapping Australia." 2005. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/40258.
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This thesis proposes that maps contain much more than just a depiction of physical space. Focusing on a selection of maps of ‘Australia’, the following attributes are found in some of these maps: myth and imagination, memory, power and the evolution of a people’s relationship with a place. Each attribute is the centrepiece of a separate chapter. The investigation undertaken here begins before ‘Australia’ was a known, named and mapped identity, at least as far as Europe was concerned, and continues up to the present day. It moves from maps of the imagined, the unknown and the theoretical, the science of cosmography, to chorography, which concerns maps of the local and the known. Cosmography operates on the grandest scale attempting to depict the whole world whereas chorography attempts to map details that can be recognised on the land. The words cosmography and chorography have fallen into disuse but the meanings of both were re-examined for this work, allowing for a unique mapping picture to emerge. The dance between these two kinds of mapping is the methodological pivot around which this thesis revolves. Chapter one begins in the theoretical realm of cosmography with the creation of the Antipodes, an idea that arose as a consequence of classical and Hellenistic Greek philosophical and theoretical concepts. This land only existed on maps yet came to harbour myths and imaginary attributes. Although replaced by Terra Australis Incognita, fantasy and myth continued to inhabit this southern part of the mapped world. Explorers eroded the unknown until a European chorographical destination, Botany Bay, was mapped into place. The dance then began all over again across the landmass called ‘Australia’ as the boundary between the known and unknown was crossed and mapped. Chapter two is a detailed study of the minutiae on chorographical maps of the Burragorang Valley and surrounding area. The names used for various geographical features are shown to contain memories of past inhabitants both Aboriginal and European. These memories still exist on maps of this area whereas the land the maps depict has been radically altered by the inclusion of man-made lake that has all but removed the earlier human marks on the landscape. The power embedded in both cosmographical and chorographical maps is examined in chapter three. In 1493 Pope Alexander VI drew a line on a cosmographical map and ‘donated’ half the non-Christian world to Spain and half to Portugal, thus commencing a process whereby a few European Christian nations carved up the rest of the world with the help of the authority vested in cosmographical maps. This culminated, as far as Australia was concerned, with Lieutenant James Cook’s map of the east coast of New Holland, which enabled the British Crown to claim land to the east of the 135th meridian, the line Alexander VI had drawn. Within sixty years this claim had expanded and covered the whole of the Australian landmass. On the ground, chorography recorded each individual parcel of land as it changed from Aboriginal land to European property. In chapter four, the concern is the way maps facilitated an evolving relationship between European Australians and the land they came to inhabit rather than the use of the maps in colonial appropriation. The focus in this chapter is on marginal lands where little European involvement is evident either on the ground or on the map. Because it is here in less trampled areas that any European marker on a map becomes important, and because there are so few of these markers, it is possible to trace the way these key features have evolved and have taken on a new significance over time.Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
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Hinson, Sandy. "Discursive interpersonal, professional and organisational practices : a study of violence in Australian schools." Phd thesis, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/149661.
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Thomas, Matthew J. W. (Matthew James Westwo). "Virtual learning environments : the impact of information and communication technologies on a sustainable higher education / by Matthew J.W. Thomas." 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/19719.
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CD-ROM in pocket on back end paper.Bibliography: leaves 240-270.
Systems requirements for accompanying CD-ROM: Macintosh or IBM compatible computer. Other requirements: Web Browser; Adobe Acrobat Reader; Microsoft Excel version 2.1 or higher.
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Examines the possible conflict between the increasing use of information and communication technology and a higher education which contributes to social and ecological sustainability. Presents the argument that information and communication technology might be unable to support the dialogical modes of learning necessary for a sustainable higher education.
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Adelaide, Dept. of Geographical and Environmental Studies, 2000
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Searle, Judith 1959. "Social and ethical determinants of the use of routine antenatal screening tests / Judith Searle." 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/38419.
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Thesis (M.D.)--University of Adelaide, Dept. of Medicine, 1997?
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"Rhetoric and Reality: Narrowing the Gap in Australian Midwifery." University of Technology, Sydney. Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery and Health, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/2100/265.
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This study draws on multiple modes of expression in texts that have been generated by my experience of midwifery development since I moved from England to Australia in early 1997. The Professional Doctorate in Midwifery at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) has enabled me to produce and study my work as a midwifery practitioner, researcher, educator, writer and activist and to engage in a process of scholarship that both informs and is generated by practice. This has allowed me to analyse the complex issues that I, and other midwives in Australia, face as we strategise to narrow the gap between our ideals and the realities of the professional and political constraints that challenge midwifery. The study analyses the rhetorical communications I have employed as both carriers of 'vision' and 'means of persuasion' and the deliberate strategies to make changes that I believe will benefit childbearing women. My portfolio challenges me and others, to explore how we are able to identify, enact, and convince others of the emancipatory potential of midwifery. Rhetorical innovations are therefore linked to the exposition of woman centred midwifery care; an overall goal being to enable situations in which women can experience the potential power that transforms lives, through their experiences of childbirth. In the process, I aim to produce new knowledge that will equip midwives to understand practice, policy and political situations and see new possibilities for responding and taking action. I have analysed and explained my work using a framework appropriated from rhetorical theory and drawing on a range of feminist perspectives. This involves identifying and critiquing the rhetorical innovations that I have used when trying to create possibilities and persuade others of the value of midwifery and the need to make changes happen in practice, education and regulation. My study analyses the rhetorical nature of my own work as presented in my portfolio in a range of carefully selected texts that I have authored during my candidature. These include journal and newsletter articles, conference papers, research activities, policy submissions, education and training materials, the development of midwifery standards, formal and informal communications, and other documents, all aimed in one way or another at the rhetorical strategy of stimulating interest and action. The portfolio texts that arise from this work form the empirical data that is studied. However, in varying ways these texts elicit understandings about the rhetoric and reality of Australian midwifery and the deliberate strategies that are employed by midwives to make changes that will benefit childbearing women. They therefore stand in their own right as contributions to the thesis with their own discursive and epistemological intent. The reflexive process employed in this thesis highlights comparisons between what is being positioned as the potential of midwifery with what is also presented as the reality played out in contemporary Australian maternity service provision and in midwifery education and regulation. The thesis weaves its way around the portfolio documents, attempting to bring to life and discuss the culture in which rhetorical innovations and intentional strategies are aimed at narrowing the gap between 'rhetoric and reality'.
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Losoncz, Ibolya. "Absence of respect : South Sudanese experiences of Australian government and social institutions." Phd thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/151579.
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This micro empirical research reports on the resettlement experiences of South Sudanese Australians. It develops an argument to explain why the South Sudanese community persistently report a strong sense of disrespect from the Australian Government and Australian society more generally. The study demonstrates that the community's call for respect is a summation of their protest against economic and social exclusion in the public domain and interference from care and protection authorities in the private domain of the family. Members of the Sudanese community see education and employment as the main pathways to inclusion in their new society and to regaining their dignity lost in forced migration. But their efforts to obtain employment are often thwarted by structural impediments and discrimination from employers. As a consequence they feel robbed of the opportunity to participate and to attain respect in their new environment. The experience of being prevented from fully realising identities to which they aspire in their new society heightened the importance of preserving heritage values and structures within Sudanese families. These structures, while giving form and meaning to family members, have also become highly contested in their new cultural environment both from within and outside the Sudanese community. Care and protection authorities were quick to respond to inter-generational conflict and violence among Sudanese families. Yet, lack of cultural knowledge and understanding of the reasons for non-compliance with Australian family law among Sudanese parents led to inappropriate interventions, undermining Sudanese family structures. Parents at large were left feeling disempowered in their parenting roles and confused about the purpose of government interventions. Rather than engaging with the confusion of Sudanese parents, agencies rebuffed their growing grievance and anger adding to the emerging narrative in the Sudanese community of their unfair and disrespectful treatment at the hands of authorities. Threatened and distrustful that care and protection were eroding their families' future and the heritage virtues underpinning their cultural and self-identities, Sudanese parents responded by socially distancing themselves. The last part of the thesis takes a psycho-social approach to show how the Sudanese Australians' strong sense of disrespect is linked to a range of systemic barriers or threats from the government and its authorities to pursue and cultivate aspects of their selves that are fundamental to their core identity. The community's call for respect was an expression of grievance and resistance to elicit some response of care and concern from those holding economic and social power over them. It was their protest, the purpose of which was to assert their personal dignity and to object to their neglectful treatment. It was an appropriate and responsible demonstration of engagement with their new country: the Australian Government needed and had a responsibility to hear their voices. The research concludes by arguing that a more inclusive and responsive handling of resettlement support by the government is more likely to result in positive resettlement outcomes, including a sense among humanitarian migrants that their treatment is fair, just, and respectful of their positive understanding of themselves.
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Korda, Rosemary. "Socioeconomic inequalities in health care in Australia : differential impacts on mortality and inequalities in the use of services." Phd thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/150898.
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Smith, Alison (Alison Margaret). "Associations of social status, beliefs and attitudes with dietary intake and their influence on dietary behaviour change / Alison Smith." 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/20596.
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Copies of author's previously published articles inserted.Bibliography: leaves 217-232.
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A cross-sectional survey of a randomly selected population sample was carried out to determine the associations of social status, beliefs and attitudes with dietary intake (Adelaide, Brisbane, Perth)
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Adelaide, Dept. of Community Medicine, 1993
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Smith, Alison (Alison Margaret). "Associations of social status, beliefs and attitudes with dietary intake and their influence on dietary behaviour change / Alison Smith." Thesis, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/20596.
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Copies of author's previously published articles inserted.Bibliography: leaves 217-232.
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A cross-sectional survey of a randomly selected population sample was carried out to determine the associations of social status, beliefs and attitudes with dietary intake (Adelaide, Brisbane, Perth)
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Adelaide, Dept. of Community Medicine, 1993
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"Beyond Cantonese cuisine: Chinese migration and Chinese restaurants in Sydney." 2012. http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b5549056.
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自十九世紀末期，中式餐館已成為悉尼食味景觀 ( foodscape) 的一部分。近年中餐廳所提供的菜式，更由以廣東菜為主流，演變為一系列不同的地方風味，如上海菜、四川菜及北京菜等。中菜的全球化不能簡單定義為中國移民將自己的家鄉菜帶到移居地的一個過程。本文旨在闡述移民身份的餐館東主以及廚師怎樣在燒菜和營運餐館的過程中，改變了悉尼的食味景觀。一向以來，移民總是運用他們的民族文化資源謀生，使自己及家人有更佳的生活，而餐館正正為他們提供了適切的場地。本文亦審視中國新移民怎樣通過經營餐館，從而改變了當地西方人對中餐的觀念；即從中國菜即是廣東菜，演變為包括其他中國地方的風味菜。在這演變的過程中，餐館東主和廚師們都要不斷面對一個議題：怎樣與不同類形的顧客對何謂地道中國菜的觀念達至共識。較年輕的餐館東主通常會懂得因應社會上的話題以及利用對悉尼西方人的喜好的認識，為餐館營造時尚的格調來吸引他們。經過訓練的廚師以他們的專業成功移民澳洲，而僱用他們的餐館則以他們的專業作為餐館水準的保證。本文通過闡述上述人士改變悉尼的食味景觀的過程，展示人類學所提供的那種由下而上的角度如何為屬於宏觀層次的食物研究，如餐館東主對食味景觀的影響，作出貢獻。Chinese restaurants have been a part of the Sydney foodscape since the late nineteenth century. Recently, Chinese food in Sydney has changed from being Cantonese based to including a range of regional cuisines such as Shanghainese, Sichuanese and Beijing cuisines. The globalisation of Chinese cuisine is not simply the process of Chinese migrants bringing their cuisines with them to a new place. This study sheds light on how migrant restaurant owners and chefs have transformed the Sydney foodscape by cooking in and running their restaurants. Migrants have long used their ethnic resources to make a living and create better lives for themselves and their families. Restaurants are a means for them to achieve these aims. This study also examines how new Chinese migrants run restaurants that have changed notions of Chinese food in Sydney from being mainly based on Cantonese cuisine to including other regional Chinese cuisines. Throughout this process, restaurant owners and chefs have had to negotiate different ideas of authentic Chinese food held by different customers. Younger restaurant owners use their knowledge of public discourse and preferences of Caucasians in Sydney to create stylised spaces to appeal to Caucasian customers. Professionally trained chefs use their training as vehicles for migration and the restaurants that hire them use their professional training to maintain their standards. By illustrating how these individuals have changed the Sydney foodscape, this study shows how anthropology can contribute to food studies by providing a ground up perspective of how individuals such as restaurant owners can have an impact on macro level issues such as changing foodscapes.
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Pang, Leo.
Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2012.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 155-163).
Abstracts also in Chinese.
Abstract --- p.i
論文摘要 --- p.ii
Acknowledgements --- p.iii
List of Figures --- p.vii
Chapter Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.1
The Globalisation of Chinese Food --- p.4
Chinese Migration and Restaurants --- p.15
Methodology --- p.21
Thesis Organisation --- p.26
Chapter Chapter 2 --- Chinese Migration and Chinese Restaurants in Sydney: Historical Background --- p.29
Pre-Gold Rush Migration: The Need for Labour --- p.31
New Gold Mountain: The Gold Rush Era --- p.35
The End of the Gold Rush and the Move towards a White Australia --- p.37
The end of the White Australia Policy and Multiculturalism --- p.43
Chinese and their Restaurants in Australia --- p.47
Conclusion --- p.51
Chapter Chapter 3 --- Changing their Lives and Changing the Foodscape: Chinese Migrants and Their Restaurants in Sydney --- p.54
Untrained cooks --- p.58
Professional Chef-Migrants --- p.64
Younger and More Corporate Owners --- p.72
Location, Location: Where to Open Restaurants and Aspirations for their Children --- p.75
Conclusion --- p.80
Chapter Chapter 4 --- To Compromise or Not To Compromise: Chinese Restaurant Menus in Sydney --- p.85
Reproducing Chinese Food in Sydney --- p.89
Local Favourites --- p.91
Authenticity and Cultural Reproduction --- p.94
Pleasing the Locals: Modifying Dishes and Adding Dishes to Menus --- p.102
Conclusion --- p.107
Chapter Chapter 5 --- Restaurant Chains and the Expansion of Chinese Restaurants in Sydney --- p.112
From Ethnoburbs to the Suburbs: Chinese Restaurants in New Locations --- p.116
Corporatisation: Increasing Professionalism --- p.119
Décor and Presentation: Creating a New Image for Chinese Food --- p.123
Conclusion --- p.134
Chapter Chapter 6 --- Conclusion --- p.138
Negotiating Multiple Authenticities --- p.145
Making and Staging Authenticity --- p.147
Changing Tastes and Foodscapes: The Future of Chinese Food in Sydney --- p.150
Bibliography --- p.155
Chapter Appendix 1 --- : Restaurants Visited and Interviewed --- p.164
Chapter Appendix 2 --- : List of Restaurant Owners and Staff Interviewed --- p.166
Chapter Appendix 3 --- : Glossary --- p.167
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Sanders, Anne Elizabeth. "Social determinants of oral health / Anne E. Sanders." 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/22014.
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September 2003"Includes bibliographical references.
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This study showed that a set of social characteristics systematically differed by socioeconomic position. Socioeconomic gradients in personal control, social support, stress and life satisfaction underlie patterns of dental behaviour that are in turn associated with oral health.
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Sanders, Anne Elizabeth. "Social determinants of oral health / Anne E. Sanders." Thesis, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/22014.
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September 2003"Includes bibliographical references.
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This study showed that a set of social characteristics systematically differed by socioeconomic position. Socioeconomic gradients in personal control, social support, stress and life satisfaction underlie patterns of dental behaviour that are in turn associated with oral health.
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Adelaide, Dental School, 2003
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Edwards, Daniel Martin. "The use of Internet communications technologies by global social movements in Australia." Phd thesis, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/149939.
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Ferroni, Paola Adrian. "The effects of gynaecological conditions and hysterectomy fro reasons other than cancer on women's psycho-social and sexual health." Phd thesis, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/258172.
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The effects of gynaecological conditions and hysterectomy on psycho-social and sexual health are analysed in relation to the experience of 930 Western Australian women. The participants in the main survey were recruited from a simple random sample of 50 general medical practices in metropolitan Perth. According to their responses they were assigned to one of three groups: healthy, gynaecological conditions, hysterectomy. Although there were no statistically significant differences in the frequency of sexual activity across the groups, depression and self esteem scores were significantly worse for women with gynaecological conditions. Of these women, those with endometriosis were more likely to be depressed and reported on average the lowest scores on self-esteem. Women's ability to orgasm was equally distributed across the three groups and did not appear to be directly associated with gynaecological dysfunction or hysterectomy.
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"Islam, tourism, and changing foodways among the Utsat of Hainan island." 2010. http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b5894336.
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Wu, Huanyu.Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2010.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 159-170).
Abstracts in English and Chinese; includes Chinese.
Illustrations --- p.vi
Chapter Chapter 1: --- Introduction --- p.1
Chapter 1. --- Research Question --- p.4
Chapter 2. --- Literature Review --- p.5
Chapter 2.1 --- "Theoretical Background: Tradition, Modernity, and Social Change" --- p.5
Chapter 2.2. --- Research Perspective: Food studies --- p.11
Chapter 2.3. --- Utsat Studies --- p.15
Chapter 3. --- Methodology --- p.17
Chapter 4. --- Chapter Organization --- p.21
Chapter Chapter 2: --- An Islamic History of Utsat --- p.22
Chapter 1. --- Arabian-Persian Merchants --- p.22
Chapter 2. --- Champa Immigrants --- p.27
Chapter 3. --- Mainland Muslims --- p.32
Chapter 3.1 --- The Pu (蒲）Lineage --- p.33
Chapter 3.2 --- The Hai （海） Lineage --- p.37
Chapter 3.3 --- The Book of Utsat Genealogies (《通屯宗谱全书》) --- p.39
Chapter 3.4 --- Some Observations --- p.42
Chapter 4. --- Being Hui --- p.47
Chapter 5. --- Summary and Analysis --- p.54
Chapter Chapter 3: --- The Contemporary Utsat Community --- p.57
Chapter 1. --- Location and Demography --- p.57
Chapter 2. --- The Local Religious Practice --- p.58
Chapter 2.1 --- The Mosques --- p.58
Chapter 2.2 --- Core Duties and Beliefs --- p.61
Chapter 3. --- Education --- p.65
Chapter 3.1 --- Religious Education --- p.65
Chapter 3.2 --- Secular Education --- p.66
Chapter 4. --- Kinship and Communal Interaction --- p.70
Chapter 5. --- Tourism and the Local Economy --- p.74
Chapter 6. --- Summary --- p.76
Chapter Chapter 4: --- Qingzhen and Islamic Food Laws --- p.78
Chapter 1. --- The Meaning of Qingzhen --- p.78
Chapter 2. --- Qingzhen and Islamic Foodways --- p.81
Chapter 3. --- The Utsat Understanding of qingzhen --- p.86
Chapter 3.1 --- Our Hui Food --- p.87
Chapter 3.2 --- Ethnic Food --- p.100
Chapter 4. --- Summary --- p.104
Chapter Chapter 5: --- Tourism and Law-breaking Behaviors --- p.105
Chapter 1. --- The Development of Sanya Tourism --- p.105
Chapter 1.1 --- A General Background --- p.105
Chapter 1.2 --- Making a Fortune: A Success Story of an Utsat woman --- p.109
Chapter 1.3 --- "Islam, Gender, and Social Change" --- p.113
Chapter 2. --- The Changing Utsat Foodways --- p.115
Chapter 2.1 --- Lawful Ways of Changing --- p.115
Chapter 2.2 --- Law-breaking Behaviors --- p.125
Chapter 3. --- Summary & Discussion --- p.149
Chapter Chapter 6: --- Conclusion --- p.152
Chapter 1. --- The Nature of Utsat Social Change --- p.152
Chapter 2. --- Reflections on the Study of Social Change --- p.156
Bibliography --- p.159
Appendix I --- p.171
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Slade, Gary Douglas. "Social impact of oral disease among older adults / by Gary Douglas Slade." 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/21409.
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Investigates the social impact of oral disease among older adults in South Australia.
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Slade, Gary Douglas. "Social impact of oral disease among older adults / by Gary Douglas Slade." Thesis, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/21409.
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Investigates the social impact of oral disease among older adults in South Australia.
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Adelaide, Dept. of Dentistry, 1993
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Helgeby, Stein. "The priority of the beach : beach-going, leisure and Australian life, 1860 to the present." Master's thesis, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/117163.
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In Australia today, beach-going is a major pastime but a poorly understood
activity. A large number of stereo-types and images have been used to
characterize beach-going and beach-goers. There have been images of national
types, such as life savers; images of groups, such as willowy board riders; images of
sex, such as bikini-girls; and images of character, such as lazy workers who take
sick-days off to go the beach. Such stereo-types suggest th a t beach-going is an
important aspect of Australian life yet, because they deal only with isolated aspects
of beach-going, they do not significantly advance our overall understanding of
beach-goers and beach life. This history will try to provide a general
understanding of the changing character and role of beach-going in Australian life.
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Moon, Lynelle Jennifer. "The impact of the health care system on socioeconomic inequalities in coronary heart disease in Australia : a population-level study of 45-74 year olds." Phd thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/150285.
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Socioeconomic inequalities are a substantial problem in relation to Australia's biggest killer and area of health expenditure, coronary heart disease (CHD). They have been well documented for mortality, but little is known about whether they are due to differing chances of having a major coronary event (the event rate) or of dying when one occurs (the case-fatality rate). Nor does very much detail exist on whether these inequalities have changed over time. This study aims to fill these gaps, and also to examine the role the health care system plays in generating inequalities by analysing inequalities in the use of relevant services, and whether levels of use match levels of need for these services.
A large, national dataset was constructed. It contains information on all major coronary events (essentially heart attacks) in Australia over a period of 10 years, 1996-2005, both fatal and non-fatal. Similarly, all 'services' provided for up to 10 years in the form of cholesterol-lowering medications (statins), a diagnostic procedure (angiography) and two types of revascularisation (coronary artery bypass grafts (CABGs) and percutaneous coronary interventions (PCls)) are included. In addition, a measure of need for services was developed. The dataset was then linked to census information on the socioeconomic characteristics of small areas to enable analysis of differences in outcomes and services across socioeconomic groups. The majority of the analysis was carried out using negative binomial regression to derive relative and absolute measures of inequality, including in particular the relative index of inequality and the slope index of inequality.
The study clearly shows that nearly all of the socioeconomic inequality in CHD mortality in Australia comes from event rates rather than case-fatality rates. This indicates that the health care system's efforts to reduce these inequalities need to focus on preventing major coronary events, including by encouraging improvements in behavioural risk factors for them and treating risk factors when present (such as with medications), diagnosing problems early, and using surgery and other procedures (such as CABGs and PCls). Differential access to emergency care appears not to contribute to these inequalities. Time series analysis shows that inequalities in event rates have been increasing in relative terms, and even in absolute terms for males.
Analysis of the use of statins, angiography and revascularisations shows substantial inequity -that is, use relative to need is much higher among the most well-off compared with the least well-off. The former are over twice as likely as the latter to receive these services for a given level of need. The largest inequities were found for the newer service (PCl rather than CABG) and for care provided earlier in the disease process (through medications and angiography). The study also shows that differential use of private health care plays a significant role in this inequity, and rural or remote locations play a smaller role.
This study clearly demonstrates that socioeconomic inequalities in CHD are a major problem in Australia, and the gap is widening-improvements over time are benefiting the most well-off more than the least well-off. Inequalities largely derive from differential chances of having a major coronary event, rather than of dying when one occurs. The health care system appears to also contribute to the inequalities, and therefore has the potential to help reduce them by becoming more equitable.
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Loxton, Edwina A. M. "Assessing and managing social impacts resulting from forest policy changes." Phd thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/150049.
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Changes in access to natural resources impact the people and communities reliant on those resources for their livelihood. Australia's Regional Forest Agreements (RFAs), signed between 1997 and 2001, aimed to rebalance the productive use and conservation of commercially valuable public native forests. They resulted in reduced access to these forests for wood production, along with other changes, and were accompanied by mitigation strategies intended to assist those most impacted to adjust to the changes - particularly forestry businesses, their employees and rural communities. Despite the significance of the RFAs to Australian forest policy, little ex-post facto (after the fact) social impact assessment (SIA) has been conducted to monitor social impacts and evaluate the mitigation strategies. I conducted an ex-post facto SIA, investigating the social impacts experienced by members of the native forest industry in upper north-east New South Wales and south-west Western Australia as a consequence of RFAs and associated changes. While other groups were also affected, I focused on these groups due to the complexity of analysing social impacts and a focus on in-depth, rather than broad, analysis. I interviewed owners of, and workers employed by, forestry businesses affected by the RFAs; government employees responsible for industry management and regulation; and representatives from industry, community and environmental groups. I used an adaptive theory approach, encouraging an iterative process of data collection and analysis in conjunction with critical review and modification of current theory. Research findings are presented as four papers. The first two papers analyse the social impacts experienced by participants in the two case study regions. In each case, social impacts manifested both as a result of the policy negotiation process and the final outcomes of that process, beginning prior to the completion of the RFAs and evolving over time. Social impacts were experienced cumulatively, and included tangible (physical) and intangible (symbolic or psychological) elements. These results highlighted the multiple interacting factors that influenced how people experienced and responded to the RFAs and associated changes, including personal factors, the provision of mitigation strategies, and additional changes in the forest industry. The implications of the findings for SIA theory and practice are analysed in the third and fourth papers. The third explores the complex nature of cumulative social impacts that result from multiple policy processes and the influences of external factors and individuals' responses. It draws on results from the Western Australian case study to present a framework for the assessment and management of cumulative social impacts, adapted from a framework developed for the mining sector. The fourth paper evaluates the mitigation strategies implemented in the two case study regions, and identifies implications for designing, implementing and monitoring future mitigation strategies. These four papers contribute to understanding the complexity of social impacts and provide lessons for those involved in negotiating and introducing change, and assessing, managing and monitoring social impacts. Acknowledging this complexity and the consequent difficulty of predicting social impacts encourages ex-post facto SIA as a critical learning opportunity, the results of which contribute to SIA theory and practice.
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Muir, Cameron. "Broken country : science, agriculture, and the 'unfulfilled dreams' of inland Australia, 1880 to present." Phd thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/150281.
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Modern agriculture in Australia is often viewed as utilitarian and neutral on the one hand, or as a destroyer of 'pristine' environments on the other. It is either a story of steady progress in technique and technology, of 'science with its sleeves rolled up', or one of disastrous environmental consequences of industrialisation and capitalism. Scientific agriculture in Australia is taken for granted as being about food, fibre and income, but these have not been its main purposes. Agriculture's social and cultural purposes, and its environmental purposes, have been more important factors shaping its advocacy and development.
Broken Country explores how the explosion of knowledge in biology in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries - entangled with cultural ideas about civilisation, inheritance, race and population - shaped modern agriculture in Australia. It examines the wider history of knowledge for agriculture and place through the story of the Darling and Macquarie River country after European agriculture first came to the semi-arid plains of western New South Wales. As the pastoral industry began collapsing at the end of the nineteenth century, colonial governments pushed agriculture based on scientific principles as a solution to anxieties about the effects of space and distance on civilisation, as well as a means to address the exploitative environmental culture of settlers on the inland plains. In the 1940s large engineering projects and the integration of the management of people and environment was supposed to address the social and environmental problems of the 1930s agricultural crisis, after World War II, it became a means of defending Australia from a hungry Asia and for preventing the spread of communism.
How successful has scientific agriculture been in achieving these big fixes? How has it fared as the main vehicle for the changing environmental management philosophies of wise use, balance, integration, optimisation, sustainability, and recently, resilience? Is it a triumphant project that has made incredible increases in yield to feed a burgeoning global population, or has it left us precariously at risk of ecological collapse and left a billion people starving? What do scientific agriculture's cultural foundations say about our relationships with our environment each other, and what is Australia's role in this system?
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McMurtrie, A. J. "Australian corporate social disclosure : contemporary elements and disclosure media / by Anthony John McMurtrie." 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/19316.
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Title page, contents and abstract only. The complete thesis in print form is available from the University Library.
Examines the corporate social disclosure practices of the 200 largest public companies in Australia by examining their annual reports and other company publications. The study identified that many companies make social disclosure in media other than their annual report and that much social disclosure was prepared with specific readers in mind.
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Adelaide, Dept. of Commerce, 1999?