The collaborative management arrangements in place for Nunavut’s National Parks demonstrated a shifting trend in Canadian resource management, where Indigenous people are increasingly involved in the governance of traditional lands. This work considered the arrangement in place for Auyuittuq National Park, Nunavut, by exploring the effect that differential discourse had on policy formation and implementation. To focus the research on a single management issue youth engagement was selected for consideration. Employing a qualitative case study strategy of inquiry, data was collected by conducting 50 interviews and 7 focus groups in the park adjacent community of Pangnirtung. The project findings indicated that the Parks Canada Agency’s discourse maintained a dominant position within the management process, such that many of the youth engagement strategies implemented did not account for Inuit cultural practices. As a consequence of this omission, many of the implemented methods were unintuitive to the community, and in some cases served as a barrier to youth participation. / October 2016

Thesis advisor: Ramsay Liem / Underutilization of mental health services among Asian Americans is a pressing concern. It is possible that knowledge and beliefs about mental illness (a.k.a. “mental health literacy”) serve as barriers to seeking appropriate help, and that Asian cultural values plays a role in determining such attitudes. This study investigated the relationships among mental health literacy, attitudes towards mental health services, and adherence to Asian cultural values. A sample of 17 Caucasian and 22 Asian American college students completed a questionnaire including the Asian Values Scale, the Attitudes Toward Seeking Professional Psychological Help Scale – Shortened Version, and four vignettes portraying depression, schizophrenia, alcohol dependency, and anorexia. Results indicated that Caucasians were slightly more likely to correctly recognize and identify mental illnesses than were Asian Americans. Causal attributions varied greatly across different mental disorders, and Asian Americans showed less positive attitudes towards seeking professional psychological help, and preferred to solve problems on their own or seek help from family or friends. The greatest barriers to treatment for Asian Americans were a fear of showing personal weakness and concern about stigma. Adherence to Asian cultural values was inversely associated with willingness to seek professional help, and with willingness to take medication for psychological problems. / Thesis (BA) — Boston College, 2005. / Submitted to: Boston College. College of Arts and Sciences. / Discipline: Psychology. / Discipline: College Honors Program.

Materialism has an ugly face. The dominant view of materialism regards materialists as self-prioritizing individuals who oppose collective and prosocial goals in favor of a lifestyle led by money, possessions, and status. The present research argues that there is a side of materialism that is concerned with collective-oriented interests. We examine the nature and consequences of collective-oriented materialism - the belief system that ascribes importance to possessions for their symbolic and signaling capacities to construct desirable social attributes. Drawing from cultural and consumer theories, we find considerable support that materialists espouse a collective-oriented quality to an otherwise self-oriented interest towards possessions.

O trabalho analisa os conflitos de valores e significados no reconhecimento e práti- cas de preservação do patrimônio cultural de Lençóis, Bahia. Primeiro núcleo urbano tombado a partir da solicitação da própria população pelo Instituto do Patrimônio Histórico e Artístico Nacional, a pesquisa examina os desencontros dos anseios da comunidade local desde o início do processo em 1971 e nas sucessivas ações governamentais (Programa de Cidades Históricas, criação do Parque Nacional da Chapada Diamantina pelo Instituto Brasileiro de Desenvolvi- mento Florestal, Programa de Desenvolvimento Turístico da Bahia e do Nordeste e Programa Monumenta) frente às decisões adotadas pelas autoridades. Por meio de pesquisa documen- tal e entrevistas, evidencia-se nessa trajetória dissonâncias no entendimento do sentidos da preservação entre lençoenses e técnicos, quanto divergências internas aos organismos de pa- trimônio e aos programas de preservação. A contemplação de alguns bens e valores em detrimento de outros, aliado a fatores conjunturais, resultaram em ressignificações do patrimônio de Lençóis. Fatores que, somados à falta de espaço participativo nas decisões sobre o quê e como preservar, vêm causando enfrentamentos que revelam formas de resistências culturais. Conclui-se que a compreensão de todas as nuances da cultura e das necessidades locais é fun- damental para a efetiva gestão e caracterização do lugar do patrimônio - que deve se pretender mais inclusiva e participativa - na vida de uma cidade. / This research analyzes the conflict of values and meanings in the recognition of cultural heritage preservation practices in Lençóis, Bahia. This was the first urban center pre- served at the request of its own inhabitants by Brazil\'s National Historic and Artistic Heritage Institute. This research examines the local community\'s conflicting intentions and the various steps taken by authorities since the beginning of the preservation process in 1971. Since then, residents have continued to content with a series of government interventions including those of the Historic Cities Program, the creation of the Chapada Diamantina National Park by the Brazilian Forest Development Institute, the Tourism Development Program of Bahia and the Northeast, and the Monuments Program. Through interviews and documentary research, it is evident that there are many disagreements between local citizens and experts about the mea- nings of preservation, as well as internal differences among heritage organizations and conser- vation programs. In determining certain goods and values which necessarily disregard others, and taken together with cyclical factors, cultural heritage has been reinterpreted in Lençóis. These, in addition to the lack of participation in decisions about what to preserve and how to do it, caused clashes that have revealed forms of cultural resistance. This research concludes that understanding all the nuances of local culture and needs is critical to the effective mana- gement and characterization of heritage sites, and that this process should be more inclusive and participatory in the life of a city.

O trabalho analisa os conflitos de valores e significados no reconhecimento e práti- cas de preservação do patrimônio cultural de Lençóis, Bahia. Primeiro núcleo urbano tombado a partir da solicitação da própria população pelo Instituto do Patrimônio Histórico e Artístico Nacional, a pesquisa examina os desencontros dos anseios da comunidade local desde o início do processo em 1971 e nas sucessivas ações governamentais (Programa de Cidades Históricas, criação do Parque Nacional da Chapada Diamantina pelo Instituto Brasileiro de Desenvolvi- mento Florestal, Programa de Desenvolvimento Turístico da Bahia e do Nordeste e Programa Monumenta) frente às decisões adotadas pelas autoridades. Por meio de pesquisa documen- tal e entrevistas, evidencia-se nessa trajetória dissonâncias no entendimento do sentidos da preservação entre lençoenses e técnicos, quanto divergências internas aos organismos de pa- trimônio e aos programas de preservação. A contemplação de alguns bens e valores em detrimento de outros, aliado a fatores conjunturais, resultaram em ressignificações do patrimônio de Lençóis. Fatores que, somados à falta de espaço participativo nas decisões sobre o quê e como preservar, vêm causando enfrentamentos que revelam formas de resistências culturais. Conclui-se que a compreensão de todas as nuances da cultura e das necessidades locais é fun- damental para a efetiva gestão e caracterização do lugar do patrimônio - que deve se pretender mais inclusiva e participativa - na vida de uma cidade. / This research analyzes the conflict of values and meanings in the recognition of cultural heritage preservation practices in Lençóis, Bahia. This was the first urban center pre- served at the request of its own inhabitants by Brazil\'s National Historic and Artistic Heritage Institute. This research examines the local community\'s conflicting intentions and the various steps taken by authorities since the beginning of the preservation process in 1971. Since then, residents have continued to content with a series of government interventions including those of the Historic Cities Program, the creation of the Chapada Diamantina National Park by the Brazilian Forest Development Institute, the Tourism Development Program of Bahia and the Northeast, and the Monuments Program. Through interviews and documentary research, it is evident that there are many disagreements between local citizens and experts about the mea- nings of preservation, as well as internal differences among heritage organizations and conser- vation programs. In determining certain goods and values which necessarily disregard others, and taken together with cyclical factors, cultural heritage has been reinterpreted in Lençóis. These, in addition to the lack of participation in decisions about what to preserve and how to do it, caused clashes that have revealed forms of cultural resistance. This research concludes that understanding all the nuances of local culture and needs is critical to the effective mana- gement and characterization of heritage sites, and that this process should be more inclusive and participatory in the life of a city.

This master thesis investigates adaptation and cultural identity of migrants living in France. The sample consisted of migrants from Sub-Saharan Africa and French overseas departments who went to France for their studies. The research contains a qualitative and a quantitative part. The qualitative study was realized through semi-structural interwiev, in which partici- pated 19 students in age from 21-33 years. Results indicate that the migrants identify in their country of origin mostly with solidarity and warmth of the people, which contrasts with impersonal relationships of an individualistic french society. In spite of occasional experience with discrimination in France, most of migrants seem to adapt quite well. In France, they appretiate mostly the opportunity to succeed in life, which is given to everybody, something that is far from the case in their country of origin. In the quantitative study, 40 migrants in age from 18-45 years completed a questionnaire survey on internet. Due to a small number of participants the research have rather orientatio- nal character. Results indicated, unexpectedly, that the strenght of ethnic identity diminishes over time, which is in contradiction with several previous studies. Another result reveal that African women show better social and psychological...

There have been calls within landscape (and broader environmental) policy for the greater incorporation of cultural values and stakeholder participation. This, however, has often been critiqued within the academic literature as being difficult to achieve in practice. Concurrently, academic research around ‘landscape’ has seen an emergence of exploring more embodied, experiential and ‘more-than-visual’ ways of knowing, challenging the more traditional concept of ‘landscape’ as a ‘way of seeing’ and a cultural product. This research explored the multiple ways that people value landscapes using walking interviews, arts-based methods and key-informant interviews (with local and national landscape managers). It explored the potential of visual and ‘more-than-visual’ methods to both engage and articulate with more subjective, emotional and embodied encounters with landscapes. This was then used to explore the potential and challenges of adopting cultural and more participative approaches to landscape management. After an initial analysis of the data gathered through the methods, this was then used as part of feedback events within the two case study areas to allow the participants of the research and the broader local community to engage with the work. This research argues that ‘landscape’ as a concept, when approached from a ‘more-than-visual’ perspective, highlighted that the inherently visual concept is bound up within a much broader sensory immersion within the landscape. The research demonstrated the complex and interconnected relationship between people and the landscape through the concept of ‘dwelling’ emphasising the lived-in, everyday encounters with landscape. This relationship is tied up within past individual experiences, shared social and cultural history as well as the material landscape itself arguing for a more ‘hybrid’ understanding of people and landscape. Furthermore, the research highlighted both the potential and challenges of participative approaches with multiple landscape stakeholders and challenges the ‘homogenous’ perspective of ‘community’ within management rhetoric. There is an argument for more partnership working between multiple stakeholders to generate trust and dialogue. It argues for the creation of spaces within which the more politically sensitive issues in relation to landscape management can be discussed and the potential for solutions to be created.

Thesis (M.A. (African Languages)) -- University of the North, 2001 / Refer to the document

Thesis (M.A. (Social Work)) -- Univesity of Limpopo, 2012 / Refer to document

The purpose of this study was to examine Latino cultural values of familismo and respeto and parenting to understand their relationship to child mental health among a community sample of Spanish-speaking Latino families primarily of Mexican origin. Literature suggests that familismo and respeto are unique and important Latino values, they have the most evidence to support their existence, and they are noted to be related to parenting and child outcomes. Research indicates that child behavioral problems can be improved by focusing on cultural values within the context of parenting. Very little attention, however, has been given to Latino cultural values among family processes. While the emergent literature has brought forth useful information, lack of consistency among findings and reliance on self-report methodology lead to many unanswered questions. To address this issue, we conducted a multi-method investigation involving a parent-child behavioral observation of parenting practices that were coded (i.e., warmth, supportive demandingness, nonsupportive demandingness, and autonomy granting) and parental self-report surveys of cultural values and child mental health. Participants included 87 families primarily of Mexican origin with a child between 4 and 9 years. Participants in the study were enrolled in phase 1 of a larger study to culturally adapt a parenting intervention. Overall, research demonstrated that cultural values impact parenting, and parenting impacts child mental health. Cultural values did not predict child mental health. Latino families reported high familismo and medium high levels of respeto and they were positively correlated. Latino families were observed to engage in high supportive demandingness, medium high levels of warmth and autonomy granting, and low levels of nonsupportive demandingness. For Latina mothers, nonsupportive demandingness and familismo demonstrated a statistically significant positive relationship. Results indicated that among Latina mothers autonomy granting evidenced a significant relationship with child externalizing behavioral problems. Implications for preventative methods and clinical interventions for Latino families as well as directions for future research endeavors are discussed.