Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2004. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 258-269). Also available on the Internet.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2009. / Title from PDF title page (University of Texas Digital Repository, viewed on Sept.9, 2009). Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego, 2000. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 285-311).

In 2000, Tim Ingold argued: 'people do not import their ideas, plans or mental representations into the world, since that very world ... is the homeland of their thoughts. Only because they already dwell therein can they think the thoughts they do' (2000: 186). He thus stressed the importance of place in the construction and reproduction of culture. How does this play out, however, among refugees who by virtue of their displacement must 'import' cultural concepts into alien environments? For those outside a 'homeland' how do they make sense of the world? In this thesis I examine the relationship between Tibetan refugees, the landscapes of their exile and their wider material environment. Drawing on theory in material anthropology and thirteen months' ethnographic fieldwork conducted in two contrasting Tibetan refugee settlements in northwest India, I analyse how Tibetan refugees are affected by, and in turn exert agency over their material world. Through this discussion, I reflect on the multiple and mutable meanings of home for Tibetan refugees, many of whom were born and/or raised in India. Few scholarly discussions of home encompass both its affective and imaginary dimensions; this thesis achieves this by focusing on the material and aesthetic aspects of home. Through this lens, I explore how refugees both work hard to develop a sense of home in exile, yet simultaneously destabilise this by orienting themselves towards an imagined home in a future 'free Tibet'. The discussion unfolds thematically, through chapters focusing on several material categories: landscape, the built environment, dress and objects. I develop my analysis via existing theoretical literature in material anthropology and its sub-disciplines, transnational and migration studies, and area-specialist literature in Tibetology.

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This thesis is focused on survey of important symbolic agents, with that the organizational culture is presented in the chosen organization. Part of this thesis deals with the identification of social norms and standards of behaviour, that are thought to be important in this organization. Purpose of this thesis is verify, the relation of symbolic agents to strong embedded and sharable social norms and standards of behaviour in organization in randomly chosen research sample of employees. At the end of the thesis are the results and recommendations for lead of organization.

Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2018-05-14T12:53:58Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Rafaella Bordin Barreira.pdf: 1698436 bytes, checksum: 8d2fb52e365cb087b0a3f73344d2bdf4 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-05-14T12:53:58Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Rafaella Bordin Barreira.pdf: 1698436 bytes, checksum: 8d2fb52e365cb087b0a3f73344d2bdf4 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-03-22 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / Throughout his work, B. F. Skinner has indicated that cultural selection fails in allowing for the preservation and transmission of cultural practices without survival value, and in not selecting practices with survival value. Because of this, the author defends a cultural planning based on scientific knowledge and guided by the survival of cultures, his fundamental value. This study investigated the theoretical-conceptual relationships between education and the survival of cultures within the work of B. F. Skinner. Keywords wsere applied to titles, original publishing sources, republishing sources, summaries and indexes of the author's entire body of work, and exclusion criteria were employed to select the materials that addressed education as an object of cultural planning. The analysis of the selected material revealed a proposal of educational planning, not just as part of the cultural planning, but as an enabler of for it. Education is understood as the preparation of individuals for the future, as well as transmission of culture, and Skinner presents a technology of teaching composed by the revision of the school curriculum and teaching methods. Though it strengthens the culture, his technology does not replace other educational practices, which are maintained despite threatening the survival of cultures, due to the contingencies of reinforcement involved / Ao longo de sua obra, B. F. Skinner indicou que a seleção cultural falha ao possibilitar a manutenção e transmissão de práticas culturais sem valor de sobrevivência e ao não selecionar práticas com valor de sobrevivência. Em função disso, o autor defende um planejamento cultural pautado em conhecimento científico e norteado pela sobrevivência das culturas, seu valor fundamental. O presente trabalho visou investigar as relações teórico-conceituais contidas na obra de B. F. Skinner entre a educação e a sobrevivência das culturas. Foram empregadas palavras-chave em títulos, fontes de publicação original, fontes de republicação, sumários e índices remissivos de toda a obra do autor, e foram aplicados critérios de exclusão a fim de selecionar materiais que abordassem a educação enquanto objeto do planejamento cultural. A análise do material selecionado revelou uma proposta de planejamento educacional não apenas como parte do planejamento cultural, mas como viabilizador do planejamento cultural. A educação é compreendida como preparo dos indivíduos para o futuro e como transmissão da cultura e Skinner apresenta uma tecnologia do ensino composta pela revisão do currículo escolar e dos métodos de ensino. Apesar de fortalecer a cultura, sua tecnologia não substituiu outras práticas educacionais, que são mantidas a despeito de ameaçarem a sobrevivência das culturas, em função das contingências de reforçamento que envolvem

Abstarct Vi har valt att undersöka hur officerare inom försvaret ser på och upplever den organisationsförändring som verksamheten nu genomgår. I vår studie avser vi att undersöka våra berörda respondenters syn på förändringen i sig, samt hur de uppfattar eventuella förändringar, särskilt rörande deras yrkesidentitet. Vi har valt att göra undersökningen med hjälp av kvalitativa intervjuer med personer som arbetar som officerare inom Försvarsmakten, dessa som nu ställts inför kravet att skriva på kontrakt om obligatorisk utlandstjänst alternativt bli avskedade. Denna förändring, som innebär att försvaret byter huvuduppgift, medför en stor omställning för de flesta anställda. Vårt resultat visar oss att de individuella upplevelserna samt förmågan att hantera och anpassa sig till denna förändring är kopplat till flera saker, så som inställning till personens uppgift och ålder samt, beroende på hur familjesituationen ser ut, den sociala omgivningen. Detta innefattar såväl det stöd personen har i sin närhet, som stöd från samhället och myndigheter. / We have chosen to examine how officers experience the change within the department that comes with the concept. In our study we attend to look at how the officers we have met think about the change within the organization, the meaning of this and definitions like work-identity. We have chosen to do the survey by using qualitative interviews with people who work as officers, who has been put in front of an demand to go out on international service rather than service their own country which has been the primary subject until now. These officers have to sign a contract about international service or else they will get fired. This change within the organization brings quite a big changeover for the employees at the department. Our results have shown us that the individual experiences and the ability to manage the organization change have to do with the attitude towards the changes, age differences and also social environment depending on the family situation. This includes both the support from the closest surroundings, as well as the society’s authorities whose power is affecting the individuals.

Seeing Subjects plots a literary history of modern Britain that begins with Dorian Gray obsessively inspecting his portrait’s changes and ends in Virginia Woolf’s visit to the cinema where she found audiences to be “savages watching the pictures.” Focusing on how literature in the late-19th and 20th centuries regarded images as possessing a shaping force over how identities are understood and performed, I argue that modernists in Britain felt mediated images were altering, rather than merely representing, British identity. As Britain’s economy expanded to unprecedented imperial reach and global influence, new visual technologies also made it possible to render images culled from across the British world—from its furthest colonies to darkest London—to the small island nation, deeply and irrevocably complicating British identity. In response, Oscar Wilde, Joseph Conrad, T. S. Eliot, and others sought to better understand how identity was recognized, particularly visually. By exploring how painting, photography, colonial exhibitions, and cinema sought to manage visual representations of identity, these modernists found that recognition began by acknowledging the familiar but also went further to acknowledge what was strange and new as well. Reading recognition and misrecognition as crucial features of modernist texts, Seeing Subjects argues for a new understanding of how modernism’s formal experimentation came to be and for how it calls for responses from readers today.

In recent years, the media have publicized the social problem of physical child abuse. This study examined three artifacts of physical abuse: the children's book Robin's Story, the popular song "Luka," and the television documentary Scared Silent: Exposing and Ending Child Abuse. Chapter One described each artifact and provided a literature review which detailed the writings about physical child abuse and artifacts discussing this topic. The chapter then posed research questions about how the artifacts viewed abused children and their abusers, the causes of abuse, and the solutions proposed for ending physical abuse.Chapter One finally discussed the narrative framework of rhetorical analysis used to examine the three artifacts. The narrative method used in this analysis employed three steps: 1) An examination of narrative structure, which discussed the plot of the story, the crucial points of the story and the events which supplemented those points, and the steps of breach, crisis, redress, and reintegration in the narrative; 2) An examination of narrative rationality, which talked about the completeness and true to life quality of the story and evaluated the reasons the rhetors gave for following the course of action endorsed by the story; and 3) An examination of narrative standards, including truth standard or how the narrative compares with what the audience believes is true; aesthetic standard or the grammar, setting, and characterization within the story, and ethical standard or the values expressed within the narrative. Chapter Two applied this framework to the children's book Robin's Story. Chapter Three viewed the popular song "Luka" through the narrative framework. Chapter Four discussed the documentary Scared Silent in terms of narrative analysis.Chapter Five then discussed the conclusions of the analysis for each artifact, artifacts discussing physical abuse, and for rhetoric. Some of the conclusions reached were that artifacts discussing physical child abuse should attempt to make their stories universal, that such artifacts need to distinguish between abuse and physical punishment, and that artifacts dealing with this problem must provide concrete courses of action to end physical abuse. This analysis concluded that, while narrative analysis provided the answers to the research questions, this framework needs to be made into a concrete method of rhetorical analysis to ensure that narratives are effectively evaluated. Narrative analysis was positive in this analysis, however, in that it supported the definitions of rhetoric as value, epistemology, motive, drama, meaning, and argument. This analysis found that, to end the problem of physical child abuse, rhetors must work with experts in this field and tailor artifacts from different perspectives to various audiences using different forms of media. / Department of Speech Communication