Thesis (D. Min.)--New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, 2000. / Includes abstract and vita. "October 2000." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 71-76).

Project Thesis (D. Min.)--Denver Seminary, 2001. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 165-179).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Notre Dame, 2009. / Thesis directed by Maud Ellmann for the Department of English. "April 2009." Examines the literary representation of intimacy in British and Irish modernist fiction, with particular focus on the novels of Virginia Woolf, Patrick Hamilton, Elizabeth Bowen, James Joyce, and Samuel Beckett. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 265-276).

Thesis (M.A.)--Humboldt State University, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 50-55). Also available via Humboldt Digital Scholar.

Thesis (D. Min.)--New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, 2000. / Includes abstract and vita. "October 2000." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 71-76).

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / Esta dissertação tem como objetivo refletir sobre os novos padrões ideais e morais presentes na contemporaneidade: a exposição da intimidade e o culto a performance. Foram entrevistados 8 sujeitos usuários do facebook, principal rede social utilizada no Brasil. Foi utilizada um modelo de entrevista semi-estruturada, com conteúdo invisível, objetivando entender os usos e as influências do facebook sobre os sujeitos. E também foi utilizado o método de etnografia na internet, definida como netnografia. Os resultados apontam que a intimidade exposta no facebook está diretamente influenciada pelo culto à performance, sugerindo um novo eixo sobre a qual a autenticidade se estrutura. O fato dos perfis serem autoconstruídos provoca ainda mais as tendências performáticas. A interioridade humana é permeada por múltiplos aspectos e frequentes instabilidades, porém tais aspectos não parecem valorizados, sendo frequentemente negados. Torna-se importante ampliar estas discussões para que a vida humana tenha possibilidades de manifestações mais plenas. / This dissertation aims to reflect on the new standards and moral ideals in contemporary times: the exposure of intimacy and the cult of performance. Facebook is the main social network in Brazil and 8 users were interviewed. A semi-structured interview with invisible content was used, aiming to understand the uses and the influences of facebook on the subject. And also was used the method of ethnography in internet, defined as netnography. The results show that intimacy exposed on facebook is directly influenced by the cult of performance, suggesting a new shaft on which the authenticity is structured. The fact of the profiles be self-built causes even more performance trends. The human interiority is pervaded by multiple aspects and frequent instabilities, however such aspects do not seem valued, often denied. It is important to expand these discussions so that human life has possibilities to express itself in a more fulfilling way.

An increasing number of injured service personnel returning from active combat duty will not be redeployed and many of them face discharge from military service. A number of these men and women have sustained life-threatening injuries which may, if the individual survives, result in reduced physical and mental health functioning. This research is focused on the transitions and processes that injured personnel go through when contemplating a new career through engagement with a higher education programme of study. An in-depth qualitative case study of networks of intimacy was used, an approach developed by Heath and Fuller (2007) to explore how, and in what ways, decisions are made within networks of family/significant others. In this case study it was with regard to transitions from a military to civilian culture, where traumatic life-changing events had impacted on the men and their families. As Johnson et al (2008:20) believe, in the case of educational decision-making, it is co-constructed within social networks and interviewing multiple networks facilitates our understanding 'beyond the individual'. The research found that, by supporting their injured ex-combatants (IECs) in complex and difficult transitions, the family network also had to address their own social identities, established attachments and kinship routines and adjust to new ways of thinking and feeling. However whilst the family network is seen as a vital component in the 'operational effectiveness' for transitional readjustment, the Armed Forces Covenant , which states that supporting IECs is ‘an obligation for life’ (Ministry of Defence 2011:8), does not acknowledge that this obligation falls overwhelmingly on the IECs’ families, particularly the wives who receive little support. In both the United Kingdom (UK) and United States (US) there is an absence of research that considers how family and social networks influence transitions into civilian life and especially decisions to undertake higher education programmes. The thesis explores how widening participation policies can be implemented more successfully to support IECs and their families, and how higher education institutions in the UK should improve staff training to raise awareness and understanding of the uniquely special needs that IECs have as a result of their injuries and military experiences.

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / Esta dissertação tem como objetivo refletir sobre os novos padrões ideais e morais presentes na contemporaneidade: a exposição da intimidade e o culto a performance. Foram entrevistados 8 sujeitos usuários do facebook, principal rede social utilizada no Brasil. Foi utilizada um modelo de entrevista semi-estruturada, com conteúdo invisível, objetivando entender os usos e as influências do facebook sobre os sujeitos. E também foi utilizado o método de etnografia na internet, definida como netnografia. Os resultados apontam que a intimidade exposta no facebook está diretamente influenciada pelo culto à performance, sugerindo um novo eixo sobre a qual a autenticidade se estrutura. O fato dos perfis serem autoconstruídos provoca ainda mais as tendências performáticas. A interioridade humana é permeada por múltiplos aspectos e frequentes instabilidades, porém tais aspectos não parecem valorizados, sendo frequentemente negados. Torna-se importante ampliar estas discussões para que a vida humana tenha possibilidades de manifestações mais plenas. / This dissertation aims to reflect on the new standards and moral ideals in contemporary times: the exposure of intimacy and the cult of performance. Facebook is the main social network in Brazil and 8 users were interviewed. A semi-structured interview with invisible content was used, aiming to understand the uses and the influences of facebook on the subject. And also was used the method of ethnography in internet, defined as netnography. The results show that intimacy exposed on facebook is directly influenced by the cult of performance, suggesting a new shaft on which the authenticity is structured. The fact of the profiles be self-built causes even more performance trends. The human interiority is pervaded by multiple aspects and frequent instabilities, however such aspects do not seem valued, often denied. It is important to expand these discussions so that human life has possibilities to express itself in a more fulfilling way.

abstract: Family caregivers are a quickly growing population in American society and are potentially vulnerable to a number of risks to well-being. High stress and little support can combine to cause difficulties in personal and professional relationships, physical health, and emotional health. Siblings are, however, a possible source of protection for the at-risk caregiver. This study examines the relational and health outcomes of gratitude exchange between caregivers and their siblings as they attend to the issue of caring for aging parents. Dyadic data was collected through an online survey and was analyzed using a series of Actor-Partner Interdependence Models. Intimacy and care conflict both closely relate to gratitude exchange, but the most significant variable influencing gratitude was role. Specifically, caregivers are neither experiencing nor expressing gratitude on the same level as their siblings. Expressed gratitude did not relate strongly or consistently to well-being variables, though it did relate to diminished negative affect. Implications for theory, the caregiver, the sibling, the elder, the practitioner, and the researcher are addressed in the discussion. / Dissertation/Thesis / Ph.D. Communication 2014

Os conceitos de privado, público e íntimo sofreram transformações importantes a partir do surgimento das novas tecnologias da informação. Se, por um lado, é possível notar um refinamento das técnicas de controle e vigilância, que levariam ao questionamento da privacidade enquanto um direito individual e à violação da esfera privada, por outro, essas tecnologias permitem certo exercício reflexivo que conduz a novas vivências do privado, do público e do íntimo. Partindo, portanto, do exame da sociabilidade que surge no orkut, esta pesquisa tencionou analisar como se configuram essas novas vivências, observando que, embora a dinâmica desta sociabilidade revele afinidades com os objetivos da sociedade de controle, ela também possibilita a liberdade para criar identidades e para redefinir as regras que orientam a vida, estimulando um tipo de reflexão que aponta para o fortalecimento da política. / The concepts of private, public and the intimacy have suffered important changes since the new information technologies took part of the everyday life. If, on the one hand, it is possible to observe a certain refinement of the techniques of control and vigilance, on the other, these technologies allow a reflexive exercise that leads to new experiences of the private, public and the intimacy. Through the examination of the sociability that takes place at orkut, this research tried to analyze how these new experiences have been configured, observing that, despite of the dynamic of this sociability reveals affinities with the objectives of the control society, it also allows the liberty to create identities and to redefine the rules that guide the life, stimulating a kind of reflection that points out the strengthening of the politics.