This thesis looked at the influence of the internet and social networks on adolescent's self- identification. It focused on the self-conception and self-evaluation of adolescents and their relationship to social networsk. Initially, we focused on the development of adolescents and their integration into society. We focused on the characteristics of the social networks, their creation and the functions of each of them. We also found what risks internet users might encounter and how to avoid them. The research part of this work was devoted to time spent on social networks, as well as the content that interviewees search for and share. In the context of self-identification and self-conception, the results showed us that boys have a higher self-assessment compared to girls who care most about their appearance.

隨著政治在台灣不斷發展，兩者之間的關係也隨之而來 中華民國（ROC）軍事和社會。 民主化，民間社會的增長，經濟和社會自由化，以及更大 在性別和性取向方面的平等標誌著一個台灣社會 成為自由主義，大部分是在西方大部分地區發生的相同模式。如 社會變得更加開放和自由，一直有政府的傾向 政策制定者推動軍隊 - 一個重要的社會制度 - 在這個方向。 然而，問題出現，當西方例子遵循沒有適當 評估它們是否適合當地條件。一個例子是push 將中華民國軍轉變為全志願軍：這在西方工作，因為它 有機地發生，並基於之前進行的詳盡的社會學研究 實施。但對台灣來說是正確的嗎？ 為了評估西方例子的適用性，本研究使用其理論 構建後現代軍事模型，這是一個用於描述的理論構造 如何通過感知威脅的變化驅動軍民關係的變化。由開發 美國軍事社會學家查爾斯·莫斯科斯，約翰·艾倫·威廉姆斯和大衛·西格爾 PMMM描述了在美國軍隊和其他地方發生的變革 武裝部隊在世界上，並有助於理解軍民關係的狀態。這個 研究根據PMMM的11個維度來評估ROC軍隊 確定軍民關係的現狀，同時也提供評估 該模型適用於台灣的獨特背景。 本研究採用定量方法，使用對提供初級的中華民國公民的調查 數據，輔以文件證據，以確定民用軍事的現狀 關係使用PMMM的11維度作為框架。分析結果 表明，中華民國軍隊不適合PMMM的模式，但在某種程度上 雖然如此，卻揭示了台灣軍民關係的現狀。仔細看看這些 維度揭示了PMMM如何，而不是政策制定者的適當路線圖 但是它是了解中華民國軍民現狀的一個很好的工具 關係，還可以有助於形成更好的政策。 / As the polity continues to evolve in Taiwan, so too does the relationship between the Republic of China (ROC) military and society. Democratization, the growth of civil society, economic and social liberalization, and greater equality in terms of gender and sexual orientation have marked a Taiwan society that is becoming liberal, largely in the same pattern that has taken place in much of the West. As society becomes more open and free, there has been a tendency for government and policymakers to push the military—an important social institution—in that direction as well. The problem arises, however, when Western examples are followed without a proper assessment of whether they are appropriate for local conditions. An example is the push to transition the ROC military to an All-Volunteer Force: this worked in the West because it happened organically and based on exhaustive sociological research conducted prior to implementation. But is it the right thing for Taiwan? In order to assess the applicability of the Western example, this research uses as its theoretical construct the Postmodern Military Model, which is a theoretical construct used to describe how civil-military relations transform driven by changes in perceived threat. As developed by US military sociologists Charles C. Moskos, John Allen Williams, and David R. Segal, the PMMM describes the transformations that have taken place in the US military and other armed forces in the world, and aids in understanding the state of civil-military relations. This research assesses the ROC military according to the 11 dimensions of the PMMM to determine the current state of civil-military relations, while also providing an assessment of the model’s applicability to the unique context of Taiwan. This study employs quantitative methods, using a survey of ROC citizens providing primary data, supplemented by documentary evidence, to determine the current state of civil-military relations using as a framework the 11 dimensions of the PMMM. Analysis of the findings indicate that the ROC military does not neatly fit the pattern of the PMMM, but in a way that nonetheless sheds light on the state of civil-military relations in Taiwan. A closer look at these dimensions reveals how the PMMM, while not an appropriate roadmap for policymakers, is nevertheless an excellent tool for understanding the current state of ROC civil-military relations, and can yet contribute to the formation of better policy.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-08-20T13:46:45Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Leandro_Haerter_Dissertacao.pdf: 12050344 bytes, checksum: fe7ba2b3ab6341a3226ef43136e7fb80 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-09-02 / The main point of this dissertation is the quilombola self-identification process lived through the Rural Black Community of Cerro das Velhas, located on Armanda, 5th District of Canguçu, in Brazil. By the ethnography method, it can be pointed out their collective memory and historical documents connected to the old ladies who were slaves owners that originated this collective, since a leaving of lands. The slave heritage, the strategies to accomplish the territories and collective memory are elements that contribute to the black people of this community self-identification as quilombolas . From this problematic of self-identification as quilombola to this specific rural black community, the following questions may appear: from the assumption that social identify is redefined as quilombola , which are the identification markers that contribute to the process of self-identification and which are the peasant s reproduction strategies/territorialization of the mentioned community that benefit the people s self-identification as quilombolas , recognizing the social network and the external mediators. Thereby, the ethnographic text develops itself presenting data about the collective memory, identity, territory strategies of the Associação Quilombola Cerro das Velhas on the elaboration of quilombola self-identification, dynamic and relational process. / Esta Dissertação tem como objeto o processo de auto-identificação quilombola vivenciado pela comunidade negra rural Cerro das Velhas, situada na localidade da Armanda, 5º Distrito de Canguçu, Brasil. Através do método etnográfico, aponta-se a memória coletiva e documentos historiográficos vinculados às velhas escravocratas que deram origem a esse coletivo, a partir de uma deixa de terras. A ancestralidade escrava, as estratégias de territorialização e a própria memória coletiva são elementos que contribuem para que os negros dessa comunidade se auto-identifiquem como quilombolas. A partir da problematização do processo de auto-identificação quilombola para esta comunidade negra rural específica, aparecem as seguintes questões: a partir de que pressupostos a identidade social é redefinida enquanto quilombola; quais marcadores identitários contribuem para a construção deste processo de auto-identificação e quais as principais estratégias de reprodução camponesa/territorialização da mencionada comunidade favorecem sua auto-identificação quilombola, reconhecendo redes sociais e mediadores externos. Assim, o texto etnográfico se desenvolve apresentando dados sobre memória coletiva, identidade, estratégias de territorialização e importância da Associação Quilombola Cerro das Velhas na elaboração da auto-identificação quilombola, processo este relacional e dinâmico

This paper investigates on the self-identification and feeling of belonging among the “Kosovo Albanian” “descendants” in Sweden. This is a study performed through semi-structured interviews of six volunteering participants, born and/or raised in Sweden, whose parents migrated after the 1990 which was the period of Bosnian and Croatian war that caused tensions in the Balkans. The concept of belonging together with the concept of identity, seen as self-identification, personal and collective identity, have guided through the findings of this paper. The result is that, regarding this sample, age of migration, and place of birth seems to matter in more easily defining identity and belonging.

This research investigates the intersection of religion, self-identification, and imperialism in a number of Arab American literary works. It engages a wide array of, and contributes to, scholarship from American Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, Islamic Studies, Global Studies, and Transnational Literary Theory. The project examines two groups of writers: the first group consists of American cultural conservatives of Arab or Muslim descent, such as Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Nonie Darwish, Bridgette Gabrielle, and Wafa Sultan, while the second includes Arab American literary writers Mohja Kahf, Leila Ahmed, Ibrahim Fawal, and Alia Yunis. The former employ the traditional autobiography genre to produce master narratives, while the latter utilize the memoir, novel, and short-story cycle genres to challenge hegemonies and master narratives. The cultural conservatives, I contend, belong to a growing transnational body of writers whose phenomenon constitutes an extension of what Matthew F. Jacobs calls an “informal network” of transnational self-identified specialists (4). In their autobiographies, Ali, Gabrielle, Darwish, and Sultan concentrate on the Middle East, Muslims, and Arabs, but they are unique in the sense that their policy-oriented personal narratives explicitly seek to influence not only American attitudes and practices aimed at Arabs and Muslims, but also those directed at American citizens of Arab or Muslim descent. Furthermore, their culturally-conservative traditional autobiographies Infidel (2007), Nomad (2010), Heretic (2015), Now They Call Me Infidel (2006), Because They Hate (2006), They Must Be Stopped (2008), and A God Who Hates (2009) deem American multiculturalism a serious danger to the United States and the West, a thesis not unlike Samuel P. Huntington’s in The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (1996). In this research project, I claim that Arab American literary writers have had to face, and write against, the predominance of this old-new clash of civilizations idea which has evolved into a discourse promulgated by the self-identified experts of the “informal network” and the cultural conservatives of Arab or Muslim descent. The Arab American literary novels, memoirs, and short-story cycles my study closely examines trouble the clash of civilizations discourse. Kahf’s The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf (2006), Ahmed’s A Border Passage (1999), Fawal’s On the Hills of God (1998), and Yunis’s The Night Counter (2009) are arguably representative of trends in, though not limited to, the contemporary Arab American memoir, novel, and short-story cycle genres and are best understood as literary writing within the context of this broader American tradition of interpreting the Middle East, Arabs, and Muslims and the specific cultural conservative fixation on Arab and Muslim Americans. / Graduate

(in English): The diploma thesis examines phenomenon of stigmas and stigmatised persons in the Middle Ages. This diploma thesis contains of three parts. The goal of first part is description of Crucifixion symbolism from beginning of Christianity up to first stigmas about Francis of Assisi from 1224. Main part presents its own phenomenon of stigmas: their definition, base and reception in religious and expert field. Final part focuses on significant middle-aged holders of stigmas and analysis of their hagiography. Klíčová slova (anglicky): Stigmas, Jesus Christ, cross, crucifixion, bloody sweat, bloody tears, thorn crown, mysticism, self-identification.

Anotation: Špidlová, Z.: Clothing as a means for self-identification and self-representation and possible didactic applications of the theme in art education. [Diploma thesis] Prague, 2013 - Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Education, Art education, 224 p. (Attachements: Diary and file documenting the art part of diploma thesis) This thesis examines the phenomenon of clothing, its semiotic function in the context of postmodern society and social aspects with emphasis on identification with a particular social group. The research brings knowledge about two groups, their clothing and social contexts. The groups are the costume culture of the Alto Minho in Portugal and the goth subculture. The results of the research are directly connected to the art part, the output of which is a clothing model combining elements of both of these groups. Didactic section presents findings on the diversity of interpretation of students from the seventh grade of basic school and the second year of middle school when dealing with the topic of identity and subculture applied on clothing. Key words: clothes, identity, self-presentation, self-identification, subculture, materials creation, postmodern society, art education

The purpose was to determine the relationship between high or low cultural mistrust and vocal characteristics in African-American adolescent females. The vocal characteristics were vocal self-identification, singing style, and singing range.

The meaning of and motivations behind self-identification is a contentious topic within “the Black community.” The thesis examines the articulation of “Black” and/or “African” identities as means of gaining access to Nova Scotia’s Black Business Initiative (BBI), a state-funded organization mandated with “fostering a dynamic and vibrant Black presence” in the Nova Scotian business community. It is based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Halifax in 2013, including interviews with a diverse representation of 36 participants who self-identified as either "Black" or "African." Viewed as a rare redress effort directed toward and run by Blacks, the BBI is a highly visible site of contestation and competition between “indigenous Blacks” and more recently arrived “African Nova Scotians” from the African continent and Caribbean islands over the boundaries of native and foreign Blackness. The thesis argues that a group historically positioned as “Black” (i.e. Other) within a lasting narrative of displacement – both in the Americas in general, and academic diaspora discourse specifically – can be seen as adopting and adapting a discourse of indigeniety as an act of political and economic empowerment. Stuart Hall’s theoretical understanding of the articulation and positioning of Black identities is used to frame a discussion on the coupling of a distinct group’s lived experiences of subjugation and marginalization in place (i.e. Blackness) with a political and juridical ideology of belonging and entitlement to state recognition and resources (i.e. indigeniety) as a means of securing racially directed resources. It therefore challenges Paula Madden’s (2009) overly simplistic critique of this community as creating a hierarchy of Blackness and performing an erasure of Mi’kma’ki through its claims of Black indigeniety.

This work has been given the title "The Search for Female Identity" because its core question is: what constitutes female self-identification? This search is carried out by searching literary traces, since self-identification can be deconstructed by analyzing the texts. Texts by an Austrian and a Soviet-Russian writer were chosen as the basis for this deconstruction. In a comparison of their two writings, the difference between the two socio-political systems in terms of their possible influence on self-identification could also be crystallized. The theories used (mainly poststructuralist) together with the interpretations help to extract the pre-discursive nature of the texts and to decipher the image of femininity. The analysis carried out showed that in both societies this picture is full of myths, however, they were developed and implemented differently. In the course of this development the individualistic Western culture encounters the limits of its individuality, which also affects women and influences their unity in themselves. Meanwhile, the post-Soviet society striving for all-round collectivism fails to control the construction of identity, since it does not offer enough playground for self-determination and overwhelms especially women with the imposed standards. Key words: female...