本研究利用實驗法，控制會影響高等教育課堂學生學習成效因素中的教學者、課程設計和網路教學系統這三個變項，來觀察學校行政和學習環境以及學生個人特性差異對學生學習社群發展和學習成效的影響。以一所國立研究型大學和一所私立技術學院各2班學生為實驗觀察對象。 研究結果發現：(1) 高等教育的階層化導致兩類型校學生在對學校行政和學習環境的認知以及學生個人特性有顯著差異；(2)在傳統面授和非同步線上教學裡，兩類型學校的學生對學校環境認知和個人特性差異的不同影響「學習社群發展」。(3)在傳統面授和非同步線上教學裡，兩類型學校的學生對學校環境認知和個人特性差異的不同影響「學習成效」。（4）在相似的數位環境下，使兩校學生的資訊對稱，即非同步遠距線上教學環境可以削弱學校環境以及個人特性背景對學習成效所造成的影響，拉近優勢與弱勢族群的差距，驗證線上學習系統支援跨校遠距教學可提升學生學習成效。 / Findings indicated that: (1) the categorization of higher education institutions in Taiwan indeed created a “differentiating” effect; (2) Both in traditional classroom settings and an asynchronous online learning environment, recognition of school environment and students’ characteristics do affect how learning communities are formed; (3) In asynchronous online learning, school type does affect how students learn and their learning outcomes; (4) In similar learning environments, an asynchronous online learning environment will lower the impact of the school environment and students’ characteristics on interactive models of learning communities, thereby narrowing the gap between dominant and fringe groups.

Thesis (Ph. D. in Anthropology)--Vanderbilt University, May 2010. / Title from title screen. Includes bibliographical references.

Cette étude vise à comprendre quelle était la place des camélidés chez les Moche du centre urbain de Guadalupito de la vallée de Santa au Pérou. Les données ostéologiques analysées ont été obtenues grâce aux travaux effectués par le projet archéologique PSUM (Proyecto Santa de la Universidad de Montreal) de l’Université de Montréal. Dans ce document, une synthèse concernant les Moche de la côte nord du Pérou est d’abord présentée. Puis, il sera question de décrire le site archéologique Guadalupito et d’effectuer des observations concernant les camélidés d’Amérique du sud. Ce sont surtout les données zooarchéologiques qui ont été considérées pour répondre aux questions de recherche de ce travail. La céramique, les fibres de camélidés et les données ethnohistoriques ainsi qu’ethnographiques concernant les camélidés ont également été sujets à quelques observations afin de pouvoir répondre aux questions de recherche de manière holistique. Les résultats ont dévoilé qu’une grande quantité des camélidés du centre urbain de Guadalupito ont été exploités pour leur viande. Les camélidés constituaient une denrée alimentaire de base pour les gens qui fréquentaient les secteurs associés à l’élite. Plusieurs autres camélidés ont été utilisés comme animal de charge, car ils sont morts à un âge plus avancé. Aussi, il y avait des échanges entre la côte et la sierra, car de la laine tissé selon un style de la sierra a été trouvée. Certains camélidés étaient également utilisés lors de rituel et/ou pour leur cuir. Les lamas offraient une source stable de protéines, car ces animaux étaient sous le contrôle des Moche. Enfin, le camélidé a été le mammifère le plus polyvalent avant l’arrivée des animaux en provenance de l’Europe et il a représenté un moyen de transport et une source de nourriture fiable et significative chez les Moche. / This study aims to understand the role of camelids in the Moche urban centre of Guadalupito in Santa Valley, Peru. The faunal data analyzed were acquired from the PSUM (Proyecto Santa de la Universidad de Montreal). A synthesis of the Moche culture is presented, the Guadalupito site is described and observations regarding South American camelids are included. Mostly zooarchaeological data were analyzed to answer questions about the way the Moche used camelids. However, ceramics, materials made from camelid fibres, ethnohistoric and ethnographic data were also examined in order to interpret the results from a holistic perspective. Results show a higher concentration of camelid remains in places associated with higher socioeconomic status. Many camelids were used for their meat and leather. In fact, camelids constituted a basic source of sustenance for those of elevated rank. Some camelids at the Guadalupito site were used to carry goods because they died at a more mature age. Exchanges between the coast and the mountains must have existed (even if they were not regular), as some camelid fibres incorporating a style distinct to the mountains were discovered at the Guadalupito site. Other camelids were used for rituals. Finally, llamas offered a stable source of protein to the Moche people who domesticated the animals to fulfill a variety of tasks. This confirms the perception of the lama as one of the most useful animals in this region prior the arrival of European animals.

Il tema della tesi è il legame tra potere e mobilità ai vertici della scala sociale. Il campione della ricerca è costituito da oltre duecento intervistati - tra cui top manager di multinazionali, artisti internazionali e accademici globali, esponenti della proprietà ed eredi di grandi fortune basati principalmente in una delle tre città in cui si è svolto il lavoro empirico - Milano, Parigi, Londra. Dalla comparazione dei planning di mobilità e della time schedule dei diversi gruppi sociali, emergono forme di mobilità internazionale diverse - e relative strutture di costi personali: la mobilità è contemporaneamente una risorsa e una norma che pesa, oggi, su categorie ai vertici della gerarchia professionale -, strategie di presenza su scene sociali disperse e differenziali di potere sul ritmo di altri. Tali risultati contrastano con le retoriche della letteratura manageriale attuale sulla formazione di un’élite omogenea di cittadini del mondo e forniscono indizi sulla specifica morfologia sociale correlata al capitalismo avanzato. / The topic of the thesis is the link between power and mobility on the higher levels of the social scale. The sample of the research is formed by more than two hundred of interviewees – among them are top managers in multinational companies, international artists and leading global academics, large proprietors and heirs of great fortunes mainly based in one of the three cities where the empirical analysis took place – Milan, Paris and London. Comparing the mobility plannings and the time schedules of these social groups, we show different forms of international mobility - and correlated structures of personal costs: mobility is a resource and at the same time a constriction weighting today on higher-grade professionals -, strategies for the presence on dislocated social scenes and differences in power on somebody else’s rhythm. These results contradict the rhetoric of contemporary managerial literature concerning the rise of an homogeneous elite of citizens of the world and indicate the specific social morphology in post-fordist capitalism.

SOCIAL STRATIFICATION AND CONSUMPTION PROFILES OF ANKARA: A CASE STUDY IN ANKARA RESIDENTIAL AREAS This dissertation attempts to develop a social stratification model considering its spatial dimension for the households in the city of Ankara. The spatiality of social class has rarely been in the agenda of scholars and has not been explored empirically. For this reason, the study aims to test the hypothesis that social segregation in Turkish cities is empirically measurable and manifests itself in the common patterns of behaviours and similar conditioning of existence in the urban space. The focus of attention of the thesis is based on the relationship between the material inequalities of different social strata within its territorial context. If a class becomes a social reality, this must be shown in the formation of common patterns of behaviour and attitude, and manifests itself in urban space. In short the scope of the study is a twofold: Thesis questions are: (1) how and upon what basis social groups and strata can be located in the economic and socio-cultural structure of the society. This part of the study deals with the objective &amp / #8216 / &amp / #8217 / set&amp / #8217 / &amp / #8217 / of criteria / thesis question (2) whether the same coherency can be coincided in the space. This part deals with the analysis of the spatial dimension of social &amp / #8216 / &amp / #8217 / class&amp / #8217 / &amp / #8217 / which means segregation. Thesis findings provide sufficient evidence that the differences stemmed from the material possessions and consumption patterns of the urban households cannot be understood by employing the conventional instruments as such rural/urban, traditional/modern as the division of axes. New conceptualisation urgently is needed and consumption studies offer prospective and highly potential issue.

This thesis is an investigation into the socio-economic effects of English literacy among the Chinese of Singapore between 1945 and 2000. Through the use of oral history, statistical evidence, and existing secondary literature on the conditions of everyday life in Singapore, it explores how English literacy as a life chance has played a key role in shaping the class structures that exist among the Chinese in Singapore today. Adopting a 'perspective from below', this study provides a historical account that surveys the experiences of everyday life in Singapore through the stories of everyday life. It seeks to present an account that more accurately reflects the nation's nuanced past through defining eras in Singapore's post-war history 'Singapore Stories' in the plural, as opposed to the singular. Viewing the impact of English literacy through the prism of Max Weber's concept of life chances allows an examination of the opportunities in the lives of the interviewees cited within by distinguishing between negotiated and corralled life chances. The overarching argument made by this study is that in the later stages of Singapore's postwar history and development, English literacy was a critical factor that allowed individuals to negotiate key opportunities in life, thus increasing the likelihood of socioeconomic mobility. For those without English literacy, the range of possibilities in life became increasingly restricted, corralling individuals into a less affluent economic state. While acknowledging the significance of structural forces, and in particular the shaping influence of industrialisation, economic policy, and social engineering, this study also demonstrates how regarding the Singapore Chinese as possessing a variety of distinguishing social and economic characteristics, all of which serve to segment the community as an ethnic group, adds a new and critical dimension to our academic understanding of the nation's social past and present. By locating areas of resistance and the development of life strategies by an individual or household, this thesis illustrates how language, literacy, and class operated within the reality of undefined and multilayered historical spaces among the Chinese of Singapore.

Denna studie har en kvalitativ utgångspunkt med syfte att undersöka HR-anställdas användning av och syn på socialt nätverk i rekryteringsprocesser på bemanningsföretag. Studiens bakgrund utgörs av semistrukturerade intervjuer med fyra HR-anställda som arbetar på olika bemanningsföretag i Stockholm. I resultatet framkommer det att HR-anställda använt sig av nätverksrekrytering där sociala relationer som personer från yrkeslivet och bekanta är det vanligaste. Det redogörs även för deras reflektioner kring positiva respektive negativa konsekvenser av nätverkrekrytering. De nämner att det positiva är att man når ut till flera människor och att det är tidseffektivt medan de negativa är att vissa grupper tenderar att exkluderas. Vidare visar resultatet att externa kanaler som arbetsförmedling och webbplatser som bland annat Monster och Facebook används för att publicera annonser. Tidigare forskning som presenteras i studien berör användning av socialt nätverk i rekryteringsprocesser och dess konsekvenser. Studien anammar ett sociologiskt tänk då sociologiska teorier som Lins teori om social kapital och Granovetters teori om svaga och starka länkar tillämpats.

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The thesis describes a biosocial model of status stratification in face to face groups. The model is based on the belief that human status behavior is evolutionary extension of animal status behavior (especially primates). Each person of a group is equipped with a signaling mechanism that signals the status of domination or submision (or the status he ought to have). Status communication is among humans very subtle and primarily occurs at a nonverbal level. Status stratification often takes place automatically without the knowledge of the subjects. The biosocial model criticizes classical authors of social stratification, who explain the mechanism primarily at the cognitive level. In the practical part, the thesis attempts to use new methodology to verify the main assumption of an implicit stratification mechanism that is able to function without the involvement of cognition. The research works with a group of people with 6 probands. To indicate status in a group, playing cards were used. In each group, individuals were artificially assigned positions by playing cards. Subsequently, it was recorded how these artificial positions were reflected in the real position of member of the group. In the second part, the influence of personality trait on the position was measured. The main assumption could...

La préférence homosexuelle masculine (PHM) est considérée comme un paradoxe darwinien car c'est un trait partiellement héritable, induisant une baisse de succès reproducteur, ayant une fréquence (en Occident) entre 2 et 6 % et qui semble propre à l'espèce humaine (en excluant les espèces domestiquées). La sélection de parentèle, ou bien un facteur pléiotrope antagoniste sont classiquement proposés, bien que l'essentiel des données proviennent de sociétés occidentales. Nous avons proposé une nouvelle hypothèse, basée sur la stratification sociale et permettant d'expliquer la spécificité humaine, dans laquelle la migration sexe-dépendante de type hypergyne amplifie la sélection d'un gène antagoniste. La plausibilité de cette hypothèse est confirmée par des modèles théoriques d'ESS et des modélisations individu-centrés. De plus, une analyse comparative basée sur données anthropologiques a permis de montrer un lien entre le niveau de stratification d'une société et la probabilité que la PHM soit connue dans cette société. La sélection de parentèle, mesurée dans une société non-occidentale (Indonésie), semble participer à la compensation du coût reproductif de la PHM, mais insuffisamment pour en expliquer le maintien. Les principales caractéristiques familiales associées à la PHM, l'excès de grands frères, et la fécondité accrue dans certaines classe d'apparentés, se retrouvent également en Indonésie. Toutefois, en Indonésie, les classes d'apparentés concernées différent en partie des résultats obtenus en occident et ne correspondent pas aux attendues de l'hypothèse de sélection sexuellement antagoniste portée par le chromosome X. La prise en compte de l'interaction entre facteurs sociaux et biologiques ainsi que l'acquisition de données hors des sociétés occidentales ouvrent de nouvelles perspectives de compréhension de ce paradoxe darwinien. / Male homosexual preference (MHP) is considered as a Darwinian paradox, as it is partially heritable, induces a reproductive cost, has a prevalence estimated (in western countries) between 2 and 6%, and seems to be specific to humans (excluding domesticated species). Kin selection or sexually antagonistic factors have been proposed as possible explanations, although most data come from western countries. Here, we proposed a new hypothesis, based on social stratification, able to explain the specificity of human MHP, in which hypergyny (up-migration of the women) enhances the selection of a sexually antagonistic gene. This hypothesis is supported by theoretical models (ESS) and individual-based modelling. Furthermore, a comparative analysis based on anthropological data showed that the level of social stratification predicts the probability for MHP to be known in a society. Kin selection was tested in a non-western society (Indonesia), and seems to contribute to the compensation of the reproductive costs associated with MHP, although this effect alone was insufficient to explain the maintenance of MHP. The main biodemographic features associated with MHP, an excess of older brother and an increased fecundity of some classes of relatives, were also found in Indonesia. However, the classes of relatives affected by this increased fecundity differ from the classes affected in western populations, and differ from the predictions of the sexually antagonistic genetic factor hypothesis displayed on an X chromosome. Taking into account the interaction between social and biological factors, together with the acquisition of new data in non-western populations, open new perspectives in our understanding of this Darwinian paradox.