This thesis explores Landmark Education, an American personal development company which claims to transform lives for the better. The purpose of this work is to analyse the pros and cons of various participants and professionals connected with Landmark Education. This work has been carried out as a piece of investigative journalism and reflects the principles of this field. Chapter one addresses contemporary criticisms of Landmark and outlines the main points of the investigation which will be analysed and debated in chapter three. Chapter two gives a historical background to the self-help and personal development realm that Landmark belongs to. This chapter is more informative in tone and provides an indepth discussion on est, the company to precede Landmark. Chapter three is the investigative component of this thesis and contains interviews of Landmark supporters and critics. These include former and current participants of Landmark Education, as well as professionals of clinical psychology and the personal coaching fields. This chapter primarily addresses issues connected with critical claims that Landmark is a cult. The thesis is accompanied by a supporting exegesis which outlines the relevant theoretical, historical, critical and design contexts and also seeks to defend both the applied research methodology and theoretical base.

In the early second century AD four extraordinary imperial deifications are recorded. The first took place during the reign of the emperor Trajan (r. 98-117), who deified his sister, Ulpia Marciana, immediately following her death in 112. Next, in 119, Marcianas daughter, Matidia, was deified by Hadrian (r. 117-138), who was married to Matidias daughter, Vibia Sabina. The usual interpretation of these two deifications is that the honours paid these women bolstered imperial prestige within a political atmosphere that later allowed Hadrian to use their deifications as a means of creating a fictive dynastic connection to legitimize his succession. Similar motivations are applied by scholars to the deifications of Pompeia Plotina, the dowager empress of the emperor Trajan, who died during the tenure of his successor, Hadrian, in 123, and of Hadrians own wife, Vibia Sabina, who died in 136 or 137, little more than a year before her husband. Intriguingly, none of these women is much remembered in extant historical records, though other evidence for their prominence statues, coins, inscriptions, buildings in Romes centre is striking in its abundance. The rationale for the deifications of these women therefore remains the subject of a debate that ultimately engages questions of female involvement and the meaning of that involvement within Romes traditional hierarchies of power and prominence. This paper seeks a culturally relevant context for the mystery of these deifications, proposing that the theoretical underpinnings for female deification lie as much in the implications of female involvement in the public sphere as they do in dynastic considerations. Using a social and ethnographic approach, it investigates evidence for the wealth, social standing, and public presence of these early second century women and connects these to the Romans need to uphold traditional mores and morals in the face of social change and shifting political realities.

In the early second century AD four extraordinary imperial deifications are recorded. The first took place during the reign of the emperor Trajan (r. 98-117), who deified his sister, Ulpia Marciana, immediately following her death in 112. Next, in 119, Marcianas daughter, Matidia, was deified by Hadrian (r. 117-138), who was married to Matidias daughter, Vibia Sabina. The usual interpretation of these two deifications is that the honours paid these women bolstered imperial prestige within a political atmosphere that later allowed Hadrian to use their deifications as a means of creating a fictive dynastic connection to legitimize his succession. Similar motivations are applied by scholars to the deifications of Pompeia Plotina, the dowager empress of the emperor Trajan, who died during the tenure of his successor, Hadrian, in 123, and of Hadrians own wife, Vibia Sabina, who died in 136 or 137, little more than a year before her husband. Intriguingly, none of these women is much remembered in extant historical records, though other evidence for their prominence statues, coins, inscriptions, buildings in Romes centre is striking in its abundance. The rationale for the deifications of these women therefore remains the subject of a debate that ultimately engages questions of female involvement and the meaning of that involvement within Romes traditional hierarchies of power and prominence. This paper seeks a culturally relevant context for the mystery of these deifications, proposing that the theoretical underpinnings for female deification lie as much in the implications of female involvement in the public sphere as they do in dynastic considerations. Using a social and ethnographic approach, it investigates evidence for the wealth, social standing, and public presence of these early second century women and connects these to the Romans need to uphold traditional mores and morals in the face of social change and shifting political realities.

The purpose of this thesis is to find evidence if cult houses existed on Gotland during the Bronze Age. The cult house is a common term in modern Bronze Age archaeology and the general definitions of cult house are discussed and why cult houses seem to be absent on Gotland. In this thesis the cult house are discussed as a phenomenon, and the possibilities to find Bronze Age cult houses on Gotland are evaluated by making comparisons between Gotland houses with already defined cult houses from the Swedish mainland. Some known cult houses are presented in more detail as case studies, together with house remains on Gotland which could have potential to be defined as cult houses.

This thesis explores Landmark Education, an American personal development company which claims to transform lives for the better. The purpose of this work is to analyse the pros and cons of various participants and professionals connected with Landmark Education. This work has been carried out as a piece of investigative journalism and reflects the principles of this field. Chapter one addresses contemporary criticisms of Landmark and outlines the main points of the investigation which will be analysed and debated in chapter three. Chapter two gives a historical background to the self-help and personal development realm that Landmark belongs to. This chapter is more informative in tone and provides an indepth discussion on est, the company to precede Landmark. Chapter three is the investigative component of this thesis and contains interviews of Landmark supporters and critics. These include former and current participants of Landmark Education, as well as professionals of clinical psychology and the personal coaching fields. This chapter primarily addresses issues connected with critical claims that Landmark is a cult. The thesis is accompanied by a supporting exegesis which outlines the relevant theoretical, historical, critical and design contexts and also seeks to defend both the applied research methodology and theoretical base.

Thesis--Bonn. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 389-444).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Pennsylvania, 1957. / "One of the results of the Admiralty Island Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History"--Pref. Glossary of native words and phrases: leaves 640-650. Includes index of people and agencies. Includes bibliographical references (leaves xiv-xvi).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2004. / Supervisors: Edmund T. Gordon and Kathleen Stewart. Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

This study aims to inquire into the pre-historic cult and the power structures in the folkland Värend, a region in present days Kronoberg County in Småland Sweden. The district Hovshaga is located at the northern outskirts of Växjö, the provincial capital. According to linguistic- and place name studies (toponymy) “hof” implies an Iron Age central place with a high probability of ritual cult presence.   The toponymy of this district serve as the outset of this inquiry, using archeological records and reports on Värend as my empiric material coupled with prehistoric place-name studies and studies of hierarchies, Norse mythology, phenomenology and a little bit of sociology I hope to make some of the social dynamics of Värend become visible.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-29T14:10:10Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 tese_3552_.pdf: 812077 bytes, checksum: 65ce72f3fc0ae86bd7990f7cc11cc0a3 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-08-27 / O presente trabalho teve como objetivo descrever comportamentos profissionais e habilidades sociais dos agentes de saúde em cenas da prática cultural do Programa Municipal de Combate ao Dengue do município de Governador Valadares/MG (PMCD/GV). O método utilizado foi de pesquisa descritiva, documental, com abordagem quantitativa e qualitativa. Três fontes de dados foram examinadas: (1) documentos gerados pela ação do PMCD/GV; (2) respostas de 112 agentes de saúde aos instrumentos Questionário Profissional (QP) e Inventário de Habilidades Sociais (IHS); (3) observação do comportamento profissional de 20 agentes de saúde em campo. A primeira fonte de dados possibilitou descrever os aspectos históricos e comportamentais da prática cultural de controle ao dengue em GV durante os anos de 2000 a 2009. Embora várias estratégias tenham sido estabelecidas para o controle, prevenção e tentativa de erradicação do vetor Aedes aegypti na cidade, verificou-se, ao longo do período investigado, significativa variabilidade nos índices de infestação do mosquito e, conseqüentemente, a ocorrência de três epidemias da doença. Logo, observou-se que as metacontingências estabelecidas na prática cultural denominada PMCD/GV não alteraram o produto agregado gerado pela macrocontingência. Já a segunda fonte de dados permitiu avaliar o repertório de habilidades sociais, pessoal e profissional dos agentes de saúde. Os resultados levantados mostraram que a maioria dos participantes é do sexo masculino, jovens, possuem nível de instrução escolar médio, são inseridos no PMCD por indicação política e possuem níveis de habilidades sociais com resultados dentro da média e acima da média. Por fim, a terceira fonte de dados registrou a freqüência dos indicadores de habilidades técnicas e sociais no repertório profissional dos agentes de saúde emitidos durante a visita de inspeção residencial. Observou-se que os participantes emitem com maior freqüência comportamentos que demandam competências técnicas, como por exemplo, a verificação da existência de criadouros do Aedes aegypti, do que competências sociais, como por exemplo, a realização de uma instrução educativa ao residente. Conclui-se que, para que haja uma funcionalidade nos trabalhos dos agentes de saúde atuantes no controle do dengue e um melhor resultado da prática cultural da PMCD/GV, faz-se necessário o estabelecimento de modificações nas políticas de Saúde Coletiva, com um planejamento antecipado baseado nas práticas anteriores que deram certo e errado para que a partir delas possa ser feito um mapeamento do que será efetivo ou não no futuro. Enfatiza-se a importância da educação em saúde ser mais operacionalizada nos termos da Análise do Comportamento, especificamente no como se pode fazer a modificação do comportamento de uma coletividade, pois ela a educação em saúde é um dos objetivos de qualquer metacontingência que define uma política pública em Saúde Coletiva. Isto implicará numa alteração em dois momentos da prática cultural aqui focalizada o PMCD/GV-MG. O primeiro momento é o da capacitação deste profissional para um trabalho eficaz de educação em saúde, quando se arranjará contingências para a aquisição de competências interpessoais (necessárias a sua interação com a população residente) e de modificação do comportamento (que deverão ser parte essencial da necessária competência técnica enfatizada pela política atual). O segundo momento é o produto do primeiro: a interação eficaz do agente de saúde com os residentes na comunidade. Palavras-chaves: Metacontingência. Macrocontingência.