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Ante rem Structuralism and the Myth of Identity CriteriaSiu, Ho Kin 20 January 2010 (has links)
This thesis examines the connections between the motivations of ante rem structuralism and the
problem of automorphism. Ante rem structuralists are led to the problem of automorphism because
of their commitment to the thesis of structure-relative identity. Ladyman's and Button's solutions
to the problem are both unsatisfactory. The problem can be solved only if ante rem structuralists
drop the thesis of structure-relative identity. Besides blocking the problem of automorphism, there
are further reasons why the thesis has to be dropped. (i) The purported metaphysical and epistemic
purchase of adopting the thesis can be put into doubt. (ii) Primitive identity within a mathematical
structure is more in line with ante rem structuralist's commitment to the faithfulness constraint
and to the ontological priority of structure over positions. However, the cost of dropping the thesis
is that ante rem structuralists cannot provide a satisfactory solution to Benacerraf's problem of
multiple reductions of arithmetic.
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80s Babies: How Members of Hip Hop’s Third Generation Understand and Participate in the CultureClay, Charity 2009 August 1900 (has links)
This study used in-depth interviews with members of Hip Hop culture
nationwide currently entering adulthood; those between 21-30. Its purpose being to
learn what they understand Hip Hop culture to be, what it means to them and their
identity and how in contributes to assessment of its history, present and predictions
about its future. The project yielded 25 interviews with participants sharing various, at
times contradictory, views about what Hip Hop culture is, the current condition of the
culture, and its future direction and the salience it has for their identities. This research
extends the current literature on Hip Hop by suggesting that it has grown to be a multigenerational
culture and furthermore, begins the process of understanding the dynamics
of cultural understanding and transformation within Hip Hop while it is still a
burgeoning culture.
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"As Un-American as Rabies": Addiction and Identity in American Postwar Junkie LiteratureBowers, Abigail Leigh 2009 December 1900 (has links)
The years following World War II symbolized a new beginning for the United
States. While at the height of global power, Americans founds that they were able to
experience a leisurely existence where items, desired instead of necessary, could be
purchased by almost anyone. This increased prosperity, however, also caused a rise in
the number of addicts that included not only the hard-core drug users, but "junkies" who
were addicted to filling the emptiness within through the use of illegal drugs to
television to sex in order to do so. This dissertation examines the phenomenon of the
rise of addicts following World War II, using the literature of addiction in order to
elucidate the reasoning behind this surge.
Contemporary American authors formed a new genre of writing, "junkie
literature," which chronicles the rise of addiction and juxtaposes questions of identity
and the use of "junk." Burroughs's Junky and Trocchi's Cain's Book are among the first
to represent the shift in the postwar years between earlier narratives of addiction and the
rise of junkie literature through an erasure of previously held beliefs that addiction was
the result of a moral vice rather than a disease. Jim Carroll's The Basketball Diaries, Ann Marlowe's How to Stop Time: Heroin from A to Z, and Linda Yablonsky's The
Story of Junk continue this trend of semi-autobiographical writing in an effort to show
the junkie's identity in society, as well as the way addiction mirrors capitalism and
consumerism as a whole. Finally, Hubert Selby's Requiem for a Dream, Bret Easton
Ellis's Less than Zero, and John Updike's Rabbit at Rest explore a different kind of junk
addiction, focusing on the use of television, diet pills, sex, cocaine, and food to fill an
ineffable void inside that the characters of the novels find themselves unable to
articulate. Using Julia Kristeva's theory of abjection, as well as various socio-historical
critics, this dissertation investigates the rise of addiction narratives in the postwar years,
linking the questions of identity to consumerism in contemporary American culture.
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Patterns of Identification: The Children of Latino/Non-Latino White FamiliesFox, Amber 2010 December 1900 (has links)
This thesis examines the various factors that influence how children in
Latino/non-Latino white households are racially and ethnically identified. The question
of multiracial/ethnic identity has come to prominence following the changes made to the
U.S. Census questionnaire beginning with the 2000 survey which allows the option of
more than one racial identifier. However, little research has focused a group which must
still grapple with the complications of identification, namely Latino/non-Latino families.
Latino identity is considered to be an ethnic identification rather than a racial
identification, with ethnic identification still allowing only one option on the census
survey. Thus, these families still must struggle with the decision as to how to identify
their children.
In this study, I use the 2005-2007 3-year sample of the American Community
Survey to examine how various family dynamics and contextual factors can help to
explain what drives the decisions of parents on how to racially and ethnically identify
their children. Specifically, I use both multinomial logistic regression and multilevel
binomial logistic regression to predict the outcome of the child either being identified as Latino (white or other) or non-Latino (white or other). These models incorporate
characteristics of the Latino parent and the non-Latino parent as well as the ethnic
composition of the area in which the family lives.
The findings of this study indicate that certain characteristics of the Latino parent
are most influential in determining how the child is identified. The language that the
Latino parent speaks in the home, the nativity status of the Latino parent, and the ethnic
origin group of the Latino parent are all important factors which influence the decision
behind how to identify the children in the family. If the Latino parent speaks Spanish in
the home, is Mexican in comparison to other Latino groups, and is U.S.-born, the child is
more likely to be identified as Latino. However, influencing factors behind
multiracial/ethnic identity go beyond the household. The percent Latino in the area in
which the family lives also leads to a Latino identification for the child.
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Build emotional brand identity through experiential marketing-case research haute couture FULee, Hsiang-Yun 08 June 2002 (has links)
This thesis will discuss the two popular issues recently, which are brand identity and experiential marketing. In addition, raising a strategic experiential model to examine if the case brand FU could effectively convey their brand identity.
The purpose of this study were:
(1) Figure out the brand identity of case brand FU.
(2) Examining the five experiential modules within the all aspects of communication vehicles
(3) Whether Case brand could actively deliver brand identity in the communication process.
The research method of this research was held by in-depth interview with unstructured questionnaire to explore the incentives and attitudes of interviewees.
According to the research findings, four propositions were shown:
(1) Each brand identity element would convey through specific communication
vehicles.
(2) Experiential module mixes will be different in the following of all varied of conveyance medias.
(3) Sense experiential module is the corner stone of the five experiential marketing modules.
(4) To build firmly long-term brand-customer relationship, all the marketing medias should be integrated to convey the consistent message to the consumers.
Future research should examine further the role of experiential marketing. In addition, the approach way from the brand image, on the counter part of the brand identity, should be continued in future studies.
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Speaking the unspeakable: emotional expressions of identity within journalsHorrocks, Aubrie 15 November 2004 (has links)
Creating a sense of identity is constructed through communicative processes allowing us to participate in interpersonal relationships, and understand who we are. "Much of our emotional life is bound up with the way we narrate experiences..." (Kerby, 1991, p. 48). Because experiences are told from our own perspective, what we tell is significant. It reflects our feelings regarding a situation, and in the telling of the story, we reinterpret the way we understand our life and how we know ourselves. The purpose of this study is to examine the content and structure of the narratives contained within a diary, in order to learn how an individual interprets emotional experiences and constructs identities. It is a unique opportunity to explore how individuals can cope with ambiguity and uncertainty by constructing multiple identities to functionally enact within a variety of environments.
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Cowboys, pop stars, pimps and players: themes in music videosWesley, Chelcie Melissa 29 August 2005 (has links)
Television is something that is a part of the everyday lives of a majority of people in America. The content of what is on television can vary in nature from being positive to being negative. However, what people are exposed to through music videos, in particular, a very popular form of artistic expression, has not been thoroughly investigated. This study uses structural ritualization affect, gender schema theory, media and audience power theories, cultivation theory, agenda setting and framing theories, and (cognitive) social learning theory in order to investigate what people are actually exposed to by watching music videos, in particular, MTV, BET, and GAC.
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Being a female engineer: identity construction and resistance of women in engineering schoolsChu, Hyejin 30 October 2006 (has links)
Compared to other professions, women's representation in engineering professions
is considerably lower than men's, and this particular situated-ness or locality makes women
experience a unique process of identity construction. Using qualitative methods - two
focus group meetings, nineteen autobiographical essays, and twenty two individual
interviews, this research focuses on what women learn from their experiences in
engineering school, and how they respond to their perceived experiences. This study
proposes to delineate (a) the dynamic interaction between women and the social structure
of engineering school; (b) women's perception and conceptualization of the social structure
they practice; and (c) women's strategic responses to the structure leading to identity
construction. Becoming an engineer is problematic for women because the identity of
"engineer" is based upon hegemonic ideas developed by previous generations of engineers
- men. This research explores how women, standing in the borderline of being women and being engineers, account and construct their identities as women engineers. Sometimes
women are subtly or not subtly coerced; sometimes they embrace dominant ideas;
sometimes they creatively resist dominant approaches.
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Politics of collective belonging: loyalties in the European UnionMcGee, Sibel 25 April 2007 (has links)
Why do some citizens of the European Union feel indeed European and
others do not? Although the officials of the European Union introduced many
symbols and discourses of unity, empirical studies show that the development of a
sense of belonging at the popular level is slow. This dissertation, by drawing upon
the established social identity theories, takes the investigation back to basics. It
develops a model consisting of the basic premises of the identity theories as well as
factors deriving from national and individual contexts that condition individual
experiences relating to the aforementioned premises. Rather than developing new
theories, this work's contribution to the study of European identity is that the study
presents as complete a model as possible based on the existing theoretical
frameworks as a cross-sectional analysis. Doing so, it unifies the disconnected
literature on the issue within a consistent theoretical logic and cross-validates the
patterns found in 15 countries through a large N multivariate analysis based on the
Eurobarometer 2000. Results yield that social identity theories are confirmed in the
case of European identity except for external demarcation principle.
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THE COMPARISON OF EGO- IDENTITY BETWEEN NEW TAIWANESE AND LOCAL TAIWANESE JUNIOR HIGH STUDENTS IN XINDIAN CITY TAIPEI COUNTY / THE COMPARISON OF EGO- IDENTITY BETWEEN NEW TAIWANESE AND LOCAL TAIWANESE JUNIOR HIGH STUDENTS IN XINDIAN CITY TAIPEI COUNTY蘇莉婷 Unknown Date (has links)
Research concerning New Taiwanese issue is focused on New Taiwanese students’ family environment, academic achievement, school life adaptability, behavioral development in the past years. Although New Taiwanese adolescents will be an emerging population, there has no research that looks specifically at the identity development during early adolescence. There is considerable literature on school life; however, no of it addresses New Taiwanese psychological development. This study, informed by Erikson’s (1959) model of psychosocial development and Marcia’s (1966) four statuses of identity, compared ego- identity development in New Taiwanese junior high students to local Taiwanese junior high students. The purpose in the present study was to provide an approach to the investigation of identity formation among local Taiwanese and New Taiwanese junior high students.
The hypothesis of this study is that there are differences in ego- identity development between local Taiwanese and New Taiwanese junior high students. Variations in identity status will be measured by administering the EOM-EIS- 2 (Adams & Bennion, 1989) and a demographic survey to junior high students from three different schools in Xindian City, Taipei County. The study also utilized the qualitative approach method to provide a sound basis for analyzing respondents’ experience and/ or perspectives by Marcia’s Identity Status Interview (ISI).
Identity scores and distributions were examined for 550 (422 local Taiwanese, 128 New Taiwanese) junior high students. Results indicated that the significant difference in Foreclosure Identity between New Taiwanese and local Taiwanese was observed with local Taiwanese scoring higher. Local Taiwanese may therefore be more inclined to adopt their parents’ commitments to religious and political beliefs, occupational preferences, and philosophical lifestyles. Results also indicated that New Taiwanese were founded to be significantly more ideological diffused than their local Taiwanese peers. The environment for New Taiwanese was more constricted and less likely to provide room for the adolescent’s exploration and have not made decision regarding.
Additionally, the present study revealed that 52% of the sample (245 participants including 196 local Taiwanese and 49 New Taiwanese junior high students) fell into one of the four discrete identity status categories, with 56% of this group classified as either diffused or foreclosed. Within these two less sophisticated statuses, New Taiwanese less frequently fell into Identity Foreclosed than local Taiwanese but more frequently fell into Identity Diffusion than local Taiwanese. To gain in- depth information of participants’ experience and/ or perspectives, 43 (32 local Taiwanese, 11 New Taiwanese) of the 245 participants were also assessed using Marcia’s Identity Status Interview (ISI). Although this finding highlights the differences ego- identity development during early adolescence among local Taiwanese and New Taiwanese junior high students, most of the identity developmental outcomes were the same between the two groups. / Research concerning New Taiwanese issue is focused on New Taiwanese students’ family environment, academic achievement, school life adaptability, behavioral development in the past years. Although New Taiwanese adolescents will be an emerging population, there has no research that looks specifically at the identity development during early adolescence. There is considerable literature on school life; however, no of it addresses New Taiwanese psychological development. This study, informed by Erikson’s (1959) model of psychosocial development and Marcia’s (1966) four statuses of identity, compared ego- identity development in New Taiwanese junior high students to local Taiwanese junior high students. The purpose in the present study was to provide an approach to the investigation of identity formation among local Taiwanese and New Taiwanese junior high students.
The hypothesis of this study is that there are differences in ego- identity development between local Taiwanese and New Taiwanese junior high students. Variations in identity status will be measured by administering the EOM-EIS- 2 (Adams & Bennion, 1989) and a demographic survey to junior high students from three different schools in Xindian City, Taipei County. The study also utilized the qualitative approach method to provide a sound basis for analyzing respondents’ experience and/ or perspectives by Marcia’s Identity Status Interview (ISI).
Identity scores and distributions were examined for 550 (422 local Taiwanese, 128 New Taiwanese) junior high students. Results indicated that the significant difference in Foreclosure Identity between New Taiwanese and local Taiwanese was observed with local Taiwanese scoring higher. Local Taiwanese may therefore be more inclined to adopt their parents’ commitments to religious and political beliefs, occupational preferences, and philosophical lifestyles. Results also indicated that New Taiwanese were founded to be significantly more ideological diffused than their local Taiwanese peers. The environment for New Taiwanese was more constricted and less likely to provide room for the adolescent’s exploration and have not made decision regarding.
Additionally, the present study revealed that 52% of the sample (245 participants including 196 local Taiwanese and 49 New Taiwanese junior high students) fell into one of the four discrete identity status categories, with 56% of this group classified as either diffused or foreclosed. Within these two less sophisticated statuses, New Taiwanese less frequently fell into Identity Foreclosed than local Taiwanese but more frequently fell into Identity Diffusion than local Taiwanese. To gain in- depth information of participants’ experience and/ or perspectives, 43 (32 local Taiwanese, 11 New Taiwanese) of the 245 participants were also assessed using Marcia’s Identity Status Interview (ISI). Although this finding highlights the differences ego- identity development during early adolescence among local Taiwanese and New Taiwanese junior high students, most of the identity developmental outcomes were the same between the two groups.
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