This research is to discuss the welfare stigma and social policy that influences the low-income family of Hope Project. Through the interview with the case individuals, this article is going to analyze the process of socialization within parents and teenagers to see if the poor status of those individuals influences their interactive action with other individuals or group in this social action. Moreover to discuss the client of Hope Project whether has experience of welfare stigma or not. What follows is the goal of this research: 1.What have been low-income client¡¦s experience of discrimination treatment as participating in Hope Project? 2. How do low-income clients perceive welfare stigma and what strategies do they use to manage? 3. How do low-income clients affect their strategies to respond to welfare stigma after participating in Hope Project? The findings from this research are that discrimination treatment results welfare stigma, and poor adult than teenagers are affected obviously by process of socializing degree, but under social control of school that leads teenagers to perceive welfare stigma. Experience of discrimination treatment and individual values produce welfare stigma, and that affects how they use manage to welfare stigma. The series of courses and community service could encourage latent capacity of clients also reduce welfare stigma to promote self-identification and self-confident. Furthermore the experience of community service in the remove poverty program makes teenagers feel that they have ability feed back society not only just welfare recipients but also reduce perception of welfare stigma.

Most of previous works focused on the relationship between organizational attractiveness as an employer and instrumental attributes of employer image. Potential job seekers were viewed as rational and alone decision makers. However, in addition to objective facts, potential job seekers consider other facts when they make a job decision such as emotional facts and perceived harmony with organization. Furthermore, potential job seekers hold a vague impression on a potential employer. Others¡¦ opinions of potential employers must be their crucial information sources and they may change decision because of others¡¦ opinion. The study add symbolic meaning construct to employer image and research the relationship between it and organizational attractiveness as an employer and found it is significant related to organizational attractiveness as an employer. The mediated effect of the similarity between potential job seekers¡¦ personality and organizations¡¦ personality and others¡¦ opinions are considered here. Both of them don¡¦t significant mediated the relationship between employer image and organizational attractiveness as an employer.

All physical systems are affected by some noise that limits the resolution that can be attained in partitioning their state space. For chaotic, locally hyperbolic flows, this resolution depends on the interplay of the local stretching/contraction and the smearing due to noise. My goal is to determine the `finest attainable' partition for a given hyperbolic dynamical system and a given weak additive white noise. That is achieved by computing the local eigenfunctions of the Fokker-Planck evolution operator in linearized neighborhoods of the periodic orbits of the corresponding deterministic system, and using overlaps of their widths as the criterion for an optimal partition. The Fokker-Planck evolution is then represented by a finite transition graph, whose spectral determinant yields time averages of dynamical observables. The method applies in principle to both continuous- and discrete-time dynamical systems. Numerical tests of such optimal partitions on unimodal maps support my hypothesis.

The objective of this thesis is to generate a discrete alphabet of low-level robotic controllers rich enough to mimic the actions of high-level users using the robot for a specific task. This alphabet will be built through the analysis of various user data sets in a modified version of the motion description language, MDLe. It can then be used to mimic the actions of a future user attempting to perform the task by calling scaled versions of the controls in the alphabet, potentially reducing the amount of data required to be transmitted to the robot, with minimal error. In this thesis, theory is developed that will allow the construction of such an alphabet, as well as its use to mimic new actions. A MATLAB algorithm is then built to implement the theory. This is followed by an experiment in which various users drive a Khepera robot through different courses with a joystick. The thesis concludes by presenting results which suggest that a relatively small group of users can generate an alphabet capable of mimicking the actions of other users, while drastically reducing bandwidth.

<p>The purpose of this study was to gain an understanding of the structured and evidence-based assessment tool/method The Brief Child and Family Phone Interview (BCFPI) trough a social psychology perspective of conversation. The aim was especially to seek an understanding of the method considering aspects of children’s participation. The research question was: how do the method users apprehend the advantages and the limitations of the BCFPI method considering aspects of children’s participation. The study was carried out trough a qualitative analyze and sex respondents in two child psychiatry clinics in Sweden were interviewed. A symbolic interactionistic perspective were used to analyze the results. The results showed that it was mostly advantages that were discussed and only a few limitations were presented. No reflections about children’s participation were expressed. Together the results and analyze contributed to an understanding of the BCFPI method as a restricted method considering social psychology perspectives and perspectives of children’s participations. One interpretation of the results showed that much focus was on the effectiveness of the method. In the future it could therefor be significant to reflect upon social psychology aspects as well as aspects of children’s participation regarding the BCFPI method.</p>

<p>som individen tror uppskattas i det sociala sammanhanget,</p><p>så den får fram rätt framtoning? Frågor av denna karaktär har varit med att bygga</p><p>upp denna uppsats och drivit oss att ta reda på mer.</p><p>Ovanstående är temat som denna uppsats behandlar och utreder. I fokus</p><p>står det mellanmänskliga mötet som sker under anställningsintervjun och hur</p><p>intrycksstyrning används. För kandidaten och för rekryteraren är</p><p>anställningsintervjun ett tillfälle då de båda i de flesta fall vill framstå i så god</p><p>dager som möjligt. Intrycksstyrning är en metod för att skapa och förstärka intryck</p><p>med hjälp av olika taktiker. Vi har med utgångspunkt i den symboliska</p><p>interaktionismen hämtat både kunskap och inspiration och överfört dem till</p><p>anställningsintervjun som är en del av rekryteringsprocessen. Symbolisk</p><p>interaktionism fokuserar på kommunikation mellan människor och det område</p><p>som vi studerat närmare. Vi har intervjuat tre rekryterare och tre kandidater som</p><p>är anställda på Skol- och barnomsorgsförvaltningen inom Växjö kommun. Syftet</p><p>med denna uppsats har varit att få en ökad förståelse och kunskap för hur</p><p>människor agerar under anställningsintervjun. Vi har bland annat kommit fram till</p><p>att parterna vill se intervjun som ett samtal istället för ett stelt förhör eller ett</p><p>tillgjort skådespel. Vi har även kommit fram till att individerna vill agera</p><p>mänskligt och tillåtas ha fel och brister istället för att ge sken och uppfattas som</p><p>perfekta. Det har visat sig att det inte enbart är positivt att visa sina goda sidor och</p><p>agera som en reklamkampanj. Det som framkom var att överdrivna förmågor förr</p><p>eller senare kommer fram, därför är det av vikt att ha en allmänkunskap som gör</p><p>det enklare att genomskåda intrycksstyrningen.</p> / <p>Should an individual expose his true personality, express his emotions,</p><p>reveal his inner-self and disclose exactly how he feels or should the individual</p><p>assess the social environment and act according to what the individual deems to</p><p>be the most acceptable behaviour in the social context, and so project the right</p><p>impression? Questions like this have helped us to put together this essay and have</p><p>motivated us to find out more.</p><p>The above is the theme this paper deals with and investigates. Its focus is</p><p>on the interpersonal interaction that takes place during a job interview and how</p><p>impression management is used. For the candidate and the recruiter a job</p><p>interview is a time when both want to appear in as good a light as possible.</p><p>Impression Management is a method to create and reinforce an impression by</p><p>using different tactics. We have, from theoretical starting points of symbolic</p><p>interaction, obtained both knowledge and inspiration and transferred them to the</p><p>job interview as part of the recruitment process. We have interviewed three</p><p>recruiters and three candidates who are employed at Växjö municipality’s School</p><p>and Child Care Administration. The aim of this thesis has been to achieve a better</p><p>understanding and knowledge of how people inter-act during an employment</p><p>interview. We have drawn the conclusion that both parties want to see the</p><p>interview as a conversation instead of a rigid interrogation or play-acting. We also</p><p>found that the two participants want to appear humane and accept faults and</p><p>shortcomings instead of giving the impression of being perfect. It is not</p><p>considered positive to only show their good sides as in an advertising campaign.</p><p>What emerged was that exaggerated capabilities sooner or later are exposed. It is</p><p>therefore important to have a general knowledge that makes it easier to expose</p><p>impression management.</p>

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Stanford University, 1986. / Cover title. "March 1986." Includes bibliographical references.

The central aim of this study is to examine processes of identity formation among white, working-class youths in a marginalized area located on the outskirts of South London. It is primarily based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork but also on analyses of web sites, newspapers and popular culture. The study contributes to research on ‘chavs’, and on youth (sub)cultures and social class. Identity is conceived as constructed through the dialectical interplay between ‘external’ processes of social categorization and ‘internal’ processes of identification and boundary work. The context of the study is the recent moral panic in Britain over ‘chavs’. In public discourse, the term chav emerged as a way of pathologizing white working-class youths adopting specific visual markers of taste. The study shows that most respondents, and the area in general, were positioned in the stigmatizing discourse on chavs, and the spaces and places that they are associated with. When interpreting the meaning of chav, the respondents drew strong boundaries against the term, and used it to categorize others. In contrast to earlier research, the notion of chav is not related to a subcultural style adopted by socially excluded groups of youths, but primarily a form of categorization serving to pathologize important aspects of the working-class culture in the area. The findings support the contention that spatiality plays an essential role in the formation of classed identities. In light of the stigmatizing perceptions of the area, the study explores the often ambiguous ways in which the respondents negotiated their sense of belonging, community and safety. Moreover, in relation to taste and masculinity, the study demonstrates how the construction and performance of classed identifications and distinctions, and thus symbolic class hierarchies, are related to the spatial context.

My research uses participants' understandings to look at how people define and use the identities and categories of "vegetarian" and "meat-eater." My research examines what it means to be vegetarian, how ideals and moral hierarchies are understood, and how issues of identity importance, social support, and boundary work are components of vegetarian identity construction processes. My research highlights the unmarked character of the meat-eating identity and investigates the variations and complexities of eating behaviors and identities. Learning more about how both vegetarians and meat-eaters construct vegetarian identities contributes to our understanding of identities and how, despite ambiguities, people experience identities. I further previous work by focusing more on the boundaries and interactions that become meaningful when supporting ones identity. Through one-on-one in-depth interviews, I draw out perspectives and understandings of vegetarian and meat-eating meaning-making processes.This research demonstrates how, despite numerous variations within and between groups, people develop more or less socially shared ideas of what it means to be vegetarian, what vegetarian ideals are, and what moral meanings are produced by various eating behaviors. These ideas run through issues of vegetarian identity, including: identity importance, social support, and boundary work. Vegetarians and meat-eaters' interactions involve cognitive processing, self-presentations, and negotiations that are not as oppositional as stereotypical social ideas suggest. Meat-eaters play an active role throughout many of these vegetarian identity construction processes and provide a more balanced picture of them. Meat-eaters at times engage with vegetarians in the issues of vegetarian ideals, moral hierarchies, identity importance, social support, and boundary work.

Research shows that young children, typically developing with no developmental delays, hearing impairments or visual impairments, can acquire sign language to communicate their wants or needs prior to their ability to communicate through spoken language. However, much of the research reviewed focused on whether it was normative for young children to use signs or symbolic gestures to represent objects, make requests, or to express other wants or needs. In addition, many of the studies reviewed lacked scientific rigor and were primarily anecdotal in that much of the data relied on parent reports of his/her child's production of signs or symbolic gestures. The present study expanded upon the procedures of Thompson, McKerchar, and Dancho (2004) by teaching more complex signing repertoires using different training procedures. This study examined the acquisition of functional sign language by typically developing infants, ranging in age from 10 months to 14 months, using a training program which consisted of three components. The three components of intervention included a 30 minute group class once per week, an intensive or "booster" 1:1 session twice per week, and parent led training in the participant's home environment. During intervention a variety of concept items such as toys, pictures, books, and real objects were presented to represent the signs were utilized. A multiple baseline design across pairs of behaviors was employed to assess experimental changes in signing repertoires during the intervention conditions. All participants demonstrated zero rates of signing during baseline and showed an increase in their signing repertoires during intervention phases.