Browsing by Subject "Culture"
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(2015-12-15)This multi- sited ethnography of artists, artistic culture, and community aimed to understand the meaning-making activities of artistic producers (poets) and consumers (audiences) within three artistic communities across ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2006-10-30)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. ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2007-09-17)In this dissertation, I build on contemporary theoretical perspectives to interpret characteristics of contemporary cowboy culture. Specifically, I target the image of the cowboy in relation to solidarity. I assume that ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2007-04-25)According to Millar (1996), the gulf between science and society is growing. Technologies are tools cultures develop to solve society's problems. The rapid dispersion of science and technology across cultural borders through ...
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(2018-06-22)Creativity is central to growth and success in marketing. And yet, the effective managerial tools to motivate creative thinking for individuals remains underexplored by academics and practitioners. In this dissertation, I ...
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(2016-01-26)This qualitative study examines the influence of a genealogical project on the understanding and acceptance of diversity by 72 university undergraduates in a foundations of education in a multicultural society course. ...
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(Journal of Teaching in Travel and Tourism, 2021-02-03)This research presents a joint project between Texas A&M University and CBS International Business School, designed to bring awareness to students’ understandings of other people, cultures, feelings and behaviors. While ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2005-02-17)This thesis develops the theoretical foundation of the strategic-culture paradigm. This model focuses attention upon culture and appeals to the profit requisite associated with commercial activities, and is an integrator ...
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(2009-05-15)As a whole, this work serves to illuminate the tragic as a fundamental human phenomenon and an objective fact that is distinct not only from comedy and irony but from other forms of calamity and modes of failure. I consider ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1989)The mantle tissue of Pinctada radiate and Pinctada margaritifera of the Red Sea was examined both histologically and histochemically. Zonal variations having histochemical and histological significance were found in this ...
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(2010-10-12)Women in intercollegiate athletics have faced numerous challenges in breaking through the "glass ceiling." This issue has received a plethora of attention in the literature; however, the impact of culture on leadership ...
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(2009-06-02)Why do churches of the same faith built in the same location and era of time differ in their built form? The focus of this dissertation led to the identification of four variables that influence the built form. These are ...
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This creative thesis takes the form of a short story and accompanying expanded plotline. The analysis and creative artifact study a self-described lack of understanding about half of my ethnic culture. This is within the ...
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(2014-05-05)Despite the World Health Organization promotion of malaria prevention and control guidelines, an estimated 219 million cases of malaria occur worldwide each year. The majority of the 660,000 recorded malaria-related deaths ...
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(2017-05-08)In this dissertation, I present an ethnographic exploration of how a post-migration community—the Persian community in Israel—constructs its identity. Drawing on cultural and postcolonial theories, I discuss the ways in ...
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(2020-03-30)The purpose of the study was to explore learning organization dimensions in relation to the culture that currently exists in the organization as well as to explore the preferred culture for the organization. The study ...
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(2022-06-03)This research was a study of the culture of five religiously-affiliated food pantry operations in Brazos County, Texas. This study employed multi-sited, team-based, participant-observation techniques over 34 months, ...
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(2020-06-24)
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(Texas A&M University, 2006-04-12)The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between self-directed learning readiness and the cultural values of individualism/collectivism in two sample groups drawn from different cultures. The research design ...