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Social Construction Theory of Reality: a Case Study of Anti Anorexia Campaign Poster [PDF]

, 2016
Although Constructivism Theory of reality is categorized as a Subjective Theory, in terms of the construction process, it also had an objective feel. This could be observed in the three forms of realities that became the entry concept, namely: Objective ...
Darisman, A. (Aris), Hilman, D. (Doddy), Homan, D. K. (Devi)   +2 more
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Branding Rights

Politikon, 2017
Extending on notions of securitisation and how it challenges democracy, this paper uses Marshall McLuhan’s tetrad of media effects within a social constructivist paradigm, to engage in an intertextual and intervisual analysis of political cartoons in ...
Dané Smith
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Farms or Forests? Understanding and Mapping Shifting Cultivation Using the Case Study of West Garo Hills, India

Land, 2019
Attempts to study shifting cultivation landscapes are fundamentally impeded by the difficulty in mapping and distinguishing shifting cultivation, settled farms and forests.
Amit John Kurien, Sharachchandra Lele, Harini Nagendra   +2 more
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Can power be made an empirically viable concept in policy process theory? Exploring the power potential of the Narrative Policy Framework

International Review of Public Policy, 2020
Despite the range of analytical foci in current policy process theory, the idea of an empirically sound power concept has not received much attention. While scientifically oriented process frameworks tend to be either implicitly or explicitly based on a ...
Tjorven Sievers, Michael D. Jones
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Analysing Changes in Electricity Industries Against Actors and Technologies: Utility to Business Transformations in Denmark, Germany, Finland and Spain

Journal of Technology Management & Innovation, 2012
Liberalization of electricity markets, governmental policies for renewable electricity and technology development are transforming national electricity industries.
Mari Ratinen
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Community’s Social Construction on Covid-19 Patients with Supervision in Surakarta Indonesia [PDF]

E3S Web of Conferences, 2020
Negative stigma labelled against Covid-19 patients and health workers can worsen Covid-19 management situation. Therefore, this research aimed to analyze Surakarta people’s interpretation on Covid-19 patient and their social construction process on Covid-
Demartoto Argyo, Sunesti Yuyun, Haryono Bagus, Arif Mundayat Aris   +3 more
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“I was forced into it”: The continued violation of widows from the Luo community of Kenya through sexual cleansing rituals

Frontiers in Global Women's Health, 2022
Sexual cleansing is part of the social transition process for widows to become eligible to remarry after the death of her husband. This ritual is conducted to cleanse the widow of evil spirits resulting from the death of her husband.
Leso Munala, Esther Mwangi, Margaret Harris, Nene Okunna, Bethlehem Yewhalawork, Maureen Ong'ombe   +5 more
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Natural Kinds, Social Constructions, and Ordinary Language

Journal of Social Ontology, 2016
I argue for the importance of clarifying the distinction between metaphysical, semantic, and meta-semantic concerns in the discourse of what Emotion is.
Cecilea Mun
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Un constructo social de los Derechos Humanos para la autodeterminación de los pueblos indígenas

Deusto Journal of Human Rights, 2017
Propongo un derecho humano a la autodeterminación de los pueblos indígenas como algo a desarrollar en cada caso por el pueblo indígena y válido sólo si es aceptado por ese pueblo.
Benjamin Gregg
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Constructing futures: a social constructionist perspective on foresight methodology [PDF]

, 2009
The aim of this paper is to demonstrate the relationship between a particular epistemological perspective and foresight methodology. We draw on a body of social theory concerned with the way that meaning is produced and assimilated by society ...
Adam, Ajzen, Bell, Berger, Bhaskar, Blumer, Booth, Bourdieu, De Castro, de Jouvenel, Durkheim, Fulcher, Garfinkel, Gergen, Glasersfeld, Godet, Goffman, Harré, High Level Expert Group, Inayatullah, Inayatullah, Krista Loogma, Latour, Latour, Law, Mannheim, Masini, Masini, Masini, Maturana, Mead, Piaget, Pinker, Ramos, Sayer, Sayer, Selin, Slaughter, Tapio, Ted Fuller, Van Der Helm, van der Helm, Wadsworth, Weber   +43 more
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