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Social Constructions of Hypnosis
International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 1992Both clinical and experimental views of hypnosis are social constructions that reflect the biases and interests of practitioners and scientists. Each perspective offers useful metaphors for hypnosis. Underlying clinical uses of the term hypnosis are states of mind associated with imaginative reverie and automatic behavior based on procedural knowledge.
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The Self, Social Media, and Social Construction
The American Journal of Bioethics, 2012The extent to which participation in social media should inform subsequent medical decisions raises a host of questions, among them foundational concerns of locating the self amidst social construc...
Meredith, Stark, Joseph J, Fins
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Social construction of episiotomy
Journal of Clinical Nursing, 1998This article explores the meaning of episiotomy. A review of the literature examines the definition, procedure, perceptions and outcomes of episiotomy to create a better understanding for those using or experiencing its practice. The article highlights that episiotomy means more than just a cut in the perineum.
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The social construction of Personhood
Social Thought, 1989The current abortion controversy revolves around the opposing issues of a woman's self‐determination vs. the right of a fetus to be born. The thesis of this paper is that whether a fetus is aborted or delivered depends to a great degree on how social groups and individuals construct its nature. If the fetus is “constructed” as a person it will be born;
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The Social Construction of Validity
Qualitative Inquiry, 1995Validation of qualitative research is here discussed in relation to postmodern conceptions of knowledge. A modernist notion of true knowledge as a mirror of reality is replaced by a postmodern understanding of knowledge as a social construction. Of the common psychometric concepts of validity, predictive validity is related to a modernist correspon ...
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Terrorism: Social capital, social construction, and constructive society?
Public Relations Inquiry, 2014Whether an establishment elite or a group countering the ideology and power of such an elite, terrorists engage in public relations activities aimed to acquire and apply social capital in the battle to manage issues and influence the trajectory of change (or in some cases to resist change).
Robert L Heath, Damion Waymer
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Social Construction and Integration
Journal of European Public Policy, 1999Social construction, which has made key contributions to contemporary international relations (IR) and institutional theorizing, has yet to make significant in-roads among scholars of integration. This is unfortunate, for it has privileged methodological individualism in the study of European institutions - either in its strict (rational choice ...
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Social Construction of Knowledge
1998The term “social construction of knowledge” is introduced and a system is proposed that facilitates this process. Knowledge is based on information that may have to be retrieved from vast, dynamic and unknown information spaces. The goal of knowledge construction may be vague, such that the tasks to achieve it evolve incrementally as information is ...
Angi Voß, Thomas Kreifelts
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Social Security: The Social Construction of a Crisis
The Milbank Memorial Fund Quarterly. Health and Society, 19831981 by the President, politicians of various persuasions, neoconservative economists, and a number of policy analysts. The mass media repeated the crisis designation over and over again. The public, including millions of elderly, became concerned, indeed alarmed. Many young adults felt that they would pay into, but never benefit from, Social Security.
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Translation in the "reassembly" mechanism of social constructs and the "social" construct
Вестник Вятского государственного университета, 2020В условиях расширения коммуникативного пространства человека благодаря глобальной сети перевод вплетается в частную жизнь субъекта во многих аспектах. Кроме прикладного характера перевода (перевода текста с одного языка на другой), проявляются его социальные функции: перевод расширяет доступный мир человека, позволяет размывать границы между носителями
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