Browsing by Subject "identity"
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(2020-08)Knowing more about student enrollment at preparatory programs is particularly significant to the field of international admissions and recruitment. Struggling to meet aggressive admissions targets, and the inability to ...
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(2012-04-23)Department: Latin American StudiesIn 1968, a military coup surprised Panama, placing political power in the hands of populist leader General Omar Torrijos Herrera. Recuperation of the Panama Canal remained a high priority to the government, and Torrijos ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2008)We explore the potential for correlated equilibrium to capture conformity to norms and the coordination of behavior within social groups. Given a partition of players into social groups we propose properties that one may ...
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Borders, Bordering and the Limits of Democracy: Rethinking the Boundaries of Territorial Sovereignty (2007-12-13)Department: Social and Political ThoughtThis thesis argues that, contrary to some prevalent intuitions, national borders are not being rendered obsolete by the increasingly global or deterritorialized character of social and political life. Rather, as state ...
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(2018-03-20)Department: SociologyLatinos and Asians are the two largest and fastest-growing panethnic groups in the United States. Scholars have traced the origins of these panethnic categories, used panethnic identification to predict social and political ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2017-06-15)This portfolio consists of my philosophy of teaching both generally and in the ESL classroom, as well as artifacts demonstrating my professional knowledge of the TESOL standards. The picture that this portfolio paints ...
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(2018-05-16)Department: Learning, Teaching and DiversityNew initiatives in computing education call for the integration of computational thinking (CT) across subjects in K-12 schools. At the same time, researchers do not have a strong consensus about what CT is and how it is ...
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(2020-08)This study uses a pilgrimage experience in Israel as one example to inform the process through which identification with Judaism and Israel is formed. Participants expressed their identification in response to events and ...
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(2011-08-05)Department: ReligionIn this dissertation, I endeavor to bring to life Kathryn Tanner’s way of framing theology as a cultural practice within which ad hoc, context specific modes of Christian discourse (everyday theologies) and more specialized, ...
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(2008-05-14)Department: HistoryDespite their prominence in early modern English culture, fasts have remained virtually unstudied. This omission is unfortunate. Study of fast days provides a valuable window onto one of the most important stories of ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2010-04-29)
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(2006-10-30)Department: ReligionThis project analyzes the effects of consumerism on identity and consumerism’s misunderstanding of freedom and identity. The dissertation argues that identity cannot be easily defined because paradoxically it does not ...
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Learner identity construction in multilingual contexts: A case study of the study abroad experience. (2012-12-17)Department: FrenchIt is generally assumed that the study abroad experience leads to increased proficiency in the target language. However, research on students’ linguistic gains during and after studying abroad is inconclusive. This ...
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(2013-04-17)Department: PhilosophyThis dissertation addresses the philosophical problems of meaning and identity in the context of major depression. I provide a phenomenological account of the depressive’s intrapsychic and intersubjective life that is ...
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(2016-07-12)Department: AnthropologyThe ongoing public debate over teaching evolution is typically disembodied from the social reality in which it occurs and is framed as a collision of mutually incompatible beliefs—Bible-based creationism vs. naturalistic ...
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(Religions, 2019-08)This paper leverages the Christian tradition of negative theology (Gregory of Nyssa, Dionysius the Areopagite, Eriugena, Eckhart, Cusanus) in order to think past the impasses of identitarian politics and culture. It ...
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(2006-04-13)Department: SociologyThis dissertation examines how identity processes affect teens’ mental health as they move through adolescence and transition into young adulthood. Using seven waves of panel data in the National Youth Survey (N = 1725), ...
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(2006-04-17)Department: Social and Political ThoughtThis thesis describes René Girard’s mimetic theory of desire and explicates its relevance for a critique of consumerism, emphasizing the loss of identity that can result from mimesis in a consumer society. It first presents ...
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(2007-07-31)Department: SociologyIn this dissertation, I use data from 65 in-depth interviews with black and white residents of the South to explore southern identity using three inter-related conceptualizations: 1) as an ethnic identity, rooted in a ...
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(2008-04-01)Department: ReligionThis paper offers a reformulation of Christological kenosis and its implications for Christian discipleship in light of the confusion surrounding “self-emptying” language and the painful ramifications of its prescription ...