The purpose of this multi-method single-case study was to examine the application of Joseph Campbell's Heroic Journey model as a means of professional identity creation in the life of Walt Disney. Walt Disney was an entrepreneur, cartoonist, filmmaker, inventor, studio head, and…
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Recent changes in approaches to second language learning have meant that learning is increasingly seen as a social, rather than an individual activity, which involves negotiating membership of a new language community as well as technical mastery of the language. At the same tim…
This longitudinal, mixed-method study relied on the assumption that international students as newcomers to the American culture experience conceptual socialization which enables them to gain competency in the target language through exposure to the target language culture. By co…
In Lebanon, the symbolic value of language has held prominence in religious and secular nationalist discourses and ideological struggles over the last century, as bilingual educational practices spread through missionary and colonial institutions. This dissertation examines the …
The present study aims at examining the correlation between multilingualism and the construction of social identity in Dakar (Senegal). More specifically it studies how the inhabitants of Dakar construct social identities in relation to the languages they speak. I will try to de…
This study investigated the dynamics of adult Iranians' social interactions in Canada. The purpose was to identify social and cultural factors that improve or block speaking opportunities for adult Iranian immigrants. Eight Iranians, five men and three women, who had spent their…
This phenomenological case study describes how a Post-Correctional Education Intervention (PCEI) was developed for a local community-based organization that had recently constructed a transition house for formerly incarcerated adults who converted to Islam while incarcerated. Th…
This dissertation analyzes changes in social identity from the distant past to the early colonial years in the western Serengeti, Mara Region, Tanzania, through an interpretation of oral tradition. My analysis of the core spatial images of oral tradition demonstrates the link be…
This dissertation examines the mortuary practices of the Iron I-III Levantine Phoenicians to document and analyze material expressions of social identity. Previous scholarship on Iron I-II Phoenicians has emphasized their city-based political allegiances on the one hand, and rel…
Though studies of collective action date back to at least the 1890's, in recent years there have been a number of developments in the social identity and collective action literatures clarifying how and why collective action emerges. Bandura's concepts of self-efficacy and colle…
This interpretive case study identifies discursive processes that support the emergence of transformative dialogic moments in the engagement of socially and historically defined group differences. Social construction and communication theory as well as relational theory provide …
This dissertation examines how Chinese Muslim identity has been transformed for those who migrated from Yunnan, China and settled in northern Thailand beginning a hundred years ago. This study seeks to investigate the ways in which markers of Chinese Muslim identities are constr…
20. yüzyılın son çeyreğinde, küresel çapta bir dönüşüme neden olan iletişim teknolojisi alanındaki gelişmelerle kullanıcı sayısı her gün artan sosyal ağların kullanımı önem kazanmaya başlamıştır. Bireyin sosyal medyada kendisini bulabilmesi ve sosyal medyayı amacına uygun kullan…
This thesis is a postcolonial study of contemporary Islamist ideology which is calling for the restoration of Shari'a (Islamic law) as a mechanism to redefine Muslim identity and to reject imperialistic Western legal structures. Many Muslims worldwide are suffering from an ident…
This dissertation addresses the question of how individuals come to possess and understand their identities. Specifically, it focuses on the role of public institutions of education in individual-level identity formation in two Yugoslav successor states: Bosnia-Herzegovina (B-H)…
This thesis examines the representation of Muslim women in Canadian media, specifically in CBC's Little Mosque on the Prairie ( LMOTP ) which represents women in non-Orientalist, realistic portrayals. This thesis traces Luhmann's (1987) theory on representation of society, Milla…
This qualitative research study explored the experiences of women who fled from war and unrest in Afghanistan. My objectives were to relate the migration experiences of these women to the ways in which they renegotiated their identities and re-imagined their lives in Canada. I p…
The eruption of highly contagious conflicts in post-Soviet Eurasia necessitates urgency in monitoring events in terms of regional and international security as well as for conflict prevention and preventive diplomacy. Ukraine's Crimean peninsula, home to the Russian Black Sea Fl…
This dissertation investigated how constructions of a group’s history affect members’ attitudes toward and relationships with outgroup members. Incorporating Halbwach’s (1950) concept of collective memory—defined as a shared sense of history—to Social Identity Theory (Tajfel & T…